"Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler... I'm Doctor Spin."Dan Quayle
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Cigar Smoking
While most of the uninitiated might consider the generic habit of smoking to be one thing, and one thing only, any cigar aficionado will be at great pains to tell you otherwise. While the smoking of cigarettes is something that most teenagers have tried, ...
Dangers of smoking
Smoking is injurious to health"; this is the caution advice that we read on all cigarettes packets. Still we go ahead to take that puff of ecstasy. Why? Are we trying to be ignorant or is it something else. Tobacco intake is the single most preventable ...
Why Eating Well Will Help You Quit Smoking
Many smokers have a tendency to light up in order to quiet the hunger pangs that strike midday, late at night, or even first thing in the morning. That's just one reason why people who quit smoking tend to gain a little weight in the first few weeks ...
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Ask any of the 12 million smokers in the UK and the chances are they'll say they'd love to stop but just can't. In fact several have tried many times and failed and have therefore concluded that it's impossible.
We know that every smoker will suffer some sort of illness or damage as a result of smoking and half will be killed by their habit: half of these in middle age. Most die from lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease (bronchitis and emphysema) and coronary heart disease, painful, long drawn out, messy deaths needing numerous operations, medication and hospital stays becoming more and more debilitated.
An estimate by a joint ASH Medical Association in June 1999 put the number of UK men in their 30s and 40s, impotent as a direct consequence of smoking, at 120 000. Approximately 90% are unaware of the link. Cigarette packets now often warn of that risk.
But it's not just our own health at risk. More than 17,000 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital every year because of the effects of passive smoking.
The baby has a much greater risk of suffering cleft palate, cerebral palsy, glue ear and infections, tonsillitis, asthma, coughs, croup, allergies, behavioural problems and reproductive problems later. Many cot deaths are attributable to parents smoking at home.
44% of house fires are caused by cigarettes and the casualties are very often the children, trapped upstairs, overcome by smoke and unable to escape and unable to be rescued by their desperate parents below.
Children learn by imitation and so are far more likely to smoke if their parents do. In the United Kingdom about 450 children start smoking every day and more than 80% of smokers began their habit as teenagers.
Meanwhile, successful quitters have taken on average of 6 times to succeed and 20% have managed to give up first time. And according to ASH, the stop smoking charity, 21% of all women and 27% of all men in the UK are ex-smokers.
So, if they can stop, so can you.
Ask the successful quitters . . . it doesn't have to be hard providing you find the right method and motivation for you. For many people, it's hypnotherapy that does the trick. You can expect to become a non-smoker, rapidly and permanently in just one relaxing session with a clinical hypnotherapist. Alternatively, you can use hypnotherapy products at home to re-programme your unconscious mind and support you in achieving your goal.
For more information visit: http://www.SoundsPositive.com/ Lysette Offley BA (Hons), PGCE, Dip Hyp, GHR, GQHP
About the author:
Lysette Offley is a clinical hypnotherapist running a thriving practice in Henley on Thames, England. She provides one-to-one therapy as well as downloadable home-use hypnotherapy products on her website: http://www.SoundsPositive.com/
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