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How to Stop Smoking
Nicotine is a major threat to your health, along with other substances in tobacco smoke and ingredients in tar and gases associated with smoking. And it doesn’t matter what they say about low-tar, low-nicotine and ‘safe’ cigarettes. They are all detrimental to your health. ‘There is no such thing as a safe cigarette’, America’s Surgeon General Julius B Richmond says. The main thing is to stop smoking altogether, although if giving up gradually helps you accomplish this aim, then fine, that’s the way to go.
Nature's Cures For Heavy Smokers. Try chewing chamomile flowers or gentian root. Plenty of saunas and steam baths will help detoxify the body. Side effects of habitual smoking include: pallor, premature aging, discoloured teeth and skin, bad breath, coated tongue, frequent colds, bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, and more!
Many people try unsuccessfully to cut down on their smoking or even stop altogether. The ingrained habits and associations in smoking are so firmly-rooted that only a definite campaign will succeed. Only around 3 percent find it easy to stop the habit.
Here’s what Gillian Riley describes as some of the major benefits of being a non-smoker, as outlined in ‘How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good’, published by Vermilion:
More energy Improved breathing Improved hearing Improved voice Fewer headaches Less sleep needed Better chance of a longer and more active life Lower risk of stroke Fewer allergy and sinus problems Cleaner home and car Less risk of starting a fire Safer Driving Fewer wrinkles Look younger No nicotine stains on fingers
To Help You Stop Smoking
* Start a stop smoking diet, such as that outlined by Jane Ogle in ‘The Stop Smoking Die’’ published by Sphere. These are the five basic principles of the Stop Smoking Diet according to Ogle:
* Avoid seafood except for prawns. Go easy on meat, poultry, fish and eggs. Go all-out on vegetables and fruits. Get plenty of milk and base-forming milk products. Go somewhat lightly on brads and cereals.
* Vitamin C. Daily doses of between 3000 and 10,000 mg per day will help detoxify nicotine.
* Nature’s cures include: calamus (chew the root to destroy desire for nicotine); chamomile (take three to six times a day to help you relax).
* Smoke only half of each cigarette and make a promise to yourself to leave the other half untouched for a definite period.
* Each day, postpone your first cigarette by half an hour or so until there’s no time left in the day to light up!
* Have a charity box where you donate a pound for each cigarette you smoke.
* Don’t stock up on cigarettes. Buy just one packet at a time and wait until it is finished before buying more.
* Try chewing gum instead of smoking.
* Buy something nice for yourself for every day or week you go without cigarettes.
* Learn relaxation techniques. This is especially recommended for anyone who smokes to relieve tension.
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Stop Smoking by Avril Harper |
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