We can blame it on that weary world traveler, Christopher Columbus. While visiting islands in Barbados, members of his crew noticed the native people smoking curious dried up leaves from a local plant. And so the first tobacco was introduced to the Western world. Tobacco was quickly adopted by the elite and the fashionable of the European nobility. Read the rest of this entry »
Unless you have been hiding under rock for the last fifty years, you have heard that smoking tobacco is bad for you, often deadly. And you have tried to stop smoking many times but you keep falling off the wagon and having a relapse. It’s not your fault. The reason that most people fail to quit smoking is nicotine. Read the rest of this entry »
Stopping smoking is very hard, especially when going it alone. Many people have successfully learned how to quit smoking after getting help from stop smoking programs. If you have tried to quit smoking and failed and have wondered if a stop smoking program could help you, then read how to choose one that is right for you. Read the rest of this entry »
To stop smoking takes a lot of hard work and effort – but you can stop, no matter how many years you have been smoking. But a good many people fail, not because they don’t have to the willpower or the desire but because they simply don’t have a good “stop smoking system”.
A 5 Step Stop Smoking System
1) Plan to Stop
Since you got your first job, you probably heard that by “Planning your work, and working your plan” you would be successful. The same goes for kicking the smoking habit. It’s all about the planning: Read the rest of this entry »
People will often use the excuse that they are too old to stop smoking and assume that because they have been smoking for most of their life it seems pointless to stop in their latter years.
What they should realize is their body will start repairing the damage that has been done from long term smoking as soon as 20 minutes after their last cigarette. Read the rest of this entry »
The chemicals that are in the smoke you inhale from cigarettes attack various vitamins to the extent that they cause the problems that are associated with smoking such as lung cancer.
Vitamin A in particular is one of the vitamins that are destroyed by cigarette smoke and studies have shown that people who have reduced levels of vitamin A are more susceptible to lung cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Most people who smoke have ‘triggers’ that make them want to smoke.
There can be many and varied reasons why people will reach for a smoke in certain situations and when they are feeling particular emotions.
If you can identify what these emotions or events are, that are causing these triggers then that will be one of the first steps towards quitting smoking. Read the rest of this entry »
The tobacco companies are masters of marketing. They will target groups that they want to introduce to smoking by associating smoking with the things that those people will consider to be cool.
They sponsor major music events because they know that there will be impressionable teens at these events and they will associate that brand of cigarettes with the musician and all the glamour that goes with the musical lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »
Most people are surprised when they first learn that there are over four thousand different chemicals in a cigarette.
Many of these chemicals have been directly linked to causing cancer.
Within the four major manufacturers of cigarettes there is considerable research to deliver a product that serves the purpose of tasting and smelling good to the consumer and more importantly having sufficient of the necessary ingredients to remain addictive.
As that addiction comes primarily from the nicotine the manufacturers do all they can to ensure that the smoker’s brain gets the biggest dose of nicotine possible.
Would you believe that they use ammonia in the filters of their cigarettes as this allows more nicotine to pass through the filter and the more nicotine that can pass through the more addictive the cigarette will be?
The odds are stacked against the smoker when they gamble with their health by puffing on a cigarette and that is precisely what the manufacturers are aiming for and by all accounts winning.
Their marketing is all targeted at getting people to start smoking because they know that once a person starts they are likely to become addicted and have difficulty stopping.
In addition to the chemicals that the cigarette manufacturers add to their products the tobacco has already been exposed to numerous insecticides and pesticides that will in some quantities find their way into the body of the smoker.
These are things that most smokers will never consider when they are having a smoke and the majority would never have believed that such lengths have been taken to ensure the addiction is sufficient to create a customer for life for something that will in many cases eventually take their life.
How do you feel about the fact that someone else has this sort of control over your life? It’s enough to make anyone want to stop smoking isn’t it?
The first weekend without smoking is often a very difficult time particularly if you are accustomed to socializing.
If you are out with other people who smoke, then you are placing undue pressure on your attempts to stop smoking and it might be better at such an early stage of your program to avoid placing yourself in an environment where there is too much temptation. Read the rest of this entry »
