Setting Quit Smoking Dates

The Lies of setting quit smoking dates

Most of the smokers are taught to make plans and preparations for their quit date.
Most smokers think that smokers who had successfully quit smoking must have put a lot of time into preparations and planning, setting quit dates and following stringent instructions until the magic day arrives.

The Honest truth about quit smoking
When the rubber hits the road, the action plan that I took rarely match those that I mentioned above. Let's face it, in the real world of smoking, smokers are alone by themselves in their uphill quest to become smoke free forever.

Therefore setting up quit dates serves only as a guideline for you to kickstart your quit smoking.
Ultimately no matter how much planning or preparations you have made isn't going to make you quit smoking any easier. If your quit smoking reason is not strong enough to fuel your desire to be smoke free.

Some of the smokers may be researching and planning about quit smoking strategies and techniques for ages before finally decided to take the plunge. Are you one of them?

Three smokers' scenarios

1. People who wake up one day and were suddenly sick and tired of smoking. They tossed the leeching cigarettes that day and never looked back.
   
   
2. People who get sick. Not smoking sick, meaning some kind of catastrophic smoking induced illness. I was one of those smokers who get a cold or a flu and feel miserable. They feel too sick to smoke, they may feel too sick to eat. They are down with the infection for two or three days, start to get better and then realize that they have a few days down without smoking and decide to try to keep it going. Again, they never look back and stuck with their new commitment.
   ( I belong to this category but I face some minor glitches)
   
   
3. Smokers who leave a doctor's office who have been given an ultimatum. Quit smoking or drop dead--Do or Die, it's your choice. These are smokers who has been identified by their doctors, that their lives is at great risk if they do not quit smoking. You would not want to be in this category, would you?
   

All these scenarios have one thing in common--smokers simply quit smoking in one day. The quit smoking reasons are varied however the technique used are basically the same.

You will see that the only one real underlying reason behind their decision to quit smoking is
to avoid pain.

If you really want to quit smoking, please find successful role models - long term ex smokers
in the real world, be it your friends, colleagues, relatives seek them out and ask them
why they quit smoking.


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Quit Smoking-Cold turkey

I understands how it feels like as a smoker once, the craving to light a stick of cigarette,
the need for a cigarette as usual after dinner. When you are starting on cold turkey, the temptation when you saw your smoking buddy colleague light up, it was torturous pain a test of your willpower...

Why Nicotine is addictive
Smokers must realized that they are drug addicts after all. What? It is so serious? Yes the reason is because Nicotine is a powerfully addictive drug. Once the smoker has smoked for a fairly long time, the body requires maintenance of a certain level of nicotine in the bloodstream.

If this level is not maintained, the smoker will experience varying degrees of drug withdrawal.
The lower the level, the greater the intensity. That is the reason why smokers have the huge intensive desire.

Once the smoker quits, the nicotine level will eventually drop to zero and all physical withdrawal will cease. Cravings for an occasional cigarette may continue, but this is due to past psychological conditioning and not to a physical dependence.

After quitting smoking for two years, I will sometimes have a glimpse of a craving but it will pass as quickly as it goes. It was a wonderful feeling to be able to feel the cravings pass by and be truly smoke free.

Why cold turkey is the best method

Cold turkey induces short term suffering and creates a shorter period of withdrawal. Cutting down on cigarettes or use of nicotine replacement methods throws the smoker into a chronic state of drug withdrawal. The state of drug withdrawal will continue throughout the rest of the smoker's life unless one of two steps is taken to rectify it.

First, the smoker can stop delivering nicotine altogether. Nicotine will be metabolized or totally excreted from the body and the withdrawal will stop forever.

Second, the smoker can return to the old level of consumptions accomplishing nothing.

Therefore, cold turkey is the method of choice. Once the smoker stops, withdrawal will end within two weeks. If you are a smoker, I can help you over this crucial period of time.
Once it is past, you can rest assured that you will never need to smoke again.

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Quit Smoking-Why Smokers Fail

Why many smokers fail at quit smoking
Most of smokers fail at quit smoking because they set themselves an unrealistic goal which
ultimately lead them to failure.

What do you mean by unrealistic goal?
Once smokers decided to quit smoking, they thought they could just ditch smoking with a simple snap of their finger. Smokers have not realised that they had smoked for a period of time and they had picked up smoking as a habit although it is a very harmful habit.

Smoking is just like riding a bicycle
Yeah you might say, I know I know smoking is a bad habit which I knew long ago. When I was in my teens about sixteen years old, I took my first puff, the feeling that your throat is burned with ash was unbearable so the next step? I took the second and the third puff until I was able to inhale and blew smoke cooly.

So you have learn smoking by first abhoring it, then through repeated attempts accept smoking
as your habit and also your friend. The steps are the same if your trying to learn a new habit,
be it wake boarding, surfing or riding a bicycle when you were small.

You did not know how to ride a bicycle when you are small right? You have suffered painful falls
just like smoking you have choked and cough at the intial puffs.

How to Unlearn your smoking habit
Now you have acquire the habit of smoking, you have to unlearn it. You have to quit smoking by
taking small baby steps. How do you make a 72 hour mountain climb? One step at a time.

We smokers are impatient people. We want immediate results now! But it isn’t our fault. Our minds have been conditioned by our addiction to expect immediate relief from the anxiety of early withdrawal.
Smoking nicotine was quick and dependable. Within 8 to 10 seconds of that first puff nicotine we
could actually feel it arrive in our brain as that aaahhh replenishment sensation was felt.

If you want to quit smoking, you will learn by ignoring the height of the mountain and continue
by just taking one step at a time.

Do you dream of being free? Are you able to stop smoking for one hour?
Do not underestimate the power of stop smoking for one hour, do your best to enjoy it. Don't
think about the anxieties or thinking about your next puff. See each hour of freedom as the full
and complete victory that it is.


some of the precautions:

• get plenty of rest as a tired mind is easier to relapse
• do not skipped meals,you'll experience wild blood sugar swings and concentration difficulties that can making recovery miserable
• drink plenty of fruit juice the first three days to help stabilize blood sugar
• reduce your caffeine intake
  

Take baby steps to complete freedom. Just one hour at a time to quit smoking.

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Facts about quitting smoking

It’s a proven fact: It IS possible for you to quit!
No matter what you think, no matter how many times you have tried but failed to quit smoking – forget everything and understand that it IS humanly possible! Just look at the millions of people who have done it and that includes me.

I am a average joe lure to smoking at an early age and succumbed to the temptation of smoking again and again after many repeated quits.

If those smokers out there and me can quit smoking, so can you! Trust me and yourself. We are
in this together.

You are your own saviour. So come to your own rescue!
(with me, an ex smoker supporting you)
I know how it feels like to see others smoke when you are on a quit. The "need" for a cigarette as usual after dinner...

First you must pause and truly DECIDE to take charge and responsibility to quit smoking.
Not because someone wants you to quit or nagging you to quit or whatever the external influences. You must be solely responsible to quit smoking because of some strong reasons.

For me, my decision to quit smoking was I had ENOUGH of falling sick easily.

if you're having family problems, worries, or if you're stressed or whatever. Everybody has problems. This has nothing to do with your quitting smoking.

This time, you are going to take the quit smoking bull by its horns and I am beside you.

The Pain of quitting smoking
You see,, this is where all those "Stop Smoking" programs fail - they give you pills to swallow,
chemicals to inhale, patches and gums, but don't care at all about you, and totally forget how hard and painful it is for you to cope with the frustrating and painful feeling of staying away from those bloody leeching cigarettes.


The key to quit smoking is to find your pain push button to quit smoking.
My Pain Push Button was:
i was frustrated and had enough of the bloody cigarettes causing me to fall sick easily, causing
inconveniences and money seeing my family doctor, not able to enjoy everyday Life's pleasures.

So you are unable to absorb what is here, just ask yourself this only one question:
Why am I trying so hard to quit smoking?
-list twenty reasons and you will find one of the answer is the key to your quit smoking success.

trust me it works

Quit Smoking -When is the Best time

Quit Smoking -When is the Best time

Are you guilty of making these excuses?
-quit smoking during midterm, you must be nuts!
-I will quit smoking maybe after my daughter's wedding
-Maybe I will quit smoking after taking my end of year vacation
-My father is in the hospital. I can't quit smoking now
-I am making too many other changes to stop smoking now
-I have smoked for years and feel fine, why should I stop smoking now
-when things settle down I will quit smoking
-when things change for the better, I will quit smoking

It's truly fascinating how smokers can come up with so many excuses to quit smoking.

The best time to quit is NOW. No matter what time is it. When you are experiencing some form of emotional stress, that is the ideal time for you to quit smoking.

Why is stressful times ideal for quit smoking?
The greater the stress, the higher chances of quit smoking success.
When smokers successfully quit smoking at a less stressful time in their lives, they begin to
feel comfortable as ex-smokers as long as no problems surface.

However when smokers face their first real misfortune, they will revert to smoking immediately
because they were not fully prepared to deal with real stress without the need for cigarettes.

If, on the other hand, they had quit during a diificult time, they would have realized that even
under severe emotional stress life goes on without smoking. They will be secure in the knowledge that they can deal with crisis, any crisis, as non-smokers. Once they overcame the initial quitting process they found they were able to deal with stress better. They were able to meet the physical and emotional demands in their lives more efficiently than when they were smokers. They were truly better equipped for survival in our complicated world without the "help" of cigarettes.

When things get tough, deal with future problems in a constructive angle without the need for
cigarettes.

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quit smoking hypnotherapy in acton massachusetts

Quit smoking hypnotherapy in acton massachusetts

What is quit smoking hypnotherapy?
quit smoking hypnotherapy helps a smoker by eliminating the intense cravings that most smokers feel when they try to quit smoking.

The process of quit smoking hypnotherapy involves a hypnotherapist who guides the smoker into a heightened state of awareness.

In this state of consciousness, the smoker is highly susceptible to suggestions. The hypnotherapist will suggest a variety of phrases that help to reduce the smoker's cravings
and reliance on cigarettes.

Does quit smoking hypnotherapy works?
Many hypnotherapist claim that the stress reduction process through hypnosis is the main reason why it works. Smokers feel less stress and are therefore less likely to use cigarettes as a means to reduce stress throughout the day.

In most cases, quit smoking hypnotherapy do seem to work in the short term however there is still much debate regarding the long-term effects of quit smoking hypnotherapy treatments.

The main reason being the technique of quit smoking hypnotherapy works in a different way on different people. For instance, hypnosis can help smokers quit smoking for a few months,
but after the treatments are stopped, it may be hard for a smoker to continue to resist
the desire to smoke.

However, quit smoking hypnotherapy is still considered one of the most popular natural
quit smoking aids. Because it does not involve medicine or nicotine supplements, it is one
of the healthy ways to quit smoking.
Here is a list of professionally trained and certified hypnotherapist in acton massachusetts

Jan Eisnor from Woburn, Massachusetts who is professionally trained and certified hypnotherapist in the Boston area. His services include quit smoking hypnotherapy.

Jan Eisnor serves client in the North Shore area including Newton, Brookline, Beacon Hill, Brighton, Back Bay, Lexington, Concord, Carlisle, Waban, Auburn, Carlisle, Quincy, Wellesley, Stoneham, Winchester, Medford, Malden, Wakefield, Saugus, Reading, Arlington, Belmont, Acton, Cambridge, Sudbury, Somerville, Watertown, Norwood, Needham, Swampscott, Marblehead, Salem, Lynn, Revere, Danvers, Beverly as well as other New England States.


http://www.healingswithhypnosis.com/welcometohypnosis.html

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Dr Nicole Connolly, from Acton Counseling Association provides wide ranges of treatments which includes Hypnosis for Smoking and Weight Management

http://www.ActonCounselingAssoc.com

(978) 263-4381
75 Great Road, Rte. 2A
Acton, MA 01720-5660

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Darwin Gillett located in Newburyport, MA has experience working with a vast array of issues such as quit smoking hypnotherapy. His intent is always to guide his clients to a path of understanding and insight that allow them to fully utilize their own powerful and inherent healing and creativity in order to better their lives. The elimination of negative beliefs and influences open new and tremendous opportunities for health, happiness, peace, and success and often are the beginning of a new and fulfilling life for his clients

Darwin Gillett, MSW, LICSW, CH
Center for Mind-Body Psychotherapy
1 Merrimac Street, Suite 16
Newburyport, MA 01950
978-270-0394

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Best Quit Smoking Method

What is the most successful technique for quitting smoking?
This is a common question most smokers will ask. There are countless of methods offered by the government, smoking cessation experts, professional health organizations of the world and the pharmaceutical industry.

The best method?
The important group of people that you must find and who are already quite credible to you. It's the people in your family and your friends in your real world who have successfully quit smoking and been off all nicotine products for at least one year or longer.

Find out how the people you know who are long-term ex-smokers actually stopped smoking. By long-term I mean people who are currently off all nicotine for at least a year or longer.

"You have tried to quit"
You will see that many of them had previous quits and relapsed, using all sorts of methods that are endorsed by professionals and maybe even a few of them had professional help with previous attempts. You will find that almost all of them did not follow what is considered the standard recommended advice on how to quit yet they did quit and are still going strong.

You'll find that they quit by simply stopping smoking one day for one reason or another and then have been able to stay off by sticking to a commitment that they made to themselves to not take a puff.

Find the Real reason to quit
You must find the real reason for you to quit smoking. Only you will know the answer. Not some smoking cessation experts, gums, sprays from pharmaceutical companies. If your reason to quit smoking is not strong enough, you will easily relapse and go back to "I'm just taking one puff"

How I Quit
I quit smoking when I found my real reason. I have been smoking since I was 14 years old. Back then it was cool to be seen smoking and everyone was curious in their teen years.

But curious turn into habit and I was happily puffing away 30 sticks like there was no tommorrow. Soon I realised that I was smoking for 15 years and I kept falling sick easily. I was seeing my family doctor for at least twice a month. Then one fine day I had enough of falling sick and I determine the cause of my sickness to smoking.

That's when I decided to stop smoking altogether. but there are difficulties ahead...read my upcoming entries...

Quit Smoking-7 Tips To Help You Quit For Good

Yeah I know how it feels like...remember I was a 30 stick per day smoker once...to say quit smoking is easy, to actually do it's real hard. The psychocology and the physical addiction to nicotine makes it very difficult to just quit.

There are no easy solutions to quitting the smoking habit. But there are quite a few ways to make it easier to go through those first few weeks of being smoke free. If you make if past the first month, your chances of quitting for good are much higher.

here are some of the methods, do not be disheartened if you did not succeed the first time. keep trying another method that eventually helps you to kick the habit . Trust me the returns are enormous.

Go cold turkey - I know most of you will not try or have tried but did not succeed. To tell you the truth I have use this method to quit smoking for good. Period. No wishy washy, kicking and throwing little baby tantrums. Don't reduce the amount of cigarettes you smoke each day. Just stop totally. This seems counter-intuitive, but it's much better to quit all at once that to reduce the amount. Reducing the amount of cigarettes will not help you quit, it will only make it harder, and claim a heavier price from your health.

Replace your smoking with another habit-
Smoking is just another habit but a very BAD habit. You did not born into this world knowing instantly how to use a spoon, brush your teeth, wear your clothes,how to walk....etc All of this are habits. You have learnt the process of accumulating this habits. Therefore all you have to do is UNLEARN this bad smoking habit of yours.

You can replace smoking with eating fruits,candy for example. Another way is to replace it with physical activity, or drinking water. The important thing is to create new and useful habits instead of the BAD smoking habit.

If you have friends, father or close family members who smoke, you can do your part by sending them these tips to help them quit smoking. It will be worth it.

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10 Quit Smoking Tips

Tip 1. Believe in yourself. Believe that you can quit. Think about
some of the most difficult things you have done in your life and
realize that you have the guts and determination to quit
smoking. It's up to you.

Tip 2. create your own personalised quit smoking list, the things that you are comfortable doing. Create your quit smoking plan.

Tip 3. Write down why you want to quit (the benefits of quitting):
live longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell
better, find a mate more easily, etc. You have already know the negative effects of smoking and Now it's the time to face it. write down on paper and read it daily.

Tip 4. Ask your family and friends to support your decision to quit.
Ask them to be completely supportive and non-judgmental. Let
them know ahead of time that you will probably be irritable and
even irrational while you are having withdrawral symptoms.

Tip 5. Set a quit date. Decide which day you will extinguish your
cigarettes forever. Write it down. Plan for it. Prepare your
mind for the "first day of the rest of your life". You might
even hold a small ceremony when you smoke you last cigarette, or
on the morning of the quit date.

Tip 6. consult your doctor about quitting. Support and guidance
from a physician is a proven way to better your chances to quit. but please don't buy those nicotine patches! You must keep in mind that you are trying to get away from Nicotine! not injecting yourself with it!

Tip 7. Begin an exercise program. Exercise is simply incompatible
with smoking. Exercise relieves stress and helps your body
recover from years of damage from cigarettes. If necessary,
start slow, with a short walk once or twice per day. Build up to
30 to 40 minutes of rigorous activity, 3 or 4 times per week.
Consult your physician before beginning any exercise program.

Tip 8. Do some deep breathing each day for 3 to 5 minutes. Breathe
in through your nose very slowly, hold the breath for a few
seconds, and exhale very slowly through your mouth. Try doing
your breathing with your eyes closed and go to step 9.

Tip 9. Visualize your way to becoming a non-smoker. While doing your
deep breathing in step 8, you can close your eyes and begin to
imagine yourself as a non-smoker. See yourself enjoying your
exercise in step 7. See yourself turning down a cigarette that
someone offers you. See yourself throwing all your cigarettes
away, and winning a gold medal for doing so. Develop your own
creative visualizations. Visualization works.

Tip 10. Many smokers find that the only
way they can truly quit once and for all is to just quit
abruptly without trying to slowly taper off. Find the method
that works best for you: gradually quitting or cold turkey. If
one way doesn't work do the other.

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