{"id":828,"date":"2014-03-12T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T10:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalnext.me\/nccblog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:21:47","slug":"national-smoking-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/national-smoking-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National No Smoking Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wednesday 12th March 2014 is National No Smoking Day.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u2018V for Victory\u2019 in the fight against smoking. Did you know smoking is the biggest killer of people in the United Kingdom?<\/p>\n<p>Are you aware that cigarettes contain around 4,000 chemicals? There are a number of secret ingredients contained in cigarettes that some people don\u2019t even know are there.\u00a0Would you be casually smoking away if you knew what was really inside your cigarette?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the scary secret ingredients, which are known for being toxic:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rat poison<br \/>\n\u2022 Acetone which is used as a solvent<br \/>\n\u2022 Ammonia found in cleaning fluids such as toilet cleaner<br \/>\n\u2022 Nail varnish remover<br \/>\n\u2022 Carbon monoxide which is a tasteless and odourless poisonous gas<br \/>\n\u2022 Benzene which can be used as a solvent in chemical production, just to name a few!<\/p>\n<p>Health benefits of quitting:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Younger looking skin<br \/>\n\u2022 Better breath<br \/>\n\u2022 Whiter teeth<br \/>\n\u2022 Improved fertility<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of health benefits of quitting this nasty habit. It\u2019s never too late to give up.<br \/>\nEvery individual has their own reasons to want to quit smoking. It is vital that you keep whatever it is that motivates you in your mind when you are trying to give up. Your reason may be for a lifestyle change, to reduce your risk of disease, to save money, or because of the effect it has on your family or relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Quit now for a healthier you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 12th March 2014 is National No Smoking Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/featured-image-test-1.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Nick Cooper","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/author\/nccnickcooper\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}