So what are the best natural ways to stop smoking naturally and easily? Do you really have to either use the cold turkey method or take quit smoking pills or patches to finally succeed to stop smoking for good… or is there an easier way?
You know how many different methods are there to help you quit, but the one thing that stays the same is that using natural ways is the healthiest and best way to go. Continue reading ‘Best Natural Ways to Stop Smoking Naturally’ »
In the first three parts of this article series, we have discussed how the reasons a person started smoking at an early age helped to build the psychological smoking mechanism. This mechanism begins to operate beyond conscious control because the smoker has long since forgotten why they started smoking. The first part of the process to remove smoking is to use special techniques to recall these early reasons. The second part of the process is to examine and remove the reasons a person continues to smoke.
In this article, we will discuss why smokers ignore the serious health consequences of smoking.
What Would You Do?
You’ve been smoking for over 25 years. Your mother has been a smoker for over 40 years. She calls you on the phone one day and says she’s been diagnosed with lung cancer. You watch your mother deteriorate and a few months later, she passes away. As a smoker, what would you do?
If you are like a client of mine, you’d keep right on smoking!
How Could This Be?
If you are part of the 76% of the population who are nonsmokers, you probably think this is outrageous. How could a person see what cigarettes did to their mother and continue to use them?
It’s the same reason that people have a hard time simply quitting cigarettes:
The Psychological Smoking Mechanism
This mechanism is created in most people before the age of 18. The average age is around 15 although some people start smoking even earlier. It is no accident that smoking starts during the time of puberty and the identity crisis. The identity crisis is an unpleasant period of childhood where there is confusion of self. The person is not a child, but not an adult either. They struggle to define themselves. Continue reading ‘Quit Smoking Cigarettes – How to Stop Part 4’ »
Saving money and getting healthier must certainly rank in most people’s top 10 list, not only smokers’. I’m surprised more people aren’t smoking, especially with America still stuck in the quagmire of a recession, unemployment squeaking up close to 10% (an indicator of a depression), and a stimulus plan from our Administration that can only cause greater inflation and a huge tax burden for future generations. I offer this article as a light-hearted, potentially useful post to cheer up an otherwise dreary economic outlook.
Being as I’m heavily involved with the barter industry and saving my clients thousands of dollars via my Merchants Barter Exchange companies, I’m always on the lookout for helpful tips and suggestions for people to become more efficient and save money. I’ve read many money-saving tips online, some ranging from very useful, all the way to the ridiculous. I’ll let you decide which are which! Continue reading ‘Smokers Save Money and Get Healthier’ »
side from being born with hereditary breast cancer, specialists at the Universite de Montreal believe that being overweight and smoking have a huge effect on whether a woman develops the condition, which affects over 45,000 people year in the UK. Healthcare experts at the facility conducted a study of test subjects and found a direct correlation between breast cancer, smoking and being overweight.
This was achieved by analysing whether the patients had the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations and shows that cancer cover holders should avoid these two risk factors, said lead researcher Vishnee Bissonauth. The expert, who is a graduate of the Universite de Montreal’s Department of Nutrition and a researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, said the team focused solely on lifestyle factors when considering the information they had collected.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study conducted on a sample of women without BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which are often found in French-Canadian women,” she explained. According to the research, smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes every day for nine years increases breast cancer risk by 59 per cent. Continue reading ‘Smoking and Weight Gain Increase Breast Cancer Risk’ »
Smokers trying to stop have tried patches, pills, diets and cold turkey with little or partial success. The smokers desire to handle a cigarette and feel the inhale usually out weighs giving up the habit without the aid of a cigarette fixation that most programs lack. There is one exception and that is the electronic cigarette. Most of the world never heard of electronic cigarettes until a few years ago. Technology has provided the smoker with the choice of selecting an alternative to the smoking problem in every corner of the land. E-Cig was one of the first to engage in the research and development of the electronic cigarette in 2003 and started marketing the product which has set a standard for others to follow in 2004. Internet World Wide Web site for marketing the electronic cigarette was created by E-cig around 2005. The electronic cigarette before 2005 had only one established taste and one fixed amount of nicotine per cig. Electronic cigarette providers today have greatly increased and improved by adding new popular product features like the new two piece cig to compliment the one piece, the identical traditional size cig to go with all the larger ones and the large choice of tastes and densities and new atomizers all at a competitive prices for refined smokers. Continue reading ‘The Very Best Way To Quit Smoking Any Cigarette’ »
In many instances, quitting smoking is just so much easier when you become aware of the ugly contents of the cigarette itself. Yes, I mean chemical content. Did you know that cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins?? These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.
We know that nicotine is highly addictive and smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, where nicotine reaches your brain in just 6 seconds. In small doses nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain but in large doses, it’s a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. When you smoke a cigarette, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to your lungs. Continue reading ‘What is Really in a Cigarette…’ »
If you are thinking about quitting, then you are on the right track. Smoking is injurious to ones health is there is a statutory warning that is written on every pack of cigarettes. Still smoking is the most common habit among people worldwide.
Why to quit smoking?
It’s very important you evaluate all the pros of quit smoking and cons of smoking before deciding about the quit smoking date. Just list the health benefits that you will get after quitting smoking. Not only health benefits think about the financial benefits as well.
Stopping Smoking
We are told constantly how bad it is to smoke and we should give up. How many times have you heard from non smokers
“Oh that games killing you and burning a hole in your pocket you should stopâ€.
Now if you are like I was you probably wanted to use abusive language at these people and tell them it’s not as easy as they like to think. I sometimes used to look at them while they were telling me the “horrible things “ that smoking was doing to my body and imagine rolling them up into a nice fat rollup.
Anyway to the point. If you’re a smoker you know as well as I do that it is not easy, It took me 8 attempts over 6 years to finally kick the habit and those that claim it is easy should think again. People who want to stop smoking more than anything else need encouragement and a solid reason to give up as well as deep down wanting to give up.
The below is taken from Wikipedia on nicotine.
“Research shows that by increasing the levels of dopamine within the reward circuits in the brain, nicotine acts as a chemical with intense addictive qualities. In many studies it has been shown to be more addictive than cocaine and heroin.â€
So show them that next time someone tells you it’s easy.
My problem was I did not really want to give up I enjoyed smoking, I was not naive I knew I was killing myself but really didn’t care. For me I need a real good reason to stop and one day I was playing in the lounge with my 1 year old son and it hit me
The fact that cigarettes contain cancer causing chemicals is not anything new. For years, cancer experts have been advising the public to kick the habit and decrease their cancer risk. The connection between alcohol and cancer, however, is not as well known. Skin cancer is only one of the many cancers that can be caused from smoking and alcohol use.
Actinic cheilitis is a condition that affects the lips. Affected lips become puffy, dry, cracked, or ulcerated and change color, often to bright red or white. It is considered to be a pre-cancerous condition. In six to ten percent of cases, it develops into squamous cell carcinoma. The condition can affect people of all ages, regardless of sex, but typically strikes men over fifty. Risk increases with age. Actinic cheilitis is caused by a lifetime accumulation of UV damage. Smoking, alcohol, and poor oral hygiene are also believed to increase the risk of this condition. Continue reading ‘Cancer Causing Chemicals – How Smoking and Alcohol May Contribute to Skin Cancer’ »
With today’s wealth of information and intensive research on the ill effects of cigarette smoking on the human body, you would expect a smoker to keep a safe distance from his regular nicotine fix and not touch it with a ten-foot pole. But a true cigarette smoker knows that it’s not easy to detach oneself from that so-called cancer stick.
Smoking cessation or the effort to quit tobacco smoking takes a great amount of self-discipline and will power because despite the known serious and deadly consequences cigarette smoking inflicts on the health of the smoker himself and the people around him (yes, let’s not even get into the devastating effects of second hand smoke because there are innumerable diseases that can be acquired from it), conquering nicotine addiction is a challenging feat on its own. Continue reading ‘Cigarrest Coupon Codes Will Save You Money As You Quit Smoking’ »