Stop Smoking With EASE

By Alan Crisp

I often hear smokers say they will stop smoking when the time is right…..If you are still reading this article, then perhaps your right itme to stop is now!

When I get a call about smoking cessation therapy, I’m usually asked, “how much will it cost to stop smoking”? I respond, “A lot less than it will cost to keep smoking, and I don’t just mean the money”.

Do you really want to stop???

If you truly want to stop smoking, then maybe your first port of call should be your doctor’s practice. They will have trained nurses to help you with counselling, patches, gum and advice. This approach might work for you, but for the people who turn to their Hypnotherapist for help, this approach obviously hasn’t helped (and I see lots of them). If this is you, read on………

First of all, please remember that any well trained and qualified Hypnotherapist, really wants you to stop-smoking, they know what smoking does to people, and to their loved ones when they become ill and perhaps die. One in every two individuals who smoke will die of a smoking related disease, perhaps as young as 65 years, the average age of death for a smoker. In fact, a person dies in the UK of smoking related diseases ever five minutes….just think about that….More deaths than accidents, AIDS, drug abuse & alcohol all rolled up together….and if that isn’t enough, there are those countless numbers who need to have amputations, and those who struggle on with breathing difficulties and wheezing and coughing for a long time before the habit finally finishes them off.

Did you know that it was in the 60’s that tobacco and cancer where first linked together….no not the 1960’s….the 1760’s….yep, you heard correctly, the 1760’s. In 1761 a London Doctor called John Hill found that tobacco in the form of snuff caused pollypusses (small tumours) in the respiratory tract of many who used it.

Now just take a look at what you breath in when you take a nice long drag on your cigarette….

Information on Constituents of Tobacco Smoke

Nicotine is the most widely known chemical in tobacco smoke, but many people are amazed to discover that there are well over 4000 other chemicals produces when tobacco burns. Most of these have incomprehensible names and really only known to scientists and chemical analysts. Lister below, though, are some of the more well known ones.

CADMIUM

CARBON MONOXIDE

CARBON DIOXIDE

AMMONIA

PROPANE

METHANE

METHANOL

NICKEL COMPOUNDS

BENZENE

ISOPRENE

HYDROGEN SULPHIDE

ACREOLIN

ACETONE

HYDROCYANIC ACID

HYDROGEN CYANIDE

CREOSOL

METHYL NITRATE

NITROGEN OXIDE

DDT

PYRIDINE

TAR

FORMALDEHYDE

BUTADIONE

NICOTINE

In addition to these chemicals – given of purely as a result of the tobacco leaf burning – there are various additional unwholesome substances that may be present as a result of the plantation environment and the conditions in which the harvested leaf is stored and shipped.

Ok, That’s the bad news…but if you do stop….here are the benefits….

After 20 minutes, your blood pressure drops to normal and temerature of hands and feet return to normal.

After 8 hours Carbon monoxide levels in the blood drop to normal and oxygen levels in the blood return to normal.

24 Hours Chance of heart attacks begin to decrease.

48 Hours Nerve endings start to re-grow and smell and taste improve.

2 weeks - Circulation improves, Exercise including walking becomes easier. Lung function can increase by up to one third.

And there’s a lot more good news for you if you really want to stop. If you have the desire, why not contact your local hypnotherapist but make sure they are qualified, insured and experienced in smoking cessation therapy. I suggest you look for membership of at least one of the main UK Institutes and Associations which include:

British Institute of Hypnotherapy

Genaral Hypnotherapy Register (Registering arm of the Hypnotherapy Standards Council)

National Council for Hypnotherapy

Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

Hypnotherapy Association

Ensure that your therapist has a good knowledge of the health risks to smoking as well as the relevant skills and experience to offer you a first class stop-smoking session. If you know anyone who gave up with Hypnotherapy, ask them for the details of their therapist.

Good luck with kicking your habit…If you would like to speak to me about stopping, please call me on 020 8658 4290, or email alancrisp@yourtruth.co.uk. I will always be pleased to hear from you and I’d love to help you stop-smoking.

Alan Crisp DHP

Clinical Hypnotherapist in Beckenham

About the Author: Alan Crisp DHP, is a Clinical HYpnotherapist, Stress Management and Treauma Resolutions Consultant as well as being a Motivational TRainer working with individuals and organisations to help them change and remove barriers to learning and growth. http://www.hypnoseek.com

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By Ashish Jain

Cholesterol is a soft fat that is present in our body for various functions. They are indispensable for various metabolic activities within the body. The liver itself generates enough of it needed for the formation of the cell walls and vitamin D. They are carried by the proteins in the blood to the different sites for their functions. But the increase in the level of it can provoke heart diseases and other ailments. Thus it is “a necessary evil”.

The cholesterol level tends to rise when there is an excessive supply of the fats from other sources. The animal products especially eggs, red meat, milk, butter and cheese are the sources for extra amount of cholesterol. The additional supply to the body increases the stratum of it and an improper life style boosts it more to show its adverse effects. Research by scientists have acclaimed that “Smoking” too is one of the major factors for increasing the risk of heart diseases.

Let’s find out how smoking increases the risk of cholesterol level ?

Smoking has been considered as one of the major risk factors associated with the heart diseases. The cigarettes contain nicotine and produce carbon monoxide which are the two most harmful of the 4000 chemical compounds present in the tobacco. Smoking destroys the lining of walls of coronary and make them narrow and hard, reducing blood supply to the heart. Smoking of tobacco lowers HDL cholesterol and increases the fibrin elements in the blood that makes it more sticky and also increases the LDL level. Smoking thus enhances the degree of bad cholesterol. Indeed it increases the rate of heartbeat and high blood pressure also.

However, if one quits the habit of smoking the HDL cholesterol level will augment to the normal state very soon. It hardly takes weeks or a month to have the normal level of the HDL level back after quitting smoking. As during this course the LDL level will find no suitable medium for multiplication. If you abdicate smoking besides a healthy heart you get healthy lungs too. The blood circulation remains swift through out the body and the arteries and veins properly flow the blood to the respective destinations hassle free.

So, ensure a healthy long life without high level of cholesterol. Maintain a proper routine of diet along with mild exercise regime and get rid of harmful habits like smoking.

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By Bill Urell

Many of us actively look for ways to improve our lifestyles. From exercise to completely rethinking how, when and what should be consumed at mealtimes, we are seeking to live longer and healthier lives. For some of us, smoking is a huge obstacle to living healthy. But what can we do when it seems as if conventional methods do not work? Hypnosis has proven to be the answer for a great many people.

In a nutshell, hypnosis has been helpful in many situations where an individual wished to alter something about their behavior. This same approach of redirecting focus when the nicotine cravings begin to cause one to gain longingly at the display behind the convenience store counter has been the solution for people who desire to or have been told they must stop smoking.

While the exact methods may vary, the foundational idea of using hypnosis to stop smoking and control the desire to smoke, is to create a condition in which the individual finds the idea of smoking repulsive, rather than physically or emotionally desirable. How the hypnosis will help to trigger this response can vary. As an example, the hypnotist may create a post-hypnotic suggestion that will prompt the individual to reach for a glass of water whenever he or she feels a craving for a cigarette. The concept here is to substitute the desire for the nicotine with something else. As the body becomes less susceptible to the cravings, the need for the hypnotic suggestion will gradually fade out.

Another type of suggestion to plant has to do with aversion. Utilizing hypnosis, the idea of experiencing nausea when tempted to light up a cigarette can be planted. While this can be a rather unpleasant way to go about the process, aversion may be the strong tactic that is required in order to break the cycle. For people who have tried just about everything and still can’t seem to get away from the smoking habit, making the indulgence as unpleasant as possible often will finally help the individual to move all the way from addiction to being free again.

It is important to note that hypnosis is not a magical cure for smoking or any other type of addiction. There is a portion of the population that has a very difficult time entering into a hypnotic trance. Even then, the mind may resist the planting of suggestions by hypnosis. Before pinning all hopes on this one treatment making the difference in your life, determine that you will continue to use other recommended ways of getting you through those times of craving. Hypnosis, when used in conjunction with other means of fighting your addiction, may very well be enough to make the difference.

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By Olivia Andrews

Cigarette smoking is assosiated with a long list of debilitating conditions that have been well-documented, with heart disease and stroke, cancer, and chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases primarily amongst them. While group health plans routinely cover the cost of treatment for these smoking-related illnesses, however, that is not the rule for programs to help smokers quit.

If you too feel that you are in this vicious circle and need to leave the habit then it could be easily done by following the simple easy steps:

1. You should think about cutting down or quitting smoking

It can be easily done if you talk to others about smoking and observe that how a non smoker reacts to a smoker at the same time look at the negative steps of smoking. You can even smoke before the mirror to watch what exactly goes on while you smoke.

2. Gather more information about quitting

You can ask ex smokers how they managed to leave the habit or tell your friend that you wish to opt healthy alternatives to smoke. Whenever you feel the urge to smoke, wait for a moment before lighting up, again experience the urge fully and think different ways to respond to this situation. You can even reward yourself when you feel that you are aware about your smoking habits.

3. Try to modify your smoking risks such as switch brands or cut down

You can start a smoking journal and then record when you smoke more or less than usual. At the same time you can try certain stress reduction techniques and adopt more healthier activity that is in compatiable with smoking such as swimming, dancing etc. You can even switch to a low brand and then reward yourself for each risk modification.

4. You should decide to quit

You need to keep a track of the number of cigarettes you smoke every day , again stop buying cartons and make it one at a time. Try to identify what are your top smoking triggers. Brushing your teeth many times a day shall help and then list the reasons that you want to quit. Switching brands each week with lower brands each time will help. Postpone every third cigarette you smoke.

5. Set a quitting date

Decide yourself that you have to quit and therefore sit at non smoking sections of restaurants and airplanes. Prepare a minimum of three responses to your top cigarette triggers. Try to cut back upon alcoholic beverages and also set up a health bank.

6. Try to remain far away from cigarettes for about 24 hours

Schedule healthful activities such as walking, fishing. You can also indulge yourself in different activities such as brushing your teeth or sending your favourite clothes for washing meaning thereby keeping yourself busy and diverted from smoking. Do remember to discard all your ashtrays.

7. Make sure you complete one year as a non smoker

Reward yourslef on a daily basis such as massages, hot baths and then avoid smoking or drinking places and observe how better does your food tastes.

These are some of the ways that could help you out in quitting smoking but again many people face trouble in getting rid of this drug abuse. To this, there are certain smoking cessation medicines that work in a way to help the person quit smoking.

About the Author: Olivia Andrews, writing for http://www.benzer11.com/zyban.html is a freelance journalist and has written many reviews on subjects such as finance, education, health, entertainment, music, gifts, crafts, travel, apparels and mobile phones.

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By Karina Jacobsen

There are numerous methods of giving up smoking but it is a difficult thing to do. If you have tried almost everything available such as nicotine patches, or nicotine chewing gum and the like, you should consider acupuncture. You may be wary about the idea but you never know what may work for you. Here is a little account about the process you go through if you ever decide to check it out.

At your initial meeting with an acupuncture professional, you will have a number of tests taken. First, there is a questionnaire to fill out and then a number of tests that concern your heart are preformed. Finally, your tongue is observed. The testing is necessary because acupuncture as a process considers each body as a unique. The whole process must be tailored to your body using the tests as a gauge to figure out a program for you. If another smoker went along to the same acupuncturist, she would get a different procedure based on her test results.

After the first meeting you may be sent away until you next visit or you may be instructed to take some vitamins or supplements. How many sessions and how long the whole process takes depends on the individual. It may take a while for you to quit or you may stop smoking after a short length of time.

The costs vary but generally the first visit is about four hundred to eight hundred dollars and then there may be about five visits following that. The supplements or other herbs can be about five dollars to twenty five but the herbs are pretty cheap considering what would be the end result. So if you have tried everything else and still want to give up smoking why don’t you give acupuncture a go it might be the one that works. Good Luck!

About the Author: Karina Jacobsen is a staff writer at Alternative Health Advisor and is an occasional contributor to several other websites, including Wellness Digest.

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By Ashish Jain

You have tried all the quit smoking techniques. You failed to achieve the objective. A sense of helplessness and frustration has enveloped you, with in. But, now someone tells you about the quit smoking techniques you haven’t tried before. You are once again interested in the subject of quitting smoking.

You have heard enough of cock and bull stories. Now, you wish to experience the reality. Reach the state, to live in a smoke free atmosphere for ever. How can you achieve it?

I wish to tell you the truth at this point of time. Your focused mind and your solid determination can do it for you. You have to build yourself, and if you break in between, you alone are responsible. Let this be perfectly understood!

With this solid determination, you need to proceed further. You have to keep your association with other sundry methods or techniques to quit smoking as well. Some of them may be the ones you haven’t tried, like anti-depressant medications. Join some association which is actively engaged in the de-addiction programs related to tobacco. Many non-governmental organizations regularly conduct programs through videos, and street plays. Your truthful desire to give up smoking should take you to such spots on a regular basis. That means, you are expected to spend your time more in the association of non-smokers than the smokers. Gradually, the smoking knot gets loosened.

You know the wise saying, “Remove the thorn with a thorn.” You get quit smoking cigarettes now. Depression is one of the main causes of smoking. Anti depression medications help to reduce your nicotine cravings. These things only give you the helping hand. In the end, your determination matters. It is only your will and determination that seeks liberation from the smoking habit once for all.

Apart from the natural stop smoking products and other over the counter medications, something more dynamic and the result-oriented treatment has become popular. Laser treatments and acupuncture methods have met with the approval and a large number of smokers have benefited out of them.

The purpose is to subdue the overriding hop of nicotine on you. You get nicotine gum, a smoking cessation shot or the patch.

In the process of quitting smoking, all these are subsidiary companies. Your flagship company is your unflinching decision!

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By Ashish Jain

The best way to quit smoking is through your will power. You may say, easier said, than done! The only person in this world, who will not fail you, is ‘thy own self’. If that rule is applied here, you shall have your last puff, when you decide about it.

Why this highest taxed commodity, attracts highest numbers of people? It is such a strong personalized habit, no cut and dry formulas can be put forth, to quit smoking. How deep is your cigarette trench? Are you consuming the cigarettes or the cigarettes consume you?

Who will be the victor in the emerging battle?

If you are a marginal case, if your day is done with a few cigarettes, cold turkey may well suit you. To what degree you are addicted to nicotine? This is the deciding factor. But if you require 5 packets of cigarettes per day (50 cigarettes), you will have tough time in negotiating the quit-boat! This path has led to the smoking-salvation, for about 5% of the people, who opted thus.

Let’s take it that you are not a compulsive smoker, and you go for a cigarette, when you are under stress. You need something in your mouth for psychological relief. And your option is cigarette. In that case, think of any other alternative. You need to try the chewing gum. But eventually don’t cultivate the habit of both- chewing gum as well as the cigarette!

If you are not sure about your will power, do believe in the will power of someone else, to control your will power. That is possible by hypnotherapy. In this method, your subconscious mind is targeted in your artificially articulated unconscious state, and certain vibrations against your smoking habit, are transmitted to you. But, you will carry the feeling throughout your life that someone else is responsible for your quitting the smoking habit. Doesn’t matter, a friend in need is a friend indeed!

Price factor has not deterred you from smoking, but you need to constantly give the auto-suggestion to your mind, that you can save lots of money, by quitting smoking. Even if it has a marginal effect on reducing your smoking, this point is worth a serious consideration.

Use combinations of quitting methods to get rid of smoking forever. You need to find a suitable nicotine replacement alternative and half the battle is won. Join group counseling sessions, where you are told and retold many a damaging effects of the smoking habit. This will definitely have profound effects as for your relations with the cigarette habit.

Can the anti-smoking drug zyban, drag you from the hard influence of cigarette? When nothing else works, try that option as well!

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By Bill Nad

Quitting smoking is tough to do to say the least but there are a few things that you can lean on to make things easier for you. Here is a selection of 10 tips to help you to quit smoking.

1. What makes you keeps smoking? Write down those times that you have the urge to smoke before you quit. This way you know what situations to avoid when you do quit.

2. Look around for as many support people that have quit before that you can. Other peoles success can help you out. Go and solicit advice from those that you know that have quit before you. Was it nicotine gum, the patch, willpower?

3. Tell your family your plans to quit. The very best support will come from home. Have your family treat you proudly for quitting smoking.

4. Throw away those smokes and clean everything that smells of smoke. When you are quitting the last thing that you need is stinky clothes and access to cigarettes.

5. Make a list of reasons to quit. Look at it every time you have a craving to smoke.

6. Keep your hands and mouth busy. Have lots of fresh fruit around to chew, start doodling and get a puzzle or two. Keep busy and make sure that you keep busy all of the time.

7. Drink lots of water. I am a big fan of water but you should really make sure to be detoxing your body with lots of water.

8. Start and exercise program. Why not try to make a lot of changes in your life all at once. Quit smoking and increase you health changes by exercising and taking advantage of your new healthy lifestyle.

9. Buy yourself some new things to prove to yourself that you have turned the corner. Make a lot of those changes that you can see all of the time. New clothes, new books, new food and drinks in the fridge.

10. Buy any books or other support items that will help. The very best thing you can do in the end is engross yourself in anything that will support your new lifestyle change. Read books, watch inspiring videos, get all of those pieces of support that will help you in your weak moments after you quit.

Remember quitting smoking is one of the most important things you can do to improve your health. I wish you all the luck in your attempt to quit smoking.

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By Vincent Platania

Recent studies have shown that smoking and taking Beta Carotene supplements do not go together. Beta Carotene is an antioxidant, which means that it inactivates free radicals in the body. In the process it oxidizes and can become a kind of pro-oxidant or form oxidized by-products. Normally we don’t have to worry about the by-products of Beta Carotene’s antioxidant behavior. If you maintain a healthy diet with a variety of antioxidants they will work in combination to protect one another from oxidizing.

It appears that smokers on the other hand do have something to worry about. Two studies ending in the nineties found that people who smoked at least one pack a day or drank higher than average amounts of alcohol and took Beta Carotene or Vitamin A supplements were at a higher risk for developing lung cancer and a higher risk of dying. Each of these trials showed that Beta Carotene wasn’t helping many of its smoking participants and was in fact hurting some of them. The first trial called The Alpha-Tocopheral, Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Trial showed eighteen percent more lung cancer and eight percent more deaths in male smokers who took 20mg of Beta Carotene. The second trial called the Beta Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET) initial results showed that there was twenty eight percent more lung cancer in the group of smokers and former smokers it had taking Beta Carotene and Vitamin A and seventeen percent more deaths. These results were so similar to the Cancer Prevention Trial final results that they told the participants to stop taking the supplements before the trial was scheduled to end.

Why is this so? Well, since it’s thought that anti-oxidants protect each other from oxidizing scientists suspect that smokers don’t have enough of the other types of antioxidant vitamins in their systems to prevent this from occurring. It has been found that smokers have low levels of Vitamin C in their blood stream-and that’s’ one of the antioxidants. So the Beta Carotene oxidizes in the body after it uses up its antioxidant properties an in effect becomes a free radical damaging or exacerbating damage done to the cells of smokers lungs which leads to abnormal cell growth and cancer. With low levels of other kinds of antioxidants in their bodies there’s nothing to stop it. Scientists believe that the two antioxidants that work together to protect the body from Beta Carotene pro oxidant damage are Vitamins E and C.

If you are a smoker you should by no means try to avoid Beta Carotene or Vitamin A in your diet. These trials seem to show that all anti-oxidants work together to prevent cancer and isolating one or the other for consumption, especially in a non-natural form, simply negates its effects and sometimes causes problems. What you should be doing is focusing on eating a lot of foods with antioxidants in combination. There is no evidence as of current that suggests eating foods with Beta Carotene in them can increase the risk of cancer in smokers.

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By Terence Young Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to a person’s health. In fact, the average person who smokes takes about fourteen years off the length of his or her life. Still, it’s hard to quit, as every smoker knows. Many of the common helps for quitting are based on replacing the nicotine in your system with something that doesn’t require smoking, such as patches or pills. These methods leave you still addicted to nicotine. If you use hypnosis to quit smoking, you can completely remove the addiction and be on the way to being toxin-free.

Hypnosis works on the subconscious level. A person enters a state of deep relaxation. It is thought that in this hypnotic state, verbal suggestions are received and acted on more thoroughly than in a conscious state. Hypnosis is a desirable method because it doesn’t require any chemicals or other agents to change the body chemistry. It doesn’t work for everyone, however.

Hypnosis can be done by a hypnotherapist, or a person can use a method of self-hypnosis. A hybrid between these two are CD’s that are recorded with the suggestions necessary to bring a person into a state of hypnosis. These are like bringing a hypnosis therapist into your home at any time you desire.

When people quit smoking, one unfortunate result is that they often gain weight. The person no longer has something to put in their mouth, so they reach for food. Many smokers believe that smoking has actually affected their metabolism, because they can’t tell they are eating more, yet the pounds pile on. Which ever is the case, hypnosis and self-hypnosis can help a person overcome the weight problem, too.

The suggestions used in hypnosis for quitting smoking differ from the healthy self-affirmations you may already use in your conscious mind. In the subconscious world of hypnosis, the suggestions must be much simpler, and they cannot include symbolic language. The subconscious mind takes everything literally. If you are writing your own script to use in self-hypnosis, it would be a good idea to study this point before proceeding. It is possible to do more harm than good if the mind runs away with a misinterpretation of a play on words.

Not everyone responds to hypnosis. A person must be able to relax and enter a very deep state of repose in order to receive the suggestions. Some people just can’t let themselves go like this.

To try it on your own, you will first need to get comfortable. Lying on the back on a pad on the floor is a good position. Relax your muscles one at a time. Focus on your breathing. Breathe in deeply to a count of four while imagining the air filling up your lungs right to the bottom. Let the air out by a reversed method. If you have ever done progressive relaxation in a yoga class, the techniques used in self-hypnosis are similar.

Self-hypnosis is a safe, drug-free way to quit smoking. Whether you choose to go to a therapist or try it on your own, may it be a step on your path to better health.

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