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Have you been smoking long enough to find out that smoking cigarettes is as bad as everyone always said they were? When you started smoking did you know what the dangers or the damage they might cause to you and your family and friends? Smoking effects even the people in a crowd that are close to you. It does not matter what brand you smoke either as all the smoke that comes from them contain the same chemicals even the ultra-lites. Do you realize that if you cut off some of the filter you can make all of them like that full flavored cigarette? Any amount of smoke is not good for any of us.
This smoke does not have to come from a cigarette either. But this is one type of smoke that we have some kind of control over. Smoke can come from many places with most of them being out of our control. But the simple fact is that none of this smoke is good for you. It alone can put you in the hospital or send you to your doctor. Most of the problems you receive from smoke can stay with you permanently. Some of the problems you might get rid of, but only by treatments or those treatments after surgeries. Those treatments might get rid of the problems, but they will make you so sick that you wished that you did not have to have them.
If you do not smoke, think really hard and long before you smoke that first one. Ask your family members who smoke if they had the choice would they keep smoking or never start. Do not let your friends talk you into the smoking them either. Put it this way, if a friend told you to jump off a building, would you? If you let them talk you into smoking that cigarette, then it would be like they talked you into the jumping off of a building. Your friends really do not care if you smoke or not. If they are a friend then they would not ask you to do this. Just like the saying about friends do not let friends drive drunk, friends should not entice friends to smoke.
Always remember that smoking is bad no matter what. Even though some people start out only smoking a few a day, this will not likely last for long. Most smokers go through at least a pack a day after they have been doing it for a while and once they reach this point, it is very difficult for most of them to quit.
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Ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking and probably ninety percent of them will tell you it was a horrible experience whether they were successful in quitting or not. Those who make it through to the other side are so extremely grateful when they can get up in the morning and the first thing they want is not a cigarette. It is a freedom that anyone who has never smoked cigarettes can not understand. It it so liberating to be able to go through a day without once wanting to light up, but that can take some time to accomplish.
Those who do not smoke have no idea how stressful quitting smoking can be. Stress and anxiety can run rampant in someone who is giving up cigarettes. A smoker has to be able to handle the stress and anxiety if they stand any chance at all of giving them up. One thing that many smokers will say is that as soon as their life settles down and everything gets calm, they will try to quit. The only thing is that life rarely settles down enough for most of us and even if it does for a while and you try to quit, you will find that as soon as you try to skip that first smoke, you will be in anxiety land for sure.
Some people find it impossible to stop smoking without some help of some kind. Some just want to quit cold turkey, but that can be the most difficult way of all. It is always a good idea to see your doctor if you are serious about quitting smoking. It is not that you have to try one of the stop smoking pills that have proved to be very dangerous for some people, but you might need a pill of some kind. Many people do resort to taking a mild anxiety medication, at least temporarily, to help them while they are quitting smoking.
This is not something that is a bad idea necessarily, because it does help sometimes. Just remember that when you have an addictive personality, as some smokers obviously do, it can be dangerous to any medication that you could become addicted to in place of cigarettes so you must use caution and only take medications as recommended. Talk it over with your doctor first. If you try it without any help and see that you can not make it, then maybe a mild medication might help you through the roughest part. If you manage to quit smoking, it will have all been worth it.
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They say that stepping down from smoking is a great way for some people to be able to give up cigarettes. It is a tedious process that does draw out the end result a little longer than some methods of quitting, but a smoker is supposed to feel that they are more in control of the situation and it is supposed to be less stressful this way. Even if you do choose the step down gradually method, you will still need to employ your determination and willpower everyday if you really want to quit.
You have to learn to smoke fewer and fewer cigarettes each day. You might start with twenty when you smoke more than a pack per day and work your way down from there. When you feel like to can eliminate one more cigarette in a day, do it and do not allow yourself to go backwards. This is the only way this method will work. Even if you slip up and smoke one more in a day than you were supposed to, do not let it be what talks you into giving up. Just start the next day right where you left off and try it again. This is one instance when a quitter can not quit.
It will depend on you which cigarettes during the day you want to cut out first. Pick one time when you always smoke and eliminate that one time each day until you are accustomed to not having a smoke, perhaps at lunch time. For some smokers the easiest one to do away with first might be the one you smoke when you first get up in the morning. Breaking the habit of smoking a cigarette with that first cup of coffee in the morning could be a huge triumph for you. For someone else it might be not smoking after they finish a meal or not smoking while they are driving. Just pick one and get started.
You know before you start that even though you are going to try and stop gradually, it is still going to be a constant temptation that you will have to battle until you have weaned yourself off of cigarettes completely, and even then the desire to smoke will likely linger on for months to come. Some people say they still have the temptation to smoke even after they have been stopped smoking for years. It is all in how much you really want to quit. If you want it bad enough, you will do what it takes to be successful.
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Anyone who smokes tobacco just has to be sickened these days by the amount of money that it costs them to keep up their habit. Smoking one pack of cigarettes a day can cost five dollars or more and if you are a smoker, you already know this. If you add it up, it can come to thirty five dollars or more per week. Just think of what else even that small amount of money could do especially over time.
Thirty five dollars might not seem like that much, but to some people who have to live on a tight budget, it is a day of groceries. It can be a night at the movies, if you live in a small town. It can be a minor part for your car. Thirty five dollars goes farther than you think when you need it. Can you think of one single reason that you need to buy some cigarettes?
You have to face the fact that smoking is nasty. It is unhealthy. It makes you smell bad. It turns your teeth yellow and ages your skin faster than it normally would. It can interfere with your job, your social life, and even your family life. It stinks up your house and your car. It leaves brown residue on your clothes and other belongings. Have you heard anything that sounds like a good reason to smoke yet?
No one can tell you that you have to quit. This is something that you have to decide on your on. It might help you if you have other reasons to quit, like a spouse that hates it or kids that do not need to be exposed to it, but for the most part you have to do it for yourself. You have to want to quit to be healthier. You have to want to save that wasted money. You have to want to change your life for the better.
Quitting smoking is no where near all about the money you could save. It is about being healthier. It is about living longer. It is about having a more active and enjoyable life. The last thing it is really about is the money, although the money might come in handy in your new life. Your life will change dramatically when you quit smoking. After you manage to get over the shock of it and the withdrawal from it, you will be happier, healthier, and richer.
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When you smoke cigarettes, you have to be very careful because before you know it you could join the ranks of the chain smokers pretty easily. When you catch yourself lighting one cigarette after another. You know your habit is getting bad. Well, actually it is bad in the first place, but the more you smoke the worse it is without question. Studies have shown that one of the best ways to quit smoking is to gradually step down. Some people can manage to do this, while others have not been able to. If you would like to give up smoking all together, here are some things that you can do to begin the process a little less painfully.
Some of the hardest times to not smoke a cigarette are the ones you depend on the most. When you first get up in the morning. Right after meals. When you are on the phone. When you are driving. When you are watching television. On your breaks at work. Some people are even addicted to them after sex. These are likely to be the times that are hardest to break. What might be a good idea to start with first is setting some new ground rules for your smoking.
If you smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day, the first step down is not to allow yourself to smoke more than a pack a day obviously. If you are only about a pack a day smoker, then cut out your smokes by five the very first day. This will still be enough to allow you to have the smoke breaks you want the most, but you can eliminate the smokes in between these times.
Give yourself a few days or a week at this level. If all goes well and at the end of a week if you have decreased the number you smoked by five every day, eliminate one more. Try a few days at that number. How fast or slow you eliminate another cigarette per day is up to you, but try not to allow yourself to get stuck on a certain number too long without removing one more.
Eventually you will get to the times when you have to eliminate a smoke when you get up or skip one on a break at work. You might learn to do without one on the way to or from work. This system can work if you are really serious and it is much less stressful than trying to quit all at once. What have you got to lose by trying it? The only thing that can happen is you end up smoking less for a while even if you do not quit completely.
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Are you a cigarette smoker? Have you been doing it for years? Would you do just about anything to quit? Does it make you sick every time you light one up, but then you go ahead and smoke it anyway? Does what you are doing to your body drive you crazy with worry? Are you disgusted at the amount of money you waste on this stupid habit? Well, if your answer is yes to all of these questions, then you are not unlike most of the rest of long time smokers.
Even when a smoker totally hates the fact that they do it, they feel almost powerless to do anything about it. What they do not realize is that they do have the power right inside them if they would only really use it. There are really no pills that will make you stop smoking. There are no patches that can force you to quit. You can chew nicotine gum until your teeth fall out and if you do not have that strong desire to quit, you probably never will.
A burning desire to quit is what it really takes to kick this deadly habit. This is not to say that some stop smoking aids might not help you some, but the end result is all in your hands. You will either give them up for good or you will not. There are no magic cures for addictions of any kinds and that includes tobacco. Once you are addicted, you will probably always be addicted, at least in your mind. You will be what stops you from taking up the habit once again if you can manage to overcome it. This is true with everything.
Human willpower and determination is one of the strongest parts of being human. We have more of it inside ourselves than we give ourselves credit for. When we are in a desperate situation, it is amazing how many people can find the strength and courage to do what needs to be done whether it is surviving in the ocean until you are rescued or coping with the death of a loved one. We have incredible abilities if we only put them to use. If you want to quit smoking or overcome any other addiction, until you tap into your own inner strength and make the decision to beat whatever it is, there will not be much else that will truly help you. The decision is in your hands, a box of pills, powders, or patches can not make the decision for you no matter if they do curb your cravings unless you are determined with all of your heart.
Filed under: E-Cigarette Tips, e cigarettes
Smoking tobacco cigarettes while you are traveling can be a pain sometimes to say the least. You can not always use them in a motel or hotel room unless you pay for a smoking room. You can not smoke on planes or trains. If you are traveling in a car with others that do not smoke cigarettes, it can be impossible to smoke even then if they disapprove. Being in a closed up vehicle with someone that smokes tobacco can be an unhealthy, stinky, and suffocating experience for non-smokers.
Using an electric cigarette can be more convenient for a tobacco smoker. Although you are probably still not going to be allowed to use one on an airplane, train, or even a bus, there are still advantages to having one. If you are riding in a car with other people, once they realize that there will be no actual smoke that smells bad coming from your e-cigarette, they are likely to be more receptive to your using it around them. The vapor from the product evaporates quickly and has no noticeable odor. It is thought that the vapor is also relatively harmless to others according to most studies that have been done so far.
When you are in a motel or hotel room, you do not have to worry about the odor or tar residue either. The e-cigarette does no produce tar at all because it is not lit by fire. This makes it non-carcinogenic. No one will ever know to used it in the room. There is not risk if burning anything like the bedspread or carpet because there is no fire. There is no need for an ashtray because there is no ashes.
Using an e-cigarette even when you are driving you vehicle alone is still better than smoking tobacco even if you could. You never have to worry about lighting a cigarette while you are driving down the road. Trying to light up a smoke while you are driving can be distracting and dangerous. Even if you drop the electric cigarette while you are driving, you need not worry about it burning anything. You can simply leave it where it falls until you decide to pull over and retrieve it. If you are traveling a great distance and need to charge a battery stick, you can purchase a charge that will work in your vehicle. The nicotine filters that come five in a box usually, means that you can take the equivalent of five packs of cigarettes with you in one small box.
The fact that you can be in your vehicle and use your e-cigarette without smelling like an ashtray is great when you travel. When you are in a closed space like a car and smoke tobacco, you will reek of that bad tobacco smell when you get out and go into a gas station or restaurant. You never have to worry about smelling bad after using this product. All in all, using the electric cigarette while you are traveling is just a smarter, cleaner, and more convenient way to get your nicotine.
Posted on August 30th, 2009 by robin
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