Health Effects of Smoking Cigarettes – Nicotine Control Awareness

Archive for May, 2010

by Whiskeygonebad

The Best Ways To Quit Cigarette Smoking

Like any other addiction, the smoking phenomenon has a plethora of marketers and snake oil salesmen ready to leap upon your misery. You will get pills, injections, patches, books, support groups, books and even the idea of genetic modification as ways to quit cigarette smoking.

But listen. There is only one way which can truly beat the cigarette habit, and that is to simply stop smoking. It is a wonderful concept, because it is so simple in statement, and yet many people find it incredibly difficult to successfully execute.

Out of the many ways to quit cigarette smoking, the only method which has a mass of anecdotal evidence to support it is that of quitting cold turkey. Now, that is not to mean you can’t use a secondary method to help you with quit the cigarette habit cold turkey; on the contrary, that is encouraged.

I smoked 40 cigarettes a day for a decade, yet I was able to quit very quickly and without any of the side effect such as weight gain, dizziness, cravings or a change in temperament. Ostensibly I simply packed in the smokes cold turkey, but in order to do that successfully, I had to rewire my brain by looking at the habit differently.

Out of the many ways to quit cigarette smoking, it was hypnotherapy that did it for me. Now, I know it is likely you think of hypnotherapy as going into a seedy office with an even seedier man who has a pencil moustache and swinging medallion. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Hypnotherapy does not involve going into a trance. It doesn’t even have to mean leaving your home. There are plenty of books and CD products which act as hypnotic therapy. Using hypnotherapy to kick the cigarette habit is really quite simple – it changes your views of smoking. Whereas you might argue that smoking helps you shed anxiety, hypnotherapy will question whether that is really the case. In essence, hypnotherapy removes the reasons you have for smoking. If you have no justification to smoke, then you won’t feel the need to pick up a cigarette.

Nicotine patches, nicotine gum, herbal cigarettes and the like are all ineffective ways to quit cigarette smoking. Smoking is primarily a psychological addiction, and these remedies don’t cure the psychological bond you have with cigarettes – they just strengthen it. How many times have you gone to the cinema for three hours without smoking? In fact, I’m willing to bet that the only time you did want a cigarette was when you actually thought about the fact you had not smoked for a while.

In conclusion, it is essential that you break the psychological addiction to cigarettes. The only way to break the psychological addiction is to break down the thinking patterns your brain has developed over the course of your smoking career. The best way to do this is through hypnotherapy. If you are intent on quitting the cigarette habit, ensure you don’t replace one dependency with another one.

by rick

When Did We Know About The Effects Of Cigarette Smoking

It seems a day doesn’t go by that we don’t hear or see something about cigarette smoking and the tobacco companies being blamed for the destructive effects of cigarette smoking on our health, is it a bad rap put on the tobacco companies, or a way for the states to collect more taxes. If you haven’t heard the states our increasing the tax on cigarettes, on January 1st Texas increased the tax by a .00 a pack to .41, New Jersey levies a nation-high .58 state tax per pack.

Bangor Maine bans smoking in cars carrying children which went in to effect on Jan.19, it allows the police to stop cars if an adult is smoking while a child under 18 is a passenger. The smoker can be fined . Most large companies now have smoke free workplace policies.

So when did we become aware that cigarette smoking was bad for us? It would seem to be on January 11, 1964, when Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a landmark concluding, for the first time, that smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. In 1964, 50-percent of adult males and 46-percent of all Americans smoked cigarettes.

Then on May 27, 2004 the U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona released a new comprehensive report on smoking and health, revealing for the first time that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body. Published 40 years after the surgeon general’s first report on smoking, which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three serious diseases, this newest report finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix,kidney, pancreas and stomach.

“We’ve known for decades that smoking is bad for your health, but this report shows that it’s even worse than we knew,” Dr. Carmona said. “The toxins from cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows. I’m hoping this new information will help motivate people to quit smoking and convince young people not to start in the first place.”

Statistics indicate that more than 12 million Americans have died from smoking since the 1964 report of the surgeon general, and another 25 million Americans alive today will most likely die of a smoking related illness. It would seem that the tobacco companies have killed more of us than all the wars in history.

So it looks like we have know that cigarette smoking is bad for are health a little over 40 years right, well in my research I found the following information dated 1892 Titled The Destructive Effects of Cigarette Smoking.

Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most physicians and chemists were surprised to find how much opium is put into them. A tobacconist himself says that the extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling. Havana flavoring for this same purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand barrels. This flavoring is made from the tonkabean, which contains a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted to be rice paper, are sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes of the filthy scrapings of rag pickers bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for human lungs.

The habit burns up good health, good resolutions, good manners, good memories, good faculties, and often honesty and truthfulness as well.

Cases of epilepsy, insanity and death are frequently reported as the result of smoking cigarettes, while such physicians as Dr. Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and Sir Morell Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble, blindness, cancer and other diseases as occasioned by it.

Leading physicians of America unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most destructive evils that ever befell the youth of any country, declaring that its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race.

Look at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy who indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. It takes no physician to diagnose his case, and death will surely mark for his own every boy and young man who will follow up the habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It is a scientific fact which the microscope in every case verifies.

He also goes on to list the cost of smoking and I was surprised that one cigarette cost between 5 and 10 cents each, that’s one to two dollars a pack which was a lot of money then.

If the physicians new in 1892 the destructive effects of cigarette smoking why has it taken over 115 years to inform us that the tobacco companies have been poisoning us and we need to quit smoking, could it be the tobacco companies lobbing efforts, who knows, but now that we are aware and the tobacco companies no were aware, they won’t be up to any more tricks to keep us hooked, they even put links on their web sites to stop smoking sites to help us quit smoking.

Guess what if you believe that you under estimate the power of greed, the following is taken from Massachusetts Department of Public Health they are one of only 3 states that require tobacco companies to submit reports and what they found is, that from 1998 to 2004 the amount of nicotine in a cigarette has increased steadily, the study showed that regardless of brand that the amount of nicotine that is actually delivered to the smokers lungs has increased significantly overall, nicotine yields increased ten percent. Marlboro, Newport, and Camel, the three most popular brands with young smokers, all delivered significantly more nicotine, and Kool menthol increased a woping twenty percent.

Nicotine in tobacco is a highly addictive drug that affects nearly every organ in our body with the increased levels of nicotine in cigarettes it makes it more difficult to quit smoking. Smoking is a very powerful addiction, and it can take multiple attempts to quit smoking but you must keep trying, you can successfully quit smoking.

Today we have many resources to help us quit smoking, so lets send a message to the tobacco companies and spend that cigarette money on as many stop smoking programs that it takes.

A lot of the quit smoking programs on line offer full money back guarantee so what do you have to lose except a bad habit and the destructive effects of cigarette smoking on our health.

by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)

Electric Cigarette Smoking – One Step At A Time

Electric Cigarette Smoking

The addiction to cigarette is a very strong one since it is both physical and psychological. The smoker is addicted to nicotine which seems to be the most difficult part of the addiction, since one usually experiences some negative symptoms when cigarette is avoided. There is also the emotional addiction which is called the psychological addiction, in this case the smoker loves to smoke because of the feelings of pleasure gained from the smokes of the cigarette, and this is the emotional attachment, the feeling of excitement that becomes habitual for the smoker. The emotional addiction is easier to overcome since one can just decide to quit and get out of it, but it has been discovered that many smokers relapse into the habit after quitting because of the physical attachment to the nicotine (the addictive component in cigarette). So the best way out will be to handle the nicotine addiction properly and that will settle it. The time to quit smoking has come and you have to do it right to stay free from smoking.

There are various methods devised to deal with the addiction of the smoker to nicotine, some of these methods are for example, the addict is given nicotine patches, gums and other products containing nicotine to replace the nicotine initially received from cigarettes. But, this method still keeps the smoker addicted to nicotine, because it still gives the body the nicotine it has been so used to, it actually does not treat the issue of curing the addiction to nicotine, these products only replaces the nicotine from a different source rather than cigarette. To treat and cure the addiction to nicotine, which will be treating the addiction to smoking, it is better to gradually reduce the intake of nicotine, to the point that the addict will no longer need to live with it. If the smoker will learn to gradually reduce his/her dependency on nicotine, the addiction will gradually fade away, then there will be no need to smoke since the attachment to it has been broken by this process – the one step at a time filters is the way to quit smoking without relapsing. Electric Cigarette Smoking

The one step at a time nicotine filters will help you quit smoking in no time. These filters come in four types and the process can last for a month or as long as you can use it. The first step is to start using the first filter that will trim down the nicotine received from cigarette by 25 percent; this means that you will only receive 75 percent of nicotine. The second one filters away 50 percent of nicotine from your cigarettes. The third one will filter away 70 percent of nicotine and the fourth one will filter away 90 percent of nicotine from the cigarettes taken. You can use each filter for two weeks before switching to the next one, after the last filter, throw away every cigarette and never smoke again; this will help you to quit smoking easily. One step at a time is the best way out. Electric Cigarette Smoking