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Video: Smoking — Anatomy of nicotine addiction
This animation illustrates how smoking changes your brain, causing nicotine addiction.
Tweak your walking routine for muscle and bone health
With a few changes to your regular walking routine, you can keep muscle and bone loss at bay as you age.
Smokeless tobacco products
Learn the risks of using products such as chewing tobacco, snuff and snus.
Reduce your risk of falling with daily floor time
Falls are a serious risk for older adults, especially those who don't have the strength or mobility to get back up. Mayo Clinic physical therapist Jane Hein believes that practice is the best form of prevention.
Quitting smoking: 10 ways to resist tobacco cravings
Each time you resist a tobacco craving, you're one step closer to stopping tobacco use for good. Use these tips to fight off cravings.
Quit-smoking products: Boost your chance of success
Many quit-smoking products are available and using one or more can greatly increase your chance of success. Check out your options.
Quit smoking: Try stop-smoking products
Don't be afraid to use stop-smoking products to help you quit. Stop-smoking products are a legitimate way to handle withdrawal symptoms and tobacco cravings. Several types of nicotine-replacement products are available. Nicotine patches, gum and lozenges, are available over-the-counter. Nicotine nasal spray and the nicotine inhaler are available by prescription. In addition, two quit-smoking medications that don't contain nicotine are available by prescription. Talk to your health care provider about which stop-smoking products may be right for you.
Premature birth
Here's what you need to know about caring for a premature baby and the possible health problems of a preterm birth.
Infant jaundice
Learn about this common condition in newborns, especially those born preterm. With close monitoring and light therapy, complications are rare.
Hookah smoking: Is it safer than cigarette smoking?
This habit isn't safer than smoking cigarettes. Find out why.
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