May 31st is no tobacco day and therefore we decided to bring to you, a ground-breaking innovation that is improving the lives of thousands of smokers around the globe, Electronic cigarettes! Read to explore how it helps you quit smoking and why switching to e-cigarette is beneficial for both active and passive smokers. Start reading…. Why E-cigarette If you’re a smoker and want to quit, switching to an electronic cigarette will of course save your money (in some cases up to 75% of your annual spend on real cigarettes), but best of all, you will be able to carry on with your habit fagging as you normally would, without instigating the terrible damage to your health. Reason behind,

Quitting smoking is a great decision. Not only will you reduce your risk of many life taking diseases such as coronary artery disease, lung cancer and even cataracts, but you will also improve the health of the people around you by reducing their exposure to second-hand smoke. But anyone who has ever tried to quit smoking knows that willpower alone is often not enough to see you through the withdrawal symptoms. One needs effective methods to use to quit smoking. In this article, My Health Guardian runs you through some of well known alternative therapies that have proven their effectiveness in smoking cessation. Read and try them. Hypnosis helps in smoking cessation. Hypnotherapy deals

Quitting is not easy. Ask a smoker. Some quit cold turkey but some struggle through the process. If you too have reached the end of your hope, My Health Guardian comes to your rescue. We give you a concentrated step by step guide to quit smoking. Sounds good, isn’t it? Continue reading…   Our expert, Dr. Sajeela Maini, Quit Smoking Specialist at Ganga Ram helps you through the quit smoking resolution. Step by step guide: Pick a stop date when you are relatively relaxed. Make a list of the reasons why you want to quit. Keep the list handy for easy reminder. Make another list of why quitting won’t be easy for you. Throw away all of your tobacco and tobacco reminders. Get

On the scale of ten quit smoking easily ranks nine. It is one of the most difficult tasks to do and could require many attempts to succeed.  My Health Guardian talks to Dr Sajeela Maini who runs Tobacco Cessation Clinic at Delhi based Gangaram Hospital. “As a Tobacco Cessation Specialist, I did learn that most smokers are really unhappy to smoke. It has been found that majority of the smokers want to quit the addiction, but cannot because of the addictive nature of nicotine; which is as addictive as cocaine and heroin. Most smokers find themselves entangled in a fear that they will never be able to quit, and that nicotine is very addictive. Smokers adopt the learned helplessness

All smokers know that smoking is not good for them. Yet, the habit is terribly addictive and it is too hard to quit. My Health Guardian hand holds you through deaddiction. I will quit smoking on my birthday, for sure, thought Rajiv while lighting tenth cigarette of the day. I want to quit, but the cravings get me back each time, tells Rituparna. They are real life people and the difficulties they face in their journey to quitting cigarettes. What makes them so addictive? “Nicotine is the only addictive substance found in a cigarette, out of 4800 chemical substances and 69 carcinogens, present,” informed Dr Sajeela Maini, Tobacco Cessation specialist with Ganga Ram Hospital. Researches

Come winters and the sale of cigarette shores up. May be smokers believe that smoking is a good way to stay warm and comfortable, which is not true. Like all smokers you too know hundred reasons to quit smoking and still you’re persisting with your addiction. It’s not that you haven’t tried but you haven’t succeeded till now. Paraphrasing Edison you know several ways which will not help you quit your addiction. Pause for a moment if you’ve reached the end of your hope and we’ll give you a concentrated course on how to quit smoking for good in ten-easy-steps. Sounds good, isn’t it? Continue reading…. How to  quit? There is no clear-cut

“Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind, unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind.” What Homer wrote in The Illiad in 850 BC, sums up the long and chequered history of alcohol with mankind Booze facts Dr. Sushila Kataria, Internal Consultant, Umkal Hospital informs– Going against the popular belief, alcohol is a depressant. Alcohol dilates blood vessels near the body’s surface, and may exude a false feeling of warmth. In reality as body heat escapes, alcohol cools the inner body. Alcohol interferes with the nerve endings that control erections Alcohol is a stomach irritant and may cause vomiting. Alcohol dehydrates. When you consume alcohol, you lose more water in

What started as a blissful feeling, ended in a misery Name: Rachita Sahay Age:24 Marital Status: Married Illness: Alcoholic Post recovery: Hates alcohol It was my convocation day. I was in the seventh heaven. I still remember tears rolling down my parent’s cheeks. After all I had brought so much pride to the family by bagging a gold medal in English Honors. “That definitely calls for a toast”, screamed my bosom friend. And we planned a bash at one of the most happening pubs in Delhi. There it all started. Some how I had always wanted to drink. But belonging to an orthodox family I never had the audacity to even touch it. Now I had an excuse. Setting aside my compunction I went

Gone are the days when an average household was content with a landline number which was capable of serving the interests of the whole family. Times have changed and each member of the family keeps a cell phone. Mobile no longer serves as a gadget to make our lives simpler, rather it overwhelms us. Archana Darshan explores the subject of mobile overuse. Cell phones are our moving database of contacts and have given a new dimension to multitasking. No surprise, loss of a mobile is mourned for days together, because hardly we jot down our contacts. While you can’t dispense with a cell phone, using it behind the wheels can cut short your life. Stay in touch Meghana runs her own HR

Ask a smoker if he enjoys his smoke. The answer is ‘yes’. Ask the same person whether he would wish to quit and the answer most of the times will be ‘yes’, once again. All smokers know that smoking is not good for them. Yet, the habit is terribly addictive and it is too hard to quit. Archana Darshan writes more—- I will quit smoking on my birthday, for sure, thought Rajiv while lighting tenth cigarette of the day. I want to quit, but the cravings get me back each time, tells Rituparna. They are real life people and the difficulties they face in their journey to quitting cigarettes. “Nicotine is the only addictive substance found in a cigarette, out of 4800 chemical