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Giving Up Smoking – 2 Years Tobacco Free

May 19th, 2011

Trish

Who would have thought it? Me, not only giving up smoking but 2 years on still not puffing on horrible smelly cigarettes. I’m giving myself a pat on the back here because I blooming well deserve one.

Why? because I smoked for most of 40 years and thought that I would never kick the habit no matter how many times I tried. Yes I did try, with willpower which obviously I didn’t have enough of. With nicotine gum which I didn’t like because I don’t chew gum. Nicotine patches worked for as long as 6 months a couple of times but I lapsed. Holidays, bereavement and others giving me cigarettes were my excuses for foolishly starting up again.

What Finally Worked?

I think that was a mixture of things that came together to make it the right time. I had been having problems with poor circulation and Reynards disease for years. The winter of 2008/2009 was frightening because of the excrutiating pain in my fingers when they got the slightest bit cold and my circulation cut off. I still have minor problems with circulation but since I stopped smoking they have scaled down so much that they are barely noticeable.

I was getting out of breathe more easily and was woken up at night by the scary rattling noises that were coming from my chest. Now I don’t get out of breathe so easily and the only noises that wake me up at night come from my cat playing enthusiastically with her toys downstairs.

I had problems with gum disease which was being masked by the smoking. That led to loosing bone, or the bones receding in my mouth and my teeth getting looser. More toothache and the only treatment was to pull them because they were getting too loose to work on. Now I’ve called a halt to the gum disease and bone loss with a stricter dental care regime and it does help that I’ve stopped smoking.

Finding Electronic Cigarettes

According to UK law I am not allowed to claim that they are a stop smoking aid so I won’t. I first heard about ecigs when somebody submitted an article about them to one of my websites. I got curious and wanted to learn more about electronic cigarettes and after a few weeks ordered some online. I initially bought them because they don’t have the 4000+ cancer giving chemicals that tobacco cigarettes have and thought that my health problems might lessen if I switched to them.

I also thought that it would be good being able to smoke them in public where tobacco cigarettes are banned. That my clothes and hair wouldn’t smell like a dirty ashtray and most important that my friends and family or anybody around me wouldn’t be in harms way breathing in second hand smoke. There was no real intention of quitting smoking.

I found that they were a great substitute and after a few days when I tried a tobacco cig it was disgusting. I didn’t consciously attempt to cut back, that happened naturally, so on top of the savings that you get anyway with ecigs I was saving even more. One day, a few months down the line I just stopped smoking e-cigarettes too and have been totally smoke free since then and no more nicotine addiction.

Money never really figured much in my stop smoking attempts and I think that’s true of most people - execept for when they get a jolt when tobacco tax goes up. But I can appreciate the £100+ a month that I don’t spend on cigs now, saving me over £2400 in 2 years.

I built this blog to help me to stop smoking and blimey it’s made a profit from the stop smoking aids advertised on here. I’ve treated myself to a really good laptop, new cooker, microwave, television and am now saving for a holiday – all from the money saved and the money earned.

Will I Start Smoking Again?

I don’t think that you can rule anything out in this life, but I believe that I am extremely unlikely to start smoking again. I’ve had times when I’ve been tempted, when things have been tough at work or in my private life and it would be easy to reach for a cig to help relieve the stress. I haven’t done that because I’ve known that I’ve got something in a drawer at home that just needs charging up for a while and then I can puff away more safely. That’s all I need, just knowing my ecig is there.

So now perhaps you can understand why I think that I deserve a pat on the back and I hope that my story offers encouragement for those of you who are trying hard to stop

Powerful Benefits Of Stopping Smoking

August 3rd, 2010

Trish

I stopped smoking on May 19th 2009 after 40 years of addiction. Over a year later I haven’t started again and I doubt I ever will now. I used electronic cigarettes to help me to quit and knowing that I have one at home tucked away in a drawer that just needs recharging has stopped me from being tempted to buy tobacco cigarettes at stressful times.

An initial outlay of £50 has now saved me over £1200 and paid for the laptop that I’m using, a new TV for my bedroom and a new cooker. It’s also saved my health.

Stopping smoking can be a very frustrating time in your life as one does not always realize the magnitude of the ‘hold’ nicotine has on your body until you try and stop. If you are looking at becoming healthier then look at the following benefits your body will have by stopping smoking.

Even if you have been a smoker for many years, it is never too late to stop smoking as the body is amazing in its resilience towards repairing itself. In fact, after 20 minutes of stopping smoking your body’s blood pressure and pulse rate drops whilst the temperature in your hands and feet increases! After 8 hours the level of oxygen in your blood normalizes and the level of carbon monoxide also decreases to within normal limits. By stopping smoking for 24 hours you have already reduced the chances of a heart attack. After 48 hours your taste and smell improves whilst nerve endings has already started re-growth.

The first 6-8 weeks after smoking is the hardest but by week 2 and 3 even walking becomes easier as your circulation and lung function increases. From 1-9 months significant improvements in your coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath can be experienced. 30% of ALL heart disease deaths are directly linked to cigarette smoking, but your risk after stopping smoking for a year, has decreased by half! Stopping smoking for 5 years reduces your risk on strokes to the same level of people who have never smoked! By year 10 the risk of lung cancer drops to one-half of people who still continue smoking; cancer of the throat, mouth, bladder, esophagus, pancreas and kidneys drops as well as the risk of ulcers. By year 15 you now have the same risk of coronary heart disease and normal death compared to a person who has never smoked.

Stopping smoking is not only a physical process but also requires you mental state to be reprogrammed in order to overcome the psychological urges to pick up and smoke a cigarette. Every person is different; some may find it an excruciating process to stop where others could do it instantaneously without looking back. Whatever the situation, you will do your body, those close to you and the environment more good by quitting your smoking habits. The sooner the better, as you might not be so lucky to recover when you wait until emphysema or cancer has been diagnosed.

Governments have placed smoking bans in public places and heavy penalties are given to those businesses or people who refuse to abide by them. In fact smoking is so dangerous to non-smokers that some governments have banned smoking in vehicles where non-smokers such as children (even your own), are transported.

This article has focused more on the positive effects when stopping smoking habits and hopefully it has persuaded you to change your lifestyle for the better. If you are serious about following a healthier lifestyle and require assistance or more information on how to stop smoking, take a look around this site, we offer information about the different methods of stopping smoking to help you to take your first step in breaking the chains of addiction.

and you save a small fortune as well as your health!

I kept an online diary from the first day that I stopped smoking until my first year was up, you can check my diary out at http://smokersstop.co.uk/giving-up-smoking-1-year-without-tobacco

I did have a forum on this site, genuinely wanting to help others in their battle to quit smoking, but the spammers kept dumping porn, viagra and online pharmacy ads on to the forum. It wasted a lot of time removing it and I didn’t want crap like that on this or any of my websites so I removed the forum when I’d had enough.

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Stop Smoking Cigarettes And Improve The Way You Feel

September 25th, 2011

Trish

Article by Chris James

You will have an extremely difficult path in front of you once you choose to quit smoking. Smoking has played a significant role in your life for several years; getting rid of the emotional and physical connections with it will call for a considerable amount of hard work and effort from you, plus the strength to go through immense discomfort. Nevertheless, while you get ready to let go of an unhealthy way of living and exchange it for much better well-being and health, you’ll need to learn how to make matters easier. You can certainly give up using tobacco without the need for prescription drugs, and this short article will talk about the benefits of doing it by natural means.

Anyone who stops cigarette smoking would need to reject behaviors that have been in place for many years. Throughout that period, you’ve trained your body to receive the internal and external consequences that tobacco has on you. The first thing you must take into account is that you should have patience as you adjust to a new way of living. As with all things, radical adjustments will need enough time to take effect; kicking your smoking habit is no different. Read more »

Keeping On Giving Up Smoking

August 18th, 2011

Trish

Giving up smoking smoking can be really stressful, making it even harder to quit. The best way forward for those who are trying to beat nicotine addiction to cut back on stress is to be positive and think about good things, look forward to those and not cigarettes!

A good way to stay positive is to keep busy, think about how much more you can accomplish by extra productiveness around the home and work. Brainstorm, think up ideas of how you can improve your efficiency in everything that you do and achieve more.

One of the best ways for an ex smoker to keep busy is to go to the gym. As your health improves from not smoking your fitness will improve with exercise, and your sense of well being will grow. An added bonus is that you will be reducing anxiety at the same time. Alternatively you can exercise by cycling, walking, jogging or swimming. All are great forms of enjoyable exercise that will also help your breathing improve if you inhale and exhale properly whilst in action.

You could join a club or organisation, learn new skills, take up a new hobby, plan to do something that you have always wanted to do to keep your attention on more positive things. Reading self help books and guides may help you to keep your attitude positive and especially if they are about true experiences that you can identify with.

To help you to quit smoking it’s best to avoid people that you are in the habit of smoking with and places where you smoked regularly alone or together. It’s not easy but when your friends and relatives pop by you should ask them not to smoke around you and definitely not in your newly smoke free home. With the public smoking bans there are more places where smoking isn’t allowed and that helps if you can spend more time in those places.

At the end of each day be pleased with yourself for getting through another nicotine free day. Every day you could put the same amount that you would have spent on cigarettes to one side and save up to reward yourself. Ending the day dreaming about your reward is far better than craving for a nicotine fix.

You should never let yourself get hungry, overtired or even lonely because those will increase your need to smoke. Eating, sleeping and being happy will decrease your addiction and make giving up smoking feel easier.

Giving in to temptation and smoking again needn’t be the end of your quitting smoking. Just remind yourself that you have already quit that horrible habit and can do so again. You’ve got to remember that many others have stopped smoking before you and they have done well but maybe not straight away. Like them you need to stay focused on quitting cigarettes and your nicotine addiction. Whenever temptation comes along just remind yourself of all of the benefits that will be yours once you succeed in giving up smoking.

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Stop Smoking Now and Live Longer, Healthier Lives

June 27th, 2011

Trish

Article by Patsy Hamilton

One of the best things that you can do for your overall health and well-being is to stop smoking. Learning how to stop smoking is easier now than it has ever been. There are all kinds of aids available, from nicotine gum to support groups. It may take some time and patience to find the right program or the right combination of aids, but it is well worth the effort.

Why is it worth the effort? Over 400,000 people die each year from diseases that could have been prevented, if only they would have quit smoking. If you stop smoking now, no matter how old you are, you decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

You also decrease your risk of dying from a heart attack. People who smoke are twice as likely to die from their first heart attack as people who do not.

If you stop smoking now, your risk of lung cancer will be reduced by as much as 5% for every two years that you do not smoke. That means that after 10 years of being “smoke-free”, your risk of developing lung cancer will be as much as 50% less than your friends who continued to smoke. Read more »

Quit Smoking Pills

June 17th, 2011

Trish

Article by Pete Howells

There is a whole raft of quit smoking pills available on the market these days. Most of them are advertised as being a ‘cure-all’ for your woes as a smoker and will alleviate all of your concerns about quitting smoking. They come in two main forms – pharmaceutical types made by the big drug companies or ‘snake oil’ types made from ‘magic’ ingredients. However, I have my doubts about the need for pills at all.

Unfortunately, smokers are a pretty desperate bunch when it comes to trying to quit and anyone offering quit smoking pills has got a fair chance of making a sale. Having said that, one of my own edicts for people trying to quit smoking is to just keep trying and try as many methods as you can until you succeed.

Why do I advocate such a stance you may ask? Well, whether it be through sheer willpower, quit smoking pills, hypnosis, acupuncture, laser treatment or my own cognitive behavioural therapy approach, the benefits of quitting smoking are just so extensive, I implore all smokers to keep trying to quit. Read more »