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Stop Smoking and Get All Those Things You Thought You Couldn’t Afford

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Not only do we smokers pay through the nose for the privilege of our habit, we almost certainly put ourselves into an early grave too. Smokers do die younger, at least on average (we all know one aunty, uncle or granddad who smoked until they were 100 - and ‘it did them no harm’, but this is the exception not the norm). In fact, figures show that 83,200 people die each year in England alone due to smoking related illness. Not a pretty picture and one to consider when lighting up that next cigarette.

With the cost of smoking having already reached an incredible average of

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Why Stop Smoking The Real Reasons To Quit

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

If you’re a smoker, you’re probably sick to death of the anti-cigarette lobby spinning out the same old lines about how you’re damaging your body and health. You’re not an idiot, you know all these facts. Heck, you’d be hard-pressed not to know the facts given that you have a big warning sign blasted in your face every time you look at a packet of cigarettes. You know that smoking can cause infertility, lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease.

So why do the anti-smoking lobby continue to throw out the same warnings? I suppose their theory is that if you hear the facts enough times, then eventually it will profoundly hit home. But if you’re still smoking, then obviously their tactics are failing. As a former cigarette addict myself, I can completely empathise with the smoker’s frustration. How can these people, who in all likelihood have never experienced the addiction of tobacco, see fit to lecture them? “Why stop smoking” is a question which is almost always met with the health answer, but for reasons I will shortly expand on, this is entirely the wrong question to present the smoker with.

Every smoker knows that the tobacco habit is disastrous for their health. That’s a given, but obviously they continue to smoke. This is where anti-smokers run out of ideas and become dumbfounded, because they cannot see past the health issue. However, all smokers and former smokers know that the humble cigarette provides a hundred daily uses. We feel that smoking alleviates anxiety, tastes good after meals, acts as a time-passer during conversations and nights out, a trigger for creativity or meditation. There truly is an abundance of reasons why smokers continue what they do.

It is these “reasons” that compel the smoker to continue the habit, and this is what health campaigners fail to comprehend. The secret is this: smokers do not need reasons to stop, they need fewer reasons to continue.

If the smoker can debunk the reasons they use to persist with cigarettes, then they will have increasingly less desire to actually smoke. “Why stop smoking” is not the question the smoker should be asking themselves, but rather “Why continue smoking?”. The smoker needs to make a list of the reasons why they feel smoking is an essential part of their daily lives, and then carefully assess - and debunk - each reason one at a time.

It is absolutely imperative to understand this crucial difference. The smoker will never be pushed into backing down, and nor should they have to be. Smokers are human, yet are treated and made to feel like second-class citizens. The health argument simply isn’t a heavy enough weight to tip the scales against all the other reasons the smoker has to continue the habit. If the smoker wishes to quit, they must work backwards, asking themselves how they have changed since they first started the habit and questioning what smoking has really done for them. If the smoker can do this, their chances of finally beating the habit are likely to increase tenfold.

Let’s assess some of the reasons why we choose to continue to smoke, and what a cessation can do for us. Firstly, there is the issue of procrastination. Many smokers believe that cigarettes provide bursts of creativity, or even act as a mild sedative during times of anxiety. The truth is that smoking clogs up the cardiovascular system and, consequently, smokers finds themselves constantly short of breath and sapped of all energy. This lack of energy in turn is precisely what can encourage procrastination.

Secondly, there is the belief we need cigarettes as a social prop. This argument is one of the hardest to debunk, but there are a few good reasons we can look at. For starters, we all have our male role models, and it’s very unlikely they smoke. Does their lack of smoking status make them any less cool, appealing or aspirational? Hardly. If anything, it strengthens their status as a role model. Then we can simply look about us and see the vast majority of people enjoying their socialising without the need to smoke; if they can do it, then surely the smoker can too.

Finally, we can look at the wind of change blowing through our society - public smoking bans are being applied all over the west, and it’s just a matter of time before smoking officially becomes an anti-smoking habit. Whereas smoking may have looked trendy a few decades ago, it will simply look like the resort of the weak-willed in a few months when smokers are huddled outside bars and pubs in all weather having a smoke.

Those are just two “smoking reasons” which have been un-winded with a few minutes of thought. If the smoker can spend several hours assessing their apparent need to smoke, then they will probably come up with dozens more legitimate questions as to why they should stop smoking. Quitting smoking is such a wonderful gift for the individual - one can re-claim health, fitness, taste, money and pride in a very short period of time. No firm resolutions have to be made, but smokers should allow themselves to investigate what life would be like on the other side

Jonty Smith is a former smoker based in the U.K.

After 10 years of smoking two packs a day, Jonty finally managed to quit in 2006. His story of how he managed to beat the habit is available for free reading at http://www.how-i-stopped-smoking.com

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Quit Smoking - Women Who Want to Stop Smoking

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Ordinarily you would think that quitting smoking is the same for both sexes. Whether you are a man or woman there can be a variety of common reasons for starting smoking in the first place and another range of common reasons for quitting smoking across the sexes. Whilst on the surface this may appear true, there are important differences to understand which can definately aid quitting smoking for women.

According to research women start smoking and quit smoking for different reasons to men. For instance weight control is seen as a perceived benefit of smoking. Although smoking can help with weight control it does not help as much as it is perceived to help. As a clinical hypnotherapist I invariably ask my female clients who want to stop smoking this question “What would you rather deal with, a few extra pounds of weight or cancer?”. Often the response will be that they fear the extra weight. Of course this can be because the weight gain can seem more immediate and possible, whereas cancer seems more distant and less likely to happen.

Another reason why women may smoke is because of their closer emotional bonding to other women. Women are natural empathisers and in empathising with a close friend, if that friend is a smoker, by also smoking themselves they may perceive or feel that they understand their friend’s issue. To a lesser degree this response is true during a work break when a number of female colleague’s will smoke together and is another way of keeping strong bonds intact.

Stopping smoking, when female friends are continuing to smoke, can make the new quitter feel isolated and distant from formerly close friends and colleagues.

Yet a third influence on women quitting smoking is their cycle. For those women who suffer irritability or worse during their cycle, it would not be a good idea to add to this by quitting smoking at the same time.

In order to make your chances of success in quitting smoking increase following these tips to deal with the above issues can help tremendously :-

Weight Fears

If you worry that you may put on weight when you stop smoking, make a plan to deal with this possibility before it happens such as :-
1) Increase the exercise you currently undertake such as

a) If you go to the gym, do a few more repititions or push yourself a bit harder

b) Introduce a form or exercise that is fun and social such as line dancing, salsa dancing or even a social game of barminton, table tennis etc

c) Instead of riding up escalators, get into the habit of walking up them

d) Instead of taling the lift, walk up those flights of stairs

2) Reduce the amount you eat. Cut out something like an unncessary snack. May be that biscuit with a cup of coffee

3) Substitute ehealthier foods for fattening ones. Instead of that bag ofd crisps have an apple or better still a citrus fruit such as an orange

4) Introduce more water into your daily lifestyle even if it is just a couple of glasses of water a day. A glass of water that is taken 10 minutes before a meal will take the edge of your appetite.

Empathising With Friends

1) Find a more supportive way of helpibng your friend other that jointly poisoning yourselves. This can be by :-

a) Making yourself available at anytime on the telephone to give your friend support

b) Being a non-judgemental and solution orientated listener

c) Letting them know you are there for them

d) Suggesting forms of help or available support

Timing

Choose a time in the month when you know you are at your peak physically, emotionally and mentally and not when you are about to enter your cycle. Quitting smoking just after your menstrual cycle and when you are feeling good and on the up can be great timing.

We are all different whether men or women and ultimately knowing yourself, what makes you tick and when the best time is here for you to stop smoking, is the biggest asset to your success.

Steven A. Harold
Stopping Smoking Hypnosis

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Stop Smoking with Hypnosis - the easy way

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Gone are the days of swinging watches and weird hypnotic stares. Hypnosis has moved off of the stage and into everyday life.

The cigarette companies have been using psychology and hypnotic induction techniques to get you addicted to their products for many years without you even knowing it. They have been programming you with an ‘addiction programme’ to their products. Imagine how you would feel once you realise that. Now if I was a smoker I would be pretty pissed off for a start.

There is only one thing to do, take ownership of your own mind for a change. Despite what anyone else tells you it is your mind to do with as you see fit. If someone wants to stay addicted to cigarettes then that is up to them, but if you want to stop smoking then we can help.

We could spend millions in advertising, constantly harass you about the dangers of smoking but there are much more elegant and gentle ways for you to stop smoking. Within the next few days you could find your ‘addiction’ fading away. You see, the trick is not to attack that ‘addictive programme’ directlythis requires a huge force of will as people use brute force to get their way. Even then the unconscious programme is still there so people will always be tempted by cigarettes. What you can do however is to change the root cause of the problem.

Reprogramming your mind with self hypnosis is very easy to do and all it requires is a CD or MP3 player. As you listen to these hypnotic programmes they will oust that nasty ‘addiction’ and free your mind from the grasp of cigarettes.

You will no longer be an smoker or ex-smokerbut you will be a non-smoker. Free to live your life healthy for a change.

Rachel Silvers is the creator of the Spirit Waves website. This site is dedicated to bringing the best in Stop smoking with hypnosis programmes, hypnosis, healing and self development resources into one place. She has also begun to bring together the unique bodyshifting resources and techniques that will enable people to change their physical body to more suit their desires.

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Stop Smoking with EFT

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

You probably know someone who has successfully quit smoking with hypnotherapy or hypnosis. But how about EFT? As a hypnotherapist with 5 years’ experience helping others quit, I can see a future when EFT will be the mothod of choice. So why EFT and what is so special about it?
EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Techniques. It involves gently massaging certain acupressure points whilst repeating phrases designed to free you from a bad feeling. In this case, the bad feeling would be the smoking craving. Hence the “Freedom” part of the name.

Whether smoking cravings are purely emotional or not is subject to debate. I have certainly pushed the boundaries of this method for many physical conditions, and as a trained biochemist, I would seriously challenge anyone to define the dividing line between the emotional and the physical. As a matter of fact, many acupuncturists recommend acupuncture to allow the body to rebalance itself after quitting smoking. And the acupressure points that we use in EFT are the endpoints of the main acupuncture meridians. Only instead of using needles, we stimulate these points by a tapping sort of massage. We tap, usually with two fingers, on the area, thereby stimulating these meridians.

So what is different about the effect of having EFT from the effect of having acupuncture? Well, with EFT, your mind is asked to bring up a bad emotional state so that the acupressure will release you from that bad emotion. It is like the mind is the office cleaner, who goes into the office unobtrusively and takes out the rubbish/garbage for the council/municipality cleaners to take away. These workers in turn come and remove the refuse and it is no longer in your office. Your office is then clean.

And why use EFT instead of hypnotherapy? Because the effect of helping your physical body as well as your mind makes for a very strong combination. Although you can have EFT in hypnosis, this entails the practitioner speaking at a slower rate than using standalone EFT. With standalone EFT, because the practitioner can carry out the treatment at a much faster pace, they can get more done in the same amount of time. In other words, the treatment with EFT reaches further and goes deeper.
I estimate that within the next five years, EFT will have replaced hypnotherapy as the method of choice for quitting smoking. And when ex-smokers-to-be ask for a recommendation to help them stop, they will be asking for a good EFT Practitioner. I look forward to that day.

My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is. A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, along with medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is the 10th year I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis.
I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specialising in “energy” therapy. My company is called New Age London, more details via the links below.

http://www.NewAgeLondon.com

http://www.EFTLondon.co.uk

http://www.EFTCourse.co.uk

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Stop Smoking Nine Quitting Techniques You May Not Have Tried Yet

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Nicotine is a major threat to your health, along with other substances in tobacco smoke and ingredients in tar and gases associated with smoking. And it doesn’t matter what they say about low-tar, low-nicotine and ’safe’ cigarettes. They are all detrimental to your health. ‘There is no such thing as a safe cigarette’, America’s Surgeon General Julius B Richmond said. The main thing is to stop smoking altogether, although if giving up gradually helps you accomplish this aim, then fine, that’s the way to go.

To Help You Stop Smoking Altogether or Significantly Cut Your Intake

* Natural cures to help you stop smoking include: calamus (chew the root to destroy desire for nicotine); chamomile (take three to six times a day to help you relax).

* Smoke only half of each cigarette and make a promise to yourself to leave the other half untouched for a definite period.

* Each day, postpone your first cigarette by half an hour or so until there’s no time left in the day to light up!

* Have a charity box where you donate a dollar for each cigarette you smoke.

* Don’t stock up on cigarettes. Buy just one packet at a time and wait until it is finished before buying more.

* Try chewing gum instead of smoking.

* Buy something nice for yourself for every day or week you go without cigarettes.

* Learn relaxation techniques. This is especially recommended for anyone who smokes to relieve tension.

* Take saunas and steam baths to help detoxify the body.

Avril Harper is a researcher and writer on numerous health topics CURRENT HEALTH ARTICLES. Check out other current health articles on yoga, cosmetic surgery, staying young. http://www.current-health-articles.blogspot.com

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A Plan to Stop Smoking

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

He starts by rolling the bottom of my pant legs up and the top of my stocking down while I am lying on a treatment bed. He then dabs a cotton swab dipped in alcohol on the inside of both legs just above the ankles. He repeats this process but just to the inside of the shinbone about 8 inches higher. Then he inserts these thin, hollow needles about 5 inches long, into the flesh while twirling the needle. He skips the torso and moves to the hand.

First, he rolls my sleeves up above the elbow, and then he applies the alcohol and lastly the twirling of the needle. This he does where the crease ends separating the thumbs from the index finger and just below the elbow on the outer part of the arm. He then repeats the process on the side of the neck in two locations, between the eyes and the top of the ear, just below the eyes and one in the center and above the eyes. Then he starts on the head, two on each side. One just above the back of the ear and the other just above the front part of the ear. Two more on each side of the head about midway between the crown and the ear and lastly, one on the very crown of the head.

The nurse then attaches a clip connected to an electrical wire that feeds into a control box. After all the clips are affixed, she turns them on, one at a time. She asks if I feel the electric charge and if it is to low or too high. After adjustment, she moves on to the next wire. When all the wires are operating, she says she will see me in 45 minutes and leaves the room. Sometimes there is another patient on a procedure table about 6 feet away. The electrical charge is fixed for about 5 seconds then it pulses slowly for about 4 seconds. This is repeated for the entire procedure. This is Acupuncture for smoking cessation.

I started my ’stop smoking plan’ 12 days ago on Monday, January 2 2006. It calls for smoking 1 less cigarette each day until, 56 days later I hope to be ’smoke free’. My first Acupuncture treatment was on Thursday, January 5, 2006 4 days into my plan.

The second treatment was on Saturday, January 7, 2006. The third treatment was on Tuesday, January 10, 2006. The forth treatment was on Thursday January 12, 2006.

Today is Saturday, January 14, 2006 and the fifth treatment is scheduled for 2:30 PM.

I then start one treatment each Saturday until the end.

Today I get to smoke 44 cigarettes. This sounds like a lot but I am used to smoking 3 packs a day, which means a cigarette whenever I feel like one. Now, I am on a set figure and it is a challenge. I try to have non-smoking hours but am not rigid. If I only smoke 3 cigarettes in a smoking hour when I was allotted 4, I can smoke the ‘extra’ cigarette whenever I choose. I haven’t decided exactly what I plan to do when I get down to 20, 15, 10 and 5 cigarettes a day. After meals? With Coffee? When I get up in the morning? Before I go to bed? All of this is to be worked out.

Monday I am calling Allister. He is a British ‘EXPAT’ (Foreign National living abroad) that practices ‘ACUPRESSURE’ and claims to do ‘HYPNOSIS’. He gave a lecture at an ‘EXPAT’S’ meeting I attended and claims that the procedures work. The ‘Acupressure’ is supposed to last 3 hours during a single visit. The ‘Hypnosis’ was not mentioned and is not described in his brochure. I intend on utilizing both procedures to the highest extent possible.
In addition, I intend to purchase a ’stop smoking drug’ available here in Thailand (and I think all over the world) that has 60 tablets that I presume contain some form of Nicotine inhibitor. I plan to start to take them when I reach 1 pack or 20 cigarettes a day.

I am going to try ‘Replacement Psychology’ by replacing the smoking of a cigarette with the ‘eating of a pistachio nut’.

Lastly, ‘MANTRAS’. I am a big believer in ‘MANTRA’S. I resumed my exercise program on the 2nd of January and have managed to complete the entire program 12 consecutive days. I had to stop the program because the TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) training program occupied all my time, the weather was rain and cold, I was traveling to Chaing Mai and Penang and I think I became a little lazy.

If I had an excuse, I used it. Overall, I think I missed 5 or 6 weeks. The program calls for a set number of:

1. Jumping Jacks-5.

2. Running in Place-50 (each left foot equals one count).

3. Twist the body from the left to the right with arms extended,
rolling them-50 times to each side.

4. Jumping Jacks-5.

5. Running in Place-50 (each left foot equals one count.

6. Bend the upper body, from arching backwards to parallelto the floor-50 times each way.

7. Jumping Jacks-5.

8. Running in Place-50 (each left foot equals 1 count.

9. Bend the upper body to the left and then to the right-50 times each way.

10. Knee bends-5.

11. Touching the tows-5, both feet equal a count of one.

12. Push-ups-5.

13. Sit up’s-5.

14. Leg Scissors-5 (Lying prone, raise the legs 45 degrees, separate,bring together and down.

15. 4 laps of swimming (back stroke) in the pool (about 170/180 strokes).

16. Walk

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How To Stop Smoking- Understanding the Truth Behind the Myths

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

There are 55 million smokers in America, and chances are, every one of them has tried at some point to quit. Regardless of the reason that people start smoking, their reasons for being unable to quit are usually the same. Lack of willpower, don’t want to gain weight, they will try again on Monday. Sometimes all three. Well, the fact is, you are stronger than you could ever imagine. By using one of the many smoking cessation programs that are available, and breaking down some of the myths that surround smoking, you can be looking at going smoke free soon.

I don’t have the willpower to quit smoking forever.
That’s okay. Fortunately you only have to have the willpower to quit today. Often times, when we think that we are setting goals, we are instead creating obstacles. Never imagine yourself struggling with this smoking addiction ten years down the road. Each day starts fresh. At the times that you most want a cigarette, put it off. Not forever, not even for the day. Just tell yourself that you can wait 15 minutes.

Brush your teeth, pop a mint, or pick up a book. Anything to distract your hands and mind. If after 15 minutes, you still feel tempted, know that you are strong enough to delay yourself again. The important point is to never look at smoking cessation as an all or nothing proposition. You will have good days and bad days, but stick with it. With perseverance, you will find that the good days begin to out number the bad days.

I don’t want to gain weight.
Not many of us want to gain weight, so this is an understandable fear. Over the years, the weight gain- stop smoking connection has been greatly exaggerated. Not everyone that quits smoking will gain weight, and even the people that do average a gain of only ten pounds. If even ten pounds is enough to make you hesitate, you should realize that stopping the cigarette habit does not mysteriously cause weight gain. People that gain weight when they quit smoking do so for two reasons. They eat more and they are less active.

Regardless of what type of smoking cessation program you use, mindless eating is likely to sneak up on you. This probably has less to do with chemical withdrawal than it does the need to keep your hands busy. As far as the lack of activity goes, without having to make those trips outside the office building to smoke, you are probably a much more productive employee, which is good, but you probably spend a lot more time in your chair. Take a few breaks during the day, even a few brisk trips up and down the hall will help, but consider heading outside once or twice a day as well. There is no reason smokers should have all the fun, right?

I’ll try again Monday.
Sure you will, we all will. In the mean time, you will probably smoke more than normal over the weekend, as you prepare to quit. The trouble is, unless you change your behavior, you are no more likely to make it through Monday as you are today. To quit smoking, you cannot think in terms of success and failure. If you slip, no need to wait for another day, week, or month. So, you messed up, big deal, stub out the cig and go on with your life.

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Stop Smoking

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

WHY

  • Think of those who care and love you very much.

  • Tobacco and tobacco smoke are cancer’s best friends. Close friends with respiratory problems and heart diseases (e.g. atherosclerosis).

  • Smoking increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also called chronic obstructive lung disease.

  • There is growing evidence that smoking can lead to AMD (age-related macular degeneration), a degenerative condition occurring at the back of the eye (macula) resulting in blindness.

  • There is an increased risk of developing cataracts.

  • Smokers may develop complications in diverticular disease.

  • Smoking can suppress the body’s immune function.

  • Smoking contributes to chronic sinusitis.

  • Smoked or chewed tobacco worsens gum disease.

  • Tobacco can cause hemorrhoids to flare up.

  • Chain smokers (over 20 cigarettes a day) are 13 times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than non-smokers.

  • Women who smoke during early pregnancy can increase a child’s risk of developing autism.

  • Cigarettes, like alcohol, coffee, and fizzy drinks are known to have an adverse effect on the secretion of the female hormone estrogen. Estrogen is linked to healthy bone strength.

  • Nicotine is just as addictive as cocaine or heroin.

  • Cigars, like cigarettes contain nicotine. Cigar smoking is not safer than cigarettes. Cigars are a major source of secondhand smoke which contains over 4000 chemicals where 200 are poisons and 63 cause cancer.

  • It is foolish to think that smoking without inhaling is safe, that is because smoke still enters the body through the mouth, nose, and skin.

  • Why take all these health risks? What is there to gain?

  • Smoking can cause skin to age faster.

  • Smoking increases stomach acidity which can irritate the stomach lining.

  • While you enjoy puffing, you are actually forcing those around you to breathe in what is harmful.

  • Children exposed to secondhand smoke are more prone to have chronic ear infections.

  • A study conducted by the British Institute of Psychiatry found that smoking later in life may lead to mental decline. Researchers found that smokers were 4 times more likely to experience a significant intellectual decline than non-smokers. The test that was used to assess intellectual power was similar to those used to screen for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
    Reference: “Smoking, drinking, and incident cognitive impairment: a cohort community based study included in the Gospel Oak Project” J A Cervilla, et al. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (2000) 68:622-626

  • Your sense of smell will be better.

  • Costly. Why not save the cigarette money? Surely there must be other better ways to spend it.

  • If now is not the time to quit then when do you prefer?

  • Think of your well-being too.

  • Quiting smoking is a precious and meaningful gift to give yourself and to the people you care about.

  • Set a good example for kids.

  • Forget about the number of times you have failed, don’t be discouraged. It is that one success that counts.

  • Stop smoking today.

HOW?

  • Check out the programmes that your local hospitals or health centers are organising and enroll yourself. A programme called “Breathe Easy” that was started in the US in 1985 has claimed a high success rate. You might like to check if it is available.

  • Learn to play a musical instrument or pick up a hobby.

  • Seek help from your family, friends, or colleagues. It helps to quit with someone.

  • Avoid situations where you would usually smoke.

  • Distract smoking urges with exercise, manual tasks, making phone calls, or by eating fruits or munching carrot/cucumber sticks.

  • Reduce cravings by drinking lemon-infused water. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to a glass (300ml) of water and drink it 4 times a day.

  • Get a piggy bank and put in the money that is used to buy cigarettes. Be amazed how much is collected.

  • Women with PMS should try not to quit before their menses as it can increase nicotine withdrawal.

  • Commercial products like nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine patch, nicotine nasal spray, and nicotine-free pill (Zyban) can help you quit gradually. Visit a doctor or pharmacist for their advice. Giving up is difficult because of nicotine addiction, a substance that is not cancer-causing.

  • According to Dr. Ralph Heinicke, xeronine is an alkaloid synthesized in the body and plays a key role at cellular level. When we take in foreign alkaloids like nicotine, cocaine, heroin and caffeine, which mimic xeronine’s natural function, the body’s proteins adapt to them and alter the need for xeronine to an unnatural need for foreign alkaloids. To overcome this addiction, flood your body with xeronine just like you originally flooded the body with foreign alkaloid.

    At present noni is known to be the best source of proxeronine (a precursor to xeronine).

    To treat this addiction, place a few drops of noni juice under the tongue every hour. This will release proxeronine straight into the bloodstream from the soft tissue under the tongue to the brain. Repeating this procedure every hour will help flood the brain with this useful compound and allow the brain to subsequently prefer xeronine than nicotine.

    Note: The body does not get addicted to xeronine and thus noni is not addictive.

    In 76 Ways to Use Noni Fruit Juice (Direct Source, 2001) Ms. Isabelle Navarre-Brown shares
    several quit-smoking techniques using noni fruit juice, noni skin lotion, noni seed oil, and noni liquid concentrate.
    Noni will reduce the physical and psychological need for cigarettes.

    More on noni, xeronine and Dr. Heinicke - http://www.tipsofallsorts.com/noni.html

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Can’t Stop Smoking, Start Drinking Tea!

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Let me start off by saying, that this is not an article about how to stop smoking. In a way, it is quite the opposite. Whether it is a pipe, cigar, or cigarettes, some of us have found that we are smokers. Maybe you have attempted to quit, and maybe you haven’t cared enough to try. Either way, the truth remains, “I am a smoker.” If this sounds familiar, then you I write this for you.

It came to me one afternoon, when I was trying to fight off a sore throat, and I held my pipe in my left hand, and searched for my lighter with my rightI shouldn’t be doing this. I have had this sore throat for a week, and I can’t stop smoking.

Well, the truth was the truth, and I really didn’t have intentions of stoppingSlowing down, yes; stopping, no. Though this moment was quick, it was important, as it was then that I accepted my fait. And more importantly, was now able to balance the scales.

Smoking makes you look old, smoking causes cancer, smoking smells, smoking makes your teeth yellow, and a million other STOP SMOKING ads rushed through my head

I accepted them all

Ok, now whatWell, I began to think. With a sore throat nagging me at the moment, I decided to attack this enemy first. Mouth wash, medicine, vitamins; I found these were all good ideas. But although I was helping the issue, my throat still hurt, and I was beginning to cough.

Perhaps the coughing was a blessing in disguise as I reached for cup of tea to help stop a fit of coughs. The steam helped me breathe, and the hot water cleared my throat. If nothing else, this experience got me thinking.

I looked further into the matter, as I of course stepped up my tea intake.

I found out that drinking tea, Rooibos Tea and Jasmine Green Tea in particular, will help me to relax (calming down my nerves), contain large amounts of anti oxidants to fight against the increased level of free radicals in my body from smoking (the cause aging skin and of course, Cancer), clean my body of toxins, help me breathe, and help my previously mentioned sore throat. I looked at this list, and the STOP SMOKING ads returned

Could it be that a pot of tea was a helpful accessory walking down this smokey path?? From personal experience, I have found that tea helps. And NO, I do not think drinking tea will protect me from all ailments, or that I will never get sick again, or I will avoid any other ill drawn fait that may await me, but with certain facts that I had to accept, I can only do my best to minimize the damage. And as I end this article with no promises, I will restate a simply written statement that proves itself time and time again, “Drinking tea is a good idea”

Along with writing, David Giusti is the owner of Sabaidi Tea Co., Ltd., http://www.sabaidi.net, a company that exports Handmade Gourmet Tea Bags and Gift boxes and other specialties from Bangkok, Thailand. You can read more on the company’s home page at http://www.Sabaidi.net

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