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Many people look upon stop smoking hypnotherapy as something that is magical. They aren’t sure why it works, or are suspicious as to whether people are successful at being a non smoker. They question whether smokers who used hypnosis to quit smoking just quit on their own and then used hypnosis as the excuse or the placebo to get them to quit. Well there is a real reason why it’s so easy to quit when you use stop smoking hypnotherapy, and I’ll explain that for you in the rest of this article.

Smoking is not a natural act for human beings. It is an unnatural act that was a learned behavior. But unlike other learned behaviors that are natural, smoking is so very unnatural that it goes against what we are instinctively driven to do to survive. This unnatural act is the cause of many problems, both real and acknowledged, and not yet recognized by the individual. In other words, some of the bad effects of smoking are felt by smokers taking it’s toll on their bodies. And some of smoking’s bad effects are expected to happen, but we haven’t yet felt them.

The fact that smoking is such an unnatural act makes it easy to make the change, when this knowledge is correctly communicated with the part of our minds responsible for keeping us safe. And do you know what part of the mind is responsible for our safety? It’s the subconscious/unconscious mind. That is where our instinctual behavior resides and where we keep the lessons of what we can do to keep us out of danger.

It is this subconscious mind that is being communicated with when you use stop smoking hypnotherapy. By revealing to that part of your mind responsible for your safety and well being, you can change the incorrect lessons that were learned previously. Those incorrect lessons will then be superseded by the improved information that is meant to keep you safe and secure. And once accepted by the subconscious the new attitudes will lead to new more satisfying behaviors.

These new behaviors, when performed enough times, become the new habits of choice. Once that occurs these new habits will be adhered to with the same tenacity that you have adhered to the smoking behavior. It is just that quality that has made it difficult to stop smoking that is then used on your behalf to become a non smoker.

By taking the action that you have taken so far, and reading this article, you are closer to deciding to use hypnosis to quit smoking and help you get rid of your bad habit. Congratulations and good luck on your search for the truth.

Gene variants that increase the chances of bio-behavioral disorders such as addiction to smoking are identified by researchers. A research has revealed that:

• Genes make a smoker more susceptible to nicotine addiction
• The likelihood of lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease increases

The variant is closely linked to two known nicotine receptors. These receptors are situated on the upper surface of many cells that are bound by nicotine. Once nicotine is attached to receptors in the brain, an individual experiences changes in cell activity and this causes an addiction to this powerful drug. This study further revealed that those who carry this genetic variant tend to be heavy smokers and are more dependent on nicotine. They are less likely to give up smoking.

However, individuals who carry the variant gene are not more likely to start smoking, but if they start smoking, they are more likely to get addicted. A study was conducted on around 3,000 long-term smokers. The smoking habits of all members were recorded with granular details i.e. the age when they started smoking, average number of cigarettes smoked per day and how long they had been smoking. Their DNA samples were also collected and the occurrence of the genetic variant was found. The findings were:

• Individuals, who had started smoking before they turned 17 years old, had a twofold to fivefold chance of becoming a heavy smoker when they turned adults.
• Individuals, who had started smoking after they turned 17, were at a lower risk.

Senior professors and researchers said that people who start smoking at an early age become more dependent on nicotine later in life. This clearly suggests that genetic influences may cause a risk of a lifetime addiction to nicotine. Senior officials of National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) stated that research in the recent years showed an explosion in the way in which genetic variations were understood, and how it had a major impact on all aspects of health.

Tailoring effective smoking cessation programs will be easier and more convenient once we have more information about genes and the role of environment in smoking addiction. A NIDA funded research revealed that more than 8% of 8th graders had smoked one month before the survey. These figures climbed to 14% when 10th graders were surveyed. More than 22% of the 12th graders had tried smoking one month before the survey was taken. Millions of people die of smoking each year. In spite of numerous harmful effects, people continue to smoke.

Quit smoking

Smoking is identified as the single most preventable cause of premature death. If you are addicted to smoking, you should consider the alternative of quitting smoking as a way to a healthy and better life. You will notice a change in your health as soon as you quit smoking. Many smokers stop smoking at least 5 to 6 times before they give it up finally. Chantix is a prescription medicine, which aids individuals in quitting smoking. Try it before you give up on giving up smoking.

To find the easy way to quit smoking, you have to get your mind right. Since you’re already thinking about quitting smoking, you already probably have a reason to do so. The question here is how much weight does that reason pull? Along with it, you have to determine what reasons you should have to completely motivate yourself to stop smoking. Once this is done, you now have increased success with a few well known ways of helping smokers kick the habit.

Do you really want to quit? There are two sides to the smoking addiction. First, there’s the mental addiction that makes you want to smoke even if your body doesn’t call for a dose of nicotine. Second, there’s the physical addiction wherein your body starts complaining when you haven’t had your dose of nicotine. To train your mind, you have to let go of that mental addiction, which is easy if you have reasons. These reasons should make you have that desire to quit.

There are two types of reasons to quit, one is your own personal reasons which fuel your desire to quit, and there area the reasons wherein others are involved. The former has greater bearing as opposed to the latter. When you try to quit smoking just so you can satisfy other’s wishes, then deep inside, you may not want to quit. On the other hand, if you’re quitting for your own reasons, it can motivate you to keep trying despite failures. Also, it leaves you vulnerable to the effects of hypnosis.

Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP, are methods where your thought processes are rewired to influence your behavior which in turn keeps your compulsions in check. In layman’s terms, these help you become motivated to stop to a point that you do not desire to light a cigarette, and remind yourself that you shouldn’t smoke when the urges are there. If you have good reasons to quit, it makes hypnosis and NLP easier for you to absorb, as well as they make your reasons to quit more sensible.

There is no easy way to quit smoking, depending on your definition of easy. However, if you prepare your mind for the onslaught of your withdrawal symptoms, you can easily overcome them. Simply have a good reason to quit, and hold on to that reason for that is what will motivate you to do so.

I have several patients who are nonsmokers. So they think. They don’t actively put a cigarette to their lips and smoke it, but if they’re living with someone, or are consistently around someone who smokes in their presence, I make a note in their chart as, second hand smoker.

That’s right. Did you know that second hand smokers are continuously exposed to about 25% of their smoking spouse/friend’s smoke? This percentage can make a significant difference in risk factors for lung cancer, and other pulmonary diseases. With this percentage, every time someone smokes around you it’s as if you, too, are actively smoking a few cigarettes a day!

It’s estimated that there are 125 million second hand smokers in the United States! If you’re like some of my patients who believe they are at lower risk for disease because they don’t actually put a cigarette up to their lips to smoke, I’d like to share with you some of the surprising facts about second-hand, and even third-hand, smoke.

What Does Second Hand Smoke Do?

There are over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette tobacco and its smoke! Of these, 250 are known to be harmful to your health and 50 of them are already known carcinogens! The U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that the concentrations of these chemicals are potentially greater in second hand smoke than smoking a cigarette itself!

Here’s what happens every time you are exposed to cigarette smoke, second or first hand:

• Destabilizes your heart and lung function: Breathing in smoke even for a short while, can put you at increased risk for heart and lung disease. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has deemed that smoking definitively causes lung cancer.
• Increases Risk for Heart Attack or Asthma Attack: Your heart gets less oxygen when you breathe in smoke. This can trigger an asthma attack or a heart attack.
• Second Hand Smoke Increases SIDS risk: Infants exposed to second hand smoke are more likely to die of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) than previously thought.
• Second Hand Smoke Puts Children At Risk: Children who inhale second hand smoke consistently have a much higher risk for pneumonia and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. It can also cause chronic ear infections like otitis media.
• Causes Physical and Mental Growth Impairment in Children: Kids develop more slowly physically and mentally around second hand smoke. An adult can get up and walk out of a room when someone is smoking, a baby/young child cannot. They are the most vulnerable to the effects of “forced” smoke exposure.
• Causes Your Blood Platelets To Stick Together: Even short exposures to second hand smoke can cause your blood platelets to become sticky. This damages your blood vessels and decreases coronary blood flow reserves.
• Second Hand Smoke Affects Twice: Nonsmokers near someone else smoking breathes in second hand smoke twice. Once from the burning tip of the cigarette, and twice when the smoker exhales. They get all the toxic effects of smoking twice.
• Increases Risk for Gingivitis: If your significant other is a smoker, they are at high likelihood of getting gingivitis, a chronic inflammatory condition of their gums. This condition can also be passed to you during kissing! Smoking changes the pH of the mouth by decreasing saliva and drying out the mouth tissues. This sets the stage for gingivitis to occur. Smoking also depletes Vitamin C in the body, which helps prevent gingivitis and other inflammatory conditions.

What Is Third Hand Smoke?

People fail to realize that the environment they smoke in also absorbs smoke and all its toxins. These include things like couches, clothes, carpets, the smoker’s hair, etc. Nonsmokers, especially very young children, such as crawling infants, can absorb these toxins through their skin after touching them or putting them in their mouth. For example, a young child who both plays with his smoker-mother’s hair while they breast feed gets exposed to third hand smoke twice. Crawling around on carpets also exposes them, or playing on couches and chairs.

Third hand smoke contains chemicals, heavy metals and carcinogens such as:

1. Hydrogen cyanide
2. Butane
3. Toluene
4. Polorium-216

How To Protect From Second and Third-Hand Smoke

Simple enough, you just need to stay away from people who are smoking.

Here are a few examples of how:

• Smoking Ban In Public Places: Fortunately, now, most public places in the United States have recently instituted a ban on smoking in restaurants, nightclubs, businesses, public transport, etc, exposure to second hand smoke will decrease significantly.
• Just Say NO. If you’re married to, or otherwise live with a smoker, or who have friends who constantly want to smoke around you, especially in a car, ask them to quit for both your sakes! Educate them on the dangers of second and third hand smoke. Have them refrain from smoking in the house or the car. You might ask them to change their clothes, take a shower, wash their hair, and brush their teeth every time they smoke too. That ought to make them think twice about continuing to smoke around you!
• Public Housing: Unfortunately, smoking has not been banned in public housing. If you live in an apartment building or attached condominium, remember that smoke can travel through wall electrical sockets; heat and AC vent systems, doors, etc. Consider moving out if you do not want to be exposed to smoke from someone you don’t know and can’t see smoking!
• Protect a Child: If you know someone who smokes around a young child, please ask them to stop, and tell them about the dangers of exposing children, especially infants who must either just lay in cribs, or sit in car seats, and be exposed to their parents smoke constantly. There is a movement to make this issue considered child abuse enforceable by law.

As I tell my patient’s in no uncertain terms, smoking is a nasty habit that can cause a lot of illness. It seems kind of crazy, when you think about how much money people spend a week, month, or year, to put their own and other people’s health at risk by buying and smoking cigarettes. However, you don’t have to be the passive victim of a smoker, you DO have the right to not be exposed to toxic chemicals and noxious smoke. Just get as far away from it as possible.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic health condition that develops as a result of damage to lung tissue. This acronym is utilized to identify three illnesses categorized as COPD. These include emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis.

Asthma starts when a person’s body views something in the environment, such as pet dander, tobacco smoke, or dust, as hazardous. The body activates the immune system to emit biochemicals called histamines. These proteins cause inflammation in lung tissues to help the body fight intruders. This stiffens lung tissues and weakens breathing.

People can be diagnosed with asthma in childhood or even later in life. One of the best ways family members or friends can assist individuals with this condition is to quit smoking cigarettes, because secondhand smoke kills. If someone newly diagnosed with this condition smokes, he or she needs to quit smoking as soon as possible.

Physicians also classify chronic bronchitis as a form of COPD. This condition develops when a person has smoked for a number of years. Tobacco smoke results in chemicals and bacteria becoming trapped in the lungs. The bacteria result in recurrent infections in the bronchi, or airway passages, of a person’s lungs.

Chronic bronchitis scars and damages these passages. People with this condition have difficulty exercising or taking deep breaths. Since their airways are stiff and scarred, they develop shortness of breath with only a small amount of exertion. Frequently, if they quit smoking, many of their problems will diminish.

The third lung disease categorized as COPD is emphysema. The lungs contain air sacs at the end of the bronchial tubes. These sacs, called alveoli, expand and contract as an individual inhales and exhales. People with emphysema develop shortness of breath and cannot breathe deeply or exhale entirely because air stays trapped in the alveoli. If they find ways to stop smoking, these symptoms sometimes get better.

Medicines and breathing exercises can help people with COPD. In spite of these approaches, however, such individuals continue to have significant anxiety levels. Coping with this condition is akin to trying to breathe underwater. Although you try to stay underwater longer, you feel you must breathe – now! So you swim toward the surface and breathe deeply. Those who have COPD, however cannot just surface and breathe deeply.

Several stop smoking programs assist clients with COPD. Most COPD patients understand that smoking increases their breathing difficulties. Most have smoked for many years, however, which can make trying to quit extremely hard.

Many stop smoking programs have been developed. The majority help clients to utilize conscious effort to quit smoking. Since the habit of smoking is deeply ingrained in a person’s unconscious, few people who quit smoking through these programs stay quit without making changes at the unconscious level. Additionally, most of these programs center on a smoker’s physical dependency on nicotine, which addresses only about 10 percent of the smoking addiction.

Numerous stop smoking programs advertise that they assist individuals to learn to relax. The ones that get the best results employ Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Polarity responses usually occur with traditional hypnotherapy and direct post-hypnotic suggestions.

Ericksonian hypnosis uses metaphors, which relay suggested thoughts for peace to the unconscious to assist clients to overcome the propensity to behave in a manner contrary to the suggested actions. Many individuals who are able to become calmer through the use of the NLP Flash method can manage anxiety and panic attacks better. Thus, they breathe better.

Ericksonian Hypnosis offers an exciting different strategy to help clients learn how to quit smoking. Trained individuals who practice this understand that the main issue lies in the unconscious. For this reason, they aid clients at this level, through stop smoking hypnosis. Contrary to the techniques used by traditional programs, hypnosis to quit smoking focuses on stress reduction, psychological dependency, and habituation, which together make up 90 percent of a person’s smoking habit.

With Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP, COPD patients are able to live a higher quality of life. These methods coach persons with breathing difficulties to reduce anxiety. They also help remove unconscious associations between nicotine and environmental factors. This extinguishes nicotine cravings. These treatments offer hope for individuals with COPD.

Summary: Three chronic lung conditions are categorized as COPD. These include asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. Minimizing anxiety related to breathing and helping people find ways to quit smoking are probably the most effective methods of helping persons with COPD experience a higher quality of life. Ericksonian hypnotherapy and NLP approaches help clients to control anxiety and quit smoking.

What if somebody invented an alcohol that greatly reduced the user’s chances of getting liver disease? What if somebody invented a cigarette that had approximately 3,980 less ingredients than a traditional cigarette? What if none of the ingredients in this new cigarette were known to be carcinogenic? What if users were reporting that they felt better after using this product as compared to smoking a traditional tobacco cigarette?

Imagine if smokers could smoke a cigarette that had approximately 3980 less ingredients than a traditional cigarette, did not cause cancer, and could be legally smoked anywhere without attracting bans and fines.

Known as ‘electronic‘ or e-cigarettes, these newly-invented cigarettes are being tried in UK, Sweden, Brazil US and India. People are still wary of e-cigarettes and even authorities do not know if e-cigarettes should be promoted or banned, but there is considerable amount of interest around this product, which was invented by a Chinese, Hon Lik.

What works in favour of the e-cigarette is that unlike nicotine patches or other cessation methods, an e-cigarette looks and feels like a real cigarette, only that it is made of plastic and metal. Smokers can take a “drag” and feel like they are smoking a real cigarette.

What is an e-cigarette?

An e-cigarette is a device that’s giving the smoker the real effects and the same satisfaction of a traditional cigarette using an air flow sensor, atomizing chamber, a rechargeable battery, micro-electronic components, and finally a cartridge containing a small dose of nicotine, flavour and propylene glycol. The e-cigarette turns on when one inhales and automatically turns off again afterwards. Since the electronic cigarette has no flame, it doesn’t emit any smoke. The electronic cigarette’s atomizer heats up the nicotine solution in the form of vapour. The vapor is inhaled, exhaled and then it evaporates into the air. This leaves no lingering smell like regular smoke does. The e-cigarette glows red with fire when ‘smoked’. Flavours are available that imitate cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobaccos, coffees, fruits, and herbal mixes. Cartridges that hold about two-packages of cigarette puffs are placed into the e-Cigarettes for users to enjoy one at a time whenever a smoking break is desired.

Nicotine Liquid: What is it made of?

All main ingredients in nicotine liquid are food products generally considered as safe. There are two common main ingredients in it—propylene glycol and nicotine. Nicotine liquid can be 80 to 90% propylene glycol and 0 to 6% nicotine. Other less common ingredients are menthol—for the mint flavour, glycerol, and even pure water that can be about 10% of the solution.

e-Cigarettes debate

Electronic cigarettes are loved by some non-smokers who would like to see smokers change their habit to include this product that contains no smell, harmful second-hand smoke, smoking chemicals, or butt trash that litters the environment.

Electronic cigarettes are hated by some non-smokers who fear that the sight of them will lead children into tobacco smoking habits. Others counter this thought with beliefs that as long as unhealthy tobacco is not involved, and unhealthy nicotine left out of the picture, there is no reason to fear this product.

Electronic cigarettes appear to be hated by the governments since they could lead to a population of smoking people with a product that does not qualify for heavy taxes. This device also voids brand new anti-smoking codes, rules, and regulations imposed upon government buildings and public places within all areas of the ‘against smoking’ society.

The problem with this cheap smokeless cigarette alternative is that flavours can come in either healthy zero nicotine versions, or with various strengths of nicotine included. This choice has upset the US Government Food and Drug Administration system who are being asked to ban the healthy version of this electronic cigarette product along with the nicotine versions of this same product, in the US.

There are some practical problems that users report with the e-cigarette. According to a report published in The Guardian newspaper of UK, there are complaints that the cartridge runs out very quickly and the rechargeable battery needs to be charged two or three times a day.

The benefits of e-cigarettes as reported are that smoker’s cough and phlegm disappear, the sense of smell comes back and the wheezing stops.

For better results

Nicotine liquid, also known as e-liquid or e-juice, is a liquid mixture for the electric cigarette. Nicotine liquid comes in a variety of flavours and a few basic nicotine levels.

If the nicotine liquid (e-liquid) flavour doesn’t taste the same and the electric cigarette gives you a weak throat hit, you might have developed some tolerance to the flavour. That’s why using at least three nicotine flavours is a good practice. When the electric cigarette tastes too light, tolerance to your favorite nicotine liquid flavour can be only one of the reasons. Always charge the batteries, clean the atomizer, and use fresh and properly stored nicotine liquid.

From the many nicotine liquid flavours offered by different manufacturers, two seem to be more popular: tobacco and mint. These two flavours have different names and slightly different tastes depending on the brand—names like Original Tobacco, Cured Tobacco, or Arctic Mint may be names for the same flavour or variants of the flavour.

There are nicotine liquid flavours made to taste like those of traditional cigarettes, for example, Marlboro, Camel, Winston, or Kent. The most common of those is Marlboro.

Smokers using the electric cigarette have a better choice of flavours than those who smoke traditional cigarettes. While it is rare for traditional cigarettes to have flavours of coffee, vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate, most nicotine liquid and electric cigarette makers and sellers offer those flavours.

Ever since the e-cigarettes came out, they have changed the smoking world for good. It is no doubt a revolutionary concept but much more than that, it is a brilliant new way to help people quit smoking traditional cigarettes. If we just look at the facts, e-cigarettes have helped a lot of people in the past few years. E-cigarettes have probably saved many lives. Many smokers who used to smoke tobacco cigarettes are going to live longer just by switching to these e-cigarettes.

After a lot of research and technological innovation, scientists have finally come up with a product that can easily help smokers quit smoking. Let us look at why it is so hard for smokers to quit.

1. Nicotine addiction. Even though many hypnotherapists will agree that nicotine addiction is only a small part of smoking addiction, no one will disagree that it is responsible for addiction. Nicotine was previously replaced by nicotine patches, inhalers etc. E-cigarettes also provide nicotine, but in addition to nicotine, they also provide a lot more.

2. Oral fixation. E-cigarettes are just like cigarettes when it comes to looks and feel. You hold them like cigarettes and smoke them like cigarettes. Therefore, oral fixation has been accounted for.

3. Habitual smoking. Smoker’s associate cigarettes with everything they do. This is called habitual fixation. E-cigarettes give them the same feeling as cigarettes. So even though their habitual smoking isn’t fixed, the real cigarette is replaced by something a lot less harmful.

4. The smoke. Smokers need to feel the smoke go inside their lungs and then come out of their mouths. This gives us the feeling of smoking. Unfortunately, nothing till now could replace that feeling. But, E-cigarettes take care of this as well. They produce smoke like water vapors which give the exact same feeling as the smoke from a tobacco cigarette. Except that this smoke like vapors don’t contain any harmful carcinogens, tar or any other of the million harmful chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes.

E-cigarettes are changing the meaning of the word smoker. Where smoker used to be something that smells bad and causes passive smoking to others in near them, an e-cigarette smoker never smells, never causes passive smoking and is a lot more lively and energetic than a tobacco cigarette smoker.

There have been a few controversies regarding buying e-cigarettes but the truth is that these are a revolutionary product. Anyone who has used them will swear by them and you can see the difference in health of e-smokers by yourself. The testimonials speak for themselves and there is nothing more important in this world than you and your loved one’s health. If you or anyone you know smokes, then it is your responsibility that they try e-cigarettes.

Quitting is hard to do if you are a long time smoker; nevertheless if you put your mind and heart into really quitting, nothing is impossible. Besides why to quit smoking today has lots of good benefits and that is what I will certainly discuss here in this article.

Most individuals have already tried to quit not just ones but several times but only a few really succeeded in their endeavor. For those who succeed are very fortunate now as the risk of smoke related disease is almost or totally gone depending on how long they last smoke.

So no matter how low the level of nicotine are placed in your cigarettes you can still experience or become affected by one of the smoke related diseases and can still damage your health. Therefore, there are no level or safety net if you smoke as everything is just black and white and no middle ground when it comes to the heath.

The why to quit smoking today has its benefits but only according to how long you are without any nicotine in your system.

So if you smoke at least a pack of cigarettes before or now the benefits you will likely experiences are below:

• 12 Hours without Cigarettes – By this time almost all the nicotine is already or in the process of getting out of your system.
• 24 Hours without Cigarettes – Carbon monoxide that has ingrain in your blood before would ultimately dropped. Therefore, more oxygen will be available in your bloodstream.
• 5 days without cigarettes – The by-products of nicotine are already gone and the sense of smell and taste would have returned by this time. Your skin and color would have also improved greatly.
• Within one month without cigarettes - The blood pressure will return to normal level and the immune system will also recover. Signs of recovery will also show in your body and feeling.
• Within two months without cigarettes – The lungs is no longer capable of producing extra phlegm otherwise not cause by smoking.
• After 1 year without cigarettes – The heart disease that is part of the smoke related risk is now half of those who still smoke. Hence, there is now more chance for you to live longer as the risk is not what it used to be.
• After 10 years without cigarettes – The risk of having cancer is now half again compared to the possibility of people who still smoke. This is possible of course if you are not yet diagnosed with cancer.
• After 15 years without cigarettes – The risk of stroke and heart attack is now the same as the individual who does not smoked his entire life.

With all the stop smoking campaigns allover with banners on the road sides, leaflet hand outs in schools and other social places is a serious attempt by the government to try and discourage it’s citizens from smoking and therefore avert the perils affiliated with smoking that have taken the lives of many hardworking individuals. If you are already a smoker, it is never too late to do what is right. In order for one to stop smoking, it is necessary to do an evaluation test to find out the benefits of the habit. Here are lists of ways you can do to give up smoking and resume a normal life you one’s had.

Prepare a simple comparative and analysis list. You can start by having two lists containing the pros and cons of smoking respectively. Upon listing them, you should also include details like when you started smoking (duration in years or months), how much you’ve spent over that period on cigarette purchases, how much you have spent on hospitals bills due to smoking and so on. Remember that it’s all about the figures here because as they say “figures don’t lie”. Add together all the pros on the first sheet and do the same on the second one. If the pros outweigh the cons, then I would encourage you to continue but if cons overshadow the pros, then I would suggest that you quit immediately before you find yourself on the receivership end with nothing to be received about!

Disconnect yourself from anything that causes you to smoke. This includes your friends who smoke; it does not matter whether you have to hide yourself from them for a lengthy period of time until you stop smoking permanently. They are recipe for failure to occur although some might be supportive. The best way is to detach yourself indirectly if you don’t want to be quitting everyday. You should also get rid of items like ash trays, cigarette holders, matches and so on. Hanging out at your favorite local pub or joint should be a no go zone. This means a change of lifestyle and environment to achieve the best results. Television should be turned off at all time as it is a big mind trigger that might do more harm than good. Maintaining high levels of hygiene always after completing the above is a must.

Habit replacement techniques. It is always good to look for something else to do when the craving strikes. The substitute habit that you choose as a replacement should not be boring or negative either. This will help you in conquering the urge and controlling it as well. Keeping yourself busy here is the key and always knowing what to do in different circumstances. In conclusion, I would also recommend joining social groups like a stop smoking group, book clubs, also engage in activities like dancing, sports, and doing exercises as well as living a healthy life. By keeping yourself occupied you will not notice that you were once a smoker before you realize it.

One-third of all women in the child-bearing years are cigarette smokers. When expecting, many will want to quit smoking because we now know that the habit affects two lives, that of the baby and the mother. Nicotine retards fetal grown. In addition, those who smoke have a significantly greater number of unsuccessful pregnancies due to spontaneous miscarriages, stillbirths and death of the infant during its first month of life.

This is not intended as a scare campaign. Actually, nothing happens to most pregnant women who smoke except that the baby is likely to weigh in at less than the normal average. This fact, plus the other possibilities, however remote, is reason enough for the expectant woman to quit smoking or cut down.

Why Smoke at All?

But why smoke at all? After the baby is born, smoking can affect it in other ways. Cigarettes and matches are highly dangerous items in the hands of a child. Furthermore, the smoking habits of one or both parents influence the child’s decision on smoking. Statistics from one survey revealed that 11.9% of girls in the 12 to 18 age bracket were smokers. This has serious implications because it is harder for women to quit.

Most of the health hazards develop after many years of heavy smoking. Furthermore, women should not be lulled into a false sense of security by propaganda that they are immune to the bad effects of smoking. Moth cancer, bronchitis, emphysema and heart disease has increased in female smokers in recent years. Lung cancer is six times more common in men than in women, but this does not mean that cigarettes are less harmful for the fairer sex.