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Just think of how much money you are spending on cigarettes. $3, $4, $6 a PACK? That is a lot for one pack of cigarettes. Now, how many packs do you go through a day? One, two, three, maybe more? If you smoked a pack a day, in one year you would spend almost $2000. Yes, Two Thousand dollars. Over $3600 if you smoked two packs a day. Sticker shock? What would you do with an "extra" $2000...

My wife and I were exiting a restaurant this past weekend. As we opened the doors we entered into a cloud of 2nd hand cigarette smoke. First of all, it reminded me of one of my biggest pet peeves, which is; why do companies have their smoking areas right by the door where people enter? As a non-smoker do I really want to walk through a cloud of smoke to get into the non-smoking building?...

Addiction is now the biggest preventable killer in Britain, causing 150,000 deaths a year (120,000 tobacco related, 33,000 alcohol related and 1,700 drugs related). How can Chinese medicine help with addiction? Chinese medicine has beneficial effects on addiction to various substances. The...

I can?t tell you how many people contact me right after the New Year and want to quit smoking. Most of them tell me they are not sure how or why they ever got started, but they want to stop. They tell me that they don?t like the smell or that smoking makes their teeth and fingers yellow, but...

In this part were going to take a look at how you can quit smoking using nicotine gum. Nicotine gum Nicotine gum is identical to a chewing gum. Like a chewing gum, it should not be swallowed down the throat. It has to be used as prescribed by the physician or as written on the label....

Help to quit smoking can be best obtained by helping your ownself by firm determination to quit smoking and help from family and friends. Also practicitng some simple techniques and taking certain medications can help quit smoking. The first thing to do is to tell your mind that you are...

One day a client walked into my clinic and had a hypnotherapy treatment for smoking. It was a challenge, because it transpired that this client was in constant agony with back and shoulder pain; the cigarettes were used as a drug to help with this pain. Then I learned a new fun and simple...

NLP stands for NeuroLinguistic Psychology, and many people are finding as one of the more beneficial stop smoking programs. Typically, this is one part of a bigger overall package that may include several quit smoking products and methods. While it?s evident that NLP does work on some who are...

Some would say all smoking is an addiction, while others would argue that it is a habit. I have found in my experience that there is a good proportion of smokers who somehow or other got sucked into smoking, got hooked and then have to smoke to feel normal. I define this type of smoker as a...

Quitting was never easy. "I had a hard time," I told Dr Holmes, the community health consultant serving in Springville. "I was tense, finding difficulty to sleep and I broke out in sudden cold sweats. Fortunately, this is temporary and passed in a couple of weeks. But the psychological...

If you?ve already tried a variety of the stop smoking aids, and you?ve tried quitting smoking without any help at all, you may think it?s just not meant to be. If you haven?t tried quit smoking...

Remember the Marlboro guy? You don?t see those sorts of ads promoting tobacco products on TV anymore. Back in the day, it used to be cool to smoke. Today we know, more than ever, the many health...

Good girls don't, or do they? Imagine yourself as a lonely and confused little girl. The church, mosque or temple, your mother, father, grandmother, and other family members will stop loving...

Do you smoke and wish you could smoke less? You know that if you smoke too much that it shortens your life expectancy by quite a bit and the costs are also eating you up too. Obviously every time...