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Electronic Cigarettes - A Healthier Alternative To Smoking   By: allen smith
There is a brand new invention that everyone who smokes should know about. It's called the electronic cigarette, also known as a smokeless cigarette or e-cigarette, and it is changing the legal landscape for cigarette smokers around the world. The patented Electronic Cigarette offers to effectively simulate the experience of smoking an actual cigarette, without any of the health or legal issues surrounding traditional cigarettes. While Electronic cigarettes look, feel and taste much like traditional cigarettes, they function very differently. You see, electronic cigarettes do not actually burn any tobacco, but rather, when you inhale from an e-cigarette, you activate a "flow censor" which releases a water vapor containing nicotine, propylene glycol, and a scent that simulates the flavor of tobacco. All of which simply means that electronic cigarettes allow you to get your nicotine fix while avoiding all of the cancer causing agents found in traditional cigarettes such as tar, glue, hundreds of additives, and hydrocarbons. In addition to being healthier than traditional cigarettes, and perhaps most importantly of all, is the fact that electronic cigarettes are completely legal. Because Electronic cigarettes do not involve tobacco, you can legally smoke them anywhere that traditional cigarettes are prohibited such as bars, restaurants, the work place, even on airplanes. Furthermore, electronic cigarettes allow you to smoke with no fears of inflicting harm on others due to nasty second hand smoke. The refillable cartridges come in a multitude of flavors as well as nicotine strengths. You can get regular, menthol, even apple and strawberry flavored cartridges and nicotine strengths come in full, medium, light, and none. While electronic cigarettes are technically a "smoking alternative" rather than a smoking cessation device, the range of nicotine strengths offers some obvious potential as an aid in the ones attempts to quit smoking and seems to be proving popular within that market. The nice thing about electronic cigarettes as apposed to say, nicotine patches, is that e-cigarettes produce the same tactile sensation and oral fixation that smokers desire, while satisfying ones tobacco cravings as well. When you take a drag from n electronic cigarette you actually feel the your lungs fill with a warm tobacco flavored smoke and when you exhale the smoke billows out of your lungs just like regular smoking, however, as mentioned, that smoke is actually a much healthier water vapor that quickly evaporates and therefore does not offend anyone in the immediate vicinity. While electronic cigarettes have been around for a while in various incarnations, it has been recent advances in the technology as well as ever increasing restrictions against smoking that have propelled the e-cigarette into a new found popularity. If you are interested in a healthier alternative to smoking, or if you simply want to have the freedom to smoke wherever and whenever you want, an electronic cigarette might be the solution you've been looking for.(read entire article)
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Seven Easy Steps To Stop Smoking   By: allen smith
STEP 1 First and foremost, you have to be focused and motivated to stop smoking. You must have a burning desire to be free from nicotine, it is a devil, and she's hard to give up at the best of times. You must combine the inner desire that contains determination, dedication, self control and self commitment with the education strategies and techniques you can learn from web-sites, e-books, articles, therapists and audio and video programs. In the end however, it is going to come down to your willingness to stop and how badly you want to create a smoke free life for yourself and your family. STEP 2 Make a plan and pick a strategy to help you quit. Share your plan with everyone you know and try to tell them that you are going to quit and on what day. Keep a picture of your family or love ones in your wallet with you, remind yourself clearly and consciously on why you want to quit and what the benefits are to you and your loved ones. There are many different health benefits that you will enjoy when you quit, some of which include better cardiovascular health, less trouble breathing, as well as aesthetic benefits like no more yellow finger tips or teeth. Also start an exercise program. Exercise will help you to relieve your natural stress at this time by helping your body become more relaxed. Even start with a short walk and gradually develop it into more rigorous exercise program. STEP 3 Your universe should be telling you are quitting. Lose your smoking friends for a few weeks if you can. Write down optimistic thoughts and read them to help reaffirm your life changing decision, every day. Reading them every day is vitally important for your subconscious mind. The message to stop smoking should be spread loud and clear across your assorted mediums of work, home and everywhere you regularly are like your car, computer and even put them in your inbox and on your mobile phone. Be creative. Enjoy the process as much as you can. STEP 4 Use tools, tricks and aids. The electronic cigarette or I-Cig is a smoking gadget that is battery powered and gives users the pleasure of smoking without tobacco, carbon monoxide, smell or ashes. One of the greatest benefits to the smoker, is that by using the I Cig you can restore your respiratory wellbeing, in less than a year. The electronic cigarette is the same size as a normal cigarette, tastes just like a cigarette, except there's no concern of dangerous chemicals harming you. Importantly, you are also using it to improve your chances of not developing lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, or the numerous other health risks that come with smoking. The cigarettes are 100% legal and the other good thing is you can smoke one of them regardless of where you are. STEP 5 Have you thought about using NLP or hypnotherapy to help you. Hypnosis helps you to relax and sink down to your unconscious, where the driving forces behind your addictions lay. It will help reprogram all the associations and beliefs, often totally irrational, which nevertheless have been directing your smoking behaviour for years. Hypnotherapy can help individuals get over self-limiting beliefs about their addiction. Hypnotherapy can help you resist the temptation to smoke even when in the company of others who are smoking. One final point is that hypnotherapy helps millions of people everyday all across the world with their phobias and bad habits so you shouldn't be too concerned with how it works. STEP 6 Could you go cold turkey? The first three days are hard then it gets easier until you are cured from the grip of nicotine. Did you also know that a herbal diet can be helpful when trying to quit smoking? Raisins, beets and lima beans are helpful when you try to quit. In contrast an acidic diet will increase the urge to smoke. A herbal diet is especially helpful when withdrawal symptoms strike. Remember the journey from smoker to non smoker can be an easy one if you plan and prepare well. STEP 7 People are looking for a magic bullet when they seek out a quit smoking product and there is no such thing. Some of the products can help you but most of them are not going to make much difference for you in the end. It all comes down to your willingness to stop and how bad you really want to be smoke free. Believe in yourself, thousands of people have conquered this mountain, taken this journey and you too can do it. I know you can do it! It's just a decision, make it now. Be smoke free.(read entire article)
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Live Smoke Free And Enjoy Getting There!   By: allen smith
I finally quit smoking! I feel better than I've felt in many years and I want to help you get there too. It was several years ago and I was going through a nasty break-up when I reached over and grabbed a cigarette from a friend's pack. That was the first cigarette I'd smoked in over ten years. After all was said and done with the girlfriend, the only thing that remained was that my old smoking addiction was back and stronger than ever. Long story short; after battling that dark, black rain cloud that hovered over my head and controlled every aspect of my life for years, I can say that I'm smoke free and a much better man because of it. Here's the interesting part. I know that everyone is different and we all place a different set of values on our behavior. Some view smoking as nothing more than something they know they probably shouldn't do. That's all well and good and may make quitting easier for you if you don't give it too much meaning. If you're anything like me, however, smoking became a constant, 30+ times a day reminder of how I was not living up to my potential. I began to see myself as a failure. When a person attaches that much negative emotion to a behavior, it gains much more strength than it deserves and can make quitting a living hell! I'd like to share with you a couple of things that I did to help make the transition from all of that negative emotion and 'smokers hell' to a smoke-free and healthy individual and also discuss the change in mental and physical state from smoker to non-smoker. It's an amazing feeling and I really want to inspire you to finally let go of that awful habit and live to your full potential. Because I'd tried to quit too many times to even attempt to count, I had a fairly solid supply of 4mg nicotine lozenges and nicotine gum. In the past, I'd always tried to make an about face from cigarettes to either the gum or the lozenges. Well, as any smoker can attest to, a fresh cup of coffee and a piece of nicotine gum in the morning just doesn't cut it! Then you pace around the house and finally throw in the towel and go buy another pack. The problem with that is that you condition your mind into believing that you can't quit and it makes it really difficult to push through that craving. Rather than make the sudden switch, I went ahead and had a few smokes in the morning and then eased into the gum. It was so much easier that way to begin building the confidence that would ultimately be needed. From about mid-morning on, I got to where I was comfortably controlling 5 out of 6 cravings with gum. Training your brain to do this and acknowledging the fact that you CAN control cravings is the key to success! Another important factor was my reduction in caffeine. Our bodies do a wonderful job of keeping an even keel. When we take in too much coffee and get the morning jitters, the brains natural response is to ingest something to counter it. Can you say, smoke cravings? I drink various green teas now and I love it. They have a little caffeine but nothing like a cup of home brew and they have a nice 'zen' effect that works really well to help counter some of the stress of stopping smoking. Since we all know just how powerful the morning and after-meal cravings are and because I knew that at some point I was not going to buy another pack, my next step was an electronic cigarette. This can be a really powerful step but it needs to be temporary. What I found helpful about the e-cigarette was that I still got to go through the motions of going outside for a smoke break just as I had done for years. By being able to still go through the motions, it wasn't near the system shock that you get from cold-turkey and we all know the games the mind plays on us when we try that! What I noticed right away with the e-cig was that I felt much better physically within just a day or so of not ingesting all of the crap that we take in with a regular cigarette. I was feeling better physically and my confidence was really on the rise. The next step was to slowly replace the e-cig cravings with gum. At this point, I can honestly say that it was becoming almost fun. My mouth was so much cleaner, my fingers weren't yellow anymore, I had more energy and most importantly, instead of a dark cloud overhead, I had a little voice in my head that kept saying "you've got it this time, nice job!" I don't know if any of you have had to watch a loved-one wither away and die of cancer but it's not a pleasant thing. Our bodies are perfectly able to reverse the effects of smoking and it's never too late to turn around and start going down the right path. Your body will love and reward you for it. Trust me. I've been smoke free for awhile now and I can't begin to describe how good I feel both emotionally and physically. I've been going to the gym almost daily, I sleep much better and I have a feeling of accomplishment that keeps a smile on my face nearly all day. I'm not going to the gym to become the next power-lifter but to simply get the blood flowing again and to help the lungs fight off the damage I've done. Luckily, our bodies are extremely resilient and some regular exercise will supercharge its path back to great health. Within a week of being smoke free, I noticed that I was able to maintain a thought from start to finish and my creativity was certainly up. Our brains were made to function on oxygen, not carbon monoxide! My new confidence is most definitely flowing into other aspects of my life and it feels wonderful! If I can do it, you can do it too. There's really no reason in the world that we have to feel powerless. We were born smoke free and have spent many years that way. Our bodies don't want that garbage in there, it's all mental. Please give this some real thought, you will be amazed at how good you can really feel and the sense of accomplishment you'll have when you kick this habit will be worth its weight in gold! You can do it! I promise! Click here now for some more great information! stop smoking Thanks so much for reading. If I can help you quit smoking in any way, I'm glad to do so! Sincerely,(read entire article)
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Information To Help You Quit Smoking   By: allen smith
One of the most difficult things for an individual to do is to quit smoking. These days, there are more and more products being offered to accomplish just that, but in spite of this, it is still easy for people to relapse and take up their smoking habits once again. Some people believe that smoking is more of a habit then the need for the nicotine and they could be partially correct. Research has shown that the body does becomes dependent on the nicotine that is in the cigarettes, but there is also the psychological part of the equation where the mind also becomes part of the addiction and that can be a very difficult situation to deal with. So what are some of the best ways to quit smoking? Here are a few ideas to hopefully help you kick the habit. Try a nicotine supplement. There are nicotine patches and nicotine gum that you can try that release small amounts of nicotine into your bloodstream. As you become less dependent and the withdrawal symptoms ease, smaller amounts of nicotine are released. This form of treatment works better with another form of medication along with the loving moral support of your family and friends. This technique does not work for everyone as it depends on several factors including your overall health along with your personality and how often you smoke. People who smoke less seem to have an easier time quitting then those who smoke more. Join a therapy group for smokers or get individual therapy. This is a great way to get moral support because it lets you know that you are not the only one who is trying to kick the habit and there is strength in numbers. You could also try hypnosis. This method is used to guide you into a hypnotic state of mind where you are conditioned to believe that you no longer have a craving for cigarettes and the thought of them is repulsive to you. There are those people who can quit cold turkey. This method involved a persons decision to no longer smoke and give them up completely. Another thing that you could try is an electronic cigarette. This device is not yet considered to be a smoking-cessation device, but it is becoming more popular. It looks like a cigarette and it has a heating element that vaporizes liquid which is safe to be inhaled. One method that is used by smokers is to help quit smoking is to decrease your cigarette usage by one cigarette each week that you smoke. Just think about it, if you normally smoke ten cigarettes a day, in ten weeks you would be down to zero. The best way for you to quit smoking is to try the various methods that are available and use the one that is most effective for you. Do not get discouraged as some people have to try more then once before they are successful in quitting smoking. This will ensure that you will hopefully be around to enjoy life to the fullest with your family and friends for a long time to come. I hope that you found this information useful and if you would like more information on ways to live healthy, then please visit my healthy living web site where you will find great information to help you live a long and healthy life. I am a 53 year old retired mill worker from Northern Maine. I am happily married with 3 wonderful boys. My main interests are my family and God. I own a healthy living web site with great information designed to help you live a healthier and longer life. read more(read entire article)
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Stop Smoking Products - What Are The Best?   By: allen smith
A whole new industry has been born, providing stop smoking products to those of us who want to quit. These products come in a range of pills, patches, gums, inhalers, sprays, herbal medications, books, CDs etc. You name it and there is probably a version of that product on the market. But do they work? For some people reading a book on how to stop smoking will be enough for them to quit. In fairness, they could have probably have gone cold turkey without the book but it was probably the extra incentive they needed. For others a book isn't sufficient but listening to some mind programming CDs may prove effective. A lot of people have tried the prescription medications to stop smoking. Zyban is very common and despite some unpleasant side effects, seems to work very well for a lot of people who haven't been able to quit using other measures. St Johns Wort is an herbal remedy that some have found to be very effective in dealing with the cravings associated with giving up smoking. Nicotine replacement therapy opens up a whole range of stop smoking products. There are nasal sprays, patches or lozenges, gums and inhalers. The sprays and the lozenges work very quickly as they target the areas of your body where the lining is very thin thus releasing the nicotine into your system quicker. The problem with these products is, not only can they themselves become addictive, but they don't always cure the physiological addiction people have to cigarettes. It is not purely the nicotine which makes people fail when quitting, it actually only takes about two weeks for the nicotine to completely leave your system. It is the fact that we associate smoking with various activities e.g. having a drink, a meal or after sex. If we do not change our behavior we will continue to crave the cigarette long after the nicotine has left us. One of the newer stop smoking products on the market is the electronic cigarette. This gives smokers something to keep their hands occupied which can be another problem for those trying to give up. This is a great alternative for the habitual smoker. Acupuncture, hypnotherapy and Yoga are three other methods that could help when you try to quit. While not really anti smoking products, various therapists have sold their services under the quit cigarettes banner. In fairness to all above, the most efficient stop smoking product is your own brain and will power. If you really do not want to quit, none of the above products are going to help you. Everyone knows the death causing effects of smoking. But trying to give up seems too hard sometimes. What product do I use to quit smoking? Probably the best product on the market is zenithecig. zenithecig has an amazing reputation of getting people to quit smoking. Each ingredient in zenithecig is fully documented and known to help smokers quit. Each ingredient is 100% natural and is no harm to your health. And with a money guarantee how can you not use zenithecig to quit smoking today.(read entire article)
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