Tag Archives: habits

Quit Smoking Before Third-Hand Smoke Destroys Your Kid’s Health

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It is not an easy job for smokers to quit smoking. But smoking had once been thought to cause cancer, heart disease and asthma in first-hand smokers. Then this trend spread to include second-hand...

Leonard Nimoy Says His Fans to Quit Smoking

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The sight horrified many of his fans. When Leonard Nimoy was brought into an airport on a wheel chair with a gas mask on his face the actor looked quite ill. He has COPD (Chronic Obstructive...

Quit Smoking If You Value Your Children’s Health

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It has now been proved without a shadow of doubt that passive inhalation of cigarette smoke causes permanent damage to kids’ health. The second-hand smoke seriously messes up the young one’s arteries...

E-Cigarette Makers: Giving the Public the Finger

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With Sarah Mittermaier and Lily Swartz In 1964, smoking was everywhere: on television, on airplanes, in workplaces and movie theatres, college campuses, doctors’ offices, restaurants and bars. In...

Quit Smoking But No with E-Cigarettes

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E-cigarettes are supposed to be the way out of the dilemma of smoking nicotine-based products. However, the latest research proves otherwise. Youth who were smoking electronic cigarettes in a...

The Passive Smoking Issue Is A Rorschach Test For The Ability To Think Scientifically

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Word of the latest “study” only recapitulates the confusion surrounding the issue. Earlier this month the prestigious Journal of the National Cancer Institute carried a news item titled “No Clear...
    






Quit Smoking But Not With Electronic Cigarettes

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E-cigarettes are supposed to be the way out of the dilemma of smoking nicotine-based products. However, the latest research by UCSF proves otherwise. Youth who were smoking electronic cigarettes in a...

NYC Tobacco Law Bans Sales to Anyone Under 21

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The NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg has implemented a new law according to which the legal age for buying cigarettes has been raised from 18 to 21. Thus anyone who is even a month short of reaching 21...

HabitRPG Helps You Level up IRL

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Can’t kick a habit (or form a new one) to save your life? Then maybe you’ll be able to do better if you take a different approach.

You know how pre-school teachers and parents always use games to teach toddlers the alphabet and how to count and all that? Well, Tyler Renelle decided to use that premise to help people who have habit-forming or habit-kicking issues by creating a habit tracking app that doubles as an RPG game called HabitRPG.

HabitRPGHabitRPG is meant to be used with time-tracking and lifestyle tools like RescueTime, Fitbit, Wunderlist, MyFitnessPal, and GCal. Your character will be able to level-up in the game with every achievement you make, while it will lose HP if you fail at a goal or break a habit you’re supposed to form. These incentives and disincentives are designed to help keep you motivated and on track.

HabitRPG is raising funds on Kickstarter through February 19, 2013 to fix bugs on their website, and to develop iOS and Android apps. A minimum pledge of $5(USD) will get you 20 tokens to be used in the game. This currency is used when you first start a game, or if you don’t meet your goals.