“Conquer Your Nasty Happy And Become Aware Of Your Smoking Patterns”

I can not stress strong enough, even with the best possible approach to the problem available, it is extremely difficult to stop smoking.You are trying to stamp out a habit which is very deeply engrained.Strong measures will be needed to deal with such problems as you will find those measures embodied in the program.

It is in your own best interest to explore the program as dangers of smoking are indisputable and require no further discussion.The program works and it has already helped hundreds of people world wide.According to many social scientists, these are times of increasing stress for the average urban citizen, as stress is created by the rapid pace of social change.As old traditions and institutions crumble and new ones takes their place, life on all levels becomes much more complex than it was twenty years ago.

Therefore each day we move through situations of high stress potential, whether at home or at work, whether driving in a massive traffic jam or trying to balance an inflation hit household budget, we are confronted with problems apparently beyond our control.Many people find it difficult to cope with stress as all old coping merchanism such as religion, family life, individualistic methods and principles have themselves been partially undermined by the accelerating rate of social change.As stress breeds hypertension, high blood pressure, coronary diseases, it leads people to develop their own ways of dealing with stress levels for a momentary reduction in tension, usually such ineffective and unhealthy ways leading into smoking habits.

The whole aim of this program is to change your attitude and your behavior towards smoking.You may think that changing behavior is a very difficult thing to do.Indeed it is, when you go about it in the wrong way.But it is also quit simple if you carefully follow the correct procedure.

In any action taken or about to be persued, your motivation to succeed is of primary importance.Eventually you can learn to stop smoking and you can also learn to control your behavior if only prepared to work at it.

Did you know that 75% of young people who smoke daily have admitted that they continue to use tabacco as they finding it hard in quiting? And tabacco use is the single most avoidable cause of disease, disability and death in the whole world.Therefore take charge of your life and beat those nasty quitting smoking side effects today.

• Within three hours from now you could increase your life expectancy by at least 15 years
• No more wasting money on cigarettes, patches or pills
• No more cravings, restless nights and weight gain like other products
• Succeed in quitting, live a longer and a healthier lifestyle
• Finally break free from smoking addiction for good

Think about the consequenses of smoking tabbacco for a minute.Of all the diseases associated with smoking, lung cancer is perhaps the most notorious.Around 90% of lung cancer diseases are caused by smoking habit and it’s no more just men or old people who are affected.Currently the number of women dying from the disease is increasing  at such a rate  that lung cancer is now killing nearly as many women as breast cancer. It takes a smoker about five minutes to smoke a cigarette and each cigarette smoked can be reckoned to shorten his or her life by five minutes.It has been estimated that many of the 100,00 people killed every year by smoking could have lived at least twenty or even thirty years longer.Take 1000 young men who smoke 20 cigarettes or more a day and research tells us that six of them will be killed on the roads and 250 will be killed, prematurely by tabacco.

Ask your self this question…….What would it take for you to quit? Know this…….It takes only positives minds to quit smoking habits for improving their lives.Unless you are really positive about quitting smoking,eventually you will.

It is therefore imperative to take charge of your life and discover simple ways and steps to finally quit smoking for good! “HAPPY QUITTING”

The Effects Of Peer Pressure On Smoking

Peer pressure is one of the most common reasons people give  for starting to smoke. Your peers are the group of people around the same age as you, often with the same interests as you, and who may go to your school, college or at your work place.

You may feel that you need to fit in with them by doing and liking the same things as everyone else. Mostly often,  this is to get into the in-crowd or out of fear of being bullied.

Often most people attend social parties, family re-unions, night clubs, get togethers and other social function events, ect.. just to have fun, but only to discover unexpected challenges through interacting with others.A person might be offered a cigarette only as a sign of  friendship, due to fact that in most social circles all over the world smoking is still regarded as a status symbol and one may find it tempting  to accept the offer.In most cases a person is not physically forced to smoke but he or she may feel under pressure from others and eventually see the need to smoke as a sign of  showing  respect or fitting in with the rest.

Why Do People Give in to Peer Pressure?

Some people give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other collegues may make fun of them if they don’t go along with the group. Others may go along because they are curious to try something new that others are doing. The idea that “everyone’s doing it” may influence some people to leave their better judgment, or their common sense, behind.

How to Walk Away From Peer Pressure

It is tough to be the only one who says “no” to peer pressure, but you can do it. Paying attention to your own feelings and beliefs about what is right and wrong can help you know the right thing to do. Inner strength and self-confidence can help you stand firm, walk away, and resist doing something when you know better.Even media plays a big role as advertisers want you to feel that the best people (the young, rich, handsome, beautiful and healthy) smoke his brand. So if you want to be young, rich, handsome, beautiful and healthy you’d better smoke the advertised brand, too.

It is therefore in your best interest to stay away from bad influences and going for councelling to get help,  in order to feel better and prepare you for the next time you face peer pressure.”Happy Quitting”

Tips to Managing Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

As soon as you start to quit smoking, you with have some withdrawal symptoms. Such symptoms generally peak in intensity 3 -5 days after you quit, and usually disappear after 2 weeks, although some may persist for several months.Therefore, withdrawal symptoms should be treated accordingly, just as you would with physical symptoms due to an illness or disease.People who quit smoking often experience severe withdrawal symptoms (both physical and mental), making it hard for them to stick with their goal of quitting completely.

It’s never too late to quit smoking and there are many benefits to be gained no matter what age you are when you give up. Here are some quick tips to help you kick the habit:

1. Believe in yourself: Believe that you can quit. Think about some of the most difficult things you have done in your life and realize that you have the guts and determination to quit smoking. It’s up to you.

2. Write down why you want to quit: Live longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell better, find a mate more easily, etc. You know what’s bad about smoking and you know what you’ll get by quitting. Put it on paper and read it daily.

3. Plan ahead: Plan ahead for situations in which you are likely to be tempted to smoke, such as parties, drinking or going out for coffee. Try to avoid these situations in the early stages of your quitting program, or try sitting in the non-smoking section at restaurants, drinking your coffee standing up or with the other hand, or keeping something in your hand when you’re talking on the phone.

4. Cut back on cigarettes gradually: Ways to cut back gradually include: plan how many cigarettes you will smoke each day until your quit date, making the number you smoke smaller each day; buy only one pack at a time; change brands so you don’t enjoy smoking as much; give your cigarettes to someone else, so that you have to ask for them each time you want to smoke.

5. Know the triggers: Learn what triggers your desire for a cigarette, such as stress, the end of a meal, arrival at work, entering a bar, etc. Avoid these triggers or if that’s impossible, plan alternative ways to deal with the triggers.

6. Find Another Smoker: Find another smoker who is trying to quit, and help each other with positive words and by lending an ear when quitting becomes difficult. Visit Forums and Chat Room on the internet to find a “quit buddy”.

7. Ask your family and friends to support your decision to quit: Your commitment to quit smoking permanently will be much easier to sustain if you have strong, positive support around you. Friends and family can be helpful, but they may not understand the depth of what quitting smoking means to you, especially if they’ve never smoked. You may be left feeling as though you’re not getting the acknowledgment you’d like. And watch out for the smokers in your life! Your quit can be threatening to them, because we all know that most smokers wish they could quit, even if they don’t say it. If you have people in your life who are giving you negative messages about your quit, understand that this may be coming from their own feelings of jealousy and guilt.

8. Do Not Skip Meals: Each puff of nicotine was your spoon releasing stored fats and sugars into your bloodstream. It allowed you to skip meals without experiencing wild blood-sugar swing symptoms such as an inability to concentrate or hunger related anxieties. Don’t add needless symptoms to withdrawal but instead learn to spread your normal daily calorie intake out more evenly over the entire day. Don’t eat more food but less food more often.

9. Drink lots of water: Water is good for you anyway, and most people don’t get enough. It will help flush the nicotine and other chemicals out of your body, plus it can help reduce cravings by fulfilling the “oral desires” that you may have.

10. Begin an exercise program: Exercise is simply incompatible with smoking. Exercise relieves stress and helps your body recover from years of damage from cigarettes. If necessary, start slow, with a short walk once or twice per day. Build up to 30 to 40 minutes of rigorous activity, 3 or 4 times per week.

11. Reward Yourself: Set up a plan for your rewards. Definitely reward yourself after the first day, and the second, and the third. Make them good rewards that you’ll look forward to: CDs, books, DVDs, T-shirts, shoes, a massage, a bike, a dinner out at your favorite restaurant, a hotel stay, whatever you can afford.

12.Use Patience and Time as Quit Buddies:People who quit smoking want to have all of the discomforts associated with recovery from nicotine addiction to be over with quickly. It’s understandable, but not realistic. Recovery from this habit that held us hostage for so long takes time, and the more you can relax and use time to your advantage, the better you’ll do. Be patient with yourself and understand that you’re going through a healing process that is very personal. How long it takes you to put smoking behind you shouldn’t be compared with anyone else. Trust in the process and give yourself the time you need to heal.

Therefore, get up every day determined not to smoke and be grateful and proud of every smoke free day you complete. Time will take you further and further away from the familiarity of smoking, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride! “Happy Quitting”

Protect Your Love One’s From Passive Smoking

What is passive smoking? Even if you never smoke a cigarette yourself, you can still be harmed by other poeple’s smoking experiences.Experts call it passive, involuntary or second hand smoking.There are two types of smoke produced by a burning cigarette.The first one is the mainstream smoke which is filtered through the cigarette and inhaled by the smoker.The second one is the sidestream smoke which goes directly into the air that others breathe.This sidestream is not filtered, so it contains high concentrations of many substances which makes cigarette smoking harmful.The result is that some non-smokers experience nose, throat and eye irritations due to passive smoking.

What even more alarming is recent research which showed that non-smokers who are living with smokers or have worked for more than twenty years with smokers, were found to have sustained lung damage similar to that of  regular smokers.“SMOKERS” it is pretty evident that your smoking habits can not only CAUSE illness to your health, but also those you care about.You have just learned that your bad habit can also cause a serious threat to your immediate families, extended families,siblings, friends and even your working collegues.”So what’s the way forward” Either quit smoking or risk your life and those you love dearly.With the facts like these, sadly still, the number of smokers is growing dramaticaly through out the globe and those who live in the households were families smoke, are more likely to suffer from chest infections or pneumonia than those families who do not smoke.Even if only one parent smokes, a child will still be more susceptible to chest infectons.

SO WHAT’S THE SOLUTION?

There is no doubt that  at least 70%  of non-smokers around the globe and 50% of smokers want to see restrictions in public.As a result pressue for non-smoking areas in the public places and on public transport has been increasing.Today many cinema theatres, resturants, trains, buses, earoplanes and even work places have designated areas in which smoking is forbidden. The growing antipathy towards baning smoking in public places is no longer seen as being enough.Many people believe that the habit should be stamped out altogether.Many local authorities also regard smoking as a major health hazard and most of them have launched anti-smoking campaigns in their areas to try to establish bans on tabacco in offices, factories or shops.

“GIVING UP” Since the hazard of smoking first began to be publicised during the 1960′s, millions of people around the world have given up the habit.As for those still smoking, it has been estimated that six out of  ten of them would like to break the habit in order to save both their health and money.However there is a common belief amongst smokers that giving up is very difficult.In fact, surveys have shown that over 65% of those who have stopped smoking found it’s all suprisingly easy.Whether it proves easy or hard may depend on how many cigarettes a person smokes, how long they have been smoking and how much they are dependent on cigarettes.What everyone does agree on is that there is no miracle cure for the smoking habit.

My final advice to you is to Quit Smoking completely or rather start working on your goals to quit.Also work towards  a smoke free planet, as non Smoking Organizations all over the world encourages all smokers to give up the habit through out the year in the hope that one day might become two days, a week, a month and even a lifetime.”Happy Quitting”

Smoking And It’s Harmful Substances

Do you know anyone who is a drug addict? Yep! The chances are you do, therefore think very carefully before answering NO to this question because without realising it, you probably do.He or she could be your parent, an aunt or uncle, the older brother or sister and even your personal friend.
Every day millions of these addicts will pop into shops all over the world to buy their daily fix but the funny thing is that they won’t be breaking any laws.Unlike herion or cannabis, their favourite drug is quite legal, very easy to obtain and relatively affordable than most drugs.It is called tabacco and these addicts are called smokers! Does the names sound familiar to you?Good!

Well let us proceed! Tabacco contains at least 1,000 different substances many of which are known to be harmful.When these substances are inhaled, they affect the body in several different ways.Tar for instance, collects in the lungs depositing hundreds of chemicals on their sensitive lining.Many of these substances are known to be number one cause of cancer in the human entire race.Carbon monoxide is also found in tabacco smoke, which is the same deadly gas that is emitted in car exhaust fumes and once in the blood stream, it combines with haemoglobin( the substance which carries oxygen in the blood) two hundred times more readily than oxygen does, thus reducing the blood’s ability to carry oxygen.This can be very harmful and particular dangerous for people with heart conditions.

Amongst the other harmful chemicals in tabacco smoking is ammonia ( sometimes used in the manufacture of explosives) which is corrosive, poisonous and a severe irritant. However the actual drug in tabacco is called nicotine, named after a sixteenth century French ambassador to Portugal, Jean Nicot.Most experts believe nicotine to be more addictive than even heroin.It is also one of kill an adult if injected into the blood stream.As a drug it has both a stimulating  and tranquillizing effect, which means that smokers can use it either to calm down or to keep working under pressure.When the smoke from a cigarette is inhaled, nicotine is quickly absorbed into the blood stream where it can harm the heart, the blood vessels and the nervous system.

“Well, you now know the facts” but even though despite the damage tabacco can do to your your body, millions of people around the world still adamantly refuse to stop smoking.The result is that every year 100,000 people ( that is one person every five minutes) die unnecessarily from heavy smoking.”So what it’s going to be”, Either quit or become one of the victims of a drug that is every bit as dangerous and addictive as heroin but as easy to buy as a box of chocolates.”Happy Quitting”

Practicing Progressive Relaxation

And Now – Let’s Get to Work

Progressive relaxation is a physical skill and like all such skills must be learned through practice.With sufficient practice, the ability to relax will become second nature to you.To build up this skill, you will need daily practice.

Set aside a half – hour period everyday in which you will be able to practice progressive relaxation.Choose time for yourself, taking one factor into consideration, that you must be able to guarantee yourself uninterrupted privacy.Without privacy and freedom from interruption, you will not be able to practice properly.

Always do your practice in a quite, dimly lit room and make sure beforehand that there will be no interruptions.Take the phone off the hook and switch off  your mobile phone, if necessary instruct your family that you are not to be disturbed.

The instructions are as follows:

1. Take two deep breaths.

2. Tense and relax the muscles of your tounge and jaw.

3. Take two more deep breaths.

4. Tense and relax your stomach muscles.

5. Take two more deep breaths.

6. Tense and relax the muscles of your thighs and hips.

7. Take two final deep breaths.

You should be able to perform these techniques whether sitting down or standing up and you should be able to do it without anyone noticing that you are doing anything.When you mastered this new skill, you will have taken a further step towards your ultimate goal. “Happy Quitting”

Quitting Early Prevents Major Smoking Side Effects

Prevention is better than cure, so we all know. The sooner you quit smoking the better. You live a longer and a healthier lifestyle. So whats next for you from here? Does smoking scare you? Well it certainly should! Know this… It will eventually kill you? If that doesn’t scare you, then you are probably a smoker and your brain is playing tricks on you by suppressing common sense. It can easily be estimated that by now over 90% of mature smokers know all the risks involved in smoking and would gladly quit or wished they would have never started to smoke in the first place. They may not admit it to you or even themselves but they know. Do you really need to be told why you should quit? I doubt it. Most people already know all the scary stuff that smoking can cause. Cancer, Impotence & Death are all the reasons anyone could ever need. So why haven’t all smokers quit yet? I AM READY TO QUIT SMOKING NOW ! Don’t be shy… Say it, yell it, scream it at the top of your lungs! It’s very liberating if you do it right. Congratulations! You have taken the first big step towards quitting smoking for good. But no so fast…….Inorder to truly become successful in kicking the habit, you need to identify your core reasons for quitting as this will give you strenght and motivation to keep going.

The following examples below might be the good enough reasons for you to quit! Lets look at them.

1. Health

•  Have you been ordered by the doctor to stop smoking?
• Do you have some condition that you suspect is aggravated by smoking?
• Are you worried that you might contract some ailment associated with smokin?

2. Cosmetic

• Are you bothered by nicotine stains on your fingures and teeth?
• Are you bothered by the smell of stale of cigarettes smoke on your clothers and in your hair?
• Are you bothered at having “cigarette smoker’s breath?

3. Pressure

• Is someone preassuring you to stop( spouse, parents, children or friends)?
• Do you want to please someone by stoping?
• Are there smoking restrictions where you work?

4. Willpower

• Have you grown tired of  being a “slave to a habit?
• Are you trying to reassert control over your own life?

5. Children

• Are you worried that your children may follow in your foot steps?
• Do you want to set your children a positive example?

6. Money

• Do you find that the expense of smoking is becoming greater?
• Can you think of better things to do with your money?

Thinking back on all of this, looking back to your answers and carefully weighing up your reasons for wanting to quit smoking.If you have answered “yes” to all or to most of the above questions, then you are definately motivated enough to succeed in quitting smoking permanently. “Happy Quitting”

Smoking And Young People

So have you ever tried smoking.There is a good chance that you have and tell me, what’s the fascination about smoking? As it is the sad fact that smoking habits can start at a very tender age.Some chidren in Britain are only 5 years old when they smoke their first cigarette and there have been reports of people as young as 9 smoking ten cigarettes a day.At least one cigarette a week is smoked by nearly 10% of all 13 year olds’ rising at over 40% at the age of 16 years.The latest figures show that one third of all young people in Britain are smoking regularly by the time they are 19 years.

There is evidence of a growing number of children globaly using cigarettes, as research has shown that most youngsters who smoke admit that they don’t really like it but only smoke because it makes them feel grown up.

Quitting And Dealing With Smoking Side Effects

Now, of course when you quit smoking initially you are going to experience a few side effects. Anxiety, mood swings, and insomnia are not at all uncommon side effects from quitting smoking. These side effects are natural reactions from your body ridding itself of toxic chemicals. Drinking two times as much water as you normally would helps this process along naturally.

Some people actually get psychological withdrawal symptoms which are akin to grief. Mostly, the psychological effects are any feeling of emptiness in your life which can only be filled by smoking a cigarette.
There are many ways to deal with the psychological aspects of quitting smoking. One of the most important is to try and keep yourself as occupied as possible. Try not to sit down too much and dwell on what you are missing, get up and do something, anything to take your mind off the fact that you cannot have cigarettes. Go to the gym , join a keep fit class or a relaxation class. This will not only keep your mind occupied but it will give you the tools to be able to relax.

Have plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit. Salads are very good forms of food, that help boost the body when had, and can be consumed generously. It can be interesting to put together different types of salads using a combination of different types of fruits and vegetables, sprouts, shredded chicken, mushrooms, fish and even cottage cheese. Choose diffreent types of dressings like ceasar salad dressings, chinese dressings and vineger dressing to give different twists to your salads.
Have plenty of fluids, making sure you leave out caffeine entirely. Coconut water, fresh juices without any sugar, and soups are great ways to keep the body hydrated and leave better tastes in the mouth. But remember to always choose your foods wisely. It is not only important from a perspective of your own health, but they also help in orienting your life towards healthier living.”Happy Quitting”