Stop Smoking - The Benefits

February 3rd, 2009

In our previous article, we emphasised the negatives and difficulties of giving up smoking, but there are positives which far outweigh the bad things.

After that initial three months, when you will probably cough more than ever before, you will find that you will wake up in the morning with a clear chest and without that hacking cough so typical of the inveterate smoker.

When you’re still struggling with the giving up process, it is a good idea to get all your curtains and soft furnishings laundered or dry cleaned to get rid of the smell of smoke. The cost of this will make you think twice about smoking in that room again and the added benefit is that when you walk into your lounge in the morning, you will be able to sniff the air and think “Thank goodness, the whole place doesn’t reek of smoke”. You won’t have filthy ashtrays to wash either.

Along the same lines, either wash or dry clean all your suits, trousers, skirts, jackets and jumpers because although you probably didn’t realise it, they smell horrible. Give your colleagues a treat and don’t go to work smelling of an old ashtray, even though you’ve actually stopped smoking. Soon enough, they will start to comment on the newfound freshness of the atmosphere and you will realise what it was like for them, smelling your second had smoke every day.

When you go to work, it will no longer be you who needs to be escorted outside for a cigarette when visiting another company’s premises. It won’t be you standing outside your own office block having a quick puff and it won’t be you about whom your colleagues complain when you take a cigarette break, although no one else gets to leave their desk at that time.

When you go out for a social occasion, particularly at someone’s home, you won’t be the lone smoker attracting disapproving looks. It will no longer be you asking your hostess if she minds you smoking and receiving a refusal and it won’t be you standing outside on your own having a solitary puff, while the others eat, drink and make merry. Social alienation ends here!

The chances of suffering from lung cancer, breast cancer and heart disease will decrease with every month that you don’t smoke and eventually, your likelihood of contracting any of those will be back where it was before you ever smoked.

When you play tennis, squash or football with your friends or at your club, you will suddenly find that you no longer puff and pant when you have to run one width of the court. Your opponents will realise that they can’t be careless with the ball and rely on your lack of fitness any more, in order to win the point or score that goal. You will actually feel better after exercise, not worse.

Last of all, you will have more spare money than you know what to do with. In the UK a packet of cigarettes costs approximately

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A Plan to Stop Smoking

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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Stop Smoking Aids

January 30th, 2009

Stop Smoking Aids - Natural Ways to Quit Smoking with the Help of an Herbal Smoking Cessation Product

Quitting smoking is often one of the top New Years resolutions for people far and wide, and yet many more thousands seem to pick up the habit every year despite increasing health warnings, skyrocketing tobacco prices and increased awareness, and more advanced stop smoking aids being offered to the public.

Nicotine is one of the most highly addictive controlled substances on the market today. And the price of cigarettes has multiplied exponentially over the past decade, making smoking an even less attractive habit than it already is to many people.

Unfortunately, cigarette smoking hasn’t yet fallen out of favor with the youger crowd (15-22 year olds usually) as an acceptable, and even “cool” social habit. Little do these youngsters know, they are greatly jeopardizing their overall mental and physical health just to look cool, fit in, or participate in an accepted socialization tool.

You see, smoking not only gives you bad breath, accelerates the aging process and damages skin, and is bad for your heart and lungs, but it has been proven habitual smokers are more likely to succumb to depression and be subjected to higher levels of anxiety.

After quitting smoking, most people report a renewed sense of vitality, an ability to think more clearly, better health, easier breathing, dramatically reduced incidence of cold and flu and a much more positive outlook on life, including a greater sense of inner peace and tranquility.

Funny thing, most smokers don’t want to quit primarily because they view the act of smoking a cigarette as soothing and a great stress reducer when in fact, the act of smoking has been proven to actually increase and perpetuate overall stress levels and anxiety. While that cigarette may seem to be a “quick fix” for anxiety, it is actually the very thing that is causing more severe anxiety to begin with.

What if I Gain Weight From Stopping my Smoking Habit?

Gaining weight from stopping smoking is another common fear of smokers. Many stop smoking aids that are good will help to prevent this from happening by helping to replace the component of nicotine which suppresses the appetite with natural, unharmful and non-addictive natural botanicals. In other words, natural stop smoking aids actually have a natural ingredient which helps stave off hunger so you don’t even have to notice your body is without nicotine.

What Can I Expect if I Quit Smoking?

1.) A fatter wallet. At five bucks or more for a pack of cigarettes, expect to have much more expendable cash in your pocket.

2.) A huge increase in mental clarity and focus. This happens right away if you use a natural stop smoking aid, since it relieves the common symptoms of nicotine withdrawal immediately, so you enjoy the benefits of being a non smoker immediately.

3.) Decreased depression and anxiety - especially once your body had adjusted and gotten rid of all the built up toxins caused by the cigarette smoking. Natural smoking aids will also help clear the toxins out super fast by giving your body an extra shot of antioxidant power, and cleaning you whole system from the inside out.

4.) Healthy lungs. The lungs repair themselves pretty quickly. Expect to breathe easier, and cough less.

5.) Get sick less often. Reason enough to quit.

6.) Look younger and have better, brighter skin almost immediately.

7.) Whiter teeth and a fresher mouth.

8.) Sleep better, longer and more deeply.

9.) Have more energy and lung capacity to be able to walk up
those steps that used to make you huff and puff.

Visit Stop Smoking Aids - Stop Smoking Naturally for more information on the natural stop smoking aid mentioned in this article. Danna Schneider is the webmaster of the Herbal and Natural Remedy site Herbal-Therapeutics.com

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Do You Really Want To Stop Smoking Or Do You Use The Weight Gain Excuse

January 28th, 2009

I do not smoke, never have, and admit to being one of those ‘pain in the butts’ (OK, bad pun!) that go on about the foul stench, and anti-social behaviour of smokers, especially in public places.

You can imagine my joy when one of my local pubs recently banned smoking. Shortly after the ban had come into force I spotted a guy poised with cigarette in hand, and was about to get huffy and even confrontational. Fortunately I held back and continued my beer - but was puzzled. The cigarette was unlit and yet he was putting it near his mouth, flicking the imaginary ash and generally acting as if he was smoking it. Curious about this I eventually enquired, only to find out this was his own rather unorthodox approach to keeping his hands busy and therefore, as he put it, keeping his weight down.

Although everyone knows that smoking is detrimental to health, it’s surprising how many smokers cite fear of putting on weight as a reason to not quit smoking.

The simple fact is that it is not quitting smoking that affects your weight, but the change of habit can result in you increasing your food intake.

But there are plenty of ways to ensure this does not happen to you.

There is no need for a special diet when you stop smoking, but you must use your common sense. If you eat chocolates instead of smoking then you are very likely to gain weight!

Monitor your diet for a fortnight before you stop smoking - write a food diary, noting everything you eat and when. You simply use this to make sure that what you eat post-quitting follows a similar pattern.

In a similar way, note how much exercise you can do as a smoker. When you stop smoking, you can begin to compare how much more exercise you can do with ease. This will inspire you to the possibility of becoming fitter in other ways, and will actually help you through the tough period of giving up the addiction.

Even moderate amounts of exercise can reduce tobacco cravings. A recent study found that women that maintained a rigorous exercise regime coupled with a stop-smoking programme were twice as likely to succeed as those who didn’t. Frankly, exercising is incompatible with smoking, and you are also more likely to be mixing with non-smokers.

Let’s face it, if you smoke 20 cigarettes daily, you are putting your hand to your mouth at least 200 times a day. When you quit, you need to keep your hands busy. How about peeling fruit for snacks, doing jigsaws or maybe even knitting.

Keep visualising yourself as a fit non-smoker, especially when your motivation starts to flag. You can always get help with this through the use of hypnotherapy. As in so many behavioural issues, it is simply a matter of re-programming our mind. Giving up smoking is tough, and self-hypnosis is a method that many are discovering as a simple way to help keep the mental attitude and motivation on course.

Like the chap in the pub, you may find your own method of coping with your quit smoking challenge, and well.. if it works - great!

Good health!

Keith Watson - 25 years as a registered nurse. Now writing about and promoting a holistic approach to health issues. To learn more about hypnosis as a therapy, visit http://www.adam-eason.com/

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Stop Smoking Laser Therapy

January 26th, 2009

Stop smoking laser treatment is a well know method since over 20 years. It is a common practice designed for people trying to quit smoking.

Stop smoking laser therapy is based on the ancient acupuncture. In ancient times, people used needles to stimulate certain points of the human body and thus stimulate hormone secretion. Nowadays low-level lasers substitute the needles. The laser stimulates the nerve endings and increases the endorphin secretion.

Laser therapy is completely painless. Most people describe the feeling as a warming, even tingling feeling. After each session, people feel relaxed and happier. Their smoking cravings are greatly reduced and the depression that goes along with the ceasing process is gone.

Prices for Stop smoking laser therapy are relatively low nowadays. The costs may vary of course but they are usually about $500. If you calculate how much money you are spending on cigarettes, you will see that the cost of the laser treatment is neglectfully low. Moreover, smoking damages your health so badly that you will need a great amount of money to try repair the damages later.

Any stop smoking laser therapy has two stages. The first stage is meant to help detoxification. This usually happens within the first two days of the therapy. During the rest of the course, the lasers are used to reduce he depression rate and the nicotine cravings.

Laser treatment is a non-medical procedure. However, it is not considered appropriate for people who experience specific medical conditions. Pregnant women, people suffering from epilepsy or cancer are not suitable for a stop smoking laser treatment. You should always consult your therapist before undertaking stop smoking laser treatment. If this treatment turns to be inappropriate for you your doctor will be able to prescribe you other medication to help you quit smoking.

It is important to remember is that stop smoking laser treatment does not guarantee that you will actually quit smoking. Smoking habit has two faces - physiological (your body is accustomed to certain substances found in cigarettes’ smoke) and the psychological (connected with your perception of smoking, your habits and lifestyle). Laser therapy can help reduce the physical symptoms of the smoking habit. The rest - you should fight yourself. Stop smoking laser treatment can give excellent results if combined with a behavior treatment, more exercising and the support you can get from your family and friends. The good thing about it is that it is a non-medical treatment so you will not need to take any medications.

Rene’s website helps light and heavy smokers to quit smoking forever. Please visit the site for more information on Stop Smoking Laser

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Choosing A Hypnotherapist To Stop Smoking

January 24th, 2009

There are a multitude of hypnotherapists out there, so how do you find one that works for you?

When Should I See a Hypnotherapist?

If you are struggling with giving up smoking and feel you need a helping hand, then hypnosis may well help you. If you feel you just need that little bit extra to quit and become free from tobacco, then this could work for you.
Will It Work?

No hypnotherapist can guarentee you that the session will work. Unfortunately, hypnosis is not a replacement for the desire to quit smoking. If you are going along looking for the hypnotherapist to make you stop smoking then save your money.

Hypnosis will only work to supplement your willpower and help you to give up. If you go for hypnosis because you feel you ought to or because your partner / family are pushing you to, then again, save your money and stay at home.

If you genuinely want to give up smoking and are willing to use some willpower then hypnosis will more than likely work for you.

Where Can I Find A Hypnotherapist?

There are a number of ways you can do this:

* Contact a professional hypnotherapist body to find some in your area

* Look in the yellow pages

* Look in the local papers

* Ask friends / co workers for personal recommendations (this is the best method)

What Can I Expect?

A stop smoking hypnosis session will last anything from an hour to two hours, depending on the therapist. They will use a variety of different techniques and processes on you. Usually it will involve hypnotic trance. This is a simple process where you relax as if you were almost asleep. In hypnosis you are in control the whole of the time, which is why you have to want the result. No hypnotherapist can make you do anything you don’t want to do.

What Will They Charge Me?

The price varies greatly from therapist to therapist. It is probably a good idea to contact a few in your area to determine pricing. In the UK it can be anywhere for

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Stop Smoking the Natural Way

January 22nd, 2009

At the age of 18 I was a real fat kid. I was probably some 70 lbs overweight, had long tangled hair and was exceptionally miserable. At that age, the hormones had kicked in and I was desperate to get out there socialising with the opposite sex. However, my weight battered my confidence and self-esteem levels, rendering that kind of social interaction almost impossible.

So, I made the decision to lose weight. I simply cut out all junk food, all soda, and started running as far as I could each and every day. By the time four months had gone by, I had dropped the best part of 60 lbs and I was running an easy three miles every day. On top of this, the number of push-ups I could do had risen from one (when I first started) to 400 over the course of several sets.

So where does smoking fit into this little story? Well let me elucidate. After I had lost the weight, I had a ton of people come up to me asking how I managed to shift the fat. When I replied that I had simply eaten less and exercised more, they wouldn’t take that for an answer. Most overweight individuals want a magic bullet, an instant cure, and they were convinced that I must have been doing a special diet or exercising with unique technique.

I lose weight the natural way. And if anyone else in the world wishes to lose weight and keep it off, they will eventually learn that they have to do it the natural way. No fad diet is going to work for them long-term. This is one of the laws in life - we must do things naturally. If something seems to good to be true, then it usually is. You need to stop smoking the natural way.

So how does one stop smoking the natural way? Well, it’s pretty simple. Don’t use the patches, don’t use the gum, don’t use the substitute cigarettes, don’t use the herbal cigarettes. If you want to quit smoking, then just stop smoking.

Don’t replace your smoking habit with another habit, such as gum or patches - all you’ll end up doing is replacing one addiction with another. Half the success in quitting cigarettes is in beating the power of addiction. If we substitute habits, we will never kick the power of addiction and, just like the individual doing the latest fad diet, we will be destined to have an ongoing battle for the rest of our lives by harbouring a viper in our bosom.

However, just because you choose to stop smoking the natural way, don’t start to worry that it has to be difficult. I was thoroughly addicted to cigarettes for over a decade, smoking two packets a day, and yet I managed to quit the habit within a few hours of trying a certain technique. And what’s more, it was easy and peaceful to do; I’ve never craved a cigarette since then. There are many methods to help you stop smoking the natural and easy way, particularly with hypnotherapy. Just resolve to quit the habit properly instead of using half-hearted measures.

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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What Good Is It To Stop Smoking If I Have Smoked For Years

January 20th, 2009

I often hear people say that they have smoked for so long that they can’t see what good it would do to quit now. So what is the big deal if you quit smoking? Will it do you any good or is it a pointless exercise in futility?

My answer always is that the benefits of quitting smoking are enormous. Here are some powerful reasons for quitting: The excess risk of developing heart disease as a result of smoking may be reduced by as much as half in the year or two after quitting. After 15 years, the former smoker’s risk of heart disease approaches that of a person who has never smoked. Five to 15 years after quitting the risk of stroke returns to the level of those who have never smoked.

Quitting reduces the risk of lung cancer; 10 years after quitting the risk for lung cancer is 30% to 50% that of the risk of those who continue to smoke. Men who quit at age 35 increase their life expectancy by 7 to 9 years. Women who quit at age 35 increase their life expectancy by 6 to 8 years. It is never too late to gain benefits from quitting. Quitting at age 45 increases life expectancy by 6 or 7 years. Quitting at age 55 increases life expectancy by 3 to 6 years. Quitting at age 65 increases life expectancy by 1.4 to 4 years.

So how are those for good reasons? No matter how long you have smoked, quitting will provide you with some benefit. That benefit may be profound. It could lengthen your life by as much as a decade. Don’t wait. Throw out your cigarettes and stop smoking today.

Judy Brown is a director of http://www.lifenatural.com, http://www.smoke-rx.com and http://www.helpquitsmoking.net a pure informational resource where you will find further information on how to quit smoking.

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Revealed - The Real Reason You Can’t Stop Smoking!

January 18th, 2009

Despite the decades of scientific and medical research proving beyond doubt the deadly effects of cigarette smoking, the number of existing smokers, and people taking up smoking, is still at incredulous levels.

The chilling statistics reveal:-

  • 1 in 5 deaths in the US is attributed to smoking
  • 440, 000 deaths, potentially 6 million years of potential life lost per year
  • Smoking during pregnancy results in 1,000 infant deaths per year.

(Source http://www.med.upenn.edu/tturc/pdf/USA_Figures.pdf)

Most people when asked are at a loss to explain why anyone would continue to smoke, or take up smoking considering the high smoking related death rate; however it is important to understand that the reason is on more of a subconscious, rather than a conscious level.

The real reasons have to do with a mechanism that drives our behavior called the pleasure and pain mechanism. This mechanism is designed to drive us towards things that are pleasurable and safe, and drive us away from things that are painful and potentially harmful or dangerous. The mechanism for the most part is developed within the subconscious mind as the result of the input (either pleasure or pain) we receive from our experience of any behavior or activity. At times the pleasure/pain mechanism has more than one input however, in which case it is usually the input that is either the strongest or the most immediate that moulds our behavior with respect to the activity in question. The problem with this mechanism where smoking is concerned is twofold:-

  1. A delay of years before the negative effects are experienced which renders this delayed feedback ineffective as it becomes a purely conscious input.

  2. Smoking does have elements of pleasure in the short term (such as a relaxing effect of the deep breathing, and is still seen as a somewhat cool thing to do by some young people because of its rebellious connotations). Being a short term feedback, this pleasure feedback is what a smoker responds too.

Imagine for a moment if instead of the current situation with smoking, if everyone who took up smoking and smoked for only a week died as a result of the usual smoking related illnesses, how many people do you think would take up smoking given this scenario? I would suggest it would be as close to zero as you could get.

While there is currently a delay of years before the real pain resulting from smoking is felt, I believe the time is almost at hand where this will change although not in the way that you might think. The enormous cost to the healthcare system for self inflicted and preventable health problems such as those resulting from smoking, will mean a change to the responsibility for these healthcare costs within the next few years, such as:

  • Smokers will be forced to pay excessive health insurance premiums compared to non-smokers.
  • Countries with free or subsidized healthcare will withdraw this support for preventable health problems such as smoking, forcing smokers to pay high private insurance costs or be left without access to healthcare.
  • Also, governments may impose even higher taxes on tobacco products making the price of cigarettes even more prohibitive.

These measures may provide enough short term pain to encourage some smokers to quit, however they are a little way off just yet.

So what’s the solution?
There is no magic bullet when it comes to any habit including smoking; however understanding the mechanism of the habit is a starting point. What smokers need to understand is that any habit such as smoking, is a program or list of instructions that have been placed in the subconscious mind through repetition that respond similar to a computer program. Like a computer program the instructions in your habit program are activated by certain actions or triggers. The triggers can be inputs such as stress, a time trigger such as every 30 minutes, or perhaps after a meal. You don’t have to “think” about lighting up because your subconscious mind is programmed to respond to the triggers.

Tips
The relaxing effect of smoking can be attributed to the deep breathing when drawing in the smoke, so when you feel like a cigarette in response to one of your triggers, use your imagination instead and visualize a cigarette in your mouth, then take slow deep breathes instead of reaching for a real cigarette. The more times you do this the more you will override your smoking program and replace it with the new deep breathing habit instead. If you want to install a subconscious pain response to help quit smoking then try this. Find a quiet place where you can be alone:

  1. Imagine you’re in your 40’s or 50’s and the doctor is telling you that you only have a couple of months to live, imagine the fear that would run through your body at that moment.
  2. Imagine you’re on your death bed saying goodbye to your loved ones, children or partner. How would that feel inside?
  3. Imagine your cigarette packet has an LCD screen on it. Every time you open the pack the screen lights up with a live feed from the future of your children or partner at your funeral grieving for you and wanting to know why you had to die so young.

Are these scenarios completely fictitious? The future video feed may be but as for the dying younger than you should, sadly that is a mathematical certainty. While we’ve all heard of smokers who have lived to an old age, these people are rare exceptions of perhaps 1 person in 1000 or more. I’d hate to bet my life savings at those odds let alone my life, how about you?

If you’re serious about saving your life and kicking the smoking habit, then try the visualization techniques above every day to program it into your subconscious. You can also think of all the money you’ll save by quitting. Alternatively you can look for a good quit smoking program, but ensure that the one you choose addresses the problems of the underlying subconscious programming of the habit. The money you spend on a good program will be trivial compared to the money you’ll save on cigarettes and is a small price to pay for your life. With regards to smoking, only one person can save your life, and that person is YOU.

© 2006 Colin L Wolfenden

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Stop Smoking Hypnosis - Will I Gain Weight

January 16th, 2009

Smokers have been known to use the fear of gaining weight as an excuse not to quit. Using tobacco as a weight control mechanism is quite common as nicotine does suppress one’s appetite as well as alters the body’s metabolism. Smoking is also believed to slow the rate in which food is digested therefore making the person feel fuller for longer. The concept of using nicotine to help control the diet is known as “weight control smoking” and occurs in 40 percent of all female smokers and is quite rare in men.

Getting to the bottom of your own weight control problems and bad dieting habits is one of the first things that a “weight controlled smoker” must do to be successful at saying goodbye to their smoking habit. The reality is that one would have to put on 70-100 pounds to achieve a health risk equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and this is not likely to happen. Gaining a couple of pounds while you get one addiction under control is a reality that you might have to face. There are many therapeutic behavioral techniques and hypnotherapies that can help one deal with not only their quitting smoking, but with issues such as binge eating and weight control. Stop smoking hypnosis combined with a weight loss program is the key to success.

Exercise and dietary changes can make a big difference and can influence success in quitting smoking. A great motto to think of is just to replace a bad habit with a good one and you will not fail. Instead of reaching for a bag of chips to help you deal with your craving for nicotine, try going for a brisk walk, or start a new interesting hobby to help keep your mind interested.

Most people find that once they give up smoking their body has a better overall feeling of health and vitality. Eating right and limiting your intake of alcohol and fatty foods will begin to come naturally. Once your taste buds come back to normal you might find that you want to start cooking new and exciting healthy meals. Don’t let the first couple of pounds scare you away from long-term success. A short-term gain of a few pounds for a long-term loss of a very bad habit. Your weight will fall into place with a little time dedication and effort. It’s worth it!

Visit http://www.stop-smoking-hypnosis.net to try hypnosis therapy.

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