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QuitSmokingTips from QuitSmokingSupport.com Friday May 25, 2001 ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Time Heals 3. Exercise helps smokers kick the habit ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: Quit Smoking with the help of an artificial cigarette. Keeps your hands, mouth and mind busy, without the deadly smoke. http://www.quitsmoking.com/ez.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Stop smoking with BioCrave™. Safe, all-natural and effective. 100% money back guaranty! BioCrave™ SAT is basically sulfur, a very common innate mineral, put through a proprietary process that greatly reduces the urge to smoke so there's no desire for cigarettes. Discounted Prices, Free Shipping ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` You smoke...You smoke A LOT... You didn't develop your smoking habit overnight...So why are you trying to quit in a day?! 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Questions About Smoking & Your Health: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/questions.htm Our quitting smoking bulletin board is one of the most popular quit smoking support areas on the Internet!! Sign up at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 Are you "Rationalizing Your Smoking": http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/excuses.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Time Heals - by Blair Price December 1995 I posted this to a discussion group called "No-Smoke" that I belonged to when I quit smoking 5 years ago. I was 2 months into quitting smoking! Let me tell you how I feel now that I have quit smoking and how I think that I've changed since I quit. I am sure that there are a lot of you out there who can identify with most of these items: I do feel better, not a lot but enough that I'm glad that I quit. A lot of my "mysterious" ailments are gone, ones that I used to experience on a daily basis. I know for a fact that my stomach pains are gone due to the decrease of stomach acid since I quit. People with any form of stomach irritation should not smoke. They will find that these irritations heal the first few days off cigarettes. Most doctors claim that stomach ulcers won't heal for people that smoke. I feel more in control of my actions and a lot of people have told me that they think that I'm more sure of myself and more in control. Before, if I had a problem at work, I would go outside and have a smoke and hope that it would go away on its own. Now I seem to be able to confront the problem and solve it without having to hide behind something. I actually find that I enjoy challenging problems at work as I take delight in the fact that I feel confident enough in my ability to win out. I also find when I deal with my employees that I am more positive and sure of myself. They seem to notice this and a few of them have told me that they like this change. Maybe I am giving them more direction, something they were not getting before. It is nice to be able to talk up close to people and not fear the smell of cigarette smoke offending them. When I used to smoke I was always careful to keep my distance from people, knowing that my breath always smell of cigarette smoke. I find that I have a lot more patience. I used to blow up quite easily before at work and at home. My wife used to say that I was "like a stick of dynamite ready to blow up." I was like that at work as well. I feel at lot calmer now. I find that I am not rushing everything I do. I take the time. The University where I work should be happy because they are getting more work out of me. I am much more productive and the work that I do is getting done better. I find that I have the time to do things that I have wanted to do for a long time. Even simple things are a joy to do now. Sitting down and reading a computer magazine from front to back is enjoyable to do. Before, when I was smoking, I would rush through it, put it away, and never look at it again. I guess I've missed out on a lot of the simpler things in life for the past 20 years! I used to hate the winter and the cold. Now I find it tolerable. I find that breathing the cold air doesn't bother my lungs the way it used to. When I wake up in the morning I want to get moving. I used to feel sluggish before and found that I had to literally kick myself in the rear end to get going. Now I feel like I had a good night sleep and am eager to get on with the day. I am now at the point where I can honestly say, without a word of doubt, that I do feel better. Like I said earlier, not a lot better, but enough that I don't want to start up again. For all of you less than a month smoke-free'ers, give it time and you shall see that the benefits of not smoking are overwhelming. You will start to feel better every day you stay off cigarettes, and true to fashion, the old saying "Time heals," will prevail. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. Exercise helps smokers kick the habit NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Women who exercise are more likely to succeed at quitting smoking, and are less likely to gain weight than female smokers who do not work out, results of a new study suggest. By the end of a smoking cessation program, 19 percent of women who exercised three times a week had sustained their abstinence from smoking compared with just 10 percent of women who did not exercise, according to a report in the June 14th issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. "The primary barrier that women report for being afraid of quitting smoking is a concern that they will gain weight," said lead study author Dr. Bess H. Marcus, of The Miriam Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, in an interview with Reuters Health. "Other factors that concern both men an women is their level of depression, their level of stress, and their level of anxiety. A lot of people use cigarettes to help them manage their mood, their stress and their weight, so they are frightened to stop smoking," she added. "With these data showing that exercise has been helpful in quitting smoking, I would encourage physicians to recommend to all their patients to increase physical activity, particularly those who are working at quitting smoking," Marcus said. In the study, 281 female smokers were assigned to undergo a 12-session cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation program plus three exercise sessions and three health lectures each week, or the behavioral program alone. Sixty weeks after "quit" day, about 12 percent of the exercise group were still abstaining compared with 5 percent of the non-exercise group. The researchers tested the women's saliva to confirm that they had indeed quit smoking. Marcus and colleagues also report that although all quitters gained weight, those in the exercise group had gained less weight than other women at the end of treatment. However, this effect was not sustained at the 20- and 60-week follow-ups. "It wasn't sustained, but people also didn't sustain the exercise after the program ended," Marcus said. "So the message there is that exercise works while you keep doing it." "Even though the intensive exercise and cessation program tested in this trial will not appeal to most smokers, the study's findings provide adequate evidence to support a recommendation of exercise as part of a smoking cessation program for all patients," wrote Dr. Nancy A. Rigotti of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in an editorial accompanying the study. Source: Archives of Internal Medicine 1999;159:1169-1171, 1229-1234. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` 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! (c) Copyright 1995-2001 QuitSmokingSupport.com Take care and have a great week! Blair support@quitsmokingsupport.com QuitSmokingSupport.com |