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

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:02:03 +0000

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

Stop Smoking by Resolving Your Mixed Feelings

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:22:05 +0000

Many smokers know all the reasons why they ’should’ stop, but still struggle making the decision to quit. They beat themselves up, complaining of a lack of willpower. But they are wrong, it isn’t willpower you need. Using willpower implies that you are fighting against something.

Smokers in this condition experience mood swings, cravings and irritability. That’s because they are sitting on the fence. As any smoker trying to quit knows, that’s a painful place to be. It’s much better to ‘jump off the fence’. When you reach the decision, quitting becomes effortless. But as we know, making that decision can be tough.

Hundreds of clients have told us that although they want to stop, they still enjoy smoking. For many smokers there are strong associations between smoking and pleasure, for example:

“A drink and a cigarette go together”

“I love to smoke in the morning with my tea/coffee”

“I enjoy a cigarette after dinner.”

For other smokers there are associations with stress:

“I feel anxious and I need to smoke”

“I know I’ll be irritable without my cigarettes.”

Some feel deprived at the thought of quitting:

“I miss my cigarettes”

“I feel deprived”

“I feel I have lost a friend”

“I’m afraid to let go.”

For some women with young children, cigarettes provide an escape for ten minutes. “This is my time.” Similarly, both men and women use cigarettes as a reward, as an excuse to take a break. For some, the thought of never being able to smoke again is terrifying.

Whatever your mixed feelings, you need to realise that they are just beliefs. But because your unconscious mind has to act in accordance with your beliefs, you experience conflict, the discomfort of being torn between what you ’should’ do, and what you feel comfortable doing… which is to maintain the habit… keep doing what you’ve been doing for years…in spite of the fact that it’s destroying your health, burning your money, becoming increasingly unsociable etc. etc.

So, for many people, arriving at the decision to stop smoking is hard. Here are the reasons why…

Have you ever wondered why most smokers take up the habit in their teens, between the age of 10 and 20? Ask any smoker and you will confirm this for yourself. Psychologists talk about this time of our lives as the ’socialisation period’, when we are extremely sensitive to being part of the group. Now, remember what it was like when you were at school, or at your first job. You desperately wanted to ‘fit in’ because the worst emotional pain we can feel during that part of our lives is the feeling of being ‘left out’.

Have you every heard of your mind being described as like an iceberg, with nine tenths below the surface? The conscious mind is the tiny one tenth part above the surface, the unconscious is the nine tenths below. As you know, the unconscious, which stores all of our memories, which breathes air into our lungs, beats our heart and carries out all automatic functions on our behalf, is designed to protect us from emotional, as well as physical pain.

During our teens, we start smoking to protect ourselves from emotional pain, to avoid being left out, to be part of the group. At that time there may also have been some peer pressure, “mummies boy”, perhaps a sense of rebellion, or wanting to look grown up or glamorous like that film star. This explains why, in spite of that first experience making us cough and choke and feel ill, we forced ourselves to smoke again and again until it become a habit.

Now years later, when you are considering stopping smoking, you get a feeling of panic, of anxiety, “how will I survive without a cigarette?”. These uncomfortable feelings are entirely caused by your unconscious mind which still (just as when you were a teenager) ‘thinks’ it’s doing you a favour by keeping you smoking. Your unconscious mind still ‘thinks’ it’s protecting you from emotional pain, not realising that years have passed and that now, with increasing legislation, stop smoking uk is becoming more and more likely.

The reason our approach is so successful is because we deal with the root cause of smoking. As well as breaking the old smoking habit with advanced hypnosis, we are resolving the unconscious conflicts and erroneous beliefs which have ’stopped you stopping’.

Specialist smoking cessation practitioners need to have the skills and experience to dissolve your conflicts, painlessly and easily. Many of our clients say, “It’s as if I’ve never smoked!” When you read some of the testimonials, it suddenly makes sense. It can’t be a nicotine addiction because, as your doctor will tell you, all the nicotine is out of your system within 48 hours.

You know of people who have stopped and then started again, months later. And you also know lots of people who have stopped and who still crave a cigarette, even years later. You also know of those who have gained weight when they quit. Why? It’s because the unconscious conflict wasn’t resolved, as it is with our approach. Client Daryl Hine from Buntingford told us:

“I was smoking right up to the point of walking in. The session was very interesting, both educational and engaging. Throughout the hypnosis, I was fully awake and yet fully relaxed. It’s a strange sensation. I’d classify it as a ‘pleasant, strange experience’. About an hour later I walked out of the session thinking, ‘That was interesting,’ but not feeling any different. I still didn’t believe I could quit. It wasn’t till days later that I realised that I hadn’t smoked and that it had worked.

It’s coming up for a year now and it’s been easy. No desire to smoke, feell better in myself. All the normal stress points have been fine and I’ve had no craving at all. Health wise I’m much better. I do a fair bit of exercise. I’ve saved myself a considerable amount of time at work, gaining an extra hour each day that I now use more productively. As well as time, I’ve saved a fortune because I had been smoking 25-30 a day. I’ve been a great advocate of the Stop Smoking Centre and I’m willing to talk to anyone about my experience.”

So if you have mixed feelings about stopping smoking, call us any time and we’ll be happy to chat or even provide a free consultation where we can resolve your unconscious conflicts.

Recently I followed up with just such a client, who had come for a free consultation, and she had stopped smoking - just by resolving her conflicts.

Dave Trevena
The Hertford Stop Smoking Centre
Freephone: 0800 093 9714
Down load our free report from:
http://www.stopsmokingcentre.co.uk

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5 Killer Tips to Help You Stop Smoking

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:26:05 +0000

As the tagline for a famous supermarket goes, “Every little helps”. This is especially true when it comes to building motivation in order to accomplish a task. The more tactics and tricks we have, the more focused our mind can become. If you’re thinking about packing in the cigarettes, then these little stop smoking tips will help you:

1. Get a pen and paper, head to the local bar and buy yourself a drink. Then sit down and start brainstorming all the material possessions you would like to own. Perhaps a new brand name watch, or a LCD television, or a tailored jacket, or some bottles of fragrance. Just make a big list. If you smoke a pack a day, you’re effectively spending $3000 a year - imagine how many of the products from your list you could buy.

2. If you quit smoking, start putting away the cash equivalent of a packet of cigarettes in your drawer each day. If you’re living in New York, you may well find yourself with $240 or more by the end of the month.

3. Fantasise about all the fitness tasks you could accomplish if you packed in smoking. Perhaps you could run a marathon, go kayaking, take up martial arts, climbing or take up a team sport. Think about the knock-on effects of this, namely the new friends you would make.

4. Write down all the reasons why you continue to smoke. Perhaps these reasons may include “For social purposes”, or “Because it helps my anxiety”. Then start to truly assess each reason as honestly as possible and ask yourself whether you are really any better off than when you were a non-smoker.

5. Decide not to smoke for half a day. Assuming you wake up at 7am, don’t smoke until 3pm. You only need to do this once. See how much more energetic and lively you feel before you light up again.

These are simple stop smoking tips which anyone can apply. There is nothing to lose by trying them, in fact I would recommend that you continue to smoke as you apply the tips (bar the conditions for stop smoking tip number 5).

Making small changes like these is just like taking a fresh angle on your life. See how it works out for you and, most importantly, see if the vision of a non-smoking future actually appeals to you or not.

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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How Do I Stop Smoking

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:09 +0000

How do I stop smoking you ask? There are tons of experts out there but I honestly feel from experience they are going about it all wrong. I know becuase I tried eveything else.
First off the only thing that will help you stop smoking is your own willpower and sacrifice. Here are a a couple of tips that I hope can help you as much as me.

1. Do NOT set a date. I know this flies in the face of what everyone else is telling you but trust me, you are better off not doing it. I have tried and I am guessing you have tried as well and yet here you are reading an article on how to stop smoking. Enough said.

2. Don’t Quit. Huh? What did he just say? Ok, so technically you are “quitting”, but I have not had a cigarette in over 3 years and to this day my word to anyone who cares is I’m taking a break and will have one when I feel like it. I really believe this and also really believe this is the conrnerstone of my success.
The minute you start telling yourself “never again” it wears you down mentally and you will never stop. The last time I had a smoke was February 2, 2003. I had no intention of stopping. I had my first smoke of the day that morning and when it came time to have another one, I said to myself, “nah not right now.” And I kept doing that all along, never quitting.

Well there are a couple of tips that helped me a bunch and will help you as well. Keep in mind, after 3 days of being smoke free the nicotine is gone from your system. Any craving you get after that is completely mental. Now blow off that cigarette until later. That’s what I am doing.

Rich Nashawaty has been smoke free for over 3 years and is convinced anyone can do it. http://www.usfreeads.com/527968-cls.html

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Why Stop Smoking The Real Reasons To Quit

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:21:26 +0000

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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Tips To Help Ease Your Struggle To Stop Smoking

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:04:16 +0000

Smoking cigarettes or using tobacco is a self destructive and a suicidal behavior. If you are a smoker, then you already know this simple fact. But just knowing and being able to do something about it are often two different things.

You are probably aware that millions and millions of people die from tobacco related disease each and every year. But knowing this has not caused more than a minor movement away from use of the deadly plant by the general public. In fact, children all over the world are being led into the same destructive path as their elders. At their young age, they started smoking their first cigarettes, and quickly became addicted to a daily habit.

The huge problem with smoking cigarettes is in the seemingly unbreakable habit of using them. Habits are built - or assembled if you will - over a period of time and are created by repetitious behavior. Without the habit, which creates the craving, tobacco has no power of its own. It is as harmless and of no consequence as any simple garden weed. It is that internal unintentional perception about the drug that makes it dangerous.

Removing this kind of habit from a human being is not so simple. It requires a complete program of steps, taken one at a time with care and commitment. With this type of program, ending the smoking habit will feel more natural and is actually easier, even less painful than starting it. The first place to start is with these simple questions: Do you really want to quit smoking? Are you ready to do it now? If your answer to either question is “no,” you will probably be unable to quit at all.

Here are some simple but effective quit smoking tips:

Tip 1: Think of yourself as a non-smoker.

One of the best ways to think like a non-smoker one is to picture yourself in your day to day routine without cigarettes. When people ask you for a cigarette, you tell them that you don’t smoke. When you eat in a restaurant, you choose the non-smoking section. You stop taking breaks at work to smoke. Conceptualizing yourself as someone who doesn’t smoke will help you make that vision a reality. It may sound silly, but positive thinking of very specific activities in your life can help you achieve your goals.

Tip 2: Drink more water.

Water can be very instrumental in ending your smoking habit. Water flushes out the body and any toxins quickly. Some people feel bloated for the first couple of days of drinking extra water, but you will quickly enjoy its benefits. Drinking extra water will cause you to urinate more often, thus eliminating the toxins caused by smoking more quickly, reducing the urge to smoke. On top of that, you will feel healthier and more energetic.

Tip 3: Quit smoking with a buddy.

Encourage someone who always talks about quitting smoke to join you. It is much easier to give up a bad habit if you have a friend with whom to share sympathy and helpful tips. This “quit” buddy can help share your struggles because they know exactly what you’re going through.

Tip 4: Enlist support from others in your life.

Don’t try to quit smoking alone! It is best to let everyone know that you are quitting. Tell your best friend. Tell your girlfriend or boyfriend. Tell your mom. Make sure you let everyone know when you will be quitting so that you have people to hold you responsible if you are tempted to start again.

Tip 5: Count the days when you stop smoking.

Count the days you are smoke free. You can compare the number of days you last smoked to the present day. Make a point to always know how long you’ve quit smoking. Counting the days of not smoking will help convince you that you have quit for good. Most people will lose their cravings for cigarettes after about 3 days. If you are counting the days right from the start, then you will know when you can look forward to it becoming easier. In the beginning, it may seem like they will last forever. But after a few days, you’ll find that they continue to lessen and that it will get easier.

Tip 6: Be kind to yourself.

It isn’t easy to quit smoking, so be sure to reward yourself for your progress. Take yourself out to your favorite restaurant Buy yourself some flowers. You’ll find that you can now enjoy their scent for the first time in years!

If you have decided to quit smoking, but need help, be sure to visit Lisa Corwin’s Finish Smoking site for more tips: http://www.finish-smoking.com

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Quit Smoking - Women Who Want to Stop Smoking

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:22:08 +0000

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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How to Stop Smoking

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:02:24 +0000

If there is one habit that is difficult to break it is smoking. Most smokers give up smoking for only two or three days; some give it up for a week; a few can stay off cigarettes for a month; but most return to cigarettes eventually. Very few stop smoking altogether.

One has to plan to stop smoking. The first step is to list the reasons on a paper as to why you want to stop smoking. Is it because your smoking is adding to the health problems of your loved ones? Is it because you are spending more money on smoking than you can afford? Or is it that your health has been declining? This will give you a reason to stop smoking.

You also need to make a chart of the benefits that can follow once you stop smoking. Your fitness levels will go up. The chances of your suffering from lung cancer or other grave illness will lessen. You will be able to spend more money on your family. Also, your family will not suffer the ills of passive smoking. Hang this chart in a prominent place. It will remind you every day of the need to stop smoking.

Decide on a date on which you would like to stop smoking. You can choose a day that holds a special meaning to you like a birthday or an anniversary. If you want you can choose the “No Smoking Day”. Inform your friends and family members about the quit date. Emotional support and guidance from them can make things easier for you.

Just making the decision is not enough. You need to be psychologically prepared to deal with the withdrawal symptoms. The first few days may be especially taxing and difficult. Avoid situations where the urge for a smoke is almost irresistible.

There are several ways by which you can manage the withdrawal symptoms. You can enlist the help of stop smoking support programs or opt for medication. Emotional and behavioral therapy forms the basis of these support programs. Most of the programs are built to cater to your needs especially. They are extremely effective and boast of a high success rate.

Nicotine replacement therapy is another method which can make quitting easier. It is available in the form of gums, patches and sprays. Every time you feel the urge to smoke you need to slowly chew the gum. On chewing a small amount of nicotine is released into the body and that will calm you.

You can also use Zyban to stop smoking. It is a prescription drug and creates a feeling of false well being similar to the one obtained while smoking. There are few side effects like nausea, insomnia and dry mouth associated with the medicine.

You also need to change your diet. Switch to fresh fruits and green vegetables on a daily basis. Most citrus fruits contain flavonoids that reduce your cravings naturally. Avoid alcohol and coffee. Drink lots of water. It cleanses your system. Join a fitness program if you fear weight gain.

Do not get carried away by emotional outbursts or other frustrations. It may lead to a relapse, something you definitely do not want.

Vincent Rudnick is a leading authority on effective methods to quit smoking. For more information and stop smoking resources visit: http://quitsmokingforevermore.com

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Effective Ways To Stop Smoking Cigarettes

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:23:10 +0000

A purpose is the eternal condition for success.

Every former smoker can tell you just how hard it is to stop smoking cigarettes. However, there are a range of stop smoking commodities that can assist you on your transition to a smoke-free lifestyle. Though there is no cure for smoking, there are a variety of smoking free videos, quit smoking aid groups and prescription and natural stop smoking aids that will make your endeavour to quit smoking cigarettes much easier for you.

Quit Smoking Tips

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-tzu, Tao-te Ching

You may feel like you will never possess enough commitment power to quit smoking cigarettes. However, trying to stop smoking is just like all things else in the world. It takes practice. Very few individuals stop for good on the principal try. Each time you try to stop, it will get a little easier, especially if you are knowledgeable of some of the best ways to quit smoking.

These days, there are a variety of goods on the market that can assist you to stop smoking cigarettes. There are laser smoking restraint treatments, acupuncture cessation smoking methods, and even a smoking cessation shot. You can also see your physician to obtain a stop smoking antidepressant. These medicines help to relieve stress and to also cut down on your cravings, serving you to stop smoking faster and more permanently.

A person with some doubt but taking action is better than one with no doubt taking no action. Michael E. Angier

If you are interested in nicotine interchange methods to help stop smoking cigarettes, you might consider purchasing the patch or nicotine gum. The patch is just a patch that you apply everyday that delivers a stable amount of nicotine into your system. Rather than dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms such as irritation or hunger, the patch allows you to gradually wean yourself off of the drug by gradually reducing the amount of nicotine every week or so. The patch has proven to be one of the best ways to quit smoking.

Nicotine gum is another method that can help you to stop smoking cigarettes. Nicotine gum works greatly like the patch, except that you can control the amount of nicotine you are receiving. Every time you have a cigarette hunger, you can reach out for a new chunk of gum rather than a cigarette. If you strictly follow the directions that go along with these nicotine gum stop smoking products, you will discover that your cravings are drastically reduced. Rather than spending your entire day fighting your cigarette cravings, you can feel a bit more normal while you are trying to stop smoking.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Anthony Robbins

No matter what stop smoking methods you use to stop smoking cigarettes, you can rest assured that it is worth it. You will have much more energy once you boot the routine, and you will also save a lot of cash. All of these benefits pale in comparison, however, to the fitness benefits you will giving yourself and the people around you.

I hope you have gotten some good quit smoking advice from this article and that you are able to use them.

Steve Hill discusses the quit smoking process. Learn the facts before you decide which quit smoking product to buy. Read more no-bull stop smoking articles and information at: quit smoking and smoking cessation

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Should You Stop Smoking

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:04:11 +0000

BENEFITS OF STOPPING TO SMOKE

The benefits that are obtained when stopping to smoke are multiple and immediate, and as the old Chinese aphorism says:

“The man that can conquers itself, is worth more than the one that has conquered a thousand times a thousand armies”

The benefits of stopping to smoke are many, and they embrace many aspects among which we can highlight:

It improves your health, it improves your body aspect, and it improves your economy HOW DOES YOUR HEALTH IMPROVE

Stopping to smoke only 20 minutes, recovers the normal level of the arterial pressure, the heart frequency and the feet and hands temperature.

8 hours after stopping to smoke we begin to have a better lung oxygenation normalizing the monoxide of carbon and oxygen levels.

After 24 hours it diminishes the risk of a sudden death.

After 48 hours you begin to recover the senses of smell and taste

72 hours later, the breathing function is normalized

1 to 3 months later, your physical capacity will be increased, that is to say that you will be less tired

9 months later the risk of infections will decrease and the bronchial drainage will improve

Only 5 YEARS after stopping to smoke, the risk of suffering a lung cancer will be similar to that of the non smokers

10 years later the risk off having mouth cancer, throat cancer, esophagus and bladder will low to one half

Only 15 YEARS after having stopped to smoke you will have the same risk of having a coronary inadequacy that a person that doesn’t smoke.

HOW DOES YOUR BODY ASPECT IMPROVE

Your breath, hair and clothes will stop having tobacco scent.

Your car, house and work place, will stop to have tobacco scent

Your fingernails and hands will stop to have yellow color

Your skin will improve in all senses, it will change the coloration becoming rosier (the skin of the smokers is grizzly), it will improve its smoothness and become more hydrated, and as a consequence of that you will have less wrinkles

HOW WILL YOUR ECONOMY IMPROVE

Obviously this point depends on the quantity of cigarettes that you consume daily, but a person that smokes during 30 years a package per day, does not spend less than 15,000 dollars in cigarettes, plus lighters, matches, ashtrays, burnt clothes, treatments against the asthma, treatments against the allergy, bronchitis and cold treatments, etc.

Some companies prefer to hire non smokers, because the smokers get ill more frequently and they cause more maintenance expenses, since the scents of the cigarettes should be eliminated, and the residuals of the smoke stick in the curtains, carpets and cloths in general.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO STOP SMOKING

A plan to stop smoking is only successful if it contemplates three aspects:

You should know very well what is it to be tobacco addict, and which are its consequences.

You need a training or help to face the abstinence.

You need to be absolutely motivated when attempting it

If one of these three aspects is not contemplated, the plan has few probabilities of success.

The percentage of people that are able to stop smoking by their own means is of only 5%, reason why it is always convenient that you accept the help of the ones that know how to do it.

Another thing that will increase the success possibilities, is that you supplement your plan with some substitution system as chewing gums, nicotine patches or antidepressants (if the doctor prescribes them)

Keep in mind that the strong desire to smoke will be more intense the first days after leaving the cigarette, but it will diminish every week, and to the fourth month you will hardly feel it. DAMAGES THAT THE CIGARETTES PRODUCE

The nicotine is an addictive drug, and as every drug it generates dependence and it enslaves the smoker for the rest of his life.

We all have to die some day, but half of the smokers die as consequence of his bad habit, and they live about 20 years less than the non smokers.

The tobacco contains almost contains 50 chemical substances recognized as cancer producers.

Almost all the of the lung cancer cases take place among the smokers

The tobacco is related with great part of the digestive, breathing, heart and vascular illnesses.

The lowest sectors in the society, dedicate to the purchase of cigarettes, a money that is indispensable to allow a better life to all their family.

The women older than 35 years that smoke and take birth-control pills, are in the groups of high risk of suffering heart attacks, cerebral spills and clots in the legs veins. As likewise they can suffer spontaneous abortions and to give to light underweight babies.

HOW IS THE SMOKER’S ADICTION

Any fairly learned person knows that smoking is harmful for the health, and the unavoidable question is:

If they know that to smoke harms them, why do they do it?

They do it because they are addicted to the nicotine, that is a very powerful drug that is in the tobacco.

The addiction to the nicotine is as strong as the one to the cocaine and to the heroine.

We can understand then that a person that is addicted, can find serious difficulties to be liberated of his addiction, but.

If everybody knows that to smoke harms, why do they begin smoking?

The reasons why people begin to smoke are varied, to begin we should consider that people get this wrong habit at a very early age, where we are vulnerable in many senses, but the most common reasons are:

The bad example of someone of the family that smokes

To try to look of more age than we have.

To show more security and maturity.

Because all the friends do it and we fear to be different

The publicity it induces it

The sportsmen, actors and people that we admire do it

etc.

There are many the reasons why you can begin, but there’s only one consequence for it: you will join up that human mass that is unable to appropriately take care of their own health, and the health of their dear beings. Vicious people that many times try to stop smoking but can’t do it.

The addict to the cigarette doesn’t like to be considered an addict like the one that consumes cocaine or other drugs, and he usually denies the graveness of what he does, or give a thousand excuses to justify his consumption, since the drug mines his willpower.

Then he says things like:

To smoke is a pleasure

I don’t feel that it harms me

To smoke tranquilizes me

To smoke removes my appetite

I am not a vicious one

I can leave the cigarette when ever I want to

It is not going to harm me

I will leave it later on

Everybody dies of something

etc.

These addicts will spend their money daily in poisoning their health, their family and the environment, and they will follow doing it even when the cigarette has affected seriously different parts of their organism.

We also have to highlight that these physical addicts to the tobacco, also suffer other two addictions:

The psychological addiction to the cigarette

The social addiction to smoke in group

WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO STOP SMOKING?

To stop to smoke is difficult because of the nicotine. The nicotine is as addictive as the worst drugs, and it is a product that is a natural part of the tobacco.

With the course of the time, the smoker becomes physical and psychologically addict to the nicotine, and to be able to stop smoking he needs to be liberated from both dependences.

Every time that you smoke, the nicotine penetrates the lungs and from there it goes to the sanguine torrent that carries it to the whole body, it does not only affect the lungs but also the heart, the circulatory system, the hormonal system, the metabolism, the brain, the maternal milk, the amniotic liquid, the placenta and the babies of the pregnant ones.

As all drugs, the nicotine produces a pleasure sensation, and it is this sensation the one that makes the person want to smoke again, and to need more cigarettes as it affects nervous system (what of course increases the nicotine quantity in blood). Finally, once achieved a high level of nicotine in blood, the smoker needs to smoke to maintain that level.

When a vicious one tries to abandon the drug from which he depends, it suffers what is known as the abstinence syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by diverse physical and psychological symptoms.

Psychologically the smoker feels that he lacks something, it has suffered a strong change in his behavior, and for that reason sometimes to feel better, he needs to substitute the real cigarettes with plastic cigarettes and other things.

Physically, when stopping to smoke they can feel many different symptoms like:

Irritation

Anxiety

Lack of concentration

Depression

Insomnia

Headaches

Fatigue

Appetite increase

Regarding the appetite increase, I need to highlight that it is more a myth that a consequence, since in those cases that the appetite increases, the increase that takes place is really light, and it disappears in little time.

When the symptoms of the abstinence syndrome come, if the person lacks enough motivation and doesn’t practice some kind of anxiety control, he starts smoking again, until he recovers enough nicotine to do not feel those symptoms.

How much is it necessary to smoke so that the abstinence symptoms come?

It is enough with having smoked a significant quantity during some weeks

When will the symptoms be presented?

The symptoms will be presented a few hours after having smoked the last cigarette, and they will reach their intensity pick in 2 to 3 days.

How much time can we have abstinence symptoms?

This depends on each person and of the quantity of nicotine in blood that each person has gotten used, but the physical symptoms usually last from some days to several weeks, while the psychological symptoms can last during several years.

THE PASSIVE SMOKERS

The addicts to the tobacco not only poison and mortgage their own lives, but rather they also produce a serious contamination of the environment, and they put in risk the health of those who surround them.

The mothers that smoke have high possibilities to have children with asthma, especially if they smoke during the pregnancy. And they also have bigger risk of having smoking children, and children with sudden death, otitis, colds and bronchitis.

METHODS TO STOP SMOKING

There are many methods to stop smoking, and among the better known ones I can mention

the acupuncture

the magneto therapy

the hypnosis

the mind control

To which should be added the necessary psychological support to face the abstinence syndrome.

And that can be carried out with:

Psychotherapy

Relaxation and Mind Control

Help to the smoker phone lines

Family Support

Friends

Programs to stop to smoke

And possibly a therapy will be needed for the substitution of the nicotine with nicotine substitutes like:

Nicotine chewing gums (they can be bought without recipe)

Nicotine Patches (they can be bought without recipe)

Nicotine Pills (they can be bought without recipe)

Aerosols (recipe is required)

Inhalers (recipe is required)

When is it the best moment to begin a nicotine substitution therapy?

The best moment to begin a nicotine substitution therapy, is when you begin to stop smoking.

What nicotine substitute is better?

The statistic gathered so far don’t indicate that anyone is better than the other ones, the substitute that you must choose depends on your choice and habits, but it is important to highlight that all present some kind of inconveniences, reason why even when you choose one of those that don’t require recipe, it is always advisable to consult a doctor, who might even prescribe you some antidepressant, besides the nicotine substitute.

But repeating what I already said before, to be able to stop smoking, it is necessary to have knowledge about what the tobacco addiction implies (this web page has been written for it), and it is also needed help and an appropriate motivation.

My CD #7: “Deja de Fumar” can help you with both things.

If you decide to stop smoking it is good that you remember what Mark Twain said:

“To stop to smoke is easy, I have already done it a thousand times”

For that reason, if you want to stop to smoke and you don’t want to go through Mark