| If you are a smoker of anything, you have | | | | starved for oxygen, and screaming in pain, |
| heard the advice 'give up smoking' at least | | | | tremendous energy is used in just staying |
| once a week, if not every single day. Unless | | | | alive, so losing weight, strength and the |
| you live on another planet, the 'smoking is | | | | ability to think all go with emphysema. |
| bad for your health' message has landed at | | | | |
| your door frequently. There are so many | | | | At the last the poor smoker simply smothers. |
| statistics, scary pictures, and medical | | | | Horrible! This is so bad for the smoker but |
| authorities delivering this message that even | | | | considering that others that live with the |
| those in the most advanced stages of denial | | | | smoker must contend with second hand smoke. |
| probably accept that smoking is bad for your | | | | It is reported to be even more dangerous than |
| health. | | | | actually smoking. The child or spouse that |
| | | | you love with all your heart and soul is |
| Smoking is pleasurable and also addictive. | | | | being killed by your smoking habit. How is |
| There have to be some pretty powerful reasons | | | | that for motivation? |
| to stop smoking. This is your best friend, | | | | |
| your comforter in times of stress, your first | | | | Now for the 'carrot' aspect of giving up |
| line of defense when threatened, so how can | | | | smoking; more kisses and hugs when you no |
| you turn your back on all that? The good news | | | | longer smell and taste like a dirty ashtray. |
| is that there are some really good products | | | | Your home, car and office will no longer be |
| to help you, when you find the motivation to | | | | coated in a yellow oily film that is the |
| give up smoking. | | | | residue of the smoke you exhale. Your |
| | | | appearance will improve as the dryness of |
| For motivations let's look at the old carrot | | | | your face and the ensuing wrinkles gradually |
| and stick. First the 'stick' points to | | | | disappear. That puckered upper lip will |
| consider. Hundreds of research studies on | | | | gradually smooth out, making you seem years |
| animals and humans prove that smoking is a | | | | younger. |
| leading cause of several cancers. Cancers eat | | | | |
| you alive by robbing your cells of food. | | | | Several options are now available to assist |
| Cancers develop quickly in smokers because | | | | you in the process. There are drugs like |
| the toxins in the smoke block the cell's | | | | Chantix, hypnosis, patches, and fake |
| ability to fight. Whether the cancer starts | | | | cigarettes. Many of these are paid for by |
| in the mouth, throat, or lungs, it is ugly to | | | | health insurance. Chantrix has a support |
| the max. Not only physically ugly, but pain | | | | program in which a real person, who |
| filled ugly, so painful that no amount of | | | | understands the struggle with addiction, |
| drugs can provide relief. If the very real | | | | calls on the telephone to empathize with you. |
| possibility of cancer was not scary enough, | | | | You are not a bad person, just a good person |
| there is emphysema. In this case the lungs | | | | in need of a lot of support in the very |
| gradually lose the ability to send oxygen to | | | | difficult process to give up smoking. |
| the body. Not only are all of the cells | | | | |