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New Stop Smoking Drug

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 at 8:17 pm  
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Special Drug Tricks Your Brain Out Of Liking Tobacco

Here is an article I read just this morning, and it really made my morning and set me up for a happy day.  I hope it will have the same effect on you – it really should, because it is a good article, and we both deserve a little happiness in life, especially during the morning.  Some folks just do it right; this doctor Hogan is one of them.  How many people, doctors or otherwise, can wake up in the morning and say, I saved lives today?  There are probably few folks on this planet who have done as much for humanity as has this doctor Hogan.  We must all be inspired and glad to read of such a man, a truly holy brother to his brothers in the human race.

49,000 people free from tobacco, thanks to him

A legal drug that tricks the brain into letting it attack the body offends Dr. Patrick Hogan III. It offends the Tacoma doctor so much that he’s volunteered the last 20 years, dragging its victims back from addiction.

He got his thank-you note last weekend. It came complete with scrollwork, the state seal and a fancy typeface.

Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaimed May 19 Franciscan Health System Freedom from Tobacco Day. Gregoire cited the 49,000-some people who have gone through the four-week class and stuck with the support group Hogan founded in 1992. These thousands are, without exception, happy they got the help to quit.

We should be, too. They have saved us millions in health costs we’d otherwise help pay through our insurance premiums and taxes.

Hogan shares the honor with colleagues and volunteers at St. Joseph Medical Center, St. Anthony, St. Francis and St. Clare hospitals. Franciscan takes smoking cessation seriously, so much so that last year it adopted a policy requiring all new employees to have a tobacco-free lifestyle.

Forty thousand graduates of this program!  That’s forty thousand lives lengthened, forty thousand more men and women who will live into old age now, and be with their grandchildren.  The articlecorrectly points out that the health of these forty-thousand folks will save society and the country enormous sums of money, which can then be spent on education and on enriching the lives of others.  How must Doctor Hogan feel, knowing he has done so much for humanity?

“Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in our country,” Hogan said last week at the office where he practices neurology.

Neurology, by the way, is not one of the fields in which docs fight the damage smoking does to the body. But a neurologist is the right person to explain to smokers how they’ve been suckered by the tobacco industry.

“Nicotine binds with the brain, which releases dopamine, which makes you feel really good,” he said. “Initially, you get the buzz from dopamine.”

That buzz is addictive, he said – addictive, short-lived and stingy. “After a while, you’re not getting the dopamine. You’re getting the discomfort of withdrawal. You have a very powerful urge to get that return of the dopamine level.”

Steve and Diana Anderson had smoked for 27 years when Steve’s brother bugged them to see what the Hogan’s Freedom from Tobacco Support Group at St. Joseph Hospital was all about.

“We went for a month or a month and a half before we set our quit date,” Steve Anderson said.

As with manyof the best preachers and the greatest teachers, they had been there themselves, and they worked their system on themselves.  He and his wife, his God-given helpmeet, worked on their problem together.  How’s that for setting an example, both for their own children and for the community, and indeed for the whole world.  They understood the suffering that it could cause to quit, but they undertook that suffering voluntarily and for themselves.

They founded Freedom From Tobacco and saw real results from their work.

Thanks to them, if there were a cake with 20 candles, there are many thousands of people in Pierce County with enough breath to blow them out.

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Introducing Mini E Cigarettes

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 2:58 pm  
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Relatively new on the world scene, e cigarettes are the source of great pleasure and great controversy as well.

E cigarettes controversyPeople all over the world are discovering the advantages of e cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes. Those advantages include absolutely no smoke at all because e cigarettes don’t involve combustion, no flame means no smoke. The smoke-like water vapor that gives the appearance of tobacco cigarette smoking is created by heating special e cigarette liquid so that it turns into vapor.

It works like a teakettle, but on a micro miniature scale.

And now even the original e cigarettes have a smaller relative, the remarkable mini electronic cigarette. They are available in starter kits with chargers and a selection of flavored e cigarette liquids, as well as a supply of cartridges. The cartridges come in a rechargeable pack that looks like a stylish pack of cigarettes so the whole set-up can get a smoker started on the road to reducing or eliminating tobacco cigarette smoking or simply provide a healthier alternative.

One of the most cost-effective ways to experiment is to try the mini e cigarettes because the kit is compact, complete and yet offers a variety of flavors.

Just like the original and custom sized e cigarettes, including electronic cigars, the mini electronic cigarettes come with special liquid that can be formulated to contain a high amount, lesser amounts or no nicotine at all. That gives the unit tremendous appeal to smokers who are trying to quit as well as party-goers who are just looking for some fun. On average, one of the mini disposable cartridges provides approximately the same length of enjoyment as one pack of tobacco cigarettes, or an average of 250 puffs depending on the individual style of the user, and the new electronic cigarettes have vapor production and consistency that rivals the best electronic cigarette in the industry.

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No Fear: Smoke As Much As You Want With The Electronic Cigarette

Monday, December 27th, 2010 at 1:47 pm  
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Smokeless Smoking With The Electronic Cigarette

Have you been trying to quit smoking?  You have tried therapy, group support, the nicotine patch, gum and lozenges but nothing seems to work.  Why?  Is it because you miss putting the cigarette between your lips and lighting it?  There is also the heat of the smoke combined with the nicotine and menthol taste as it passes from your lips, into your mouth, down your throat and into your lungs.  It warms you for a while before you take the cigarette out from your lips and slowly blow out the smoke.  Do you miss all that?  You do not have too.  You can enjoy all of this and the satisfaction it gives with the aid of the electronic cigarette.

The electric cigarette looks very much like an ordinary cigarette.  It comes in different sizes from a standard slim length to an extended length.  Its coloring is also similar to the real cigarette.  In fact, many have mistaken this e cigarette as the real one.  The “e” stands for “electric” and at the same time can stand for “eco-friendly”, because you do not release any harmful elements into the air when you use this smokeless cigarette.  What comes out is not smoke but harmless water vapor.

The secret of this electronic cigarette is revealed by learning of its parts.

The cartridge replaces the filter of the real cigarette.  The top portion contains liquid nicotine dissolved in propylene glycol.  Next to that is the heater that is used to vaporize the liquid.  This makes the user appear to be smoking when what comes out is just a very thin mist of water.  This is 100% safe for the environment and in fact even helps to humidify dry air.  To prevent overheating and ensure the safety of the user, a microprocessor that controls the heater and light is located at the joining of the cartridge and the supposed tobacco part of the cigarette.  The sensor, battery and the led light have replaced the tobacco part.  The sensor detects when the user takes a puff and will cause the led light to shine.  The stronger the puff, the brighter the light will glow.  This makes the electric cigarette look real.

With the e cigarette you will not be burning through your money since you will only be replacing the cartridge and the batteries are rechargeable.  If you do the math, using the electric cigarette instead of other cigarettes will wind up saving you money.  Aside from this advantage is that this smokeless cigarette will not turn your teeth yellow.  There is no smoke odor that will cause you to have bad breath or will cling to your clothes making you smell bad.  Your appearance and hygiene will not be affected with the use of this electronic cigarette, unlike with the real cigarette.

Truly, the benefits of using the electronic cigarette are great.  So, why deprive yourself of the feeling and satisfaction of the act of smoking when you can still do so using this electric cigarette.  You have nothing now to fear- quitting smoking can be easy.

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Quit Smoking Advice

Saturday, December 25th, 2010 at 8:29 pm  
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These clips are from the BBC: Horizon documentary series entitled “We Love Cigarettes”. The advice Allen Carr gives is pretty damn good, it convinced me (a 5 year smoker) to quit cold turkey. It has been a couple months now and I’m still going strong. Update: It has been over one year since my last cigarette and I have never been tempted to look back. I really hope this simple advice has helped someone else.

How to Stop Smoking

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 at 11:24 pm  
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How to Stop Smoking Part 2: Stop Smoking Tools to Help you Succeed!

Author: Michael Westbrook Stop Smoking

You can stop smoking! Welcome back to your detailed quit smoking plan, and congratulations on your decision to stop smoking. If you are seeing the second part of this series without having seen the first, you may want to find it.

Full Day 1

Since you were able to excrete most of the nicotine in your body already, your physical craving is significantly less severe than it would have been if you had smoked right before having gone to bed. Your actual ‘habit’ of smoking in the morning, though, is another story. You may find yourself reaching for cigarettes automatically only to remember that this is the first day of the rest of your life not smoking!

If it’s a weekend and you have no prior commitments: Lethargy is a common symptom when you first quit smoking. Feel free to stay in bed! If you really have nothing to do, you’re just begging for self destructive idle time, anyway. You have the right to baby yourself when you’re sick, and to stop smoking is to deal with a life threatening illness from which you owe it to yourself to claim your freedom! If it’s within your power in the first 24-48 hours, take time to recover!

If you have to go to work: In your process of telling your co-workers of your plans to quit smoking you will have been able to identify the non-smokers who are encouraging you to stop smoking for good. Find them at breaks and lunch, and adopt their non-smoking habits. When break time comes, keep your affirmations strong by changing – yet still acknowledging – the proclamation your desire to have a cigarette. Say out loud, “I am having a temporary craving that will pass;” or something along those lines…Never, “I want a cigarette,” or “I need to smoke,” or any other self defeating affirmation.

Your stress level (obviously) is likely to be high on your first day after you stop smoking, so try to be extra mindful of the way you interact with those around you.

Around the hour you quit on the previous day, you can expect the corresponding time frame to deliver you a serious rush of anxiety and tension. This could only last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, but the most likely scenario is that it may continue for a couple days. It will pass! You do not have to smoke. Taking measures with a natural stop smoking treatment,  or another smoking cessation aid will help make these symptoms much less severe.

Beware: If you smoke at this critical juncture, you could lose all willingness to even try to quit smoking for weeks, months, or even years! The disease of nicotine is cunning, baffling, and powerful; and it will go to great lengths to prevent you from giving up tobacco. If you’ve made it this far, hold on; because it WILL get easier.

During your normal every day actions during which you used to smoke like drinking, talking on the telephone, or flipping through channels with the remote; start using your ex-smoking hand for these activities so it’s not sitting there doing nothing while your other hand is completing all the work. This may sound insignificant, but it’s actually a quite effective tool in the battle against smoking addiction.

Day 2

Argh! (No, seriously) You are all but guaranteed to be going crazy with fiend for a cigarette. While the actual cravings don’t last long, your nerves are going through a restoration process that is a natural part of nicotine withdrawals; which means that – even when you’re not wanting to smoke necessarily – you are just in a state of discontentment and aggravation because of the discomfort and shortness of temper caused by the depletion of dopamine, endorphins and other naturally produced chemicals that smoking took over for your body.

Your brain, nerves, lungs, and every other organ in your body that was affected by smoking (there are many) are all learning – just as you are – to adjust to life without cigarettes. They will heal, but the process is not comfortable. Do not let it be your reason to give in. You can stop smoking!

Day 3

Generally, the feelings of anxiety are still somewhat strong, and they may or may not be starting to disappear. Hopefully, you are still carrying around your list of your reasons not to smoke to which you need to refer every time you are thinking about lending the power back to your nicotine addiction. You are at the most stressful part of your journey, and everything will start to get easier from here, so stay strong and don’t give up!

Day 4

Finally, things are starting to return to normal. Your body will begin to regulate its production of vital mood stabilizing chemicals that it once produced all on its own before nicotine interrupted the process, and your coping abilities should be starting to bear a more civilized nature. Your appetite will be out of control. Allow yourself to indulge, but don’t go overboard and remember about the healthful snacking!

Day 5

Personally, this day for me has historically been rough. It’s a type of comfort zone in which you are in grave danger of relapse. Do not mosey on over to a smoking co-worker or make a sly plan in the morning to meet up with a friend who smokes for lunch or another affair, either! Again…Cunning, baffling, and powerful! Don’t let your disease fool you!

Day 6

Hopefully, at this point of the game you are adjusting nicely to life without cigarettes. Your senses have possibly returned to a degree you hadn’t even realized was possible; and your lungs are definitely feeling better. Your cough, however, may have been getting increasingly worse at this point. That’s normal, and it could last for the next few weeks. You may be able to minimize the side effects with a homeopathic stop smoking treatment.

Day 7

Congratulations! This is a huge milestone in your journey! Today is the day that your brain finishes the process of creating new habits! Everything you do will get easier and easier from here on out! You’re not out of the woods, yet, though, because your disease is still at work trying to convince you to start smoking again. Be aware of its attempts throughout the day to convince you that you can have just one cigarette or even one drag…You can’t!

Even if you are able to stop with one drag or one smoke the first time, that will give you permission for the next time; then that will give you permission to smoke again until you’ve increased your level of smoking to that which is just a bit more cigarettes in a day than you were smoking before you quit. Some of the tricks your smoking addiction will try to play on you include:

  • Going to the smoking section at work
  • Making plans with a friend or family member who smokes
  • Engaging in behaviors that are conducive to smoking (going to bars, drinking excessively, etc.)
  • Encouraging you to stop a complete stranger you see smoking outside as you’re leaving the supermarket or eating establishment to ask for a cigarette.

2nd Week

Stay vigilant in your guard against your disease, and start enjoying life without smoking. You will quickly realize how much money you’re saving. Many smokers like to reward themselves with a teeth whitening kit or a special shopping spree with the money they are no longer spending on cigarettes. You deserve it! You’ve accomplished something very difficult that will undoubtedly add years onto your life.

Remember that your nicotine addiction is a powerful disease that is always at work. It is in the back of your mind strength training and getting stronger behind your back. Stay aware of the dangers that await you around every corner. You are only one drag away from a relapse that could claim your life. You CAN quit smoking! Make the decision to stop smoking today!

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You can stop smoking!  Smoking affects at least 40 million Americans, 25 million of whom are destined to die a horrible death if they do not conquer their addiction.  YOU CAN QUIT!!!! I know because I am a successful non-smoker.  I will help you every step of the way.  If you have questions or just need to chat when you have a craving, contact me or a non-smoker you trust to talk you through it.  217-816-8148

Nicotine is a real addiction and there is hope of beating it with the right tools and support.  I would love to hear any questions or apprehensions about beating your smoking addiction.

How to Quit Smoking

Friday, December 17th, 2010 at 10:52 am  
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Expand the description and view the text of the steps for this how-to video. Check out Howcast for other do-it-yourself videos from Chris_Davis and more videos in the Smoking category. You can contribute too! Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or produce your own Howcast spots with the Howcast Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com You say you want to feel better, live longer, and even have a little extra cash on hand? Easy. Just quit smoking. To complete this How-To you will need: Paper and pen Gum and lollipops Willpower Calendar Nicotine gum Prescription drug Hypnosis Step 1: Ready yourself Ready yourself. Make a particular day your quit day. Don’t deviate from this plan. Tip: Psych yourself up by making a list of all the reasons to quit—you’ll be healthier, develop fewer wrinkles, have nicer breath, save money, and you won’t be subjecting people to second-hand smoke. Step 2: Write down smoking triggers Write down your smoking triggers. When you drink? After dinner? With coffee? Knowing what prompts you to smoke can help you quit. Step 3: List health risks List all the health risks associated with smoking—such as stroke, heart disease, several types of cancer, ulcers, diabetes, eye diseases, and osteoporosis. Tip: Remind yourself that there are more than 4000 chemicals in cigarettes, some of which are used in insect and rat poisons! Step 4: Tell friends & family Tell your friends and family about your decision. They can encourage you, plus you’re less likely …

Stop Smoking With Hypnosis

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 at 11:29 pm  
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The Things You Need To Know About Stop Smoking With Hypnosis

By: Smoking Hypnosis

The first thing that the smoker needs to have before taking this process is the dedication that he will quit the habit. The best help that hypnosis can give you is that it can decrease the urge and your cravings to smoke. With the use of this process you can eventually handle the stress and you will not feel irritated. Hypnosis is just a first step that you can take to stop smoking. If you don’t have the self discipline you will surely fail with this process.

So that is the most essential thing that a smoker needs to have. There is no secret in here but the commitment of the smoker to quit smoking. Having the stop smoking with hypnosis process will help to lessen the withdrawal that is cause by the nicotine.

The truth is that there are lots of steps that they can use for people to help themselves to quit smoking. The use of hypnosis may also vary from a hypnotist on how many sessions they are going to apply it. This thing may not work for a single try but will be successful after a series of session. Some people are in doubt with this process because they are thinking that it may affect the mind of the smoker. But there are no side effects with regards to this process. This is always applicable to lots of smoker but this may not be effective since lots of people are quitting after a series of hypnosis session.

Some people may not have confidence on this, but you can search that there are lots of testimonies about the use of stop smoking with hypnosis. There are no really harms on trying and this is just a one decision away.

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Quit Smoking Kit – Stop Smoking in 7 Days

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 1:36 am  
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Quit Smoking Kit – All Natural Stop Smoking Cessation in 7 Days

By: Dolly Gupta

Quit Smoking Kit – All Natural Stop Smoking Cessation in 7 Days

Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints are for aiding you to stop smoking and are sure to assist you in helping your neurology change and thus enable you to stop smoking with ease. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good. Visit here http://quitsmoking-kit.blogspot.com

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1.

Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.

When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air – pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2
Next, think now of all the reasons you don’t like smoking, the reasons that it’s bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it’s dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it’s expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you’ll feel good when you’ve succeeded in stopping. You’ll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3
Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself “I’ve gotta quit”, or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice ‘You’ve got to quit’ or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.

Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4
Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.
Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it’s months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5
Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it’s very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6
Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off – but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.

Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7
You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time – see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.

Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.
Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.

Now we’re going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.

So, next I’d like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you’ll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.

Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say ‘No thanks, I don’t smoke’. And feel fantastic about it.Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.

Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good. Quit Smoking Kit – All Natural Stop Smoking Cessation in 7 Days .

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10 Powerful Tips To Stop Smoking

Monday, October 11th, 2010 at 12:07 am  
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10 Powerful Tips To Stop Smoking
By Adam Eason

Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints are for aiding you to stop smoking and are sure to assist you in helping your neurology change and thus enable you to stop smoking with ease. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1.

Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.

When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air – pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2

Next, think now of all the reasons you don’t like smoking, the reasons that it’s bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it’s dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it’s expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you’ll feel good when you’ve succeeded in stopping. You’ll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3

Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself “I’ve gotta quit”, or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice ‘You’ve got to quit’ or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.

Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4

Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.

Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it’s months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5

Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it’s very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6

Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off – but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.

Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7

You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time – see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.

Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.

Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.

Now we’re going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.

So, next I’d like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you’ll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.

Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say ‘No thanks, I don’t smoke’. And feel fantastic about it!

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 8

Get social support. Your commitment to stopping smoking for the rest of your life can be made much easier by talking about it to friends and family and letting them support you. They will congratulate you on doing so well too! You really did stop smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 9

Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation and in the past they used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head, shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine just stresses your body more and is like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 10

Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Feel how good it feels to stop smoking and be a non-smoker. Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.

Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good.

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Electric Cigarette

Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at 1:22 pm  
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The Electric Cigarette

electric cigarette

Trying to quit smoking? Then you just might find yourself facing quite a difficult task. Luckily for you and other smokers struggling to quit and failing electric cigarettes are here and these might just be the Holy Grail you have been searching for if patches and gums have failed you.

Is the Electric Cigarette Safe?

Among the popular methods or devices designed to help smokers quit the habit, the electric cigarette is changing the tide. If you have never heard of an electric cigarette, patches or gums, you have probably never tried to quit smoking. The electric cigarette is the new fixation of smokers who are trying to quit and this will be approved by non-smokers because there is no second-hand smoke to bother them or give them lung cancer.

The electric cigarette is basically a battery operated pseudo-cigarette.

Not only does an electric cigarette look like a real stick of cigarette, it also has the taste of cured tobacco you love. The electric cigarette is formulated to give hardcore smokers the satisfaction of smoking a real cigarette without actually smoking one.

The electric version of your favorite cigarette has been around since 2004 and is quickly becoming more popular all over the world. The electric cigarette appeal is its no-smoke feature. You can basically have your nicotine fix anywhere and anytime you want without causing any distress to others around you. Yet, however popular electric cigarettes or e-cigarettes may be, there are still people who are reluctant about the product because of safety issues.

The Safety Concerns

Is smoking the electric cigarette safe for you? Here are a few facts you need to know about the electric cigarette, then you decide if yourself if it safe for you to use.

Like a real stick of your preferred brand of smokes, the electric cigarette also contains nicotine. However, the nicotine in electric cigarette is far less than what you might find in an actual stick of cigarettes. The e-cigarettes uses a cartridge of liquid nicotine which is vaporized by an atomizer everytime you take a puff. These nicotine cartridges also come in different strengths to supplement anybody’s nicotine cravings.

The electric cigarette is generally less harmful than real cigarettes. Although nicotine is found in the electric cigarette, it is not really considered as carcinogenic. Nicotine is what you might call co-carcinogenic, which means nicotine is only carcinogenic when mixed with the other elements or ingredients found in a real stick of cigarette.

The electric cigarette also contains Propylene Glycol which gives off a fake smoke effect everytime you take a drag on the Electric Cigarette. This is also what is used in smoke machines in theme parks or concerts to provide a smoke effect; because it produces no real smoke, it can’t cause tar on your teeth like cigarettes do. They also come in different flavors to suit anyone’s taste.

The electric cigarette can also help you quit smoking by reducing you nicotine intake. The fact that the nicotine cartridges used comes in variable strength, you can train your body to have less and less nicotine by gradually decreasing the nicotine strength on your electronic cigarettes.

The electric cigarette is perfectly legal and is approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and other countries.

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