Šalje: QuitSmokingTips [bwprice@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 19. studeni 2000 14:03 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingTips: Volume 2 Number 47 QuitSmokingTips - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com ==================================================================== QuitSmokingTips - Sunday November 19th,2000 Volume 2 Number 47 http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com support@quitsmokingsupport.com ==================================================================== If you feel that the material in this newsletter may be of benefit to anyone you know please feel free to pass it on! ===================================================================== "SMOKESAVER" turns your computer into a virtual therapist! By replacing your screen saver, SmokerSaver drops in on you several times a day, every day, with bite-sized installments that accumulate into a comprehensive 30-day course to help you to quit smoking. Use it at work or at home and rid yourself of this terrible addiction! This powerful interactive guide shadows you throughout the day, initially assessing your habit, then advising you, monitoring your progress, supporting and inspiring you, until you reach your ultimate goal of being a non-smoker. Visit us at http://www.SmokerSaver.com to register for the course, and get a $10.00 discount off the normal price of $38.00. Costing less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes, you will not only save money from quitting smoking but also dramatically improve your health and well-being! ===================================================================== Make sure you visit: http://www.quitsmoking.com "The Quit Smoking Company" Excellent Information and Products to Help Smokers Quit ===================================================================== I've tried several times before to quit and proved I can't quit! It takes most smokers several (4-7) attempts before they are successful. With each attempt you learn a little more about what works and what doesn't. The trick is to incorporate this new learning into your next attempt at quitting and make this time successful. It is sometimes helpful to go over your relapse with a health professional to determine what triggered the relapse, what you might have neglected, how you might better prepare for the next time: it's called "turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones". Why bother - I've smoked so long it wouldn't help my health Although some of the damage done by smoked tobacco is permanent, much is reversible. As early as the second day of abstinence, risk due to heart attack decreases. Within days, risk of stroke and infections begins to decrease. Over months after stopping the linings of the mouth, throat and bronchial tubes repair themselves, the cilia or little hairs in the bronchial tree start to work and the lungs begin to clear themselves. Emotional improvement begins to happen in weeks. Ten years after quitting, even heavy smokers of twenty years have cut their risks of dying from complications of smoking more than in half. Quitting is just a matter of will power. Those who can't quit just lack the will power. The reason most people relapse to smoking is complex. Usually they don't realize at first the power nicotine addiction has over them. So they neglect to make the needed preparations in order to withstand both the craving and the compulsion to smoke. Craving is a powerful conscious drive, often triggered by environmental cues. There are effective techniques to deal with cravings until their intensity fades. Compulsion is an unconscious drive. Until a person realizes the profound unconscious drive of the drug to which they are addicted, they are less likely to remain adequately vigilant to defend against that first puff, or drink, or pill. Often we hear the relapsed smoker say, " I don't even know why I took that first puff, somebody offered me a cigarette and I just took it. I just wasn't thinking". Adequate preparation for quitting and a long-term relapse-prevention program are very helpful for successful recovery from nicotine addiction. ==================================================================== What's In Cigarette Smoke? Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. Nicotine is highly addictive. Smoke containing nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, and the nicotine reaches your brain in just six seconds. Nicotine in small doses acts as a stimulant to the brain. In large doses, it's a depressant, inhibiting the flow of signals between nerve cells. In even larger doses, it's a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. As a cigarette is smoked, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Tar is a mixture of substances that together form a sticky mass in the lungs. Most of the chemicals inhaled in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. The more you inhale, the better it feels?and the greater the damage to your lungs. ==================================================================== Take care and have a great week! 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