March 2, 2007

Stop Smoking - The Aftermath

Unfortunately, one of the problems of giving up is what to do with your hands when you’re not actually using them for something useful. You may be tempted to chew your nails - don’t do it - that’s another habit that’s hard to kick; you may be tempted to eat - more on that later; you could carry Arab “fiddle beads” with you, but the most constructive thing you can do is take up a hobby.

Tip! The book is called ‘How to stop smoking’ by Allan Carr, a British Accountant and is not available in the United States.

If you feel at a loss without something in your hands, why not put them to good use. There are plenty of hobbies which require both dextrous hands and serious concentration, both of which will take your mind off not having a cigarette. If you want something to do while watching TV, there are jigsaws, crochet and knitting or sewing, none of which will interfere with your viewing pleasure. If you like to sit in front of the television but don’t really watch it, why not try crossword or other puzzles or the latest craze Sudoku? That will really keep you occupied for hours.

Better still, don’t watch TV, it’s probably a bit too close to the kitchen, so try something that will take you into the garden, or the garage, or away from the house altogether. There’s an endless list of things you could do such as woodwork, metalwork, sketching and painting, fishing and a variety of other sports.

If you’re using one or several of the nicotine alternatives but you’re still tempted to eat as a substitute for smoking, try to choose something healthy. Keep carrot or celery sticks in the fridge with some cottage cheese. Have low fat, low sugar biscuits in the tin, or nibble on cheese (but only in moderation). If that doesn’t work, try to split up your normal food intake into several smaller meals, so that you have something to look forward to more often during the day. In any event, the majority of people trying to give up smoking put on a little weight. Some attribute it to decreased metabolic rate and some just to over-eating, but either way, don’t worry too much about it at this stage, unless you experience significant weight gain. Of course another counter-measure is to take more exercise - go for a brisk walk or visit the gym.

Tip! As smoking is considered a cause of various chronic diseases, quitting smoking is also a direct treatment of all your ill health obtained via smoking. In fact, I would say if patients of lung cancer would learn how to stop smoking, they would directly begin a direct lung cancer treatment for them.

Finally, you make have a cough for up to three months. This will probably make you wonder why you bothered to quit smoking in the first place, but be patient, it’s just the body’s way of clearing out all the impurities including tar, that you’ve stored in your lungs over all those years of puffing away.

That’s the bad news, but in our next article will come the good.

Michael Russell

Your Independent Stop Smoking guide.

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To Quit Smoking You Need The Secret Ingredient!

Tip! Working out is one way to help quit smoking. Allowing yourself to test your health on a regular basis, like going for a jog, will keep you physically aware of the dangers of smoking.

I am an expert in giving up smoking. I have often stated in my articles and ebooks that I do really loathe the term ‘Expert’. But I have to claim the title, as I have succeeded quitting smoking over one hundred times.

Even worse so is the term ‘Guru’. In my opinion, in the Internet world today, there are FAR to many of these, mainly self-proclaimed, ‘Supermen/women’ to help you achieve or point you in the direction of every type of success you can imagine. Apart from the business success that they generally claim to be able to bestow, they also claim to be able to MAKE you quit smoking, lose weight or even (believe it or not) cure cancer and other frightful conditions.

Tip! Here to share with you are some of life’s quotes that are especially powerful for smokers to help quit smoking.

I believe that there are ‘gifted’ people who can draw on unknown powers that exist and are able - sometimes - to achieve a stunning cure or help in a manner that would appear to be nothing short of miraculous. However, we’re not talking about these people or these types of incidences. I’m talking about the ones that can ONLY guarantee their miracles if you BUY their product or their service.

As far as the ‘quit smoking’ claim is concerned, there are in fact, a number of bonafide and medically proven prescription and herbal or natural compounds that can and do often help people to achieve their goal to be ’smoke free’. So, a promise or guarantee that a product WILL achieve this for you is only a ‘half lie’ as it is possible and has been known to work time and again. The fact about the guarantee that makes it questionable is that there MAY be one ingredient missing, which is essential in order for these products to work.

I’m not a heavy smoker, but not a light smoker either (about 20 a day, which I classify as average or normal, among smokers, at least). I would love not to have to calculate if I have enough cigarettes to do me until the morning (I usually work at night). I’d love to be able to avoid spending in the order of $50 a week on tobacco (that’s $2,600 a year). I’d like to not be considered a social outcast in most public indoor places and most people’s homes, being banished to the cold and the rain or stinking heat outside to have a cigarette (although I perfectly understand their need and their right for clean, safe air and a pleasant smelling home). I’d like not to have to take a quick trip to the shop at 2 am, in the cold and rain because I’ve run out smokes. In the nutshell, I’d really like to be able to quit smoking - for good!

Tip! ‘It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.’ ~ Evangeline Booth If some die-hard smoker scoffs at you, ‘you’ve got to die of something,’ remember you don’t need sad fatalists to help quit smoking, you want to enjoy your life free of guilt and worry.

Did you here what I just said? “I’d really like to be ABLE to quit smoking - FOR GOOD!

So, with all the reasons I’ve given above, plus a myriad of others, there is plenty of motivation for me to quit WITHOUT even considering the health and medical implications of my habit, which are even more compelling. Smoking is physically harmful and it is a KNOWN cause of many deadly conditions, which I have no need go through here.

Why do I continue to smoke or why do I go back to smoking a very short time after each of my very lame attempts to quit smoking? Simple. I ENJOY IT. I like to smoke. I have smoked for 30 years and I can’t imagine life without smoking. I’d love to have a crack at it, but I am still up against the conscious (and subconscious) knowledge that this is something that I am going to miss very much. I am also, as has probably been gleaned from this article so far, that I am not blessed with a great deal of will power (or whatever other name you want to give it).
For 15 months I helplessly watched my wife, for whom I would have gladly given my own life, die of lung cancer nine years ago (at the age of 43). Even after that, now at the age of 46 (I was a few years younger than Kathy), I still smoke. Am I a little bit crazy…? What do you think?

Tip! If you don’t want a cigarette: help quit smoking is what you need. Many people are tired of smoking and do not want to continue it.

As I said earlier, there are many good products that work well in making the challenge to quit smoking much easier. Both those approved and condoned by mainstream medicine and many others of a herbal or natural nature all work well. But they will only work if the one, single, important ingredient exists - The WILL to quit smoking. Not the need, the want or all the sensible arguments and reason but the WILL to succeed, the determination. In fact, I’ve heard so many who have succeeded, that it wasn’t really all that difficult because they REALLY wanted to quit smoking badly.

I hope that one day soon, I will want to quit smoking badly enough to actually succeed but I know that no matter what cure or help I get, it won’t work if I really don’t want it to. How can it? If you smoke, I hope that you will want to quit smoking soon, too. Good Luck!

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