Quit Smoking Now

That the benefits of stopping smoking are innumerable is unquestionable. For example your clothes, hair, skin, home and car will no longer smell like a bottom of an old ashtray. Of course your risks of being adversely affected by various diseases is greatly decreased as well as a great improvement in your general health.

Quickly look over the article below and see if that describes you. Afterwards we will look at some other benefits to quitting cigarettes.

Do You Really Want To Quit Smoking?

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?

Tommy Thompson

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So what benefits of stopping smoking can we mention here. Well an immediate benefit is you won’t be causing any more damage to your lungs and respiratory system and you will already be lowering your risk of heart ailments and various cancers. Believe it or not within hours of quitting the level of oxygen in your bloodstream will have already increased.

Looking at the long-term the risks of heart diseases and strokes will have been lowered to that of a person who has never had a cigarette within five to 10 years of you quitting.

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You will find many benefits when you stop smoking. Not only will your health improve, some improvements in the first 24 hours, but of course you will also save a lot of money. You will have a better sense of general well-being, your skin tone will improve, and your hair and clothes won’t smell like the bottom of a garbage can anymore.

And the longer you stay off of smoking cigarettes, your long term health outlook gets better and better. You will lower your chances of heart disease, and various cancers more and more. See below for a good overview in preparing to stop smoking.

Stop Smoking

First off, I would like to congratulate you. Since you are reading this you have taken your first vital step in quitting smoking. And taking that decision is very important and took a lot of courage. But wanting to stop the habit is just the start. There are really only four steps you will need to take to kick the habit each with sub-steps of their own. Only 4 steps you may say, that sounds easy. Well it isn’t but with some hard work and dedication you will be successful.

So what are these steps? Well you have to decide to quit. Deciding isn’t the same as wanting, and trust me; this is the most important point in the whole project. Next you have to get yourself ready to kick the tobacco. After that comes the actual process of quitting. Lastly are the things you will need to do once you have quit.

So how do you make the decision? First thing you should do is sit down and think of think of the reasons you want to quit smoking and write them down. Then read them aloud to yourself a few times. And be sure to keep this list so you can refer to it later. This will help you visualize your goal. Tell your family, friends, and co-workers about your decision. Having their support will be a great help, plus will it will re-enforce your decision.

Next you need to get yourself prepared to quit. Put the list of the reasons you want to quit someplace where you will see it all the time, like the refrigerator door. You could also take a copy of it to work with you. Take up a hobby, this will be a great way to take your mind off the weed when you actually quit. And be sure you instil in your own mind that this is going to be a tough task that needs to be taken seriously. And now that you have taken the decision and are ready don’t procrastinate. Start quitting NOW.

Now for the actual quitting process. The hardest part is actually the simplest, just STOP SMOKING. That’s right quit right now. Don’t try and cut down, or switch to low tar and nicotine smokes, it does not work period. Now I know how that sounds and you are correct, it isn’t that simple, but it really is. The actual action of quitting is not hard it is the anxiety and withdrawal symptoms which are difficult. But there are ways to alleviate these. Eat healthy snack foods such as raw vegetables or fruit when you feel the urge to smoke. Or take a walk, or listen to some music. Reading also another great way to take your mind off the craving. Also re-read the list you wrote during the decision stage.

If you feel you need help there are medical aids such as the patch as well as hypnotism, plus some excellent books you can read to give you more ammunition against the smoking habit. Don’t feel bad if you need help, everybody needs help sometimes.

Now that you have quit you will need to keep it up. Cigarettes are a strong habit and you will need to keep that habit at bay. I mentioned taking up a hobby in the decision phase. That will really help you keep off of the weed. Take up exercising. I find that first thing in the morning is the perfect time for a quick work-out. I always really wanted that first smoke in the morning and doing a bit of exercise instead put the smokes right out of my mind. And realize how much better you feel now, how much better food tastes, how wonderful all the scents you couldn’t smell before are.

In closing I would like to congratulate you on wanting to quit smoking and wish you the best of health and happiness.

Stan Johnson
Stan Johnson got fed up with smoking a few years ago. He now
wants to help others do the same.

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There are many different stop smoking aides which people use when they try to kick the habit. Many of these replace the nicotine delivered by the smokes, in an ever decreasing dosage, until you are totally weaned off of nicotine.

Others, such as hypnosis, work to try and lower your anxiety and nervousness caused by your nicotine withdrawls to facilitate your quest. please be aware that there are no magic bullets, you must totally commited to quitting cigarettes.

Stop Smoking Aides

There are numerous ways that people use to stop smoking. People do actually succeed in stopping smoking but the same method of stopping does not work for everyone and sometimes the same method may finally work only after a second or third attempt at it is tried.

The most popular methods used to quit smoking and not in any particular order are: -

1) Will power
2) Cutting down
3) Hypnosis
4) Patches, Gum, Lozenges
5) False Cigarette
6) Zyban
7) Acupuncture
Shock event

There is no doubt that each of these methods has been successful in helping someone to stop smoking. The work in slightly different ways to each other and I will attempt to describe each method and in my opinion the pros and cons of each

1) Will power
This is probably the most used method for stopping smoking and one that does work. Actually a certain amount of will power will be required no matter what method of quitting smoking you use. Unfortunately will power can of suggests a fight and suggests that if you are strong minded you will succeed and that if you fail you are weak minded. The description will power is not helpful as far as stopping smoking is concerned because of the perceived battle that the word suggests. A better word would be ‘decision’. Just make your decision and then that can be that. But make it a final decision and not some halfhearted attempt and then you can quit successfully.

2) Cutting down
This involves will power with the idea of feedback that you are succeeding plus knowing that you are gradually weaning yourself off any perceived chemical dependency of cigarettes. In theory it sounds great because if each day you smoke one less cigarette you know you are getting closer to stopping. Unfortunately in order to know how many cigarettes you are smoking you have to count them and then know at any particular moment of the day how many you have had and how many more you can have. This method means that you have to think about smoking much more than if you were smoking freely. If something is on your mind more often, it then make it harder to stop it. If you really want to succeed with using the cutting down method, don’t get into counting each cigarette.

A better tactic is to decide to leave out certain cigarettes such as the one at 10:30 or the one after lunch. This way you don’t have to count how many you are smoking and yet you know you are cutting down.

3) Hypnosis
This method still requires the ‘will power’ or even better the ‘decision’ from the smoker that they want to stop. Hypnosis does not take away the choice of the person to smoke rather it supports the decision to stop. It is like getting some extra help to support your decision to stop. Importantly it uses suggestions that are aimed at the stronger part of the mind, the subconscious mind, to let get of this old outdate and no longer useful response to life.

4) Patches, Gum and Lozenges
These methods still give you nicotine. The idea is that it helps with any withdrawal symptoms you may put down to stopping smoking. It is an odd sort of logic in that patches, gum and lozenges still give you nicotine as a way of helping stop taking nicotine via cigarettes. Also as long as you chew gum, suck lozenges or have to wear a patch it constantly reminds you of smoking. A constant reminder is not a useful method to use to help stop doing something.

5) False Cigarette
This is a substitute for the action and behaviour of smoking but without the intake of all the chemicals involved. It helps those who would ordinarily miss not doing something with the hands or those who would feel less confident with having nothing in their hands. The down side is that although you are no longer inhaling all those poisons you are still keeping the habit and behaviour of smoking going.

6) Zyban
A prescribed drug that was found to help smokers with any perceived chemical withdrawal symptoms. The idea is that if the physical side of smoking is being aided by zyban than all you have to do is to deal with the action or routine of smoking. As soon as you have stopped the routine and discovered you are okay and life can carry on then you can under your doctor’s direction come off zyban. Once again a method that may work for some but there may be side effects of using zyban which need consideration before using this method.

7) Acupuncture
This is the ancient Chinese treatment that inserts needles in certain acupuncture points on the body. The acupuncture points are not random but are definite and accurate places on the body. The idea with acupuncture is to enable the free flow of energy known as chi (pronounced ‘chee’) to flow along the meridian lines in the body. Blocks in the energy flow can cause or relate to issues whether physical, mental or emotional. For some acupuncture treatment has succeeded in helping them to stop smoking.

Shock event
For many people a shock of some sort will cause them to finally quit smoking. The shock may be the discovery of some smoking related illness such as cancer or it may be the loss of a friend or relative. Either way it brings home to the smoker their own mortality and what part they play in staying well and healthy. No one really chooses to be unhealthy. The shock event can work for many people and help them to stop smoking. Where the shock event fails is when over time, old fears feel more distant and the ex-smoker once again feels comfortable with smoking.

The overriding asset and best resource in using any of the above methods is the decision to stop smoking. So just make your decision to stop smoking and then stick to it.

Steven A. Harold

Clinical Hypnotherapist
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