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The Smoking cessation programs educate smokers about the harmful effects of smoking to themselves and to the people around them including their loved ones. Chain smokers and people around them are more at risk than casual smokers. According to the WHO, smoking is one of the leading, but preventable causes of death the world over and estimates are that it is the cause of 5.4 million deaths every year. This has not only prompted Governments, but also NGOs and medical clinics to conduct regular campaigns in countries and cities the world over. Campaigns with banners, media ads, etc have catchy names, slogans, and messages like the example \’Stop Smoking in Dallas\’ mentioned earlier.

But why is smoking so harmful and why are Governments, NGOs, and medical clinics so earnestly trying to stop smoking? The reason is that most smokers are not aware of the harmful effects of smoking, and even if they are, they are so addicted that they tend to ignore the truth. Smoking tobacco is the inhaling and exhaling smoke from cured leaves used in cigarettes. Some people smoke casually for temporary pleasure, or habitually due to an addiction to nicotine in tobacco, or social pressure. Research has ascertained that smoking causes emphysema, lung cancer, and cardiovascular or Heart disease among the many other problems. The WHO reports that smoking has killed over 100 million individuals worldwide in the twentieth century and has warned that it can kill over one billion people all over the world in the twenty first century.

Cigarette smokers are not the only ones whose health is at risk, but also those around them, as they inhale the smoke that smokers exhale, and this harms their health, even if they are non-smokers. Although smoking is addictive and it is difficult to stop smoking, it is not impossible. Medical spas and clinics all over the world conduct de-addiction programs to assist people to quit smoking. The first step towards quitting smoking is to decide to quit smoking. The next step is to search for an NGO or medical spa and clinic in your city, which can help you to quit smoking. So a smoker in Dallas can search for a medical clinic on the Internet by searching for Dallas Smoking Cessation and a smoker in any other city can look for smoking cessation programs with their city name.

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To be honest that is just the way my friend Sally is, she makes decisions on the spur of the moment which makes her a fun and lively girl but when she said he was going to quit for the 3rd time I had to ask if she had methods of how to quit smoking cigarettes before she went on her merry way, doomed to another failure and increasingly worse smokers cough.

Her answer of course was “no”, she had no methods and no plan because she blamed the last two attempts that failed on the stresses she was under or the environment she was in without taking any responsibility for herself. This time though she agreed to sit down and come up with a plan with some methods and rules for herself to overcome this unhealthy addiction for good.

Do you have a plan to quit?

If not, you may be like my friend Sally, headed for another failure all because you did not spend just a little bit of time and maybe a little bit of extra money to secure a success from their quitting goals. This is your health and your family’s health you are dealing with after all!

Methods of how to quit smoking cigarettes do not need to be long winded just some basic things written down to help you along. I tend to divide them into three sections.

Goals – Write down realistic goals with dates on them to keep. It could be the exact date you will go cold turkey or it might be how many you will reduce smoking every day. As long as it is written down and carried with you as a reminder
How to deal with Cravings – Some people suffer badly from the cravings caused by the nicotine addiction you have built up over your time smoking. IT is important to have a plan on what to do when they hit, typically you need to distract yourself. Go clean up your office or home might be one or think of people playing tennis (bizarre but true it helps! Must be the repetitive back and forth is soothing) or anything lese that has nothing to do with smoking.
Reasons – One of the most important things you need to do is to change your mindset from that of a smoker to that of a non-smoker. To do this you need good solid reasons for why quitting will be good … write down all the benefits you will see, extra money, health, family; whatever is MOTIVATING to you!

This really helped Sally in her attempt but it did not make it a breeze for her. One thing that did help her was her decision to use a self hypnosis course that really worked as she had been hypnotized before and knew its power.

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If you are a smoker and have ever attempted to quit smoking then you may be aware of the difficulties that are faced once you have quit. There is no denying the fact that quitting can be tough, but the task can be made easier by the use of effective medications such as Chantix.

The main ingredient in a cigarette is nicotine. It creates short term feelings of elation and pleasure in the brain. The body begins to crave nicotine and the smoker becomes addictedto the nicotine. In turn the more you smoke the more your body craves this chemical in order to produce these feelings of pleasure and elation.

This addiction as evidenced above is generally the main reason why smokers are unable to quit or find it more difficult to kick the habit. It is however possible to make use of anti-smoking medication coupled with strong discipline, dedication and behavioral support to overcome your addiction and ultimately quit smoking.

What steps can be taken to overcome smoking?

In order to quit smoking you would be required to make a few personal changes, be committed and dedicated to your efforts to beat your habit. You need to devise a positive regime that is suitable to your needs and attainable goals that are within you’re the scope of achievement. Anti-smoking drugs can be effective and alleviate the stresses and strains of quitting however it must be borne in mind that an individual needs to realize that the process of quitting also requires a certain degree of ‘mind over matter’.

What needs to be remembered is that quitting smoking is a lengthy process and often involves undoing years of abuse and addiction. Giving up is not something that is going to happen overnight. As a smoker you need to find a means of quitting that is comfortable and suitable to your individual needs. If you have made the decision to quit then you have already taken the first major step towards kicking your box of smokes to the curb. If the urges and cravings become too intense try chatting to a friend, having a glass of water or chewing some gum. These tactics are by no means going to make you quit but are definitely going to make the experience far more bearable and possibly help you resist the temptations and urges to light up. Try to avoid overly stressful situations. Take up yoga, jogging, go for a relaxing walk or take up meditation.

Chantix as an anti-smoking drug

Chantix is an oral drug that can be prescribed to adults who are 18 years or older. It is a drug that can be taken in order to assist in the quitting process. The main active ingredient in Chantix is Varenicline which works in two ways. Firstly, it helps to stop nicotine cravings and secondly reduces withdrawal symptoms after quitting.

The feature that distinguishes Chantix from similar drugs is that it does not contain any nicotine. Anti-smoking drugs generally contain small amounts of nicotine which are gradually absorbed by the body. The nicotine released into the body would assist in lessening cravings associated with nicotine addiction. This however is not the case with regards to Chantix.

Chantix is available on prescription only. Thus, in order to obtain a prescription you would be required to have a consultation with a registered Doctor. You would also be required to divulge any pre-existing medical conditions that you may have as well as medication that you are currently taking. Once Chantix has been prescribed by a medical practioner you will be assigned a dosage plan suitable to your circumstances.

Chantix is safe, but the following Chantix side effects have been associated with its use they include, nausea, vomiting, gas, constipation, and sleep problems.

With a certain level of personal commitment and the help of Chantix the curse of smoking can be cured

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Knowledge Does Not Require Action. Kick the Habit or Kick the Bucket?

5,000 people in the US quit smoking in the US a day. 1,000 people every single day die from cigarette smoking related disease. Tobacco’s association with cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and chronic lung disease account for over half of the deaths in the Us annually

What Can You Expect When You Quit?

Money in your pocket. Days added to your life Decrease medical cost/insurance cost Strengthened character Influence for good on others

Step 1 How Are Your Self Denial Muscles?

Are you able to park your car at the end of the parking lot at the mall and then walk to the mall’s entrance? How about on a rainy day? Are you able to have supper without meat? Are you able to pack a lunch for work instead of buying it at a fast food place? Are you able to keep away from other smokers for one week? Only a baby gets to relieve itself whenever it feels like it.  Adults know how to delay gratification. Start practicing small denials.

Addiction temporarily gets your mind off your pain, anger, loneliness, sadness. Maybe you had unmet childhood needs like an absent father or an abusive mother. Sometimes life is painful. It’s supposed to be that way. All of us are faced with grief, loss, and struggle. Stay with your pain, don’t avoid the painful feelings and don’t numb them out with addiction. When you’re ready you can take a step to solve the problem. And it’s with struggle that we define and strengthen our character.

Addiction is half mental (Cigarettes give pleasure.), half physical (Give me a cigarette now!) A big part of the mental picture is created by cigarette companies who spend billions to keep their unwitting customers buying their lethal wares. For example the beautiful scenes in magazines, the glamour, macho, and even athletic suggestions to the subconscious mind are not what the end results of cigarette smoking prove to be. The end result is oxygen masks, intravenous medication and literally hours of pain, misery, and gasping for breath. Smoking does not make one glamorous, macho, or athletic. It does make one sick, poor, and dead. The use of hard drugs begins first with alcohol or tobacco.

Admit you have an addiction. Get out of denial. Knowledge does not require action. You don’t need to pretend that smoking isn’t enjoyable – it is enjoyable to watch the smoke curl as it comes out of your mouth. The tobacco companies with their mammoth advertising budget have promoted the idea that smoking is a matter of personal choice. Ask yourself: “Am I addicted to tobacco?” “Am I truly making a freely made choice when I smoke?” You might consider that you need to have a cigarette. Nicotine addiction is as hard to break as heroin or cocaine.

It might make you mad about all the unreliable scientific studies and we need to be careful about accepting evidence uncritically. Those reports which are supported by a government agency, a scientific journal, or scientists known to be reputable are generally reliable. Reports in newspapers and popular magazines seldom discriminate between good and bad results, laymen easily exaggerate the reliability and significance of what they read.

Start saving old magazines and stuffed animals. The reason for saving these materials will be discussed later.

When you’re ready to admit that you have an addiction you may have the desire to quit. You need to find your reason. Maybe you want to be a better example to your children, maybe you want better health, maybe you want to participate in sports, maybe you have watched a loved one die from a smoke related disease. But if you don’t quit and “grieve now” this great friend of yours (the cigarette) will probably turn on you and kill you one day. It’s statiscally equivalent to playing Russian roulette with two bullets in the gun. Functional compromise begins to be evidenced by such benign signs as chronic cough, hoarseness, wrinkling, and lowered immunity.

Faith starts with desire. Faith moves people to action. It takes faith to say I can do it. I can quit. I am willing to do the work. I say you can do it with a plan.

Step 2. Make a Written Plan Make it a Reality

Quit date on the calendar (if you wait for everything to be perfect you will never quit) Christmas, New Year, and birthday parties are harder to quit. Need to go shopping (cinnamon gum, cinnamon sticks, straws, mint tea, mint candy) Hide the alcohol, sugar and coffee the first week. Change your routine (take a different road to work, make your bed in the morning, make homemade juice, go on a vegetarian diet for 1 week etc) Write a daily journal, blog (write me a comment) Decide on medication plan (See your doctor) Decide on support system (You are not alone) Rewards at each milestone (1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year) Pamper yourself (baths, aromatic oils, start walking on trails, cycling) On the morning of quit date wet the cigarettes and destroy them, wash ashtrays and put them away.

Step 3 People Who Succeed Best Get Help

A business person gets a lawyer to write contracts, an advertising agency to create ads, a marketing executive to do the marketing, an accountant to do the accounting.

Ask for support from family members, friends and co-workers. Ask for their tolerance. Let them know you are quitting and you might be edgy or grumpy. Ask them not to smoke in your presence. Look up American Cancer Society and American Lung and Heart association for Quit Smoking Programs. National Cancer Institute has a Smoking Quit Line offering proactive counseling. You can join a small group of other quitters Nicotine Anonymous. Quitnet is an online program like Nicotine Anonymous. They have a 12 step program based on AA. Reading stories of others help you realize you are not alone. With no program only 5% of quitters are still smoke free at the end of 12 months.

Urge to Smoke

Remember the urge to smoke only lasts a few minutes and will pass. The urges gradually become farther and farther apart as the days go by. During an urge you can beat up your stuffed animals, rip up old magazines. The best thing to do is inhale deep. Fill your lungs full of air and exhale very slowly. Inhale and exhale three times. It will be your greatest weapon during strong cravings.

Restore and Replenish Nutrient Reserves

Depending on how long you smoked you have a co-existence issue of toxicity and nutrient depletion. Drink lots of water and sugar free juices especially the acai berry 19 fruit blend in one healthy drink. The antioxidants will flush out the nicotine and other poisons from your body.

Cook with garlic. Garlic is high in sulfur and selenium and helps pull cadmium from the body (a toxic mineral by-product of smoking)

Affraid to gain weight throw away your butter, margarine, and vegetable oils. Only use extra virgin olive oil for salad dressing not for cooking. Olive oil plays a role in improving cholesterol levels and contains antioxidants. Use good quality coconut oil/butter for cooking. It’s impotant not to buy cheap (dried) coconut oil/butter not fit for human consumption. You need to buy fresh meaning processed within 24 hours after picking. Coconut oil does not go rancid even when cooked at high temperatures. It is a natural fat and has no negative impact on cholesterol or the health of arteries.It is available on-line. Don’t have a credit card. Pre-paid ones are available.

The MonaVie Fruits Helpful in Detox

Passion Fruit

excellent source of vitamin A and C
potassium and sodium
good source of iron
magnesium, niacin, phospherous

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