i started smoking cigarettes Terrie in high school and got cancer from smoking when she was only age 40. #CDCTips my smoking history 1.5 years

However, setting an abrupt quitting date and using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) may be more effective

Studies have shown that nicotine can increase the rate at which your body burns calories, but were talking small numbers here, nowhere near the results of a balanced diet or regular exercise

Health.com: Crazy ways smokers finally kicked the habit The remaining 40 percent includes social smokers, as well as a group known as "chippers," a term originally used to describe intermittent, nonaddicted users of heroin

There is between 0.65 and 1 gram of tobacco in an average unlit cigarette, which includes somewhere between 7.5 and 13.4 milligrams of nicotine, according to testing done at Penn State University