In the first three parts of this article series, we have discussed how the reasons a person started smoking at an early age helped to build the psychological smoking mechanism. This mechanism begins to operate beyond conscious control because the smoker has long since forgotten why they started smoking. The first part of the process to remove smoking is to use special techniques to recall these early reasons. The second part of the process is to examine and remove the reasons a person continues to smoke.

In this article, we will discuss why smokers ignore the serious health consequences of smoking.

What Would You Do?

You’ve been smoking for over 25 years. Your mother has been a smoker for over 40 years. She calls you on the phone one day and says she’s been diagnosed with lung cancer. You watch your mother deteriorate and a few months later, she passes away. As a smoker, what would you do?

If you are like a client of mine, you’d keep right on smoking!

How Could This Be?

If you are part of the 76% of the population who are nonsmokers, you probably think this is outrageous. How could a person see what cigarettes did to their mother and continue to use them?

It’s the same reason that people have a hard time simply quitting cigarettes:

The Psychological Smoking Mechanism

This mechanism is created in most people before the age of 18. The average age is around 15 although some people start smoking even earlier. It is no accident that smoking starts during the time of puberty and the identity crisis. The identity crisis is an unpleasant period of childhood where there is confusion of self. The person is not a child, but not an adult either. They struggle to define themselves. (more…)

The baby in your womb gets everything from you. Oxygen and nutrition arrive from the umbilical cord and placenta. And if you smoke cigarettes you happen to be additionally exposing the fetus to the chemicals that cigarettes have. When you smoke, some of the o2 in your bloodstream is replaced by another gas – carbon monoxide. Thus, in case you are pregnant and still smoking, your habit may cause your bloodstream to consist of less oxygen for your baby.

I am sure you probably already are aware of the fact that smoking cigarettes in pregnancy is harmful for your baby. That is probably why you are reading this at this time; you want to quit smoking and you are seeking to find out the easiest method to do it. (more…)

You have set a plan and are going to stop smoking and have heard of diverse methods and steps you have to take to ultimately overcome your obstacles, except for now you undergo the fear of various withdrawal symptoms, generally that being of feeling sick. Don’t allow your unease become fear since you are one of many that are concerned and/or have experienced the same after you have let go smoking.

Traditionally, the more regular side effects of nicotine abandonment is becoming nauseated. The degree of which this symptom can stay around for differentiates with in each one person ranging from a couple minutes to a few of weeks.

Feeling nauseous – Its cause and effect

Generally when you haven’t had your “daily dose” of nicotine there are many numerous variable factors which come into play to cause that sick feeling. In most cases, your body is finding a way to cope with out nicotine. It throws your body into a minor withdrawal state which your stomach/intestines are learning to handle with out. Everything with in starts to take an up and down spiral effects from hormones to all chemicals in the body. Each one of us are entirely unique and different which causes our adjustment periods to vary accordingly, but soon enough the body learns to understand and tolerate its natural ways.

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I’m not sure what it is about human nature that makes people think they know better than the people putting out the various products we use, but the more time I spend on the internet working with various otc medications, the more I’m sure that very few people read the directions anymore. In the case of hair spray and toothpaste, this may not be dire, there for the most part, things should be used as directed – teeth whiteners, cold medicine, and especially smoking cessation aids like nicotine patches.
The strange thing about the general population’s disregard for directions is that they always seem to think more is better. The logic goes something like, “Well, if 30 minutes a day will gradually whiten my teeth, 2 hours a day will making them sparkling white by tomorrow!” It doesn’t take into account the fact that products are formulated to work a certain way for a reason. In our whitestrips example, that reason is because whitening teeth too fast will make the teeth very sensitive, damage the enamel and can even create uneven whitening with white spots.
However, using nicotine patches incorrectly can have longer-lasting and more dramatic side effects. Using two nicotine patches will not make it easier to quit smoking, because the purpose of nicotine patches is not to “cure” nicotine addiction. Instead, it’s an effective way to gradually lessen the nicotine cravings and to minimize withdrawal symptoms. In other words, adding more nicotine patches in an effort to quit faster will actually make it harder to quit because it will take longer to get the nicotine out of your system.
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Stopping Smoking

We are told constantly how bad it is to smoke and we should give up. How many times have you heard from non smokers

“Oh that games killing you and burning a hole in your pocket you should stop”.

Now if you are like I was you probably wanted to use abusive language at these people and tell them it’s not as easy as they like to think. I sometimes used to look at them while they were telling me the “horrible things “ that smoking was doing to my body and imagine rolling them up into a nice fat rollup.

Anyway to the point. If you’re a smoker you know as well as I do that it is not easy, It took me 8 attempts over 6 years to finally kick the habit and those that claim it is easy should think again. People who want to stop smoking more than anything else need encouragement and a solid reason to give up as well as deep down wanting to give up.

The below is taken from Wikipedia on nicotine.

“Research shows that by increasing the levels of dopamine within the reward circuits in the brain, nicotine acts as a chemical with intense addictive qualities. In many studies it has been shown to be more addictive than cocaine and heroin.”

So show them that next time someone tells you it’s easy.

My problem was I did not really want to give up I enjoyed smoking, I was not naive I knew I was killing myself but really didn’t care. For me I need a real good reason to stop and one day I was playing in the lounge with my 1 year old son and it hit me

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In many instances, quitting smoking is just so much easier when you become aware of the ugly contents of the cigarette itself. Yes, I mean chemical content. Did you know that cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins?? These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT.

We know that nicotine is highly addictive and smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, where nicotine reaches your brain in just 6 seconds. In small doses nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain but in large doses, it’s a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. When you smoke a cigarette, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels—and the greater the damage to your lungs. (more…)

- There are more than 1,000 people in US die from smoking related disease.

- However, there are more than 5 times of people quit smoking in US a day.

What are destroying your life from smoking

If you are smoking, it is mean that you are harming your health. Cancer, Gum disease and bad breath, Coughs and shortness of breath, High blood pressure, Mouth and throat cancer, heart attack, strokes and also chronic lung disease are diseases that caused from smoking and that lead to about half of the deaths in the US every year.

What are the benefits of quit smoking

- You will have more money left. From www.canstopsmoking.com, “If there are both you and your mate smoking, it will be cost around 15% of your incomes” or “It was 40 a day. It was £8, £9 a day, £60 a week. I realised it was the right time to do it.”- Jeff, Dumfries

- If you start to quit smoking from to day, you will have added days for your life to spend with your grandsons. From calculation , if you start smoking when you were 20 year old and smoke 20 cigarettes per day for 20 years, it’ means that you have smoked 7,305 days and this has already reduced your life span by 3 years and 21 days.

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Over the years I have noticed how everyone’s beliefs can differ in relation to whether they think that smoking is an addiction or simply a habit. This core belief has a missive impact upon how easy or how difficult you find it to stop smoking. If you think that you are addicted to smoking then you will find it more difficult than if you thought it was just a habit. Your thoughts and beliefs shape your experiences about everything in life, not just stopping smoking.

Not only will believing in the addictiveness of smoking impact upon how easy you find it to stop smoking, it can also create a justification for remaining a smoker. It becomes easy to say to yourself “I’m addicted now so I can’t stop smoking” and then not even try. Also, if you think that smoking is an addiction, it is easier to fool yourself into the belief that continuing to smoke is not your fault – that you cannot help yourself because you are the victim of an addiction. This thought pattern is anything but empowering!

To stop smoking easily you have to get your mind around this subject. It is important to ask yourself why you assume that smoking is an addiction. We know that innumerable chemicals are produced as you smoke even a single cigarette and this may lead one to believe that smoking must therefore be addictive. But we also know of many people who have decided to stop smoking and have done exactly that; they stopped smoking and didn’t get withdrawal symptoms, not a single symptom. We know others who tried to stop and didn’t manage it. We know people who got angry when they stopped or put on a lot of weight.

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Quitting smoking by going cold turkey can be an easy process. Although most smokers won’t believe that. To understand how to quit cold turkey successfully, we just need to look at those people who have achieved it, and not only achieved it but with very little discomfort.
It is also interesting to note that the same people who once found it difficult to quit at an earlier stage in their life, can find it a simple process at a later stage. For thousands of people quitting, there are minimal cravings or difficulties. So what is happening here?
Each article in this series is going to give you the information on how to successfully quit smoking going cold turkey. In Part 1 we look at the difference in the mindset between those who quit with little discomfort and those that seem to go through agony.
Part 1. The Tug of War
How a person thinks about their behavior of smoking is constantly evolving as they weigh up the pros and cons, the benefits and disadvantages. It ’s like a tug of war, two thought process yanking on each side of a rope.
The ease of quitting isn’t determined by the length of the rope. But by the amount of tension in the rope caused by the strength of the two opposing thought processes on either end. (more…)

Quit Smoking Without Cravings with a System That Heals Your Lungs

Normally, the nicotine habit is extremely hard to kick. In fact, many people report that it is more difficult to quit smoking than it is to get off heroine. And for this reason, millions worldwide continue to smoke because they are not able to quit.

And sadly, every time these wanna-be-quitters take a puff, their smokers lungs get dirtier and dirtier. And to make matters worse, a number of these individuals have serious lung problems; yet they continue to puff away. This lung damage is caused by cigarette tar that fills your lungs and coats the inside of your lungs with every puff. Over time, as the tar builds up, your lungs become damaged so badly, they are unable to clean themselves. As a result, they develop a smokers cough and may have trouble breathing. And still, many of these people continue to smoke cigarette after cigarette even though they have these problems. (more…)