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Tips On How To Stop Smoking

2005-11-11T05:59:00.000-08:00

Tips on How to Stop Smoking
by: Marilyn Pokorney

Once you have decided that you really want to stop smoking it can be a real challenge. Here are some tips to help you break the habit quicker.

Before you begin, decide what you are going to do when you have a craving. Keep a diary for a week or so and learn what times and situations tempt you to want to have a cigarette. Decide what you are going to do instead of reaching for a cigarette.

Ask your doctor for advice if you have other health problems or are worried about gaining weight.

The day you begin immediately get rid of ashtrays, lighters and all cigarettes.

Consider finding yourself a friend, relative or co-worker who wants to quit too and support each other.

If stress is a factor then find an exercise program. Joining a nearby health club will be less expensive than the cigarettes.

Your home will smell fresh and clean. You'll spend less time, energy and money cleaning your house.

You will reduce the risk of fire. As a result your homeowner's insurance rates may be reduced.

Your food will taste better.

Remind yourself of everything nice that you could be buying for yourself or your home with the money that you are spending on cigarettes.

As a last resort remind yourself of the health benefits. You'll reduce your chances of lung, throat and mouth cancer. Reduce the chances of cardiovascular disease.

Stop smoking and the body will begin to repair the damage done almost immediately.

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

2005-08-31T15:16:00.000-07:00

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/.

Stop Smoking with Self Hypnosis

2005-08-08T10:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a very safe and effective way to stop smoking and you can do it right now,
within minutes. Self hypnosis is an effective way to improve yourself in many ways
and this is definately one of the best.

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Article about high cost of smoking.

2005-08-05T18:10:00.000-07:00

This article just may help you quit smoking more than anything else.
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Here is the headline:
The High Cost Of Smoking
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Can a Natural Health Supplement Help You Stop Puffing Away?

2005-08-02T18:00:00.000-07:00

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.
THE SCIENCE
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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Action NOT Reaction

2005-07-27T16:03:00.000-07:00

(Pre-note to this article. Although this site is devoted to helping people stop smoking, it may have some indirect self improvement thoughts and information that can help you in many ways besides not smoking. For example the article below can definately help someone take action in stop smoking but doesn't mention smoking at all. )

Action NOT Reaction by: John Giagkiozis

Do you feel you are in charge of your life do you really believe that you control your destiny? Or you are of those people who feel manipulated all the time, they are doing things and they dont know, why? Do you have the sense that you are a wooden puppet that someone else pulls the strings?

I have an answer for you.

Psychologists have proven that human decisions are based on emotions, and once an emotional decision is made they use their logical part of the brain to justify that decision. That way everything is “clear” to you, you think you know why you do whatever is you do. Where is my point?

Nobody wants to believe that is being deceived or manipulated in any way, so you rationalize your decisions in order to justify your actions. But what would happen if someone knew how you would react on a given situation?

Simple, That person would control you and the worst part is that you wouldnt even be aware of it consciously. And before you think that this is a far fetched idea let me remind you of something or some form of persuasion most children use, the invocation to love. e.g. “mama do you know how much I love you? I saw Jim with that new bicycle; it was wonderful I cant take it out of my mind”. You probably know how the rest of this conversation goes.

If a little child can find ways to convince its parents to do what it wants them to do, imagine what an educated and well informed adult can do.

Most persuasion techniques appeal on your emotional side, why? Because you dont know how to control your feelings without repressing them, actually repressing your feelings is even worse.
“Ok John I see that, but what can I do?”

You have made your first step by reading this article, cause now you have more information on how things are in your head. There is a funny thing but when someone else tells us something obvious we shift our focus and make all the connections in a sec.

Also there is one other thing you should do. Whenever you make a decision wait 20sec and try to focus on the counting not on the decision. You will realize that you see things differently know, more concise and clear.

Do you know what I do after the 20 second period? I mentally take the decision and run a imaginary “film” in my mind, of how things would be different in the future if I took that decision, in any possible way that I can imagine. If I can see, that things would be better I just do it, if I see things I dont like I back up and consider it more to seek for alternatives.

I dont claim you will be bulletproof to persuasion but at least you train your mind to see more and realize the consequences of a decision, for better and for worse.

Your Friend,
John Giagkiozis

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John Giagkiozis Delivers to You An Opportunity that will make your Dreams Come True, but Not for FREE at: http://www.success-factory.net.
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2005-07-27T15:24:00.000-07:00

I hope I can help people quit this awful habit as I have lost members of
my family from cancer that was caused more than likely by smoking. I
will provide inormation, tips and products to stop smoking.