Do you know that around 1000 Americans are dying everyday because of smoking?
One out of every six men is dying in United States because of smoking. It is quite clear now that smoking is one of the major causes of death. If you smoke then you are also enhancing the chances of diseases that will end up in death. The major diseases due to smoking are the coronary heart disease, lung cancer, mouth cancer and severe problems regarding throat, bladder, kidney and pancreas. Most of the diseases are so severe that there are no treatments available for them. The severe gangrene problem has been found in the Diabetic patients, who smoke a lot.
Now, this is the high time and you must quit smoking immediately. Do not think that it is impossible for you to quit it, as there are many chain smokers, who have quit smoking. The only thing one needs is the determination and once you achieve your destination then you will feel happy and contented.
Follow these rules and see the results:
Firstly, you need a firm determination of quitting this bad habit. When you have determined firmly, and then decide a date. Now, from this particular date, you will not touch the cigarette determine it firmly.
For a smoker, smoking is one of the essentials. Now you have decided to quit it and to attain the quitting, try some other work at the time of smoking.
As the date of quitting is approaching, try to minimize the intake of cigarettes and the conditions when you smoke. Take a glass jar, fill it with water and drop all the butts of cigarette into it.
Try to concentrate on the advantages after quitting cigarette, in your free time. You will find that quitting smoking have much more advantages than smoking. If one quit smoking then there will be considerable minimization in the risk involved due to heart disease, cancer and other deadly diseases. Earlier you use to get tired up easily, but now you have more power. You will also gain resistance from cough, cold and flu.
Quitting cigarette will also save the money, which you were burning to destroy your health. Put all the money you spend on your cigarette in the glass jar and in one month see your savings.
In the initial phases, nicotine will show its effects. It would be almost impossible for you to handle this temptation. However, try to divert your mind. You will also have to face a lot of problems like headache, irritation and coughing. All these are positive signs. To avoid them drink water, make your hands and mouth busy. Do not bother about them, as they will reduce with the time. During the initial phases of quitting smoking, you may feel anxiety. To get rid of anxiety does not take caffeine drinks, inhale deep breaths and go for walk. The best way to handle the problem is start-doing exercises.
Moreover, quantity of carbon monoxide in your blood will minimize and a considerable increment of oxygen. There will be glow at your face and your skin will turn pink. Your heartbeat will be normal and lungs become clearer.
Your risk to heart attack gradually decreases, if you are not smoking for a year or two.
To make it more interesting, look out for a friend interested in getting rid of it. Both of you can do wonders. Always try to avoid places that encourage smoking. After quitting, many people usually put on a lot of weight. To avoid this, go for an exercise program, eat healthy food and improve your way of living.
Some drugs can replace the harmful nicotine. But, it should not be taken without the advice of Doctor. For instance, Nicotine gum, Bupropion, Nicotine inhaler and Nicotine nasal spray. These drugs will surely helpful in quitting smoking.
Now, you have acquired your destination. It is the time to reward you for your achievement. Get that glass jar and you will be wondered to find the amount you have saved.
Many times, even after quitting people smoke. Do not think that your efforts have gone wasted. You should only consider the advantages of not smoking and start following the path of not smoking. The best thing one can do for quitting smoking is the faith in oneself. Have faith in yourself and you will attain the unachievable.
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Affirmations can be helpful for a variety of purposes, but they are especially effective in helping ease the discomfort of quitting smoking (or eliminating any bad habit). Why? Because your thoughts usually determine how you feel, and your feelings about something usually trigger corresponding actions.
One of the reasons why smoking is seductive and pleasurable for many people is because they keep telling themselves that they enjoy it! Think about that for a moment. They tell themselves constantly that they love smoking, they need to smoke, they want to smoke. So they smoke.
This same concept can be used in reverse – to get yourself thinking and feeling that you DON’T want to smoke. However, you don’t want to insert references to smoking in your affirmations, simply because you already have a belief that smoking is pleasurable. Once that connection has been made in your subconscious mind, any thought of smoking is going to trigger a strong desire to smoke.
Instead, you can use affirmations to emphasize the benefits of not smoking – without mentioning smoking at all.
Here are some examples:
I love being able to breathe freely.
I love taking good care of my body.
I nourish my body with healthy habits.
I deserve a clean, healthy body.
My teeth are white, my skin is glowing and I feel great!
I can change my habits by changing my mind.
I honor and respect myself always.
I am strong enough to overcome any challenge.
I feel so free.
I take one step at a time to where I want to be.
I trust my inner guidance to lead me to a state of perfect well-being.
I believe in my ability to do anything I desire.
How to Use Affirmations
Affirmations work best when they are recited repeatedly and while giving your full focus to them. Not only should you say the words, but you should also do your best to call up the corresponding FEELING associated with the words. For example, if you say, “I feel so strong and empowered” you should actually make an effort to feel that way. This does take practice if you are not used to controlling your emotional state, but it gets easier the more you do it.
Constant repetition many times a day is important also, because you are attempting to override existing beliefs in your subconscious mind. A belief is nothing more than a thought you have thought many, many times before, until eventually it becomes your “truth”.
For example, the belief that smoking calms you down. Physiologically, smoking does not have relaxation benefits but many smokers have convinced themselves that it does. Because they believe this, they seem to feel more relaxed after smoking. To override this belief, you need to replace it with an opposing belief – like affirming that you feel calm and relaxed already, so there is no need to smoke in order to relax.
The example affirmations above will help get you started, but feel free to write your own too! Think about the aspects of smoking you enjoy, and come up with a phrase that affirms you already feel that way (again, not mentioning smoking!). Likewise, think about how you feel as a non-smoker and emphasize those positive qualities too.
Affirmations do take time to fully sink in to your subconscious mind, but just like your old beliefs were formed, consistent repetition and reinforcement will help them become permanent.
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God has bestowed all His blessing on Mother by giving her a chance to nurture one more life in her body .Then why they want to become life snatchers to their child only for the sake of a bad habit?
Expecting mothers should at once stop smoking as it can prove very dangerous for your unborn. It is vital to quit this worst habit prior knowing about pregnancy as well as during pregnancy. Consummation of alcohol and smoking contaminates baby food due to which the risk of birth defects is more. A little carelessness can result in irreparable losses. Timely care will definitely help to get rid of worries. A visit to health care is must at this stage. No physician prescribes to continue habit of consuming alcohol so it becomes all more necessary to quit this habit.
Bestowing a safe life to the baby is responsibility that falls on shoulder of mother. Would be mothers must be aware of the facts relating to healthy stay of their child. Women who continue to smoke during pregnancy are literally giving a slow poison treatment to themselves as well as to their baby.. Smoking affects your unborn fetus resulting in various respiratory defects in child later on in his life stages. When baby is in mother’s womb, his body parts are attached to his mother parts. Anything which mother eats goes directly in baby’s body. When a pregnant woman smokes then baby gets less oxygen than he usually would. We all know oxygen is the most vital thing to ensure survival. But smoking deprives the child of a healthy stay. Less supply of oxygen results in irregular development of baby body parts and also contributes to preterm labor, hence is threatening to his life.
Consulting a physician:
At this stage it is essential for you to pay a visit to your health care provider.
Your physician will design a time table for you that would be feasible and easy to adopt. Following the prescribed schedule you will be able to quit your unhealthy habits ensuring a safe life to your child. There are many helping aids available for expecting mothers which help efficiently at this trying time. Work out classes is also given by these support groups which lessens your stress. Timely taking up better things will provide your unborn child a safe delivery and a healthy life.
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Why can’t I cure my own bad habit?
If you have a bad habit – such as comfort eating, smoking or an addiction to gambling or alcohol, for example, then you can probably answer the question for yourself. A lot of us simply can’t kick a bad habit on our own – we tend to say that it’s because we don’t have the willpower to actually carry it through.
The fact is that any kind of bad habit takes hold of you both psychologically and physically. So, when you try to kick the habit yourself you have to deal with a lot of mental stress and physical side effects that can really throw you. So, for many people, it’s simply easier to pick up the bad habit again to make the nasty symptoms go away. This doesn’t make us weak or mean that we lack willpower – it simply means that our bad habit has taken such a hold we need external help to deal with it once and for all.
How can hypnosis help?
There are all kinds of methods you can try to help you kick a bad habit. Most of these will try and appeal to your brain on a conscious level. So, for example, you might go along to a ‘Quit
Smoking’ group where you socialize with other smokers and counsel each other on the effects of smoking and so on. On a purely rational level you will walk out of a meeting knowing that smoking is bad for you and knowing that you want to quit.
But, it isn’t that easy. The rational side of your brain might be telling you all this but your subconscious may still be hanging on to the fact that you are a smoker and could be telling you to go into the nearest store and buy a pack right away! So, to put it simply, hypnosis deals with the subconscious thus making it far easier for you to quit effectively.
Going for hypnosis sessions to cure a bad habit will simply help ALL of your mind focus on the goal of giving up. The methods used by hypnotherapists vary. Some, for example, use a form of aversion therapy that makes you feel slightly nauseous at the thought of smoking. Others simply tell your subconscious that you are not a smoker so – after your session, you’ll act like a non-smoker because your brain is telling you to.
Can it help me quit smoking?
Hypnosis is a great way of quitting smoking. So many of the issues involved with nicotine addiction are psychological so this form of therapy works perfectly here. The fact is that many good hypnotherapists can help you quit smoking in just one session.
As this form of therapy is so suited to quitting smoking, many hypnotherapists receive specialized training in helping people overcome smoking addictions. If you are considering using hypnotherapy to quit then it’s also worthwhile looking for therapists that are also trained in neurolinguistic programming or NLP. NLP is a scientific advancement which works great in tandem with hypnosis – it’s designed to help people take control of their actions.
Valerie Dawson, MSW, CHt has been a hypnotherapist for 18 years. She has undertaken special training in hypnosis techniques for smoking cessation and has helped hundreds of people quit successfully with her Easy Quit Hypnosis Program. You can find full details and a free audio trial at http://www-stopsmokingnow.com/go/hypnosis
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Hi, my name is Karen and I am a non-smoker. Having kicked my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes I am living a healthier no smoking lifestyle. If you would like to be a non-smoker, too, join me on your quest to find the best solution to help you stop smoking.
