COMMUNITYCHESTTREASURES.COM

Do you smoke cigarettes? Are you thinking of quitting smoking? In this article I write about the benefits of stopping smoking, not just for the smokers themselves but also their family and friends.

When people are quite young they do not really think too much about death, well most of them don’t anyway. A lot of these young people will start to smoke cigarettes and even though they are warned and read about the dangers of smoking, seem not to care or worry about them. Before they know it they become hooked on these cigarettes and smoking becomes an essential part of their everyday lives, where it is likely to have started merely as a social thing.

The facts are that the lives of people who smoke are likely to end prematurely, this should be reason enough for people to have the courage to start looking into ways of quitting smoking today. There is no point in working hard all of our lives, paying into pension schemes, saving for our retirement, if we are not going to be able to live a long life.

There are many other health related problems of course that can arise from smoking such as the premature birth of a baby. Then their is the issue of passive smoking which reports suggest can have a negative impact on our friends and families health. These people are very important to most of us and therefore why put them at risk aswell?

The cost of a packet of cigarettes is just staggering and the extra money smokers could have in their pockets each month if they were to become non-smokers would be quite substantial. Over a whole year this extra cash could even pay for a family holiday abroad. This is another example of how quitting smoking not only benefits the smoker but how it can als benefit their family.

In relationship terms, a large number of non-smokers find people who smoke a huge turn off. Stopping smoking could increase peoples chances of finding romance.

There are a number of avenues people can take in their quest to giving up smoking, including hypnotherapy. The smoker must truly want to stop and hopefully some of the reasons above could help. I am not trying to suggest that it is going to be easy but smokers owe it to themselves and their friends and families to give it their best shot to quit smoking once and for all.

If smoking, blood pressure, stress and headache were the candidates for Presidential Elections in the US who will win? Make a guess.

Jokes apart?All will lose deposits. No one likes them, for the simple reason that millions are affected by them and suffer on the account of them. They are all most unwanted. You wish to get rid of them but may not actually know it.

High blood pressure which is also known as hypertension in medical terms has affected millions in the US. The estimated figure is 80 million! Many of these, and their number also runs into millions, do not know that they have blood pressure.

The identifiable symptoms of blood pressure are constant headache, difficulty in breathing and feeling dizziness. Smoking is definitely harmful in the state of high or low blood pressure. It is an accepted fact that smoking increases the possibilities of heart attack. The reason is simple enough to understand. Nicotine in cigarette and other tobacco products constrict one’s blood vessels and the heart thus beats faster which is not good for the high blood pressure patients. Further, smoking creates complications in the lungs and in the vascular system.

In fact the thread bare analysis- whether smoking, alcohol, coffee, tea, are good or bad in the condition of blood pressure is meaningless. They are all equally bad. The loyal agents of the dreaded nicotine therefore deserve nothing but condemnation. Any soft attitude towards the products of such classification is not going to help the cause of your health.

And if you are the jack of all trades and are indulged in activities such as drinking coffee, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes, you are a certain candidate for blood pressure. You also become a possible candidate for future heart attacks and other lung problems!

Stress and headaches are the natural outcome of blood pressure. These three are so closely interrelated that it is difficult to pinpoint which is the direct cause of which disease or imbalance.

Now the question arises how to treat this smoking habit, blood pressure, stress and headache all together? Seemingly they look different, but all of them belong to the same root. So, ?positive lifestyle changes? is the only answer!

Your one negative trait may be the cause of several diseases. Similarly one positive trait may be the cure for several diseases. Believe me just one positive lifestyle change may initiate a series of changes in your health. That too all naturally, and for the better!

Everybody tells you to quit smoking. I tell you to understand smoking. If you understand it, you will definitely have no hesitation in quitting it at the earliest. You are entertaining a demon between your lips. You think that you burn him. Yes, externally you burn him. Before that, he burns you internally.

There are many reasons, but let me explain to you about the 5 strong reasons, why you should quit smoking.

You know, cigarette contains nicotine, but you do not know what nicotine contains for you! It has the ultimate attraction for you and therefore it will cause the ultimate damage that it can do for your body and mind! It is tough to quit smoking. But it is worth the try. Your life is at stake! I think, you have just one life to live!

Reason number one, I wish you to live longer and this is possible if you quit smoking. By this gracious act, your standard of living and standard of life will improve.

Why are you extending the invitation with your outstretched hands to lung cancer, heart attack and stroke? Don’t you love your life?

Agreed for a while, without the actual agreement, that smoking is your birthright. But is the birthright of your wife and children, is to be victims of passive smoking?

The smoke coils that you artistically dispatch within the four walls of your house, are dangerous to their health. Passive smokers suffer more than the active smokers.

You say you have enough financial problems, but can’t you at least delete one of them? Why do you squander money to get your health damaged? Have you any time made sincere study regarding the effects of smoking? The diseases will burn your body within. Why do you invite such type of sad end? Spend the money saved out of quitting smoking for some right causes. Your own fruits and juices for example!

And now, a special warning for pregnant women. You wish to have a healthy baby. It is perhaps possible only if you quit smoking. A baby in the arms of the smoking mother! This is definitely one unwelcome sight!

So, do not postpone smoking cessation. Do not extend open invitation to lung cancer.

Your escape from the heart disease is also ruled out if you persist with your smoking habit. The first action of the cigarette smoke is to decrease the supply to the heart. Heart rate will increase and so also the blood pressure. The chances of blood clotting are more. The arteries harden and damage to the skin is also a distinct possibility.

Have a will to grow, and grow your will!? In the present context, you need to have the will to outgrow. Outgrow the smoking habit and stop smoking for ever!

Your battle is with nicotine, supported by 4000 other poisonous elements that will not allow you easy victory over the smoking habit! You have to destroy the smoking habit, before it destroys you!

Even though tobacco and smoking has thousands of years of history, smoking was a worldwide phenomenon since the beginning of the 16th century. It’s is a great adventure with the younger generation in most of the countries now. In USA, every day 3000 new boys are recruited to the smoking brigade.

Now, without going in to the details, as to what made you a confirmed smoker, let us presently discuss about your intense desire to stop smoking for ever. They say, well begun is half done. You have made the decision, which has far reaching consequences. For your health and for the health of your family! Do not be under the impression that the external tools will assist you to stop smoking for ever. They can’t be relied upon. You have been cheated by them in the past. To tempt and cheat persons like you is their permanent way of life.

Firmly depend upon your will power. Hate the cigarette, as if it is your sworn enemy. You have to be very firm with yourself during these important initial few days of your non-smoking era. No doubt, Nicotine is a hard addiction. It is not as strong as you supposed it to be. You supported it and it extended its influence over you.

If you dissect the addiction, you will find that it is 80% psychological and 20% physiological. You need to switch off your thought currents which constantly feed you with the wrong data, that cigarette smoking gives lots of pleasure and there is beauty in the smoke coils.

Start the day by thinking that you are a non-smoker and you will remain a non-smoker. If your mind takes you to the sweet recollections of the past, tell it firmly that you have severed all relations with the past in relation to smoking.

You have made the firm decision to quit smoking for ever. Stick to it with determination. There is nothing like solid determination for success in life. ?An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.? If you have nothing do, your hand reaches for the cigarette packet automatically. Do exercise. Walk on the terrace or in your garden briskly for 10-15 minutes. Become tired! Avoid smoker friends. You have to overcome the initial temptation with your strong will power only. There is no other substitute.

As you feel the strong urge to smoke, drink a glass of water. Even if you have to drink lots of water during the day, it is not going to harm you in any way. At the time of cigarette craving, eat a piece of fruit.

And finally, practice yoga and meditation regularly. These are no ordinary tools. Meditation alone has the power to make you smoke-free, but soon you will be a dynamic anti-smoking campaigner. The reformed you, will be the reformer!