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On Sunday, May 15, Robert Predit a researcher found in his new study that Smoking can increase the risk of Kidney Cancer.This study was conducted in the Duke University Medical Center. The study followed 845 patients who had the surgery for the Kidney Cancer or Renal Cell Carcinoma between the years 2000-2009.

These findings were presented in the on Sunday in a Special Press Conference at the American Urological Association’s Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.The researchers found that the current or the formers smokers had more risk of Cancers as compare to the nonsmokers.The researchers found that heavy smoking is linked to the Renal Cell Carcinoma. The people who had left smoking their risk for diseases is decreased to almost 9%.

Another study presented at the Conference stated that in United States the rates of Bladder Cancer don’t reduce even with the decreased rates of Smoking.The researchers studied a National Database and they have found that the rate of Kidney Cancer is decreased with lowering the consumption of Cigarettes between the years 1973- 2007, but at the same time they have found that no decline is seen in the rate of Bladder Cancer with the decreased rate of Cigarette consumption.

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Quitting Smoking

The urge of smoke is very powerful for all the smokers. When you have an urge to smoke just remember that the pleasure of tobacco will be intense but will be for a very short time and it will finish in no time. Every time you control your craving for tobacco it is like one step closer to quit smoking.
Here are top 10 ways to stop the urge of smoke:

1. Delay

When you feel like you are craving for tobacco. Just make yourself understand that wait for some time like for few minutes and then try to indulge yourself in some work or any other activity in order to distract your mood. This is a very easy trick but it can work a lot to keep you away from tobacco. Repeat this trick whenever required.

2. Just one cigarette

If a person feels that his craving will be over by having one cigarette. So do not fool yourself one’s craving does not finish with one cigarette. When you will smoke one you will want to have another then another and so on…if you really want to quit smoking, you must avoid having even a single cigarette.

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