Why You Have Not Been Able to Quit Smoking
Billions of dollars are at stake. Millions of deaths result. Top corporate executives sit around the boardroom and discuss ways to improve their market share. Their success depends on keeping you smoking and getting people that don’t smoke to start. It’ s all about the billions.
The tobacco companies have very deep pockets. They have spent billions of dollars in advertising over the years and they know how to keep their customers. They want you to die a smoker. Their bottom line depends on it. And you will if you do not quit.
What if I told you that stopping smoking was easy? That smoking is a body and mind addiction. Yes, body AND mind!
I don’t know anyone that actually picks up a cigarette and goes, “ mmmmm, tastes great!” Do you? Of course not. Your body rejects it. It coughs, hacks, spits, and does everything that it can to tell you this is bad stuff. You started because your mind was thinking how cool you will be, how much older it will make you look and your body is obeyed. Now you are addicted.
Everyone starts this way. EVERYONE. You had to use your mind to convince your body or you would reject it.
I find it fascinating that almost all methods of quitting smoking do not take into consideration the mind. There are pills and patches and inhalers and gums. All these programs have a very low success rate.
Doesn’t it make sense to use the very part of you that started the whole thing - Your mind?? Of course it does.
Everyone starts to smoke for some sort of motivating reason. If I gave you a piece of food that was stinky, burned your throat and made you cough and gag, how many pieces would you eat? I don’t think very many. See, it would be unnatural for you to want more.
Smoking is not natural or everyone would be smoking. You cannot grow a cigarette tree in your backyard or a cigarette plant in your garden. They are not natural. Tobacco may be natural but cigarettes are far more than tobacco with an estimated 4000 ingredients added! The list is highly guarded and protected by law as a trade secret. Imagine that. It’s the public’s health and it’s a trade secret. Something isn’t right.
But one thing that is right is the decision to quit smoking. Quitting smoking is the one thing that will immediately improve your life and the life of those around you. When a person realizes that quitting IS a Body and Mind process it makes the process much easier.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
It's So Hard In The Summertime
Is it me? I love the summer. Especially since I live at the Jersey shore. You know, the sun, the fun, the beach, the ocean. Going to Wildwood and having a blast on the boards. "Watch out for the Tram Car please!" If you have ever been there, you know what I mean. So with that in mind, it makes it really hard not to want to light up. Pizza. Curley's Fries. Mmmmm. Followed by a smoke. But I'm trying. It's so hard to stop when the habit to smoke after some enjoyable food is so powerful. How about you? What's the hardest part of quitting for you? Give me some of your tips on what you do to after you eat to stop the desire. Meanwhile, back to the beach I go!
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Tips On How To Stop Smoking
Listen To The Experts by Judy Wellsworth
The best tips on how to stop smoking you will ever get are from those who have successfully done it. Smoking is an addiction, and studies have shown that the smoking habit is even harder to break than an asdditiciton to heroin.
You Can't Fight Nicotine With Nicotine Nicotine stimulates our brains to produce dopamine, the "pleasure" neurotransmitter, better than almost any other substance, so quitting smoking is not just a matter of finding some other non-addicting replacement in the way that methadone can be substituted for heroin to help people over withdrawal. Tips on how to stop smoking which do not acknowledge the addictive nature of nicotine will simply not be of any use.
But if you are willing to get tips on how to stop smoking from others who have actually done it, and not just quit for a while but kicked the smoking habit for good, you will be getting a treasure trove of wisdom. It's up to you to decide what to do with it.
Tips on how to stop smoking which tell you that you can use nicotine-based smoking cessations products to ease yourself through the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, until your body stops craving nicotine, are misleading for one reason: as long as you are relying on nicotine to help you recover from a nicotine addiction you are merely feeding the beast.
While nicotine replacement products may be useful in eliminating the toxins with which cigarette smoking saturates your tissues, they do nothing to get at the root cause of your addiction. Any tips on how to stop smoking which do not include the necessity of behavioral modification therapy to understand and find ways to overcome your emotional need to smoke are doing you a disservice.
Find A Support Group Of Those Who Have Been There One of the best places to find reliable tips on how to stop smoking is through the hundreds of stop smoking support groups available both off and online. Nicotine Anonymous, modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, provides a twelve-step program based on the understanding that smokers suffer from a nicotine addiction.
The Nicotine Anonymous pamphlet "Tips for Gaining Freedom From Nicotine" offers fifty-five tips on how to stop smoking divided into categories covering the pre-quitting, quitting, and maintenance phases of kicking the cigarette habit. All the tips on how to stop smoking in the pamphlet are from people who have recognized that they are addicts and that their nicotine recovery is a lifetime process.
Nicotine Anonymous is just one of hundreds of stop smoking groups on which you can call to provide you with tips on how to stop smoking which will help you prepare for, and survive, the quitting process. To find one in your area, try contacting the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, or your local health department.
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You can also find more info on Stop Smoking Pill and Stop Smoking Programs.
The best tips on how to stop smoking you will ever get are from those who have successfully done it. Smoking is an addiction, and studies have shown that the smoking habit is even harder to break than an asdditiciton to heroin.
You Can't Fight Nicotine With Nicotine Nicotine stimulates our brains to produce dopamine, the "pleasure" neurotransmitter, better than almost any other substance, so quitting smoking is not just a matter of finding some other non-addicting replacement in the way that methadone can be substituted for heroin to help people over withdrawal. Tips on how to stop smoking which do not acknowledge the addictive nature of nicotine will simply not be of any use.
But if you are willing to get tips on how to stop smoking from others who have actually done it, and not just quit for a while but kicked the smoking habit for good, you will be getting a treasure trove of wisdom. It's up to you to decide what to do with it.
Tips on how to stop smoking which tell you that you can use nicotine-based smoking cessations products to ease yourself through the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, until your body stops craving nicotine, are misleading for one reason: as long as you are relying on nicotine to help you recover from a nicotine addiction you are merely feeding the beast.
While nicotine replacement products may be useful in eliminating the toxins with which cigarette smoking saturates your tissues, they do nothing to get at the root cause of your addiction. Any tips on how to stop smoking which do not include the necessity of behavioral modification therapy to understand and find ways to overcome your emotional need to smoke are doing you a disservice.
Find A Support Group Of Those Who Have Been There One of the best places to find reliable tips on how to stop smoking is through the hundreds of stop smoking support groups available both off and online. Nicotine Anonymous, modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, provides a twelve-step program based on the understanding that smokers suffer from a nicotine addiction.
The Nicotine Anonymous pamphlet "Tips for Gaining Freedom From Nicotine" offers fifty-five tips on how to stop smoking divided into categories covering the pre-quitting, quitting, and maintenance phases of kicking the cigarette habit. All the tips on how to stop smoking in the pamphlet are from people who have recognized that they are addicts and that their nicotine recovery is a lifetime process.
Nicotine Anonymous is just one of hundreds of stop smoking groups on which you can call to provide you with tips on how to stop smoking which will help you prepare for, and survive, the quitting process. To find one in your area, try contacting the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, or your local health department.
About the Author
You can also find more info on Stop Smoking Pill and Stop Smoking Programs.
Monday, July 16, 2007
10 Free Quit Smoking Aids
by Peter Howells
We are of course all aware of the well known (and often expensive) quit smoking solutions such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or zyban or chantix/champix. However, no two smokers are alike and what works for some may not work for others. I have been researching again and found some pretty outlandish solutions. Here are a few examples of some of the free methods you can use to help you quit smoking.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #1: Visualisation This sounds simplistic, I know, but write out what the last year of your life would be like if you kept smoking. Go into gruesome detail about oxygen tanks, voice boxes, what would happen to family and finally see yourself in the hospice. If you know someone who has, put yourself in the situation of someone you know who died of lung cancer, and just change 'him or her' to 'me.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #2: Water This is one of the simplest, if somewhat more tedious methods there is. Put quit simply, drink as much water as you can at every craving. Keep it up for about three weeks and see how you get on.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #3: Cleaning If your are tired of smoking, why not clean the whole habit out of your life in one fell swoop! Start by clearing all your cigarette paraphernalia out of the house, then do a top to bottom spring clean. Make sure you clean the walls too because they will be covered in tar and nicotine residue. Move onto your clothes - wash all of them in as short a time as you can. Consider doing your curtains too because they will hold the smell of tobacco too.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #4: Chewing Gum Every time you want a cigarette, chew gum like crazy. Make sure you use a sugar free gum or you'll be rotting your teeth to bits. It helps keep your teeth clean and breath nice and fresh too (for a change)!
Free Quit Smoking Aids #5: Breathing Rather than going for a smoke, take a drinking straw and just go through the motions. Suck, inhale, breath out and concentrate on the action, rather than the cigarette.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #6: Money Jar Whatever method you choose to help you quit smoking, keep your motivation by putting the equivalent amount you would spend into a money jar. It will buy you a really nice holiday in 6 months or a really, really nice holiday in 12 months.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #7: Get Sick Get sick! Of course, this sounds ridiculous. What I mean is, wait until you get that first winter cold. Most smokers don't feel much like smoking when they have a bad cold, the flu, or are laid up in bed. You also don't think about it or feel the urge very much because you aren't doing the things that you associate with smoking. So, the next time you get a cold, don't smoke and see if you can keep it up once you feel better!
Free Quit Smoking Aid #8: Have a kiss instead Every time you want to have a cigarette, have a kiss instead. You either have to have willing partner or you could use it to (a) meet a new partner or (b) get locked up if you go about it the wrong way.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #9: Gross yourself out Go on the internet and find out all the evil things cigarettes do to you. See if you can find videos and/or get pictures of non-smokers v. smoker's lungs. Study them and get yourself properly grossed out. Make them into a little wallet pack and every time you get an urge to smoke, have a look and see if it works.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #10: The best for last! Your weren't born a smoker so just don't start - priceless!
About the Author
Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that will help any smoker quit tobacco. The EasyQuit System works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Visit EasyQuit System to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking that boasts 96% customer satisfaction.
We are of course all aware of the well known (and often expensive) quit smoking solutions such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or zyban or chantix/champix. However, no two smokers are alike and what works for some may not work for others. I have been researching again and found some pretty outlandish solutions. Here are a few examples of some of the free methods you can use to help you quit smoking.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #1: Visualisation This sounds simplistic, I know, but write out what the last year of your life would be like if you kept smoking. Go into gruesome detail about oxygen tanks, voice boxes, what would happen to family and finally see yourself in the hospice. If you know someone who has, put yourself in the situation of someone you know who died of lung cancer, and just change 'him or her' to 'me.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #2: Water This is one of the simplest, if somewhat more tedious methods there is. Put quit simply, drink as much water as you can at every craving. Keep it up for about three weeks and see how you get on.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #3: Cleaning If your are tired of smoking, why not clean the whole habit out of your life in one fell swoop! Start by clearing all your cigarette paraphernalia out of the house, then do a top to bottom spring clean. Make sure you clean the walls too because they will be covered in tar and nicotine residue. Move onto your clothes - wash all of them in as short a time as you can. Consider doing your curtains too because they will hold the smell of tobacco too.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #4: Chewing Gum Every time you want a cigarette, chew gum like crazy. Make sure you use a sugar free gum or you'll be rotting your teeth to bits. It helps keep your teeth clean and breath nice and fresh too (for a change)!
Free Quit Smoking Aids #5: Breathing Rather than going for a smoke, take a drinking straw and just go through the motions. Suck, inhale, breath out and concentrate on the action, rather than the cigarette.
Free Quit Smoking Aids #6: Money Jar Whatever method you choose to help you quit smoking, keep your motivation by putting the equivalent amount you would spend into a money jar. It will buy you a really nice holiday in 6 months or a really, really nice holiday in 12 months.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #7: Get Sick Get sick! Of course, this sounds ridiculous. What I mean is, wait until you get that first winter cold. Most smokers don't feel much like smoking when they have a bad cold, the flu, or are laid up in bed. You also don't think about it or feel the urge very much because you aren't doing the things that you associate with smoking. So, the next time you get a cold, don't smoke and see if you can keep it up once you feel better!
Free Quit Smoking Aid #8: Have a kiss instead Every time you want to have a cigarette, have a kiss instead. You either have to have willing partner or you could use it to (a) meet a new partner or (b) get locked up if you go about it the wrong way.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #9: Gross yourself out Go on the internet and find out all the evil things cigarettes do to you. See if you can find videos and/or get pictures of non-smokers v. smoker's lungs. Study them and get yourself properly grossed out. Make them into a little wallet pack and every time you get an urge to smoke, have a look and see if it works.
Free Quit Smoking Aid #10: The best for last! Your weren't born a smoker so just don't start - priceless!
About the Author
Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that will help any smoker quit tobacco. The EasyQuit System works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Visit EasyQuit System to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking that boasts 96% customer satisfaction.
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