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The stop smoking laser treatment helps to reduce and eventually eliminate the smoker’s nicotine carvings. Using low level of laser, the light beam is directed at specific energy points on the body, face, ears etc. It is a gentle process, without any pain.

i am smoking dailly 10-15 but i want really stop .but i cant.................... you have any idia??

Many people in this world to do smoking. To do smoking We get cancer. Smoking is a bad habbit for our health.
Smoking can cause bones to get weak and brittle. Women need to be especially careful because they are 5 to 10% more likely to suffer from osteoporosis than non-smokers.

It majorly affects any women and if she pregnant then there are a lot of side-effects of it, the child to could also be immature.

Why is it so dangerous to smoke during pregnancy?

Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, including truly nasty things like cyanide, lead, and at least 60 cancer-causing compounds. When you smoke during pregnancy, that toxic brew gets into your bloodstream, your baby's only source of oxygen and nutrients.

While none of those 4,000-plus chemicals is good for your baby (you would never add a dollop of lead and cyanide to his strained peaches), two compounds are especially harmful: nicotine and carbon monoxide. These two toxins account for almost every smoking-related complication in pregnancy, says ob-gyn James Christmas, director of Maternal Fetal Medicine for Commonwealth Perinatal Associates at Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.

The most serious complications — including stillbirth, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], and low birth weight — can be chalked up to the fact that nicotine and carbon monoxide work together to reduce your baby's supply of oxygen. Nicotine chokes off oxygen by narrowing blood vessels throughout your body, including the ones in the umbilical cord. It's a little like forcing your baby to breathe through a narrow straw. To make matters worse, the red blood cells that carry oxygen start to pick up molecules of carbon monoxide instead. Suddenly, that narrow straw doesn't even hold as much oxygen as it should.

How will smoking affect my baby?

A shortage of oxygen can have devastating effects on your baby's growth and development. On average, smoking during pregnancy doubles the chances that a baby will be born too early or weigh less than 5 1/2 pounds at birth. Smoking also more than doubles the risk of stillbirth.

Every cigarette you smoke increases the risks to your pregnancy. A few cigarettes a day are safer than a whole pack, but the difference isn't as great as you might think. A smoker's body is especially sensitive to the first doses of nicotine each day, and even [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] will significantly tighten blood vessels. That's why even a "light" habit can have an outsize effect on your baby's health.

How smoking affects your baby's:

Weight and size
On average, a pack-a-day habit during pregnancy will shave about a half-pound from a baby's birth weight. Smoking two packs a day throughout your pregnancy could make your baby a full pound or more lighter. While some women may welcome the prospect of delivering a smaller baby, stunting a baby's growth in the womb can have negative consequences that last a lifetime.

Body and lungs
Undersize babies tend to have underdeveloped bodies. Their lungs may not be ready to work on their own, which means they may spend their first days or weeks attached to a respirator. After they're breathing on their own (or even if they did from the start), these babies may have continuing breathing problems — because of delayed lung development or other adverse effects of nicotine. Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are especially vulnerable to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], and have double or even triple the risk of [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (SIDS).
Heart
Babies whose mothers smoked in the first trimester of pregnancy are more likely to have a heart defect at birth.
In a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in February 2011, these babies' risk of having certain types of congenital heart defects was 20 to 70 percent higher than it was for babies whose moms didn't smoke. The defects included those that obstruct the flow of blood from the right side of the heart into the lungs (right ventricular outflow tract obstructions) and openings between the upper chambers of the heart (atrial septal defects).
Researchers analyzed data on 2,525 babies who had heart defects at birth and 3,435 healthy babies born in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., between 1981 and 1989.
Brain function
Smoking during pregnancy can have lifelong effects on your baby's brain. Children of pregnant smokers are especially likely to have [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], behavioral problems, and relatively low IQs.

jamshi285,
In just one word... first, willpower, my friend!
After maybe some medicines, too
Look for a doctor

I have been smoking for 25 years now. I have lessen the sticks that i used to smoke.
Now i smoke only 1 stick a day but it is really hard to stop it.
I've tried really hard to quit smoking but it just keeps coming back.

For quitting, you'll need more than tips. I suggest to read stopsmoking.eu.pn]Stop Smoking, A New Aproach[/url]
There are also other methods including patches, gums, chemical substances, hypnosis, electronic cigarettes, inhalers, etc.
Which quitting-way is better for you depends upon many factors, one works for some and not for others, most people try various methods before succeeding. There is no "best" method.
The only way to tell if any given method works or not for you is to try it, ¡Anything to stop that habit is worth it!