Quit Smoking Painlessly Now!

By Robert Henderson

Are you a smoker who needs one more reason to quit? If so, perhaps the information in this article can help move you to action. You are undoubtedly well aware-unless you live in a media-free cave-that smoking can cause a number of serious health conditions. Among them are the usual suspects-cancer, heart disease and pulmonary illness-but recent research has uncovered yet another to be added to the list. Diabetes, say medical experts, has a strong correlation to smoking, and in fact, smoking is now listed as one of the primary risk factors for developing the disease.

According to the American Journal of Epidemiology, people who smoke 16-23 cigarettes a day are three times more likely to develop Type-2 diabetes than nonsmokers. Prolonged smoking at similar rates of consumption may even cause that number to rise. The numbers are indeed overwhelming. Diabetes is yet another dangerous condition that people can help prevent by putting the cigarettes away for good.

What is Diabetes?

Diabetes is a disease of the pancreas, an organ located behind the stomach and essential to the digestive process. When functioning normally, the pancreas releases insulin into the blood. Insulin helps break down the food you consume and aids in the way the body uses these substances.

Diabetes is the inability of the pancreas to either produce insulin altogether or to produce enough of it. It is a serious illness which can cause many long-term complications such as eye disease, kidney problems, heart disease and neuropathy.

The Dangers

The dangerous chemicals released through smoking have been found to increase the likelihood for adult-onset Type 2 diabetes, and combined with other risk factors could prove to be especially harmful.

Below are some of the risk factors listed by the American Diabetes Association:

• Family history of diabetes
• Obesity
• Alcohol Abuse
• Smoking
• Stress
• Age (Increases with age)

Smoking not only increases your chance of getting diabetes, it can create special problems for those already dealing with the illness as well. Smoking elevates the risk of bringing about some of the more serious complications listed above such as nerve, kidney and eye damage and can make managing diabetes particularly troublesome.

While some will have no say in their diabetes due to hereditary, the best way to prevent the disease is to avoid or eliminate the risk factors from your routine. A complete cessation from cigarettes is a good start. Along with proper weight management, avoiding smoking and refraining from drinking alcohol in excess may help you to avoid this harmful disease.

Additional reading:

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

By Sveinung Skoglund

In the battle to help smokers find a way to quit the habit for good, a number of treatment methods and procedures with varying degrees of effectiveness have been introduced throughout the years. By all indications, it would seem that one of the most effective of these methods would be a quit smoking pill.

There are a great many quit smoking pill remedies available on the market today and what makes them such an attractive option for many smokers is the sheer ease and convenience of their use. Typically, a would be quitter will only have to take one quit smoking pill a day and virtually all of their cravings for a nicotine fix would be effectively stifled for the rest of the day-well, that’s the idea at least. The fact of the matter though is that even these methods vary widely in effectiveness. Some of them will provide only moderate relief, with the craving for a smoke overriding the initial effects of the quit smoking pill, while others would function pretty much as a placebo, giving the user no appreciable benefits at all.

The quit smoking pills that do work, typically use a combination of substances that effectively mimic the effects that smoking has on the nicotine receptors in the brain. This results in the brain being fooled into thinking that it is receiving the accustomed dose of nicotine, but without the harmful effects associated with smoking. Of course the end goal is that the user will gradually lose the psychological addiction to the smoking process, until he or she is finally able to stop taking the quit smoking pill as well.

In addition, these types of medications will have the added effect of drastically reducing the satisfaction that smokers will get upon lighting up. This two-pronged approach to weaning the smoker away from the dependence on cigarettes has proven to be remarkably effective in a great many users, far more than any other smoking cessation treatment method.

There are a number of such quit smoking pills already available on the market with the one made by Pfizer producing the most favorable results among smokers. Marketed under the brand name Chantix, this is a nicotine free medication, which makes it the ideal solution for people who wish to embark on a treatment that does not rely on controlled doses of nicotine. Chantix is available only by prescription to smokers who have been smoking for a period of at least one year or more.

With all the detrimental effects that have been linked to smoking, there is no better time than now to drop the habit. With the help of quit smoking pills, you will soon be on your way to a smoke free life.

Additional reading:

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

Quitting smoking is one thing, but keeping stopped is another.

How many times have I stopped smoking for good? Probably at least 6 times in my 25 years as a smoker. The temptation was always too great until I found something better that I didn’t want to give up. That something was a pair of ‘refurbished’, healthy lungs. I have now stopped smoking for about year and there’s no going back! No way!

Yes, once I’d found out what it was like to breath clearly again and take in a full deep breath without coughing my guts up then the choice was made much easier and my willpower became refocused on keeping my lungs healthy and clean rather than filling them with smoke.

The problem for most people who manage to kick the habit however is that they never actually reach this point, not because they don’t stay stopped from smoking long enough, but because it ordinarily takes many years to get to this clear lung phase and for the effects and toxins in the lungs to naturally break down and leave the body.

So, normally after the space of just a few weeks or months in absolute torment, trying patches, gum, eating several pens, eating every fingernail and a whole range of things that are supposed to help, a smoker reverts back to what works best…smoking!

Question: Could you stay smoking free for 1 month?

If the answer is yes then I believe like me you could kick the habit for good. There is a method of accelerating the process of clearing out all the muck, tar and chemicals from your lungs over the period of just a few weeks giving you clearer breathing and a real reason to remain free from your smoking habit.

It’s the only thing that has ever worked for me and I owe it to all smokers wishing to stop smoking to share it with them.

Q:)What did I find that was harder to quit than smoking?
A:)Clean lungs! Once you have clearer breathing and a clean pair of lungs you will not want to give them up either:

By Martin Stan

Additional reading:

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

Tony Newman wrote

Two years ago (2007), as part of their “wellness initiative,” the Cleveland Clinic stopped hiring smokers. When the Clinic’s CEO, Delos M. Cosgrove, was asked about the program for an article in last weekend’s New York Times Magazine, he said that if it were up to him, he would also stop hiring obese people as well.

Clearly, lifestyle decisions lead to huge medical and financial costs to both the hospital and the country. The logic, according to Mr. Cosgrove and others who justify not hiring smokers and people who are obese, is that punitive sanctions will coerce smokers and overweight folks to live healthier lives. Not hiring them or charging them more money for insurance, according to their logic, would effectively persuade people to change harmful health practices.

People knows smoking causes cancer but they still smoke. People knows eating fat rich food will cause obesity but they still eat. To know and not to do is not yet to know. Until a smoker or a fat person decide enough is enough and that something got to change, they will not be swayed by what others do or don’t do to them. It may be a noble act for a noble cause, however, I doubt Mr Delos M. Cosgrove has created any long lasting message to the smokers.

Perhaps a smoker will consider smoking less when the price for a puff keeps going up.

Other than nicotine replacement therapy and non nicotine medication, which I mentioned in my earlier posts, hypnosis is getting popular to stop smoking too. This works by inducing a deeply relaxed state and the person is receptive and open to suggestions to strengthen his resolve to quit smoking and to increase negative feelings towards cigarettes. It works very well even though you believe you have a strong will to stop smoking.

Additional reading:

Quick Smoking Today

Hypnosis To Change Your Life by Steve G Jones.

To stop smoking, you might need aids on top of will power. In the last post, I have discussed Nicotine Replacement Therapy to Stop Smoking. Here’s let’s talk about non nicotine medication.

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.

Quitting smoking is no longer as daunting as before. When will power is not enough to stop smoking, there are many method. One being Nicotine Replacement Therapy.

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.