SelfGrowth.com articles for Smoking - How to Quit Smoking or Stop Smoking

Quit smoking to live a healthier and better life again

valtrina.davidson@gmail.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:28:26 am

Smoking is the most common cause of death all over the world. More than 50% of the people, who do not quit smoking, die of a smoking-related condition. Cigarette smoke contains around 4000 chemicals out of which 23 are carcinogens. Quitting smoking has numerous advantages. People who ...

Cold Turkey for Stopping Smoking: A good or a bad idea?

ash_dalvi@hotmail.com — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 12:00:00 am

Research suggests that most ex-smokers have quit smoking without nicotine replacement or any other type of medical help (eg Lee and Kahende, Am J Public Health 97: 1503–1509, 2007). Does this surprise you? This article aims to examine cold turkey in combination with positive thinking ...

COPD: Beating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

sales@neuro-vision.us — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a long-term health problem that develops because of damage to the lungs. This acronym is utilized to identify three illnesses classified as COPD. These include emphysema, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. Asthma occurs when the body perceives ...

Give Tobacco the boot with Positive Thinking

ash_dalvi@hotmail.com — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:46:57 pm

Give Tobacco the boot with Positive Thinking 1. I used positive thinking techniques to stop smoking I am a former smoker. I was quite a heavy smoker – 30 cigarettes per day for in excess of 30 years. During that time, I made several attempts to quit. I guess that is an ...

If You Live With A Smoker, You're A Smoker Too!

stacyw@vitalmaxvitamins.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:14:28 am

I have several patients who are nonsmokers. So they think. They don’t actively put a cigarette to their lips and smoke it, but if they’re living with someone, or are consistently around someone who smokes in their presence, I make a note in their chart as, second hand smoker. That’s right. ...

The Applications of Corporate Drug Testing

jhonwilliamsd@gmail.com — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Employers seek job applicants or employees who are reliable and hardworking. However, there are large numbers of drug abusers employed in the US. Employee drug abuse can cause serious problems to a company. The facts such as, drug abusers cost over $100 billion every year to the employers and ...

Family Smoking Facts - Harmful Effects of Cigarettes and Your Smoking Behaviour in the Home

hansen.omalley@gmail.com — Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

The smoking facts about the effects of cigarettes and the smoking behaviour of parents is clear. Secondhand smoking in children is a significant cause of morbidity. Children who live in a family where smoking is normalized are more likely to grow up to be smokers. Harmful Effects of Cigarettes ...

Smoking: A return to the quit or die approach?

james.dunworth@ecigarettedirect.co.uk — Mon, 7 Jun 2010 4:53:51 pm

My wife's uncle was lying, dying, on the floor when I arrived. My wife, who is from Indonesia, was at home on holiday. I had just flown in from Java. My wife took me up to see him. Shirtless and sweating, his skin clinging tightly to his ribs, each gasp of air racked Ari with ...

Know How Nicotine Test Is Conducted

jhonwilliamsd@gmail.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Nicotine test gives the levels of nicotine addiction or abuse in a person. The drug Nicotine is one of the regularly abused and commercially available drugs in the society. Apart from tobacco smoking, nicotine is also available in forms of nicotine gum, transdermal patches, and nasal ...

Quit smoking tips for you

admin@stayhealthier.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Ending the habit of smoking is a repulsive experience for whichever side you look at it. You need to deal with desire to smoke and symptoms of withdrawal. In order to live a healthy life, you need to curb down the habit of smoking. In this article, we will deal with some important methods to ...

Stopping Smoking Cigarettes – How Preparation Is More Important Than You Think

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Mon, 24 May 2010 12:00:00 am

You are trying to enact a positive change when you motivate yourself to improve your lung health. However, most quit-smoking and improve-your-lung-health motivations are born out of fear, and are thus decidedly negative (just check out any Quit Smoking advertising in the media for examples). ...

Ways To Kick The Smoking Habit - Separate The Truth From The Hype

sales@neuro-vision.us — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 am

States throughout the country have banned smokers from public areas. Numerous business organizations have declared their work environments to be smoke-free, and are sanctioning employees if they smoke during work hours. Smokers subject themselves to cold weather and the elements, and smoke away ...

Six things the electronic cigarette do for you (and one thing it can't)

james.dunworth@ecigarettedirect.co.uk — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:00:00 am

1. Money Smokers the world over spend thousands on cigarettes, with much of the cost going on taxes. In the UK a person smoking 20 cigarettes a day can save £15000 or more by switching to electronic cigarettes. A 40 a day smoker can save £3000, and a 60 a day smoker can save £4,500. ...

Reducing Stress To Improve Your Health After Quitting Smoking

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Sun, 16 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Modern living and stress seems to many to be inseparable. We are taught by society and through advertising that stress is something that comes in from outside of us and is impossible to avoid... or is it? Dealing with stress requires a proper understanding of its true nature, and then ...

You Have Quit Smoking - What Is Next?

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:22:46 am

There are many health-related questions on the mind of a recently quit smoker (that’s probably why they quit, naturally). On that regularly occurs to most newly smoking-free people is; I’ve quit, so what is the next step to improving my health? Boosting your Immune System is one activity from ...

Damage Done Over Years Of Long Term Smoking

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:22:47 am

Thanks to advertising and information campaigns, everyone is now aware of the state of your lungs after quitting smoking, and by association, your whole body. It does this to a greater extent, and more rapidly, the longer you’ve been smoking and the more you smoked. If you have been a smoker ...

How to Quit Weed Smoking - Understand Your Addiction

admin@kick-addiction.com — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Along with the ignorance of the general public towards weed the pro marijuana lobbyist are just as ignorant when it comes to marijuana addiction. If you are trying to stop this habit and are having issues you understand the truth behind this struggle and how difficult it can be especially if you ...

How to Prevent Lung Cancer With Two Vital Steps

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:22:47 am

If you are still smoking cigarettes or even if you have managed to kick that addiction, then you need to find out preventing lung cancer because you are right in the firing line! While there is no absolute guarantee that you are out of danger, there are methods that reduce this risk to as low a ...

Lung Detox Ideas That Will Flush Tar From Your Lungs Fast!

admin@lungdetoxification.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:22:47 am

To detox the lungs is very important to the health of many people's life after they quit smoking, because inside your chest your lungs have been put through the wringer, if you have smoked for many years. They need encouragement to be detoxified with some help, as your body simply cannot do it ...

Smoking Causes Weight Gain, Hypnosis Helps Quitters Stay Thin

wesley@trance-formations.com — Sat, 8 May 2010 12:00:00 am

One of the big fears of my stop smoking clients is that they will gain weight when the stop smoking. It turns out, the opposite is true. Based on a four year study at the University of Navarra in Spain, http://www.unav.es/english/news/260110.html continued smoking could lead to greater weight ...

Is Cold Turkey the Way to Quit Smoking?

shamsulazhar@gmail.com — Sat, 8 May 2010 12:00:00 am

The short answer is yes. I know because cold turkey works for me and I have not had a single cigarette for over 20 years now. However as with most things in life it's not quite as simple as it sounds because there's a bit more to it than that. Let me start by telling you my own ...

Quit Smoking Tip: Use this Stress Buster to Help You Stop Smoking

selfgrowth-expert@smokefreenow.ca — Thu, 6 May 2010 12:00:00 am

One of the things I hear a lot from smokers in my Toronto (Ontario, Canada) hypnosis quit smoking clinic is "I smoke to relax". If smoking really was relaxing then the more you smoked the more relaxed you'd be and chain smokers would be the most relaxed people on the planet. Do you know anyone ...

How To Help A Teen Stop Tobacco Use

aurther.shoko@gmail.com — Thu, 6 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Teenage tobacco use is on the increase across much of the western world. In particular tobacco use is increasing in the area of smokeless tobacco. It would appear that a huge number of young people is migrating from cigarette smoking to smokeless tobacco use particularly chewing tobacco. The ...

Why You should give up smoking: Dangers to Women’s Health

lee.hugh315@gmail.com — Sun, 2 May 2010 12:00:00 am

Everyone knows that cigarette smoking is a huge health risk. This does not make any distinctions in its ill effects; it is dangerous both to women’s and men’s health. But be aware that there are certain harmful effects of smoking that women are more susceptible to than men. Women are ...

Quit Smoking - Don't Let this Myth Sabotage You!

selfgrowth-expert@smokefreenow.ca — Sun, 2 May 2010 12:00:00 am

It is a common belief that nicotine addiction is the reason it’s hard to quit smoking. However, talk to any smoker who has tried to quit using the patch or gum (maybe you’re one of them), and most will tell you they still want to smoke. So why would do you still want to smoke when you are ...

Is the Pharmacy the Place to Turn When Trying to Quit Smoking?

shamsulazhar@gmail.com — Sat, 1 May 2010 12:00:00 am

There are millions of people around the world who wish to quit smoking and where there is demand there will always be a business to serve this demand. The pharmaceutical industry as usual comes out with a plethora of solution which only treats the symptoms rather than treats the underlying ...

Five Things to Keep in Mind While Trying to Quit Smoking Cold Turkey

shamsulazhar@gmail.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Almost every smoker I know at one point or the other wants to quit smoking. Smoking is probably the hardest habit to get rid off in your life. I know because I was a smoker once. It took me many attempts at quitting before I succeeded. I've tried many techniques when trying to quit which ...

Being a Non Smoker Rocks, While Being a Smoker Sucks

david@commonhealing.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

For over 30 tears I smoked 30-60 cigarettes a day, and about 6 years ago I switched to hand rolling tobacco and made my own in what was really a feeble attempt to quit. I reasoned at the time, that with all those horrible chemicals that they put it ordinary cigarettes, by making my own with ...

40 Years of Being a Smoker, I Amazed Myself and Stopped in One Day

david@commonhealing.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Going back six years or so, I was smoking two or more packets of cigarettes a day, and on stress days probably more,and had done so for well over thirty years, so I decided to switch to hand rolled ones. My decision used the logic that by not getting all those nasty chemicals and additives ...

The Benefits of Hypnotism

info@lifeforcehealth.ca — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 9:38:25 am

What would you like to change in your life? Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to exercise more, stop a negative habit or behaviour, manage your weight or learn a new skill? Or would you simply like to find a natural way to manage STRESS? Hypnotism sessions can assist you in making any ...

Visualize your way to Quit Smoking

jybcca@gmail.com — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Visualization is an interesting technique to learn as it will help with the anxiety and stress levels associated with being without cigarettes for a long amount of time. Visualization is intimately linked to meditation and anyone familiar with those techniques (or yoga) will know how they can ...

Stop Smoking in One Hour--Guaranteed?

drgingermarable@yahoo.com — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

During the past decade, more than 100,000 smokers have successfully quit the smoking habit in about an hour with advanced, individualized hypnotherapy. No dangerous drugs or harmful chemicals, no needles, lasers, or useless aids, just a safe, relaxing one-hour session in a comfortable chair. How ...

Searching For the Best Ways To Stop Smoking?

admin@stopsmokingatlast.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Many people say you cannot find the best ways to stop smoking. Yet folks who have successfully quit will often say to you that it appears to be simple, when they look back. Generally, they attempted many times prior to and failed they went back to smoking cigarettes right after a short time, ...

Quit Smoking the Right Way

samanthanicole99@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

Smoking is nothing but another addiction, only it's legal and very popular. Puff after puff some people measure the length of a lifetime in cigarettes. Lung cancer is the most spread disease in the world so it's no wonder you want to quit for good. Perhaps you're pregnant or you have kids around ...

How You Can Quit Smoking Naturally With Hypnosis

edwardhaycock42@hotmail.co.uk — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:00:00 am

If you’re reading this article, the chances are that you want to quit smoking, and you want to quit smoking naturally. Whether you’re sick of being addicted to nicotine, or whether you’re just worried about the damage that cigarettes are doing to your health, hypnosis can provide an effective ...

EFT to Stop Smoking and how this Acupressure Technique Led to Freedom

Suzanne@newageinternationaltraining.com — Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:15:51 pm

I remember that time early on in my hypnosis career. This was before I had discovered EFT. I worked next door to a very good Chinese doctor and excellent acupuncturist. I wanted to take in the more challenging stop-smoking cases and had heard that the combination of acupuncture and ...

Why EFT or Tapping is Best for Stopping Smoking

Suzanne@newageinternationaltraining.com — Mon, 5 Apr 2010 5:45:30 am

I am currently promoting EFT, otherwise known as Tapping, as the number one method of stopping smoking. And you may well as - why is EFT the best way to stop smoking? EFT is in my opinion the best way to stop smoking because it can remove all the underlying reasons why a smoker smokes. ...

If You Want to Quit Smoking, You Have to Know About Associative Learning

michaelstone@unlearnsmoking.com — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 4:03:03 pm

As I have discussed in other articles, the driving force behind smoking is not the cigarette/nicotine. The thing that keeps a person smoking is the Psychological Smoking Mechanism. The foundation for this mechanism is consciously laid by the beginning smoker at an early age. However, it is ...

Smoking Cigarettes Causes Accelerated Aging

michaelstone@unlearnsmoking.com — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 5:05:38 pm

One of the insidious things about smoking cigarettes is that it takes a long time for the serious health effects to be noticed by the smoker even though damage occurs with each cigarette smoked. By the time the smoker notices health issues, serious health damage has occurred; damage that could ...

Best Natural Ways to Stop Smoking Naturally

Ladan@LadanLashkari.com — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 4:00:00 am

So what are the best natural ways to stop smoking naturally and easily? Do you really have to either use the cold turkey method or take quit smoking pills or patches to finally succeed to stop smoking for good... or is there an easier way? You know how many different methods are there to help ...

How I Used Hypnosis for Quitting Smoking, and How You Can Too

edwardhaycock42@hotmail.co.uk — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 2:25:00 pm

If you’ve read anything about using hypnosis for quitting smoking, you’ll know that it is one of the most effective ways to quit. 66% of people who use hypnosis to quit smoking are still nonsmokers one year later. Compare that to 15% for nicotine patches or gum, and just 5% for those who go cold ...

Quit Smoking Cigarettes - What Makes It Hard

michaelstone@unlearnsmoking.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:15:00 am

If you are a smoker who has tried to stop and couldn't, you know how hard it is to just quit. If you are not a smoker but have loved ones who do, believe me, it IS hard to simply quit smoking. This article is addressed to the smoker. In it, I am going to explain why it is hard to quit smoking ...

Why Quit Smoking

articlestudies@gmail.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 3:51:00 pm

If you’ve been dancing around the idea to quit smoking, there is much significant stuff you need to know. If you’ve ever questioned, “Why stop smoking?” then here is your solution. You require ceasing smoking for your overall health and well being. You can greatly gain the number of years ...

Benifits Of Stop Smoking Decision

articlestudies@gmail.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 3:50:00 pm

Most people has discovered about the risks of smoking. However, for many people, these warnings are just not adequate to discontinue the use for the better. If you’ve wanted to stop but sense like you demand more motivation, you should learn about the benefits of quit smoking ...

A Link Between Smoking Cessation And Depression

info@tramadolium.com — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 2:14:00 am

Many in the medical community are now coming to terms with the fact that there is a defining link between smoking cessation and depression. Depression is associated with the increased frequency of smoking and if you remove the smoking habit, depression seems to worsen in a normal person. Smokers ...

10 Signs It's Time to Quit Smoking

sabina98@hotmail.com — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 2:36:52 pm

10. You have Stomach Ulcers. We all know with normal digestion, food moves from the mouth, down the esophagus, into the stomach. Then the stomach produces hydrochloric acid which helps digest the food. What many don’t know, is that smoking increases your chances of getting stomach ulcers. It ...

Real Hypnosis, Real Results!

GuruJ@BeginningToZen.com — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 4:42:53 pm

The first question I’m always asked when I tell people I do Hypnotherapy is, “Does it really work?” My reply is always the same, “If you want it to”. Hypnosis is very effective if you are ready and willing for change. It can’t make you do something you don’t want to do. People forced to quit ...

Emily Browne Quits Smoking

dawn-bonner@sbcglobal.net — Mon, 8 Feb 2010 3:12:45 pm

'Lost' Episode It was as if Emily Browne was starring in an episode of 'Lost,' with all of her recalling and flashbacks of the past with her best friend. She remembered she used to be thin and stinky. In stark contrast, today she is overweight, but fortunately no longer stinky. Like a ...

4 Effects of Second Hand Smoke You Should Know About

len_tanghal@your-cancer-prevention-guide.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 7:15:00 am

If you are a non-smoker and think you are safe from the health effects of second hand smoke, think again. The truth is you face a greater risk for diseases caused by smoking. Do you live with a smoker? Effects of second hand smoke are much deadlier. You are not protected from every harmful ...

Quit Smoking Hypnosis Help with Hypnotherapy Service

georginahypnotherapist@gmail.com — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 4:30:00 am

Smoking, a very dangerous addiction We all know that cancer is a major cause of illness… and smoking is a sure-fire way to fuel this debilitating disease in your lungs. But did you realise that smoking actually affects every part of your body, from the top of your head to the tips of your ...