It seems there's a new study every day that vilifies some part of your everyday life and makes you think that you've been doing all of the wrong things to your body.

One day it's eggs, the next day it's corn syrup, the next it's aspirin, and then it's plastic water bottles. I recently heard that a person didn't want to join a company-sponsored smoking cessation program because of the side effects they heard on the news. So, I decided to do a little research on this assertion and see if there was actually any scientific support to these claims or if this was just a case of the media sensationalizing an issue. What I found out was astounding.

A person had heard on the news that a popular smoking cessation medication "caused 70 percent higher risk of heart disease" or so she thought. In reality, this medication increases the success rate of someone trying to quit smoking by three fold. On the other hand, the rate of a serious cardiovascular event in an 8,000 person study went from just under 1 percent to just over 1 percent when taking the medication.