"By quitting, you are not only purifying yourself, but the environment as well. It's estimated that trillions of cigarette filters are discarded as waste yearly and take up to ten years to decompose."
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Cigarette Filters Take Ten Years to Decompose
Dare To Quit Smoking Mobile App on iPhone
MYQUIT COACH - DARE TO QUIT SMOKING MOBILE APP
The LIVESTRONG.COM MyQuit Coach application allows you to design a personalized plan to help you quit smoking. Through this intuitive iPhone app, you'll evaluate your current status, set attainable goals and adjust preferences according to your needs. You'll have the option to choose to quit smoking right away or gradually decrease your daily nicotine intake. Personalized inspirational photos, motivational tips and progress charts will keep you on track while achievement badges will reward you for progress. And you're not alone with a built in social support circle and the ability to update your Facebook and Twitter as friends cheer you on.
The LIVESTRONG.COM MyQuit Coach application has been reviewed by smoking cessation specialist Dr. Jonathan Foulds, nicotine addiction specialist Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami, psychologist Dr. Belisa Vranich and cardiologist and internist Dr. Leslie Saxon.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/quit-smoking-app/#ixzz2RwTxOXMW
Available on iPhone
Antonia Harrison is The Lifestyle Liberator freeing people from bad habits, addictions and fears using the powerful tools of Clinical Hypnosis and NLP. She is located in the UK and helps clients worldwide via Skype. Visit http://www.AntoniaHarrison.com
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Why Do Smokers Smoke?
Smokers are interesting folk. They like their tobacco. They enjoy the smoke rolling over their tongue and
sucking it deeply into their lungs. They enjoy a brief moment of the rush they get as the tobacco enters
their bloodstream and reaches the brain quickly. They like to huff and puff and blow the smoke out
of their mouth, off their lips and into the air. Some creative smokers are very good at smoke rings; one
inside the other. They like to flick their cigarettes as far as they can. It's a flicking contest to see if they
can flick their little tobacco butt to a certain pre-determined location; like playing darts going for the target.
Smokers like to smoke however there are a few who really do want to stop. They are tired of waking up and
spitting out phlegm every morning from the smokers hack. They are tired of people, especially their children tell them it's bad and that they stink. They see the signs all around them that let them know that cigarettes can and do kill or maim people everyday. Hundreds of thousands of people.
Hypnosis is one of the most powerful methods to help a person stop smoking naturally and permanently. BUT, there is a problem. Smokers like to smoke regardless. Even though they can chew gum, get patches, acupuncture, laser and of course use hypnosis; many go back and will still smoke.
So, what's going on? Why are people so freakin' into this self-destructive habit that they are willing to risk their lives to continue on with it? It is irrational behavior (but so is politics).
Smoking is not rational folks, it is an emotional issue. People are emotionally anchored to the smoking habit. HABIT. Yes I said habit. Not addiction because in 72 hours from stopping all the tobacco is out of the system and then all you have left is "monkey talk". In case you don't know what monkey talk is it is that garbage in the mind that swirls around reinforcing all the dumb reasons to smoke.
You look kool.
You feel better.
You are more relaxed.
You reduce stress.
You relieve anxiety.
and so on.... ALL MONKEY TALK... MONKEY, MONKEY.
So for all you smokers out there now pay attention because I will share with you the easiest way to stop smoking. It ain't will power, it ain't pills, it ain't drugs or patches either. You just stop.
Yeah right you say! Been there, done that, failed. Yes you have but if you use a strategy based on emotions you will be successful.
You can use positive or negative reinforcement. It does not matter. The only thing that matters is that you use a powerful emotional experience in your life, YOUR LIFE that you can anchor to stop smoking~ ~
I had a client who stopped easily when they put the face of their cheating smoking spouse on a cigarette. Sure made them not want to suck face with tobacco anymore.
Another client had beautiful grand kids and wanted, really wanted to be around for their graduation.
Then there was a client who lost their very friend to cancer and saw and felt the pain it caused him and the family. They stopped cold turkey.
And of course the client who stopped when she discovered her husband had developed cancer and ended up in the hospital and the edge of death and gave it up immediately. Fortunately he lived and she never went back to smoking again.
The one thing they have in common is an emotional experience and in the 25+ years I have been working with smokers I have found this to be true.
Why not take a moment now to look at a Stop Smoking program for yourself or someone you love. You can stop smoking with hypnosis and feel good about life all over again!
of their mouth, off their lips and into the air. Some creative smokers are very good at smoke rings; one
inside the other. They like to flick their cigarettes as far as they can. It's a flicking contest to see if they
can flick their little tobacco butt to a certain pre-determined location; like playing darts going for the target.
Smokers like to smoke however there are a few who really do want to stop. They are tired of waking up and
spitting out phlegm every morning from the smokers hack. They are tired of people, especially their children tell them it's bad and that they stink. They see the signs all around them that let them know that cigarettes can and do kill or maim people everyday. Hundreds of thousands of people.
Hypnosis is one of the most powerful methods to help a person stop smoking naturally and permanently. BUT, there is a problem. Smokers like to smoke regardless. Even though they can chew gum, get patches, acupuncture, laser and of course use hypnosis; many go back and will still smoke.
So, what's going on? Why are people so freakin' into this self-destructive habit that they are willing to risk their lives to continue on with it? It is irrational behavior (but so is politics).
Smoking is not rational folks, it is an emotional issue. People are emotionally anchored to the smoking habit. HABIT. Yes I said habit. Not addiction because in 72 hours from stopping all the tobacco is out of the system and then all you have left is "monkey talk". In case you don't know what monkey talk is it is that garbage in the mind that swirls around reinforcing all the dumb reasons to smoke.
You look kool.
You feel better.
You are more relaxed.
You reduce stress.
You relieve anxiety.
and so on.... ALL MONKEY TALK... MONKEY, MONKEY.
So for all you smokers out there now pay attention because I will share with you the easiest way to stop smoking. It ain't will power, it ain't pills, it ain't drugs or patches either. You just stop.
Yeah right you say! Been there, done that, failed. Yes you have but if you use a strategy based on emotions you will be successful.
You can use positive or negative reinforcement. It does not matter. The only thing that matters is that you use a powerful emotional experience in your life, YOUR LIFE that you can anchor to stop smoking~ ~
I had a client who stopped easily when they put the face of their cheating smoking spouse on a cigarette. Sure made them not want to suck face with tobacco anymore.
Another client had beautiful grand kids and wanted, really wanted to be around for their graduation.
Then there was a client who lost their very friend to cancer and saw and felt the pain it caused him and the family. They stopped cold turkey.
And of course the client who stopped when she discovered her husband had developed cancer and ended up in the hospital and the edge of death and gave it up immediately. Fortunately he lived and she never went back to smoking again.
The one thing they have in common is an emotional experience and in the 25+ years I have been working with smokers I have found this to be true.
Why not take a moment now to look at a Stop Smoking program for yourself or someone you love. You can stop smoking with hypnosis and feel good about life all over again!
Antonia Harrison challenges people to Change their Minds to Save Their Life using powerful hypnosis and NLP. "We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking." - Einstein
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Nicotine Patches Don't Help Smokers Quit Long-term
Nicotine patches have been branded a waste of time as study finds they don't help smokers quit long-term. Former smokers just as likely to relapse if they used nicotine replacement therapies to help them quit.
Nicotine patches are no better than willpower at helping smokers to quit, research shows. Earlier clinical trials had suggested nicotine replacement therapy could double a smoker’s chances of giving up the habit. But a new study of 800 patients found patches made no difference to long-term quitting rates.
Researchers said the earlier trials had failed to replicate ‘real-life’ situations. They said success and relapse rates were similar whatever method smokers adopted.
The NHS spends an estimated £84million a year on stop smoking programmes. A week’s supply of patches, which can be obtained on prescription, cost £10 to £14.
The latest study – by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts, Boston – investigated patients who gave up smoking between 2001 and 2006. It concluded: ‘The main finding is that persons who quit relapsed at equivalent rates, whether or not they used nicotine replacement therapy to help them in their quit attempts, in clear distinction to the results of randomised clinical trials.’
The results were the same for heavy and lighter smokers and whether counselling was or was not given.
Harvard’s Hillel Alpert said: ‘This study shows that using NRT is no more effective in helping people stop smoking cigarettes in the long term than trying to quit on one’s own.’
The cost of quitting: People can spend up to £14 a week on patches. In an online report in the journal Tobacco Control, fellow author Lois Biener said the funding for NRT might be better spent on other interventions. In replacement therapy, patches, gum, nasal sprays or inhalers are used to supply nicotine to the bloodstream.
NHS figures show that quit rates – giving up for at least four weeks – are slightly better for patients using willpower than patches.
However, a Department of Health spokesman said: ‘Other studies have shown that NRT is safe and effective, and can double a person’s chances of successfully quitting.’
Further American research released yesterday suggests that nicotine patches can help improve memory loss among older people.
Non-smokers with failing brainpower who used patches for six months had a 46 per cent improvement in their memory skills, according to a report in the journal Neurology about the study at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
Previous research has suggested nicotine helps brainpower among Alzheimer’s sufferers.
Source: Daily Mail
Friday, September 9, 2011
Dangers of Smoking During Pregnancy
Please stop smoking if you are pregnant. Just look at the babies in this video and stop right now, if not for yourself, then for your baby.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Stop Smoking with Hypnosis Group Session in Brussels
You know all the reasons why you want to stop smoking and yet, willpower alone has not been enough. Here are some reasons why people want to stop:
- smoking is affecting your health and energy;
- reduced stamina for sports and activity;
- it prematurely ages your skin;
- the stale smell of smoke on your hair, skin and clothes;
- you don´t want your children to become smokers;
- the money you are literally burning away.
Maybe you have tried to stop but need help.
"Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little."
'New Scientist' vol. 136 issue 1845 page 6
Nicotine patches and gum keep you addicted to nicotine. Do you want to be addicted to a drug?
95% of my stop smoking clients find they can stop smoking in just one session....and stay stopped.
If you smoke 20 cigarettes per day, that is roughly 1.800 € per year NET INCOME or 3.000 € per year GROSS/BRUTO.
A private session of hypnosis to stop smoking normally costs 200 € in Limburg or 350 € in Brussels.
You can join this group session for an amazing 100 €
or
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT FOR BOOKINGS PAID BY 15 July @ 75 €
(All fees include 21% VAT/BTW and invoices are available on request.)
Send your booking to:
hypnosis@telenet.be
and payment to BE 19 9730 0127 8212 with mention:
GROUP HYPNOSIS 25 JULY - (your name)
Here is what one very satisfied client said:
"I was relaxed but consciously aware of my surroundings so I found it hard to believe that hypnosis would work after just one session. But I was very impressed. I thought it would be difficult but I found it relatively easy to stop smoking. I am not troubled by other people's smoking. I used to enjoy smoking but now I enjoy not smoking. I quickly found I can breathe more deeply and have noticed two other health improvements. After four weeks, I am still a motivated non-smoker." - James Benn, Brussels.
I want to help you become a healthy non-smoker. Join us.
Antonia Harrison
English Hypnotherapist Belgium
http://www.EnglishHypnotherapistBelgium.com/
hypnosis@telenet.be
0497 550813
Friday, June 24, 2011
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