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

Do You Really Want To Stop Smoking? Or Do You Use The Weight Gain Excuse?
by: Keith Watson

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!

About The Author
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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Can a Natural Health Supplement Help You Stop Puffing Away?

Can a Natural Health Supplement Help You To Stop Puffing Away? by: Kaye Bewley

Smoking was once seen as the cool thing to do. But not now. The whole country is about to change its stance on smoking in public places and what are people to do about it? Well, Stop 7 will go a long way to helping cease the urge!

Since 1586, when Sir Francis Drake returned home from the West Indies with a shipload of tobacco, smoking became the thing to do in Britain. However, it was Sir Walter Raleigh who made it fashionable. The 'stick between your fingers' was hyped to such an extent that the craze never had a chance of dying out - until the new millennium saw it as the unhealthy thing to do.
Knowing that smoking can kill is one thing, but trying to stop doing it is another. Once the drug has bitten deep, it's a very hard thing to give up. What addictive drug is? Take it this way, if chocolate had 'THIS CAN KILL YOU' stamped all over it, do you think sales would dramatically drop? Of course they would! So what is it about ciggies that make people ignore the warnings and continue even though the blatent messages is that their lungs are being damaged?

Those who have tried to stop, have used every method under the sun - patches, gum and even resorting to hypnosis - all painfully resorting back to something they simply can't get out of their system. Smokers are aware of what the nicotine does (it's a drug that stimulates the brain), and how the lack of it affects them (anxiety, headaches, irritability, lack of concentration). They also are aware that the tar in cigarettes lingers in the lungs and that the carbon monixide resulting from the smoke is a poisonous chemical that gets into the bloodstream. But what is less well-known is that cigarette smoke produces hydrogen cyanide which is a toxic by-product that only the old heroes of World War II would recognise, Zyklon B (it was a genocidal agent used during that period - and what all the fuss is all about for passive smoking!).

Let's face it, it is difficult being a smoker in this day and age. Even the works' tea-room won't allow anyone to light up for a quick one. And it's going to get even harder when public places are shutting their doors to those who take a drag. And when a smoker does succeed and stop their habit, they put on weight because of all the sweeties they eat to put a stop to the craving.
So, what's a smoker to do? Thankfully now a corner has been turned! After impressive results witnessed in America there's a new alternative product about the hit the European market. It has had a 94% success rate. It's not a drug. It's not a nicotine patche or even a stick of gum - it doesn't even mean that you have to have someone hypnotise you. It's a simple seven day course that guarantees you your money back in the pennies (or pounds/dollars) you'll be saving - and your money back anyway, if you resort to smoking after you've followed the instructions on the packet.

What's different about this method? The simple fact that once you start to take the two types of supplements in the pack, your body ceases craving for the drug and reverts back to the time before you even started smoking. Its unique combination of 100% natural herbal supplements quell the cravings and suppress any 'sweet tooth comfort eating'. Your body resumes back to its normal healthy state - after 20 minutes your blood pressure drops and your pulse returns to normal, after eight hours there's more oxygen in your body, circulation improves after three months - and what was once a painful procedure (exercise!), becomes a hell of a lot easier. Irritating coughing reduces after nine months when the sinuses also clear up and after one year, the possible risk of smoker's heart attack is halved.

There's an added bonus of a comforting tongue spray included in the pack together with a 14 page book that gives you step-by-step instructions to help you through the stages you'll face.
Everyone starts their life as a non-smoker, this kit just brings you safely back to that state of health.
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The first herbal supplement consists of Inulin, Alfalfa, Liquorice, Dandelion Root, Gynmnea Sylvestre, Siberian Ginseng Extract and Atriplex Halimus Powder. The second's ingredient list is Red Clover Extract, Nettle Leaf Powder, Saw Palmetto, Thyme, Peppermint Leaf Powder, Aniseed Powder and Deodorised Garlic Powder. Meanwhile, the Spray consists of a blend of Tincture of Gotu Kola, Dandelion Root, Liquorice, Peppermint and Aniseed.
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