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Smoking is dangerous; plain and simple. If you are the smoker it is dangerous to you in many ways. And, non-smokers, did you know that you are in danger from second hand smoke yourself. Second hand smoke seems so harmless, yet in some ways it can be even more lethal than putting the cancer stick up to your very own mouth!

Read on if you want to find out about some of the most harmful smoking effects associated with the habit of cigarette smoking.

1) Second hand smoke. Did you know that the terrible effects of smoke can enter through the skin! This alone should make a smoker think twice about smoking around people suffering from asthma, heart disease, and allergies.

2) Smoking robs you of your youthful appearance; it can cause permanent damage to our skin after a very short period of time.

3) It can cause the onset of gingivitis, an inflammation and infection of the gums surrounding the teeth. And of course, we all know it causes the teeth to become yellow.

4) It can cause a thinning of bones, also known as osteoporosis.

5) It can cause many heart and lung diseases that, of course, cause one to age prematurely.

6) When you begin smoking, it is highly likely that you
will develop an addiction to nicotine.

7) Women who smoke have a higher incidence of infertility.

Women who smoke during pregnancy, greatly increase their odds of miscarriage.

9) Some of the ingredients in cigarettes are pure poison: ammonia, benzene, DDT, butane gas, carbon monoxide, and arsenic.

This is just a small sampling of the harmful smoking effects I identified during my research. Frankly, the list is enough to keep me on the wagon!

John was a longtime smoker and is now pleased to offer his stop smoking program tips.

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HOW I QUIT SMOKING USING NLP

By 

VIKRAM KARVE

Whenever I undergo any training or course, I try and apply the concepts and skills I learn during the program upon myself in order to ascertain efficacy of the training for I firmly believe in the time-tested adage that “The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating”. 

Thus, the first thing I decided after completing NLP Practitioner Training was to try and apply the concepts I had learnt and imbibed on myself. 

NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming. Sounds complicated and high falutin, isn’t it? Actually NLP is quite simple – let’s see how I applied it in my daily life.

At that point in time, I was a smoker. I had tried to quit smoking many times with little success. 

Now I’d try a simple concept from NLP to give up smoking. 

I succeeded beyond my expectations and gave up smoking in a day. 

I conquered the craving, the urge, for smoking and never suffered any “withdrawal symptoms”. 

I quit smoking forever in one go. 

Let me describe to you, Dear Reader, that red letter day of my life. 

I woke up early in the morning, as usual, made a cup of tea, and the moment I took a sip of the piping hot delicious tea, I felt the familiar crave for my first cigarette of the day. 

I had identified my first “Smoking – Anchor” – Tea. 

I kept down the tempting cup of tea, made a note of the craving [anchor] in my diary, quickly heated a glass of water in the microwave oven, completed my ablutions, stepped out of my house, and embarked upon my customary morning constitutional brisk walk-cum-jog deeply rinsing and cleansing my lungs with pure refreshing morning air, which made me feel on top of the world. 

I felt invigorated and happy. I had overcome my craving and not smoked my first cigarette of the day. 

Returning refreshed from my brisk bracing morning walk, I stopped to pick up the newspaper, and spotted my friends ‘N’ and ‘S’ across the road beckoning me for our customary post-walk tête-à-tête with tea and cigarettes at our favorite the tea-stall. 

Here lurked my second “Smoking – Anchor” – my smoker friends. 

I felt tempted, but I steeled my resolve. 

I waved out to my smoker friends, turned away and briskly headed home. 

They must have thought I’d gone crazy, but it didn’t matter – I had avoided my second cigarette of the day. 

That’s what I was going to do the entire day. Be aware, look inwards, fully cognizant and mindful in order to ensure that I identify all the stimuli that triggered in me the urge to smoke – my “smoking anchors” which could be anything, conscious and unconscious, internal and external, tangible or intangible – people, situations, events, feelings, smells, emotions, tendencies, moods, foods, social or organizational trends, practices, norms, peer-pressure. 

Then I would conquer and triumph over these stimuli, demolish these negative “smoking-anchors” and establish and reinforce new positive “healthy” non-smoking anchors using a Technique called Force Field Analysis. 

I’ll tell you more about Force Field Analysis later.

Dear Reader, read on and see how my first non-smoking day progressed. 

After breakfast, I didn’t drink my usual cup of coffee – a strong “smoking anchor” which triggered in me a strong irresistible craving and desperate desire to smoke. 

I drank a glass of cold bland milk instead, and thereby averted my third cigarette of the day. 

It was nine as I reached my workplace and I had not smoked a single cigarette. Rather I had not smoked my customary three cigarettes! 

It was a long day ahead and I had to be cognizant, observe myself inwardly and devise strategies to tackle situations that elicited craving for smoking – recognize and conquer my “smoking anchors”. 

Anchoring is a naturally occurring phenomenon, a natural process that usually occurs without our awareness.

An anchor is any representation in the human nervous system that triggers any other representation. 

Anchors can operate in any representational system (sight, sound, feeling, sensation, smell, taste). 

You create an anchor when you unconsciously set up a stimulus-response pattern. 

Response [smoking] becomes associated with [anchored to] some stimulus; in such a way that perception of the stimulus [the anchor] leads by reflex to the anchored response [smoking] occurring. 

Repeated Stimulus-Response [SR] action reinforces anchors and this is a vicious circle, especially in the context of “smoking anchors”. 

The trick is to identify your “smoking anchors”, become conscious of these anchors and ensure you do not activate them. 

And then transcend from the SR Paradigm to the SHOR Paradigm to set and fire new positive anchors. 

What’s SHOR? 

SHOR stands for Stimulus-Hypothesis-Options-Response – I will tell about this management model soon too.

The moment I reached office I saw my colleague ‘B’ eagerly waiting for me, as he did every day. 

Actually the freeloader was eagerly waiting to bum a cigarette off me for his first smoke of the day. “I only smoke other’s cigarettes” was his motto! 

I politely told him I had quit smoking and told him to look for a cigarette elsewhere. 

He looked at me in disbelief; taunted, jeered and badgered me a bit, but when I stood firm, he disappeared.  

I had not smoked my fourth cigarette of the day! 

I removed from my office my ashtray, my lighter, all vestiges of smoking, declared the entire place a no-smoking zone and put up signs to that effect. 

The working day began. It was a tough and stressful working day. I was tired and suddenly my boss called me across to his office and offered me a cigarette. 

I looked at the cigarette pack yearningly, tempted, overcome by a strong craving, desperate to have just that “one” cigarette. 

Nothing like a “refreshing” smoke to drive my blues away and revitalize me – the “panacea” to my “stressed-out” state! 

It was now or never! 

I politely excused myself on the pretext of going to the toilet, but rushed out onto the terrace and took a brisk walk rinsing my lungs with fresh air, and by the time I returned I had lost the craving to smoke and realized that physical exercise is probably the best antidote – a positive “non-smoking” anchor – and, of course, I had not smoked my fifth cigarette of the day! 

It was the famous Stoic philosopher Epictetus who said: 

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and cannot control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.” 

We often let our feelings set our anchors, govern our lives. We let feelings drive our thoughts, not realizing that thoughts drive actions, actions produce results, and results in turn produce more feelings, reinforce anchors, causing a vicious circle which may ultimately lead to loss of self-control. 

Such “feeling-anchors” not totally controllable, as many times feelings are produced by external circumstances beyond your control, and if negative feelings are allowed to drive our thoughts and actions, then undesirable results emanate. 

The best solution is to establish “thought-anchors” as drivers of your actions. 

It is well within your control to think positive, good and interesting thoughts. 

In fact, the happiest person is the one who thinks the most interesting and good thoughts, isn’t it? 

That’s the essence of NLP. 

Reprogram your anchors, recondition your mind, control your own life, change for the better and enhance your plane of living. 

This technique works for me, and I’m sure it’ll work for you too. 

Maybe it is so effective because it is so breathtaking in its simplicity. 

 

VIKRAM KARVE 

Copyright © Vikram Karve 2009

Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/karve 

 

Vikram Karve, 52, educated at IIT Delhi, ITBHU and The Lawrence School Lovedale, is an Electronics and Communications Engineer by profession, a Teacher by vocation, a Creative Writer by inclination and a Foodie by passion. An avid blogger, he has written a number of fiction short stories and creative non-fiction articles in magazines and journals for many years before the advent of blogging. His delicious foodie blogs have been compiled in a book “Appetite for a Stroll”. Vikram lives in Pune with his family and pet Doberman girl Sherry, with whom he takes long walks thinking creative thoughts.

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I need to lose a lil weight now that I am done smoking. Does anyone have any suggestions in regards to aiding that? I know to exercise and eat well but other than that I am looking for someone that has seen good results with some sort of pill/aide.

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Well Spring is just around the corner and surprise, surprise, the success and controversy surrounding the electronic cigarette (as written about in Part 2 of this series of articles) rumbles on and on.

As an observer it is fascinating to see so much staunch opposition to a product that has the potential to rid the world of smoking related cancers! No its not yet been tested or approved by the world health organisations, no there is not yet a piece of paper that declares the electronic cigarette “safe” but surely something with this much promise should be being embraced by one and all and the powers that be should be frantically busy with the testing so the world at large can either welcome a hero or dismiss another false dawn.

Meanwhile, Joe Public continues to flock towards the electronic cigarette like penguins to an iceberg. As awareness of the product grows, more and more people are willing and eager to give it a try. What does this show? Personally I think it proves just how desperate most smokers are to quit smoking.

I don’t really think the fact that an electronic cigarette looks remarkably like a real cigarette has anything other than an initial “wow” factor. Ill health and a despondency with some of the other “quit smoking” products available, combined with a real urgency to stop smoking is lighting the way for these e cigs.

Let’s have another look at some of the claims made by the electronic cigarette companies:

• Can be up to 80% cheaper than smoking real cigarettes
• No lighting, no burning, no tar and no real smoke (only vapour)
• No cancerous substances (during the burning of tobacco there are approx. 40 cancerous substances)
• No need for ashtrays, no cigarette butts, no horrible smells and no air pollution (no CO2)
• Due to the various strengths of the renewable cartridges, nicotine strength can be gradually lowered to ease nicotine addiction.

 

There are more claimed benefits than those mentioned above but it’s clear looking at some of these why the electronic cigarette is proving to be such an attractive proposition for smokers. Also the ways these items are packaged and distributed by some companies make it easy for non smokers to make purchases as gifts for smoking relatives and friends.

Ultimately until there is some official feedback and decisions made by the health organisations other then mere speculation, then it’s very much a case of making personal decisions regarding the electronic cigarette but one thing is for sure we are going to hear a lot more about them yet.

 

Another month passes and the jostling continues in the electronic cigarette world. Part 3 in this series of articles keeps a watchful eye on the unfolding drama.

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Nobody finds it easy to quit smoking and I understand it very well. I’ve recently managed to quit smoking so I am well aware of how difficult it is to kick this horrible habit out of our lives once and for all. Below I’ve listed some of the things that have helped me quit smoking a lot easier and reduce the withdrawal symptoms and cravings that I had to go through.

1. Eat healthy and start doing daily exercises

The body and mind are tightly connected, therefore by eating healthy you’ll not only strengthen your body that is most likely to be weakened after you quit smoking but you will provide the right nutrients and vitamins that you need to reduce the withdrawal symptoms and cravings to smoke another cigarette.

2. Have a positive mind-set and fix a specific date to quit

The first essential step in your “quit-smoking” journey is definitely your decision to quit. However fixing a date is important as well. It would be perfect if you could take a few days of work so you have the chance to relax a bit more. Don’t hide your desire to quit from anyone, actually telling your co-workers, friends and family members that you want to become smoke-free, will bring you lots of benefits. You will need support!

3. Last but not least, try and stay away from people or situations that will remind you of smoking. The temptation is high!

You can read a great book for example that will keep your mind of cigarettes. Try and do jogging, tennis or anything that involves movement! Stay away from bars or discos where your friends might offer you a cigarette.

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Breaking any addiction may seem impossible for most people and nicotine addiction is one of the hardest habits to break. The most common reason people find quitting smoking cigarettes difficult is because of the withdrawal symptoms that occur when trying to quit.

Nicotine can give addiction quite as fast as heroin or cocaine. The main difference is the substance that is released into the blood when inhaling smoke. There are tens if not hundreds of diseases that are caused by smoking. Can you see why you should quit smoking today?

When smoking, thousands of deadly substances are released into the body that directly affect all organs including: heath, lungs, liver, stomach and the brain. By reducing the quantity of oxygen our immune system is affected, therefore diseases occur.

Recent studies show that millions of people worldwide die of lung cancer and heart related problems each year.

How long does nicotine stay in your body?

The nicotine stays in each cell of the body. Therefore the nicotine that you take in is metabolized by the liver and kidneys that are supposed to get rid of it rapidly. High levels of nicotine are found in the smoker’s body even within 12 hours after they’ve smoked the last cigarette.

Quitting smoking isn’t easy, however there are several natural ways to quit smoking available including the popular Nicorette gum and patches, drugs such as Chantix – a highly addictive antidepressant. Chantix is well known for its dangerous side-effects. Some patients have reported suicidal thoughts and several mood disorders during the treatment with Chantix.

Hypnotherapy and NLP (neuro-programming language) is another method that has helped thousands of people to quit smoking. It’s widely used even in drug rehabs with tremendous success.

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Many people try to quit smoking however only a small percentage use the right stop smoking aids. I believe most of the smokers haven’t got the will power and definitely they need advice in order to succeed in their ‘quit smoking journey’.

If you’re a smoker looking to quit you might often ask yourself: How am I going to struggle with the cravings? How am I going to handle the mornings without smoking a cigarette and drink my coffee? Does this sound familiar? What if just after one session of hypnotherapy and NLP you will find it incredibly easy to become and remain a happy and confident non-smoker for life?

Quitting smoking isn’t easy and you may wonder why hypnotherapy and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) are so successful. Both our beliefs about smoking and our habitual smoking behaviors reside only in our unconscious mind. For this reason smokers wish to quit whilst conscious on the other side the powerful unconscious mind simply won’t let them. When lighting up the first few cigarettes, smokers install unhelpful beliefs directly into their unconscious mind usually not realizing that quitting cigarettes will be so difficult later on and avoiding any advice that smoking is deadly.

Here’s why most people fail when they decide to learn how to quit smoking cigarettes:

At the same time smokers make a conscious decision to choose those perceived benefits of feeling more relaxed and more confident, over the initial physical reactions of inhaling the deadly fumes. So as time passes the uncomfortable physical reactions start to subside as a result of their newly formed nicotine addiction. They started to mistake the relief of feeding that addiction with feelings of relaxation and confidence.

Years later, after possibly smoking tens of thousands of maybe hundreds of thousands of cigarettes smokers only increase their unhelpful beliefs and trained their unconscious minds wrongly. A cigarette will not make you feel better nor make you feel more confident or relaxed, actually it’s the opposite. Hypnotherapy and NLP allows you to retrain your unconscious mind of a smoker to automatically change your false beliefs about the nicotine addiction.

The often mood swings, withdrawal pangs of irritability and smoking cravings will vanish with NLP. This is why you should try to quit and choose the right stop smoking aid. Hypnotherapy replaces the cravings and irritability with overall happiness and improved self-confidence.

If you really want to quit smoking today and learn how to kick this habit out of your life using our tips and suggestions to their fullest with great results in less than a week please visit my web site below. Stop smoking quickly and easily today using the one tested, proven and simplest stop smoking aids on the web.

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The Easy Quit System is an effective course to help you quit smoking naturally and permanently that is mainly based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This kind of therapy is widely used in clinics to get rid of just about any kind addiction.

Pete Howells the author of The Easy Quit System is an expert in CBT which is used to change the way you feel about smoking. The techniques described are broken down into small chapters, easy to understand. Based on recent consumer surveys the Easy Quit System has been used by thousands of people worldwide already with an success rate of 18 out of 20.

Everyone finds it difficult to quit smoking and it’s mainly due to the lack of will power. Most people don’t succeed in their quit smoking journey for the simplest of reasons: They don’t follow the right methods to quit or they don’t use effective stop smoking aids. If you’re a pack a day smoker or even more, struggling to quit your addiction then Easy Quit System is the solution. This ebook has changed thousands of lives and I am sure it can do the same for you. The psychological approach used in Easy Quit System is incredibly effective without any doubts.

By using the Easy Quit System you no longer need medical advice, nicotine patches or gum, nicotine inhalers, drugs or any other quit smoking aids. You get all the tools and techniques that you need to finally quit smoking. Most clients that have used the Easy Quit System would swear by this product’s results and never smoked a cigarette again. You will not have to suffer from any sense of loss that usually people that quit smoking experience nor you will have to go through the unstoppable cravings that you are most likely to get throughout the day.

Another great thing about the Easy Quit System:

Do not get tricked into thinking that The Easy Quit System is some kind of magic. It does work as the creator promises however you will have to follow the simple step-by-step techniques correctly if you’re looking finally kick smoking out of your life for good.

Don’t worry you will not necessarily gain weight, you will not have to avoid social events, you will not go through cravings, you will not have to do any breathing exercises or take other drugs. The Easy Quit System provides the information you need to finally become smoke-free.

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If you’ve been trying to quit smoking and failed every time no matter what stop smoking aid you’ve used then you just came to the right place. I would like to briefly review the Quit Smoking Right Now Program which in fact is one of the most popular self-help hypnosis – NLP online course. There are several factors that makes this program unique. You will not have to suffer from cravings and they also promise that you will not be gaining weight either.

The package contains a 38-minute audio-recording and it has been created by Rick Beneteau an expert in hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Thousands of people have used Rick’s program and finally managed to stop smoking. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a proven technique that anyone can use to ‘re-program’ selective functions in your brain so you no longer want to smoke. It has been used successfully for more than two decades even in drug rehabs to eliminate cocaine and heroine addictions. The step-by-step mp3 audio recording is accompanied by an ebook that will help you end your habit for good and not only but email and phone support are available if you need them.

By curing yourself of the psychological side of smoking your chances of quitting are increased. Rick claims that 18 our of 20 people that have follow his guide correctly managed to quit smoking for good. I highly recommend this product if you’re serious to put and end to smoking. The Quit Smoking Right Now program is definitely a great alternative to other stop smoking aids such as nicotine patches, nicotine gum or inhalers which may not even work. This company has been online for several years and helped thousands of people already!

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