Quit Smoking Guide

Are you looking for effective quit smoking aids? If so, you have landed on the right web page. In fact, waste no time in taking your first step towards a smoke free life. Finish reading this article and you will learn some of the most popular stop smoking methods.

So, let us begin with the study of various aspects and effects of smoking and nicotine on our bodies. Learn the ways to fight the habit and quit smoking to lead a healthy life once again.

In the beginning, cigarette cessation is typically difficult for us? So, we often need quit smoking aids to assist quitting smoking cigarettes. That is primarily due to the ‘nicotine’ in cigarettes. Yes, nicotine is one highly addictive drug because it enters our blood stream. It makes the smoker physically as well as psychologically dependent on cigarettes.

Not to mention, the smoker exhales secondhand smoke, which results in passive smoking of anyone nearby. This makes cigarette smoking dangerous for both the smokers as well as the people around them.

Beyond the full strength prescription drug Zyban, which is commonly used by heavy smokers, is nicotine replacement therapy and stop smoking hypnosis.

NRT: Nicotine Replacement Therapy. It is considered to be one of the most effective means for smokers to reduce nicotine withdrawal symptoms. When the smoker decides to quit smoking forever, he/she is provided with small dosages of nicotine in the form of nicotine replacements. These replacements can be taken in the form of nicotine patches (Habitrol, Nicoderm, Nicotrol and Prostep), nicotine gums (Nicorette gum), nicotine inhalers or nicotine nasal sprays. Additionally, if you are in the habit of smoking your first cigarette within 30 minutes of waking up, you should also consider Commit Lozenges.

Most of these NRT medicines are available over-the-counter, but you should see your GP for professional advice prior to deciding on the best quit smoking aids.

Stop Smoking Hypnosis: On the other hand, some prefer stop smoking hypnosis to NRT. In review, a few studies prove that hypnosis techniques are more successful for total cigarette cessation than NRT. That is because they rely heavily on the positive results of quitting smoking and motivating a smoker for the good cause. These techniques are not about controlling the mind of smokers, which is a common myth when addressing stop smoking hypnosis programs.

NRT or Hypnosis? The decision lies with you. Visit a GP and decide which quit smoking aids will work best for you!

Loren Bailey is the webmaster and content advisor for Quit-Smoking-Patch.com and other health related web sites such as BuyBupropionHcl.com.

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Someone you know, perhaps even you, need to quit smoking. You understand the dangers and realize there is not one cell in your body that is unaffected by cigarettes and/or snuff. You even understand that no one in your immediate vicinity is safe from the fumes of your cigarettes or the fumes you exhale.

Yetyou find it difficult to quit. You are not alone. Statistics from 2004 indicated that 70% of smokers want to quit, and most people have to try more than once before they are finally able to quit.

Getting through the nicotine withdrawal is almost the easy part. At least it was for me so many years ago. What I remember to this day was the voices I started hearingthe ones that told me it was okay to have a smokeno one was around, therefore no one had to know. My biggest enemy then was myself. I believe if you understand that the addicted part of your brain does not have your best interest in mindyou fill find it easier.

Here is some great information on what happens to your body when you quit smoking.

• Within 20 minutes, your heart rate and blood pressure begin to return to normal. In addition the temperature in your hands and feet increases as the effects of vasoconstriction begin to recede.
• Within 2 weeks to 3 months after you quit, your lung functions increase by up to 30%, continuing to improve each month.
• Your risk of a heart attack or other coronary event is diminished by 50% within one year, and becomes that of a non-smoker by 15 years!
• While quitting will not reduce the number of wrinkles in your face, you can definitely stop collecting wrinkles due to smoking.
• You will smell better, taste better and feel better. You’ll have more money, more time, more friends and more life.

Today is a good day to quit. The rest of your life is waiting.

©2005, Barbara C. Phillips, NP is the founder of OlderWiserWomen(tm) where women are inspired to embrace the freedom, magic and wisdom of Successful Aging. Visit http://www.OlderWiserWomen.com for your copy of “Celebrating You: 50 Tips for Vibrant Living”. In addition to writing about about women’s aging issues, Ms. Phillips uses her medical background teaching health and wellness issues to those who will listen.

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Why and how you should quit smoking

53 years ago I had a friend and she was a girl.(not an official Girlfriend).

Her mom smoked and worked during the day so daughter used to pinch her smokes and shared them with me. Both my parents smoked as well.

So off and on I got used to smoking; my smoking got a real boost when I became a sailor at the age of 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free when you were outside territorial waters.

Over time I started smoking more and more cigarettes and had to get up a couple of times a night to have another nicotine fix.

Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.

Going on an airline trip was sheer torture because I could not smoke for a couple of hours.

We flew to Singapore once and I had a couple of smokes in the washroom in spite of the fact that airplanes were already putting people in jail for smoking.

Over the years half of my mom’s family died of lung cancer.

My dad’s only sibling died of lung cancer.

My mom died of a brain tumor-she used to be a heavy smoker.

My dad got lung cancer.

After he got lung cancer he visited me; he was a pathetic skin over bones man now, wearing a corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN MY GARAGE.

My brother’s wife has breast cancer; my brother still smokes cigars.

I started having coughing spells at night and the vision in my left eye was deteriorating.

Me quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no willpower.

Because I knew I could not quit I never even bothered to buy Nicorette or any other stuff.

So after a whole lifetime of smoking I was going to die of lung cancer too.

BUT WAIT: the story is not finished yet.

On September 4, 2002 I was in Calgary browsing in a bookstore called Brown and Noble and a book jumped out at me.

The book was called “How to stop smoking” and had 385 pages in it.

I glanced at the first couple of pages where the author boasted that this book was the only way to quit smoking without any withdrawal symptoms or without the Patch.

I bought the book because I was curious as to what you could write 385 pages about how to quit smoking.

It took me 9 days to read the book.

On September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took my last drag and exhaled it through a Kleenex.

That was my last cigarette. I have never even thought about smoking.
People can smoke around me and I don’t give it a thought.

The book changes your Mindset.

The book is called “How to stop smoking” by Allan Carr, a British Accountant and is not available in the United States.

I no longer cough at night and the vision in my left eye is fine now.

Frank Vanderlugt
http://www.youwillquit.com

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