It is clear that both physical and psychological factors count in tobacco addiction. Combination treatments of behavioral and drug therapy are therefore the most promising.
Among other things, the consumption of nicotine accelerates the heart's activity, the blood vessels constrict and thus the blood circulation system is disturbed.
Passively inhaled cigarette smoke also harms non-smokers. Read here how big the risk really is and which measures protect.
Nicotine is not the only danger posed by tobacco products: there are hundreds of other substances in smoke that are toxic or carcinogenic.
In Germany, e-cigarettes are viewed with suspicion as helpers to quit smoking. In Great Britain it looks different - with success. Researchers are now calling for a correction to the German strategy on tobacco protection.
E-cigarettes are controversial. They are not healthy. But they can help severely addicts to get rid of the glowing stalk. An experience report.
When smokers reach for the cigarette, it is automatic - that makes it so difficult to quit. In a virtual world, on the other hand, they can train.
MunichEight million Americans only escaped premature smoking death because the country is making tobacco consumption more difficult through campaigns and laws, as a new study shows.
E-cigarettes are not harmless: if they contain nicotine, they could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
MunichWhen you think of lung cancer, you first think of smoking. Non-smokers can also develop bronchial carcinoma. Often it is the blue haze from others that causes the lung cells to degenerate.
They haven't been on the radio or television for a long time: tobacco advertising. Now the advertising ban is to be expanded significantly.
Tobacco and e-cigarettes should, if possible, not be consumed at the same time. The combination could even be more harmful than smoking alone.
Why quitting smoking is easier said than done and how nicotine is indispensable for our brain is explained by graduate psychologist Steven Graves in an interview with
Irritant gas in e-cigarettes: the steamers release formaldehyde and the lungs absorb it - a possible cancer risk?
MunichE-cigarettes are considered less harmful than normal glow sticks. Nevertheless, there are also pollutants in their steam - for example poisonous metals.
MunichE-cigarettes contain significantly fewer pollutants than tobacco. But no one knows how harmful the steam engines really are.
E-cigarettes may reduce the defenses of the airways. But that doesn't mean that they are as dangerous as normal cigarettes.