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HOW TO STOP SMOKING
I started smoking
cigarettes when I was 9 years old in gymnastics. You say you only smoke
once in a while? Playing
around with, fooling around with, smoking once in a while ... leads to
addiction. Nobody is immune to cigarette addition, so don't be fooled:
"The Illusion of Immunity
is the Trap of Addiction"
Christina Nevada
By the time I was 12, I was addicted.
Everyone told me it was mind over matter, but as much as I beat myself up for
it, I couldn't quit. Dad was pretty harsh, for good reason, but binding
the demons out of me didn't seem to cut it.
I smoked for 25 years until I learned how to quit. I got scared. I
didn't want to have to tell my kids, "I'm sorry. I'm dying of cancer, and
I can't stick around for your wedding because I couldn't quit smoking," ... or their
high school graduation or the birth of their children.
If you don't know if you want to quit, ask yourself this: Do you wish you
never started? If, yes, you want to be free of this addiction.
I can help you.
I'll show you how after 25 years of inability to quit, I learned how and
did it.
First thing is to go get these items and store them in the cabinet so that when
you're ready to try for a morning, you'll have them. Always get your doc's
approval before taking or combining medicines.
THIS IS WHAT YOU'LL NEED
1) Benedryl or sleeping pills or something approved by your doctor to help
you sleep it off for about 4 days.
2) Anti-panic attack medicine (I took lorazepam but there are others (ask
your doc)). It takes the panic out of quitting.
3) Nicorette gum.
4) Trident Gum (always sugar free so you don't rot your teeth).
5) Go here and download the benefits of quitting smoking. Within the
first 20 minutes of quitting, the healing process begins.
Encouragement: this will be the
rabbit in front of the race horses (and this is a race against time with your
life) .. and you can win. Go here and print this:
www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=33568
Don't think you need to quit forever when you
first fool around with quitting. Just try it for a morning and take it 1/3
day at a time. What will happen is that you will begin to gain confidence
and see that you can actually do it.
Here's the catch: It only took one hook to catch a fish. Same thing:
One drag will get you hooked again. It's that simple. The more I fed
myself nicotine, the more I hated the addiction. It takes 4 days for the
nicotine to leave your body and about 1 week to break down the psychological
habit. I stopped 7 times in a year thinking I could handle a drag or a
cigarette, but each time I got hooked again. Now, it has been 12
years. It's harder to resist a slice of pizza than a cigarette. I
did it. You can, too, but hanging around people every day who smoke will
corrupt you just like bad company corrupts good morals.
It's hard, though, every time; but, at least with the tools I listed above it
was possible for the 1st time. I am so glad that I am free from the
addiction. I saved my health, my money, my life. I try not to hang
around people who smoke, but I did quit when I was married and while he was
still smoking around me. It's possible. Now, I won't date anyone who
smokes, because I'm not going down that path again. I'm free ... and I
want to help you to be.
SOME FACTS ABOUT SMOKING
- Tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the United States.
- Smoking cigarettes kills more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
- Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths.
- CDC estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking.
- Around 5.4 million deaths a year are caused by tobacco.
- Every 6.5 seconds a current or former smoker dies, according to the World Health Organization.
- Smoking deaths cost the US $92 billion per year.
- Half of all smokers will die because of their habit.
This is the
Reality
of the Glamour of Smoking Cigarettes
 
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