People that smoke know that it’s bad for their health, but they do it anyway. It’s one of those habits that are very difficult to break. There are people that have been smoking for years and are still going at it to this day.
If the smokers really want to quit, there are many ways that they can do that. In fact, this article discusses five ways to quit smoking. Smoking is a bad habit that can ultimately lead to health issues such as emphysema and cancer. So, if you start now trying to quit, you will make a big impact on your life.
Here are five ways to quit smoking:
• Meditate – Mediation allows you to control your mind. It is easy to do and it can help to relieve your mind of things that you should not be thinking about. You can sit in a room where it is quiet with your eyes closed. Or you can play some soft, soothing music. Mediation allows you to focus on the things that you should be paying attention to. Your mind is relieved of all of the forces that cause you to take action and smoke.
• Breathing – This is another one of the five ways to quit smoking. Use breathing exercises to control your nicotine cravings. Since you inhale a lot of toxic substances when you smoke, you can implement these exercises to exhale them out of your system. This can be done on a regular basis.
• Drink Water – Take small sips of water every few minutes. It can help to get rid of the craving to smoke. Drinking water also helps to get rid of the nicotine that is already stored in your system.
• Nicotine Patch – This is the fourth of the five ways to quit smoking. The nicotine patch works to reduce the potency of nicotine withdrawal. The longer you wear it, the less chance you have of wanting to get your smoking habit back. The nicotine patch is usually worn on your arm.
• Nicotine Gum – Nicotine gum works like the nicotine patch, except you chew the gum for a certain amount of time. This gum also works to reduce nicotine withdrawal.
These five ways to quit smoking can be very effective, provided that you use one or more of them on a regular basis. Just like you make a habit to smoke cigarettes, you can make it a habit to stop smoking.
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Even when people face the threat of losing their home, their job, or even their pay check, many of them are still obsessed with getting anything and everything that money can buy, courtesy of a credit card.
Such people are easy targets for advertisers, whose seductive marketing campaigns tell us that we must have a bigger home, a better car, and brand-name clothes. No cash? No worries just put it on the plastic at least we have interest free days before we worry about the consequence.
Nowadays, ordinary people hire fake paparazzi to follow them around to make them look famous. High school students physically attack classmates, posting YouTube videos of the beatings to get attention, completely unaware of the devastating effects their actions have on the lives of others. Sadly leading to some of these victims ending their lives.
Buying flashy consumer goods on credit in order to look and feel like a winner is likened to “The Narcissism Epidemic”. Where initially you feel great about your ego in the short term and feeling penniless and depressed in the long run. Now below is a list of five things money cannot buy.
1. Good Friends – Money is ranked up there with oxygen. But it cannot buy you good friends. Though many people are attracted to others with lots of money, it is not a genuine friendship. You may have all the money in the world to buy the biggest boat, best cars and designer lable clothing. But these are material objects that are out dated before they are introduced to the market. But a good friend is someone that will stick with you through thick and thin, defend, love and protect you. It is often said that “The best things in life cannot be brought” This kind of person “friend” “cannot be brought.” there is no price tag that can be put on a true friend.
2. Good Health – Money can buy healthcare and medicine, but it cannot replace health once it’s lost. It’s far better to take preventative action such as watching what you eat, exercising, not smoking, and getting regular physicals than to rely on money to save you once your body has started to fail you.
3. Family Unity – Money cannot buy family unity. That only comes from spending time with your family and giving them adequate love and attention. We have heard of stories of family bread winners working tirelessly to provide for the ever growing need to their family only to be short sighted from what the family really need. The love of money causes all kinds of trouble and everlasting pain for some.
4. Personal Contentment – It is very important to be happy with what you have. “On average,” says The Narcissism Epidemic, “materialistic people are less happy and more depressed. Even people who simply aspire to have more money suffer from poor mental health; they also report more physical health problems such as sore throats, backaches, and headaches and were more likely to drink too much alcohol and use illegal drugs. Striving for financial success, apparently, makes people miserable.” According to Dr. Madeline Levine, spending can become “retail therapy” that gives people a measure of comfort in a world where family, community, and church have failed them.” “Shopping is one way to control our environment,” she writes in The Price of Privilege. “It puts us in charge of transactions and confers a sense of power on the buyer. This type of power is illusory . . . The real power is being exerted by large corporations and their advertisers, who are paid to suggest that consumer goods confer magical and protective powers on buyers.”
5. Genuine Security And Inner Peace – According to a quote from George Glory Osaghae “One percent of positive thinking is far better than ninety-nine percent of negative anything”. With millions of dollars in the bank and no peace of mind is vanity. For those that believe in the Bible, Philippians 4:7 reads -“And the peace of God surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and mental powers.” There is more to a secure future than stockpiling money. After all, money can be stolen.
]]>Introducing www.pinkhippo.com.au, the new generation of online directory that is replacing the traditional phone books.
Ever wished you could book the babysitter, the plumber and a computer technician all at the same time, without having to spend significant time searching through the phone book for the right one?
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With a unique service concept, Pinkhippo Tradies was born from a gap in the market that called for a ‘one stop shop’ of service professionals. Pink Hippo is not simply a database, but acts as personal connection between client and service person – working as a spokesperson between the two, matching requirements with service providers, comparing quotes and listing the best possible professionals, before presenting all information in one convenient package to the client.
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Empowering service providers and clients alike, www.pinkhippo.com.au is the ‘middle man’ that everyone wants working for them!
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]]>The worst kept secret from Telstra is out in the open as the Telco confirm 648 sensis job losses in it’s Sydney, Melbourne and other cities. The cuts will include 312 staff from Melbourne and 248 from Sydney, with the remaining 38 spread across Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart.
The managing director of Telstra’s Sensis directories business, John Allan, told reporters ”the vendors that we are considering provide services for customers that go beyond our service today, such as 24/7 operations and unique technologies that assist in processing efficiencies, which they do for many directory businesses around the world”.
In one of my report about a year ago, if white and yellow pages paper print should be banned? with a couple of responses. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that paper prints was on their last leg with online business directory becoming ubiquitous and above all, most are now FREE.
However, the managing director claims ”Until now we have been operating with an outdated print-based model – this is no longer sustainable for us,” Mr Allan said. ”Our future is online and mobile where the vast majority of search and directory business takes place.” And Allan said that 60 percent of Sensis’ customers already advertise online or through the company’s mobile app.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, described Telstra’s decision as ”really dreadful news particularly for the staff members”. ”It’s always incredibly tough when someone loses a job,” Ms Gillard told the Adelaide radio station 5AA.
Sensis’ managing director John Allan said the proposal is currently in consultation with unions and staff, and would see Sensis create 50 new roles for a Customer Management Centre, but would result in a cut of 648 of the 3,500 employees within Sensis. The union condemned the company’s actions. ”Telstra has done well out of Australia, its profits have risen off the back of hard-working staff and loyal customers and this is how it repays them – by sending almost 400 jobs offshore,” the union’s national secretary, Nadine Flood, said.
”And to add insult to injury, we have been told that one of the reasons why they are doing so is because Australian consumers can get better customer service in the Philippines or India.” She added. So what is your opinion on this massive Telstra move?
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Top 10 Search Engines (Updated 2012)
1
World’s best search engine and some of the features include WebPages, images and videos.
Website: google.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 168M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 1 ] | Compete.com [ 1 ] | Quantcast [ 1 ]
2
Yahoo
An internet search portal and some of the features include Chat rooms, search results and Free Email.
Website: yahoo.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 160M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 4 ] | Compete.com [ 3 ] | Quantcast [ 6 ]
3
Ask
Ask.com is the question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people – all in one place.
Website: ask.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 148M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 31 ] | Compete.com [ 5 ] | Quantcast [ 14 ]
4
Bing
Bing is a search engine that brings together the best of search and people in your social networks to help you spend less time searching and more time doing.
Website: bing.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 132M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 14 ] | Compete.com [ 6 ] | Quantcast [ 11 ]
5
MSN
MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, shopping and more great offers.
Website: msn.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 81M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 16 ] | Compete.com [ 10 ] | Quantcast [ 4 ]
6
AOL
AOL offers today’s news, sports, stock quotes, weather, movie reviews, TV trends and more. Get free email, AIM access, online radio, videos and horoscopes.
Website: aol.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 64.5M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 19 ] | Compete.com [ 13 ] | Quantcast [ 15 ]
7
GO
Discover how GO.com can launch your online experience with Search, fun stuff to do, and the latest Sports, News, Entertainment, and Movies from the top.
Website: go.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 63.6M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 12 ] | Compete.com [ 16 ] | Quantcast [ 31 ]
8
WebCrawler
Offers a single source to search the Web, images, audio, video, news from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and many more search engines.
Website: webcrawler.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 13M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 846 ] | Compete.com [ 105 ] | Quantcast [ 770 ]
9
Blekko
Blekko is a company that provides a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those provided by other popular search engines.
Website: blekko.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 2.3M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 764 ] | Compete.com [ 884 ] | Quantcast [ 913 ]
10
Dogpile
Dogpile is a search engine that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex (and formerly from Ask and Bing), and includes results from several other popular search engines.
Website: Dogpile.com Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors: 1.8M
Rankings U.S Only: Alexa.com [ 963 ] | Compete.com [ 1161 ] | Quantcast [ 1030 ]
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