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Richard Briers Dies Of Emphysema

Richard Briers Dies Of Emphysema

The well-known British actor Richard Briers died last month, at the age of 79, as a result of the smoker’s disease, emphysema . He was a very popular actor with a career spanning around 50 years, and had starred in many diverse roles, in TV, films and theatre. He was diagnosed with the lung condition emphysema in 2008, which eventually led to his death, although he had actually given up smoking about 10 years ago. Unfortunately the damage had already been done. Read more

Want to Pay Your Bills? A Pack A Day Habit is Expensive.

A Pack A Day Habit is Expensive

Another reason to quit smoking is to pay yours and your family’s bills. What good is a pack a day habit when you are behind on your rent? You’re in danger of your electric or your phone being shut off? You can’t afford food to put on the table for your family? You’re not just killing yourself. You’re also killing those around you in more ways than one. This is one of them.

Not being able to pay your bills causes depression and stress for your family as well as you in this case. For smokers, this might mean that they are smoking more to try to get rid of that depression and stress rather than dealing with it. Smoking a pack a day in the US, means that you spent $210. a month on that. That comes out to around $2520. a year. You could have paid rent two months’ rent with that in most places. In twenty years, you could buy a house outright with the money saved.

Quitting is very hard for smokers. Smoking the electronic cigarettes until you are able to stop, works. You save better than half the money that you spent before. On the down side, current health claims are starting to be found by scientists, about the metals and the battery acids in the electronic cigarettes providing toxins to your body and the air. That is another blog. It’s still the safer and the lesser expensive way to quit. This still leaves more money to pay the bills and put food on the table. This is another way that everyone will be breathing more freely too.

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Check Your Search Engine for Smoking Counseling Groups

Find Your Smoking Counseling Groups

For those who are ready to quit smoking, whether it is for the first time, or you had trouble quitting and you just want to stop for good, one of the best ways is through your medical doctor coupled with counseling. Check your internet search engine for smoking cessation counseling groups in your area.

All the quit smokinging group web pages are free. They provide you with their own quit smoking hotline to call. They give you names of counselors of the quit smoking groups in your area. Once you get a counselor, you get placed in a quit smoking group therapy session and a sponsor assigned to you. Your sponsor is an ex-smoker who successfully quit through the program that you are now in.

Your medical doctor will be able to get you a smoking medication (approved by the FDA) while you are quitting, if you need it. This, combined with your counseling website and counseling, creates a better chance to stop for good. When withdrawal symptoms get bad, instead of turning to another cigarette, you call your sponsor. You can also call the group members that you have confidence in. They help you and you help them in their quitting.

Group support goes a very long way in quitting for good. Each of counseling quit smoking programs, runs a three tier program or something similar to it, where you make goals to re-learn your life without cigarettes. You make a date and time for each short term goal to get there. You reward yourself as you successfully completed them. Set your first goal to live a whole week without touching a cigarette. When that is completed, reward yourself by walking for a mile.

Your group celebrates with you, and you celebrate their victories with them.  Enlist family support if you can while you are quitting. With this, you will be more empowered to reach the long range goal to where you never want to return to the cigarettes.

Ref: Become An Ex.

 

 

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An Elegy To E-Puffers

ePuffer Electronic Cigarettes

Just lately I have been trying out electronic cigarettes , as I was sent some free samples for the purposes of writing an article about them. I thought, as a former smoker myself, I would give them a go to see how they compare to a real cigarette.

One of my friends said maybe I shouldn’t, as I might become addicted to them and Read more

Confessions from a Secret Smoker

No hiding from smoking

With so many electronic cigarettes on the market it’s natural to ask how and why they’re different, so I tested one out to see if I could reduce my own secret smoking habit. Read more

The New Pacifier For Smokers?

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For those of you who really want to quit and have tried other things like the patches, lozenges, gum, and even going cold turkey, here’s a new option for you. It’s an inhaler that you can use much like one for asthma. You can change the filter as much as you like. A lot of people are using the accompanying filters longer and longer, gradually getting less nicotine when they inhale, and at some point just throwing them away. Read more

Reasons to Quit Smoking

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500,000 people die a year from Emphazema and Cancer

A smokers risk of dying from a heart attack is two to four times greater than in non-smokers.

The smell of stale cigarettes stays in your hair and clothes, your home, car and work place. It also gives you bad breath. Read more

Are Smoking Campaigns Effective?

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I smoked for five years and I quit smoking about two years ago. I wasn’t a heavy smoker because I usually smoked about ten cigarettes a day and only when I had stressful meetings.  Quitting, nonetheless, isn’t easy.

How did I quit smoking? Read more

Benefits and Tips of Quitting Smoking

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Smoking has been a danger ever since it was created and it has influence all of us to smoke because it was considered ‘cool’ but in reality, it isn’t cool it’s dangerous. But there are ways to quit smoking and it will make your life much easier.

Most of the women and men smoke because they are either depressed or addicted to smoking but they can stop, they just have to think positive. Read more