STOP SMOKING

How To Effectively Quit Smoking Forever

2007-09-29T03:19:00.000-07:00

How To Effectively Quit Smoking Forever by Kim Grace

How To Effectively Quit Smoking Forever

The following information is based on evidence from research on counseling and treatments that help people quit smoking. It is to assist you to become tobacco-free forever without the urge to start up again. In just one week after starting to quit smoking, you can be free from smoking forever.

Here are two major factors that will determine your success: you must have the desire to give up your habit and you must have the confidence to know that you can do it.

Now, let's just think for one moment: wouldn't it be very important for you to increase your chances of living from 2 to 12 times longer, gain many extra years of happy, healthy existence, and save thousands of dollars in increased medical costs?

According to health care experts: you will be many times more likely to die from lung cancer; cancers of the larynx, mouth, throat, and esophagus; heart disease; and a stroke...if you smoke.

If you have tried to quit smoking, you know how hard it can be. It is hard because nicotine is a very addictive drug. Many people have found that including physical activity in their program to quit smoking has added a tremendous benefit to assist in quitting. When people are more active, they gain confidence and like themselves more. They feel more energy and are more capable of dealing with tension in their lives. With increased activity, the smell of tobacco actually becomes offensive. Whenever you feel the need to smoke after you have decided to quit, get up and move around instead. A brief physical activity can provide you with the lift that you may have received from nicotine.

Here are the advantages for Quitting: you will live longer and live better; reduce the chance of cancers of the lung, mouth and throat; become a high-energy person without cigarettes; relax and enjoy the pleasure of relaxation without cigarettes; lower your chance of having a heart attack; deal with your tensions without a cigarette; improve chances of having a healthy baby if you are pregnant; save money; and the people you live with will be healthier.

In order to have the confidence to quit, you must find an alternative to handle the urge to smoke when it hits and create ways to deal with the reasons that you smoked in the first place. There are several proven-to-work weapons that you can use in your fight to quit. The urge to smoke is immediate and usually lasts for five minutes. If you can resist for that period of time, you will reduce the urge.

Take a deep breath, hold it for a few seconds, and exhale as if you had just taken your first puff on a cigarette. Part of the feeling you get from smoking is a direct result of taking a deep breath. A deep breath allows you to take in a maximum amount of oxygen and exhaling lets out large quantities of carbon dioxide. This results in a feeling of relaxation.

Take a sip of water several times during this five-minute period. It can help to diminish the need to smoke and gives you something to do with your hands. The extra water will also help to flush the nicotine out of your body.

Put something in your mouth that has no calories such as a stirrer, toothpick, or another substitute for a cigarette. Get busy with something, anything to keep you busy for the next five minutes. As long as it does not lead to a craving, chew a piece of gum or hard candy.

Get up and move around for five minutes. It will help the urge to smoke to pass. Use a nicotine patch as replacement therapy. It may prove to be a real benefit in quitting, especially if you are a heavy smoker.

What do you do if you still have doubts? This is probably due to your chemical dependency on nicotine. Discuss with your doctor about the feasibility of a patch or nicotine gum. With the help from the patch or the gum, you will have all the tools you need to successfully quit. The patch or gum will give you a steady influx of nicotine into your system, which will be reduced slowly over a period of several weeks. Do not smoke while on the patch. You could experience a dangerous overdose of nicotine. Pregnant women should not use the gum or patch. Smokers with any form of heart disease should consult with a physician before using.

If you are not completely confident that you can resist the urge to smoke after you have quit, it may be necessary to remove any visual reminders of smoking from your surrounding areas such as leftover cigarettes, lighters, or ashtrays. If you don't, you might pick up a cigarette and get hook again. It is so simpler to just remove the reminders.

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About the Author
Kim Grace is a dedicated online marketer. She owns MyHerbalWorks.com and HotEasyDeals.com

Control Your Thoughts, Manage Your Anger Easily

2007-05-31T19:05:00.000-07:00

Control Your Thoughts, Manage Your Anger Easily
by Mark Goodworthy

Having to prove your point on something and wanting to be heard we sometimes feel there is a need to shout. This alternative of shouting or being in the state of anger will make other people feel bad too. Sometimes when there is a feeling that other people is staring at you, your temper goes out of control making you start a fight and your anger goes flying in.

At this time, I think there is a need to seek help and advice. It doesn't need to be a professional help but it is advisable to do so. The chaotic world that we are living in is making it difficult for us to manage our anger. That's why the introduction of hypnosis as a helpful way to manage your anger is well accepted today.

Anger management needs a lot of work and a lot of sacrifice. If you can't handle the changes that it brings then better not get into it in the first place. Being in the state of anger means putting yourself in the spot where people could violently be angry at you also.

Feeling very annoyed or extremely angry towards a situation without prior knowing where the problem or issue started is just an implication that the person needs help. There are some styles or forms that some professionals handle anger management issues that are so drastic in their approach and may only worsen the issue or problem. Keep in mind that these issues are very difficult to deal with especially if there is no one to help you control the situation.

Hypnotherapists have been helping people for many years with anger management problems and issues. They introduced hypnosis as a very successful resource to treat anger management issues. Hypnosis nowadays after it was accepted in the medical field as a feasible option for helping people to deal with a great number of anger management issues was also helping in some issues like how to stop smoking, lose weight, and gain confidence.

People get angry because their sub-conscious mind can't get to the bottom of the situation. It is an area in our brain that should help us resolve some issues like how to manage our temper and anger. Areas also like how to control and manipulate ourselves so we can be able to make the course of the day without being angry or being chaotic.

About the Author
Take back your rights, live anger free, what is your anger management strategy? How about an anger management technique that enables you to relax and allow your anger to dissolve away.

Preventing heart disease can literally save your life

2007-05-30T00:45:00.000-07:00

Preventing heart disease can literally save your life. These 3 health tips are crucial for you ... regardless of your age
by Gary T

Heart Disease is one of the leading causes of death in both men and women around the world. That's a scary fact and you will do well to know how to stop it from happening to you.

Heart disease does not affect only the elderly. Scores of young men and women around the world die of heart disease yearly. They number in the hundreds of thousands.

Most of our young people today only worry about getting cancer or Alzheimer's disease, but heart disease strikes them long before they get to the age when Alzheimer's becomes a problem.

We hear about stories of high blood pressure, heart attacks and other such problems related to the cardio-vascular system. And the sad thing is that we tend to ignore these stories and then end up suffering from our ignorance.

So what can you do to prevent the disaster of a heart failure affecting you? Here are some things to look out for...

1) Smoking is bad for your health, period. Smoking is the leading cause for high blood pressure and its consequences are strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, damage to the eyes and kidney failure. It's definitely high on the list of lifestyle habits you should avoid at all costs. If you think that smoking helps you fight stress, think again. There are many other healthy ways to relieve stress, for example, taking a walk, swimming, listening to soothing music.

2) Drinking is another no-no. We're not talking about heart troubles of the romantic kind here but heart troubles of the kind that get you a resting place six feet under ground ahead of time. Excessive drinking raises blood pressure and brings the same unpleasant consequences as in Smoking. In addition to that, it causes liver damage too. While a glass of wine once in a while is probably good for you, excessive drinking everyday can never be a good thing.

3) A definitely YES to a healthy heart is to follow a healthy diet and to exercise regularly. Being overweight carries a huge risk to heart attack as fats can clog up arteries carrying blood to the heart. An overweight person can also develop other diseases that will make your heart worse off.

So there you have it. 3 common sense thing that you should remember everyday. Being healthy and staying healthy requires a conscious effort .

If you need ideas on staying healthy and losing unwanted weight, please go to my website and discover various tips and tricks on keeping that troublesome weight off.

Don't wait till a heart attack happens before you wake up!

About the Author
Gary T is the owner of a weight loss website dedicated to helping overweight and obese people keep the weight off. Get 100 free tips and ideas on losing weight plus free ebooks plus product reviews at : http://www.tiredofbeingoverweight.com

Break Your Cigarette Smoking Habit The Easy Way With Hypnosis

2007-05-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

Break Your Cigarette Smoking Habit The Easy Way With Hypnosis
by Alan B. Densky

Quitting smoking really is a necessity at this point in history, because smoking cigarettes has been banned from restaurants and other public places. And in fact, it is definitely the intelligent thing to do for more reasons than good health alone. This editorial explores the very best hypnosis and NLP methods that can be used to make it as painless as possible to break the addiction to cigarettes.

There are 3 individual parts to the addiction to smoking cigarettes. Two of the elements are mental, and only one part is physical.

Part A: YOU SMOKE FOR RELAXATION AND PLEASURE.

When you were an infant and you got restless, your mother would put a nipple into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become calmer, and often go to sleep. That scenario was repeated many, many times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.

Now that you are a grownup, if you feel anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - a smoke!

Part B: SMOKING IS A CONDITIONED RESPONSE.

Remember Pavlov? He rang a bell every time that he fed his dogs. After a few repetitions, all he had to do was to ring the bell, and that would trigger the dogs to salivate.

When you associate smoking with any other action, the other action will trigger cravings for a cigarette and an urge to light up a cigarette. This is called a conditioned response.

For example: If you smoke when you see someone else smoking, you will automatically get an urge to smoke each time you see someone else smoking.

Here is exactly how this conditioned response gets programmed into your unconscious: If a person smokes a cigarette and simultaneously drinks a cup of coffee, the mind takes a snapshot of the cigarette in the hand, and ties it to the cup of coffee. Thereafter, every time the person has a cup of coffee, his unconscious mind fills in the missing part of the picture. It flashes an image of a cigarette, and the smoker gets a craving for a cigarette.

You may be unaware of the mental picture of the cigarette, because it may only be at the unconscious level of mind. Just as you are unaware of what you are seeing through your peripheral vision until something or someone draws your attention to it. But the image is there, creating a craving for a cigarette.

Part C: THERE IS A PHYSICAL ADDICTION TO NICOTINE, BUT . . .

I've worked face-to-face with several thousand smokers and I give you my guarantee that the physical addiction to tobacco is the weakest part of the smoking addiction. In fact, I believe that it is only ten percent of the addiction to tobacco. I believe that 90% of the addiction are the mental and emotional parts! (Parts A and B).

HERE IS WHAT THIS MEANS TO A SMOKER WHO WANTS TO QUIT.

When you eliminate the feeling of tension that pushes a smoker to smoke a cigarette to create relaxation and pleasure (Part A) . . . and when you erase the conditioned response of feeling compulsions for cigarettes when having a cup of coffee, driving, or finishing a meal, etc. (Part B) . . . then you can give up tobacco without needing willpower, and without having to suffer from withdrawal symptoms or weight-gain.

Hypnotism can help trigger a smoker to stop smoking. Hypnosis will make it easy to give up tobacco because it takes care of Parts A & B! Here is how:

Part A is where smokers light-up a cigarette for relaxation and pleasure. It's your thoughts which create feelings of stress. More to the point, people persistently run mental movies in their mind's eye. If the movie is negative, it causes a feeling of stress.

We can use different NLP and Hypnosis methods to program the subconscious mind to quickly and easily take those stress producing mental images, and quickly exchange them for relaxation producing mental pictures and movies. This instills relaxation and pleasure, and eliminates the stress that triggers the oral urges and compulsions for a cigarette.

Because of the elimination of tension, the smoker who is quitting does not experience the compulsion or need to substitute food in place of the cigarettes. So quitting without weight gain is possible.

Part B is where smokers light-up because smoking becomes a conditioned response to many different activities and locations. Remember in the earlier example how smoking became unconsciously associated with other activities and environments so that each time you get into that activity or environment, the mind flashes an image of a cigarette, and the image of the cigarette triggers an urge to light-up?

There are stop smoking hypnosis, and quit smoking NLP techniques that can quickly eliminate those conditioned responses so that your subconscious will lose the cravings for cigarettes, and the compulsion to smoke. As a matter of fact, you can even get a compulsion to reject the cigarettes.

IN SUMMATION

In summation, by utilizing certain NLP methods, it becomes very easy to stop smoking without withdrawal or weight gain. And many of these methods do not even require post-hypnotic suggestions. They depend on programming the unconscious mind to use the same thought processes that the unconscious is using to create the addiction to cigarettes, to eliminate the mental addiction.

About the Author
Alan B. Densky CH offers Neuro-VISION Video Stop Smoking Hypnosis DVDs and Audio Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis CDs. Visit for FREE hypnosis MP3s

Get rid of heartburn- Heartburn Secrets Revealed

2007-05-23T06:18:00.000-07:00

Get rid of heartburn- Heartburn Secrets Revealed
by Paul Davis

Heartburn is a painfull or burning sensation in the throat or chest. It is also known as Acid reflux or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease(GERD).Suffering from heartburn can cause diarrhea, nausea, constipation, stomach pain, indigestion, belching, vomitin and headache.

In this article, we' re going to discuss how to get rid of heartburn.We will discuss a variety of remedies that will get rid of your heartburn.

We will be discussing the following remedies for getting rid for heartburn, baking soda, limiting foods, stopping smoking and alcohol, eating before sleeping and aloe vera.

Baking soda is the first of the remedies for heartburn which has great acid-neutralizing and should be combined with warm water. Firstly pour 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a glass and then add warm water slightly above room temperature until the baking soda is dissolved.

Limiting your intake of the wrong types of foods which are foods high fat, greasy foods and acidic foods. As when there foods are consumed , the stomach has to produce more hydrochloric acid to digested them , which increases the likelyhood of heartburn.

Limiting smoking and alcohol is vital to remedy heartburn as the nicotine in cigarettes causes the stomach to release more acid an it is required for digestion and this results in heartburn. Alcohol irrititates the stomach causing to be more sensitive to the acid that is produced. Limiting both of these will stop heartburn before it has the chance to cause further damage to your digestive system.

You should stop eating at least four hours before bedtimes as lying down after eating allows the hydrochloric acid to escape into the esophagus which causes heartburn.

The Aloe vera plant is a excellent natural remedy for heartburn that can be used to soothe an irritated esophhagus and strengthen your overall digestive system. Aloe vera juice is native to northern Africa and has been used for decades to treat heartburn and other conditions. 1/2 a cup of aloe vera juice should be taken (by adults) at least 25 minutes before a meal. Aloe vera should not be taken directly fom a plant as it may be contaminated only approved aloe vera juice should be taken.

By reading my article how to get rid of heartburn you have learnt about a variety of heartburn remedies which can help you get rid of your heartburn. To learn more about how to get rid of heartburn and how to apply them safely and effectively then visit my Blog.

About the Author
Paul Davis, the author of this article is a expert on heartburn,acid reflux, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Learn how to get rid of heartburn using secret, effective and natural methods at http://www.squidoo.com/heartburn--remedies/

Ways To Stop Snoring

2007-05-22T04:54:00.000-07:00

Ways To Stop Snoring
by John Rodgers

So you need a snoring remedy to stop snoring, your partner has had enough of your snoring and you can't take the moaning any more, or maybe you feel constantly tired and realise you finally need to find ways to stop snoring.

Your first step is to identify what has made you a snorer. Common reasons for snoring include, being overweight, alcohol/sleeping pills, smoking, sleep position, allergy or nasal stuffiness. If you are snoring and suffer from the above then the first way to stop snoring is to reduce or eliminate these common factors from your lifestyle.

The next step is to identify what type of snorer are you. There are, generally, three types of snoring. You could be a "mouth breather", suffer from small or collapsing nostrils or be a "tongue base snorer". There are a couple of simple tests to identify which type of snoring you suffer from.

Mouth Breather - To test whether you are a mouth breather open your mouth and make a snoring noise. Next close your mouth and try to make the same noise. If you can only snore with your mouth open then you are a 'mouth breather'.

Tongue Base Snorer - Stick your tongue out as far as it will go and grip it between your teeth. Now try to make a snoring noise. If the snoring noise is reduced with your tongue in this forward position then you are probably what is known as a 'tongue base snorer'.

Collapsing Nostril Snorer - Looking in a mirror, press the side of one nostril to close it. With your mouth closed, breathe in through your other nostril. If the nostril tends to collapse, try propping it open with the clean end of a matchstick. If breathing is easier with the nostril propped open, nasal dilators may solve your snoring problem. Test both nostrils. Next, try the same test with your mouth closed. If you have trouble breathing you could be suffering from blocked up nasal passages caused by allergy. These could be brought on by your bedding, detergents, dust mites, feather pillows, pet hairs or perfumes.

Once you have identified the type of snoring you are prone to you can look for a snoring remedy that will give you a way to stop snoring.

If you have identified yourself as a "mouth breather" a chin strap to keep your mouth closed may work well for you. Alternatively a mouth insert not unlike a sports gum shield that prevents breathing through the mouth may be more effective for you, although you need to be able to breathe through at least one nostril to use this remedy.

If you are a tongue base snorer a mandibular advancement device will work well for you. These devices are mouth inserts like a sports gum shield that are shaped to promote advancement of the lower jaw, this in turn pulls your tongue forward at its base into the correct, quieter position. These devices, usually around the $60 mark, should allow for breathing by being perforated.

If you are a nostril snorer nasal strips commonly available at most good pharmacy can for you be the best way to stop snoring. Look out for kleerway nasal strips, snore-no-more strips, nozovent and breathe right nasal strips.

Using a natural herbal sinus/airway astringent spray made from the herb "euphrasia officinalis" aka "eyebright", tradename: Rhynil, as a back up remedy can further reduce palatal flutter and clear airways to help reduce snoring.

If you go through these steps you should find a way to stop snoring using a snoring remedy that doesn't involve strong drugs or surgery.

About the Author
John Rodgers writes for Snoring Remedy at http://holisticremedy.info

Smoke guide - Quit Smoking

2007-04-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

Smoke guide - Quit Smoking
by Jean Helmet

Today, many people are trying to quit smoking more and more. Now, more than ever, people look for ways to quit smoking and seem to fail time and time again. Nowadays, it has become known that smoking doesn't do you, your self image, or your health any good. However, many years ago these health risks were unknown. Many years ago, smoking was considered to be normal and wasn't taking that serious when it came to harming ones health.

When we fast forward to the fast paced society of today, smoking has become a health hazard and we are now all made aware of this fact by the many health associations across the world. It is also said that by passive smoking, ones health could it be at risk. For example, lets say in a family home, the mother is a heavy smoker and there are children living in the household. The children will be breathing in this smoke daily and it won't be doing them any good when it comes to the effect of the smoke on their lungs.

There are many ways to stop smoking and many companies have recently piled up offering natural products that claim to be able to stop someone's habit when it comes to smoking. There are even alternatives to tobacco and nicotine smokes available, and these are known as herbal cigarettes.

While there are many options available, including various nicotine patches, and now, patches that are claimed as all natural that will get someone off the nicotine addiction, research and doctors advice will be your best bet when it comes to using products to help you quit smoking.

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Ways To Quit Smoking

2007-04-17T00:57:00.000-07:00

Ways To Quit Smoking
by S.A. Wilson

There are countless ways to quit smoking, and the majority of smokers have tried their hands at most of them. There is the old "cold turkey" standby that tends to send people into a painful period of withdrawal that eventually causes them to start smoking again. There are also the nicotine-based cessation programs like gum, patches, and lozenges. While many of these result in short-term success, they usually don't help you quit smoking for good.

Ultra-Herbal offers one of the safest and most effective ways to quit smoking on the market today: Nicocure. These all-natural patches are fully effective 97 percent of the time. Instead of releasing more of an addictive chemical into your system, Nicocure patches utilize a proprietary, all-natural formula to rid your body of its need for nicotine. Why try to break a nicotine habit by giving your body more of this dangerous chemical? Try Nicocure instead for a safe, all-natural alternative to those ineffective, nicotine-based gums and patches.

Results or Your Money Back - With Nicocure, you simply wear one patch a day for 30 days. In many cases, users see satisfying results within the first 10 days! Even when this occurs, however, it is a good idea to continue the process for the full 30 days. If for some reason you are not happy with your progress after 20 days, you can return the remainder of your patches and get a full refund on your purchase (minus shipping and handling).

Nicocure patches give you the best opportunity to quit smoking fast and for good. They make quitting easy and comfortable, eliminating withdrawal symptoms. They are also equally effective for people who have just started smoking and those who have tried to quit for years. And because Nicocure is all-natural, you know that's completely safe. For the stop smoking aid that truly breaks the nicotine cycle, try Nicocure today, completely risk-free.

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Things to think about before stopping smoking

2007-04-15T00:14:00.000-07:00

Things to think about before stopping smoking
by Kirk Voelker

This is the first of several articles directed to smokers. In order to better understand the psychology of nicotine addiction, I need to have input from smokers, and get inside your head. I look forward to your input and replies on my stop smoking discussion boardIn my practice as a pulmonologist as well as in my Quit Doc Clinic, I have finally acknowledged that I can not MAKE anyone quit smoking. I can not scare anyone into quitting smoking. Half of lung cancer patients go back to smoking!!! The drive to stop smoking has to come from within. Statistics tell us that over 80% of smokers want to quit smoking. My "on the street" interviews suggest that it is significantly less than this. Why the difference? When someone fills out an anonymous survey they can be more open. In the interview process I get the "yeah, I know I should quit but..." When I get to the one on one level, I find out that there are only a few reasons. Most of the time the failure to think about quitting is driven by either fear or immaturity. It is further fueled by denial ("oh that will never happen to me"). The top fear is not of the health consequences (stroke, heart attack, cancer) but the FEAR OF FAILURE. Most of my patients that I treat are afraid of failing their smoking cessation attempt. The second most common fear is that of gaining weight. I hear the rationalization of "I'll probably gain so much weight that I will make myself more unhealthy than if I smoked!" Well, let's look at this. It is estimated that you would have to gain 150 pounds to have the cardiovascular effects of smoking. And still you would not have the cancer risks! The third most common fear is FEAR OF CHANGE. Yep, most of us do not want to change our lifestyle. I get the comment "I've done it this way for the last 30 years no need to change now!" My response is usually, "The way that you have been doing it has gotten you into the mess you are in. Look at your lifeless skin? What about your breathlessness? What about the silent plaque that is building up inside of your arteries or the slow dissolution of lung tissue with each puff of that poisonous crap! What about immaturity. Well you are full of it! There is the rebellious punk side of you that says "no one is going to make me do anything!" To this I say "Well Einstein, don't you think that the big tobacco companies are responsible for getting you hooked in the first place? Don't you think that addiction is controlling your life? Can you go over to a friend's house and have a wonderful dinner and conversation without crawling out of your skin for your nicotine fix? This addiction has total control over you and can make you grovel at its whim." In my Quit Doc Clinic, I usually do not treat patients younger than 30. The reason is that they generally lack the maturity to stay quit. They are invincible and have not suffered from health problems or faced their own mortality. I often tell my patients whom are children of the 60's,70's or 80's that the mind set that they need to quit smoking is the same as they had when they quit all that other childhood stuff. They must be able to say "I'm done" and walk away. If they are still doing the late nights, alcohol, drugs etc. chances are that they have not matured to the point of being a successful nonsmoker. I turn them away and tell them to come back when they grow up."Denial? I don't have denial!" This denial accounts for why many people go without even trying to quit. "It will never happen to me." Or "you gotta die of something?" Smokers know they are playing Russian roulette. They believe there is one bullet and one thousand empty chambers. In reality, there is one bullet and only one empty chamber. Yes, that is right! Out of every two smokers, one will die prematurely of a smoking related death. The good news is that for every 2 people that we can get to stop smoking, we will save one life!! So what is the point of this article? Well you have to start somewhere. Before you decide to attempt quitting, you must look at your own reasons for not quitting thus far. You surely don't enjoy making the tobacco companies rich by giving them $1000/year for each pack per day that you smoke. You really don't enjoy the odor that reeks off of your body or breath (oh yeah, I forgot, you can't smell it until you quit). You may think it is your right to kill yourself by whatever means that you choose but what about the cancers, heart attacks and other illnesses that you are causing in those around you? That brings me to my next article on second hand smoke.Kirk G. Voelker MD FCCP - Quit Doc Smoking Treatment Network

About the Author
Dr Voelker is a pulmonologist who has helped thousands of smokers quit smoking in his Quit Doc Smoking Treatment Network clinic.

Basics in Bronchitis detection, conventional treatment

2007-04-14T02:04:00.000-07:00

Basics in Bronchitis detection, conventional treatment
by Groshan Fabiola

In acute bronchitis the sounds along your upper respiratory ways change so the doctor will examine you with the stethoscope and will detect easily the disease. If you have chronic bronchitis your doctor is supposed to make some specific determinations such as: X-ray of your chest and pulmonary function tests.

Treatments

Conventional treatment means adopting simple measures such as: stop smoking, avoid irritants and allergens, drinking fluids and getting lot of rest, a inhaled bronchodilator and/or cough syrup. There are many alternative methods that help in relieving the discomfort but do not treat the infection. In severe chronic bronchitis steroids reduce inflammation they may be given oral or inhaled and oxygen may be necessary.

Conventional medicine Antibiotics are not necessary in healthy people. Because coughing is a way of getting rid of secretions in our bronchis we shouldn't suppress cough and we should't take anything that has as effect the suppressing of cough. Only if your cough is dry and painfull and gives you high discomfort and insomnia your doctor will prescribe you cough suppressant. It is enough if you drink plenty of fluids and take acetaminophen.

In chronic bronchitis the lungs are more vulnerable, so you should have an yearly vaccination against flu, pneumonia. It is not complicated and you may not be required a second or booster shot. Take your medications only as suggested by your doctor. An expectorant may be usefull if your cough is dry. If you observe any change in the color, volume and thickness of the phlegm it means you have an infection.

Infections with bacterias are treated with broad spectrum antibiotics for 10 days. You should stop smoking and have steroids prescribed against the inflammation. In COPD and chronic bronchitis you may need an bronchodilator anticholinergic. In severe cases of chronic bronchitis and COPD oxygen therapy is usefull. It can be administered continous or only when needed. Try not to expose the oxygen tank to flammable materials or sources of direct heat such as: radiators or hair dryers. Your doctor will urge you to stop smocking, because it may reduce the symptoms and increase life expectancy.

Home remedies in acute and chronic bronchitis

In acute bronchitis You should stay at home, keep warm and drink lots of fluids, do not make physical efforts, inhale steam and use a vaporizer. In this phase the symptoms such as: wheezing, shortness of breath and fever are reduced if followed the indications.

In chronic bronchitis In chronic bronchitis the most important is to quit smoking. It would be an important measure not to be exposed to allergens or irritants, avoid contact with people with colds. It is helpful to dress warmly, to use a vaporizer or inhale steam over a sink full of hot water.

About the Author
More informations about bronchitis treatment or bronchitis can be found by visiting http://www.bronchitis-guide.com/

How to Stop Snoring - Stop the drinking & smoking!

2007-04-10T03:29:00.000-07:00

How to Stop Snoring - Stop the drinking & smoking!
by Karin Manning

If one is healthy, one is generally fit. Diseases and other health issues would not pose problems to a person who is generally healthy. If you look at the mirror, and you see yourself to be quite fit, and yet you snore. What could the problem be?

Look at some other aspects in your life. Do you drink alcohol, or do you smoke? Perhaps these habits contribute to your snoring. What do you think? Let us discuss one by one to have some idea on how to stop snoring.

Drinking and Snoring Drinking alcoholic beverages tend to relax the throat muscles and the tongue during sleep. This would somewhat restrict the airways with the throat muscles tending to collapse inside making it difficult for breathing during sleep. If one should drink alcoholic beverages, drink in moderation, and preferably not before sleep. So with the question on how to stop snoring, stop drinking.

Smoking and Snoring Smoking has been medically declared unsafe to one's health. It destroys the tissues of your lungs and could even give you cancer. These cigarettes have harmful chemicals that cause the tissues on the throat to become agitated and irritated. The natural lining of your throat will be affected which will contribute to the obstruction of the airway - and thus your ever-loud sounding snores at night. So want to stop snoring, stop smoking.

Drive these bad habits away, and you'll have an answer on how to stop snoring. These can be considered vices if not done in moderation. While it won't be that bad at times to have a shot of alcohol, or perhaps smoke a stick every once in a while, it will really pose problems to one's health if you do these excessively. For sure, you will have problems sleeping at night, with your snoring in the way to a restful sleep.

When one is healthy, you will have fewer problems with snoring. A healthy life without drinking and smoking will give your immune system a boost to fight other diseases as colds, which also clog up the nasal airways and contribute to your snoring sound. A healthy life makes you more adept in dealing with stress, which goes back to contributing to your overall health. Being healthy is your best answer on how to stop snoring.

And while it may not be that bad if you practice moderation, but if you can do without these, then by all means live without these bad habits. You will find yourself better, and with more appreciation of healthy living. So on how to stop snoring, stop all the drinking and the smoking. The decision is all up to you, and whatever decision you may choose, you'll know if you made the right one because you will sleep well at night.

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What Can You Do To Stop Smoking?

2007-04-03T05:34:00.000-07:00

What Can You Do To Stop Smoking?
by Viz

Once glamorized on television shows, in magazine ads and other places, cigarette smoking can be one bad habit to quit. In fact it's one habit that people often start at a very early age, from childhood on. And it's one habit that has a high death rate resulting mainly from cancer associated with smoking.

People try to stop smoking cold turkey, or turn to religion, patches, nicotine gum, hypnosis and more. With so many choices available for help to quit smoking, here are some tips to add to them in order to conquer bad cigarette smoking habits once and for all and breathe fresher, healthier air.

Change Mindset

Start thinking clearer, and your mind will lead your body to a clearer, healthier state. You can begin by heading to your local library and checking out books, videos, cassettes, DVDs and other resources to help you stop smoking. Other good topics are on self-improvement, healthy diets, and motivational and inspirational themes. See if there are any support groups in your area on any of these subjects and search online for forums to find friends to work through any issues with and have fun with to get your mind off smoking and onto better subjects.

Also line up some support people on your home front, off line. You don't need friends who still smoke that will say things like, "Well, a half a pack a day isn't bad, don't worry about it." You need encouraging, healthy friends to see you through the good times and bad times like you'll see them through in exchange. So get a list going of people you can reach out to instead of reaching for a smoke: healthy neighbors, family, friends, etc.

Develop Healthier Habits

A great way to break an old habit is to start a new one. So here are some you could replace smoking with; like instead of lighting up:

1. Put your cigarette money aside in a jar and save it for a special celebration trip somewhere fun.

2. Instead of picking up a cigarette, pick up a book, magazine, newspaper or newsletter and catch up on your reading.

3. Instead of smoking, do some journaling, logging your pain, agony, hope, improved health, etc. Have fun and use magic markers and stickers in it and don't worry about your spelling!

4. Instead of smoking, go to a gym and work out or work out at home or outside.

5. Instead of smoking, do something nice for someone else- and don't tell them!

OK, time to get moving. Go get 'em!

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Public Tobacco Smoking Laws Aid to Quit Smoking

2007-03-29T22:12:00.000-07:00

Public Tobacco Smoking Laws Aid to Quit Smoking
by Tim Allen

The cigarette smoking habit has seen an evolution in its perception and acceptance. Early in its history tobacco smoking was viewed as actually being good for you. How untrue that tale turned out to be. Instead we now know what tobacco does. It causes problems like cancer, problems in the lungs and heart disease. Those are just the major risks involved. Others like the smell and the expense of the addiction all contribute to the bad side effects.

National awareness of these problems have legislated action and laws against tobacco smoking and the need to quit smoking. Some of these actions include the following.

Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcements: Truth is one very successful ad agency that has depicted the bad effects of smoking. They portray the tobacco industry as an evil empire. Their commercials are also cryptic in showing the effects of tobacco and smoking. The ads they show have even reached audiences of the NFL Super bowl.

Public Laws have also curtailed smoking on a social level. In many states around the USA smoking bans in social places like restaurants, bars and recreation facilities are banned. The states with such bans include:

ALASKA, ARIZONA, ARKANSAS, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, IDAHO, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, MISSISSIPPI, MONTANA, NEBRASKA, NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH DAKOTA, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, PUERTO RICO, RHODE ISLAND,SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TEXAS, UTAH, VERMONT, WASHINGTON DC, WASHINGTON STATE, WEST VIRGINIA, WISCONSIN, WYOMING

High taxes on cigarettes and cigars also cut deeper into the budgets of smokers. It is estimated that a smoker who starts early in his age will end up spending nearly two million dollars on cigarettes in his lifetime.

Agencies like insurance and health organizations also penalize smokers. This is accomplished with expensive fees and less services available due to the dangers of tobacco.

Nicotine patches and other products that help smokers stop smoking have also emerged on the market.

The result of all these restrictions, laws and legislations against tobacco smoking has made it a habit that is becoming inconvenient and expensive. Quitting smoking does come with expense and effort but the benefits are very bright. They include saving money every year and a longer lifespan. Better health and a longer lifespan. Your family will also benefit from better health and not having to deal with secondhand smoking.

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Quit Smoking Techniques: Discover The Available Methods

2007-03-27T02:06:00.000-07:00

Quit Smoking Techniques: Discover The Available Methods
by Rick Churchill

Of the millions of smokers in the world, many would tell you that they would gladly quit if only they could find a program that actually delivers what it promises. There are many quit smoking techniques available which guarantee results but if they all worked, there would be many fewer smokers in the world. Most smokers who have tried to quit are aware of the many methods available such as nicotine replacement therapy, drugs to alleviate cravings, hypnosis, and alternate programs. This article will look at these methods and discuss what works and what doesnt.

The technique of nicotine replacement therapy is probably the most common and regrettably the least successful quit smoking method available. The theory behind this method is to replace the nicotine a smoker gets from tobacco with an alternate source such as gums or patches in order to fight the cravings a smoker gets once they quit smoking. It is thought that by replacing a smokers nicotine intake by another source then the smoker can wean themselves off of tobacco completely. The problem is that it is the nicotine that is addictive and while replacing it with a different source may eliminate the health risk of the other chemicals in tobacco, the smoker is still introducing the nicotine poison into their body. Because of these facts, a smoker must have an extreme amount of willpower to break the nicotine habit completely and may turn to drugs to help fight the cravings instead.

For many smokers who are trying to quit that want to avoid the nicotine replacement therapy, drugs that help fight the cravings are a viable alternative. Drugs such as Chantix, Zyban, and Accomplia are all drugs that can be taken when trying to quit smoking although many of these types of drugs require a prescription from your doctor. Most of these drugs work by blocking certain receptors in a smokers body reducing the nicotine withdraw symptoms and some even affect the smoker by decreasing the pleasurable feeling they get from smoking. While these drugs may be useful for some smokers, the success rate of many is not all that high and many smokers can experience unwanted side effects from taking them. Drugs such as this may help smokers with their cravings but another alternative is hypnosis.

Hypnosis is still to this day often associated with the silly parlor trick where somebody is hypnotized and made to do embarrassing things in spite of the fact that science has firmly established hypnotism as a true science. Hypnotism is a state where a person is open to helpful, positive suggestions and will not work on anybody that doesnt already have a desire to follow through on the suggestion being made. Quit smoking programs such as the Freshstart quit smoking program rely on hypnotism and claim that using hypnotism to quit smoking will remove any cravings that a smoker would normally feel upon quitting. Quit smoking programs that rely on hypnotism often claim higher success rates then a lot of other programs but you must keep in mind that this method will not work on somebody that doesnt really want to quit smoking but, of course, this would prove true for any program out there. If hypnotism is something that seems a little unreal to you, then there are some other alternative methods available.

There are many other quit smoking programs available and I will not discuss them all but will say that they can range widely in both success rates and cost. Some of these techniques include acupuncture, quit smoking groups where you use a buddy system for support, and punishment programs where your body learns to associate smoking with physical pain. One program that seems to fall into the punishment style seems to be the forced smoking method where a smoker is forced to smoke non-stop until they get physically ill and no longer have any desire to smoke again. While this may work in some cases, it has also been known to backfire where the smokers addiction is greatly increased.

As you can see there are a great many quit smoking programs available with a wide range of success rates and not every one will work for all smokers. As already stated, no matter how good the program may claim to be, it will not work on a smoker who is not already committed to quitting their habit. Of all of the programs Ive discussed, it appears that the most successful is the hypnosis method and the Freshstart quit smoking program makes some outstanding claims that, if true, would work for most, if not all, smokers.

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Quit Smoking Tips

2007-03-25T22:28:00.000-07:00

Quit Smoking Tips
by Trevor Kugler

So you want to quit smoking? Good for you. As a person who choked down "lung darts" for more than fifteen years, I think I may know something about the act of smoking cigarettes. I walked away from smoking forever about a year ago and wanted to share how I did it, in the hopes that the information might help someone else. I know that you don't really want to out of breath from walking up a flight of stairs or god forbid have to run even a short distance. I also know that you don't like the stink that follows you around after smoking a cigarette. I know all of these things and hopefully some of these tips can help you walk away forever, just like I did.

The other beautiful thing about my experience is that I'm sharing it with you and in no way trying to sell you something to "help" you quit. I don't represent any product or company that claims to "help" with quitting smoking. I realized, through my own experience, that none of the "help" is necessary anyway. Here's my theory: no one helped me start smoking, so why do I need someone to help me stop? The bottom line is that you were born with absolutely everything you need to stop smoking.

The biggest hurdle that I had to overcome was this: What I thought about quitting smoking. Now that I've actually accomplished quitting I realize that quitting was more about what I thought, than anything else. I came to the realization that everything that a person sees and hears when they are quitting is how difficult it's going to be. How nicotine is harder to quit than heroine, and stuff like that. I simply decided not to buy into all of this hype.

I realized that most of the hype was coming from companies trying to sell me something. Sure, they claimed the stuff they were selling would help me, but the bottom line was that they were trying to sell me something. As I said, I simply stopped buying into all of the hype. I began telling myself how simple and easy quitting was going to be. I also started hanging out where people smoked less. I would even go so far as to look at a cigarette while I was smoking it, and say to it (in my mind) "I've got this; stopping isn't going to be hard". The process of me smoking went on for about six more months, when one day I looked in my pack and there was only 1 cigarette left.

I pulled out that cigarette, looked at it, and said, "This is the last one". I smoked it and that was it. I haven't had another cigarette since. It was simple. There was nothing hard about it. Were there times that I wanted a cigarette? Of course, but I simply didn't do it. Quitting smoking doesn't have to be difficult. Remember: Quitting smoking is as difficult as you think it will be, that's all there is to it.

About the Author
Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com. He has more than 15 years of business experience and 25 years of fishing experience. He currently raises his 3 year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana.

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Why Is It Hard To Quit Smoking?

2007-03-22T02:08:00.000-07:00

Why Is It Hard To Quit Smoking?
by Mike Durand

Why is it hard to quit smoking when smoking is emerging to be one of the major causes of death in the modern world. This is attributed to the growing consumers of tobacco. Tobacco is responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults all over the world, which translates to around 5 million deaths every year.It is because of this fact that cigarette smoking is now a public health priority.

Cigarette smoking increased sometime during the First World War.Tobacco companies were successful in including their products as part of the military ration. At the time, soldiers under the stress of warfare became smokers.And since then, the tobacco industry has grown through an increased consumer patronage all over the world an even today more and more young people are becoming smokers. With the prevalence of cigarette smoking came its adverse health effects on its consumers. Smoking poses dangers directly and indirectly to the public. An indirect public health concern that cigarettes also poses is accidental fires. As for the health risks in smoking tobacco, at first it was believed the disease mainly strikes the cardiovascular system, resulting in heart attack, respiratory tract diseases, and even cancer based on the 1964 Surgeon General report, then the Surgeon General report in 2004 added leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach.

In spite of these risks, the number of smokers all other the world has not dropped considerably.Though several smokers claim to have been meaning to quit this habit,they just find it so difficult.The fact is that after smoking for quite sometime,quitting smoking can prove to be very hard, but not impossible to do.

Why is it hard to quit smoking?

Foremost, this is because most smokers become addicted to the nicotine contained in tobacco products. Nicotine has a deadly addictive power.How? When a person puffs a cigarette, nicotine particles find their way to the lungs through inhalation. From there, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream just like the oxygen people breathe. It travels with the blood to the brain where it locks onto certain receptor areas. Dopamine is then released into the brain. This is the chemical that makes the smokers feel a euphoric sensation. Smokers find it difficult to quit because they come to be dependent on this good feeling. And in wanting to experience this repeatedly, this leads to dependence, a sign of addiction, why is it hard to quit smoking, one reason is the tobacco companies are aware of this and have been slowly increasing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes since 1998 feeding the smokers addiction.

Why is it hard to quit smoking? A person who attempts to quit may experience withdrawal symptoms. Topping the bill of withdrawal symptoms is depression.With the absence of the chemical that produces the relaxing feeling,the brain becomes distressed without it. Other withdrawal symptoms from smoking include:

- Headaches, dizziness, and nausea

- Shakes, chills

- Cough, dry throat nasal drip

- Hunger, fatigue

- Constipation, gas or stomach pain

- Insomnia, troubled sleep

Not knowing what to do with their hands is another common complaint among ex-smokers while quitting. Once people get hooked, smoking becomes a big part of their lives. They seem to enjoy holding on a stick of cigarette and puffing on them. And after a long period of lighting up, it becomes a routine. As a fact, humans are creatures of habit. By some force of habit, smokers find themselves reaching for a cigarette and lighting it up automatically without thinking about it.

Why is it hard to quit smoking? Certain triggers in the environment may also hamper a smoker's desire to quit. Things may turn on a smoker's need for a cigarette.These may be feelings, places, and moods. Even the things done routinely may trigger this craving for a smoke.

For those who have been smoking for quite a while already, they may not realize it but they form some emotional attachment to cigarettes. They find the cigarette calming and comforting during those stressful times.Cigarette smoking somehow becomes an extension of their social life, particularly when they are emotionally at the highest or lowest.Giving the smoker a feeling that giving up smoking would seem like giving up a trusted friend.

These are only some of the major reasons why it is hard to quit smoking.But there are also several strategies and quitting techniques that may aid smokers to finally give up on this tenacious habit.

Quitting smoking all begins with one's intention to stop.They must have the will power to overcome the craving for smoking.There are also a lot of quit smoking products on the market.These may also be worth trying.Support groups are proved to be very helpful, too.

Smokers must understand that to quit smoking may take more than one attempt. They must also try several methods before they can finally succeed.Smoking is a stubborn habit because it is closely tied to the acts in the course of people's everyday lives.Even so,with determination, will power, and a strategy, you can find the answer to why is it hard to quit smoking? You can be free of the nicotine addiction and be a non smoker.

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Parents: We Can't Escape What We Model

2007-03-13T00:54:00.000-07:00

Parents: We Can't Escape What We Model
by Dr. Randy Cale, Ph.D.

I recently had a conversation with one of my adult coaching clients about his twelve year old son. He was talking about son's growing negativity, how he couldn't stand to be around his own son, and how his son seemed to always have to have the last word.

He went on to discuss how frustrating it was to listen to him complain repeatedly. He also explained his many efforts to nurture him toward more independence and autonomy, and was exasperated with his inability to convince him to stop blaming others for his misery.

As my client was taking, notice how he is using his time with me. He is complaining about his son complaining...and he doesn't even notice it! This is how modeling works.

HOW he does life...is HOW his son does life. He just doesn't see it...because he has the mental story that he is worried about his son's tendencies, and is blind to his own tendencies. He sees his son as negative, always complaining and unwilling to walk away from a conversation without getting in the last word.

Yet, the reality is that this dad is always complaining to his son about his behavior. He constantly thinking negative and pessimistic thoughts about his son. Ultimately, dad is also unwilling to let his son have the last word, and it is dad who really wants to have the last word

Can you get this?

While strongly asserting his disapproval of his son's complaints, he is the one complaining...ABOUT HIS SON! How he is using his attention is very similar to the way his son uses his attention. The problem is not that this father is inaccurate in his view of his son: it's likely that his son is challenging. However, what dad is missing here is the fact that he is modeling (and thus teaching) the very behavior he doesn't want his son to have.

How you do life is (likely) how your kids will do life.

The key purpose of this article is to heighten your awareness of the power of modeling. In the session with my client, he is hooked into discussions about his son's behavior. He is caught up in the content of his complaints and neediness, and focused on "how my son is making himself miserable." In doing so, he is missing "how he is making his own life miserable." He just can't see it!

What we model affects children on several levels, and has more power than we suspect. This is because children learn the "how" of living by how parents use their attention and energy. We teach it by what we talk about. We teach it by what we complain about. We teach by what we notice, and what we ignore.

We are constantly modeling to our children "how" to live. There are other influences, of course, but modeling is the most powerful part of the teaching experience for children. So, while the words and contents of your conversations with your kids are important, the more powerful part of your role as a teacher and guide is through the way that you live. It's through how you do your life.

Here are three specific questions to consider as you attend to what you model.

1. What are my daily habits?

For most of us, we are well aware of the kinds of things that we can do that are healthy versus the kinds of things that are unhealthy.

There is no longer much argument about whether or not smoking is unhealthy...it will likely harm you. There is little debate about whether or not exercise is good for you...a lack of exercise will compromise your life. There is little need to discuss the role of processed sugars and simple carbohydrates...they are harmful over the long term.

In situation after situation, how you discipline yourself to maintain healthy habits is much more important than any words or discussions that you have about those habits. In reality, this is about walking our talk and noticing whether we use words to try to teach, or do we lead with healthy habits that demonstrate our commitments?

Do I habitually get angry when I don't want my children to react with anger? Do I speak negatively about the in-laws when I want my children to be respectful? Do I regularly talk about exercise, but my kids have never seen me lift anything other than the TV remote?

2. What do I regularly discuss?

When discussing your day-to-day activities and the events of your life, what do you tend to focus on? What gets your repeated attention in your home?

Do you complain about your co-workers? Do you focus on what your children aren't doing? Do you keep discussing problems? Do you keep noticing what is not working...rather than what is working?

All in all, is it a world where your kids are experiencing you as a complainer, focused on negativity...or do they experience you as a parent focused on what's working and going well?

This is a critical distinction to make. It will shape how your children learn to focus their attention.

3. What behavior gets my repeated attention?

In the day-to-day life around your home, what hooks your attention? What pulls you in? What do you notice most?

Are you constantly reminding your kids to take care of their clothes? Is it endless nagging to keep them on top of their homework?

Or ...is most of your energy focused on catching moments of cooperation? Are you vigilant in noticing the kids while they are doing their homework.... rather than while they are staring out the window?

Do you comment on parts of the room that are neat and orderly...rather than the parts that are not quite there yet?

Ultimately, at the end of the day, what has gotten the bulk of your attention?

In this way, you teach your kids "how" to live life. You're teaching them whether to invest their energy in what they value and appreciate.... or whether to invest their energy in finding problems that they don't like.

These three questions are really just a wakeup call to be aware. For all of us, it is likely that the first and most important influence on our children will be how we live our lives, rather than how we tell our children to live their lives. So we must walk our talk to have integrity, and to unlock the power contained in the many other tools available for parents striving to be effective and loving guides for our children.

About the Author
With over 20 years of clinical experience Dr. Randy L. Cale is a licensed psychologist, therapist, author and speaker. He has worked with thousands of families from all walks of life, and has helped families with behavior problems that go from the normal daily struggles to extreme behavior problems. He has developed solutions that are practical, proven and easily absorbed and put into daily practice.

Quit Smoking through Simple Home Remedies

2007-03-08T02:19:00.000-08:00

Quit Smoking through Simple Home Remedies
by Dr. Anna Hardy

Much has been said and written about smoking as a dangerous health problem. Each and every person who smokes is aware of the fact that their habit could hasten them towards death. Smoking is known to be one of the carcinogenic factors, and could lead to a wide variety of cancers including lung cancer and oral cancer. Smoking also causes various breathing and respiratory problems.

But despite knowing all this, people are reluctant to give up smoking. The main attraction of smoking is the tobacco smoke, which is an addictive. In addition, tobacco smoke also contains nicotine, which is deadly poisonous to human beings in its pure form. Tar is another harmful ingredient. This can clog the lungs over time.

Many smokers have intentions to give up smoking, but cannot go about it in the right way. The main reason behind their inability to give up smoking is its addiction. Of course, a person wishing to give up smoking must have a steely determination to do so. But many a time that is not enough. The body may react violently to the sudden giving up of smoking. For this reason, it is necessary to fortify the body also.

In Ayurveda, there are some good techniques in which the body can be trained to cope up with the reduced smoking habits. This article tries to list some of the better Ayurvedic techniques in helping smokers in their quest of giving up smoking.

Dietary Methods to Stop Smoking

By changing your dietary lifestyle, you can make an effort to quit smoking. The following guidelines can be followed:-

- Do not consume more of acidic foods. Increase the quantity of alkaline foods in the diet. This changes the food preferences of the taste buds and helps them to adapt themselves to the de-addiction. Foods such as raisins, beets, lima beans, dandelion, etc. are very good for people who are giving up smoking.

- Have a good amount of vitamin C intake. This increases the hormones that help the body strengthen. Have a glass of orange juice or grapefruit juice twice daily.

- Sweet foods also help a bit to reduce the urge for smoking. Honey must be liberally used in the diet in different forms.

- Keep your food well supplemented with sources of proteins, amino acids and all the different kinds of vitamins.

- Have a glassful of water with a teaspoon of baking soda in it with every meal. This not only helps to digest the meal properly, but it also helps to reduce the urge for smoking after the meal.

Home Remedies to Quit Smoking

- Whenever you feel the urge of smoking, eat something salty, or lick a little salt with the tip of your tongue. Your craving will go away. If you do this every time you feel like smoking, you will be totally cured of the addiction.

- Grate some radish, strain it and extract its juice. Mix some honey in it. Have this juice twice a day. This is a good remedy for raising the body's tenacity against smoking.

- Licorice sticks have a placebo effect on smokers. Smokers like to have something in their mouths. So, some experts suggest them to chomp on licorice sticks. These are safe substitutes for the cigarettes. Putting some chocolates in the mouth also help to reduce the urge of smoking. But excessive chocolates are dangerous to health in other respects.

- Chew on sugarcane stubs as a substitute for cigarettes. Sugarcane stubs are very harmless, and their sweet taste helps to reduce the urge for smoking.

- Aromatic oils and fragrances are very good for smokers. A massage with aromatherapy oils can really go a long way in curbing the smokers' urges.

- When there is nothing around, experts also suggest a certain breathing therapy to stop the craving for cigarettes. When you have an urge, sit down in a calm place. Take ten slow and deep breaths. By doing so, you are stimulating your respiratory system. This will slowly help your urge for smoking to subside.

- Foreign herbs such as valerian, chamomile, hops, skullcap, lobelia and peppermint are also very beneficial in suppressing the urge for smoking.

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Best Effective Way to Stop Smoking

2007-02-26T23:16:00.000-08:00

Best Effective Way to Stop Smoking
by Gerry Restrivera

Smoking contributes to a lot of illness including cancer, respiratory diseases and cardio vascular diseases. The harmful effects of smoking do not end with smokers; second hand smoke also affects non smokers and caused deaths due to lung cancer and heart diseases. Smoking is a strong habit that is hard to stop but it can be stopped and you have to find the best effective way to stop smoking before your health starts to deteriorate.

To stop smoking it takes a lot of courage and motivation but this is the best decision you can make. To find the best effective way to stop smoking you need determination, discipline and commitment to stop smoking permanently. If you don't have those behaviors you will certainly fail even if you found the best effective way to stop smoking.

One way to stop smoking is through Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). While this is not the best effective way to stop smoking and this is for short time use, about 20-40% of smokers find success on this method. This therapy includes wearing patches, chewing nicotine-containing gums and nicotine nasal spray or inhaler. This method reduced the physical symptoms of withdrawal from smoking like irritability and tiredness.

Cold turkey is another way to stop smoking. This is the most popular method though not the best effective way to stop smoking. This contributes to only 5% of success per try. Cold turkey means to stop smoking immediately and without preparation. Smokers have to try this over and over again to succeed. Smokers do this method without any aid of patches or nicotine gums. Smokers using this method and experiencing withdrawal symptoms may do activities like drinking a lot of water, count 10-0 very slowly and breathe slowly when craving to smoke, take a quick walk, talk to a friend and other ways to divert their attention from smoking.

To quit smoking is not easy and finding the best effective way to stop smoking could be very frustrating. But did you know that there are smokers who found the best effective way to stop smoking and start to become a non smoker after just 1 hour? This method completely frees you from drugs, gums, patches or other chemicals methods and with 94% success rate. Find out more visit FreshStart - Stop Smoking In One Hour.

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Do You Really Want To Quit Smoking?

2007-02-20T23:23:00.000-08:00

Do You Really Want To Quit Smoking?
by Tommy Thompson

Did you make the New Year resolution to Stop Smoking? Well, have you quit yet? Millions of smokers around the world said they would stop smoking this year. But for many, the day never came. Maybe because of lack of motivation, maybe because you tried to do it on your own. Maybe you tried but gave up easily.

Lets face it. Smoking is a bad habit for a lot of reasons. No need to go into it, everyone knows the dangerous health risks involved. Mumbling the words "I'll quit when this pack is gone" or "After the New Year" or a hundred other reasons you convince yourself now is not the time, are just excuses to keep smoking.

If you want to smoke, you are going to smoke. You are going to tell yourself that your father lived until 85 and smoked 2 packs a day, or your great uncle smoked for 70 years and was never sick a day in his life. Blah blah blah. You probably even tell yourself that you enjoy smoking. How on earth can inhaling smoke be enjoyable. I have listened to smokers coughing and hacking, it doesn't sound enjoyable to me. How about that light up after a nice meal. Yeah, just what I want to do after I eat a delicious meal, wash it all down with some gritty disgusting smoke. You probably didn't even taste the meal anyway because all your taste buds are completely destroyed and everything tastes like stale ash.

Smokers make up all kinds of reasons to keep smoking. "I'm under a lot of stress" or "I'll gain weight". Ultimately the decision to stop smoking has to be yours. Yes family and friends will bug you to stop, but if you attempt to quit smoking and you really do not want to, your chances of success are slim.

The point here is, if you want to stop smoking you will. Make the decision for the right reasons. Be dedicated to the task because you do not want to die a horrible, painful slow death. You want to wake up in the morning without going into a coughing fit, you want to be able to go up a flight of stairs and not gasp for precious air. You want to smell good and get rid of the bad breath. You want to be FREE!

Well, what are you waiting for? Are you going to stop smoking, today?

About the Author
If you really want to stop smoking and live longer,and you are ready to throw away that pack of cigarettes for good, please visit at Stop Smoking Advisor

More Quit Smoking Tips

2007-02-14T23:40:00.000-08:00

More Quit Smoking Tips
by Keith George

It is really a big difference between a smoker that has stopped smoking and a non smoker. The smoker is fighting the addiction and resists having a cigarette, while the non smoker can not think of anything worse than smoking. Perhaps you have met the non-smoker, really more of a fanatic that often express his or her feelings about smoking and smokers.

That negative attitude helps them to stay non-smokers.

Other smokers who quit smoking years ago can still say 'I would love to have a cigarette to this beer' and if you are trying to quit smoking that is terrifying to hear. It actually means that they only quit smoking at a conscious level, that is they decided to stop, but unconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them.

There are many ways to stop smoking!

Nicotine patches works great and many quit without actually thinking about it. The ratio for persons that quit long term is rather low though.

Chewing gums can take some time to get used to, the taste is not what you are used to.

There are also tablets, lozenges, inhalers and Zyban, the stop smoking drug. In addition, plenty of people out there are willing to tell you how to stop smoking, you can find quit tips everywhere.

Many try a couple of methods at the same time and I have met persons with nicotine patches, chewing gum and snuffing at the same time. Once in a while also a person that have a cigarette to coffee or beer or any other excuse they can find. The only good thing might be that they save their lungs a little. But they are really enforcing the addiction.

The unconscious mind is what most smokers are unaware of and if you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the terrible effects of smoking, you should do it the right way. Start with a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke.

With the right psychological methods and techniques you will be able to control the smoking addiction and become free from its grip.

Do not stop smoking until you are ready for it! When you use the hypnosis methods you will move your mind from its current addicted state to complete freedom from cigarettes. And that will happen when you want it to happen. You will no longer be controlled by the need to smoke. You will never again plan your day so you can smoke, and you will not need to run outside at work or at parties.

You will become a real non-smoker afterwards and you can't imagine why you ever smoked. Hypnosis is a powerful tool and you only quit smoking when you don't want to smoke any more.

About the Author
Keith George owns the Quit Smoking site which helps people learn about Quit Smoking Hypnosis. Further information can be found at Quit Smoking Aids.

Breat Cancer: Cigarette smoke blocks cells' healing ability

2007-02-12T18:07:00.000-08:00

Breat Cancer: Cigarette smoke blocks cells' healing ability
by From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life

The Reuters Health magazine has found that cigarette smoke can transform normal breast cells into cancerous cells by blocking their normal ability to repair themselves. Over time this could lead to the development of breast cancer, scientists report.

Smoking cigarettes substantially increases a person's risk of developing heart disease, as well as cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, kidney, bladder and uterine cervix. Whether cigarette smoking increases the risk of breast cancer risk remains controversial.

For their research, the Gainesville team used cigarette smoke condensate or tar that contains all of the chemicals present in cigarette smoke, 81 of which have been classified as cancer-causing.

"The use of cigarette smoke condensate...mimics the human smoking situation more closely," Dr. Satya Narayan told Reuters Health.

Narayan and colleagues found that after treatment with cigarette smoke condensate normal human breast epithelial cells in culture acquire mutations characteristic of malignancy. "The concentration of the condensate we used is much lower than it is present in one cigarette," Narayan pointed out.

The Gainesville research also pinpoints the mechanism by which cigarette smoke transforms normal breast cells into cancerous cells. Cigarette smoke "causes DNA damage and at the same time compromises the DNA repair capacity of the cell, perhaps, leading to mutation and transformation of targeted breast epithelial cells."

A DNA repair defect in a single cell that cannot be repaired efficiently before it divides can lead to the genesis of tumors, Narayan said.

When people smoke, they inhale 4,000 different chemicals, which can produce harmful effects in our body, Narayan said. Since the development of cancer is a complex phenomenon and requires several gene mutations during its progression, the defective cell can be present for several years before it acquires tumorigenic activity, the researcher added.

Therefore, the safest way around this is to stay away from cigarettes. "This will protect us from the long-term known and unknown causes of cigarette smoke chemicals on our health," Narayan said.

SOURCE: Oncogene, August 21, 2006.

It is well known that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health, all you have to do is to read the warning statement on the side of the packet of cigarettes. The frightening element here is that cigarette smoke has the ability of KILLING you with its negative side-effects. Unfortunately, cigarette smoking is addictive due to its high content in nicotine, a drug-like substance. Even more sad is the fact that most smokers will only find the motivation to stop smoking when their health is already endangered sufficiently that they receive a nasty diagnostic at an advanced stage of a disease.

Breast cancer affects women in their feminity. It has been said that breast cancer is a socially acceptable woman's way to commit suicide. The statistics tend to confirm the fact that women who contract breast cancer have a psychological profile that reflects deep unhappiness with their current situation, either with their work, their life partner, their lack of children or the overwhelming sense that they cannot cope with all the pressures of our modern lives, where many women are expected to have a full-time job, then arrive home and take on a second one looking after a family. The deep sense of despair depressed the immune system which was then unable to do its regular cleaning job of removing cancer cells which are even present in our body. It focuses instead on the depression, looking for ways to cope with a stressful lifestyle, focusing all its resources on that one situation with no more 'soldiers' to divert to fighting cancer. Adding the damage caused by cigarette smoke is the death knoll to women who are not able to change their life situation.

You will find many more in-depth explanations on the causes of cancer. Dr Magne has been researching the origins and causes of disease and cancer for the past 25 years. Visit www.cancer-free-for-life.com to receive a FREE report on The 10 Ways to Cure Cancer Immediately. This article is available for reprint for your website and newsletter, provided that you maintain its copyright integrity and include the signature.

About the Author
Dr Laurence Magne Publisher, Author Cancer Free For Life Email : lmagne@yahoo.com Website : http://cancer-free-for-life.com

Smoking and Dental Care

2007-02-10T03:40:00.000-08:00

Smoking and Dental Care
by Thomas Ajava

Despite the health risks, millions of us are still smoking. Besides cancer, smoking can really affect your dental health as well.

In addition to the damage smoking can do to your heart and lungs, it can also have a severe impact on the health of your dental situation. Smokers are over six times more likely to get gum disease than those who do not smoke. Smoking not only damages the teeth, but it makes recovering from any type of dental procedure much more difficult.

Smoking stains the teeth. It turns them a yellowish color. The tar in cigarettes can also leave brown stains on your teeth. Normally, the saliva in the mouth helps to neutralize the pH inside the mouth. This allows the damage done by plaque to the tooth enamel to be corrected. Smoking causes this process to be less effective. Smokers are much more likely to have problems with plaque. They are also more likely to develop calculus, which occurs when plaque hardens on the surface of the teeth. This causes tooth decay to begin.

The use of tobacco can also limit how much blood can get to the tissue of the gums. This has a detrimental effect on the bones and other structures in the mouth. It also causes damage to the tissues in the gum line. It will cause the gums to become inflamed. They will begin to pull away from the tooth. This, combined with the damage to the bones, will often cause teeth to fall out. If the teeth do not fall out, they often have to be pulled out because of pain or infection. Smokers lose their teeth a lot more frequently than non-smokers. Men who smoke lose almost three teeth every ten years. Women average a loss of one and half teeth every ten years.

Smokers have a lot more dental problems than non-smokers. Unfortunately, it is also harder to treat smokers for their dental problems. Smoking is highly discouraged after dental work or oral surgery. Some dentists will not work on a patient who they do not believe will abstain from smoking prior to and after the procedure. Smokers are at high risk to develop dry socket after dental surgery. They also have a much harder time healing from dental surgery. Procedures such as dental implants are often not recommended for smokers because of the continued damage that smoking will do, even after the implants are placed.

The good news is that if a smoker quits smoking, the health of their gums can increase within a year. They won't be able to undo the damage that has been done, but once they stop smoking, their teeth will be able to hold up much longer. They can receive treatment which can help them repair the damage to their teeth and prevent future damage. Smokers who quit smoking can save their teeth before it is too late.

About the Author
Thomas Ajava is with DentistStop.com - your source for dental health information.

Green Tea for Smokers - Can it Lower Your Lung Cancer Risk?

2007-02-06T00:29:00.000-08:00

Green Tea for Smokers - Can it Lower Your Lung Cancer Risk?
by Jon M. Stout

We are only just beginning to understand the health benefits of green tea. But, it seems sure that green tea is one of the best things we can do to protect our health, slow down the aging process and prevent disease. One disease of particular interest in terms of green tea's affect is cancer.

Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death in the world. In fact, 300 people die of cancer every single day in the US alone. Yet, research is showing over and over again that the anti-oxidants in green tea may hold the power to prevent, and even treat, many types of cancers.

And, we know that many cancers are entirely preventable, yet continue to be a leading cause of death. Nearly all skin cancer is preventable, simply by wearing sunscreen, and the vast majority of lung cancer patients contract the disease after years of smoking. Smoking is, in fact, the number one risk factor for developing lung cancer.

But, even for smokers, there is evidence that green tea may provide protective benefits from the very cancer for which they're at risk; lung cancer.

A study at the Toxicology Research Center in Korea suggests that drinking green tea may provide protective benefits to the lungs, even to people who smoke. In their study, they tested four groups of people; nonsmokers, smokers, smokers who drank green tea, and smokers who drank coffee. The smokers in the study averaged at least 13 years of smoking.

For the study groups consuming tea and coffee, their intake was 2-3 cups each day for six months. The smokers who drank green tea had a significantly lower incidence of sisterchromatid exchange (SCE), the damage that leads to lung cancer, than the smokers who drank coffee and the smokers who did not consume any special beverage. In fact, the amount of SCE damage in the tea drinkers was comparable with that of the non-smokers, who showed very little sign of SCE.

This led researchers to the conclusion that drinking green tea may help prevent lung cancer, even if you smoke. It also concluded that drinking coffee had neither a negative nor a positive effect on patients' SCE levels.

So, it seems that it's more important than ever to get your daily dose of the anti-oxidants that green tea can provide. If you smoke, of course your best course of action would be to stop smoking. But, either way, it appears you should be drinking green tea!

Jon M. Stout is Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company. For more information about tea, green tea and wu long tea go to http://www.goldenmoontea.com

About the Author
Jon M. Stout is Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company. For more information about tea, green tea and wu long tea go to http://www.goldenmoontea.com

How To Remove Cigarettes From Your Life

2007-02-01T21:05:00.000-08:00

How To Remove Cigarettes From Your Life
by Kevin Dark

Keep a journal and write in it whenever you begin to get the overwhelming temptation to light up. Instead of picking up a cigarette, pick up a pen to write with. Write down your feelings at the moment, your frustrations and your good days you have. This helps with releasing many of the cravings you will have and go through, it also helps in taking your mind of smoking on to something else.

Ready yourself for the times of challenge ahead of you, which will happen at some point in your quest to beat smoking. Make a solidified plan for when these temptations hit you to smoke and instead go jogging, take a nice walk, swim, take a bike ride or anything you enjoy that will keep you from smoking.

You can also speak with your medical doctor about some of the quit smoking medications and devices available. He can help determine which ones may work the best for your specific problem with this habit. Many of these quit smoking helpful devices and treatments come in the form of patches, inhalers, nasal sprays, gum and even the use of anti-depressant medicines which helps you with relieving the withdrawal and temptations to pick up a smoke.

Make sure all tobacco and cigarette products are cleared out of your work area, cars, home and other areas which you will be occupying. This is important to your reaching your goal to quit smoking. If you don't have easy access to cigarettes then you will be more apt to occupy yourself with something else when an urge hits you.

Programs are also available in groups of people who are struggling with the same demons you are in trying to quit smoking and get in better health. You can join one of these groups supporting quitting the smoking habit at some schools, gyms and other facilities in your local area. These groups offer a added area of support for you because these people are all going through exactly what you are and understand you.

Quitting smoking has so many more benefits than that of smoking. Your lungs have a better capacity for working, your tastes and smell of things will also begin improving, circulation will be improved, having shortness of breath will get fewer, excessive coughing will quiet down along with congestion in the sinus areas too, And your risk of heart disease is reduced. With all these good things why shouldn't you stop smoking right this minute?

Make a commitment to yourself and your family to stop smoking today. You'll be doing your body and health a tremendous favor along with your loved ones who want you to be with them for many, many more years to come. Go ahead write down and commit to a specific date you are going to be quit smoking by and stick to it no matter how bad the temptations to smoke are. Your support group of loved ones believes in you and you should believe in yourself too. You can get through this and you can do this.

About the Author
Kevin Dark is the owner of all discount cigarettes online store.

Conquering The Smoking Habit

2007-01-30T23:02:00.000-08:00

Conquering The Smoking Habit
by Carol Bond

Conquering The Smoking Habit Most smokers sincerely want to quit. They know cigarettes threaten their health, set a bad example for their children, annoy their acquaintances and cost an inordinate amount of money. Nobody can force a smoker to quit. It's something each person has to decide for himself, and will require a personal commitment by the smoker. What kind of smoker are you? What do you get out of smoking? What does it do for you? It is important to identify what you use smoking for and what kind of satisfaction you feel that you are getting from smoking. Many smokers use the cigarette as a kind of crutch in moments of stress or discomfort, and on occasion it may work; the cigarette is sometimes used as a tranquilizer. But the heavy smoker, the person who tries to handle severe personal problems by smoking heavily all day long, is apt to discover that cigarettes do not help him deal with his problems effectively. When it comes to quitting, this kind of smoker may find it easy to stop when everything is going well, but may be tempted to start again in a time of crisis. Physical exertion, eating, drinking, or social activity in moderation may serve as useful substitutes for cigarettes, even in times of tension. The choice of a substitute depends on what will achieve the same effects without having any appreciable risk. Once a smoker understands his own smoking behavior, he will be able to cope more successfully and select the best quitting approaches for himself and the type of life-style he leads. Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smoker who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms. These may include headache, light-headedness, nausea, diarrhea, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psychological symptom is increased irritability. People become so irritable, in fact, that they say they feel "like killing somebody." Yet there is no evidence that quitting smoking leads to physical violence. Some people seem to lose all their energy and drive, wanting only to sleep. Others react in exactly the opposite way, becoming so over energized they can't find enough activity to burn off their excess energy. For instance, one woman said she cleaned out all her closets completely and was ready to go next door to start on her neighbor's. Both these extremes, however, eventually level off. The symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside. The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy, they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves. Quitting smoking not only extends the ex-smoker's life, but adds new happiness and meaning to one's current life. Most smokers state that immediately after they quit smoking, they start noticing dramatic differences in their overall health and vitality. Quitting is beneficial at any age, no matter how long a person has been smoking. The mortality ratio of ex-smoker decreases after quitting. If the patient quits before a serious disease has developed, his body may eventually be able to restore itself almost completely.

This article is provided by Carol Bond Health Foods. Carol Bond Health Foods has been serving natural health consumers for over 25 years. For the best vitamin supplements and health foods visit www.CarolBond.com.

About the Author
Howard and Carol Bond were in a Houston shopping mall in the year 1976. At a health food store, they were intrigued by the health-related possibilities of the vitamins and supplements on the shelves. Howard had achieved a substantial background in human anatomy, and Carol had studied the effectiveness of nutritional care. Based on conversations with the representative in the health food store, both Howard and Carol began a regimen. They quickly n

Health After Smoking

2007-01-29T22:40:00.000-08:00

Health After Smoking
by William Jones

If you are a smoker, you already know that your health is at stake. By understanding the positive changes to your body after you've stopped smoking, you will be more likely to stick to your new smoke-free regime.

First, it's important to understand how smoking affects your vital capacity. Ask your doctor to perform a Vital Capacity test to measure the amount of air you take in with each breath. You will be asked to take a deep breath and blow into a device that tells your doctor the volume of air dispelled. Air taken in by healthy lungs holds about 19% oxygen. Smokers take in even less vital oxygen, because the lungs are not able to expand as much. The more you smoke, the lower your vital capacity.

Cigarette smokers also double their risk of heart attack, and sudden cardiac death. Additionally more young smokers are killed by stroke than their young non-smoking peers.

That's the bad news. The good news is that the body has incredible healing powers, and can start to correct the negative effects of smoking within minutes of extinguishing your last butt.

According to the American Cancer Society, these are the estimated healing times following your last cigarette:

* After 15 minutes: Blood pressure, pulse rate, and body temperature of your hands and feet return to normal.

* After 8 hours: your oxygen level increases to normal, and the level of deadly carbon monoxide in your system drops

* After 24 hours: Heart attack risk decreases. You are less likely to have a heart attack in as little as one day after you've stopped smoking.

* Within 48 hours: Your senses of smell and taste increase, as damaged nerve endings begin to regrow. Many smokers have no idea that their habit has actually stopped the growth of nerve endings.

* 2 weeks to 3 months: Your lung function has increased by up to 30 percent. Your circulation has improved, and you find it easier to walk. Overall, you're feeling terrific!

* 1 to 9 months: You've noticed a decrease of coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath. The cilia in your lungs are now able to better handle mucus, clean your lungs and reduce infection.

* After 1 year: You are half as likely than a smoker to have a heart attack.

* After 5 years: You have nearly half the chance of dying from lung cancer as you did when you were a pack-a-day smoker. Risk of esophagus, mouth and throat cancers are half that of smokers. Some communities have banned tobacco companies from giving chewing tobacco away at rodeos where it can easily get into the hands of children. It's hard to imagine anything worse than mouth cancer.

* After 10 years: The lung cancer death rate is equal to that of nonsmokers. Pre-cancerous cells have been replaced, and the risk of death from cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas has decreased.

* After 15 years: Your risk of suffering coronary heart disease is the same as that of a nonsmoker.

Your hard work will most definitely pay off in renewed good health, and with healthy financial benefits as well.

Assume that you spend $50.00 per month on cigarettes. If you were to invest that same $600.00 each year into a stock mutual fund, annuity, or other financial instrument that generates 5% annually, you will have saved more than $20,000 after 20 years. Of course, $50.00 per month is a very nominal amount. Most smokers will spend a great deal more while they smoke, and save a great deal more when they stop.

You know that you need to stop smoking. Both your body and your bankbook will be much healthier for it. There are many resources available to help you become a non-smoker, but be wary of television commercials that promote sites to help you quit. As a matter of fact, the first step to your healthier lifestyle should be to turn off the TV altogether. Instead, ask your doctor about the stop smoking methods and support groups that are available to help you quit.

About the Author
William Jones contributes to several well-known web magazines, on home and family tips and recreation and travel subjects.

Why You Are Smoking More

2007-01-29T00:36:00.000-08:00

Why You Are Smoking More
by Windham Mattingly

Why You Smoke More. Yes that is right you can answer the question of why you smoke more. You have been smoking for a while now and you do notice that there are times when you feel that you can cut back and there are times when you can't smoke enough. Besides the obvious reasons people smoke more like being in an uncomfortable situation, after you eat, after other satisfying events. You just seem to go through periods when the old cancer stick won't quit calling your name. This article will address that and give you so things that you can do that might help curb that craving. At least a little. First though we need to talk about the two reasons that people keep smoking after that first coughing attack experience.

First nicotine is addictive but that isn't why you took the second cigarette. You weren't addicted just yet. You felt something, a calming since of satisfaction. More than likely what you felt was an increase in you dopamine levels. Dopamine is naturally occurring in you body but nicotine helps increase it. What is Dopamine? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is responsible for you experiencing pleasure and rewards. It is why you feel so good about yourself after that long run. It is why you go to the refrigerator sometimes just to look and end up eating some high carb snack that you weren't even hungry for before you got it. Carbohydrates increase dopamine levels too. It's why you never seem to get that same feeling the first cigarette gave you unless you hadn't had one in a while. It is why you are smoking more. Your brain needs to cigarette because when your dopamine levels increase you feel satisfied. Is this starting to make sense?

The second kind of smokers are people having perfectly fine dopamine levels and they still smoke. For those people they are simply addicted to the nicotine and can quick with just about any stop smoking routine. But what I described earlier fits about half of the smokers. Those smokers quit but not for a long time or when they try they gain a lot of weight. They are having to replace there increased dopamine with carbohydrates instead of nicotine. So is there a balance. Maybe so, there are a lot of smart carb diets out there. There involve getting your carbohydrates from more complex carbohydrates with high fiber. They can be a better alternative. Also, you can increase your activity levels and increase your dopamine. There are medications that can increase your dopamine levels and you can ask you doctor about them. For the most part that describes the two types of smokers and maybe I haven't pin pointed your just yet. You checked into this site because you have been taking an antidepressant for a few months and now you are smoking more. If so there is more than likely a very logical explanation for this.

Some antidepressants, actually the majority of antidepressants are SSRIs. That stands for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. You don't have to know what it means other than this. Serotonin is another neurotransmitter that occurs naturally but sometimes is too low for some people. That statement has a lot of depth because it means people sometimes have low serotonin and also means that some people have low serotonin all the time. When your serotonin is too low you have more anxiety and depressed mood. When you have it often or for a long time then you need to see a physician because you probably have anxiety and or depression all the time. The drugs to increase serotonin do a good job but one of the side effects that they can have is that the increase in the serotonin can decrease your dopamine. Now the light just came on for you. You are smoking more because the serotonin decreased your dopamine level and you got an increase with the increase in nicotine. So what can you do? Go to your doctor and tell him. It isn't something he would have just noticed. He can prescribe a different medication that doesn't have serotonin properties. DON'T QUIT TAKING YOU MEDICINE WITHOUT TALKING TO A PHYSICIAN! ARE YOU READY TO STOP SMOKING NOW? Click Here!

This article can't diagnose you so don't make a decision from it. Just use it for your information. I hope this has answered your question of Why am I Smoking More? sfied. Is this starting to make since? The second kind of smokers are people having perfectly fine dopamine levels and they still smoke. For those people they are simply addicted to the nicotine and can quick with just about any stop smoking routine. But what I described earlier fits about half of the smokers. Those smokers quit but not for a long time or when they try they gain a lot of weight. They are having to replace there increased dopamine with carbohydrates instead of nicotine. So is there a balance. Maybe so, there are a lot of smart carb diets out there. There involve getting your carbohydrates from more complex carbohydrates with high fiber. They can be a better alternative. Also, you can increase your activity levels and increase your dopamine. There are medications that can increase your dopamine levels and you can ask you doctor about them. For the most part that describes the two types of smokers and maybe I haven't pin pointed your just yet. You checked into this site because you have been taking an antidepressant for a few months and now you are smoking more. If so there is more than likely a very logical explanation for this. Some antidepressants, actually the majority of antidepressants are SSRIs. That stands for Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. You don't have to know what it means other than this. Serotonin is another neurotransmitter that occurs naturally but sometimes is too low for some people. That statement has a lot of depth because it means people sometimes have low serotonin and also means that some people have low serotonin all the time. When your serotonin is too low you have more anxiety and depressed mood. When you have it often or for a long time then you need to see a physician because you probably have anxiety and or depression all the time. The drugs to increase serotonin do a good job but one of the side effects that they can have is that the increase in the serotonin can decrease your dopamine. Now the light just came on for you. You are smoking more because the serotonin decreased your dopamine level and you got an increase with the increase in nicotine. So what can you do? Go to your doctor and tell him. It isn't something he would have just noticed. He can prescribe a different medication that doesn't have serotonin properties. DON'T QUIT TAKING YOU MEDICINE WITHOUT TALKING TO A PHYSICIAN! This article can't diagnose you so don't make a decision from it. Just use it for your information. I hope this has answered your question of Why am I Smoking More?

About the Author
Windham Mattingly has spent over 15 years in the healthcare field. His articles are dedicated to helping you with everyday problems using resonable solutions.

Losing Cellulite - 7 Easy Tips To Fight It Off And Win

2007-01-20T20:56:00.000-08:00

Losing Cellulite - 7 Easy Tips To Fight It Off And Win
by Terry Edwards

Losing cellulite can be a trying experience to say the least. We see all these products advertised and hear about so many new techniques and fads. It can not only be confusing, but very frustrating as well. Here are a few of the easier tips that are known to help in eliminating cellulite.
1. Weight loss - Perhaps the biggest reason of all for having cellulite is due to being overweight. A solid weight loss plan that lets you lose weight over time will also allow you to lose the excess cellulite as well.
You don't want to starve yourself, you want to take it slowly. Replace some of the high fats with fresh fruit. Simply by removing 200 calories a day you'll be well on your way to your goal.
2. Stop smoking - We all know how bad smoking cigarettes is to your overall health, but it also contributes to cellulite growth according to medical experts. Kicking the habit is one of the best things you can do for your body.
3. Cut down on caffeine/alcohol - These two areas are among the biggest reasons people have excess cellulite. Too much coffee or alcohol are well know causes building fat.
Other items like diet pills, laxatives are also bad for anyone losing cellulite.
4. Drink water - This is a very easy tip and one that works for many people. Eight glasses of water a day will not only help in ridding your body of toxins, but it helps in eliminating cellulite as well.
5. Get some exercise - There are many exercises to get rid of cellulite and tone your body. Everyone knows that getting exercise is recommended to maintain our health, but it's also good in losing the fat as well.
6. Eat more fiber - Adjust your diet and include more fiber and fruit. It will increase your metabolism and help remove some of those ugly dimples.
7. Cut out the fat - Cut down on the fast food which is so high in fats and carbs. This tip alone will go a long way in curing cellulite problems. Put in a healthy meal plan to your daily routine and you'll reap the benefits.
Losing cellulite takes some time, but if you'll stay committed and focused, you can do it.
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About the Author
Are you wanting help in eliminating cellulite? You can find more information about Losing Cellulite as well as help on everything to do with cellulite at http://www.Cellulite-Treatment.InfoFromA-z.com

Why stop smoking quickly?

2007-01-19T21:56:00.000-08:00

Why stop smoking quickly?
by Andy Morey

Smoking has become a very "dirty" word in the USA lately. Almost everywhere you look, you see lawsuits and cities banning smoking. They are banning smoking everywhere, even trying to ban smoking in personal vehicles. One hospital is terminating employees for smoking!! Why? Well probably due to the health problems associated with smoking and the cost of insuring smokers. This should give you some reasons why. Smoking kills almost 400,000 people yearly. Almost 25% of house fires are caused by smoking, which leads to almost 1000 deaths and 3000 injuries let alone the damage to the house. As you quit you regain lung function. You also decrease your chances of cancer and heart disease. Think of the money you will save(multiply the cost of a pack and how many a day by the number of days in a year). the cost could amaze you. One pack per day at 3.00 per pack(prices vary, this is for demonstration only:))This is $1095 per year. Some tips can help. The first and most important is that you recognize a problem. That is the classic twelve steppers beginning. Realize that it can take multiple attempts and don't get discouraged. Also know that it is OK to get help. 95% of those who quit on their own reststart. Get help. Try nicotine substitutes, gum, or meds such as Zyban. Read books on how to stop. Change up your routine. this will help get your mind off smoking. Some people swear by keeping your hands and mind busy. If you start a program don't ask if it works, it does for some, but you must have the focus and willingness to put the program into action. If you don quit, you will still get urges. Fight the temptation. Urges decrease over time and last only a few minutes anyway. Dont forget that most people quit several times before stopping for good. If you are the spouse or significant other of a smoker DON'T NAG!! This will only hurt in his/her attempts to quit. Be supportive. For more tips Click Here!
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Andy is the father of two young daughters

5 Great Tips for those asking themselves, "How do I Quit Smoking?"

2007-01-19T01:49:00.000-08:00

5 Great Tips for those asking themselves, "How do I Quit Smoking?"
by Hamish Jones

Everyday throughout the world, smokers wake up and say "How do I quit smoking?" The most common way to quit smoking is through nicotine replacement therapy (eg. Patches, gum, inhalers etc.) However, the problem with this is you are still putting one of the addictive ingredients of cigarettes into your bloodstream- nicotine. It helps beat the cravings whilst you have the nicotine replacement, but if you run out of patches or what ever, it is much easier to buy a packet of cigarettes to get your fix than it is to get your nicotine replacement treatment. As such, below you will find tips if you are asking yourself, "how do I quit smoking naturally?"
1. Drink Water.
Drinking water is a healthy way to quit smoking. Many people are not physically addicted to cigarettes but psychologically addicted to the hand to mouth action of smoking cigarettes. You have two options here; you can carry around a bottle of water and sip from it when you feel like a cigarette, or, when you feel a craving, walk to another room and drink a glass of water slowly. Cravings are usually gone within 5 minutes. 2. Exercise
The good feelings you get from improving your fitness will encourage you to stay away from cigarettes and the shortness of breath associated with them.
3. Carry Gum or chewy lollies
As with number 1, many smokers are more psychologically than physically addicted to cigarettes. If you carry normal gum or lollies, you can put one of these in your mouth when you get a craving. If you are asking yourself, "how do I quit smoking?" this may be the option for you if you wish to avoid nicotine replacement options.
4. Stop drinking alcohol and caffeine
Many people associate smoking with drinking alcohol or coffee. So if you are serious about quitting smoking, you should cut back on alcohol and caffeine and putting yourself in places where you are used to smoking.
5. Hypnotism and Neuro-linguistic Programming
This is an option for those that are keen to quit smoking naturally, but the above options have not worked. It involves working with your mind and manipulating your thinking to make you not want to smoke.
Everyday throughout the world, smokers wake up and say "How do I quit smoking?" The purpose of this article is to give you some tips to naturally quit smoking for good.
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Stop Smoking Tip

2007-01-18T03:14:00.000-08:00

Stop Smoking Tip
by Richard Redford

For those that came for the instant download on stop smoking tip please go to the download page at Fresh Start
Everybody else please read the article below.
To stop smoking is a major endeavor that takes a great deal of will power and an active strategy that will help you quit smoking. Each and every person who has quit smoking has done it in their own way and many of these people have tips that may help others stop smoking. If you search the net you will find hundreds of stop smoking tips. Below are just a few.
"Go to google and type in the following search words 'smokers lungs photos'. Make sure you click on the pictures. Guaranteed to gross you out and hopefully help you to stop smoking."
"Hypnosis."
"Nicotine patch."
"Quit cold turkey."
"Make sure you have something to do with your hands. Take up a hobby like knitting."
"Drink lots of water as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body."
"Think about how much money you'll be saving."
"Make sure you have lots of sugarless gum, lollipops, and raw vegetables to munch on."
"Start an exercise program. This will help you concentrate on getting your body healthful.
Also when ever you get an overwhelming urge for a cigarette go for a walk. That helped me when I was quitting."
"When you get an urge to reach for a cigarette, stop and take some deep breaths of clean, fresh air and hold them in for a few seconds."
For some people quitting smoking is the hardest thing they will ever do. Smoking is an addictive habit which has been said to be more addictive than cocaine. Most people will need more than just will power to help them stop smoking.
There are plenty of different products out there to help people break the habit. There are also support groups to assist people to stop smoking. The best stop smoking tip I came across on the net was by a man who had smoked for over 30 years and had tried many different times to quit but was never successful until he followed his own advice.
His advice was short and to the point and consisted of 2 words - "Get help".
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Do You Believe Smoking Is A Way To Stay Slim?

2007-01-17T17:41:00.000-08:00

Do You Believe Smoking Is A Way To Stay Slim?
by Ng Peng Hock

Smoking can help one stays slim.
Are you sure?
It does not sound convincing at all but unfortunately it is a common belief
among teenage girls.
Besides the many healthy problems like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, stroke, and many others that are associated with overweight, the other important issue for teenage girls is their body image.
Research conducted in the United Kingdom and Canada showed that 1/3 of girls view weight gain as a reason not to give up cigarette.
A female smoker shared her thoughts: "If I don't smoke I tend to eat a lot, especially candy and chocolate, and things like that. The last time I tried cutting down on cigarettes I gained 2 or 3 kg in couple of weeks. To be honest, I don't really worry about the health risks associated with smoking. They seem so distant. But I can see the link with my weight directly."
Is there any proven link between smoking and weight control?
American researchers found that smokers are just as likely to put on weight as non-smokers. It tends to be those who are slightly overweight that smoke the most. Therefore, it is a wrong belief for young women to take up smoking hoping it will help them manage their weight. However, it is a tendency for people to gain weight when they quit smoking.
According to Dr Chris Steele, when giving up smoking, about 1/3 of people gain quite a lot of weight, 1/3 gain a small amount of weight, and the remaining 1/3 do not put on any weight at all. Dr Chris Steele is a British general practitioner who has run smokers' clinics for more than 30 years.
Smoking increases the risk of contracting diseases such as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and stroke. If there is a choice between stopping smoking and putting on a couple of kilos, you should stop smoking first to halt the worse impact on your overall health. After you have stopped smoking, you can then deal with any extra weight that may have crept on.
Although some people do gain weight after they give up cigarette, smoking itself does not cause weight loss. Therefore, taking up smoking will not help you stay slim. The best and safest way to control weight is to follow the tried-and-tested method: exercise and adopt a healthy diet.
People have intention to quit smoking but do not know how to do it can visit Dr Steele's website for his 10 Point Quit Smoking Plan (http://www.thefamilygp.com/dr-chris-steel-10-point-quit-smoking-plan.htm) and his Fat Farewell Weight Loss Plan (http://www.thefamilygp.com/lose-weight.aspx) for quitters who are worried about gain weight.
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Tips On Where To Seek Stop Smoking Support And Help?

2007-01-16T18:34:00.000-08:00

Tips On Where To Seek Stop Smoking Support And Help?
by Javier Fuller

You have reached this stage to stop smoking and today you need the support and help from outside agencies. This shows the strength of nicotine addiction. How cruel its hold on you! But don't be afraid to take the required support as you have finally decided to quit smoking for ever. You can defeat nicotine, and you will!
Some of the suggested methods may look simple, but you need to follow them with commitment. Make a list of your reasons to quit smoking. Keep it in your pocket and as the urge sprouts in your mind, take out the list from your pocket, instead of the cigarette. Read the list slowly and carefully. Re read it. Resist the urge with all the strength at your command.
Be in touch with some QUIT SMOKING program. The encouragement that you will get by attending such program may surprise you. Consult your doctor for latest information on the subject of quitting smoking. The doctor's pep talk will have the desired effect on you. Take suggestions about nicotine replacement products. The care is needed to be taken in the area that these replacement products do not lead you to further addiction.
Support your will power to the hilt. Be obstinate to hate nicotine. See often, the video clippings showing the detrimental effects of cigarette smoking. I would even suggest you to visit the cancer ward in a hospital, and see for yourself the deep suffering of the patients who were addicted to tobacco in one form or the other. This will leave a profound effect on your mind.
Many have availed the support of hypnotherapy to get rid of smoking for ever. Do try it. You are through, if luck favors you. Even otherwise, don't get disheartened. You are in the nicotine-fighting mood, and do remain in that position.
Your family members have a positive role to play, at this crucial juncture of your life. They are your immediate support and help group. Take assistance from your trusted non-smoking friends, and do not hesitate to terminate friendship, though temporarily, with your smoker friends. If you suffer from some major disease on account of smoking, they are not going to foot your hospital bill.
By now, you have enough knowledge in theory about the ill effects of passive smoking. Your smoke coils do damage the health of your family members. It is not your democratic right to cause problems to your family members.
And finally, at the end of the day how much money you have saved by not smoking? Multiply it by 365. That is the amount that you are going to save for the year, which I am sure is in thousands of dollars!
If you don't stop smoking now, some one else will claim many more thousands of dollars, from you. You know who!
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The Tobacco Conspiracy : Why You Have Not Been Able to Quit Smoking

2007-01-15T07:21:00.000-08:00

The Tobacco Conspiracy : Why You Have Not Been Able to Quit Smoking
by Rick Saruna

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?? Or 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.
© 2003 Rick Saruna All rights reserved
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Smoking Cold Turkey - Should You Try It?

2007-01-14T20:02:00.000-08:00

Smoking Cold Turkey - Should You Try It?
by sacha tarkovsky

The most popular way to stop smoking, is known as "cold turkey" It's the most popular method but is it the right method for you lets look at stop smoking cold turkey and see. Smoking "cold turkey" means to stop smoking instantly with no reduction i.e. just stop and cope with the cravings with no help.
How effective is it?
Quitting smoking "cold turkey" means to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement therapy aids as nicotine provides the addictive nature of smoking it causes withdrawal symptoms.
Withdrawal of nicotine causes the following:
Irritability, fatigue, feelings of stress and nausea.
They are intense and will always be there in the first few weeks after giving up, although the first 3 - 4 days are the worst.
The symptoms and severity gradually reduce and eventually cease altogether and after about a month your body no longer needs nicotine fix.
If you are quitting smoking by "cold turkey" there are several ways to increase your chances of success
1. Drink lots of water to flush out your system at least liters a day and more if possible.
2. When cravings start - THINK of all the reasons why you are quitting cigarettes. Concentrate on why you don't want to smoke and all the health and financial benefits it will bring. Focus on these benefits for a few minutes and block everything else out your mind to motivate you not to smoke.
3. Get support if you need it.
If you can do "cold turkey" do it with someone else or get support and help from groups, either on the Internet or a meeting group.
4. Keep yourself busy and occupy your day and make sure you don't have time to think about smoking especially in the first 3 days.
Your chances of success depend very much on two major factors:
How much you want to quit and whether or not you believe you can do it.
If you think you can then of course you will.
If you think you cant you will not achieve your goal.
You may want to consider something else though.
People quit smoking "cold turkey" as they think nicotine is bad for you but it isn't, as we shall now see.
Fact:
You will double your chances of success if you give yourself a fix of nicotine outside of cigarettes.
Let's look at how to double your chances of success.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Nicotine does not cause death or disease, on the contrary its good for you.
It improves concentration, mood and attention and is actually part of the natural food chain and we consume trace elements everyday in foods such as tomatoes and potatoes to name just two.
If you take it in organic form you can beat cravings and get some potential health benefits.
NRT Products include:
Puffers, inhalers, gum and patches.
As the health benefits of nicotine are now well known companies are looking at producing nicotine supplements not just to help smokers, but help with a variety of conditions which need improvements in mood, attention and concentration.
They are looking at these to treat conditions such as: Depression, Altzeimer's and Parkinson's disease to name just 3.
A new smoking alternative
The first is already on the market. Originally aimed at smokers when they didn't want to smoke, or couldn't smoke It's simply organic nicotine in water.
It's very popular due to its convenience.
Simply take a few sips whenever you feel the need.
This product is now being taken not just by smokers but those who want to gain potential health benefits as well.
Finally
Try smoking "cold turkey" if you wish, but using NRT will double your chances of success and if you know the facts, you will see nicotine in pure organic form does no harm, so this is a great way for smokers with low willpower.
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Makeup Tips on PH Balance

2007-01-13T05:58:00.000-08:00

Makeup Tips on PH Balance
by Serjame Bayliss

PH is a medical term that describes the balance of your system and it refers to the condition of metabolic changes. Most skin problems are a derivative of diet and the lack of proteins. Now, for a stepping-stone to a beautiful you, let us look at our regime involved in prepping our skin. Once again, skin problems stem from unbalanced PH. Our skin has a happy PH balance and when your diet is unstable, as with the typical American junk food diet, our skin changes as a result.
An increase in sugar or a lack of vegetables changes the PH balance of your skin; if you over cleanse your face (by cleansing in the morning and again at nighttime) you will age your skin by reducing the natural moisture in the T-zone area. Sometimes, just a white, warm washcloth soaked with distilled water, followed by a cleanser, and is better than toner. The base ingredient of most toners is alcohol, which dries out your skin. At nighttime, before you go to bed, is the best time for toners, because they remove makeup, and environmental impurities, and dead skin cells.
Over-cleansing your face will age you. The best oil is that which your body produces. As a rule, those who have oily skin look younger, because oily skin is not prone to wrinkles like dry skin owing to abundance in natural oils. Each of you has a specific skin type and each of you needs a balanced moisture cream that suits your individual needs. Let us consider some things that cause changes to your skin that you perhaps overlook. Many women fast, thus draining the body of the needed vitamins that one gets from food. If you dehydrate your body, you change your sodium and potassium level, which changes your PH.
Many women think that it is a good idea to put oil on their skin; this is fine for your arms and legs, but never put oil on your face. This method is a myth. Why? Well, if you apply oil on your face, your sebaceous glands (oil producing glands) will stop producing the skin's own precious natural oils. Here's what happens: The brain sends a message to the glands that oil is present, thus cutting off your natural moistening and the result is an increase in aging because of dryness.
Your PH Level greatly affects your skin. PH imbalances (too much or too little acid) are your skin's worst enemies. PH imbalances are the result of stress and poor dietary and lifestyle habits. (Junk food; extreme diets; not enough fruit and vegetables; excess salt and sugar; alcohol; drugs (legal or otherwise); overuse of antacids or laxatives; smoking; lack of exercise; not drinking enough water; too much sun and wind; etc.)
Some women try to correct the effects of PH imbalances with an inexpensive moisturizer while others spend megabucks for a product that will do the same job. Remember, if your skin is dry, you need to moisturize and you do not need an expensive product to do this. Skin demands different products, so listen to your skin-if it is breaking out, or drying out, it is telling you it needs a change of product (you may also want to review your lifestyle habits to see if there is something you are eating or doing that may be affecting your skin). Should you use the same products year after year? Let us see-shampoo, after 90 days, builds a residue on the hair shaft. Deodorant, after 90 days, does not work as effectively.
As your body builds tolerance to your products, you must change products. Also, do not use the same product in the summer as in the winter months because your skin will have different needs when exposed to cold or hot weather. If, for whatever reason, your PH level changes, so will your need for products. Does this make sense? Common sense is your rule to follow. In addition, as you age, your skin will require different products, so let you skin tell you when to change. The Artemus Objective Method of Makeup© Bible Of Makeup
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Stop Smoking By Hypnosis And Enjoy Life

2007-01-12T21:42:00.000-08:00

Stop Smoking By Hypnosis And Enjoy Life
by Steve Gee

Stop smoking by hypnosis and enjoy life to the full
Hypnosis could be the most effective way to stop smoking there is. Studies have shown that it's a far more effective method than the common nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) where you wear patches, take injections or chew gum to wean you off of the drug. Hypnosis is also a cheaper, faster and more natural way to quit smoking. It is possible to stop smoking by hypnosis in as little as one hour.
You must want to stop smoking
The biggest single factor that determines whether you will successfully stop smoking appears to be your motivation. Simply put: if you don't want to stop smoking then it's unlikely that you will no matter how hard you try. It's not good enough to say that you will give up because of the health risk or whatever, you have to genuinely want to stop so that you can enjoy the benefits of not smoking such as a longer, healthier and more active life.
If you don't want to give up then hypnosis is unlikely to help you and neither is any other method. The first step to stopping smoking should be to find good reasons why you want to give up and believe that you will be better off by not smoking. Start believing that you want to taste things again and that you want to have more energy. You might also want to make more friends by not smelling like an ashtray all of the time.
When you want to stop smoking you will find it easy
Many people seem to find a lot of excuses why they can't give up smoking. They might say that they are addicted or they need it to relax. Ok nicotine is addictive but it's not like real hard drugs are addictive. Going cold turkey by stopping smoking might give you a few unpleasant symptoms for 2 or 3 days but you won't start convulsing and it's unlikely that you will need medical intervention.
Going without a cigarette for an hour or two will start the withdrawal symptoms and smoking will replace the nicotine that your body craves and bring you back to normal. It's this normality that smokers seem to mistake for relaxing. Why not stop smoking for good and be normal all the time?
Make the decision now that you don't want to be a smoker any longer and when you get to the point where you truly want to start living life to the full without smoking, you will be ready to stop. You'll then find it easier to quit smoking than you could ever have imagined.
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Acomplia can help you quit smoking

2007-01-11T10:04:00.000-08:00

Acomplia can help you quit smoking.
by Ashlynn

How does Acomplia help people quit smoking?
Acomplia Rimonabant works by selectively blocking the CB1 receptors in the endocannabinoid system - the "pleasure" center - balancing the overstimulated systems of both smokers and obese people. By blocking the signals, the cigarette smoker does not have the same urge to smoke. The endocannabinoid system is a natural physiological system believed to play a role in maintaining energy balance through the regulation of food intake and energy expenditure of our body.
Research has shown that heavy smokers were able to completely relinquish their habit after being on a regular supplement of Acomplia. Smokers usually do not beat the habit because they fear that they could easily gain weight once they have stopped smoking which can be very discouraging. Seeing that Acomplia also blocks certain nerve receptors in the brain and fat cells that are responsible for telling the body to overeat or smoke, this kills the urge to overeat and to smoke nicotine. Therefore accomplishing two tasks at once.
What are some smoking related diseases?
Smoking has negative effects on nearly every organ of the body and reduces your overall health. Smoking tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death and has negative health impacts on people no matter what the age: unborn babies, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
Serious health problems that can result from tobacco smoking:Lung cancer
Lung cancer is the most prominent cause of death due to cancer. Smoking tobacco is the single most important preventable cause of lung cancer. Smoking causes genetic changes in the cells of the lung that lead to the development of lung cancer.
Other cancers
Research shows that smoking tobacco can lead to respiratory and upper digestive tract cancers, particularly cancer of the mouth, throat, voice box and esophagus. Research also shows that smoking tobacco is a contributing cause of leukemia and cancers of the bladder, stomach, kidney and pancreas. Female smokers are at greater risk for developing cervical cancer.
Respiratory diseases
The respiratory diseases associated with smoking are often grouped together and referred to as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) that includes emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthmatic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking is also connected to an increased risk of respiratory symptoms, including coughing, phlegm, wheezing and difficult or laboured breathing (dyspnea).
Cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular diseases are diseases and injuries of the heart, the blood vessels of the heart, and of the system of blood vessels (veins and arteries) throughout the body and brain. Cardiovascular diseases caused by smoking include heart attacks and angina (coronary heart diseases), blockages in the legs (peripheral vascular disease), and strokes (cerebrovascular diseases).
What are some tips for quitting smoking?
Drink a lot of liquids, especially water. Try herbal teas or fruit juices. Limit coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol - they can increase your urge to smoke.
Avoid sugar and fatty food. Try low-calorie foods for snacking - carrots and other vegetables, sugarless gum, air-popped popcorn, or low-fat cottage cheese. Don't skip meals.
Exercise regularly and moderately. Regular exercise helps. Joining an exercise group provides a healthy activity and a new routine.
Get more sleep. Try to go to sleep earlier and get more rest.
Take deep breaths. Distract yourself. When cravings hit, do something else immediately, such as talking to someone, getting busy with a task, or taking deep breaths.
Change your habits. Use a different route to work, eat breakfast in a different place, or get up from the table right away after eating.
Do something to reduce your stress. Take a hot shower, read a book, or exercise.
Use proven stop smoking products. Using proven cessation treatments, such as Acomplia, can double your chance of success.
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Are You Thinking Of Using A Stop Smoking Injection?

2007-01-10T21:11:00.000-08:00

Are You Thinking Of Using A Stop Smoking Injection?
by Javier Fuller

You started smoking on a beautiful note. At that time you never imagined in your wildest dreams that to stop smoking would be such a deadly effort. You have tried several methods, rather many quit smoking methods have used you to make fun of you.
You are where you are and now the suggested method is stop smoking through injection.
Will this alternative really help you, so that you can live the rest of your life smoke-free? Half of your life is already wasted in searching and experimenting with the various methods to stop smoking.
Researches claim that this stop smoking injection makes you forget about smoking once and for all. It has a success rate of about 80%. Hope you are not among the remaining 20%. I am aware you have tried many other therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medications and nicotine replacement therapy, all in vain.
Nicotine and your brain are comrades in arms. The brain can never forget the obliging nicotine sensation and demands more and more of it. Therefore, you smoke more and more. Something has to be done to break this link. The stop smoking injection contains substances that confront the nicotine receptors in your brain. When the brain fails to establish contacts with nicotine, and refuses to recognize it, your desire for the nicotine-containing cigarette is decreased. Well, you no more need it at all!
Normally, one injection does the job. The second one would be necessary, in some cases. The treatment is given to you in ideal conditions in a clinic, under the supervision of your own doctor. He will make a careful note about your stop-smoking condition.
Why, then in some cases, you don't get satisfactory results in the first instance? It is because many of the smokers do have other problems, apart from the nicotine addiction. Your doctor will therefore examine your total health, after you are injected with the first shot.
The injection therapy is very affordable. High from the normal standards, but low from the actual standards! Also calculate what an astronomical amount you will spend on your nicotine products- the cigarette packets! Another favorable point is that such treatment related expenses, including the injection charges are covered by health insurance policy.
So far, this stop smoking injection therapy does not lead to side effects, it is reported. This probably is the reason for its growing popularity. Second aspect of the popularity is the quickness with which you can have this treatment.
You are in a hurry. You started smoking in a hurry, and if now you have come across a method to give up smoking in a hurry, why not avail it?
To read more articles on quit smoking, stop smoking medication and quitting benefits visit http://www.stop-smoking-updates.com/quitsmoking/
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Using Laser Beams To Stop Smoking

2007-01-09T18:39:00.000-08:00

Using Laser Beams To Stop Smoking
by Javier Fuller

To start smoking, you require the help of only one thing- a lighter or a matchstick. You can do it even without that. A fellow smoker with the burning stub will come to your help. Only when the issue of stop smoking gets priority over all others, for obvious reasons, there are several methods to assist you--or to confuse you.
Today's so called successful methods become tomorrow's failure method. Using laser treatment to quit smoking is considered to be one of the most effective smoking cessation methods. This method was introduced to the public only in the recent years and is considered to be a modern and innovative method for quitting smoking. It is trusted method because laser method is used in many other medical branches for various other types of treatment with success. But laser treatment is costly.
The principle involved in laser treatment is simple and scientific. Certain nerve centers can encourage changes in the body. Acupuncture, reflexology, use the very same principle in treating the patients. If pressure is applied on those points, you get the desired results.
Stop smoking laser treatment means the same. Those relevant points in your body are treated with low intensity laser beams. The smoking cessation in you has begun. You feel relaxed, as far as smoking cravings are concerned. The thing that is most liked about this laser treatment is that the results are announced immediately after the examination. This is your first lesson in smoking cessation. Don't you take it as the final guarantee.
Nicotine is such a powerful agent, that you can not confront and defeat it by laser therapy alone. Your psychological aspects of addiction are more intense than the physiological aspects. Laser deals with the physical aspects. One excellent virtue about the laser therapy is that it has no side effects. This is a great assurance. In this modern medical treatment, you are sometimes more worried about the side effects than the original disease itself.
So, you accept the laser treatment therapy, in your efforts to stop smoking. But, before that, you need to know some relevant information.
The treatment is very costly. Be prepared for it. Sometimes, you don't get good results. So club this treatment, along with other types of treatments.
Finally, let your strong will power to quit smoking remain strong. That is the real laser beam!
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Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms - Cope With Them and Quit For Good!

2007-01-09T00:59:00.000-08:00

Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms - Cope With Them and Quit For Good!
by sacha tarkovsky

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms are one of the major challenges for anyone who wants to give up smoking. If you can cope with them your chances of quitting go up dramatically.
Let's look at the best ways of coping with nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
The most popular method to give up smoking
Is simply by giving up and not using any nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and is reffered to as "smoking cold turkey" however this causes a sharp shock to the system and nicotine withdrawal symptoms include:
Feeling stressed, anxious, nauseous and generally irritable.
This is the most popular method but is one that most people fail at and there is really no reason to do it.
People do it because they assume nicotine is the cause of death or disease, but this is not so.
Nicotine only provides the addictive nature of smoking and is not a killer (that is some of the other 4,000 odd chemicals consumed in smoking many of them poisons) so, you can take NRT and not suffer nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
NRT Products include:
Gum, patches, puffers and inhalers.
The one you like is very much down to personal choice, however all provide a measured dose of nicotine to help you cope with nicotine withdrawal symptoms.
Other smoking alternatives include:
The drug Zyban and a new product - Nicotine water.
The latter is convenient (unlike chewing gum) and all people like and have to drink water ( unlike patches you don't need to put them on) you simply take sips of water whenever you feel the need.
All the above will help you get over nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cope with the craving.
A great way to stop smoking
Is to cut down first, reducing the amount you smoke each week by 10 or 20% and if you get a craving then you can use the above products.
By cutting down first, you are proving to yourself that you can do without cigarettes for periods of time.
This is a great confidence boost for people when they come to finally give up.
If you use NRT or other smoking alternatives, your chances of giving up for good are double compared with if you go cold turkey.
You don't put yourself through the trauma - Its safe to take nicotine outside of cigarettes.
Finally
Not only is it safe to take nicotine outside of cigarettes, it's actually good for you.
Recent medical research shows that it helps attention, memory and gives a felling of well being.
This will see a lot of new supplements hit the market to treat a number of conditions from depression to obesity.
We already have mentioned nicotine water earlier which is the first pure organic supplement and many more are expected to follow, not just to cope with nicotine withdrawal symptoms but to provide health benefits.
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New Year, Same Old Story? - 'I'll quit smoking tomorrow, now's a bad time for me'

2007-01-07T11:35:00.000-08:00

New Year, Same Old Story? - 'I'll quit smoking tomorrow, now's a bad time for me'.
by antony greenwood

It seems that every new year brings with it what i like to call the same old 'silly season'. People kid themselves that they are going to lose weight/stop smoking/join a gym/____? etc etc. Feel free to fill in the missing words according to whatever little lie you've told yourself. Now you see, i'm all for good intentions & far be it for me to knock anyone's noble efforts to improve themselves but if we're really honest we can see that 'good intentions' for the most part is all they are. Well thats just fine & dandy if all you wanna do is lose your beer gut or flatten your ass but what if it's more than that?
Twenty some years ago i lit my first experimental cigarette, & boy did i think i was cool! 'How could any girl resist me now?' i would oft muse to myself, trying evermore convoluted combinations of blowing smoke rings & watching myself in the mirror. I was the main man! Of course my natural progression from occasional 'social' smoker to full blown addict (whose breathing could be likened to that of an asthmatic pit pony) was imperceptable & within what seemed like the blink of an eye i couldn't dream of 'enjoying' a meal without it being finished with obligatory ciggie & coffee.
My full & frank admission is that from that fateful moment all those years ago until a few months ago, i was hooked. Well, i BELIEVED i was hooked, but of course i was no such thing. I had just been brainwashed by popular thinking that giving up tobacco was misery & deprivation, & of course by fear. Fear of not having that little crutch that i believed i couldn't do without, & i tried countless times to stop by willpower only to start again after a few days or weeks of that self imposed imaginary misery.
Now i'm not going to tell you i had a revelation or a message from God, & neither am i professional writer (as is probably very evident), but i did make an amazing breakthrough in my quest to free myself of that slavery to those little tubes...
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A.G has written this article due to personal experience of struggling to quit & feels the need to let people know how easy this method makes it. Find out how at http://www.runurl.com/xx.php?60f

What does it take to stop smoking cigarettes?

2007-01-07T03:48:00.000-08:00

What does it take to stop smoking cigarettes?
by Muna wa Wanjiru

Self-Hypnosis? A patch? A sympathetic friend? An admonishment from your doctor? A simple switch to pumpkin seeds?
If you are one of the millions who smoke cigarettes, it is no doubt that these questions have floated through your mind time and again. No matter what approach you take to try to stop smoking cigarettes, one thing I have learned is this: You cannot do it using will power alone. Will power may be a component of the solution, but it does not get to the heart of the matter.
In order to stop smoking, you have to cease beating yourself up about it.
Something fundamentally needs to shift in you. The craving needs to disappear. If you have tried being harsh on yourself and that tough approach has not worked, then you have to go easy on yourself. Try going to the opposite extreme and see what happens.
Will power is a feeling of over-effort, a determination to be in control. Will power goes hand in hand with being harsh on yourself. It is an honorable way to tackle things, but unfortunately, it is one that is uncomfortable and usually offers just a temporary solution.
You have to seek deeper. IN order to truly stop smoking cigarettes you have to look within and remove your negative attitudes first. In order to quit the smoking habit, you must first attain a very high degree of self-acceptance for the fact that you do smoke.
"But I already accept myself for smoking!" you may be screaming. Hmmm. Look carefully. Be honest. Be radically honest! If there is even a slight degree of uncomfortableness about not having quit smoking, then you are judging yourself in some way. Judgment locks the craving in place. It has a locking effect because the craving in you is a natural "rebel." If you judge the craving, then that makes the craving fight back even stronger. The "craver" in you rebels and makes you want the cigarettes more intensely On the other hand, if you let the craving be ok as it is, not being harsh on it, giving it room, not fighting against it, it MUST subside over time. Try it. You have nothing to lose. Smoke slowly. Let your self enjoy every inhale. Let yourself relax with ever exhale. Once you have mastered this practice of acceptance, THEN put your attention on quitting. I am certain you will notice a difference.
At the very least, you will not be as unhappy about learning to stop smoking cigarettes as you were before. Beating yourself up for smoking or for not being able to quit smoking is just as much of a killer as the smoking itself. Beating yourself up kills your mood.
So, take the Zen approach instead. Let yourself feel at peace with the smoking, and then take appropriate action to quit smoking (a patch, a pumpkin seed, or whatever). Make self-acceptance your truest goal, and your goal to stop smoking cigarettes will come much more easily.
Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and has been researching and reporting on Internet Marketing for years. For more information on Stop Smoking Cigarettes, visit his site at http://www.merpetsales.com/you-can-stop-smoking.html/
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Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and has been researching and reporting on Internet Marketing for years. For more information on Stop Smoking Cigarettes, visit his site at http://www.merpetsales.com/you-can-stop-smoking.html/

Thinking of giving up smoking?

2007-01-02T12:52:00.000-08:00

Thinking of giving up smoking?
by Danni Phillips

If you are considering giving up smoking, there has never been a better time. Not only are you giving yourself a chance of a healthier, longer life and saving money, you will also be able to enjoy being in a pub in a smoke-free environment as this summer, smoking will be banned from all pubs and private members' clubs in the UK, thanks to a vote in Parliament which was won by a huge margin.
There is no certain way to stop smoking, but about eight in every ten are successful with hypnotherapy. Willpower has a 3% success rate, and nicotine replacement therapy 6%, according to UK Government white paper statistics. Hypnotherapy is as powerful a help as you are likely to get, but success will not be certain.
This is how hypnotherapy for giving up smoking works. The therapist will endeavour to make you very physically relaxed simply by using his or her voice. They may get you to imagine a peaceful tranquil scene and then do some progressive relaxation techniques which means relaxing all the muscles in the body starting with the feet and ankles and working up from there. Two main suggestions are then given to you - that you don't smoke and you have no desire to smoke. The "subconscious mind" is able to accept these suggestions for permanent change, thereby breaking the smoking habit.
Look upon hypnotherapy as the most positive thing you can possibly do about breaking free from the smoking trap. Hypnotherapy is in many ways as much an art as it is a science, results therefore vary considerably between individuals and do not lend themselves to statistics any more that with most forms of therapy.
If you are still hesitating, then remember that about 125,000 men and women die each YEAR in the UK as a result of smoking related illness. If you have made up your mind you want to stop smoking for good then hypnotherapy could work for you.
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Danni Phillips is a clinical hypnotherapist working in Ealing, West London and Slough, Berkshire, UK. She helps clients to give up smoking and treats many other problems. For more details visit http://www.hypnotherapylondon.me.uk/

I Need To Stop Smoking

2007-01-01T01:10:00.000-08:00

I Need To Stop Smoking
by Mike Durand

What smoker has not at some point tried to flip a cigarette out of a closed car window? There you are, trying to fish it out of your lap without burning yourself or the seat, and even worse, trying to maintain control of the vehicle if you are the driver. The only consolation in this case is that maybe you are the only one in the car witnessing the crazy antics.
Combined with the times your cigarette has accidentally dropped off a balcony, singed your good clothes, or almost set your long hair ablaze, you may be starting to realize how lucky you are that these incidents have not yet resulted in much greater damage and cost to you or someone else. Is it time to quit smoking? You are not alone, each day thousands of people make the decision to quit, and succeed.
The decision to quit smoking can be successful, if you have will power, determination, and for many it helps if you have something to replace the cigarettes with. From alternate sources of nicotine, to the real or imagined reward of being able to kiss someone without tasting like smoke, there are many different methods that have helped people make this transition.
Whether you decide to stop smoking for the sake of your own health, or out of concern for your loved ones, there are many resources available to help you quit. Patches, gum, herbal cigarettes, toothpicks, straws or cinnamon sticks have all been found useful by some former smokers. Others recommend learning an instrument, meditation or hypnosis. Because smoking involves physiological, habitual and psychological factors, you can approach quitting from any of these directions, or ideally, some combination.
If you turn to snacking, remember to choose healthy snacks to avoid gaining weight and trading one unhealthy habit for another. Sunflower seeds, carrot sticks, licorice, pretzels or unbuttered popcorn are all relatively low-fat snacks to soothe your oral fixation. Other healthy replacements include drinking water, going for some exercise, or distracting yourself with some mental or physical activity. While many of the tricks used involve keeping your mouth busy, some find it equally important to occupy their hands with something, from a stress ball to playing cards, or knitting.
For additional help, do some browsing online, learn from others, join a support group, check out an anti-smoking agency, and evaluate your options. What works for some does nothing for others, but you are sure to find a method to quit smoking that works for you. Cold turkey or slow and gradual, do not give up. Better health for you and an improved quality of life for you and your loved ones is in sight.
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Stop Smoking Programs - Advice For Smokers To Quit For Good!

2006-12-31T20:27:00.000-08:00

Stop Smoking Programs - Advice For Smokers To Quit For Good!
by Linda E. Joy

There are several stop smoking programs, but for millions of smokers, for reasons that they find strange, none of these work. But I am going to tell you that none of this is really a mystery.
Smoking termination programs aren't the answer. I know as a former smoker who has not had a cigarette in at least three years. I tried a slew of stop smoking programs, as well as nicotine gum, cigarette rationing, and switching to lighter and lighter smokes, but nothing worked for me. The reason was that stop smoking programs aren't really the answer.
No, I am not going to pitch some fresh product, or revolutionary fresh program to end smoking. Come on, keep reading - I don't have anything to sell you. The simple truth is the only way to stop smoking is to just discontinue. That's it. No stop smoking programs, no incentive systems, no rules about only smoking with friends, or only smoking one day a week, or only smoking on days you sleep in or are hung over. None of this works.
Whatever stop smoking programs tell you, the thing that is hard about not smoking is the re-arranging of your social routine, not the actual nicotine cravings. It is nice to be able to grab a smoke with friends, nice to be able to take a moment to step outside and enjoy a tasty cancer stick. So, you have to be completely firm with yourself and not give an inch. The only successful stop smoking program is to tell yourself that, from now on, I will not smoke.
Don't be too ambitious all at once. Many people suddenly get an impulse to transform every phase of their life at once, enrolling in stop smoking programs in the same week that they start exercise programs and new diet plans. This is a bad idea, and will not help you quit smoking.
The most excellent way to well and truly end smoking is to let yourself go a little in other ways. Its okay to put on a small number of pounds, its okay to have some junk food, or let your exercise routine go. If you have too many rules for yourself at once, you will lose all of them. And yes, for some people, stop smoking programs can work because they provide a support group. But remember, the only real crucial stop smoking program is your resolution to, once and for all, stop smoking.
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Linda E. Joy provides readers with up-to-date commentaries, articles, and reviews for home, family as well as other related information.

Why Smoking Is Harmful

2006-12-30T19:12:00.000-08:00

Why Smoking Is Harmful
by Kevin Dark

Kid Gyms are going to be added at McDonald's locations nationwide by 2008. That's exciting news for those with one of the estimated 63% of children under the age of 18 in their family who is considered to be obese by the American Foods Standards Industry! There are changes being demanded in other areas too!
The success of tobacco companies to market their products to children has caused concerned for many. From the candy cigarettes that many of us bought at the corner dime store when we were kids to the cool Joe that Camel uses, the marketing industry is demanding changes be made. Why? Because the fact that cigarette smoking (and consuming tobacco products in other forms as well) is harmful to your health.
It is well documented that heart disease, lung cancers and other fatal related conditions can be directly connected to tobacco smoking. Millions die each year from tobacco smoking related illnesses and still many sound as if they'll die any day! The enamel of the teeth are broken down by the over 400 chemicals contained in tobacco. The cells in the body are literally blocked from "breathing" in what they need when tobacco smoke is present in the body. The tobacco smoke is usually replacing food as a source of energy which depletes the body's storages and causes weakness and lack of energy. The lining of the lungs is slowly "smoked" away and there is no longer any protection provided against what the smoke does to the lungs. There are so many reasons that smoking is harmful, and not only to the smoker, but to others who happen to be around the smoker while he/she is smoking!
Second hand smoke has been blamed for the deaths of people who have never had a cigarette in their lives! The same effects listed above that affect the smoker, also affect the non-smokers, only in a more serious way. When a cigarette is smoked, the 400 chemicals contained in the tobacco are in essence "filtered" through the body. However, when someone who is not smoking a cigarette is breathing in second hand cigarette smoke, the smoke going into their lungs is not being filtered, it's just being breathed in. The non-smoker doesn't "breathe" back out the smoke filled air - but the smoker does. This causes the second hand smoker to be a victim who runs the same risks as the smoker of developing lung cancers, heart diseases and other fatal diseases. Kinda gives new light to letting your kids hang around the bowling alley-huh?
There are so many efforts at paying attention to the spoiled, irresponsible lifestyles Americans have become accustomed to, why not stop smoking. It's said that the effects of smoking begin to stop as soon as the smoker stops smoking. Energy is returned, food tastes better (which is why most gain weight when they quit smoking) and the lungs begin to clear, giving back one's ability to breathe deeply! Like the commercial says, would you like a bikini or bronchitis?
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Kevin Dark is the online shop owner, where discount cigarettes online are available 24/7.

Quit Smoking Shot - Have You Heard Of Shots To Stop Smoking?

2006-12-28T20:19:00.000-08:00

Quit Smoking Shot - Have You Heard Of Shots To Stop Smoking?
by Mike Singh

The two medicines involved in a new stop smoking shot - the SMARTTM Shot - has been around for about ten years, Scopolamine and Atarax, and are now FDA approved for stop smoking aids.
SMART stands for Scopolamine Medicated Anticholinergic Receptor Treatment, with Scopolamine as a medicine that contains the ingredient of the seasickness patch, while Atarax is an antihistamine like Benadryl.
Together, they block the brain nicotine receptors and ease the physical withdrawal pains of the nicotine by placing one shot in the hip or buttocks, instead of the older shots which consisted of three shots - two behind the ear and one in the buttock - of other more traditional shot methods.
For the next two weeks, medication and the scopolamine patch are used jointly with a success rate of 70 to 80% while patches have a success rate of 20%, which is considered a normal rate of success. The thing to remember is that it can cause side effects, so doctors advise medical examination before allowing the patients to go ahead with the treatment especially if there are medical concerns or medical drugs being taken.
People who recommend the treatment say that the shots prevent withdrawal symptoms by blocking the nicotine receptors. Others say that this happens only when very high doses of atropine are injected. According to one study, about 40% of the people who took this treatment stopped smoking, though some clinics claim a success rate of 80%.
There are some who are quite critical of anti smoking shots. They believe that more work needs to be done before establishing the efficacy of these drugs. The side effects commonly associated with anti-smoking shots are blurred vision, difficulty in urinating, dizziness, dry mouth, confusion, etc. Hallucinations, heart attack, coma, and stroke may be caused by excessive doses of anticholinergic drugs.
This new shot has been developed by Dr. Voelker, who has spent the last ten years studying and fighting smoking, COPD, emphysema, and lung cancer. He has also pioneered early lung cancer detection and treatment, then taught these methods around the country to other doctors.
A director of the Doctor's hospital pulmonary and critical care department at the Sarasota Memorial Hospital, he is board certified in internal medicine, critical care, and pulmonary medicine - while also being listed in medicine's "Who's Who". The shot or injection treatment is certainly not advisable for women who are pregnant, or for individuals who have heart rhythm problems, prostate problems or are taking mood-altering drugs.
It is best to opt for the treatment as a last resort if you have any of these conditions, while needing to find out the rate of success, the reputation and the support offered by clinics that offer stop smoking shots in comparison.
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To Quit Smoking You Must be Determined to Succeed

2006-12-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

To Quit Smoking You Must be Determined to Succeed
By: Carol Stack

One of the difficulties in trying to quit smoking is that smokers become physically dependant on nicotine. Nicotine causes a lot of different reactions throughout the smokers body (many of them very bad). What it does once it arrives in the brain is responsible for both the good feelings you get from smoking as well as the irritability you feel if you try to quit.That's why most people experience the following symptoms when they try to quit smoking, all arising from the lack of nicotine in their blood stream: Irritability, anxiety, depression, and a craving for nicotine.So if you really want to quit smoking, know in your heart that this time it is for good. Set your date, be committed, and write down your affirmations and scare tactics. This is the first step, and perhaps the most important.Without a set resolve to quit, you will probably fail. If you are completely committed, your chance for success increases dramatically.When you are trying to quit smoking, any method, whether nicotine patches, gum, hypnosis, etc., are only as productive as your willpower allows them to be. Thus, for you the decision to quit smoking must be accompanied by a will that is just as strong, if not stronger, than your current will to quit smoking.The good news is that there are many aids to help you quit smoking. You just need to find out which one will work best for you.If you have a limited budget, there are still many free methods that can help you to quit smoking, including a variety of methods that you can use to help cut down on your cigarette cravings.These include quit smoking groups for men and women wanting to quit. Being in a group of people who are all trying to stop smoking can be a great incentive to stay away from cigarettes.There are also a number of bonafide and medically proven prescription and herbal or natural compounds that can and do often help people to achieve their goal to be smoke free. Calamus and camomile are two natural cures. Ask a health professional or nutritionist for the best dosage and how to use these.Acupuncture is best for those individuals that are heavily addicted to the nicotine, but have clearly made the commitment to quit. Hypnosis is another method, although it is recommended that you use a nicotine patch or gum along with it.No matter what method or aid you use to help you quit smoking, there is nothing that will help more than your determination to quit. Without that determination people fail. With it, you are far more likely to succeed than the average smoker who only wants to "try" to quit.
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Carol Stack has written many articles. She lives in the United States with her husband, three children, and various dogs and cats. Carol has a website dedicated to her grandmother who smoked for almost 50 years before quitting. If you or someone you know wants to quit smoking, visit www.onlinestopsmokingtips.com for tips and encouragement to stop smoking.
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Quit Smoking Injection - All You Need To Know About The Injection to Stop Smoking

2006-12-25T19:38:00.000-08:00

Quit Smoking Injection - All You Need To Know About The Injection to Stop Smoking!
by Mike Singh

Today there are 5 million tobacco-related deaths per year, with 1.3 billion people who smoke, and tobacco is the leading cause of death that can be preventable according to the World Health Organization. A thing that used to considered "cool", such as the Marlboro billboards across the country, is now on the tip list of killers.
To combat this, the stop smoking injection, or the stop smoking vaccine, is one of the most successful and aggressive stop smoking aids with a 70-80% success rate of all the available smoking aids. A medical therapy, this type of aid takes place in a medical clinic under experienced physicians with supervision. Counseling and group therapy also work well to combine with the injection aid for smokers who are struggling to successfully quit.
Three injections of Scopolamine or Atropine behind the ears, on the hip, or on the arms, will block the nicotine receptors in the brain. As a part of the treatment, the patient is required to wear a scopolamine patch behind his ear and take atropine tablets for two weeks after getting the shot. The brain will not recognize that it needs nicotine so the nicotine addiction will eventually vanish - as an antismoking aid, these injection chemicals act on the nicotine "sensitive" areas of the brain and reduces the craving for a smoke. A single session may last from an hour to an hour and a half and costs approximately 350-500 dollars, but it usually is covered by health insurance policies.
The drugs involved with the stop smoking injections are medically classified as anti-cholinergics and are mainly used in helping to control neural activity in the brain. They have been extensively used previously in the medical field in the form of anesthetics during surgery or as a temporary means of curing Parkinson's disease. The most common side effects associated with these anti-smoking injections are dizziness, dry mouth, headaches, and problems in urinating which happens soon after the injection is given, if it happens at all.
Long-term effects include hallucination, strokes, and heart attacks. However, these are rare, and are usually observed only in those smokers who are subjected to high dosages. In extreme cases, the person can also end up in coma. A smoker needs to undergo a complete medical check up before treatment. However, this treatment should be avoided for pregnant women or those who suffer from cardiac disorders. People who are using other narcotics also should avoid the anti-smoking injections also. If nothing else is working for you, you should try the injections for quitting smoking before going back to smoking, as your health is very important.
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Stop Smoking Support - You Will Need All The Help You Can Get!

2006-12-25T09:15:00.000-08:00

Stop Smoking Support - You Will Need All The Help You Can Get!
by Mike Singh

Today, a smoker wanting to give up smoking is not alone as there are several stop smoking support services that will help the smoker. These include self-help groups and stop smoking clinics both online, through the local medical community, or smoking associations. Besides this, there are several professional counselors who are willing to extend a helping hand. All that the smoker needs to do is to reach out to these support services with the desire to quit smoking.
The biggest advantage that these support services offer is counseling to the smoker when they feel they cannot do it alone, or really want to take another cigarette after they have committed to quit smoking, or just simply to take that first step to quit. They advise the smoker of the kinds of treatment available; and even help the smoker select the treatment that will suit him most based on their own needs and lifestyles. They also offer emotional support and guidance when the smoker is struggling to cope with withdrawal symptoms.
The smoker is provided proper guidance in drawing up a quit smoking plan through therapy or counseling sessions, proving a beginning date, and help to follow through until the goal is achieved. This professional guidance includes details of the kind of withdrawal symptoms the smoker will face, and how the smoker should overcome them in the best way possible. The smoker will be advised about the nicotine replacement therapy, and the different products that are available under this therapy. These include nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine tablets, and nicotine inhalers. All these products release a small amount of nicotine in the smoker's bloodstream reducing the smoker's craving for a cigarette.
The smoker is also told of the advantages of drugs like Zyban that create feelings similar to that of smoking. The smoker is advised of the length of the course, the side effects of Zyban and when to start or stop the cure. Zyban prods the pituitary gland to release endorphins in the bloodstream, which, in turn, cause a positive upswing in the smoker's mood. Generally, a Zyban course lasts 8 to 12 weeks and should be taken under medical supervision. But if drugs are not desired by the smoker, then in some cases, the counselors advise smokers to go for acupressure treatment. Such treatment releases positive energy in the body making a smoker feel cheerful and happy even though he may be going through the withdrawal phase.
There are many self-help groups that provide useful literature, and also spend time with the smoker during the withdrawal stages, such as the American Heart and Lung Association. Support is readily available to the smoker, through many avenues along with the therapy classes and counseling, in addition to the support is given by family and friends who help the smoker engage in new activities to keep his mind off cigarettes.
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Stop Smoking Tips - Is There One That Works?

2006-12-25T07:57:00.000-08:00

Stop Smoking Tips - Is There One That Works?
by Mike Singh

There are many stop smoking techniques that make the withdrawals of nicotine less painful and stressful, with each one varying upon the individuals and how bad the addiction is. The techniques will not break the smoking habit - only you can - but it will make it easier.
Quitting smoking will be more successful if you make the decision to quit smoking yourself with sheer will and determination. The American Heart and Lung Association has a 24-hour hotline for all kinds of help and support for quitting smoking, along with free quit smoking sessions.
To quit smoking requires changing your behavior, according to the Stages of Change Model. In the pre-contemplation stage, the smoker is not thinking seriously about quitting but just "pondering" it sporadically while in the contemplation stage, the smoker is considering quitting more seriously, but is not ready to make the attempt at that time.
In the preparation stage, the smoker is serious about quitting, thinks about developing a plan, and possibly even has a date in mind. The action stage is exactly what it says; you are going into action to quit smoking for a period of 6 months when the smoker is quitting is known as the action stage. The maintenance stage is the period of 6 months to 5 years after quitting. The ex-smoker is aware of the danger of starting to smoke again and takes steps to avoid it. If you want to quit smoking, you need to have a plan and decide on a date when you want to quit. You can pick a date at random, or a birthday or anniversary.
A lot of heavy smokers will quit abruptly by going cold turkey while others some do it in stages by progressively reducing the number of cigarettes they smoke everyday. You can prepare for the big day by telling everyone about your intention and making a plan about nicotine replacement therapy, support groups, classes, etc. and have an actual date in mind to quit.
On the day when you quit smoking, keep yourself active and busy and drink lots of water and juices. Dispose off all your cigarettes, ashtrays, lighters, etc., and avoid alcohol and situations where you may be tempted to smoke, such as bars or restaurants where you have always smoked.
This will be a difficult phase so it would be a good idea to begin some form of therapy or counseling sessions, beginning some sort of nicotine replacement therapy, if needed. There are many forms of NRT, such as gum, patches, shots, natural, diet, and many new developing methods.
Deep breathing and oral substitutes like carrot sticks, raw vegetables, sunflower seeds, sugarless gum, or hard candy can be useful. If you feel an uncontrollable urge to smoke, abstain for at least 10 minutes and don't give in. This may allow you to regain control of yourself. This will happen for weeks to maybe months and needing to develop a plan of attack immediately is worth it.
Find out what works in the body the best, as you will use it to fight strong urges to smoke, months, or even years after you quit. Even if you do revert to smoking, don't lose heart. Jump back on the bandwagon, learning from your experiences and prepare to make a stronger attempt the next time.
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