Quit Smoking: The 10 Step Plan – Introduction
Sian Welby talks to Dr Chris Steele about the addictive and harmful effects of nicotine.
Dr Chris explains that nicotine is, milligram for milligram, more addictive than heroin and cocaine. Within 7 seconds of drawing on a cigarette the nicotine will be acting on the brain. This is why it can be so hard to quit.
One in two of all smokers will be killed by it. It is the most dangerous consumer product available on the market.
Nicotine itself is not dangerous, but when you smoke you breath in more than 4,000 other chemicals – this is what makes it lethal.
With smoking still growing among your girls, there is a big health issue here. Although the smoking ban is helping, the enduring appeal of the “cool” look ociated with cigarettes makes them attractive to young people.
But there is help. Nicotine replacement treatments can remove the craving for cigarettes, without damaging your health.
Also available on prescription are treatments such as Zyban and Champix.
Duration : 0:3:31
Confessions of a former smoker, Quit Smoking with Snus 1
This video present a person which smoked for 5 years in total and managed to stop smoking by using the smokless tobacco – Swedish Snus. The person manage to stop smoking because Snus deliver higher amounts of nicotine than any comparable products, including nicotine gum. It even deliver more than cigarettes. This is the main reason why it is so difficult to stop smoking – the addiction to nicotine, but when you use Snus you will loose the crave for smoking.
Duration : 0:6:26
Quit Smoking
20 minutes after quitting: Your heart rate and blood pressure will drop.
12 hours after quitting: The carbon monoxide level in your blood falls to normal.
2 weeks to 3 months after quitting: Your circulation and lung function improve.
5 years after quitting: Your risk of stroke is the same as if you had never smoked.
10 years after quitting: Your chances of dying from lung cancer are now half of what it would have been had you continued to smoke. Your risk of getting cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, cervix, and pancreas has also decreased.
15 years after quitting: Your risk of coronary heart disease is the same as if you’d never smoked.
Duration : 0:1:14
Stop Smoking – Why is it so hard? – Mayo Clinic
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/
Duration : 0:1:59
Stop smoking with SNUS! Success! Reviews of snus.
I feel a lot better now that I don’t smoke. Sure, I still use tobacco, but it isn’t the nasty stuff they sell here in America.
My health has improved. I can hike faster and longer. My lungs are stronger and I can smell things much better. My skin is glowing and hair and nails are better than when I was smoking. My teeth are whiter and I can also taste food much better.
Stop smoking now with snus. I tried to quit using the patch and gum and they worked for a few weeks and then I smoked even more than before. Let’s face it. Quitting nicotine is harder more difficult than a junkie trying to quit heroin. I will probably be addicted to nicotine all my life. I would rather have it in a food quality form than processed or chemically engineered.
I have had no problems importing snus with buysnus dot com and the cost of swedish snus is equal or less than our american snuff or chewing tobacco. I can’t stress enough how american chew is nothing like swedish snus. Swedes treat the snus like a food product and it is heavily regulated. They only use quality tobacco an it is properly cured. American chew is low grade tobacco. They fire treat it to dry the green leaves. They then take all parts of the tobacco and shred it. They then add chemicals like lead and formaldehyde and ferment the mixture. Artificial flavoring is added and sometimes fiber glass is added to cut your lip and help administer nicotine to your blood. No wonder why americans have more problems with tobacco related cancer. Sure beef can be a good way to get proteins but hotdogs are not. But it’s still beef right? Wrong.
I am looking into producing my own brand of snus as my family in wisconsin sells our blue ribbon tobacco to japan, cuba and mostly swedish match. All we have to do now is learn the process of making a good snus and keep the same standards as the swedish have for their tobacco. I’m sure it will be a big battle with big tobacco once we are up and running. That will make good video as well.
Hope to get a camera for christmas and make videos that dont have my office as a background. Maybe some snowboarding and hunting stuff with snus!
Good luck to you all on your mission to quit smoking. I wish you the best of luck and hope you become healthy once again.
Peace!
Nick
Duration : 0:4:20