Showing posts with label Stop Smoking Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stop Smoking Tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Stop Smoking Laser

A laser machine was found to help you stop smoking!

Nowadays, smoking is almost everywhere. A lot of us especially the young ones are exposed to second hand smoke. And, too much of this second hand smoke is dangerous. This could bring illness or might lead your children to smoke as well. And these things can only be prevented if you stop your smoking habit.

But quitting smoking is very difficult especially to those smokers who treat it as their dessert and habit. Only a few smokers have succeeded in quitting the habit. But if you really want to quit try this one.

Laser works to stop smoking is one of today’s most advanced health sciences. It uses soft lasers and bio-electrical stimulation to trigger key energy or acupuncture points of the body. Laser works is the quickest, safest and easiest way to stop smoking. Imagine 45 minutes from now you could be smoke free.

It uses a low powered (soft) laser to treat nicotine addiction no more powerful than a 60-watt light bulb. Energy points related to addiction are identified and treated with a combination of a helium neon laser and electrobiostimulation.

This laser machine works on specific points of the body without needles, totally painless, no drugs, no pills or gums, no drugs and completely safe, easy and exceptionally effective.

Laser works can help you to stop smoking. It can radically cut down the stress and cravings compared to all other smoking cessation methods and products.

By using this combination it produces an incredible 90% plus success rate with just one session. Specific points are stimulated to release pain relieving, brain chemicals called endorphins and to eliminate almost all physical cravings. Quitting, never felt so good.

This laser works system has helped thousands of smokers all over the world who quits smoking. The Imagine laser works system enjoys a worldwide success rate of 85% and higher!

Most smokers succeeded with just one visit, however results do vary. Many of them said that after the laser treatment they really stop smoking. They had zero cravings; zero mood swings and zero feeling of withdrawal.

This laser works to stop smoking is one of the best ways, but it is still important for the smokers to practice discipline and control to oneself. Avoiding places where smoking is common. Alcohol should be also avoided if possible.

Doing some exercise could also help reduce smoking, going for walk or bike ride and also keeping busy, distracting or change what you are doing just to remove the cravings.

Actually if you’re women and you’re pregnant, quitting smoking is twice as important and the benefit of this is not just for you but also with your baby. This would bring a better life right from the very beginning.

Of course quitting before you become pregnant is best, early in your pregnancy is the next best time but it is never too late to quit smoking during your pregnancy.

Laser works technology is only part of the complex solutions needed to make life style changes. We seriously encourage our clients to follow a complete program. It's critically important to treat both the mental and physical aspects of addictions.

Imagine going to bed every night and getting up after having a truly restful sleep and being positive about life. It will be a lot closer to reality when you quit smoking. Quitting smoking does not really cost you anything! It actually pays you!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Stop Smoking Injections

Small Vitamin B shots are given at a couple of acupuncture points near the nose and on the earlobes. The injections stimulate these acupuncture sites and thereby produce their effects (which patients report as a decreased craving), thus helping you to get through the critical early phase when you’re most likely to go back to your cigarettes. If you feel squeamish about the shots hurting, we also have a topical anesthetic cream to help.

Patients have had remarkable success with some stop smoking injections, and it is generally considered a one-time treatment. However, a repeat injection can be provided later if you feel yourself gravitating back to the desire to smoke.

We request that you return to see us for a follow up visit with your doctor in two weeks, and we may call you periodically to see how you’re doing.

American pharmaceutical companies are on the phone regularly, enquiring whether the Universiteit Maastricht could do a study in the field of 'giving up smoking'.

There is one going on right now: an American company wants to work together with the UM to develop a vaccine that will make the physical addiction a thing of the past with a single injection. At the moment, a trainee assistant is investigating whether giving up smoking would be easier with the aid of antidepressants.

At the same time, there are quite a few people at the UM, such as the director of education at Arts and Culture, who regard themselves as contented chain smokers. A staff manager at Health Sciences wanted to quit, stopped, knitted until her fingers fell off, started smoking again, and gave up smoking for good last week.

Something that undoubtedly a lot of smokers would be interested in is a vaccine that would cure their physical addiction in one shot. It sounds futuristic, but (perhaps) it is not. At this moment Van Schayck is involved in negotiations with an American company concerning the development such a vaccine.

The Americans ended up with the UM, he says, because it has the greatest expertise in this field in Europe, especially in the departments of Health Information, GP Medicine, Lung Diseases, and Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology. Parties are currently working on a protocol, after which the Ethical Committee will have to agree, because healthy volunteers will be used as test subjects.

How does such a vaccine work? Nicotine is a molecule that very quickly reaches the brain once it has entered the bloodstream. Because the molecule is so small, it easily slips past the so-called blood-brain-barrier.

That is where it comes in contact with nicotine receptors, causing the release of dopamine. It is this substance that causes the feeling of satisfaction. The vaccine contains a protein that attaches itself to nicotine, making it too large to slip through the blood-brain-barrier. As a result, no dopamine is released.

American experiments on rats and guinea pigs have been successful. The first injection is followed by a second one a few weeks later; after a few months, subjects receive a so-called booster, which is like a powerful repeat. The animal tests have shown that this is enough to eliminate physical yearning for a few years.

The idea is brilliant, but it is quite a job to create a protein that does not have any side effects. We think that smokers who have been freed from the physical addiction will find it easier to stop smoking.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Stop Smoking Hypnosis

When it is all in the mind, then it is all about stop smoking hypnosis

The saying. “ It is all in the mind”, is exactly what stop smoking hypnosis sessions are all about.

The dangers of smoking have been studied and analyzed for years. The detrimental effect of smoking on people’s health and their activities is now public knowledge. Because of this awareness, many people who have become addicted to smoking are now looking for ways to quit.

Every medium of treatment has been tried and tested to help people stop the smoking habit. As technology evolves, so does the treatment. The newest addition to the “stop smoking campaign” is hypnosis.

Hypnosis to stop smoking works at eliminating the desire to smoke. It is believed that the need to smoke is only present in the mind and people have the capacity to control them.

In this hypnosis therapy, smokers are divided into two kinds of categories; the identification and the replacement smokers.
Identification smoking is the most common and the easiest to eliminate in the stop smoking hypnosis therapy.

This is one of the most common factors attributed to smoking. It is when the smoker indulges in the habit because he admires or associates with others who smoke. It can be parents, peers, or celebrities.

Replacement is when smoking takes the place of a previous habit. It is used to replace something that is missing. It fills a void created by anxiety or boredom.

Replacement smokers often receive sensual gratification from smoking. They enjoy the feeling of the cigarette in their mouth or the taste of the tobacco. For cigar and pipe smokers, the act of lighting often becomes a ritual.

Most stop-smoking programs work at increasing the individual’s strength to resist the desire to smoke. They rely on willpower, and for most people that is the worst method for quitting smoking. Willpower fluctuates like moods and emotions. One day it may be strong, the next day it may be weak.

For both types of smokers, smoking is both a physical and mental process. So to be effective, the stop-smoking program must address both aspects through hypnosis.

To address the psychological aspects of smoking, the hypnotherapist may include an evaluation of why the person started smoking.

What purpose does it serve in their life? Why is it hard to stop?
For the identification smoker, suggestions can be given to help strengthen a person’s perception of the individuality; example, not needing to smoke to be accepted.

For the replacement smoker, a more detailed analysis of their motivation is required.

The hypnosis therapy to stop smoking may include suggestions that change the perception of the taste from pleasant to unpleasant. The individual can imagine cigarettes as unappealing, bad tasting, foul smelling and revolting in every sense of the word. This makes quitting easier.

Hypnosis takes advantage of the mind’s natural ability to imagine and visualize. The client pictures themselves free from the habit, filled with new health, energy and vitality. They can see themselves as looking healthier, more attractive, and being more active.

Once a smoker has achieved success in a stop-smoking hypnosis program, it is necessary to reinforce the programming that led to quitting.

Smoking is a habit that is acquired and built over time. It can rarely be completely eliminated in an instant. Even though they may have stopped smoking, the behavior pattern still remains.

Hypnosis conditioning to stop smoking can be used to reinforce the changes until they become permanent.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Stop Smoking Herbs

One of the difficulties in trying to quit smoking is that smokers become physically dependant on nicotine. Smoking affects the parts of the brain that relate to reward and pleasure.

Short-term smoking cessation, that is, stopping smoking at the end of a stop-smoking program, is easier to attain than long-term smoking cessation.

Regardless of the method used to stop smoking, once the stop-smoking treatment method is withdrawn, a variety of factors can affect the individual so as to induce re-initiation of smoking.

Generally, if a person has stopped smoking for a full six months, the chances of starting smoking again are very low. Therefore, six month cessation rates, one year cessation rates, and two year cessation rates are similar regardless of the method employed.

Short term smoking cessation success may depend on the extent to which the intervention provides regular reinforcement of the stop-smoking effort. A person left to his or her own is more likely to resume smoking than a person who daily encounters someone who reinforces the stop smoking attempt.

Those who take up smoking in their teens and maintain the habit for many years have more difficult time quitting smoking than those who take up smoking later in life.

The “early-onset” smoking addiction may correlate with genetic and behavioral patterns that lead to addiction, while “late onset” smoking is more often a habit of choice. About 80% of U.S. smokers begin their habit by age 18.

Nicotine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter and dopamine. The nature of nicotine is that it creates a cycle of positive reinforcement within your brain that makes you want more.

Scientists have found that when you withdraw from chronic nicotine use, it results in changes in these neural pleasure pathways. And the effect on the brain is similar to what someone addicted to cocaine, opiates and other drugs experiences. Hence, depression and anxiety are common.

Fortunately, some resourceful modern herbalists began applying traditional knowledge to a modern problem. In Ayurvedic medicine, common garden variety oats is used to treat opium withdrawal.

The herbalist Anand, using a tincture applied this same reasoning to nicotine withdrawal, with significant results.

In a group of 26 heavy smokers, he gave an oat tincture, and in another group of 26, he gave a placebo.

The group who took the oat tincture smoked less cigarettes, and this effect remained for two months after they stopped treatment.

The herbalist Weiss theorizes that it is the sedative effect of oats. Oats contain as active constituents the indole alkaloid, gramine, and the alkaloids avenine and trigonelline. Oats are described in herbal medicine texts as helping create a feeling of well-being whilst simultaneously acting as a tonic to the nervous system. But unlike narcotics, these are mild, non-habit forming effects.

The following formula has been formulated for those trying to stop smoking. In a 50ml bottle, mix the following herbal tinctures:

  • 15ml green oats
  • 10ml white horehound
  • 10ml mullein
  • 5ml golden seal
  • 10ml peppermint
Take 6 drops on the tongue whenever the craving to have a cigarette is felt.

Acupuncture is also an excellent support option. HerbMed offers the following herbal option, to be used on appropriate acupuncture points.

Mix oil of cloves, oil of wintergreen, an extract of evodia fruit, an extract of sichuan lovage rhizome, and msg, and apply to specific acupuncture points.

Unfortunately, they don't say which acupuncture points, but this may be determined by what each person presents with.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Why do you need immediate help to stop smoking?

Because of those you care and love you very much. Will you be alive long enough to see that they will be well off?

How do you go about seeking help in order to stop your smoking habit?

1. You can check out some of the programs that your local hospitals or health centers are organizing. These people only want to give you all the help they can give to make you stop smoking.

Enroll yourself. A program called "Breathe Easy" that was started in the US in 1985 has claimed a high success rate. You might like to check if it is available up to now.

2. Learn to play a musical instrument or pick up a hobby. Anything that will distract you from picking a stick every now and then.

3. Seek the support of your family, friends or colleagues. Find someone who has the same habit. Oftentimes, it helps to stop smoking with someone whom you know is going through the same turmoil as you.

4. Avoid situations where you will get to smoke. When you are pressured or anxious, cigarette is one way of getting distracted from those emotions. Try to do something else instead.

5. Distract smoking urges with exercise, manual tasks, making phone calls, or by eating fruits or munching on carrots or fruits.
Help yourself fight the urge to smoke. Try some distraction.

6. To stop the urge to smoke, help yourself by drinking lemon-infused water. Add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice to a glass (300ml) of water and drink it 4 times a day.

7. Get a piggy bank and put in the money you will use to buy cigarettes. Be amazed how much is collected. Just think of all the money you could have saved if you would only stop the smoking habit.

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

9. Commercial products like nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine patch, nicotine nasal spray, and nicotine-free pill can help you stop smoking gradually.

Visit a doctor or pharmacist to ask for help about which stop smoking product will suit you best. Giving up is difficult because of nicotine addiction. This is the substance that is not cancer-causing.

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

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

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

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

From among the choices given above, choose one that will help you stop smoking now.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Stop Smoking: Cigarette

You may feel like you are on a rollercoaster during the first couple of weeks after you stopped smoking that cigarette. You will have good days and you will have bad days.

Whether you use a quit aid of some sort or go cold turkey, you are going to feel a certain amount of withdrawal from nicotine.

Some people have more trouble with the first week, and others with the second, but the good news is that for most quitters, the worst of physical withdrawal from nicotine is over within the first two weeks of smoking cessation.

Physically, your body will be reacting to the absence of not only nicotine, but all of the other chemicals in cigarette smoke that you've been inhaling 20 or more times a day for years. When the supply gets cut off, you can expect to feel the effects of that. Flu-like symptoms are common.

The amount of discomfort you'll experience depends in part on how well you take care of yourself during this phase. Follow the tips below to help you minimize the discomforts you'll feel as a result of physical and mental withdrawal from nicotine.
Quit smoking tips for the first two weeks.

Find some support

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Eat a well-balanced diet

Treats are fine, but be careful not to go overboard with the wrong kinds of food right now. Your body is working hard to expel toxins during the withdrawal process, and that takes energy. Choose foods that will provide you with the high quality fuel you need. Avoid the empty calories of junk food.

Take multi-vitamins

Smoking depletes our bodies of nutrients. Give yourself a boost with the help of a multi-vitamin. This, combined with good diet will help you minimize the fatigue that can often occur during nicotine withdrawal.

Stock the fridge with healthy snacks

Have small bags of bite size fresh veggies within easy reach. Celery and carrots sticks with low fat ranch dressing for dipping makes a good snack. Fresh fruit, such as pineapple chunks, berries, melon or other fruits in season will satisfy your sweet tooth if they're clean and ready to eat when you're looking for a snack. Good freezer treats include low fat fudgesicles and frozen grapes.

Get out for a walk

A short walk every day, as little as 15 minutes even, can work wonders for you as you withdraw from nicotine. Walking reduces edginess and improves circulation. It also releases endorphins, the "feel good" hormone.

So, when the urge to smoke strikes, head out for a walk around the block. You’ll come back refreshed and relaxed.

Get more sleep

Early cessation is tiring. Your body is stressed and so is your mind. Allow more time to sleep if you need it. Don’t worry, the weariness won't last. Your energy will return soon.

Drink water

Water helps you flush residual toxins from smoking out of your body more quickly. It also works well as a craving buster. Drink water before you snack and you will eat less.

Water is an important part of your diet! Keep yourself well-hydrated, and you'll feel better in general. That will in turn help you manage withdrawal symptoms more easily.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Natural Ways to Stop Smoking with Stop Smoking Aids

Quitting smoking is often one of the top New Years resolutions for people far and wide. Yet many more thousands seem to pick up the habit every year despite increasing health warnings, skyrocketing tobacco prices and increased awareness and more advanced stop smoking aids being offered to the public.

Nicotine is one of the most highly addictive controlled substances on the market today. And the price of cigarettes has multiplied exponentially over the past decade, making smoking an even less attractive habit than it already is to many people.

Unfortunately, cigarette smoking has not yet fallen out of favor with the younger crowd as an acceptable, and even "cool" social habit.

Little do these youngsters know, they are greatly jeopardizing their overall mental and physical health just to look cool, fit in, or participate in an accepted socialization tool.

You see, smoking not only gives you bad breath, accelerates the aging process and damages skin, and is bad for your heart and lungs, but it has been proven habitual smokers are more likely to succumb to depression and be subjected to higher levels of anxiety.

After quitting smoking, most people report a renewed sense of vitality, an ability to think more clearly, better health, easier breathing, dramatically reduced incidence of cold and flu and a much more positive outlook on life, including a greater sense of inner peace and tranquility.

The funny thing is, most smokers do want to quit primarily because they view the act of smoking a cigarette as soothing and a great stress reducer when in fact, the act of smoking has been proven to actually increase and perpetuate overall stress levels and anxiety.

While that cigarette may seem to be a "quick fix" for anxiety, it is actually the very thing that is causing more severe anxiety to begin with.

Gaining weight from stopping smoking is another common fear of smokers. Many stop smoking aids that are good will help to prevent this from happening by helping to replace the component of nicotine which suppresses the appetite with natural, unharmful and non-addictive natural botanicals. In other words, natural stop smoking aids actually have a natural ingredient which helps stave off hunger so you do not even have to notice your body is without nicotine.

What can you expect if you quit smoking?

  1. A fatter wallet. At five bucks or more for a pack of cigarettes, expect to have much more expendable cash in your pocket.
  2. A huge increase in mental clarity and focus. This happens right away if you use a natural stop smoking aid, since it relieves the common symptoms of nicotine withdrawal immediately, so you enjoy the benefits of being a non smoker immediately.
  3. Decreased depression and anxiety - especially once your body had adjusted and gotten rid of all the built up toxins caused by the cigarette smoking. Natural smoking aids will also help clear the toxins out super fast by giving your body an extra shot of antioxidant power, and cleaning you whole system from the inside out.
  4. Healthy lungs. The lungs repair themselves pretty quickly.
  5. Expect to breathe easier, and cough less.
  6. Get sick less often. Reason enough to quit.
  7. Look younger and have better, brighter skin almost immediately.
  8. Whiter teeth and a fresher mouth.
  9. Sleep better, longer and more deeply.
  10. Have more energy and lung capacity to be able to walk up those steps that used to make you huff and puff.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Stop Smoking Facts

Smoking is a habit that is very hard to stop.

The more you smoke, the lower your vital capacity. Vital capacity is determined by measuring the amount of air you take in with each breath. In the test you take a deep breath and then blow it out into a device that tells your doctor the volume of air dispelled.

If you do not stop smoking, this limits your activity when your lungs no longer expand enough to take in sufficient vital oxygen from the air that has only about 19% to begin with.

Cigarette smokers double their risk of heart attack. They are at even more risk from sudden cardiac death. Stroke kills more young smokers than nonsmokers.

The American Cancer Society said some years ago that when you stop smoking in:

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

8 hours: Carbon monoxide level drop to normal and oxygen level increase to normal. Take note that carbon monoxide is a deadly poison.

24 hours: Heart attack risk decreases. Isn’t that good to know?
Within 48 hours: Nerve endings start regrowing and your ability to smell and taste increases. Did you know that cigarette smoking stops nerve growth?

2 weeks to 3 months: Circulation improves, walking is easier and lung function increases up to 30%. Now, that is a great benefit, isn't it?

1 to 9 months: Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, and shortness of breath decrease. Cilia regrow in the lungs with increased ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce infection.
It will take a while if you have not stopped smoking a long time, but the relief must be wonderful.

1 year: Excess risk of heart disease is half that of a smoker.

5 years: Lung cancer death rate of a former one-pack-a-day smoker decreases almost one-half. Risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, and esophagus is half that of smokers. I've had Some communities have stopped chewing tobacco companies from giving chewing tobacco away at rodeos where it easily can get into the hands of children. Can you think of anything worse than mouth cancer?

10 years: The lung cancer death rate is the same as nonsmokers. Precancerous cells are replaced. Risk of death from cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease.

15 years: Risk of coronary heart disease is that of a nonsmoker. So now you are back to normal.

Think about it.

If you put $600 dollars each year into a stock mutual fund, annuity, or other financial instrument that generates 5% annually, you will have over twenty grand after 20 years.
That is if you add it in one chunk each year. The $600 figure assumes that you are spending $50 each month on cigarettes.
There are those who are spending a lot more. You will have more if you invest $50 monthly rather than saving until you get $600 at the end of the year.

And all this because you stopped smoking.

Do not be taken in by television ads that tell you to go to their site to learn how to stop smoking. Television ads are used for two purposes. They either sale the product or they enhance brand name recognition.

If you want to stop smoking, stop watching television altogether