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		<title>Herculean Efforts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family Health up in Smoke

If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive Family Health up in Smoke

If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive to stop smoking if you learn just how your smoking affects those around your smoke such as your family and other loved ones. What's really worse about second hand smoke than the damage smokers bring on themselves is that so many of the second hand smoke victims are children - those unable to make the decision to avoid the harmful effects of the smoke for themselves. These little folks who depend on your for their health care are the ones most adversely affected because you won't stop smoking. 

Second hand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). It is a combination of the smoke that comes from the burning end of your cigarette or other tobacco product, which is called the sidestream smoke and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker, called mainstream smoke. Over 400 chemicals are part of the mix in secondhand smoke. Over 50 of these chemicals are proven or probable as cancer causing agents in humans. The term for these is carcinogens. 

Second hand smoke is everywhere - whether you are home in the presence of a smoker, or in the workplace (though this is becoming increasingly uncommon) and in public places such as restaurants, bars, casinos and bowling alleys. While many U.S. states have begin to outlaw public smoking it's generally for restaurants where those under 18 are present. Bars are still prime places for secondhand smoke, as are bowling alleys and casinos. 

If you don't stop smoking those who smoke along with you second hand will have an increased lung cancer and heart disease risk. Children will be the ones most negatively affected by this second hand smoke. Kids have lungs that aren't completely developed as yet and because of this they are far more susceptible to secondhand smoke and it's negative ramifications. They are also the ones that have absolutely no control of the environment in which you've placed their health. Children and infants who are exposed to second hand smokes suffer from sudden infant death syndromes (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma far more often than those who have non-smoking parents and adult family members. 

In the U.S. alone 3000 people succumb to lung cancer as a result of secondhand smoke, even though are people who never smoked or stopped smoking. Death by coronary heart disease thanks to second hand smoke occur in 35,000 Americans each year. 

Children develop asthma as a result of secondhand smoke at the rate of 8000 to 26,000 each year. Bronchitis numbers are even worse - 150,000-300,000 - and these are children younger than 18 months, up to 15,000 of whom will have to be hospitalized. Only 40 percent of those who don't smoke or stop smoking have no evidence of bodily harm due to secondhand smoke. 

The most disturbing fact about how your failure to stop smoking effects small children is that the median state figure for children in each state affected by secondhand smoke. The highest percentage is found in Kentucky, where more than a third of children are harmed. 
  
Herculean Efforts

You'll have to stop smoking if you want to attend the next Olympics in China. 

This is a very significant stop smoking effort, especially with 350 million residents of China still smoking. One third of all people who smoke reside in China. Still China has decided to stop the smoking at its 2008 Olympic games. 

The federal Ministry of Health in China, in the person of Zhang Bin, has stated this week that hospitals in China designated to be used for the Olympic games will ban smoking no later than the end of 2007. This stop smoking campaign will extend as well to public buildings and public transportation and any places that provide services to children. In fact, Chinese officials state that their stop smoking campaign is primarily concerned with the nation's children. 

Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, met with Lee Jong Wook, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 and made the commitment then to stop the smoking at the 2008 China Olympics. This isn't the first stop smoking campaign during the Olympics, however. The idea was born in 1988, and the first nonsmoking Olympic games took place in 1992 in Barcelona.  

This China stop smoking venture has a very uphill battle before the Olympic starts, however, not only because of the massive number of smokers in China but also because the country is the largest producer of tobacco in the world. One million smoking related deaths are reported in China each year.  While this is a tragic issue for China, its stop smoking campaign is also a financial one as well, as society foots the bill for the medical care for these sick smokers. 

Yang Gonghuan, deputy director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in China is lobbying for a national moratorium to stop smoking, with an emphasis on publicity and education aimed at teaching teenagers about the evils of smoking. She wants a ban on smoking in public places in China and greater efforts at early treatment and detection of lung cancer. Qiao Youlin, a cancer treatment specialist who is also doing research at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, stated that China does not detect lung cancer as quickly as other countries nor as quickly as it needs to and that most Chinese patients simply don't get the surgery required to remove the cancer in time to save their lives. Part of the reason for this lag in detection is because the methods of detecting early are costly. 

This is an especially prevalent problem in rural areas, where a new rural coop for Medicare provides farmers with approximately 50 yuan (the equivalent of $6.25 US) for early detection methods and equipment, while the cost of these procedures is actually more like 200 yuan ($37.5 US.) China's lag time in treating and diagnosing lung cancer is so far behind other countries that someone's ability to survive lung cancer for five years is fewer than 10 percent while other developed countries realizing a five year survival rate of 15 percent.
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		<description><![CDATA[Family Health up in Smoke

If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive Family Health up in Smoke

If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive to stop smoking if you learn just how your smoking affects those around your smoke such as your family and other loved ones. What's really worse about second hand smoke than the damage smokers bring on themselves is that so many of the second hand smoke victims are children - those unable to make the decision to avoid the harmful effects of the smoke for themselves. These little folks who depend on your for their health care are the ones most adversely affected because you won't stop smoking. 

Second hand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). It is a combination of the smoke that comes from the burning end of your cigarette or other tobacco product, which is called the sidestream smoke and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker, called mainstream smoke. Over 400 chemicals are part of the mix in secondhand smoke. Over 50 of these chemicals are proven or probable as cancer causing agents in humans. The term for these is carcinogens. 

Second hand smoke is everywhere - whether you are home in the presence of a smoker, or in the workplace (though this is becoming increasingly uncommon) and in public places such as restaurants, bars, casinos and bowling alleys. While many U.S. states have begin to outlaw public smoking it's generally for restaurants where those under 18 are present. Bars are still prime places for secondhand smoke, as are bowling alleys and casinos. 

If you don't stop smoking those who smoke along with you second hand will have an increased lung cancer and heart disease risk. Children will be the ones most negatively affected by this second hand smoke. Kids have lungs that aren't completely developed as yet and because of this they are far more susceptible to secondhand smoke and it's negative ramifications. They are also the ones that have absolutely no control of the environment in which you've placed their health. Children and infants who are exposed to second hand smokes suffer from sudden infant death syndromes (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma far more often than those who have non-smoking parents and adult family members. 

In the U.S. alone 3000 people succumb to lung cancer as a result of secondhand smoke, even though are people who never smoked or stopped smoking. Death by coronary heart disease thanks to second hand smoke occur in 35,000 Americans each year. 

Children develop asthma as a result of secondhand smoke at the rate of 8000 to 26,000 each year. Bronchitis numbers are even worse - 150,000-300,000 - and these are children younger than 18 months, up to 15,000 of whom will have to be hospitalized. Only 40 percent of those who don't smoke or stop smoking have no evidence of bodily harm due to secondhand smoke. 

The most disturbing fact about how your failure to stop smoking effects small children is that the median state figure for children in each state affected by secondhand smoke. The highest percentage is found in Kentucky, where more than a third of children are harmed. 
  
Herculean Efforts

You'll have to stop smoking if you want to attend the next Olympics in China. 

This is a very significant stop smoking effort, especially with 350 million residents of China still smoking. One third of all people who smoke reside in China. Still China has decided to stop the smoking at its 2008 Olympic games. 

The federal Ministry of Health in China, in the person of Zhang Bin, has stated this week that hospitals in China designated to be used for the Olympic games will ban smoking no later than the end of 2007. This stop smoking campaign will extend as well to public buildings and public transportation and any places that provide services to children. In fact, Chinese officials state that their stop smoking campaign is primarily concerned with the nation's children. 

Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, met with Lee Jong Wook, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 and made the commitment then to stop the smoking at the 2008 China Olympics. This isn't the first stop smoking campaign during the Olympics, however. The idea was born in 1988, and the first nonsmoking Olympic games took place in 1992 in Barcelona.  

This China stop smoking venture has a very uphill battle before the Olympic starts, however, not only because of the massive number of smokers in China but also because the country is the largest producer of tobacco in the world. One million smoking related deaths are reported in China each year.  While this is a tragic issue for China, its stop smoking campaign is also a financial one as well, as society foots the bill for the medical care for these sick smokers. 

Yang Gonghuan, deputy director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in China is lobbying for a national moratorium to stop smoking, with an emphasis on publicity and education aimed at teaching teenagers about the evils of smoking. She wants a ban on smoking in public places in China and greater efforts at early treatment and detection of lung cancer. Qiao Youlin, a cancer treatment specialist who is also doing research at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, stated that China does not detect lung cancer as quickly as other countries nor as quickly as it needs to and that most Chinese patients simply don't get the surgery required to remove the cancer in time to save their lives. Part of the reason for this lag in detection is because the methods of detecting early are costly. 

This is an especially prevalent problem in rural areas, where a new rural coop for Medicare provides farmers with approximately 50 yuan (the equivalent of $6.25 US) for early detection methods and equipment, while the cost of these procedures is actually more like 200 yuan ($37.5 US.) China's lag time in treating and diagnosing lung cancer is so far behind other countries that someone's ability to survive lung cancer for five years is fewer than 10 percent while other developed countries realizing a five year survival rate of 15 percent.
 Family Health up in Smoke

If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive to stop smoking if you learn just how your smoking affects those around your smoke such as your family and other loved ones. What's really worse about second hand smoke than the damage smokers bring on themselves is that so many of the second hand smoke victims are children - those unable to make the decision to avoid the harmful effects of the smoke for themselves. These little folks who depend on your for their health care are the ones most adversely affected because you won't stop smoking. 

Second hand smoke is also known as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). It is a combination of the smoke that comes from the burning end of your cigarette or other tobacco product, which is called the sidestream smoke and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker, called mainstream smoke. Over 400 chemicals are part of the mix in secondhand smoke. Over 50 of these chemicals are proven or probable as cancer causing agents in humans. The term for these is carcinogens. 

Second hand smoke is everywhere - whether you are home in the presence of a smoker, or in the workplace (though this is becoming increasingly uncommon) and in public places such as restaurants, bars, casinos and bowling alleys. While many U.S. states have begin to outlaw public smoking it's generally for restaurants where those under 18 are present. Bars are still prime places for secondhand smoke, as are bowling alleys and casinos. 

If you don't stop smoking those who smoke along with you second hand will have an increased lung cancer and heart disease risk. Children will be the ones most negatively affected by this second hand smoke. Kids have lungs that aren't completely developed as yet and because of this they are far more susceptible to secondhand smoke and it's negative ramifications. They are also the ones that have absolutely no control of the environment in which you've placed their health. Children and infants who are exposed to second hand smokes suffer from sudden infant death syndromes (SIDS), bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma far more often than those who have non-smoking parents and adult family members. 

In the U.S. alone 3000 people succumb to lung cancer as a result of secondhand smoke, even though are people who never smoked or stopped smoking. Death by coronary heart disease thanks to second hand smoke occur in 35,000 Americans each year. 

Children develop asthma as a result of secondhand smoke at the rate of 8000 to 26,000 each year. Bronchitis numbers are even worse - 150,000-300,000 - and these are children younger than 18 months, up to 15,000 of whom will have to be hospitalized. Only 40 percent of those who don't smoke or stop smoking have no evidence of bodily harm due to secondhand smoke. 

The most disturbing fact about how your failure to stop smoking effects small children is that the median state figure for children in each state affected by secondhand smoke. The highest percentage is found in Kentucky, where more than a third of children are harmed. 
  
Herculean Efforts

You'll have to stop smoking if you want to attend the next Olympics in China. 

This is a very significant stop smoking effort, especially with 350 million residents of China still smoking. One third of all people who smoke reside in China. Still China has decided to stop the smoking at its 2008 Olympic games. 

The federal Ministry of Health in China, in the person of Zhang Bin, has stated this week that hospitals in China designated to be used for the Olympic games will ban smoking no later than the end of 2007. This stop smoking campaign will extend as well to public buildings and public transportation and any places that provide services to children. In fact, Chinese officials state that their stop smoking campaign is primarily concerned with the nation's children. 

Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, met with Lee Jong Wook, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 and made the commitment then to stop the smoking at the 2008 China Olympics. This isn't the first stop smoking campaign during the Olympics, however. The idea was born in 1988, and the first nonsmoking Olympic games took place in 1992 in Barcelona.  

This China stop smoking venture has a very uphill battle before the Olympic starts, however, not only because of the massive number of smokers in China but also because the country is the largest producer of tobacco in the world. One million smoking related deaths are reported in China each year.  While this is a tragic issue for China, its stop smoking campaign is also a financial one as well, as society foots the bill for the medical care for these sick smokers. 

Yang Gonghuan, deputy director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in China is lobbying for a national moratorium to stop smoking, with an emphasis on publicity and education aimed at teaching teenagers about the evils of smoking. She wants a ban on smoking in public places in China and greater efforts at early treatment and detection of lung cancer. Qiao Youlin, a cancer treatment specialist who is also doing research at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, stated that China does not detect lung cancer as quickly as other countries nor as quickly as it needs to and that most Chinese patients simply don't get the surgery required to remove the cancer in time to save their lives. Part of the reason for this lag in detection is because the methods of detecting early are costly. 

This is an especially prevalent problem in rural areas, where a new rural coop for Medicare provides farmers with approximately 50 yuan (the equivalent of $6.25 US) for early detection methods and equipment, while the cost of these procedures is actually more like 200 yuan ($37.5 US.) China's lag time in treating and diagnosing lung cancer is so far behind other countries that someone's ability to survive lung cancer for five years is fewer than 10 percent while other developed countries realizing a five year survival rate of 15 percent.
Moms Who Smoke

Your unborn child could suffer emotional disturbances and even learning disabilities if you don't stop smoking while you're pregnant. 
 
The fact is that while the general U.S. population is trying to stop smoking in increasing numbers, women who are of the age to bear children are the ones least likely to stop smoking. A study last year of drug abuse in the U.S. concluded that one third of reproductive age women smoke regularly. Canada and Sweden have about the same numbers of childbearing age smoking women. Five different research studies all concluded that cigarette smoking by women in urban regions while they were pregnant were 22-30 percent.

What's amazing too is that this percentage increased in the last ten years, the most active years for stop smoking products and anti smoking campaigns. Sweden's heavy smoking pregnant women were nearly twice what they were a decade ago, while Canadian mothers to be who smoked cigarettes were 57 percent higher. The males in Canada during the same time period increased their smoking numbers by only 31 percent. 

The other important statistic is that even when they stop smoking or never started one half of these women are exposed to high levels of second hand smoke involuntarily. The conclusion, then, is that most women expose in the United States, Canada and Sweden expose their unborn children to nicotine and other tobacco carcinogens. This is alarming given what we know about the effects of smoking. 

Two other effects have been discovered, however, on children of mothers exposed to cigarette or other tobacco smoke. They are hyperactivity and learning disabilities.  

Noteworthy is the fact that prior to the 1950's no one nor any medical reference text talked much about hyperactivity in children, except to say that hyper kinetic syndrome was a very rate childhood psychosis. This changed, however, in the 1970's, about the same time as the increase in smoking and most especially smoking mothers to be. 

Textbooks and medical research documents started to make the statistics and estimates public. It was said that hyperactivity that was both disruptive and persistent was occurring in up to 10 percent of children in elementary schools in North America. Medical research experts concluded that hyperactivity was the most common behavioral problem that child psychiatrists were seeing in their patients. 

Medical care professionals concluded that continual exposure before birth and in infancy and early childhood to tobacco products had disrupted the activity of these children's central nervous systems.  

One study was conducted in Canada at the University of Saskatoon's Department of Psychology. Researchers determined that the mothers of hyperactive children smoked 14 cigarettes each day on an average during their pregnancies. Children who didn't suffer from hyperactivity, on the other hand, smoked an average of six cigarettes each day.  The study was small, with only two girls and 18 boys participating. 

Another much larger study was even more disturbing. This UK child development study look at more than 9000 children across the country, measuring their math and reading skills as well as their general physique at ages 7 and 11 years. 

What the results of this study concluded is that women who don't stop smoking hurt their children's ability to learn. Children of mothers that consumed at least 10 cigarettes each day were shorter by at least one centimeter than the children whose moms either didn't smoke or smoked less. These children also were up to five months behind in their general academic skills including reading and math as compared with moms who stop smoking or never smoke. 
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		<title>Powder Puffing</title>
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Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. ]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking FAQs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powder Puffing

Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. Powder Puffing

Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. The suggested root cause of this difference between men and women in their smoking habits is the variations in sensitivity to nicotine. 

Studies of men and women who had recently stopped smoking or were still smokers told the scientists that women smoked a fewer number of cigarettes each day, that the cigarettes they did smoke tended to have lower levels of nicotine than other brands, and that women did not inhale these cigarettes as deeply as did the male smokers. It is not been conclusively determined that woman are more sensitive to nicotine though it has been suggested. While men used to be smokers at a much higher rate than did women, they have also been the majority of those who tried to stop smoking and succeeded. This has narrowed the percentage gap between male and female smokers in the United States. 

Besides sensitivity to nicotine it has been suggested by researchers that women have also been adversely affected by their senses when smoking and more influenced by social factors. 

The number of American smokers declined during the 1970 and 1980 heydays of the non-smoking campaigns - when it was first discovered and made public that smoking did indeed cause cancer. In the 1990's and beyond, however, the number of U.S. smokers has remained stable. More female teens are starting to smoke and women are less likely to stop smoking than men. Women are also far more likely to start smoking again after trying to stop smoking than men are. 

In large-scale programs for smoking cessation gum or patch nicotine replacement methods did not succeed to reduce the nicotine craving for women as it did for men. Other factors that were suggested as reasons for women to find it more difficult to stop smoking including more difficult withdrawal symptoms and greater weight gain than men. 

23 million US women still smoke cigarettes. More than 140,000 of these die every year from some smoke-related cause. Women also experience greater health risks if they don't stop smoking. Besides the risks and diseases come to smokers of both genders such as various cancers and respiratory illnesses, there are additional risks common to women only. 

Female smokers who take oral birth control can experience serious consequences if they don't stop smoking such as heart attacks, blood clots and strokes.  The chemicals in tobacco are conveyed from a pregnant woman to her unborn child by way of the blood stream and the child is seriously at risk. 

Fertility is an issue for smokers, as well, who experience a 28 percent reduction in their ability to fertilize. Pelvic inflammatory disease is one third more frequent in smokers than in nonsmoker or those who stop smoking.  Starting to smoke while in her teens increases a woman's risk of having early menopause. Menopausal symptoms occur two or three years earlier in smokers than in non-smokers or those who stop smoking. 
Smoking FAQs

Here are some commonly asked questions about how to stop smoking and the answers to them. 

The first question gets right to the heart of the stop smoking dilemma. The question is "What is the best way for me to stop smoking?" The answer is that there is no easy answer to this question. Everyone is different. There are so many different means to quit, that the best thing to do is to try one stop smoking method and if it doesn't try another. And another. Until you find you have stopped smoking. In general you have several attempts to stop smoking before you really succeed. Most people try to stop smoking, start smoking once again, then over a long period of time find out what helps then stop smoking. They then again try to stop smoking and eventually they do. 

Some people can stop smoking just because of their determination to do so. These people stop smoking cold turkey. Other smokers take classes on how to stop smoking, use over the counter or prescribed medications, go through therapy or hypnosis or perhaps stop smoking patches or nicotine-tasting gum. Whatever you find that helps you to stop smoking and is safe is okay to use. Your family physician can help you stop smoking, and is an important resource as those who stop smoking often realize a tendency to over eat and gain weight as a result. 

The second question is, "How will my body be affected when I stop smoking? Can I really get back to the point of good health that I had before I started smoking or is too much damage already done?" 

The answer to this is multi-faceted, all of which is very encouraging. Your high blood pressure returns to normal within 30 minutes of quitting smoking, as does your pulse rate. Within just a few hours, your blood's carbon monoxide level drops and blood flows more easily to your brain. Within a couple days after you stop smoking your never ending start to get better and you begin to get back your sense of taste and smell. 

After three days the bronchial tubes of your lungs expand and the volume of your lungs increases. Your shortness of breath decreases within months after you stop smoking. The heart attack risk that your smoking caused declines within the first year after you stop smoking and in two or three years after you stop that risk is gone. Your cancer risk is the same as nonsmokers after you have stopped smoking for ten years. 

One frequently asked question is how to tell when you've really quit smoking. 
This is a very subjective question to answer. Some people throw away the pack of cigarettes the first time and that's the end of that. They've stopped smoking. Others spend months or even years craving cigarettes. Most smokers stop after about three weeks without a cigarette. This is a point that you should aim for. If you have spent three weeks without a cigarette it is very likely you may never smoke again. 
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		<title>Smoking- A Never Ending Problem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powder Puffing

Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. Powder Puffing

Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. The suggested root cause of this difference between men and women in their smoking habits is the variations in sensitivity to nicotine. 

Studies of men and women who had recently stopped smoking or were still smokers told the scientists that women smoked a fewer number of cigarettes each day, that the cigarettes they did smoke tended to have lower levels of nicotine than other brands, and that women did not inhale these cigarettes as deeply as did the male smokers. It is not been conclusively determined that woman are more sensitive to nicotine though it has been suggested. While men used to be smokers at a much higher rate than did women, they have also been the majority of those who tried to stop smoking and succeeded. This has narrowed the percentage gap between male and female smokers in the United States. 

Besides sensitivity to nicotine it has been suggested by researchers that women have also been adversely affected by their senses when smoking and more influenced by social factors. 

The number of American smokers declined during the 1970 and 1980 heydays of the non-smoking campaigns - when it was first discovered and made public that smoking did indeed cause cancer. In the 1990's and beyond, however, the number of U.S. smokers has remained stable. More female teens are starting to smoke and women are less likely to stop smoking than men. Women are also far more likely to start smoking again after trying to stop smoking than men are. 

In large-scale programs for smoking cessation gum or patch nicotine replacement methods did not succeed to reduce the nicotine craving for women as it did for men. Other factors that were suggested as reasons for women to find it more difficult to stop smoking including more difficult withdrawal symptoms and greater weight gain than men. 

23 million US women still smoke cigarettes. More than 140,000 of these die every year from some smoke-related cause. Women also experience greater health risks if they don't stop smoking. Besides the risks and diseases come to smokers of both genders such as various cancers and respiratory illnesses, there are additional risks common to women only. 

Female smokers who take oral birth control can experience serious consequences if they don't stop smoking such as heart attacks, blood clots and strokes.  The chemicals in tobacco are conveyed from a pregnant woman to her unborn child by way of the blood stream and the child is seriously at risk. 

Fertility is an issue for smokers, as well, who experience a 28 percent reduction in their ability to fertilize. Pelvic inflammatory disease is one third more frequent in smokers than in nonsmoker or those who stop smoking.  Starting to smoke while in her teens increases a woman's risk of having early menopause. Menopausal symptoms occur two or three years earlier in smokers than in non-smokers or those who stop smoking. 
Smoking FAQs

Here are some commonly asked questions about how to stop smoking and the answers to them. 

The first question gets right to the heart of the stop smoking dilemma. The question is "What is the best way for me to stop smoking?" The answer is that there is no easy answer to this question. Everyone is different. There are so many different means to quit, that the best thing to do is to try one stop smoking method and if it doesn't try another. And another. Until you find you have stopped smoking. In general you have several attempts to stop smoking before you really succeed. Most people try to stop smoking, start smoking once again, then over a long period of time find out what helps then stop smoking. They then again try to stop smoking and eventually they do. 

Some people can stop smoking just because of their determination to do so. These people stop smoking cold turkey. Other smokers take classes on how to stop smoking, use over the counter or prescribed medications, go through therapy or hypnosis or perhaps stop smoking patches or nicotine-tasting gum. Whatever you find that helps you to stop smoking and is safe is okay to use. Your family physician can help you stop smoking, and is an important resource as those who stop smoking often realize a tendency to over eat and gain weight as a result. 

The second question is, "How will my body be affected when I stop smoking? Can I really get back to the point of good health that I had before I started smoking or is too much damage already done?" 

The answer to this is multi-faceted, all of which is very encouraging. Your high blood pressure returns to normal within 30 minutes of quitting smoking, as does your pulse rate. Within just a few hours, your blood's carbon monoxide level drops and blood flows more easily to your brain. Within a couple days after you stop smoking your never ending start to get better and you begin to get back your sense of taste and smell. 

After three days the bronchial tubes of your lungs expand and the volume of your lungs increases. Your shortness of breath decreases within months after you stop smoking. The heart attack risk that your smoking caused declines within the first year after you stop smoking and in two or three years after you stop that risk is gone. Your cancer risk is the same as nonsmokers after you have stopped smoking for ten years. 

One frequently asked question is how to tell when you've really quit smoking. 
This is a very subjective question to answer. Some people throw away the pack of cigarettes the first time and that's the end of that. They've stopped smoking. Others spend months or even years craving cigarettes. Most smokers stop after about three weeks without a cigarette. This is a point that you should aim for. If you have spent three weeks without a cigarette it is very likely you may never smoke again. 
 Powder Puffing

Studies of those who smoke and those who've tried to stop smoking indicate gender differences in the smoking habits. The suggested root cause of this difference between men and women in their smoking habits is the variations in sensitivity to nicotine. 

Studies of men and women who had recently stopped smoking or were still smokers told the scientists that women smoked a fewer number of cigarettes each day, that the cigarettes they did smoke tended to have lower levels of nicotine than other brands, and that women did not inhale these cigarettes as deeply as did the male smokers. It is not been conclusively determined that woman are more sensitive to nicotine though it has been suggested. While men used to be smokers at a much higher rate than did women, they have also been the majority of those who tried to stop smoking and succeeded. This has narrowed the percentage gap between male and female smokers in the United States. 

Besides sensitivity to nicotine it has been suggested by researchers that women have also been adversely affected by their senses when smoking and more influenced by social factors. 

The number of American smokers declined during the 1970 and 1980 heydays of the non-smoking campaigns - when it was first discovered and made public that smoking did indeed cause cancer. In the 1990's and beyond, however, the number of U.S. smokers has remained stable. More female teens are starting to smoke and women are less likely to stop smoking than men. Women are also far more likely to start smoking again after trying to stop smoking than men are. 

In large-scale programs for smoking cessation gum or patch nicotine replacement methods did not succeed to reduce the nicotine craving for women as it did for men. Other factors that were suggested as reasons for women to find it more difficult to stop smoking including more difficult withdrawal symptoms and greater weight gain than men. 

23 million US women still smoke cigarettes. More than 140,000 of these die every year from some smoke-related cause. Women also experience greater health risks if they don't stop smoking. Besides the risks and diseases come to smokers of both genders such as various cancers and respiratory illnesses, there are additional risks common to women only. 

Female smokers who take oral birth control can experience serious consequences if they don't stop smoking such as heart attacks, blood clots and strokes.  The chemicals in tobacco are conveyed from a pregnant woman to her unborn child by way of the blood stream and the child is seriously at risk. 

Fertility is an issue for smokers, as well, who experience a 28 percent reduction in their ability to fertilize. Pelvic inflammatory disease is one third more frequent in smokers than in nonsmoker or those who stop smoking.  Starting to smoke while in her teens increases a woman's risk of having early menopause. Menopausal symptoms occur two or three years earlier in smokers than in non-smokers or those who stop smoking. 
Smoking FAQs

Here are some commonly asked questions about how to stop smoking and the answers to them. 

The first question gets right to the heart of the stop smoking dilemma. The question is "What is the best way for me to stop smoking?" The answer is that there is no easy answer to this question. Everyone is different. There are so many different means to quit, that the best thing to do is to try one stop smoking method and if it doesn't try another. And another. Until you find you have stopped smoking. In general you have several attempts to stop smoking before you really succeed. Most people try to stop smoking, start smoking once again, then over a long period of time find out what helps then stop smoking. They then again try to stop smoking and eventually they do. 

Some people can stop smoking just because of their determination to do so. These people stop smoking cold turkey. Other smokers take classes on how to stop smoking, use over the counter or prescribed medications, go through therapy or hypnosis or perhaps stop smoking patches or nicotine-tasting gum. Whatever you find that helps you to stop smoking and is safe is okay to use. Your family physician can help you stop smoking, and is an important resource as those who stop smoking often realize a tendency to over eat and gain weight as a result. 

The second question is, "How will my body be affected when I stop smoking? Can I really get back to the point of good health that I had before I started smoking or is too much damage already done?" 

The answer to this is multi-faceted, all of which is very encouraging. Your high blood pressure returns to normal within 30 minutes of quitting smoking, as does your pulse rate. Within just a few hours, your blood's carbon monoxide level drops and blood flows more easily to your brain. Within a couple days after you stop smoking your never ending start to get better and you begin to get back your sense of taste and smell. 

After three days the bronchial tubes of your lungs expand and the volume of your lungs increases. Your shortness of breath decreases within months after you stop smoking. The heart attack risk that your smoking caused declines within the first year after you stop smoking and in two or three years after you stop that risk is gone. Your cancer risk is the same as nonsmokers after you have stopped smoking for ten years. 

One frequently asked question is how to tell when you've really quit smoking. 
This is a very subjective question to answer. Some people throw away the pack of cigarettes the first time and that's the end of that. They've stopped smoking. Others spend months or even years craving cigarettes. Most smokers stop after about three weeks without a cigarette. This is a point that you should aim for. If you have spent three weeks without a cigarette it is very likely you may never smoke again. 
Smoking- A Never Ending Problem

In spite of so much awareness about the ill effects of nicotine, smoking apparently continues to chase everyone, everywhere. It not only influences our lifestyle but also affects the lifestyle of our colleagues and family members. They too may become part of this habit or psychological concerns that may result from this addiction. 

Earlier, smoking was a craze among adults only but now teenagers too have joined the trend. A surprising fact is that adults are more likely to quit smoking on being encouraged by friends, family and counselors, but getting teenagers to quit smoking is not all that easy. They start smoking under the influence of the peer group or friends, and even if they try getting out of the addiction, the same influences do not allow that to happen. Teenagers get well entrapped wherefrom it is not that easy to escape. 

Smoking is making its presence felt in every sphere of our life, be it a school, home or work area. It is more an addiction than habit and therefore no one is able to escape its clutches in the first go. 

Smoking is not only injurious to health but to ones wallet as well. Studies showing expenditure made on the pack of cigarettes has come with stunning outcomes. A person could have easily afforded a comfortable life with the money that one wastes on buying these stuffs. But the thing is that we never think about such consequences that are adversely affecting our life to a great extent. 

In USA, it has been made mandatory for employees not to smoke at work. In case someone does not follow the rule, the Company has a right to fire that employee. Such smokers will not be insured by the Company. This has become a hot topic on the chat shows in America. 

Most of the smokers are working hard to quit the habit of smoking but unfortunately, a few of them are able to do it.  Many counselors have developed a program that has been proved successful for interested volunteers. This stop smoking program works according to the Behavior Theory. It is different from other programs and helps a person not to depend on cigarettes at every tense circumstance of his life. This way the smoker learns to resist his cravings for another puff.  

It has become essential to take necessary steps to control smoking before we have any more sufferers in its grasp. Friends, family and counselors can only suggest but one has to take the initiative on ones own to enter a healthy lifestyle. 

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One of the most effective and most supportive ways to stop smoking is with the help and Support to Stop Smoking

One of the most effective and most supportive ways to stop smoking is with the help and guidance of a smoking cessation clinic and the professionals who run it. 

Let's take a look at one such clinic and see what the stop smoking program is all about. This program is conducted by an expert physician who works with the American Cancer Society and an area hospital and has done so for nearly three decades. The stop smoking clinic has cured 4500 smokers through both individual and group counseling and an extensive after-clinic reinforcement process that includes a 24-hour hotline with live help. Once graduated from the first stop smoking clinic participants can return for future reinforcement clinics at no charge - and are encouraged to do so. 

This clinic treats only those smokers who admit that smoking is a danger to their physical well being, that it is a threat to their status socially and that it is more expensive than it is worth. 

This stop smoking clinic is $125. It consists of six sessions in the evening that extend over one two week time period. The 24-hour hot line as well as additional individual and group counseling is available both during and after the clinic.  

This stop smoking clinic is not touted as some quick smoking fix. They don't keep records, give shots, or hypnotize. Smokers stop smoking the first day of the clinic and then they all support each other and are supported by the staff through the time period that is the worst for psychological and physiological withdrawal symptoms.  

While this clinic doesn't claim to be - and is not - the least expensive, or the fastest, or the easiest, or the largest or even the most convenient of the stop smoking clinics. There is no guarantee of success and no refund if it doesn't work. But it does work. 

Smoking is recognized as an addiction and treated as such. This clinic is not about doing the work for the smoker. It is about teaching the smoker to do the stop smoking work for her or himself and then helping them stay off the cigarettes. 

This clinic's cold turkey stop smoking method is not for everyone. Clinicians believe that quitting smoking cold turkey is less painful and less difficult than any other stop smoking method. They believe it takes less time to stop smoking with the cold turkey method than with any other. The key, they believe, is in smokers' realization that they are drug addicts just like heroine users, cocaine users and alcoholics. What the smokers at the clinic learn to understand is that their bodies have learned to need the nicotine and to crave it and that until it is finally completely out of their body they'll continue to crave it. 

As opposed to cold turkey, trying to stop smoking by cutting back on the number of cigarettes or replacing the nicotine with gum just prolongs the drug withdrawal. As long as some nicotine remains in the body the withdrawal will result in continued craving. Cold turkey, therefore, according to the specialists at this stop smoking clinic is the preferred method - the one that completely removes nicotine from the smoker's body and therefore ultimately removes the nicotine cravings. 
War on Smoking Follows War of the World

By 1946 cigarette smoking and the smoking of other tobacco products was everywhere in the United States. The biggest cigarette manufacturer, to increase sales and ward off stop smoking campaigns made the bold and unsubstantiated claim that more physicians smoked their top brand - Camels - than any other cigarettes in the nation.  

An advertisement for Camels in 1949 showed photos of noteworthy throat specialists that they did not name, saying that they could not link Camels to any throat irritants. 

Two celebrities - variety show host Arthur Godfrey, and journalist broadcaster Edward R. Morrow were public smokers. Godfrey even endorsed it, with his program's sponsorship by Chesterfield cigarettes and his sign off at the end of each program, when he called himself  "Arthur buy-them-by-the-carton Godfrey." Morrow was never seen on the air when he wasn't puffing away on his cigarette. Both later died of lung cancer. 

Deaths attributed to lung cancer had increased five fold in the U.S. by 1950, and at that time the Journal of American Magazine started a serious stop smoking campaign by its publication of documentation that nearly all lung cancer patients known at that time had been smoking cigarettes for a long time. 

In 1953 a few people did stop smoking - three percent of smokers to be exact. This was a result of an article published by researcher Ernst Wynder who studied mice and found that he could actually induce cancer by giving them tobacco smoke to inhale. Cigarette manufacturers countered, however, with full-page ads in nearly 500 newspapers that said that no one had proven that smoking was a cause of lung cancer. Their claim was that smoking gave relaxation, enjoyment and even solace to smokers. 

The Marlboro Man ad campaign began in 1954, a Phillip Morris campaign to equate cigarette smoking and virility. Curiously enough, the American Medical Association had previously been an avid publisher of cigarette commercials. In 1954 it made the decision to no longer accept ads from tobacco companies. It went from touting smoking to stop smoking quickly. 

The tide of opinion was turning quickly on smoking, as 1958 studies indicated that nearly half of Americans were convinced that smoking caused lung cancer and were trying to stop. The Journal of American Medicine now began to publish many articles proving the health problems associated with tobacco smoking. In 1959 the U.S. Surgeon General published findings of the U.S. Public Health Service that cigarette smoking causes cancer. 

Mild warning labels on cigarette packs were introduced in 1964 and the stop smoking campaign dropped the numbers of U.S. smokers by two percent. By 1968 Gallup poll results indicated that 71 percent of the nation's residents were convinced that smoking caused cancer. In 1971 tobacco advertising was banned from broadcast, as an effort to help stop smoking. 

The first city to legislate its stop smoking campaign was San Francisco when, in 1983, it banned smoking in the workplace. Two years later 88 other cities had followed San Francisco's example. In 1988 people were forced to stop smoking on airplane flights that were shorter than two hours. In 1990 all domestic flights were smoke free, and in 1998 California again led the legislative way by banning smoking in public bars. 

Although many thousands have stopped or tried to stop smoking, nearly 200,000 U.S. residents still die each year due to tobacco related cancers and other lung diseases. 
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One of the most effective and most supportive ways to stop smoking is with the help and Support to Stop Smoking

One of the most effective and most supportive ways to stop smoking is with the help and guidance of a smoking cessation clinic and the professionals who run it. 

Let's take a look at one such clinic and see what the stop smoking program is all about. This program is conducted by an expert physician who works with the American Cancer Society and an area hospital and has done so for nearly three decades. The stop smoking clinic has cured 4500 smokers through both individual and group counseling and an extensive after-clinic reinforcement process that includes a 24-hour hotline with live help. Once graduated from the first stop smoking clinic participants can return for future reinforcement clinics at no charge - and are encouraged to do so. 

This clinic treats only those smokers who admit that smoking is a danger to their physical well being, that it is a threat to their status socially and that it is more expensive than it is worth. 

This stop smoking clinic is $125. It consists of six sessions in the evening that extend over one two week time period. The 24-hour hot line as well as additional individual and group counseling is available both during and after the clinic.  

This stop smoking clinic is not touted as some quick smoking fix. They don't keep records, give shots, or hypnotize. Smokers stop smoking the first day of the clinic and then they all support each other and are supported by the staff through the time period that is the worst for psychological and physiological withdrawal symptoms.  

While this clinic doesn't claim to be - and is not - the least expensive, or the fastest, or the easiest, or the largest or even the most convenient of the stop smoking clinics. There is no guarantee of success and no refund if it doesn't work. But it does work. 

Smoking is recognized as an addiction and treated as such. This clinic is not about doing the work for the smoker. It is about teaching the smoker to do the stop smoking work for her or himself and then helping them stay off the cigarettes. 

This clinic's cold turkey stop smoking method is not for everyone. Clinicians believe that quitting smoking cold turkey is less painful and less difficult than any other stop smoking method. They believe it takes less time to stop smoking with the cold turkey method than with any other. The key, they believe, is in smokers' realization that they are drug addicts just like heroine users, cocaine users and alcoholics. What the smokers at the clinic learn to understand is that their bodies have learned to need the nicotine and to crave it and that until it is finally completely out of their body they'll continue to crave it. 

As opposed to cold turkey, trying to stop smoking by cutting back on the number of cigarettes or replacing the nicotine with gum just prolongs the drug withdrawal. As long as some nicotine remains in the body the withdrawal will result in continued craving. Cold turkey, therefore, according to the specialists at this stop smoking clinic is the preferred method - the one that completely removes nicotine from the smoker's body and therefore ultimately removes the nicotine cravings. 
War on Smoking Follows War of the World

By 1946 cigarette smoking and the smoking of other tobacco products was everywhere in the United States. The biggest cigarette manufacturer, to increase sales and ward off stop smoking campaigns made the bold and unsubstantiated claim that more physicians smoked their top brand - Camels - than any other cigarettes in the nation.  

An advertisement for Camels in 1949 showed photos of noteworthy throat specialists that they did not name, saying that they could not link Camels to any throat irritants. 

Two celebrities - variety show host Arthur Godfrey, and journalist broadcaster Edward R. Morrow were public smokers. Godfrey even endorsed it, with his program's sponsorship by Chesterfield cigarettes and his sign off at the end of each program, when he called himself  "Arthur buy-them-by-the-carton Godfrey." Morrow was never seen on the air when he wasn't puffing away on his cigarette. Both later died of lung cancer. 

Deaths attributed to lung cancer had increased five fold in the U.S. by 1950, and at that time the Journal of American Magazine started a serious stop smoking campaign by its publication of documentation that nearly all lung cancer patients known at that time had been smoking cigarettes for a long time. 

In 1953 a few people did stop smoking - three percent of smokers to be exact. This was a result of an article published by researcher Ernst Wynder who studied mice and found that he could actually induce cancer by giving them tobacco smoke to inhale. Cigarette manufacturers countered, however, with full-page ads in nearly 500 newspapers that said that no one had proven that smoking was a cause of lung cancer. Their claim was that smoking gave relaxation, enjoyment and even solace to smokers. 

The Marlboro Man ad campaign began in 1954, a Phillip Morris campaign to equate cigarette smoking and virility. Curiously enough, the American Medical Association had previously been an avid publisher of cigarette commercials. In 1954 it made the decision to no longer accept ads from tobacco companies. It went from touting smoking to stop smoking quickly. 

The tide of opinion was turning quickly on smoking, as 1958 studies indicated that nearly half of Americans were convinced that smoking caused lung cancer and were trying to stop. The Journal of American Medicine now began to publish many articles proving the health problems associated with tobacco smoking. In 1959 the U.S. Surgeon General published findings of the U.S. Public Health Service that cigarette smoking causes cancer. 

Mild warning labels on cigarette packs were introduced in 1964 and the stop smoking campaign dropped the numbers of U.S. smokers by two percent. By 1968 Gallup poll results indicated that 71 percent of the nation's residents were convinced that smoking caused cancer. In 1971 tobacco advertising was banned from broadcast, as an effort to help stop smoking. 

The first city to legislate its stop smoking campaign was San Francisco when, in 1983, it banned smoking in the workplace. Two years later 88 other cities had followed San Francisco's example. In 1988 people were forced to stop smoking on airplane flights that were shorter than two hours. In 1990 all domestic flights were smoke free, and in 1998 California again led the legislative way by banning smoking in public bars. 

Although many thousands have stopped or tried to stop smoking, nearly 200,000 U.S. residents still die each year due to tobacco related cancers and other lung diseases. 
 Support to Stop Smoking

One of the most effective and most supportive ways to stop smoking is with the help and guidance of a smoking cessation clinic and the professionals who run it. 

Let's take a look at one such clinic and see what the stop smoking program is all about. This program is conducted by an expert physician who works with the American Cancer Society and an area hospital and has done so for nearly three decades. The stop smoking clinic has cured 4500 smokers through both individual and group counseling and an extensive after-clinic reinforcement process that includes a 24-hour hotline with live help. Once graduated from the first stop smoking clinic participants can return for future reinforcement clinics at no charge - and are encouraged to do so. 

This clinic treats only those smokers who admit that smoking is a danger to their physical well being, that it is a threat to their status socially and that it is more expensive than it is worth. 

This stop smoking clinic is $125. It consists of six sessions in the evening that extend over one two week time period. The 24-hour hot line as well as additional individual and group counseling is available both during and after the clinic.  

This stop smoking clinic is not touted as some quick smoking fix. They don't keep records, give shots, or hypnotize. Smokers stop smoking the first day of the clinic and then they all support each other and are supported by the staff through the time period that is the worst for psychological and physiological withdrawal symptoms.  

While this clinic doesn't claim to be - and is not - the least expensive, or the fastest, or the easiest, or the largest or even the most convenient of the stop smoking clinics. There is no guarantee of success and no refund if it doesn't work. But it does work. 

Smoking is recognized as an addiction and treated as such. This clinic is not about doing the work for the smoker. It is about teaching the smoker to do the stop smoking work for her or himself and then helping them stay off the cigarettes. 

This clinic's cold turkey stop smoking method is not for everyone. Clinicians believe that quitting smoking cold turkey is less painful and less difficult than any other stop smoking method. They believe it takes less time to stop smoking with the cold turkey method than with any other. The key, they believe, is in smokers' realization that they are drug addicts just like heroine users, cocaine users and alcoholics. What the smokers at the clinic learn to understand is that their bodies have learned to need the nicotine and to crave it and that until it is finally completely out of their body they'll continue to crave it. 

As opposed to cold turkey, trying to stop smoking by cutting back on the number of cigarettes or replacing the nicotine with gum just prolongs the drug withdrawal. As long as some nicotine remains in the body the withdrawal will result in continued craving. Cold turkey, therefore, according to the specialists at this stop smoking clinic is the preferred method - the one that completely removes nicotine from the smoker's body and therefore ultimately removes the nicotine cravings. 
War on Smoking Follows War of the World

By 1946 cigarette smoking and the smoking of other tobacco products was everywhere in the United States. The biggest cigarette manufacturer, to increase sales and ward off stop smoking campaigns made the bold and unsubstantiated claim that more physicians smoked their top brand - Camels - than any other cigarettes in the nation.  

An advertisement for Camels in 1949 showed photos of noteworthy throat specialists that they did not name, saying that they could not link Camels to any throat irritants. 

Two celebrities - variety show host Arthur Godfrey, and journalist broadcaster Edward R. Morrow were public smokers. Godfrey even endorsed it, with his program's sponsorship by Chesterfield cigarettes and his sign off at the end of each program, when he called himself  "Arthur buy-them-by-the-carton Godfrey." Morrow was never seen on the air when he wasn't puffing away on his cigarette. Both later died of lung cancer. 

Deaths attributed to lung cancer had increased five fold in the U.S. by 1950, and at that time the Journal of American Magazine started a serious stop smoking campaign by its publication of documentation that nearly all lung cancer patients known at that time had been smoking cigarettes for a long time. 

In 1953 a few people did stop smoking - three percent of smokers to be exact. This was a result of an article published by researcher Ernst Wynder who studied mice and found that he could actually induce cancer by giving them tobacco smoke to inhale. Cigarette manufacturers countered, however, with full-page ads in nearly 500 newspapers that said that no one had proven that smoking was a cause of lung cancer. Their claim was that smoking gave relaxation, enjoyment and even solace to smokers. 

The Marlboro Man ad campaign began in 1954, a Phillip Morris campaign to equate cigarette smoking and virility. Curiously enough, the American Medical Association had previously been an avid publisher of cigarette commercials. In 1954 it made the decision to no longer accept ads from tobacco companies. It went from touting smoking to stop smoking quickly. 

The tide of opinion was turning quickly on smoking, as 1958 studies indicated that nearly half of Americans were convinced that smoking caused lung cancer and were trying to stop. The Journal of American Medicine now began to publish many articles proving the health problems associated with tobacco smoking. In 1959 the U.S. Surgeon General published findings of the U.S. Public Health Service that cigarette smoking causes cancer. 

Mild warning labels on cigarette packs were introduced in 1964 and the stop smoking campaign dropped the numbers of U.S. smokers by two percent. By 1968 Gallup poll results indicated that 71 percent of the nation's residents were convinced that smoking caused cancer. In 1971 tobacco advertising was banned from broadcast, as an effort to help stop smoking. 

The first city to legislate its stop smoking campaign was San Francisco when, in 1983, it banned smoking in the workplace. Two years later 88 other cities had followed San Francisco's example. In 1988 people were forced to stop smoking on airplane flights that were shorter than two hours. In 1990 all domestic flights were smoke free, and in 1998 California again led the legislative way by banning smoking in public bars. 

Although many thousands have stopped or tried to stop smoking, nearly 200,000 U.S. residents still die each year due to tobacco related cancers and other lung diseases. 
Winning the Withdrawal War

When you stop smoking you are withdrawing from an addictive product. It can be physically painful. Here are some stop smoking withdrawal symptoms and facts. 

The first thing you want to remember as you kick off your efforts to stop smoking is that there will be physical symptoms of withdrawal but that they will be temporary. You can be quite uncomfortable while they occur, however. They're nowhere near the horror stories that you hear about alcoholic DT's (delirium tremens) when they try to stop drinking. The stop smoking physical withdrawal symptoms are referred to as "quitter's flu" because that's what you feel like as you start to stop smoking. You feel like you have a cold or a mild flue. 

If you know and understand what to expect as you stop smoking you'll have a far easier time trying to cope with it. If you've been a fairly heavy smoker you may want to see your family doctor before you try to stop smoking. It may be that the symptoms could cause you excessive discomfort due to any current medical conditions you have. 

The most common symptoms of nicotine withdrawal that smokers experience when they stop smoking are cravings to start smoking; irritability; fatigue; insomnia; difficulty concentrating; sore throat; headache; cough; gas; stomachache; constipation; sore gums or tongue; post nasal drip; and a feeling of tightness in their chest. 

Here are some tips on coping with these stop smoking withdrawal symptoms. The first tactic is to acknowledge the craving for the cigarette but tell yourself you're just going to put it off for a little bit - just a few minutes. The cigarette craving usually stops after five or fewer minutes. You might also keep yourself on the stop smoking track by distracting yourself by a conversation with a friend or a brisk walk. Drinking plenty of water helps fight the craving to smoke, as does deep breathing. It may help you as you stop smoking to join a support group for those who are trying to quit. 

Exercise is a wonderful smoking deterrent, especially in the great outdoors, as you begin again to gain back a normal sense of touch and smell. Get plenty of rest and if you have insomnia try taking an extended walk or even run or job a few hours before you go to bed. Don't do it right before bedtime, as this will actually inhibit your ability to get to sleep. 

Try to relax. Maybe you could read a book, or take a nice long bubble bath. Pamper yourself and you'll help your stop smoking efforts. One of the best ways to stay on your stop smoking track is to give yourself a reward every single day you don't have a cigarette. Do this early on in your stop smoking campaign to keep yourself duly motivated. It works. And just remember as you're going through smoking withdrawal - the symptoms are very temporary. And the reward is good health and a longer higher quality life. 

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