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The Hardest Habit to Break

For nonsmokers, quitting smoking may seem like a no-brainer. It is bad for your health, can cause heart disease and lung cancer, gives you bad breath, can cause cancer of the throat or mouth, can cause emphysema, accelerates the aging process and causes wrinkles, turns fingernails and teeth yellow, and can lead to a dangerously low birth weight in babies of smoking mothers. With all this evidence to show the reasons to quit, why is it so hard to do it?Quitting smoking is arguably one of the hardest habits to break. For smokers, quitting is not just a matter of piling up the evidence against the habit. And in most cases willpower is not enough either. This is where most... read full article > >

A Breakthrough in Using Affirmations to Quit Smoking

Has Smoking got you down?? Does it sometimes seem like insanity trying to quit? Make this your Banner Year for Changing all that! Make A New Year's Affirmation to Stop Smoking--Then do it!! Nicotine Addiction There is no longer any doubt that smoking causes all sorts of physical problems, disease, and death. Children can suffer physical defects and emotional problems if their mother smoked while she was pregnant and second-hand smoke is harmful to those breathing it in. Do cigarettes or tobacco control your every waking moment? Does your breath reek of smoke? Are your fingers yellow and stained? Be honest-- · Have you ever desperately searched through ashtrays in a frenzied attempt to find a butt worth smoking? · Every time you wash your walls, windows, or drapes, do you cringe... read full article > >

Quitting Smoking - Using Thoughts

We are well aware of the consequences of smoking. Still, we are unable to quit it. The cause for unable to quit smoking is the addiction of nicotine, along with the weak determination. A firm determination can make one able to leave this addiction of nicotine far behind. You only need to play certain mind games, as we all know that mind controls the body. There are a few examples of mind games. For Instance, you have decided to quit smoke, but your decision is not firm. You have the habit to smoke with your friends. Before meeting them, your mind has already started working. You would find it tough to sit there without smoking. You would start feeling miserable and weak. You will become frustrate by these thoughts. Finally,... read full article > >

The Truth About Smokers 'Concentration Con'

Smokers make many excuses for not quitting. One of them is the 'concentration con'. How many times have you heard a smoker say, 'I'd like to quit, but it helps me concentrate'. Maybe you've said it yourself ?In reality, smoking doesn't help concentration from a medical viewpoint. So the idea that smoking helps concentration is just a perception, or an imagined positive reason for not quitting.It's true that withdrawal symptoms, starting not long after your last cigarette, cause feelings of irritability and restlessness. These feelings started because of cigarettes, and it's strange that another cigarette should be the way to relieve them.In fact, smoking makes concentration much harder, not easier. Although another cigarette temporarily relieves... read full article > >

Stop Smoking Hypnosis - Will I Gain Weight?

Smokers have been known to use the fear of gaining weight as an excuse not to quit. Using tobacco as a weight control mechanism is quite common as nicotine does suppress one’s appetite as well as alters the body’s metabolism. Smoking is also believed to slow the rate in which food is digested therefore making the person feel fuller for longer. The concept of using nicotine to help control the diet is known as “weight control smoking” and occurs in 40 percent of all female smokers and is quite rare in men.Getting to the bottom of your own weight control problems and bad dieting habits is one of the first things that a “weight controlled smoker” must do to be... read full article > >