Smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the world today. You probably already know that. In fact, there’s probably not a person alive who doesn’t know that smoking cigarettes can cause cancer, heart disease and death. They know if they quit smoking they greatly improve their chances of living a long and healthy life. But even with this information, there are still tens of millions of people smoking in the U.S. and millions upon millions smoking around the world.
Most people that I know that smoke want to quit smoking. But, once you have become a smoker there is a strange dynamic that comes into play. Non-smokers, people who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives, can be very arrogant toward you. They don’t even try to hide their disdain for the habit and exhibit a holier-than-thou attitude that can be extremely annoying, to say the least. This type of attitude can, and probably often does piss you off at that person while at the same time reinforces your desire to smoke.
If this is you to tell you the truth I don’t blame you. Nobody and I mean nobody, likes to be looked down on or treated like a second class citizen. That being said, recently, laws prohibiting smoking in restaurants and bars have been expanded to public places and outdoor venues. One state has even enacted legislation prohibiting smoking in your own car! While it’s reasonable that smokers should not subject non-smokers to the poisons in their second hand smoke these laws do not help anyone who wants to quit smoking.
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It is estimated that either directly or indirectly, tobacco causes more than 400,000 deaths each year in the U.S. alone. The startling part of this statistic is that it represents nearly 20 percent of all the deaths in the U.S. One out of five deaths are either directly or indirectly a result of smoking.
According to the World health organization smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the world. Tobacco related deaths around the developed world are almost identical to the death rates cause by smoking here in the United States. This means that 20 percent of all deaths are preventable.
Since more and more people understand the hazards, more and more people want to quit smoking. While the number of people who have quit smoking continues to grow, there are still approximately 47 million smokers in the U.S. If you are a smoker that wants to quit, you’ve probably read or heard tons of quit smoking information over the years, but nonetheless, you’re still smoking. Most people fail to quit smoking many times before they finally succeed.
For people who want to quit smoking, the psychological impact of failed attempts can be construed in two ways, depending on your general mindset and attitude. One group of people view the failed attempts in the glass-half-full, or positive perspective. “I quit for two days. I just have to keep on trying.” The other group, with the glass-half-empty, or negative perspective, take the negative attitude. “Oh, what’s the use? I’ll never succeed.”
This simple bit of insight is actually a way to help you quit smoking. You can use this information today, right now. Let me ask you, did you learn to ride a bike in a day? If course not. The same goes for changing habits, try, try again is the key to manipulating your own mindset. To quit smoking you need to persevere.
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Are you looking for a method to quit smoking? If you’re a smoker you’ve probably looked for all kinds of ways to quit smoking.
You want to know something interesting? Did you know that people from various cultures have been smoking tobacco in rituals or just for enjoyment for many centuries? Until the fairly recent past, people did not become addicted and nobody smoked anything near the equivalent of a pack a day. People just did not have to worry about wanting to quit smoking. It was merely an occasional pleasure or a significant event. So why is this problem today? Why do so many people want to quit smoking?
In the latter part of the 20th century doctors began issuing stern warnings on the horrible effects smoking has on a person’s health. This was presumably a new discovery. It kind of sounds like the new discovery of the $700 billion problem that fell out of the sky a few years ago and onto the United States taxpayer’s shoulders, seemingly without warning! Well that’s the same thing that happened with cigarettes. Even though tobacco manufacturers today offer advice and methods on how to quit smoking, this seems a bit incongruent. These are the same companies that sell millions of cigarettes around the world and that sell the nicotine patches to help you quit.
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According to Allan M. Brandt a professor at Harvard Medical School, in the 1990’s more Americans died of tobacco related diseases than the combined total of those who died from alcohol, AIDS, road accidents, fire, murder, suicide and illegal drugs. The World Health Organization predicts that more than ten times as many people will die from using tobacco products this century.
Studies show that exposure to tobacco in any form can significantly increase your risk of heart disease, lung disease and cancer. In a recent study of over 27,000 subjects published in the British Medical Journal, researchers found that people exposed to second hand smoke for more than 21 hours a week have a 62 percent increased risk of having a heart attack. The same study found that merely breathing second hand smoke for an hour a week increased that risk by 15 percent and smokers were three times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers.
I help smokers quit smoking using Total Mind Therapy It’s been my experience that nearly all smokers want to quit smoking. The fact is that most have, many times. A study showed that nearly 70 percent of our nation’s 44.5 million smokers want to quit smoking but only 5 percent of those who try to quit actually succeed.
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The one thing that all of the hundreds of people I’ve helped to quit smoking will all agree on is this, smoking purely and simply is a bad habit. Interestingly enough, so will almost everyone you meet who has a cigarette addiction. Besides being an invitation to dire health problems down the road, it’s an unattractive and expensive habit. Over the years, cigarette companies have done their best to encourage their product’s sales and keep people in this nasty habit. This is despite being barred from advertising on television and in magazines.
A major issue here is that cigarette smoking is a generational problem. It wasn’t until the early 1970s that cigarette smoking was revealed to be a major contributor to lung cancer, emphysema and COPD. By then, there were hundreds of millions of people with cigarette addictions all over the world. Once they found out the truth, many of these people looking for a method to quit smoking so they could get out of their life-sapping addiction.
As you know, children learn by example. Many cigarette smokers’ children have taken up the habit as a result of their cigarette addiction. And then the kids got hooked too. Even when their parents quit smoking their kids did not. They tell themselves, “Hey, my Mom smoked for thirty years and she’s doing just fine. It can’t be that bad!” Well I don’t care if your mom smoked for 30 years and now wrestles grizzly bears for a living, the odds are that if you smoke cigarettes, the results will catch up to you. Those results will be some very unpleasant health consequences.
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I was watching one of my favorite Sunday morning broadcasts, CBS’ “Face the Nation” when I heard Bob Schieffer ask John Boehner, the House Republican leader, if he still smoked cigarettes. The House Republican leader replied that he still smoked. Bob went on to point out that he is both an ex-smoker and cancer survivor. He knows first hand the effects of cigarette smoking on one’s health.
Bob then went on to comment that President Obama is also a smoker. I researched this comment and found that he is a smoker, but he only smokes in private. I guess that’s good. At least he’s not exposing his family and friends to second hand smoke.
This bothers me. We have two of the leaders of our country, a Democrat and a Republican that both smoke cigarettes. What is puzzling to me is that while both of these gentlemen are tasked by their constituents to make decisions on spending our health care dollars, both of them show a complete lack of interest in health.
According to aboutus.com “smoking-related deaths costs the nation about $92 billion a year in the form of lost productivity.”
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Are you looking for a method to help you quit smoking? At times just changing the things you do regularly and your environment can be a big help. These stop smoking tips are very useful in making your environment smoke free. If you really want to quit smoking then the following 8 stop smoking tips can help.
8 Stop Smoking Tips that Work
1) Remove all (cigarettes, cigars, snuff, matches, lighters, ashtrays, etc.) tobacco related paraphernalia from your home, car and workplace.
2) Be aware of when you smoke. Keep a log.
3) Using the log change your routine and change your patterns.
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Even when you have a really good reason to want to quit smoking, it still can be tough to quit. Since I help people break their cigarette addiction using Total Mind Therapy, people often come up to me at parties and telling me that they want to quit smoking but they struggle to quit. They explain that, even though they already know that it is bad for them, they still can’t seem to shake their old habit. What I tell them is the same thing I tell my clients. You need to focus on why you want to quit smoking. That’s the only way you can quit your cigarette addition for good. That’s also why I tell them to look for quit smoking information you can use to focus all the good things that happen when you do quit.
You might already know that your cigarette addiction puts a lot of strain on all your body’s systems. Most smokers don’t realize that. When you stop smoking, your body rapidly goes back to its normal functioning. You quickly feel healthier and look and feel better.
After you quit smoking your lungs start to heal. If you were to take a look inside your own lungs right now, you’d be horrified by what you see. Since cigarettes are full of tar, and even the ones that claim to be low tar still have a lot of tar in them, the insides your lungs are coated with this sticky substance. The smoke comes back out when you exhale, but the tar remains stuck to the tissue inside your lungs. After you quit smoking, that tar will begin to clear out. That’s one of the reasons you cough so much after you quit. You’re getting rid of all that nasty stuff that is now loosening up from your lung’s lining. Most studies show that your lungs will probably be back to normal, or close to normal, within a few years of quitting. The key here is to remember that after you stop your cigarette addition the damage is reversible.
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If you’re like most smokers you probably want to quit smoking. You have probably tried to quit a number of times, only to return to this habit again and again. You are not alone. There are millions of people who want to quit and that have actually given up smoking over and over again. Some quit for a few days, while some quit for a few weeks. There are many instances of people who have quit for long periods of time two, three or more years, only returning to this life shortening habit.
Now if you listen to the marketing done by the manufacturers of nicotine gum or patches, or some of the medicines on the market they’ll tell you even if you want to quit you can’t because the nicotine you receive while smoking is such a habit forming drug that every person who smokes cigarettes has an addiction. If that was true then everyone who smokes would have to check into the Betty Ford Center to quit. But is cigarette smoking a true addiction? No, because people quit all the time without any kind of aid at all and often without any symptoms at all.
The truth is that the nicotine is cleansed from your body in three to five days. The rest of the thousands of chemicals found in cigarettes are completely gone in a couple of weeks. Unlike withdrawal from additive substances like crack cocaine or heroin of sweats, shakes, heart palpitations and nausea, the withdrawal symptoms form smoking cigarettes are a little irritability and anxiousness that go away within a couple of weeks.
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