| Helping
Your Child Overcome the Peer Pressure to Smoke
One of the most common reasons kids smoke is to fit in with
their friends. If the group they hang out with smokes, they’ll
probably feel pressured to try a few cigarettes. At first,
most kids only smoke because of this peer pressure.
Cigars:
Are They Just as Dangerous as Cigarettes?
Many people who smoke cigars are surprised to find out that
they are addictive. But when you consider the fact that a
typical cigar contains as much nicotine as at least three
or four cigarettes, it’s not a surprise any longer.
This nicotine is exactly the same type of nicotine found in
cigarettes. It’s absorbed into your body in the
Safeguarding
Against Temptations to Smoke
In order to stay on your course of becoming a nonsmoker,
you’ll have to keep vigilant and guard against the temptations
that could cause you to slip up. If only temptations would
go away, now that you’ve stopped smoking! Unfortunately,
they don’t. Not for a while. In the first few months,
when you see or taste a cup of
Are
You Smoking for Mental Needs?
About 20 to 50 percent of cigarettes are smoked for an explicit,
expressed need. Smokers come to rely on cigarettes to hone
their performance.
How
to Deal with the Psychological Dependency of Smoking
Although all forms of dependency on cigarettes have a certain
chemical basis, unless you are a heavy smoker (pack a day
or more) the chemical basis is not likely to be particularly
strong. Discomfort or annoyance when you can’t smoke,
such as during an airplane trip, or the need for a cigarette
in certain social situations is mostly psychological.
Nicotine Replacement
Therapies: Nasal Sprays & Inhalers
Nicotine nasal spray became available by prescription in
March 1996. It comes in a pump bottle and is sprayed into
the nose, one time in each nostril. If you decide to use the
spray, it’s important not to inhale while spraying because
you want the nicotine to attach to the nasal lining. Once
it’s on the nasal lining, it can be absorbed
Nicotine Anonymous:
The Pros & Cons of the 12-Step Program
The following Are the Twelve Steps of Nicotine Anonymous:
1. We admitted that we were powerless over nicotine - that
our lives had become unmanageable.
The Dangers of
False “Smoke-Safe” Solutions
The tobacco companies have brought out several cigarettes
they’d like us to believe are safer than regular cigarettes.
A product called Eclipse burns a piece of charcoal. The smoke
from the charcoal passes over beads with nicotine extract
on them. The heat from
Nicotine
Anonymous: A Free Program for People Addicted to Nicotine
Nicotine Anonymous is sort of a cousin program of Alcoholics
Anonymous. Many people who have become addicted to alcohol
have successfully quit by using the 12-step program that’s
part of Alcoholics Anonymous. The same highly successful principles
of
Nicotine
Replacement Therapies
Although it may seem unbelievable, the first pharmacological
agent approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for
use in smoking cessation therapy was nicotine. This is a case
of the benefit of fighting fire with fire. Nicotine replacement
therapies,
Your First Day
of Quitting Smoking
1. Breathe deeply. Practice lying down with your hands on
your abdomen so you will know if the breath is going to the
farthest reaches of your lungs. Breathe deeply and observe
your hands rising and falling. As a smoker, you have not been
able to take a
Substituting
Caffeine for Nicotine?
Since nicotine is a central nervous system stimulant, you
may be wondering if you could substitute caffeine for nicotine.
Don’t do it. If you customarily drink several cups of
coffee, tea, or other beverages containing caffeine, be very
careful not to increase your consumption!
Using Meditation
to Help Keep You in “Non-Smoker Status”
Keeping your mind strong and supple will help you maintain
a nonsmoker status and reduce your stress during the battle
to quit. Meditation can help you summon your mind’s
healing energy, and retrieve your mind from a war zone and
place it in a neutral zone.
How Smoking
Affects Your Emotions
Nicotine is one of the fastest-acting drugs known to man.
When a smoker inhales tobacco smoke, the nicotine is absorbed
into the bloodstream and the effects are felt almost immediately.
How
to Deal with the Psychological Dependency of Smoking
Although all forms of dependency on cigarettes have a certain
chemical basis, unless you are a heavy smoker (pack a day
or more) the chemical basis is not likely to be particularly
strong.
Common
Frustrations Felt When It Comes to Quitting Smoking (Part
1)
If you used to take a break to smoke, you probably felt justified
in doing so because you were actually “doing something”
when you left your post for that 5 or 10 minutes.
Common
Frustrations Felt When It Comes to Quitting Smoking (Part
2)
The tiny, hair-like structures in your lungs, called cilia,
finally get a chance to begin sweeping out the tobacco debris
that has
Don’t
Let Your Guard down Just Because You’ve Stopped Smoking
for a While
After you have successfully stopped smoking for a while,
you may feel quitting has been easier than you expected. Not
that it’s been easy altogether, but it still has not
been as hard as you feared.
Psychological
Recovery Stages of Quitting Smoking: Part 1 (Denial)
Many smokers are only slightly bothered by physical symptoms
of nicotine withdrawal, but experience a lot more trouble
with the psychological symptoms of recovery.
Psychological
Recovery Stages of Quitting Smoking: Part 2 (Anger, Depression)
Anger: Anger often surfaces when we begin to accept a loss.
Most smokers are angry about having to make a change in their
lives. They feel their “friend” was taken away
unfairly.
Psychological
Recovery Stages of Quitting Smoking: Part 3 (Bargaining, Acceptance)
Bargaining: Bargaining is the stage where smokers want to
postpone the inevitable. You want to do all sorts of good
things in return for a little lightening of the load of giving
up cigarettes.
Tips
to Help You Cope When Quitting the Smoking Habit
Unless you are completely confident that the presence and
sight of a cigarette will not provide a stimulus to smoke,
you should get rid of all smoking paraphernalia, at least
temporarily.
Why
Having a Relapse After You Quit Smoking Is a Good Thing!
It may seem too soon to discuss the concept of relapse since
you may not have even begun your quit attempt as yet. But
it’s important to discuss relapse now because,
Smoking: Breaking
the Habit
It is often said that cigarette smoking is the single most
important modifiable risk factor for illness and the greatest
single cause of preventable premature deaths in the United
States.
The
Nasty Truth About Cigarettes
More than 700 chemical additives are found in cigarettes.
Some of them are classified as toxic and are not allowed in
food. Once lit, a cigarette reaches a temperature of nearly
2,000 degrees
Basic Information
About Nicotine Patches
The nicotine patch is applied to your skin. Over a prolonged
period of time, the nicotine dissolves right through the skin
and enters the body.
Exercising
Can Help Keep You Smoke-Free
The most important strategy in remaining free from smoking
is to put an exercise component into your life. The major
benefits of exercise are these:
Tapering off
Your Cigarettes
After you have tapered off of your cigarette smoking for
at least a week, the thought that you are about to break free
and can never have another cigarette can be daunting.
Smokeless
Tobacco Is Just as Dangerous as Smoking Cigarettes
Many people seem to think that chewing tobacco and snuff
are safe substitutes for cigarettes. But the truth is that
they are not safe. Such unburned tobacco products contain
carcinogens that have caused malignant tumors in animals.
Congratulations
on Your Final “Quit Smoking” Day!
Your Quit Day is one of the most important days of your life,
you’ve gotten ready to quit. You’ve thought about
it.
A Question
for Smokers: Would You Drink Ammonia?
This is scary: Did you know that there are chemicals added
to cigarettes which increase the speed at which nicotine reaches
your
How Smoking
Directly Destroys Vitamin A & C in Your Body
When it comes to the dangers of smoking and applying the
will to quit, you can’t leave out a discussion of vitamin
and mineral supplements.
Young
Women Smoking for All the Wrong Reasons
Nicotine dependency is the most common form of drug addiction
and causes more deaths and disease than all other addictions
combined. And when it comes to addictive behaviors,
Smoking and
Depression
Today little information suggests that nicotine use directly
causes depression. Most evidence indicates that it is nicotine
withdrawal that provokes depression.
Using
Rewards as a Smoke-Free Motivator
As human beings, many of our decisions in life are guided
by what is known as the pleasure principle. In other words,
if it feels good, we are likely to continue doing it; if it
feels bad
A Scary Look
Inside the Body of a Smoker (Part 1)
Let’s take a look at what happens inside your body
each time you light up. Think about how quickly tobacco smoke
can produce harmful effects.
A
Scary Look Inside the Body of a Smoker (Part 2)
Blood Vessels: Your blood pressure increases by 10 to 15
percent every time you light up, putting additional stress
on your heart and blood vessels and increasing your risk
5
Steps to Managing Weight-Gain for the Ex-Smoker
What if you have just recently quit smoking, still crave
cigarettes, and to top it off, find that you are gaining weight?
If you have just recently quit and are still fighting the
A Non-Nicotine
Pill Designed to Help You Quit Smoking
Even as you are reading this article, new medications are
emerging to help smokers quit. In fact, there is a new prescription
pill that’s designed to do just that.
Pay Attention
to the Dangers of Second-Hand Smoke!
Even people who don’t smoke are often exposed to other
people who smoke. Inhaling someone else’s cigarette
smoke is called passive smoking o
How
to Use Nicotine Gum
When you use nicotine gum, chewing a piece every hour or
whenever you have the urge to smoke, you tend to mimic the
cyclic rise and fall of nicotine in your system that occurs
when you smoke cigarettes.
True Benefits
of Quitting Smoking
Physical Benefits of Being Free of Smoking: When you take
that last puff of a cigarette and are on your way to total
freedom, there are many benefits that you will enjoy.
Hypnosis:
Common Questions People Have When Using Hypnosis to Quit Smoking
How Does Hypnosis Work? Agreed suggestions are placed into
your subconscious mind to help you to overcome problems. In
this instance,
Hypnosis: The
Pros & Cons of Using Hypnosis to Help Quit Smoking
When people talk about quitting smoking, they frequently
mention hypnosis.
Have
You Ever Wondered Why You Gain Weight After Quitting Smoking?
Unfortunately, cigarette smoking really is an aid to weight
management. Here is how it works and why it is so effective:
Nicotine can reduce your desire to
The
Connection Between Smoking & Stress
Smoking often seems like one of the best ways of handling
stressful situations. For example, when you smoke, you may
physically remove yourself from
Why People
Who Quit Smoking Eat More Food
There are at least three reasons why quitters report an increase
in appetite after quitting, with a particular increase in
their desire for sweets:
The Truth About Cigarette
Filters: They Don’t Really Work!
Today’s machines produce 14,000 cigarettes every minute.
The entire process is highly automated, and computers do a
large amount of the work.
Scary
Statistics of Smokers
A growing number of studies have linked smoking with poor
mental health. Several of these have shown that patients with
major depression are more likely to
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