Smoking

Smoking and nicotine dependence

Smoking is the burning of tobacco smoke inhalation through the mouth, which leads to many diseases such as malignant tumors, cardiovascular diseases and chronic bronchitis.

There are two types of nicotine dependence:
• Psychological dependence - cigarette smoking which related with rest, a response to stress, intellectual stimulation, moral training, and crowd behavior.
• Physical dependence - the body's need for nicotine is due to the exposure of the nervous system.

Passive smoking
Passive smoking occurs when non-smokers inhaled smoke emitted from the smoker lit cigarette and he’s expired tobacco smoke. Any situation where a non-smoker is forced to inhale tobacco smoke be regarded as passive smoking.

Smoking devastating consequences

Skin
Smoking causes premature skin aging process, as it reduces the concentration of vitamin A, as well as blood circulation in the skin. Thus does not produce proteins, which gives it flexibility. Therefore, smokers skin is dry, hairy tiny wrinkles, especially around the lips and eyes.
Eyes
Long-term smoking caused or exacerbated by a variety of eye-function disturbance. Smokers by 40% more often than others found in cataract or eye lens opacity, which reduces visual acuity up to complete blindness.
Ears
Brought to the harmful substance in the bloodstream deaths the wall of blood vessels, reducing blood flow in the inner ear, so that smokers can lose their hearing earlier than non-smokers
Metabolism
Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke composition combines with the blood cells more easily and faster than oxygen, so passionate smokers by reducing the oxygen in the blood by nearly 15%.
Respiratory System
80-90% of cases of chronic disease, characterized by emphysema - lung air sack enlargement and rupture
Heart
Smoking causes heart rate acceleration and blood pressure increases. Every third person in the world dies of a heart and vascular disease. Smoking is one of the major risk factors for their development.
Cancer
Of existing chemical compounds in cigarettes, more than 40 elements can cause cancer. Smokers compared to non-smokers 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer.

Why quit smoking?

Some of the benefits that can help quit smoking:

• 20 minutes after the last cigarette arterial blood pressure fall to normal, return to a normal heartbeat, improves blood supply to feet and hands;
• after eight hours oxygen content in blood return to normal.
• after two days improve the ability to feel the taste and smell;
• after a week will disappear the skin, hair, breath unpleasant odor;
• after one month will become noticeably easier to breathe, will disappear, fatigue, headache, especially in the mornings.
• after half-year - normalizes pulse rate, improve sport success, feel desire for physical activities;
• after year - the risk of coronary disease by half compared with smokers;
• after five years - the opportunity to dye of lung cancer compared with smokers will dwindle.
•You save a lot of money, which you can use whatever you like.

How to quit?

There are a lot of ways how to quit smoking. I will codify the best ways, so you can chose which one is for you. New advice every week.

Electronic Cigarette

Electronic Cigarette consists of a stainless steel shell, lithium ion batteries, Microelectronics circuits, pulverizer chamber and indicator lights at the top of Electronic Cigarettes. It can make smokers feel the same pleasure as smoking a traditional cigarette. Electronic Cigarette creates a healthy smoking culture atmosphere, and authoritatively experts has dignified like perfect modern microelectronic technology, biological technology and the concept of healthy living combination. To stop the tobacco and nicotine smoking, Electronic Cigarette can be used with the four basic tastes – high, medium, low and zero nicotine density cartridges, according to the different tastes of smokers. The following four-step procedure has been developed especially for smokers who want to stop smoking gradually. If you want to stop smoking:
1. Step: Start with high nicotine density cartridge, follow normal smoking habit.
2. Step: Then switch to medium nicotine density cartridge, follow normal smoking habit.
3. Step: Then use low nicotine density cartridge and nicotine-free cartridge consistency
4. step: Finally, Discard smoking using nicotine-free cartridge, you stop nicotine reduction unconsciously and completely.

Biggest plus for electronic cigarettes is – You save a lot of money!! Electronic cigarette pay off after 1,5 month.

Where to buy Electronic cigarette?

American specialists developed method for pilots astronauts

1. day. Get up half an hour earlier than usual, drink 2-3 glasses of water, take a shower. Breakfast - only fruit and fruit juices. After breakfast, do the breathing exercises (deep inspiration-expiration). Whenever you want to smoke, dispirit this wish by doing breathing exercises and drink 2-3 glasses of water or fruit juice. Avoid smoker society.

Light lunch: vegetable salads, soups, vegetable ragout, pies with jam, juice. After lunch you must walk in fresh air.

For dinners take light food too.

Don’t laze! Do not sit at the TV, at soft furnishings, do not drink spirituous drinks.

2nd day. Drink on an empty stomach 2-3 glasses of water, then do the breathing exercises, like in first day. After breakfast – go to work by legs or at least some distance walk with legs. Live at the first day treatment. Desire to smoke dispirit with breathing exercises or water and juice.

3rd day. The same diet. Do not smoke and sustain your decision to quit smoking.

4th day. Your wish to smoke is decreases. Do previous regime and diet.

5th day. You are satisfied with the progress and you believe that you can quit. Continue first four days of treatment and diet.

Good luck!

Hypnotherapy

How do hypnoses work?

Our minds work on two levels: the subconscious and consciousness. We are thinking, taking decisions and acting with consciousness. But the subconscious controls our habits. Changed state of our consciousness which we are familiar with the name of the hypnosis, it is possible to communicate with the subconscious directly, bypassing the sense of "filters". Therefore, hypnosis acts quickly and with the hypnoses help is easy to change lifetime habits like smoking.

Lemon Juice

I found drinking a few squirts of lemon juice in either hot water or ice old water helps with the cravings. If you feel a huge craving then I suggest squirting the lemon juice straight into your mouth and that should cure you of the crave for awhile! I hope this helps you!

Share your experience

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Joe

I quit after 15 years of smoking (2 packs / Day)
Now I can share my experiences.

So, I couldn’t do that in first time, neither in fifteenth attempt. Previously there was a periods when I didn’t smoke a few days, though a few months.

Tabex and Nicorette did not help me. Anyway I still wanted to quit.

So, how I did that!? With abnormal sports activities! Every day at least 2 hours of sport activities. As possible outdoor activities - bicycle, roller skates, orienteering. It even started to attend squash 3-5x a week. Weekends – velosport. In winter – snowboarding even when temperature is -20 or +3 and raining. This must be done each day!

Do not take coffee and sugar. Drink a lot of water.

If I wanted to smoke in work, I went out and take a walk for about 15 minutes. It helped and bow down my wish to smoke!

Good Luck!



Anna

Hi my name is Anna! I quit after 4 year of smoking. The interesting thing is - I did not use any medicals or any hypnotherapy. I quit only with my willpower! Yeah, it was hard but if you really want to stop, then you can do that.

Sometimes when I really wanted to smoke, I went to youtube and watch videos about smoking. My favorite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn50mTEGnrU. After I watched this video, my wish to smoke disappears. Sport activities helped me to.

Bye and good luck!

Eddy

Hi
Most people don't realise that it's purely the nicotine that we are addicted to. Not the tobacco. Nicotine is an addictive substance yes...BUT..its the tobacco that's the dangerous substance....My doctor told me that if you don't smoke...after 15 MINUTES, your body start healing itself. But if you keep smoking tobacco cigs all day, your body obviously doesn't start to heal.

My problem and probably everyone elses, is that i actually like a nicotine hit, like a person likes an alcohol hit etc....BUT i detest the poison being inhaled from the tobacco. So when i was introduced to these electric cigarettes that emulate the same smoking experience, but without inhaling any poisoness tobacco substances....i thought....hang on a minute....this is the most LOGICAL & ETHICAL & HEALTHY ALTERNATIVE to tobacco cigarettes i have ever seen AND i can smoke it on banned places AND i won't be killing myself anymore AND i won't get a smoke related cancer/illness.

Think about it carefully....stopping smoking tobacco cigs is a MUST. There are 4000 chemicals in cig tobacco, but there are ZERO in electriconic cigarettes. I am now an electronic cigarettes smoker, safe in the knowledge i am NOT inhaling tobacco fumes. All i am getting is a nicotine hit.

The more i think about it...the electronic cigarettes is probably the greatest invention since landline phones went to mobile phones. I predict the electronic cigarettes industry, which is only in its early days, will obliterate the tobacco industry and it will be very normal in a few years to see people smoking their electronic cigarettes in pubs, bars and public places.
If more and more people do convert to electronic cigarettes, won't smoking related illnesses reduce massively?...won't people live longer? As i've already said, this is the most LOGICAL & ETHICAL product i have ever seen for a tobacco smoker to convert to. I loved them so much, i have started running seminars in LEEDS, West Yorkshire to show people the product and how they can promote them to tobacco smokers they know. Its what a call a people to people opportunity. Its similar to when Jamie Oliver went to Rotherham and taught someone how to cook, then got them to teach someone else and so on and so on. Its about duplicating the message. If anyone wants more info, they can reach me on email removed
Stopping smoking TOBACCO cigs has changed my life. I don't smell of tobacco anymore, my lungs are not getting poisoned anymore, my clothes don't smell anymore....and i can smoke in any banned place if i want !

Arthur

Hi all

Here's what I have done to help curb those horrid cravings.

I firstly ask myself if I'm hungry, bored, thirsty etc.

I've also written a list on my fridge.......so when a craving strikes, I can go to the list and try one or any of the things I have listed to keep me occupied.

A few of the things on my list are:
1. Write on the forum
2. Have a lolly
3. Look on the internet and choose a new recipe to try this week
4. Make some fairy cakes
5. Write a list of my reasons to quit

Ok it may sound a bit stupid, but its working for me and might for you too?

Good luck!

Barney

I had quit a few times before but always ended up falling off the wagon after a couple of months. Just 1 wont hurt but as always I would eventually return to fulltime smoking. I was a habitual smoker and always smoked after coffee, after dinner, with a pint etc.

The initial reason for my latest quit was the most selfish reason. I work in a pub and with the smoking ban coming into effect in July 2007, I wouldn't be able to smoke at the bar while keeping an eye on customers who might want serving. I was left on my own most times and couldn't just go out for a cigarette as there would be no-one to cover for me. The thought of going without a cigarette for over 4 hours filled me with dread. When I look back now, I am disgusted with myself that this was my initial trigger for wanting to give up smoking again. The secondary reasons were my health, money, and being a bad role model to my son. That was the nic demon inside me. It makes you a very selfish person. If I was deprived of my nicotine fix, I turned into an absolute monster. The quit was to start on 1st July 2007.

I had analysed my failings on my last quit and was determined not to fail this time. The key to this quit was 'Not a single puff!' If I ever got tempted (Usually when out drinking) I would say this to myself. I even wrote myself a note to carry around in my wallet in times of temptation. The note would remind me why I quit and how stupid I would be if I had a cigarette. It would also remind me that I couldn't be a social smoker and eventually I would return to smoking full time if I had a puff. And in big capital letters it would say 'NOT A SINGLE PUFF'. I was smoking up to the last minute of 30th June, even though I had a bad chest at the time.

I enrolled myself in the NHS stop smoking clinic which was basically reporting to a advisor every fortnight to check the levels of carbon monoxide in my blood and get my patches on perscription. Patches worked for me before so I thought I would use them again. My problems normally began after the 10 week course had finished. While the patches dealt with the nicotine craving, I concentrated on breaking the habit.

The quit was going well! I kept to my rule and even managed a few enjoyable nights out. The smoking ban helped in the way that I could sit in a pub and not have the temptation of everyone smoking around me. We had a surprise in August with the news that my wife and I were going to have another baby. I guess my sperm were quite inactive while I smoked as my last quit was responsible for my first son. I think it was more than just a coincidence.

Something changed my quit in October. My dad a heavy smoker for most of his life was diagnosed with terminal lung and liver cancer in August (Due to smoking and heavy drinking). While we thought he would live for at least a few months, he had a fit while in hospital and died in October, He was 62. When I heard the news that he had died I was round my mums, all I wanted to do was have a cigarette. My mum wouldn't let me. I'm glad she didn't.

Losing my dad at the age of 28 to a smoking related illness, made me rethink my quit. I was definetley doing this for my son and at the time my unborn son. I don't want them to lose their dad like I did, I want to watch them grow up to to be men.

As time has gone on I have changed the way I think about smoking. After losing my dad, I read Allen Carr's 'Easyway to stop smoking'. I don't know if it would of helped me with my initial quit but has certainly change my veiws on my addiction.

A year after my quit I began to not count the months so much. I had used this forum and another forum previously. the support from other quitters is so valuable and I have made some friends aswell. I don't post on here so much these day's as I am not a big forum user anyway, but do like to pop my head in to say hi every so often.

I'm coming up to the 2 year mark in a month and so naturally, this forum and all my old quit buddies have popped into my head.

I've put on a stone in weight which I am still struggling to shift, but I no longer snore, I hardly ever need to use my inhaler anymore and more importantly I am no longer killing myself.