Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [support@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 30. ožujak 2001 9:09 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmoking Newsletter - Volume 4 Number 14 QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .................................................................... Thursday March 29, 2001 *** Volume 4 Number 14 *** .................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Tobacco is Killing More Women! 3. From: alt.support.stop-smoking ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: ---------------------------- Quit Smoking with the help of an artificial cigarette. 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It's a credit card sized gizmo - you program in your smoking patterns and it gives you a regime to give up. I know how frustrating it is to continually keep trying new ways to quit-why don't you give this a go? http://quinst.com/c.jsp?area=yaibikousiqiong -------------------------------------------------------------------- ========> 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com Be sure to register for our Dieting, Exercise and Fitness bulletin board at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/77034 Normally people who quit smoking gain 5-15 pounds. This is an excellent forum to get motivated to keep those extra pounds off! Visit our "Questions About Smoking & Your Health" section at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/questions.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Tobacco is Killing More Women! Bush's health secretary wants Congress to approve federal regulation By Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Tobacco became a leading killer of women in just two generations, said a government report released Tuesday as President Bush's health secretary endorsed federal regulation of tobacco if Congress gives him the power to do so. "Speaking only for myself, I think tobacco should be regulated," Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told reporters. "It's up to Congress to pass legislation." Women now account for 39 percent of the nation's 400,000-plus smoking-related deaths each year, a proportion that has more than doubled since 1965 -- giving new meaning to that old cigarette ad "You've come a long way, baby." One woman dies from smoking every 31/2 minutes. Yet women may not fully realize the threat: Lung cancer caused by smoking is now the top female cancer killer, claiming 27,000 more women's lives each year than the breast cancer that women dread so much, said Surgeon General David Satcher. About one in five women smokes, a rate that hasn't changed much in a decade. Worse, more teen-age girls -- 30 percent -- are smoking now than 10 years ago. Add a dramatic jump in tobacco marketing, to a record $8.2 billion in 1999, or nearly $1 million per hour, and without a major change, the nation won't meet its goal of cutting female smoking in half by 2010, Satcher said. The report urges a major nationwide push to fight back. Satcher pointed to industry ads that lure girls by featuring skinny, sexy women, including a new R.J. Reynolds campaign that says, "Until I find a real man, I'll take a real smoke." "What starts out as a simple puff is turning into a death sentence," added Thompson, pledging to travel the country to preach the "evils of smoking" as his office hunts new anti-tobacco strategies. The last big federal attempt to curb smoking -- Food and Drug Administration tobacco regulation to prevent cigarette companies from targeting minors -- failed in a Supreme Court challenge. Legislation to reopen FDA regulation is pending. Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company, supports the surgeon general's efforts to alert women about smoking's risks, as well as FDA regulation, said spokesman Michael Pfeil. "We don't market to children," he insisted, noting that the industry's $252 billion settlement of state anti-tobacco lawsuits in 1998 included programs to fight youth smoking. "Everyone agrees that kids shouldn't smoke." Satcher's report sparked an immediate congressional move to help women kick the habit. Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., introduced legislation to allow Medicaid to pay for anti-smoking drugs and other cessation therapy for poor women, and to allow elderly Medicare recipients access to smoking cessation counseling. Quitting dramatically reduces chances of smoking-caused illnesses -- eight types of cancer, heart disease and other lung diseases that hit women and men alike. But women smokers face some unique additional risks: menstrual irregularities and earlier menopause; infertility; bone-thinning osteoporosis; arthritis; cervical cancer; and dangerous blood clots if they use birth control pills. That's in addition to the dangers of smoking during pregnancy, which include low birthweights, stillbirths, miscarriages and sudden infant death syndrome. And "if you really want to get your surgeon general upset," take a baby into those crowded airport smoking lounges where 50 people puff at once, Satcher said. Exposure to secondhand smoke causes asthma and other illnesses in young children and adults. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. From: alt.support.stop-smoking We all know people who have been heavy smokers and then quit. Usually when you ask them how they managed to accomplish this they shrug their shoulders and say they just woke up one morning, decided not to smoke anymore, and then never thought about it again. Not thinking about it is the secret. For those of us stuck in the smoking rut this is infuriating. That's because mentally we are obsessed with the idea of smoking. The difficulty in quitting is not so much the body's addiction to nicotine as the thinker's addiction to the idea of nicotine. It is the habit of thinking we need cigarettes, not the cigarettes themselves, that keeps us prisoners of our habit. If we want to stop smoking we have to learn how to not think about smoking! The craving for a cigarette is an artificial dependency. It is not the natural state for a body to be in. It is just that we grow so used to this artificial level of functioning, the body either stops sending the brain signals that something is wrong, or our brain stops processing these signals. This is known as autonomic conditioning, i.e., to become comfortable with an uncomfortable state. Our hearts normally beat seventy-three times per minute. When we smoke one cigarette the heartbeat goes up to somewhere around ninety-five. When we "feel" that we are "in the mood" for another cigarette--such as while having a cup of coffee (the cigarette's sidekick) or when someone else is lighting up, what is really happening is that our hearts have gradually been returning to their normal baseline rate of seventy-three beats per minute. It is at this time we experience "craving" (discomfort). If we were a car, this would be the moment we ran out of gas. Time for a fill up! Except our brain and body are saying, Help! I need a cigarette." What they are saying is "I need to get back to my artificial level of functioning! I need to get back to my induced environment again! help! This is what I'm used to!" Since it takes one hour for the heart to return to the normal seventy-three beats per minute, we want a cigarette every hour on the hour so we can stay in the speed lane. Our hearts are tired and in a constant state of overexertion. Give a baby a cigarette and it will go into convulsions. For a heavy smoker, the world is viewed through a screen of poison and stress. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of QuitSmokingSupport.com. We want this newsletter to be the best one around. 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