Quit Smoking for Better Health

What is the fastest and easiest way to quit smoking?

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:57:13 +0000

I am having surgery on January 9th, I literally have to completely quit tomorrow. I am on the patch, but I keep cheating and taking one or two puffs every few hours. It only totals to maybe 2 cigarettes a day, but I need to be completely smoke free to go under the anesthesia. I know its easy to say, just don't do it, but I feel like I have no control, no willpower, no anything! I have been smoking 2 packs a day for 17 years. Do I have a chance?

yes yes yes you have a chance!!! I just quit 5 months ago and I couldn't feel better! my suggestion would be gum, cinnamon has been proven to curb the urges for not only the nicotine, but also food so you won't eat instead of smoking. Also, nicotine urges last on average 8-10 minutes-so if you can take a short walk, clean something, call a friend, just get your mind off the urge, it should pass by the time you have finished your task. Every urge you pass up is only going to make you stronger!! You CAN do it

Star Wars HIDDEN bloopers very funny

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:44:03 +0000

this is a few hidden outtakes and stunts from the movie that didn't quite make it in

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What is a good way to quit smoking marijuana?

admin — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:08 +0000

I must be severely addicted because smoking weed has become a part of my everyday life to the extent that i will not go to class, work, or even to get something to eat unless i have smoked some marijuana. I feel like it is so important but when i do smoke it…it doesn't even make me feel very good, sometimes i actually feel worse. I think i am so addicted because it just feels like a routine that i have gotten so used to…i get satisfaction out of the "act" of packing it and rolling it…and not much from the actual effects because i am so tolerant to it! Please give me some serious feedback from people who have quit for significant periods of time? Thanks!

I live in Holland.
I started smoking weed because my boyfriend did. And then I moved in his appartment and there was weed everywhere. After a couple of months I became tolerant to it as well.
Instead of feeling calm (as i usually did) i began feeling paranoid. Especially if there were people in the room i didn't know too well. And even more if I was walking outside. I even started shivering and my heartbeat raised sky-high. So I needed to quit.
You need to go somewhere where it's impossible to smoke weed. I moved back to my father's house (for other reasons, but it turned out good for quitting as well). You need to be distracted.
I smoke sigarettes more than i used to, as some sort of compansation. But i don't feel a craving anymore.
Weed isn't addictional, it's the "getting used to" that's hardest to break.
I sometimes take a few tugs in the weekend, but than i start feeling paranoid and shivery again and i skip the next joints.
Ur lucky you're not addicted to hard-drugs. Weed is herbal and doesn't cause permanent damage (ok, inhaling any type of smoke is never good), but you need to stop if you want to move forward. You can't combine weed with working on your future.

Hope it's useful to you.

How can i get my girlfriend to quit smoking?

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:27:10 +0000

My girlfriend smokes. I want her to quit. She doesn't do it around me but I can always smell it and I just hate how it can effect her health. I have tried to use guilt, saying how its unhealthy to everyone but she just gets pissed when anyone tries to lecture her. she knows how bad it is and she kind of wants to quit. besides her smoking she is the most amazing girl ever.

Tell her how much of a turn off it is for you…. it takes an average of 7 attempts to successfully quit smoking…. keep on her….but be patient…. Good luck!!!!

Stop Smoking - Why is it so hard? - Mayo Clinic

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:51:03 +0000

For some people it is very hard to stop smoking. In this video experts from the Mayo Clinic explain why. The video illustrates the way in which cigarettes deliver nicotine to the brain causing changes in the brain that lead to addiction. When a person stops smoking they often experience difficult withdrawal symptoms and powerful urges to smoke. The urges and withdrawal symptoms make quitting very hard for many smokers. But hope and help for smokers can be found at the Mayo Clinic website, http://www.mayoclinic.org/ndc-rst/

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Quit Smoking with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:45:05 +0000

Visit
http://www.Tapping.com
for more Emotional Freedom Technique videos, EFT articles, and my E-Book.

Emotional Freedom Technique is a simple acupressure technique for releasing negative feelings.

You feel negative feelings in the body, so you have to go to the body to work on them.

You can release a negative feeling right now with this video. Tapping is a great way to reduce the cravings you feel for cigarettes.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: How hard should I tap?
A: Tap lightly, just so that you feel it. The purpose of the tapping is to bring your attention to different parts of your body, it actually works if you just imagine tapping - as long as your attention is drawn to the right points.

Q: How can I be sure I am finding the right points?
A: Use two fingers to make sure you cover the points. Sometimes the point will 'feel' right, as if there is a slight indent in the skin or the point is particularly sensitive. It's all connected so you don't have to be 100% accurate.

Q: You have missed out points that Gary Craig teaches!
A: Yes. Feel free to tap those too, I left them out to keep the video simple and it seems to work fine without them. If you find the video doesn't work for you, try tapping the additional points - around the top-middle of the head, and just under the armpit.

Q: Is the sequence important?
A: No. You can tap the points in any order. In fact you only need to tap one or two of the points for each particular feeling. It's just you have no easy way to know which point so you might as well tap them all.

Q: I am a skeptic! / You are a charlatan!
A: Thanks. Tapping is perfectly explainable scientifically but it does go beyond most people's understanding. It really does work though, and the best way to prove that to yourself is to try it and watch your negative feelings disappear.

For more info see the Introductory video which gives a bit more explanation:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6i33V2EcVlY

Also this video shows use of an electro-acupuncture pen to show that the points have a different electrical resistence to other parts of the body:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GCYkdK0Uol0

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I quit smoking 4 months ago, I recently started coughing on and off especially during the night?

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:26:18 +0000

I quit smoking after 17yrs. I developed a case of brochitis 4 months ago and decided to quit. I was treated with antibiotics and recovered. Just in the past month, I developed an on and off cough with clear mucus that occurs at night.

Is it allergies? anybody else have this situation?

Your body will cough up the bad stuff by the end of 6 months off the smokes. Make sure youre exercising so you can increase your lung health quicker.

How long does it take to quit smoking?

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:42:08 +0000

I know each person is different, but about how long does it take for the cravings to go away. I can restraint from a cigarette for 8 hours each day at work, and have gone as long as 12 hours when I was on a trip with students. However, the minute the opportunity arises I'm having a cigarette. I crave the act of smoking much more than the nicotine I recieve from it (nicotine gum makes me crave a cigarette). I've tried to quit unsuccessfully and find if I don't have access to them, the nicotine cravings occur about every 4-6 hours while the craving for a cigarette occurs ever 15-30 minutes. How long would it take for these cravings to disappear?

If you don't understand the difference between craving a cigarette and craving the nicotine I don't really know how to explain it to a non-smoker. Sorry.

First of all, your body only needs 3 cigarettes to fulfill its nicotine addiction daily. If you can get through the first three days, you have pretty much quit. The hardest thing about quitting really is the psychological aspects of smoking. After the three days, your biggest craving will come from your psyche wanting to engage in the act of smoking. My suggestion, is as long as you can get past the initial quitting, buy yourself a pack or two of clove cigareetes. You can go through the action of smoking without the nicotine. Plus they smell so gross, that you will soon get past smoking those as well. If I could suggest anything, Zyban was the most help for me to quit. I had tried the patch, nicotine gum, laser treatment, accupressure…when I did the Zyban, there were some side affects, but getting through the first three days of quitting was a breeze in comparison to the last five times I had tried to quit. Good luck!! It really is worth it! PS depending on how long you smoked for, it could take six months to a year for you to stop thinking daily about smoking.

E.T.ALIEN HELPS TO QUIT SMOKING CIGARETTES

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:03:03 +0000

To quit smoking is possible only by reducing the acidity of our body. what increases our body acidty :
1)Lack of Faith:If we make a careful research we shall see that people who have faith and perform their prayers in Islamic countries almost do not smoke at all .Praying throws the negative feelings from human brain,keeps you self-confident and prevents nervousness,stress causing the body acidity.
2)Refined foods and too much consumption of meat : increases the acidty of our body.By consuming natural foods and les meat your body will be balanced and will not need to smoke Herebelow are some refined foods:
White flour products(sandwiches,pizzas,cakes, ,etc):have almost no nutritional value and contain various chemical ingredients so as to have a better appearance,mouth-feel..Best way of consuming wheat is buying wholewheat bread,bulgur or making our own bread at home with fresh ground whole wheat flour.
White rice,salt,sugar: polished rice (without bran) also loses all the vitamins, minerals and causes acidity in our metabolism. right alternative is natural,branned rice.
White sugar: and its derivatives like chocolates,ice- creams,puddings,cakes,etc. are subject to many chemical applications till they become refined and granulated and increase acidty.We can obtain sugar from legumes ,cereals, fruits, vegetables and dairy products naturally. Ready made vinegars,tomato pastes,soups,puddings,pickles,tinned vegetables: also cause acidty and we must try to produce them at home as well with simple methods. Margarines,refined edible oils:are also unnatural because of the refining processes(bleaching,deodorising, degumming,etc.).Best alternative is cold pressed olive oil or eating oil seeds like sesame,coconut,groundnut or nuts like hazelnuts,peanuts,walnuts to satisfy our limited amount of daily oil need.Butter is not also good because of its saturated oil content. Avocado or peanut butter are the best alternatives of them. Tea,coffee and all kinds of alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks increases the acidty so we must prefer natural mineral water,herbal teas like linden,rosehip,etc. or fresh fruit juices . Our protein intake can be obtained from meat,poultry,fish but the best way is to prefer lite dairy products or soybeans which is the only legume that can stand alone as a complete protein because too much consumption of animal products make our body tired because they contain no fiber and cause acidty.
After passing to natural nutrition we must quit smoking very slowly.Firstly you must determine a base amount.E.G.You must smoke everyday 15 cigarettes(or 20) for a week. After that you will decrease the number always one by one.E.G. next week everyday you will smoke 14 cigarettes.Quiting cigarette is also hard psychologically therefore you must be very patient and let your body adapt to the new amount both physically and psychologically and try to avoid yourself being effected from the side effects of quitting smoking .So each week by decreasing you can come to your last cigarette and then you begin to smoke 1 in 2 weeks then,1 cigarette in one month and then you can quit completely.You must not forget that after this period of 3-4 month quiting process you will gain 10 years added to your life .
Best Regards

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How come you get depressed when you quit smoking?

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:56:10 +0000

Is it an actual side effect of nicotine leaving your body? I have quit smoking a million times and usually find myself lighting back up cause I can't stand the misery.

But this time i've lasted over a month. I feel great. I'm not depressed anymore. Tho i've had heaps of bad shit happen to me while trying to quit, i'm pretty happy.

But my poor husband gave up smoking 4 days ago. And he's miserable. Everything to him is negative. I hate to see him this way. I was that way too!

Is there anything to help him not be depressed. Or do you just have to get through those evil 2 weeks without smoking and it will go away. Is there a magic vitiman?

When you are a regular smoker your brain gets used to the nicotine. Once you quit it creates a chemical imbalance in your brain because you took away a chemical that has become part of the regular system. This most likely causes headaches, depression, and cravings. It is also why using gum and other methods that have some nicotine in them help people quit. It reduces the amount of nicotine slowly over time to help the brain functions learn to balance and operate without the nicotine. I would recommend just using one of those systems offered in drug stores or use your own such as going from say a pack a day to half a pack for a week then a quarter of a pack for the next week to 2 a day for a week to one a day for a week then one every other day for a week to none. This way the brain should balance out and he should be much healthier and happier! Good Luck!