Šalje: QuitSmokingTips [bwprice@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 1. veljača 2001 23:21 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingTips QuitSmokingTips - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ..................................................................... Thursday February 1, 2001 *** Volume 3 Number 6 *** ..................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Memories of Being A Smoker... 3. 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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: http://www.SmokerSaver.com for more information! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com Thinking about quitting smoking? Get some of the most interactive online support available at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 Visit our Amazon.com bookstore at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm Over 15 excellent quitting smoking books to help you to quit smoking! Add your name to our growing list of over 3,100 ex-smokers at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/feedback.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Memories of Being A Smoker... I wrote this when I quit smoking over 5 years ago. I was into my quit about 6 weeks! We had one heck of a freezing ice storm last night. I woke early this morning, and, just as well, because it took almost 40 minutes to clean the 1/2" ice that was deposited on all the windows of my truck. It was bitterly cold and the wind chill factor made the temperature feel like 15 f. It was so windy that it was impossible not to breathe in the cold right down to the bottom of the lungs. While I was scraping away I had a very vivid deja-vu and it was so clear that I had to stop and think of my place/time for an instant. I have never had this happen so clear before. It brought back a very disturbing memory of the "old" Blair (not literally) when I used to smoke a pack and a half a day. We all experience these feelings of being there before. What I remembered was thoughts of me scraping my windows with a cigarette in my mouth, cussing and cursing the cold conditions that I was exposed to, feeling out of breath and wishing that I was still in bed sleeping. I would always have a cigarette lit, like a chain smoker, until all the ice was removed from the windows. I hated these conditions, the cold, wind, snow......... We'll, not this time. I was actually enjoying it! The cold was not bothering me and I was not out of breath. The drive to work was also treacherous to say the least. Previous driving conditions would have caused panic attacks, pains down the arm etc. all caused by the stressful condition. We'll, not this time either. I was as calm as could be, not feeling under any stress at all. What a difference 6 weeks without smoking makes, not only physically, but psychologically as well. I am a changed person for the better. I am sure that all of you out there will agree that you have experienced similar feelings about yourselves since you quit. These positive self awareness feeling are good and very beneficial in the quitting process. Ex-smokers are different. They are more sure of themselves, their actions and their consequences. As a result they are much better off than before. This may sound corny to a lot of you, but stop and think about how you have changed since you quit. Write down the positive and the negative items and I think that you will see that you are a better person than you were when you were smoking. For one thing, you are now treating your body with the respect that it deserves. You have become aware of the damage that you have already done to your body and at the same time decided to take a proactive step to begin the healing process. Quitting smoking is the best thing that a person can do to improve their overall health. It is never to late to quit! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. The Only Solution To Smoking Is To Quit Dec. 22, 2000 (CBS) It's one of the biggest myths about smoking: "If I just cut back, my health will improve." No such luck, says a team of Mayo Clinic researchers, led by Dr. Richard Hurt. "There is no safe lowest level of smoking. The best way is not to smoke at all," Hurt says. Hurt and his colleagues followed 23 heavy smokers, people like Doug Coen--who inhaled 2 packs a day--and asked them to cut back to 10 or 15 cigarettes a day over a two month period. Then they measured specific chemical markers linked to cancer. One of the markers went down, two stayed the same, and one even went up when smoking was reduced. "Even though there was a 50 percent reduction in the overall smoking amongst this group, the markers of harm, which are blood tests and urine tests associated with cancer--did not go down," Hurt says. It wasn't what Doug Coen was hoping to hear. "I guess, deep inside, I was probably hoping that yeah, if I could cut down and it was still good for me I could have the best of both worlds and that, unfortunately, doesn't work out," he says. Coen had smoked for 30 years and had tried to kick the habit five times. The new study, he says, has motivated him to quit once and for all. "I know that having even maybe one, two, up to five cigarettes a day is just as harmful as relatively smoking a whole pack or a pack and a half," he says. That's the message scientists are hoping to convey. Perhaps convincing other heavy smokers to seek the most aggressive treatment to quit. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of QuitSmokingSupport.com. We want this newsletter to be the best one around. If you have suggestions, ideas, or feedback about this newsletter, feel free to email us at support@quitsmokingsupport.com Please feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone you know who may benefit from it! To unsubscribe to this newsletter, please go to http://www.listbot.com/ (c) Copyright 1995-2001 QuitSmokingSupport.com Take care and have a great week! 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