The benefit timeline

This timeline shows when the benefits of stopping smoking will come through after your final cigarette.

20 minutes, 8 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 2-21 weeks, 1 year, 10 years, 15 years

20 minutes after giving up

Your blood pressure and your pulse rate return to normal.

What this means

Raised blood pressure and high pulse rate both put strain on your heart, increasing your risk of a heart attack. The minute you stop your risk is reduced.

8 hours after giving up

The carbon monoxide levels in your blood are halved.

What this means

Carbon monoxide from smoking can also produce distortions of time perception, psychomotor and visual impairment and negative effects on cognitive skill. Reducing the level of carbon monoxide in your blood will reduce these problems. Carbon monoxide reduces the uptake of oxygen from the lungs - the higher the levels of carbon monoxide, the lower the levels of oxygen.3 Oxygen is vital for the functioning of all energy systems in the body; so as soon as you cut carbon monoxide levels, you will experience enhanced energy levels.

24 hours after you >Stop Smoking

Carbon monoxide is eliminated from the body.

What this means

Look forward to better sports performance, with stronger endurance, lower levels of fatigue, improved recovery after exercise and a lower heart rate for each level of exercise.

48 hours after you Stop Smoking

Nicotine is eliminated from the body.

What this means

Nicotine has a number of unpleasant side-effects on the body. It can act as an emetic (cause vomiting) and it can produce stomach upsets. It raises blood pressure, and increases the likelihood of hypothermia and seizures. Get rid of the nicotine and you will get rid of these symptoms.

2-21 weeks after you >Stop Smoking

Circulation improves.

What does this mean

Bad circulation causes numerous problems, ranging from persistently cold feet, slow skin healing, Raynaud’s disease and peripheral vascular disease (PVT) which can even lead to limb amputation. Giving up smoking will reduce your risk of most circulation problems.

After 1 year

Your risk of a heart attack falls to about half that of a smoker.

What this means

Each year, tobacco smoking accounts for around 26,000 deaths from coronary heart disease in the UK - approximately 17 percent of all heart disease deaths. The UK has one of the highest heart disease deaths in the world. Luckily, giving up will quickly start to reduce your risk.

After 10 years

Your risk of lung cancer falls to about half that of a smoker

What this means

In 1999, 22 percent of all cancer deaths were due to lung cancer, making it the most common form of cancer death. Over 80 percent of all lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. Giving up is the most important thing you can do to reduce your risk.

After 15 years

Your risk of a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked.

What this means

A better chance of a long, healthy life!

Mark Barrus can be reached through http://www.iwanttoquitsmoking.com
The Stop Smoking Hypnosis People

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There are 55 million smokers in America, and chances are, every one of them has tried at some point to quit. Regardless of the reason that people start smoking, their reasons for being unable to quit are usually the same. Lack of willpower, don’t want to gain weight, they will try again on Monday. Sometimes all three. Well, the fact is, you are stronger than you could ever imagine. By using one of the many smoking cessation programs that are available, and breaking down some of the myths that surround smoking, you can be looking at going smoke free soon.

I don’t have the willpower to quit smoking forever.
That’s okay. Fortunately you only have to have the willpower to quit today. Often times, when we think that we are setting goals, we are instead creating obstacles. Never imagine yourself struggling with this smoking addiction ten years down the road. Each day starts fresh. At the times that you most want a cigarette, put it off. Not forever, not even for the day. Just tell yourself that you can wait 15 minutes.

Brush your teeth, pop a mint, or pick up a book. Anything to distract your hands and mind. If after 15 minutes, you still feel tempted, know that you are strong enough to delay yourself again. The important point is to never look at smoking cessation as an all or nothing proposition. You will have good days and bad days, but stick with it. With perseverance, you will find that the good days begin to out number the bad days.

I don’t want to gain weight.
Not many of us want to gain weight, so this is an understandable fear. Over the years, the weight gain- stop smoking connection has been greatly exaggerated. Not everyone that quits smoking will gain weight, and even the people that do average a gain of only ten pounds. If even ten pounds is enough to make you hesitate, you should realize that stopping the cigarette habit does not mysteriously cause weight gain. People that gain weight when they quit smoking do so for two reasons. They eat more and they are less active.

Regardless of what type of smoking cessation program you use, mindless eating is likely to sneak up on you. This probably has less to do with chemical withdrawal than it does the need to keep your hands busy. As far as the lack of activity goes, without having to make those trips outside the office building to smoke, you are probably a much more productive employee, which is good, but you probably spend a lot more time in your chair. Take a few breaks during the day, even a few brisk trips up and down the hall will help, but consider heading outside once or twice a day as well. There is no reason smokers should have all the fun, right?

I’ll try again Monday.
Sure you will, we all will. In the mean time, you will probably smoke more than normal over the weekend, as you prepare to quit. The trouble is, unless you change your behavior, you are no more likely to make it through Monday as you are today. To quit smoking, you cannot think in terms of success and failure. If you slip, no need to wait for another day, week, or month. So, you messed up, big deal, stub out the cig and go on with your life.

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WHY

• Think of those who care and love you very much.

• Tobacco and tobacco smoke are cancer’s best friends. Close friends with respiratory problems and heart diseases (e.g. atherosclerosis).

• Smoking increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also called chronic obstructive lung disease.

• There is growing evidence that smoking can lead to AMD (age-related macular degeneration), a degenerative condition occurring at the back of the eye (macula) resulting in blindness.

• There is an increased risk of developing cataracts.

• Smokers may develop complications in diverticular disease.

• Smoking can suppress the body’s immune function.

• Smoking contributes to chronic sinusitis.

• Smoked or chewed tobacco worsens gum disease.

• Tobacco can cause hemorrhoids to flare up.

• Chain smokers (over 20 cigarettes a day) are 13 times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than non-smokers.

• Women who smoke during early pregnancy can increase a child’s risk of developing autism.

• Cigarettes, like alcohol, coffee, and fizzy drinks are known to have an adverse effect on the secretion of the female hormone estrogen. Estrogen is linked to healthy bone strength.

• Nicotine is just as addictive as cocaine or heroin.

• Cigars, like cigarettes contain nicotine. Cigar smoking is not safer than cigarettes. Cigars are a major source of secondhand smoke which contains over 4000 chemicals where 200 are poisons and 63 cause cancer.

• It is foolish to think that smoking without inhaling is safe, that is because smoke still enters the body through the mouth, nose, and skin.

• Why take all these health risks? What is there to gain?

• Smoking can cause skin to age faster.

• Smoking increases stomach acidity which can irritate the stomach lining.

• While you enjoy puffing, you are actually forcing those around you to breathe in what is harmful.

• Children exposed to secondhand smoke are more prone to have chronic ear infections.

• A study conducted by the British Institute of Psychiatry found that smoking later in life may lead to mental decline. Researchers found that smokers were 4 times more likely to experience a significant intellectual decline than non-smokers. The test that was used to assess intellectual power was similar to those used to screen for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
  Reference: “Smoking, drinking, and incident cognitive impairment: a cohort community based study included in the Gospel Oak Project” J A Cervilla, et al. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (2000) 68:622-626

• Your sense of smell will be better.

• Costly. Why not save the cigarette money? Surely there must be other better ways to spend it.

• If now is not the time to quit then when do you prefer?

• Think of your well-being too.

• Quiting smoking is a precious and meaningful gift to give yourself and to the people you care about.

• Set a good example for kids.

• Forget about the number of times you have failed, don’t be discouraged. It is that one success that counts.

• Stop smoking today.

HOW?

• Check out the programmes that your local hospitals or health centers are organising and enroll yourself. A programme called “Breathe Easy” that was started in the US in 1985 has claimed a high success rate. You might like to check if it is available.

• Learn to play a musical instrument or pick up a hobby.

• Seek help from your family, friends, or colleagues. It helps to quit with someone.

• Avoid situations where you would usually smoke.

• Distract smoking urges with exercise, manual tasks, making phone calls, or by eating fruits or munching carrot/cucumber sticks.

• Reduce cravings by drinking lemon-infused water. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to a glass (300ml) of water and drink it 4 times a day.

• Get a piggy bank and put in the money that is used to buy cigarettes. Be amazed how much is collected.

• Women with PMS should try not to quit before their menses as it can increase nicotine withdrawal.

• Commercial products like nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine patch, nicotine nasal spray, and nicotine-free pill (Zyban) can help you quit gradually. Visit a doctor or pharmacist for their advice. Giving up is difficult because of nicotine addiction, a substance that is not cancer-causing.

• According to Dr. Ralph Heinicke, xeronine is an alkaloid synthesized in the body and plays a key role at cellular level. When we take in foreign alkaloids like nicotine, cocaine, heroin and caffeine, which mimic xeronine’s natural function, the body’s proteins adapt to them and alter the need for xeronine to an unnatural need for foreign alkaloids. To overcome this addiction, flood your body with xeronine just like you originally flooded the body with foreign alkaloid.

  At present noni is known to be the best source of proxeronine (a precursor to xeronine).

  To treat this addiction, place a few drops of noni juice under the tongue every hour. This will release proxeronine straight into the bloodstream from the soft tissue under the tongue to the brain. Repeating this procedure every hour will help flood the brain with this useful compound and allow the brain to subsequently prefer xeronine than nicotine.

  Note: The body does not get addicted to xeronine and thus noni is not addictive.

  In 76 Ways to Use Noni Fruit Juice (Direct Source, 2001) Ms. Isabelle Navarre-Brown shares
  several quit-smoking techniques using noni fruit juice, noni skin lotion, noni seed oil, and noni liquid concentrate.
  Noni will reduce the physical and psychological need for cigarettes.

  More on noni, xeronine and Dr. Heinicke - http://www.tipsofallsorts.com/noni.html

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Many people have tried to quit smoking and failed. What most of them don’t know that most smokers will fail several times before they quit completely. There have been many studies that have shown that cigarette smoking is as hard to break as a cocaine addiction. Some people have found it beneficial admitting to themselves that they are powerless over nicotine, before starting their journey to quitting smoking. If you admit that you are now smoking because you are addicted and not because it is a personal choice may help motivate you to making the next steps to quitting smoking.

Surprisingly about eighty percent of people try to quit smoke without help. Ninety five percent of those people fail. So getting help to quit smoking is a must. Do not try to do it by yourself. Seek help with programs and there are even meetings for people who are trying to quit smoking to help give you support. Find a program that may work for you, better yet find two or more. You can use a combination of programs. You can place a call to your local American Cancer Society and get a list of inexpensive mainstream programs. There are over the counter nicotine replacement methods that you can use such as nicotine gum and the patch. You could get a prescription for the nicotine inhaler or Zyban. You should buy a quit smoking book and audio tapes to listen to on the way to work. Some work places offer you a reward for quitting smoking. So not only do you save money you may get money as well.

A lot of people who have quit smoking claim that learning to take slow deep breaths were a very important technique to learn. Essentially every time you want a cigarette, you take a deep long breath and then very slowly exhale. If you purse you lips it will force you air to come out more slowly. When you exhale try to imagine all the tension coming out of you body and let you chin fall to your chest. Let the tension just flow out. You also need to remember the urge for a cigarette lasts for about five minutes. So if you get the strong urge to smoke, practice your breathing and tell yourself that you can make it through these five minutes. Then it will be better.

You will need to drink lots of water for the first few days to flush all the nicotine and toxins out of your body. Stay away from coffee, alcohol and high calorie snacks, these can trigger a craving for a cigarette. Some people find it helpful to find a substitute for their cigarette such as gum, lollipops, cinnamon sticks and hard candy. It may be helpful to change your normal routine. Take a walk or go to the gym during lunch or breaks. Please do not forget to ask for support form family, friend and co-workers. That way they know you are trying to quit and understand if you are a little grumpy! Do not be afraid to ask people around you not to smoke. This may be more important than you realize.

It will be helpful to write down ten things about being a non-smoker and then ten things bad about smoking. It really helps. It will also help if you reaffirm to yourself that you are a non-smoker, not a smoker who isn’t smoking at the moment. Repeat to yourself all day that you are a non-smoker. It is ok to grieve about quitting smoking. Your body has been programmed that smoking made you feel good. You will miss it in the beginning; it is okay to feel that grief.

Michael Russell

Your Independent
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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.

Copyright 2005 Adam Eason All Rights Reserved.

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Acupuncture is an very old Chinese medical style. In essence, acupuncture means stimulating certain particles of the biped body in rule to archive specific outputs. The procedure includes penetrating the skin with thin needles.

Acupuncture is used for various reasons - from stimulating the fertility of women to pain relief and osteoarthritis. Nowadays acupuncture stop smoking is a widely used practice that (according most who have tried it) gives very positive results.

If you are eager to try acupuncture stop smoking programs, first you need to be sure you have found a licensed acupuncture practitioner. Your doctor should be able to hand over you to a know onions and experienced acupuncturist. You can also checkup at the national acupuncture runnings such as the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). The best option is to find a person who has proper medical cultivation, as he is likely to better asses your medical reputation and required treatment. After you have plant an acupuncturist, ask for references from previous cases.

The usual places of your body where acupuncture will be done are your ears. The feeling is not painful and most people find it relaxing. Acupuncture is safe as long as useful needles are used. Of utmost denotation is the needles used to be decontaminated to avert impurities. Acupuncture stop smoking programs should result into reduced carvings and reduced level of withdrawal features. Some people fuse acupuncture sessions with hypnosis as these two methods rendition really good cessation outcomes.

Normally your acupuncturist will ask you divers questions over your first flap. He will try to gain a full picture of your health, lifestyle, behavior and the desired final solutions. Based on the dossier provided (it is vital that you are honest and do not hide any medical complications you have had or currently have as well as any treatments or medications you are taking) he will asses your condition and inform you how many sessions you will need. A good therapist will keep you informed about the progress you are making. Your acupuncture stop smoking line-up may be refined for a few days or continue for a couple of weeks.

Acupuncture prices may vary but the good news is that (in most or the cases) it is integumented by your fitness strategy. If you are not sure about this, check with your insurance company. Todays alternative of acupuncture stop smoking systems is the laser treatment. It works on the same principle as acupuncture - specific points of your body are stimulated with the use of a low-level laser.

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With all the knowledge we have theses days, it can be very surprising to see people continue to indulge in habits that are detrimental to their health. In actual fact what this tells us is that addiction is powerful.

Our objective is to learn about smoking. How it affects you. The power of addiction and health implications involved in this habit. Currently it is estimated that over one billion people smoke around the world. Most smokers begin at an early age, generally in there teens. In the past smoking was a recreational function of the rich, but these days that is quite the contrary. Unfortunately the less educated seem to be smoking rather than the educated. The level of education, income and standard of living contribute greatly to the success of quitting smoking.

Here are some interesting statistics from the world health organization. 25.6 million people smoke in the United States.
Among whites 25.1% of men smoke and 21.7% of women smoke.

Among African Americans, 27.6% of men smoke and 18% of women smoke.

Among Hispanics 23.2% men smoke and 12.5% of women smoke.
Among Asians 21.3% men smoke and 6.9% of women.
One out of every five deaths is tobacco related. It is estimated that 400′000 Americans die each year from tobacco.

Smoking is highest among persons living below the poverty level. Education is extremely important in the fight against smoking. Education is not just telling people about smoking. What is needed is dialogue and interaction so that each individual can understand factually the implications.

I talked to a person one time who was very upset that the price of cigarettes is getting increasingly expensive. She felt she was been discriminated against. To her she is addicted and the majority are against her. She felt the fight against tobacco was an attack on her.

Firstly it is poor education that makes her feel this way. Secondly when smoking socially you also jeopardize the health of others. Thirdly the costs to the health system are enormous. Fourthly we as people take things personally. Addiction can bring pleasure temporarily but fatal consequences later. Her challenge was that she wanted to continue smoking and the majorities were making it difficult for her. So when you really get down to it she was concerned about her own pleasures above her health and the health of others.

The choices to continue smoking is yours, but understand that the costs are high for your health and the health of others. No one can deny the dangers of smoking. Quit today.

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Let me start off by saying, that this is not an article about how to stop smoking. In a way, it is quite the opposite. Whether it is a pipe, cigar, or cigarettes, some of us have found that we are smokers. Maybe you have attempted to quit, and maybe you haven’t cared enough to try. Either way, the truth remains, “I am a smoker.” If this sounds familiar, then you I write this for you.

It came to me one afternoon, when I was trying to fight off a sore throat, and I held my pipe in my left hand, and searched for my lighter with my rightI shouldn’t be doing this. I have had this sore throat for a week, and I can’t stop smoking.

Well, the truth was the truth, and I really didn’t have intentions of stoppingSlowing down, yes; stopping, no. Though this moment was quick, it was important, as it was then that I accepted my fait. And more importantly, was now able to balance the scales.

Smoking makes you look old, smoking causes cancer, smoking smells, smoking makes your teeth yellow, and a million other STOP SMOKING ads rushed through my head

I accepted them all

Ok, now whatWell, I began to think. With a sore throat nagging me at the moment, I decided to attack this enemy first. Mouth wash, medicine, vitamins; I found these were all good ideas. But although I was helping the issue, my throat still hurt, and I was beginning to cough.

Perhaps the coughing was a blessing in disguise as I reached for cup of tea to help stop a fit of coughs. The steam helped me breathe, and the hot water cleared my throat. If nothing else, this experience got me thinking.

I looked further into the matter, as I of course stepped up my tea intake.

I found out that drinking tea, Rooibos Tea and Jasmine Green Tea in particular, will help me to relax (calming down my nerves), contain large amounts of anti oxidants to fight against the increased level of free radicals in my body from smoking (the cause aging skin and of course, Cancer), clean my body of toxins, help me breathe, and help my previously mentioned sore throat. I looked at this list, and the STOP SMOKING ads returned

Could it be that a pot of tea was a helpful accessory walking down this smokey path?? From personal experience, I have found that tea helps. And NO, I do not think drinking tea will protect me from all ailments, or that I will never get sick again, or I will avoid any other ill drawn fait that may await me, but with certain facts that I had to accept, I can only do my best to minimize the damage. And as I end this article with no promises, I will restate a simply written statement that proves itself time and time again, “Drinking tea is a good idea”

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Millions of people smoke, and to many, particularly those that
have been smoking for some time, the prospect of stopting seems
daunting. An addiction to nicotine is a serious one, and is
multifaceted: there is a physical component, in that your body
craves the nicotine the cigarettes contain, and a psychological
one, in that many habits and situations become associated with
cigarettes for the smoker. For these reasons it is important
that you come up with a plan of attack in order to stop smoking:
although the cold-turkey technique works for some people, the
vast majority of smokers will have success only with a more
comprehensive plan.

When you first consider the prospect of stop smoking, it’s
probably going to seem far fetched, but keep in mind that
thousands of people - people that are no different from you -
stop smoking every year. If they can do it, there’s no reason
that you can’t. Many smokers also feel that after a certain age
it is “too-late” to stop smoking. Simply put, this isn’t true,
and should not be used as an excuse to avoid an attempt to stop
smoking: the health benefits of stop smoking begin the very day
you stop.

Before you actually have your last cigarette, begin to build up
your willpower. Your willpower is going to be your most
important tool in stopting, and it’s very unlikely that you will
be successful without it. Spend some time thinking of the
reasons you want to stop smoking. Learn about the health
benefits of stopting, for both yourself and the people around
you. Do some math and come up with some figures for the amount
of money you’ll save by not buying cigarettes, and think of
something you’ll use that money for.

Once you’ve built up your willpower, it’s time to have your last
cigarette. To keep your spirits up, understand that the human
body is incredibly resilient, and your health will improve as
soon as you stop smoking - literally. 8 hours after your last
cigarette, carbon monoxide levels and oxygen levels in your
blood stream will return to normal. At 24 hours after your last
cigarette, you statistically reduce your chance of a heart
attack. Only 48 hours after your last cigarette, your sense of
taste and smell will improve as your nerve endings start growing.

As you continue to stay smoke free, think of the longer-term
benefits to stopting in order to keep your willpower up: even
after 2 weeks your lung power will begin to increase, and
continue to do so over time. Other aspects of your health will
continue to improve in different ways. The ultimate motivator
should be the knowledge that 15 years after stopting, your risk
of death is almost the same as someone who has never smoked - a
remarkable fact that illustrates our the human body’s surprising
ability to restore itself.

By coming up with a concrete plan to stop smoking help you will
greatly increase your chances of success. Crucial is
understanding the important role that your willpower will play
in the process, and planning to build up this willpower weeks
before you attempt to stop. Once you’ve stopped you have to keep
the strength of this willpower up, and to do so, remind yourself
of the health benefits you will be privy to immediately after
butting out that last cigarette.

Ren

Wondering what to do to help your smoking cessation, why do not you consider attending a stop smoking program. There is plenty of smoking cessation programs available and their success rates are reasonably good.

You can ask your doctor to refer you to a good stop smoking program. Alternatively, ask your friends or relatives who have already attended such program for advice. If none of the options works out - you can search for a stop smoking program on the internet, in the newspaper ads or the yellow-pages-kind of guides.

Regardless who referred you to the program you plan to attend, there are always a few factors to consider. First, you should know what to expect from a stop smoking program. If you imagine it is a magical place that will instantly eradicate your bad smoking addiction. What you will be offered within the course will be counseling services, a quit smoking plan, in certain paces a behavior therapy. Some of the sessions will be held with your therapist only, other may be group sessions where you will meet other people trying to stop smoking.

Since this is a kind of shrink thing you should ask for all information that you can think of - ask for the companies background what are the certificates (as well as other education stuff) of your future therapist, ask for previous customers recommendations. Companies that are reluctant to provide you with similar information or provide just bits and pieces unwillingly are better to be avoided.

What is important to remember is that these programs are not necessarily very expensive. Also (as any other service nowadays) a high price does not guarantee perfect results.

Most people say that stop smoking programs give very satisfactory results. Other found pretty useless. The truth is that if the program includes serious and regular sessions (with duration more that 30-40 minutes) the chances of success are quite big. Of course if we assume the therapist is an educated and experiences professional as well. So when considering which stop smoking program to attend, take into account the number and the frequency of the sessions and their duration.

What some people find useful is attending regular meetings are some ex-smokers organizations (similar of the Anonymous Alcoholic ones). This is a good follow up practice that will help you overcome the smoking habit totally and will invite new friends into your life.

Finally, as in any their thing you try to achieve in life, smoking cessation is a matter of personal decision, consistency and strong will. Make sure you realize and understand the reasons why you want to stop smoking and do your best to achieve this goal.

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