How to Take Your First Steps Towards Quitting Smoking
At Matthews Internal Medicine, we know that smoking can be a hard habit to break. That’s why we have made smoking cessation assistance one of our top priorities. If you want to focus on preventative care, there’s few things that will be more effective than quitting smoking. It’s one of the leading preventable causes of […]
Want to Quit Smoking? Your Doctor Can Help
You may find it difficult to quit smoking. However, it is certainly worthwhile. According to the CDC, over 16 million Americans have diseases caused by smoking. Smoking-related conditions include cancer, heart disease, respiratory illnesses like asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and diabetes. Quitting smoking can lower your risk for these ailments. But […]
Reevaluating Healthcare-Related New Year’s Resolutions
The start of a New Year is often when a lot of people make some resolutions. Quitting a bad habit, losing weight, earning or saving more money, getting a promotion, exercising regularly–these are all resolutions that will sound familiar to many well-intentioned individuals. Unfortunately, even people who start off fully committed to sticking with their […]
Links between Osteoporosis and Smoking: Another Reason to Quit
The potential consequences of smoking are well-known. Smoking tobacco can lead to premature death, chronic lung disease, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. In recent decades, researchers have discovered that smoking tobacco can also increase the chances you’ll suffer from osteoporosis and bone fractures. With there being so many potential negative consequences from smoking, […]
Talk to Your Doctor Now If You Want to be Well On Your Way to Quitting Smoking by New Year’s Eve
If your New Year’s resolution is to finally quit smoking, it might be a good idea to start now. At Matthews Internal Medicine we can help patients in Charlotte, NC, and the surrounding areas with our smoking cessation programs and by offering the preventative care that they need. Quitting smoking is tough and it can take […]
Links Between Heartburn and Smoking pt. 2
If you suffer from heartburn you know how irritating it can be. At Matthews Internal Medicine, we’ve helped many patients deal with this problem and make lifestyle changes that can reduce this annoying ailment’s presence in their lives. Many patients see reduced symptoms when they change their eating habits, but a bad diet isn’t the only […]
Links Between Heartburn and Smoking
We already know that smoking can cause a wide range of health problems. This bad habit is already linked to heart disease, but does it also cause heartburn? There could be a link between smoking and problems with your digestive system, so if heartburn is a common issue for you a smoking cessation plan might […]
Could a Text-Message Based Smoking Cessation Program Be the Future?
We do everything on our phones these days. We work, make plans with friends, or browse the internet. What if our phones could also help us quit smoking? At Matthews Internal Medicine, we specialize in smoking cessation programs. Helping our patients quit can make a huge difference in their overall health, but quitting is hard. […]
Is Nicotine Mouth Spray a Good Smoking Cessation Tool?
One of our main focuses here at Matthews Internal Medicine is preventative medicine. Eliminating bad health habits and cutting out behavior that can lead to the development of deadly diseases later on in life is our specialty. That’s why we place so much importance on our smoking cessation programs. Smoking is linked to a variety […]
Psychological Effects of Smoking Cessation
Here at Matthews Internal Medicine, we don’t just fix health problems as they come up. We do our best to help our patients avoid some medical issues in the first place. This is all through our focus on preventative medicine. One crucial part of that is our help with smoking cessation. Quitting smoking is one […]