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Quit Smoking For Life

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

You know you need to quit smoking. You would have to live under a rock not to have noticed the health warnings and perhaps personal symptoms that smoking is bad for you. Smoking causes death directly and indirectly. It not only kills the smoker but also shortens the lifespan of those around them. Did you know that recent studies have suggested that female children of smokers are more likely to get breast cancer than kids who come from non smoking households? And these children didn’t smoke!

Why should you stop smoking? Apart from the health benefits, you will save money. Have you ever worked out exactly how much your cigarette or cigar habit is costing you? One suggested way to quit is to put the money you would normally spend into a jar and when it is full buy something that you have wanted for ages. Don’t pay off credit cards or bills the first time, you can do that later. The point is to reward yourself for your achievement. At the same time, hopefully when you see how much money you are paying out to kill yourself, it will give you extra motivation to quit.

There are many ways of quitting smoking, cold turkey being one of the most common. This means that you decide to give up at a certain time on a specific day. From that time onwards, you don’t have another smoke again. Some people have the will power to do this themselves. Others need the help and assistance from a quit line or counseling service. It doesn’t matter how you do it, what is important is that you stop.

Why should you stop if you have been a smoker for years? You can gain health benefits regardless of when you cease. Your lungs may not fully recover but they will to a certain extent. It depends on how long you have been an addict and how much damage has been done.

Don’t give up if you are not successful the first time you quit. Keep trying again and again until you have become a non smoker. You have far too much to gain by not indulging in this habit. If it helps, avoid the social occasions you associate with having a smoke for a while. If you associate a cigarette with a drink, then temporarily give up alcohol as well. Your liver will love you and you don’t run the risk of it reducing your willpower and lowering your inhibitions.

There is plenty of advice and people willing to help you to quit smoking. All you need to do is make up your mind to try.

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Is it normal to cough up black phlegm after you quit smoking?

Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Angelo asked:

I quit smoking a while back ago and every once in a while I cough up some blackish-brownish phlegm. I was just wondering if anyone knows why. I never really coughed up brown stuff when I smoked.

Admin answered: It’s a good thing! It shows your lungs are clearing themselves of the damage you inflicted on them. So cough it up and spit it out. Hooray for you for quitting smoking!

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How long will withdrawal symptoms last if I quit smoking after smoking half a pack a day for three years?

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
Adam asked:

I’m 23 and have been smoking half a pack of day for almost three years. I plan to quit, so I’d like to know how long I’m going to experience strong withdrawal symptoms. The worst fears I have about quitting is depression and irritability…How bad is it going to be?

I workout and have a healthy diet…I don’t know if that would be a factor.

Also, what are some ways to curb those symptoms?

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Quit Smoking Today And Forever

Monday, December 27th, 2010
Barry Lutz asked:

How Did You Start Smoking

Quit smoking today? As much as I can’t stand to be around smoking today, I can’t believe that I ever started – I would guess that most people end up feeling that was after they quit.

I look back through the years and that question in amazement, because I quit smoking for good when I was 25, after smoking for 12 years. Yep, that means like a fool I started smoking when I was 13 – why, I guess because the older kids were doing it, and I wanted to be cool like them.

My dad smoked all his adult life – 3-4 packs of Pall Mall non-filters a day. He hacked and choked, and he huffed and puffed; he actually ended up getting adult asthma that was probably from it. And then the surgeon general’s warning came out and he quit overnight. But not me, I didn’t believe in that stuff – so as he quit I started.

I eventually stopped smoking overnight. I got a really bad case of the flue and couldn’t have smoked if I wanted to. I threw away my last pack with the conviction that I would never start again [yeah right], but this time I followed through.

Quit Smoking Today Aids

Aids are available for all smokers, but nonetheless, stopping smoking is something that has proven impossible for many people. You know how important it is to quit, and you have tried many of these smoking aids. But regardless of your intentions, and regardless of how many times that you have tried – the craving comes back, and before you know it you are smoking again.

No doubt that it is far better for your health and well-being if you would quit smoking, but with the inability to quit being related to what becomes an addiction to nicotine, this becomes about more than simply having the willpower to quit.

But what if you could stop smoking – what would it mean to you? Clearly there will be benefits for your health over the long term, but your body will be improve immediately as you start breathing clean air -vs- all the crap you are currently breathing every time you inhale cigarette smoke.

Quit Smoking Today Benefits

Quit today and wonderful things are going to happen.

You will be amazed at the great changes in your health that have been shown to take place virtually immediately after you quit smoking. To begin with, your blood pressure and heart rate are going to fall to a level that is far healthier for you. And within as little as a day after you quit, your blood is going to have levels of carbon monoxide that are near normal.

Now keep it up for a couple of months and see how it feels as you get an increase in the function of your lungs. You might start feeling faint from surprise, but it won’t be because you can’t even walk up a flight of stairs without feeling like you are going to pass out from the effort. Also as a result of quitting smoking, you are going to find that you are going to have better blood circulation and blood flow from the heart – and with that you are decreasing your risk of having heart disease or a stroke.

Quit smoking today and make it for a couple of months, and hopefully you are on your way to quitting smoking for good – let’s project what you have to look forward to.

Stop smoking for nine months and you are really going to start noticing the benefits as you find you are choking and hacking as much, and you are even able to take deep breaths. Your lungs are now able to function effectively, as your smoker’s lungs and destroyed cilia have regenerated. And besides breathing better, the cilia can now work to keep debris out of your lungs and nasal cavities, and as result reduce the risk of infections.

Quitting smoking has a major impact on your lungs, but it has a similar effect on your heart – did you know that after you have quit smoking for a year that you have cut your risk of heart disease in half?

Stop smoking for a year is a massive accomplishment – now let’s push it to five years, to a decade, to the rest of your life. Death from lung cancer has been cut enormously, as has other types of related cancers like throat and mouth. You have also dramatically reduced your risk of heart disease and stroke.

Congratulations, you quit smoking today and it is going to last forever. And what is your prize – just your life, and a long and healthy one.

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E Health Cigarette Review – One Way to Quit Smoking

Sunday, December 19th, 2010
E Health Cigarette Review

Smoking can be fun when you start. It often feels cool to smoke socially and it gives something to do during breaks. After a while though, many people decide that smoking has lost its appeal, and try to quit smoking. These people try to quit and suddenly some realization hits them: they can’t quit. This scenario occurred to me. I tried to quit, couldn’t quit, and began to panic.

I panicked for some time and then I had no choice. I just settled into my new habit of smoking. I was young and I felt invincible. I thought that I’ll smoke for a while and try to quit in a year or two years. But time kept going by and I kept smoking. Then finally my life changed. E Health Cigarette Review

My life changed for the worst. As years kept going by I gradually stopped being young and less invincible. Here and there, I began to develop health problems. These problems typically came and went, but one of the health problems was being pesky and persistent. Naturally, as when most people are forced to look their mortality in the eyes, I got extremely scared and starting imagining the worst possible outcomes for that problem. This ended up being a gift in disguise.

Being very scared, I suddenly got new and tremendously strong motivation to regain my health. When it came to health issues, this was a motivation that I had never experienced before. Not only I started eating better, keeping a good posture, and exercising regularly, but I quit smoking suddenly and with incredible ease. I just knew I had to quit and it came easy and natural. Since then I have never looked at a single cigarette with anything but disgust.

Now I realize that it took a real serious jolt and a scare for me to get the right type for motivation to quit smoking.

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