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Bad Day to Quit Smoking

Tiwahe asked:

Commercial for Zyban on quitting smoking… FUNNY!

Quit Quitting: Hospital Bedside Smoking Intervention – Part 1 of 4

mediatherapy asked:

The story of Joe Smoker when he is hospitalized with a smoking-related illness. Smoking cessation specialist, Dr. Poteryko, and friends help Joe quit for good! Interactive bedside teaching video with EXERCISES for smoking cessation. Part 1 of 4 Derek Squared Productions.

The secrets of quitting smoking forever

itn asked:

If you’re planning to quit smoking cigarettes in 2009, take a look at our essential tips for staying away from the smokes.

The Best Way to Quit Smoking

Tsuyoshi E. Suzuki asked:


The first and foremost of the reasons to quit smoking is your health. If the smoker is fully aware of the health risks of smoking, he or she may say it’s time to quit. Once your quit smoking date arrives, you may want to use some of the aids discussed above to improve your success rate. Any one of the above causes should be sufficient enough to make you quit smoking, if not for yourself, for your little miracle that is being formed in your womb.

Whether you have been smoking since your adolescence or if you just became genuinely addicted, hypnosis quit smoking treatments can assist you get on top of the intense cravings that most persons experience when they try to quit smoking. Even if you try to quit without the aid of medication or nicotine supplements, you will even need help to stop smoking cigarettes. If you are interested in nicotine interchange methods to help stop smoking cigarettes, you might consider purchasing the patch or nicotine gum.

Numerous people recommend that stop smoking hypnosis therapy be used in conjunction with other stop smoking methods such as nicotine replacement stop smoking products like the patch or nicotine gum. With the course of the time, the smoker becomes physical and psychologically addict to the nicotine, and to be able to stop smoking he needs to be liberated from both dependences. Once a smoker understands his own smoking behavior, he will be able to cope more successfully and select the best quitting approaches for himself and the type of life-style he leads.

Combining acupuncture with more traditional approaches to quitting smoking can be an effective strategy, especially if you have tried and failed at simply using willpower to quit in the past. Acupuncture as a method for quitting smoking is best for those individuals that are heavily addicted to the nicotine, but have clearly made the commitment to quit. Other than the above, if you are not suffering from depression or anxiety and do not feel that you are using cigarettes as an emotional crutch, then the good news is that quitting smoking is likely to be very quick and easy for you.

If you are a smoker in pain and wish to be free from smoking, first of all please consult with your doctor to make sure that everything is being medically done for the source of the pain as is appropriate. As far as the ‘quit smoking’ claim is concerned, there are in fact, a number of bonafide and medically proven prescription and herbal or natural compounds that can and do often help people to achieve their goal to be ‘smoke free’. In order to help you quit smoking, you need to do a self-analysis on the reasons you smoke and the reasons on why you want to quit smoking.

The first and quit likely the most important ingredient is personal commitment, if you are not completely convinced that you want to quit smoking, your chances of complete and total success are limited, however if you are completely committed, your chances for success are greatly enhanced. If you really want to quit smoking this year, the key to making the change stick is being ready to quit. As I said earlier, there are many good products that work well in making the challenge to quit smoking much easier.

I find it fascinating that almost all methods of quitting smoking do not take into consideration the mind. Of course, quitting smoking would also eliminate stained teeth, unhealthy skin, rapid accumulation of wrinkles on the face, and clothing, hair, and breath that stink of smoke. A staggering 13 million adults still smoke in the UK and whilst the overall trends show the number of smokers are declining, there is a large incidence of smoking amongst younger people. Quit Smoking is the painfree way.

You will find all that you need to know about, self help, stress control, weight control, stop smoking, mind control, relax, motivation and meditation with subliminal messages at Dr. Robert Emler: Smoking is a hard habit to break. One of those effective way to quit smoking is Natural Tea leaves without any toxic substance and can quit within 5-6 days. You might need to consider of your body side. If you are small like Asian people, you need only one box. But if your size is twice of those Asian, you might need two box to quit the cigarette.

Behavior Modification, a New Way to Quit Smoking?

Sherafgan Khan asked:


Behavior Modification: Smoking

Even as a child, I’ve always known smoking was bad for your health. My dad smoked when I was very young, but quit due to the health risks he imposed on his family as well as himself. He quit cold turkey, meaning immediately and solely by himself. He said it was hard, but he got over it. Since then he told me never to smoke. Now I can’t exactly tell you how I picked up smoking, but it definitely started after my 18th birthday when I was legally able to purchase cigarettes. I bought my first pack just because I could, and I smoked them periodically at school, especially when others were doing it, and especially if they were attractive females. This made me think I was cool enough to associate with them. As the months went on, I started getting more and more stressed with school and work, I slowly grew dependent on cigarettes. By the time I was 19, I needed to smoke whenever I studied, worked, or socialized with my friends, because most of my friends were also smokers. I have quit numerous times and succeeded at the goals I’ve set because I would set goals such as not smoking for two weeks, however I have never set a permanent goal due to fear of losing my crutch. For example, I would not smoke for two weeks, what allowed me to abstain was the thought that I can have a cigarette after two weeks.

Tracy Orleans, et al., (1991) conducted a research study on quitting smoking interventions. The study consisted of four groups, (a) the self help group, who were given a standard self quitting guide to quit with no other support, (b) the social support group, who were given the same self quitting guide along with a support guide for their family and friends, (c) the telephone group, who were given the same self quitting material, but with four telephone calls to a counselor, and (d) the control, who were given only tips to quit smoking and a referral to local quit smoking programs. The results of the study were not significant, the quit rates of the control and experimental groups were about the same, the only difference was the way the two groups quit. The experimental groups tended to quit using behavioral requiting strategies (e.g. setting a quit date, switching brands, etc.) while the control group tended to use outside interventions (like voluntary group therapy, nicotine gum/patches, etc). An interesting finding in this article was that heavier, long time smokers were less likely to quit using self help interventions alone, than were lighter, less addicted smokers (Orleans et al., 1991). This may appear like common sense in hindsight, because clearly longer, heavier smokers are more addicted, therefore its harder for them to quit, similar reasoning could be added to the opposite; lighter smokers are less likely to quit because they feel that the health threats are trivial because there is no immediate concern, whereas long time smokers are more likely to be diagnosed with a chronic illness as a result of their smoking, thus forcing them to stop due to their health. Although the former is a finding as a result of the study, the latter was found in my specific intervention, as well as my brief encounter with smokers in the past.

My specific strategy was to monitor my smoking for five days, then implement my plan, which was to smoke one less cigarette a day. Now I only smoked about 4-5 cigarettes a day so my plan was to start with five, then kick it down to zero. Of course, as I’ve stated before I knew this would be easy because my goal for the future was to smoke again. I started my change in behavior smoking five the first day, only three the next day, but then on the third day I was angry at the thought that nicotine was controlling me, so using self control, I smoked no cigarettes on day three. Day four I was supposed to smoke two, but only smoked one at night, this one cigarette at night felt better than any cigarette I had previously smoked in weeks. I wanted this feeling again; I knew it was from nicotine withdrawal. The next three days I went off track of my original plan and smoked one cigarette a night. I used a form of operant conditioning, where “the individual performs a behavior, and the behavior is followed by positive reinforcement” (Taylor et al., 2006). In this case the very euphoric feeling of a nicotine rush is the reward due to a nicotine withdrawal from not smoking all day (which is the behavior). Sure this may not be the ideal goal of operant conditioning, but it did greatly reduce the number of cigarettes I smoked in a day.

This behavior change was only temporary in my mind, as were the past attempts. I chose to monitor my smoking habits because it is probably my most health compromising behavior (aside from riding my motorcycle but I don’t think that is a “health” issue, more of a “lifestyle” issue). According to the text, “smoking is the single greatest cause of preventable death…In the United States, it accounts for at least 430,700 deaths each year” (Taylor et al., 2006) Even without the book, and without the media telling me the negative effects of smoking, I knew it could not be good for me. When I go to sleep just after smoking, I notice my heart rate is very high, anytime I do strenuous physical activity, I always gasp for air after, although I do notice that I can hold my breath longer than many of my non smoking peers. I smoke mainly because the immediate payoffs outweigh the immediate consequences, and because I am human, evolutionary psychology shows that my immediate future is more salient than anything many years ahead (Ornstein, 1991). Sure I can get lung cancer or heart disease in 20-30 years, but that is less salient on my mind, besides I, like many others fall into the false consensus effect theory; I believe that the same health compromising behavior that kills hundreds of thousands a year, probably won’t affect me.

After the twelve day period, I continued with the one cigarette a night, after a few days of that, I went to one every other night. As I am writing this paper, I am down to two a week. My goal is to bring it down to zero, however as I have implied, the thought of being able to smoke in the future is the only thing allowing me to go without a cigarette for a period of time. What worked well in my intervention was that I did not give in to the abstinence violation effect which is “a feeling of loss of control that results when a person has violated self-imposed rules” (Taylor et al., 2006). On a couple of days I gave in and smoked more then I was supposed to, mainly because I was with my smoking friends, a main effect of abstinence violation is relapse, but I made sure I did not by telling myself it was a one time thing and I will continue with my original plan, that definitely helped me from saying “screw it” and continue to my old ways of four to five cigarettes

This intervention has taught me a lot about my specific cues for smoking and I have realized that for the most part it is not a severe addiction for me; rather it is just something to do between classes, lunch breaks, or socializing with friends. I am very thankful that I had the opportunity to do this, as I probably would have never monitored my smoking otherwise. Because of this project, I have cut my cigarettes down to only six percent of what I used to smoke, with no signs of relapse, or cravings during the day. Perhaps for the future, I will only smoke when girls hit on me, which is never.

References

1) Orleans, CT, Schoenbach, VJ, Wagner, EH, et al. (1991). Self-help quit smoking interventions: effects of self-help materials, social support instructions, and telephone counseling. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 59(3), 439-448.

2) Ornstein, R (1991). Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think. New York: Touchstone

3) Taylor, S.E (2006). Health Psychology: Sixth Edition, Health-Compromising Behaviors (pp. 133-148), Health Behaviors (pp. 54-78). New York: McGraw Hill

Smoking Banned in Public Places

Torrel Butler asked:


Smoking is restricted or banned in almost all public places and cigarette companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV, radio, and in many magazines. Smoking cessation has major and immediate health benefits for men and women of all ages. Quitting smoking decreases the risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and chronic lung disease. Smoking cigarettes is to be stopped while using these devices.

Smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, physical inactivity, obesity, and diabetes are all risk factors for heart disease, but cigarette smoking is the biggest risk factor for sudden death from a heart attack. Smokers who have a heart attack are more likely to die within an hour of the heart attack than non-smokers. Smoking generally affects a smoker’s health, harming nearly every organ of the body, and causing many diseases. According to the CDC in 2000, about 8.6 million people had at least one chronic disease because they smoked or had smoked. Smoking is depicted in engravings and on various types of pottery as early as the 9th century, but it is not known whether it was limited to just the upper class and priests.

Smoking-Hookah.com one-stop online hookah shisha shop guarantee top quality hookahs and shisha at the most competitive prices on the Internet. Each one of our hookah products are crafted to the highest standards and completely authentic. Smoking harms not just the smoker, but also family members, coworkers, and others who breathe the smoker’s cigarette smoke, called secondhand smoke or passive smoke. Among infants up to 18 months of age, secondhand smoke is associated with as many as 300,000 cases of bronchitis and pneumonia each year. Smoking becomes a part of who and what you are. It amazes me the number of people who smoke cigarettes who would never smoke a “marijuana”cigarette.

Smoking can also affect more than just your lungs. Smoking can increase your risk for heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis (thinning or weakening of your bones), and cancers other than lung cancer. Smoking is a major risk factor for peripheral vascular disease. This disease is a narrowing of blood vessels that carry blood to the leg and arm muscles. Smoking can dry your skin out and cause wrinkles. Some research even relates smoking to premature gray hair and hair loss.

Smoking causes changes in your body and in the way you act. The changes in your body are caused by an addiction to nicotine. Smoking can have serious effects on your life. The longer you smoke, the more damage you do to your body and your health. Smoking is becoming an effective means for a nonsmoking parent to gain leverage in a divorce struggle. Courts have now recognized that parental smoking may be a deciding factor in custody disputes, and have issued orders prohibiting parental smoking in the presence of children.

Smoking is a lifestyle. And the lifestyle of a smoker is very different than that of a non-smoker. Smoking is one of the worst things kids or adults can do to their bodies. Yet every single day about 4,000 kids between the ages 12 and 17 start smoking. Smoking less than a pack a day also was shown to increase behavior problems, but the rates were not as high as for heavier smokers, the researchers found. The study was conducted by the Labor Department in which parents of 2,256 youngsters ages 4 to 11 were interviewed.

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How to Enjoy Quitting Smoking?

john Ryan asked:


Consider this:

Already since 1972, over 80million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking! 

At one stage over 60% of the adult population was addicted to this drug. Today it is 28% and dropping……..

Now, here’s a thought……

If all these people can do it (80 MILLION OF THEM!) – and they include EVERY TYPE of person imaginable – surely that is PROOF that IT IS POSSIBLE to successfully give up smoking. 

 

Here’s another Fact……

 

We now know from the latest scientific research, that although nicotine is one of the world’s fastest acting drugs — the actual PHYSICAL withdrawal pangs when you give up ARE SO MILD, YOU WILL HARDLY NOTICE THEM WHEN YOU STOP. 

YES, you have read that sentence right!

 

I know you will want to argue with me on this point, but, first, let me first make the following points…….

The Desire to Smoke 



Yes, when you stop smoking you will feel the desire AGAIN and AGAIN to smoke. 

We all know that feeling — ‘I must have a cigarette’. But that desire in itself is not bad or painful. 

It is just a feeling, a sensation we feel in our body.



However……..this is where, for most of us our problems start….. 

If we start to fear that ‘craving’ or try to use ‘Willpower’ to REPRESS it or FORCE it go away, — “I wish this feeling would go away” we WILL create pain and tension.

This is what as smokers we have all done in the past. 

That ‘feeling’ of wanting to smoke then becomes painful, annoying and terribly irritating.

Now this is the hard part to realize…….

The pain, the horror does not come from the desire to smoke, but from HOW we deal with this desire, moment-by-moment WHEN we stop.

 

Can I emphasize this:

You do not have to experience ANY pain or agony when you stop. Yes, when you stop you WILL experience a ………..



Temporary feeling of loss



A feeling that you are being deprived of something



A feeling of emptiness



A feeling that you will never be able to enjoy yourself again.



A feeling that you must have a cigarette



 

 

 

These feelings, although very real in themselves are not inherently bad or painful. What is important is how you deal with these feelings when you stop.

The key part of giving up smoking naturally is learning how to deal with these cravings when you stop.

Conflict

Right now, you don’t want to give up smoking because you are TERRIFIED of how you will FEEL when you can’t smoke.

Let’s be honest.You smoke now because you enjoy it. 

Or — to be more accurate: You smoke now because you have conditioned yourself to enjoy it. 

It is important that we are honest with ourselves here. In fact, even the ‘THOUGHT’, the mere ‘thought’ of not been able to smoke probably fills you with utter dread now.

But there is another undeniable fact: This ‘pleasure’ is killing you. Again we must be brutally honest here. Everyday, you are systemically destroying your health.

This is the conflict all smokers face. 

On the one hand, smoking is killing you and you desperately want to stop…..

 

..And yet on the other hand, you don’t really want to stop because you believe you really enjoy it.

Yet, one other truth cannot be denied and this applies to every smoker…….. 

We are terrified of how we will F-E-E-L when we can’t smoke. We are convinced it will be unbearable and impossible.



FEAR

 

Right now, the ONLY thing — yes, THE ONLY THING stopping you from giving up smoking is this fear of how YOU WILL FEEL WHEN YOU STOP. 

And yet this very fear is the actual key to giving up smoking naturally.

Giving up smoking is really all about learning HOW to deal with the cravings and feelings you WILL get when you stop. 

When you learn how to do that – you will realize that there is nothing to fear when you give up.

What is there to fear ? 



When you get the craving to smoke, which you will, again and again – - you will now take the OPPORTUNITY to ‘change’ or ‘transform’ that craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least tolerable to experience. 

Imagine……

You have decided to give up smoking. It’s dinnertime. 

You have finished a day’s work….. 

You finish your meal and ….. subconsciously, you reach for a cigarette.

But then, of course you remember you no longer smoke. 

Bang!  At that moment, certain gut feelings will arise. 

Feelings of regret……..a feeling that you are missing out on something important and then maybe….. terrible feelings of emptiness….. 

We all know how it feels.

But the real question is: How will you deal with this feeling — this craving to smoke?



Will you just suffer it, try to repress it and hope that it will go away? 

That is one option. The old willpower method.

Or will you give in to the feeling — and start to smoke again (promising to start again tomorrow)?

Or will you – - for the first time ever: – - follow our instructions and actually ALLOW yourself to transform the feeling/craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least pleasant or tolerable enough to experience.

You see, when you can do that, you will no longer be AFRAID of these cravings when you stop smoking.

In fact, you will start to WELCOME them because they will give you another opportunity to RESPOND and DEAL with them in this NEW WAY.

This process is the essence of giving up smoking naturally and finding it a pleasant and life-affirming experience. 



Weight-loss?



Are you now beginning to see how these principles can also apply to losing weight.

You see a beautiful cake. You want to eat it….when BANG! – You remember you are on a diet.

Now watch HOW YOU feel when this happens? 

Couldn’t we describe it as ….

‘Feelings of regret……..a feeling that you are missing out on something important and then maybe….. terrible feelings of emptiness….. 

 

Isn’t it essentially the same feeling as not being able to smoke?

However, the real question is the same with smoking: How will you DEAL with this feeling — this craving to eat?



Will you GIVE IN to it — and eat the cake or will you try and FORCE yourself not to eat it- and be miserable?

Why not consider our alternative?

Accept this feeling, this desire to eat. But, instead of giving in to it, learn how to deal and respond to it in a NEW way so that you don’t MIND experiencing it?

Transform the craving so that it is actually enjoyable or very  pleasant to experience.

The Joy of Giving up Smoking? 



Remember, when you stop – yes, you WILL feel something but there will be no physical agony, only a temporary feeling that you are MISSING OUT on something.

A feeling that you are being deprived of something SPECIAL — but these feelings will ONLY be temporary. 

However, to quit smoking successfully and to start to enjoy doing it we must go deeper than these temporary cravings.

We must realize that : You find it difficult or impossible to stop smoking now because……… you BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY that you NEED to smoke and even deeper, you BELIEVE that if you give up smoking now, your life will never be as ENJOYABLE again.

 

In one sentence: You believe your life will be intolerable.



It is these beliefs that makes giving up smoking difficult NOT Nicotine addiction.

Right now, you are not only physically addicted to smoking but you are psychologically dependent or addicted to smoking.

If your addiction were purely physical wouldn’t all these nicotine patches have a 100% success record ?

Yet, we all know that even if we use a nicotine substitute, we will still continue to feel a terrible desire to smoke.

Again and again, we’ll feel we must have a cigarette. At times, it will even get to the stage where we just don’t care – even the most dire health warnings will have no affect on us – we just WANT to smoke.

Where does this desire come from ?

It comes from our conditioning, our beliefs about smoking. 

This moment, we believe that smoking is an essential pleasure.

In fact, most of us have a terrible resistance to EVEN thinking about giving up smoking. 

Why ?

Because we believe that in order to do anything about our addiction, i.e. give up smoking — we would have to end our pleasure and ending pleasure is something we have NO DESIRE to do.

YOUR REAL JOB



Your real job in giving up smoking lies in REALLY UNDERSTANDING that you don’t NEED to smoke. 

You remove the psychological addiction to smoking.

You will never be truly free until you realize that smoking is not a real pleasure and that when you stop, you WILL NOT BE depriving ourselves of a real pleasure……. ……and then you will not only be able to give up smoking for good but you will enjoy doing it! 

To quit smoking naturally and to learn how to enjoy it – go to our free 10 day online course at www.quitsmokingonline.com  

Smoking Cessation Products

Prashant asked:


1. Gum

The first question which arises in every body mind is how a Gum can be helpful to quit smoking?

Answer to this question is NICORETTE present in that Gum.

What is NICORETTE Gum?

NICORETTE Gum allows people to actively control how much nicotine they use and when they use it.

How does it help to quit smoking?

Nicotine present in tobacco is an addictive substance. People who try to quit smoking often experience unpleasant symptoms and cravings for cigarettes, because they feel dependent on the nicotine present in tobacco.

People who try to quit smoking often experience unpleasant symptoms line irritability, headaches, restlessness, insomnia and difficulty concentrating.

Nicorette microtabs contain nicotine. This is a type of medicine known as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and is used to help smokers give up the habit.

Nicotine replacement therapies work by giving smokers a small amount of nicotine, but without the dangerous effects of inhaling tobacco smoke. This helps relieve the withdrawal symptoms and cravings for a cigarette that smokers gets when they stop smoking, and allows them to get on with breaking the psychological habit of smoking.

Nicorette microtabs are designed in such a way that they easily dissolve under tongue. The nicotine is then absorbed into the bloodstream from the lining of your mouth and it provides relief from cravings.

Nicorette micro tabs are used to reduce smoker’s cravings for a cigarette after they quit smoking completely. The number of tablets they use each day, depends on how much they used to smoke and what strength their cigarettes were. Smokers should not use more than is recommended on the packet.

After quitting smoking completely, smokers are recommended that they should use one to two tablets every hour, for up to three months after stopping smoking. Smokers should then be able to gradually reduce the number of tablets they are using, so that they can use less and less nicotine. Smokers should stop using the tablets when their consumption is down to one or two tablets a day.

If smokers feels that they are not yet ready to stop smoking completely, Nicorette microtabs are also licensed to help them to cut down the number of cigarettes they smoke each day. For this they should use a tablet instead of having certain cigarettes, in order to increase the time between cigarettes and reduce the number they smoke as much as possible. This can make it easier to eventually stop smoking completely.

NRT comes in basically in two forms.

Full Strength 4mg Gum: Suitable for those who smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day.

Low Strength 2mg Gum: Suitable for those who smoke 20 cigarettes a day or less.

Nicorette microtabs are basically used to get relief of withdrawal symptoms associated with giving up smoking.

Danger!!!

· Nicorette microtabs should be allowed to dissolve completely under the tongue. It should not be chewed or swallowed like normal tablets, as this is more likely to cause side effects such as throat and stomach irritation, indigestion or hiccups.

· Smokers are suggested to take one to two tablets per hour to relieve their cravings to smoke, depending on how many cigarettes they normally smoke and how strong they are. Smokers should not take more than 40 tablets a day.

· Smokers should drink acidic drinks such as coffee, sodas and fruit juices with the gap of around 30 minutes after taking a Nicorette microtabs otherwise it can reduce the amount of nicotine that is absorbed from the mouth, if they drink them in the 15 minutes prior to taking a Nicorette microtab.

· Nicorette microtabs should be kept out of reach of children.

Precautions!!!

· Teenagers aged 12 to 18 years old should not use NRT for longer than 12 weeks without consulting a doctor, pharmacist or nurse for advice

· NRT is not for the patient of disease related to heart and blood vessels.

· NR is not for diabetics. Etc.

Should not be used by:

· Non-smokers.

· This medicine is not recommended for use in children under 12 years of age.

Smokers, who face allergy problems after using this medicine or any of its ingredients, should consult to their doctor.

Women’s Health

· Nicotine in any form should be avoided ideally during pregnancy, as it has shown adversely affect the development of a baby, both in the womb and after birth. However, for pregnant women who can not quit smoking without a smoking cessation aid, NRT may deliver less nicotine in comparison that would be obtained from cigarettes. Thus, it is considered that NRT creates less of a risk to the foetus than to smoke.

Nicotine inhaled in any form passes into ****** milk and is very harmful to the nursing infant. However, for ladies who can not give up smoking without a smoking cessation aid, NRT may deliver less nicotine in comparison that would be obtained from cigarettes. NRT can therefore be used during breastfeeding. Wherever possible, the microtabs should be used immediately after breastfeeding and not in the two hours before breastfeeding, in order to reduce the amount of nicotine that the infant is exposed to.

Side effects

any type of medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. There are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with NRT. These side effects are not faced by every person who uses NRT.

· Headache.

· Awareness of your heartbeat (palpitations).

· Dry mouth.

· Abdominal discomfort.

· Dizziness.

· Sore mouth or throat.

· Nausea.

· Mouth ulcers.

· Hiccups.

· Burning sensation in the mouth.

· Coughing.

Can this medicine affect other medicines?

NRT itself does not affect any other medicines. However, the components of tobacco can cause certain medicines to be removed from the body faster than normal. Smokers should inform their doctor that they will give up smoking if they will take the following medicines, as when they stop smoking their doses may need to be changed:

· Theophylline or aminophylline.

· dextropropoxyphene

· flecainide

· tacrine

· olanzapine

· clozapine

· pentazocine

Smokers having diabetes problem need more insulin, as smoking reduces the amount of insulin absorbed into the blood through injection, so if people with diabetes quit smoking, they can subsequently feel a reduction in their insulin dose. Smokers with diabetes should track their blood sugar levels more closely when stopping smoking.

My Stop Smoking Laser Experience

gladys906 asked:


I was a smoker in the past. I do not smoke now as I have stopped smoking by stop smoking laser therapy treatment. My stop smoking laser experience is a remarkable experience. I did not face any difficulty during the stop smoking laser treatment because no drug was used and I didn’t use nicotine replacement therapy the during stop smoking laser treatment. My stop smoking laser experience did not leave any side effects on my body but made my body healthy because no smoking desire burns in me now.

I was initially afraid of the quit smoking laser until I spoke to someone that quit smoking laser is an ideal treatment for smokers and they stop smoking when they are treated. I had many doubts in my mind related to quit smoking laser but as I was tired of my smoking habit and wanted to get rid of it, I decided to have the quit smoking laser treatment.

One can stop smoking by the laser treatment which is specially done for helping the smokers to quit smoking. Every smoker will like to have laser treatment when he will come to know about the side effect of smoking, think about the cigarette costs per month, price of laser therapy for quitting smoking and when he will think about the easy steps of quitting with the quit smoking laser.

Let me share my own experience completely with you all. I sat down in a comfortable chair and was given a dark pair of glasses to wear to avoid the laser light. They pointed a red laser at various meridian points on my face, hands, and wrists. It was extremely relaxing and I did not feel awful pain as I was expecting to feel. The purpose of stimulating the nerves was that they would increase the production of endorphins in my body. It was told to me during my treatment that the endorphin production would help me to reduce my depression and nicotine carvings.

I was treated with the laser therapy for stopping smoking habit within 2 stages. In the first stage, I was helped about detoxification and in the second stage; I was treated to reduce my depression and nicotine carvings. I was treated friendly during the laser therapy.

All this made my laser therapy for quitting smoking experience easy and I got rid of my smoking habit permanently. After my experience of having the laser therapy, I keep distance from smoking now because I am aware of harmful disadvantages of smoking now. I will suggest you that you must too have the laser therapy for quitting smoking because smoking is a very dangerous habit and does not affect you only but also other people of your surroundings. The laser therapy treatment is painless and cheap by price.

There are many smokers in this world including me who have very pleasant experience about stop smoking laser and you should be one of us if you smoke. Get rid of your smoking habit permanently by the laser therapy treatment for quitting smoking. I have shared my pleasant experience of quitting smoking with you and I hope that you can get treated with the quit smoking laser too.