Quitting Tobacco Use This topic is designed to help you learn more about nicotine and to provide information that you might find useful as you try to decide what you want to do about your use of tobacco. Although written primarily for people who smoke cigarettes, the information here will be helpful to anyone trying to stop using any form of tobacco, including pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff. At least 7 medications are available to …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 488 total…having asthma, frequent ear infections, and respiratory infections. If their children already have asthma or allergies, a parent's smoking may cause these conditions to get worse. ·Smoking tobacco worsens asthma symptoms, endangers a pregnancy, and causes shortness of breath, impotence, and infertility. ·Tobacco use increases a person's risk for many serious health problems, such as heart attack and stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and many cancers (including those of the mouth, throat, esophagus, and lung).