Additional reading:

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

2 medications are approved for short term used in smoking cessation programs – bupropion and varenicline. Both are prescription drugs and supposedly helped to reduce cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms after you made that important step to stop smoking.

Other than going to doctors, do your own reading and you might be able to learn from people who shared their own experiences openly.

Additional Reading:

The Best Lung Detox Program by David Rhodes

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

This involves replacing cigarettes with the nicotine substitutes such as nicotine gum or patches The former is chewing gums that releases nicotine is minute doses for absorption into the bloodstream. The latter is like a plaster that delivers nicotine via the skin.

How it helps? The therapy helps smokers to break their psychological addiction and cope with withdrawal symptoms. They can focus on learning new behaviours and coping skills.

Other forms include inhalers and lozenges.

Additional Reading

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

“Smoking is more harmful to women” – That’s what the USA researchers said in May 2009.

They said women who smoke develop lung damage earlier in life than men and it takes less cigarette exposure to cause damage in women compared to men.

Dr Inga-Cecolic Soerheim and researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Brigham in Norway said that their analysis showed that “women may be more vulnerable to the effects of smoking”.

The good doctor presented this at the American Thoracic Society in San Diego and she said her team analyzed 954 people in Norway with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which includes lung problems from chronic bronchitis to emphysema. In the study 60% were men and the rest were women. All were current or former smokers. Overall both groups had similar lung impairment. They looked at folks under 60 years old and lighter smokers, they found women had more severe disease and worse lung function thatn mean.

“This means that female smokers in our study experienced reduced lung function at a lower level of smoking exposure and at an earlier age than men,” said Dr Soerheim. She suspected that the difference is related to anatomy. Because the fairer sex has smaller airway and that could make each cigarette potentially more dangerous. Also hormones may have a contributing role too.

Some believe that a few cigarettes a day is OK but just like the doctor said “in the low exposure group in this study, half the women actually had severe COPD.”

Perhaps, women, you should find out more about quitting smoking. I have some additional reading to suggest to you:

Additional Reading on lung detox and quit smoking:

Lung Detox

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

Quit Smoking Painlessly Now.

What would you like to be your biggest triumph in 2009? Stop smoking for 1full day, 1full week, 1 full month, 1 full year or FOREVER?

What stop smoking advice would you like to give yourself in 2009?

What is the major effort you intend to take to quit smoking in 2009?

What would you be most happy when you actually stopped smoking in 2009?

What major indulgence are you willing to experience in 2009 when you succeeded to quit smoking?

What would you most like to change to help your stop-smoking quest in 2009?

What are you looking forward to in 2009?

What do you think your biggest health risk will be in 2009?

How are you going to quit smoking in 2009?

Who or what, other than yourself, are you most committed to loving and serving in 2009?

(Note: These questions were adapted from the ones designed by John Stamoulous, which were originally published in Vivienne’s Versa Creations blog post entitled Completing 2008, Creating 2009)