Sunday 29 November 2009
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WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR BODY
Cigarettes – and that’s all of them, even so-called light or low tar brands - contain over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 60 that increase your risk of cancer. They also contain nicotine, which isn't thought to cause cancer itself, but is the reason why you crave one in the first place.
You see, when you smoke, your brain grows more receptors that thrive on nicotine. Then, when you quit, these receptors no longer get the nicotine they need – and that’s what causes the cravings.
It may surprise you to know that nicotine can actually help you stop smoking. Therapeutic nicotine, which is in NiQuitin products can double your chances of quitting, compared to relying on willpower alone. This is because it gives your body the nicotine it craves with none of the cancer-causing smoke. Then you step down the dosage gradually as your need for nicotine lessens – until ultimately you don't need it any more.
You might be surprised at the sheer number of ways that smoking impacts your health - and the benefits you stand to enjoy by quitting at any age. Read on for the full facts about nicotine and smoking, or download your own Quitting Fact Sheet.
Your skin, hands, teeth - and the world around you.
Lots of people start smoking in their teens because they think it makes them fit in and
look cool. As they get older, they spend hundreds of pounds a year on cosmetics to try and disguise the ageing process. As an adult smoker, you find yourself with:
Wrinkles around your eyes and mouth - smokers' skin can be prematurely aged by between 10 and 20 years
Skin that has been dried out by tobacco smoke and starved of oxygen and nutrients, as smoking restricts your blood vessels and reduces the flow of blood to your skin
Tobacco-stained fingers
Yellowish brown teeth, gum disease and bad breath
A wardrobe, house and car that permanently smell of smoke
Once you've quit smoking your skin should be healthier because it's getting more oxygen and blood. Your hands will lose that yellowish tint, your teeth are no longer being stained, and your breath, hair and clothes no longer smell like an ashtray.
Your sex life and health
Men who smoke are more likely to suffer impotence and loss of stamina. Overall, smoking increases the risk of impotence by about 50% for men in their 30s and 40s.
For women, smoking can reduce fertility. In one study, smokers were more than three times more likely to take over a year to conceive, and it was estimated that smoking women were only 72% as fertile as non-smokers.
Diabetes
If you smoke, your risk of developing Type 2 (adult onset) diabetes is two to three times higher than if you don’t. And if you do develop it, smoking also significantly increases your risk of complications and death.
Quit smoking and your risk of diabetes drops. Plus, a healthier body makes physical activity easier, lowering the risk even further.
Your weight
Many smokers are afraid of quitting because they think as soon as they stop smoking they’ll put on weight. The truth is, whilst smoking does suppress the appetite it also deadens the taste buds, stopping you from enjoying your food.
Watching what you eat and exercising regularly can help prevent the weight gain that’s sometimes associated with quitting smoking. For highly dependent smokers, the NiQuitin 4mg Lozenge can help you to control your weight while you quit. For more tips, click here.
Your heart and circulatory system
Smokers are two to three times more prone to heart attacks than non-smokers, and much more likely to suffer from strokes, blood clots and angina - and die from heart disease.
Quit smoking and the improvements are dramatic - and they happen fast. 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure and pulse should return to normal. 24 hours later, your risk of heart attack is lower. And after just 5 years, your risk of heart disease has dropped to half that of a smoker.
Smoking and your lungs
Tobacco smoking is responsible for nearly all cases of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. That includes diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis, which leave sufferers breathless and unable to do many activities.
90% of primary lung cancers are caused by smoking. It’s the biggest cancer killer in the UK and nearly one in four smokers who die prematurely die of lung cancer. Your lungs are damaged not just by the number of cigarettes you smoke, but by the number of years you’ve been a smoker. So the sooner you quit, the better.
After three days as a non-smoker, your breathing improves. You might develop a bit of a cough as your lungs clear themselves of mucus - but don't worry, it’ll soon pass. Your lungs will function 5-10% better after 3-9 months, and by the time you've stayed away from cigarettes for ten years your risk of lung cancer will be half that of a smoker.
Other types of cancer
As a smoker, you increase your risk of cancers of the mouth, bladder, kidneys, pancreas, stomach, liver, colon and cervix, as well as the risk of developing leukaemia.
Giving up smoking at any age will increase your life expectancy, provided you stop before you develop cancer or another serious disease.
How To Quit Smoking In Ten Steps
Quitting Smoking doesn't have to be a struggle with your will power, or an endless battle with withdrawal symptoms. To quit smoking successfully there are several key steps you need to take and several things you need to look at. Contrary to what most people and 'experts' think and say, using patches, gums will power and eating celery sticks will get you nowhere.
Before we look at the ten steps you need to go through to quit smoking we should briefly look at a few statistics.
Studies have shown that only 16% of smokers who use nicotine replacement therapy (patches and gums etc.) succeed at quitting, and only 10% of smokers who use will power succeed. Furthermore the people that use these methods still have to deal with cravings, pangs, nicotine withdrawal symptoms, weight gain and stress.
Not only that but the will power method usually takes seven attempts before a successful quit and after six months most of smokers using either method end up smoking again.
But 84% of people who use nicotine replacement therapy like gum or patches -- or try to rely on will power -- ultimately FAIL!
If you want to quit smoking in the least amount of time with the least amount of hassle and the least amount of stress, follow these ten simple but very effective steps.
1. Honestly want to quit - many smokers are being forced to quit by their families and children, doctors, employers and now the government with many countries around the world now enforcing a public smoking ban. As you probably know, these different sources of pressure only make it harder for you.
It’s the same reason that you probably want to strangle them when they say ‘smoking will kill you’ or ‘you’re going to get cancer or ….’ etc. These things have the opposite effect – they combine to make you want to continue smoking.
So it is important that you want to quit for yourself, yes bear your children / family in mind but ultimately you should quit for yourself and the things that YOU will get when you quit.
2. Avoid thinking that you are 'Quitting' or 'Giving Up' smoking – unfortunately adopting this attitude is as effective as taking one step forward and two steps back. Think of the words ‘quit’ and ‘give up’ – what do they imply and suggest?
Essentially they both have a negative underlying theme – you are losing out on, quitting, having to do without, giving up on and denying yourself something. This ‘something’ being the things you get from smoking.
So by saying and thinking that you are ‘quitting’ or ‘giving up’ you are subtly telling yourself and focusing on the things that you are going to be denying yourself when you stop smoking. It’s the same principle behind the reason that dieting doesn’t work – you are denying yourself the very things that you want, and not only that but you are constantly focusing on them and longing for them.
The result is that no matter how hard you are trying, you are still remembering the ‘good’ things that you are having to do without, basically you will feel as if you are depriving yourself of pleasure / relaxation etc.
Instead look forward to the very things that you will get when you stop smoking, and fully focus yourself and your mind on them. Think ‘I’m stopping smoking and I’m saving an extra $2,000 a year, I smell ten times better, I can taste my food more fully, I can spend more time on my hobbies / with my children, I don’t have to hide my cigarette breath from my partner / children / customers and I don’t have stand out in the wind and rain to have a cigarette.
3. Set a Stop Smoking Date - and look forward to a new lifestyle after that. A problem many smokers have when they set a date is they don’t do anything else other than set a date. Then the date arrives and they get onto a panic because ‘this is it’ and they are now under pressure to stick with it, this panic results in stress – and what do smokers do when they are stressed? They smoke!
Set your date and smoke without guilt until that date and follow the steps below to ensure that you avoid the common smoking pitfalls in the days and weeks before and after you stop smoking.
4. Find the things that make you smoke - your Smoking Links. In addition to nicotine addiction, there are several other things that make you smoke. Most of these other things are people, events, situations, people and emotions.
For example, you smoke when you wake up, on your way to work, after sex, when you pick up the phone, with your tea or coffee, when you finish your meal, when you argue with your partner, when you are stressed, to relax, before you go on a long haul flight, when you meet your partner’s parents for the first time etc. All of these situations and many, many more, either start with revolve around or end with a cigarette.
Once you’ve stopped smoking, these situations and events will occur again. So you have to remove these things, by breaking the associations, re-establishing new routines and by finding new ways to achieve the feelings / satisfaction / result that you used to get from smoking. If you haven’t got a reason to smoke, why smoke?!!
5. Accept that there will be problems – everyday is full of ups and downs, it’s a fact of life. So you should plan on how you are going to deal with stress and your smoking links. First remember that smoking will not put out your kitchen fire, fix your flat tire, get you your job back, fix your argument with your partner, solve your financial problems, calm your nerves after a car accident or satisfy your over zealous boss.
You should do two things, firstly find simple yet effective ways to calm your nerves and reduce stress in a matter of seconds or minutes. Breathing techniques are a good way but not necessarily everybody’s favourite choice. So take a five minute break, play with a stress ball, channel your aggression and stress and let it all out in a controlled manner – e.g. sports, call a friend or close your eyes and forget about the problem for a minute.
Secondly, make and set aside special time for relaxation and de-stressing. For example, plan a weekend retreat, set aside half an hour at the end of every day to go for a run, go to work on a boxing bag, read a book, take a bath, spend time with your partner / children with no TV or other distractions.
Know that there will be problems and accept that smoking is no longer an appropriate way to deal with them, and then find something else to help you.
6. Find a new hobby / source of pleasure to take your mind off smoking – this is crucial. Remember the above point about focus and ‘quitting’ and ‘giving up smoking’? Well they don’t work because you are still focusing on cigarettes. So you need to find one or two new things to focus on.
You need to find something that will:
a). take your mind off smoking
b). replace the pleasure you got from smoking
c). give you something to look forward to
A new hobby or two will do all three of these three things perfectly. It is very important that you find something or several things that fulfil all three of these needs. If you don’t, you will find yourself longing for cigarettes and constantly thinking about them.
It’s best to have two hobbies, one you can spend half an hour or so on a day (if you look at how much time you spend smoking it’s probably about an hour a day) and one you can spend a whole weekend on or several hours at a weekend on. Try to make these hobbies ones you can really get your teeth into and involved in, also don’t forget with the money you’ve saved on smoking you can now afford to spend a little extra cash.
If you really get involved in your new or forgotten hobby you will show and prove to yourself that you can enjoy life free from cigarettes.
7. Prepare and plan on how to PREVENT withdrawal symptoms and weight gain – these are the two most common reasons for relapse. Weight gain and withdrawal symptoms do not have to be a part of quitting smoking. The easies ways to prevent both of these are to eat!! But eat the right kinds of foods.
Withdrawal symptoms are partly due to your body realising that it’s blood sugar level is extremely low. Nicotine blocks the release of insulin which controls blood sugar levels. With nicotine in your system – your stores of sugar and body fats are released into your blood – tricking your body into thinking that you have eaten.
When you stop smoking, insulin is re-released which stops the release of your stores of sugars and fats (normally only released when you starve) and your body realises that it hasn’t eaten enough food. So you feel irritable and cranky – withdrawal symptoms.
This is why you eat a lot when you quit smoking – because eating naturally feels good – it’s comforting and also because it eases withdrawal symptoms. But the problem is you eat too much and gain weight. Why? Because today’s foods do not have the vitamins and minerals that our body needs, so you eat in excess to get the ‘vital’ foods that your body needs.
To solve the problem you should drink plenty of fresh juice (which contains the vitamins and minerals your body needs) and take vitamin and mineral supplements and eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and minimize the amount of junk food, frozen food and prepared food you eat.
8. When your Stop Smoking Date arrives - take it one hour at a time and focus on the things you are going to get from quitting smoking.
If you think 'I haven't had a cig since ....' or 'I can't believe I can never have a cig again' you are only punishing yourself. Accept that this is a positive step and change your focus away from cigarettes.
9. Establish new routines - what are you going to do instead of smoking during the 20 or times a day when you normally have a cigarette? e.g. after coffee, in the pub / bar, when waiting for a friend, when nervous or lacking confidence, when bored, as soon as you wake up etc. Break your old patterns of behaviour and stick to your new ones until old situations are re-written without cigarettes.
10. PREVENT relapse - No. 1 in this step is to STOP THINKING ABOUT CIGARETTES. Don't put your headaches, stress, sore arm or stress down to lack of cigarettes.
And don't lust after cigarettes by thinking things like - 'Ohhh that cigarette looks soooooo good, she looks like she's really enjoying that, I wish I could have one' or 'What am I going to do if my car gets broken into or, I split up with my partner etc.'
The other two things you can do to prevent relapse are to prevent weight gain and also prevent withdrawal symptoms - these two are easily prevented and do NOT have to be a part of quitting smoking.
Before we look at the ten steps you need to go through to quit smoking we should briefly look at a few statistics.
Studies have shown that only 16% of smokers who use nicotine replacement therapy (patches and gums etc.) succeed at quitting, and only 10% of smokers who use will power succeed. Furthermore the people that use these methods still have to deal with cravings, pangs, nicotine withdrawal symptoms, weight gain and stress.
Not only that but the will power method usually takes seven attempts before a successful quit and after six months most of smokers using either method end up smoking again.
But 84% of people who use nicotine replacement therapy like gum or patches -- or try to rely on will power -- ultimately FAIL!
If you want to quit smoking in the least amount of time with the least amount of hassle and the least amount of stress, follow these ten simple but very effective steps.
1. Honestly want to quit - many smokers are being forced to quit by their families and children, doctors, employers and now the government with many countries around the world now enforcing a public smoking ban. As you probably know, these different sources of pressure only make it harder for you.
It’s the same reason that you probably want to strangle them when they say ‘smoking will kill you’ or ‘you’re going to get cancer or ….’ etc. These things have the opposite effect – they combine to make you want to continue smoking.
So it is important that you want to quit for yourself, yes bear your children / family in mind but ultimately you should quit for yourself and the things that YOU will get when you quit.
2. Avoid thinking that you are 'Quitting' or 'Giving Up' smoking – unfortunately adopting this attitude is as effective as taking one step forward and two steps back. Think of the words ‘quit’ and ‘give up’ – what do they imply and suggest?
Essentially they both have a negative underlying theme – you are losing out on, quitting, having to do without, giving up on and denying yourself something. This ‘something’ being the things you get from smoking.
So by saying and thinking that you are ‘quitting’ or ‘giving up’ you are subtly telling yourself and focusing on the things that you are going to be denying yourself when you stop smoking. It’s the same principle behind the reason that dieting doesn’t work – you are denying yourself the very things that you want, and not only that but you are constantly focusing on them and longing for them.
The result is that no matter how hard you are trying, you are still remembering the ‘good’ things that you are having to do without, basically you will feel as if you are depriving yourself of pleasure / relaxation etc.
Instead look forward to the very things that you will get when you stop smoking, and fully focus yourself and your mind on them. Think ‘I’m stopping smoking and I’m saving an extra $2,000 a year, I smell ten times better, I can taste my food more fully, I can spend more time on my hobbies / with my children, I don’t have to hide my cigarette breath from my partner / children / customers and I don’t have stand out in the wind and rain to have a cigarette.
3. Set a Stop Smoking Date - and look forward to a new lifestyle after that. A problem many smokers have when they set a date is they don’t do anything else other than set a date. Then the date arrives and they get onto a panic because ‘this is it’ and they are now under pressure to stick with it, this panic results in stress – and what do smokers do when they are stressed? They smoke!
Set your date and smoke without guilt until that date and follow the steps below to ensure that you avoid the common smoking pitfalls in the days and weeks before and after you stop smoking.
4. Find the things that make you smoke - your Smoking Links. In addition to nicotine addiction, there are several other things that make you smoke. Most of these other things are people, events, situations, people and emotions.
For example, you smoke when you wake up, on your way to work, after sex, when you pick up the phone, with your tea or coffee, when you finish your meal, when you argue with your partner, when you are stressed, to relax, before you go on a long haul flight, when you meet your partner’s parents for the first time etc. All of these situations and many, many more, either start with revolve around or end with a cigarette.
Once you’ve stopped smoking, these situations and events will occur again. So you have to remove these things, by breaking the associations, re-establishing new routines and by finding new ways to achieve the feelings / satisfaction / result that you used to get from smoking. If you haven’t got a reason to smoke, why smoke?!!
5. Accept that there will be problems – everyday is full of ups and downs, it’s a fact of life. So you should plan on how you are going to deal with stress and your smoking links. First remember that smoking will not put out your kitchen fire, fix your flat tire, get you your job back, fix your argument with your partner, solve your financial problems, calm your nerves after a car accident or satisfy your over zealous boss.
You should do two things, firstly find simple yet effective ways to calm your nerves and reduce stress in a matter of seconds or minutes. Breathing techniques are a good way but not necessarily everybody’s favourite choice. So take a five minute break, play with a stress ball, channel your aggression and stress and let it all out in a controlled manner – e.g. sports, call a friend or close your eyes and forget about the problem for a minute.
Secondly, make and set aside special time for relaxation and de-stressing. For example, plan a weekend retreat, set aside half an hour at the end of every day to go for a run, go to work on a boxing bag, read a book, take a bath, spend time with your partner / children with no TV or other distractions.
Know that there will be problems and accept that smoking is no longer an appropriate way to deal with them, and then find something else to help you.
6. Find a new hobby / source of pleasure to take your mind off smoking – this is crucial. Remember the above point about focus and ‘quitting’ and ‘giving up smoking’? Well they don’t work because you are still focusing on cigarettes. So you need to find one or two new things to focus on.
You need to find something that will:
a). take your mind off smoking
b). replace the pleasure you got from smoking
c). give you something to look forward to
A new hobby or two will do all three of these three things perfectly. It is very important that you find something or several things that fulfil all three of these needs. If you don’t, you will find yourself longing for cigarettes and constantly thinking about them.
It’s best to have two hobbies, one you can spend half an hour or so on a day (if you look at how much time you spend smoking it’s probably about an hour a day) and one you can spend a whole weekend on or several hours at a weekend on. Try to make these hobbies ones you can really get your teeth into and involved in, also don’t forget with the money you’ve saved on smoking you can now afford to spend a little extra cash.
If you really get involved in your new or forgotten hobby you will show and prove to yourself that you can enjoy life free from cigarettes.
7. Prepare and plan on how to PREVENT withdrawal symptoms and weight gain – these are the two most common reasons for relapse. Weight gain and withdrawal symptoms do not have to be a part of quitting smoking. The easies ways to prevent both of these are to eat!! But eat the right kinds of foods.
Withdrawal symptoms are partly due to your body realising that it’s blood sugar level is extremely low. Nicotine blocks the release of insulin which controls blood sugar levels. With nicotine in your system – your stores of sugar and body fats are released into your blood – tricking your body into thinking that you have eaten.
When you stop smoking, insulin is re-released which stops the release of your stores of sugars and fats (normally only released when you starve) and your body realises that it hasn’t eaten enough food. So you feel irritable and cranky – withdrawal symptoms.
This is why you eat a lot when you quit smoking – because eating naturally feels good – it’s comforting and also because it eases withdrawal symptoms. But the problem is you eat too much and gain weight. Why? Because today’s foods do not have the vitamins and minerals that our body needs, so you eat in excess to get the ‘vital’ foods that your body needs.
To solve the problem you should drink plenty of fresh juice (which contains the vitamins and minerals your body needs) and take vitamin and mineral supplements and eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and minimize the amount of junk food, frozen food and prepared food you eat.
8. When your Stop Smoking Date arrives - take it one hour at a time and focus on the things you are going to get from quitting smoking.
If you think 'I haven't had a cig since ....' or 'I can't believe I can never have a cig again' you are only punishing yourself. Accept that this is a positive step and change your focus away from cigarettes.
9. Establish new routines - what are you going to do instead of smoking during the 20 or times a day when you normally have a cigarette? e.g. after coffee, in the pub / bar, when waiting for a friend, when nervous or lacking confidence, when bored, as soon as you wake up etc. Break your old patterns of behaviour and stick to your new ones until old situations are re-written without cigarettes.
10. PREVENT relapse - No. 1 in this step is to STOP THINKING ABOUT CIGARETTES. Don't put your headaches, stress, sore arm or stress down to lack of cigarettes.
And don't lust after cigarettes by thinking things like - 'Ohhh that cigarette looks soooooo good, she looks like she's really enjoying that, I wish I could have one' or 'What am I going to do if my car gets broken into or, I split up with my partner etc.'
The other two things you can do to prevent relapse are to prevent weight gain and also prevent withdrawal symptoms - these two are easily prevented and do NOT have to be a part of quitting smoking.
Smoking Cessation: An Opportunity For Commercial Improvement
Impact Of Smoking On The Business
When we consider the impact of smoking on a business we need to consider three key areas of profitability, health of all employees and other people who visit our premises and company image.
Profitability is a major concern for all organisations that employ smokers:
34 million working days are lost to British industry each year due to smoking related sick leave. After all, there are over 50 diseases associated with smoking, so the habit provides a lot of opportunities for sick leave. The cost to the employer is not just on sick pay but also lost productivity and output.
Professor Konrad Jamrozik of Imperial College London has estimated that exposure to second hand smoke in the workplace causes around 617 premature deaths in the UK each year.
A Canadian study (Health Canada, Smoking and the bottom line, Canada, 1997) showed that the average annual reduction in productivity per employee who smokes is £1,085, increased absenteeism costs £115, additional insurance £37, and smoking areas cost £42 (figures that have significantly inflated over the last 10 years).
The cost of supporting a smoking environment is significant and many companies fail to realise how this impacts the bottom line:
Smoking breaks cause interruptions to work flow and can account for one lost day per week.
Smokers introduce additional costs for cleaning and redecorating.
Cost of space for smoking rooms if used.
Special ventilation is required if smoking rooms are used.
Increased premiums for health and fire insurance with up to 14% of medical costs related to smoking.
Increased litigation risks.
Proposals are in place to prohibit smoking in most workplaces in England during 2007. However, Scotland and Ireland have already banned smoking in all indoor workplaces.
Impact Of Smoking On Employees
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. Unfortunately 1 in 2 of these smokers will die of smoking related illnesses.
Staff morale amongst non-smokers is an issue as they consider they receive fewer breaks and have to cover for the time lost by smokers. This often causes resentment towards smoker colleagues. 86% of all employees and interestingly 73% of smokers believe that smoking should be restricted at work (Lader D. and Meltzer H. Smoking related behavior and attitudes. Office for National Statistics 2001).
Smoking affects employees on several levels as summarised below, any one of which can impact their performance at work.
Health deteriorates
Heart attack risk increases threefold.
Risk of heart disease increases by 70%.
Cause 90% of lung cancers.
Responsible for a proliferation of other cancers.
Risk of type 2 diabetes increases by 2 to 3 times.
Cause 1 in 3 deaths by 2020.
Cause 13 deaths / hour in the UK.
Reduces sexual performance
Reduced stamina.
Risk of impotence in men increased by 50% (30 – 50 years of age).
Fertility reduced to 72% in women (compared to non smokers).
Pregnant women pass effects to unborn children.
Changes appearance
Premature wrinkles around eyes and mouth.
Skin becomes dry due to reduced blood circulation.
Fingers become tobacco stained.
Teeth become stained brown and increased risk of gum disease.
Smell of tobacco on clothes, car, house and office.
Suppresses appetites
Taste buds suppressed leading to unbalanced diets.
Damages children
Children are three times more likely to smoke if their parents smoke.
Impairs decision making
Reliance on the temporary calming effects of smoking to avoid issues and reduce stress.
Corporate Benefits Of No Smoking
Any organisation that introduces a support programme for smokers as well as initiating a no smoking policy, is likely to experience significant gains in productivity and workplace attendance. These gains far outweigh the costs of any smoking cessation programme and include:
Reduced employee sick days due to heart disease, lung cancer, aggravation of asthma, decreased coughing, and reduction of respiratory complaints.
The supportive attitude to employee welfare stimulates reciprocal positive attitudes from employees and this helps smoker morale.
71% of smokers want to quit (Lader D. and Meltzer H. Smoking related behavior and attitudes. Office for National Statistics 2001) and this goal is easier for them if their employer creates a smoke free environment and particularly if the employer introduces a smoke cessation programme.
Recognition amongst non–smokers that they will also benefit from elimination of passive smoking and seeing increased productivity from the new non-smoking colleagues improves the moral of non-smokers.
Creates the corporate image of a caring organisation and this opens doors with environmentally concerned customers.
Improved company image (both internally and externally) and possible incremental business from organisations that are environmentally aware.
Reduced risk of future legislation and we say future as the law concerning smoking in companies is not exactly crystal clear but that will change.
Employee Benefits Of Stopping Smoking The most common reasons given for the lifestyle change to stop smoking are:-
Improved health and wellbeing.
Improved prospects of a long life.
Improved physical appearance.
Improved job prospects.
Improved chances of a new relationship or marriage.
Improved chances of becoming pregnant.
Improved sex drive and performance.
Improved job / career prospects.
Compliance with no smoking regulations.
Setting a good example to children.
Being more socially responsible.
Introducing A Smoking Cessation Policy
Smoking policies (according to ASH) are not about whether or not people smoke, but about when and where they smoke and whether their smoke affects others. Smoking in the workplace needs to be tackled like any other management challenge. Any smoking policy requires clear guidelines for all parties involved and we suggest a 5-stage process to establish this:
Employee Feedback – Pre Stage
Carrying out an internal survey amongst employees to clearly establish attitudes and opinions of both smokers and non-smokers, together with opinions (if applicable) of unions, customers and suppliers. This survey provides a benchmark to assess the scale of the opportunities to be gained from the introduction of any smoking policy and treatment programme and also provides a yardstick against which to measure the future gains. A second analysis should establish the hard employee facts such as sick days for both smokers and non smokers.
Establish Dialogue With Employees
The survey is the starting point and the findings from this and the proposed course of action should be discussed with employees in order to ensure recommendations meet the needs of both the company and the employees. It is normal to set up a working party with representatives of both smoker and non-smoker employees. In establishing the policy framework it has to be remembered that we need to comply with Section 49 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, which specifies that 12 weeks notice is required of changes to working conditions.
It is also worth noting that restrictions on smoking do not relate to a factor inherent to a person, such as age, gender, colour or social class, but to a voluntary activity. In this respect it is wrong to claim that they are discriminatory.
Finalise The Policy
Any smoking policy is likely to go through a few iterations before it is acceptable to all parties. This time is well spent if later problems are to be avoided. The policy will be designed to comply with Section 2(2)(e) of the Health and Safety at Work ETC Act 1974 and will detail:
General principals of the policy.
Common area where smoking is not permitted.
Work areas where smoking is not permitted.
Any use of designated smoking rooms.
Smoking in company vehicles.
Unions / Health & Safety representatives.
Staff information.
Restrictions applied to visitors and temporary staff.
Adequate signage.
Recruitment policies.
Treatment programme to help smokers end smoking.
Enforcement of smoking policy.
Policy amendments.
Initiate The Policy And Communicate
Any policy should ideally go through two stages. Firstly a restriction on smoking, together with the introduction of a smoker programme to help them stop smoking and followed by a company wide smoking ban.
Companies should use their normal methods of communication to ensure the policy is clearly visible to all employees and visitors.
Employee Feedback – Post Stage
It is beneficial to repeat the employee smoker survey 6 to 9 months after any change in policy and the commencement of company stop smoking treatments. This will enable organisations to measure the return on their investment, establish reduction in sick days and measure improvements in employee productivity and attitudes. It is also beneficial PR to use the findings to communicate the environmentally friendly policy and caring attitude towards employees and visitors.
Support and Treatment
The introduction of any new smoking policy, should be accompanied by advice and support to enable smokers to quit, should they choose to do so. Simply ordering employees to stop smoking is short sighted, as their habit is driven by their addiction to nicotine, one of the most addictive substances known and more addictive than drugs such as cocaine.
There are many different methods and products on the market to help smokers to end their habit. The most popular are nicotine replacement therapies or using smokers helpline and counselling. However, the quickest and most beneficial solution appears to be the treatments that cancel out the electromagnetic charge of nicotine in the body. These treatments have success rates in excess of 85%, generally eliminate nicotine addiction within 24 hours and have virtually no withdrawal problems. This provides for a rapid ROI.
David Bacon MBA, BSc, MMRS, is a partner in Energy Medicine a UK energetic medicine (bioresonance) business that has been helping people with allergies since 2000.
Energy Medicine was established in Hemel Hempstead in 2000. The company uses sensitive micro-electronic equipment to identify and treat allergies / intolerances and to help clients to stop smoking.
Further information concerning smoking treatments can be found by contacting http://www.ENDsmoking.co.uk or by email to enquiries@energymedic.co.uk
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When we consider the impact of smoking on a business we need to consider three key areas of profitability, health of all employees and other people who visit our premises and company image.
Profitability is a major concern for all organisations that employ smokers:
34 million working days are lost to British industry each year due to smoking related sick leave. After all, there are over 50 diseases associated with smoking, so the habit provides a lot of opportunities for sick leave. The cost to the employer is not just on sick pay but also lost productivity and output.
Professor Konrad Jamrozik of Imperial College London has estimated that exposure to second hand smoke in the workplace causes around 617 premature deaths in the UK each year.
A Canadian study (Health Canada, Smoking and the bottom line, Canada, 1997) showed that the average annual reduction in productivity per employee who smokes is £1,085, increased absenteeism costs £115, additional insurance £37, and smoking areas cost £42 (figures that have significantly inflated over the last 10 years).
The cost of supporting a smoking environment is significant and many companies fail to realise how this impacts the bottom line:
Smoking breaks cause interruptions to work flow and can account for one lost day per week.
Smokers introduce additional costs for cleaning and redecorating.
Cost of space for smoking rooms if used.
Special ventilation is required if smoking rooms are used.
Increased premiums for health and fire insurance with up to 14% of medical costs related to smoking.
Increased litigation risks.
Proposals are in place to prohibit smoking in most workplaces in England during 2007. However, Scotland and Ireland have already banned smoking in all indoor workplaces.
Impact Of Smoking On Employees
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. Unfortunately 1 in 2 of these smokers will die of smoking related illnesses.
Staff morale amongst non-smokers is an issue as they consider they receive fewer breaks and have to cover for the time lost by smokers. This often causes resentment towards smoker colleagues. 86% of all employees and interestingly 73% of smokers believe that smoking should be restricted at work (Lader D. and Meltzer H. Smoking related behavior and attitudes. Office for National Statistics 2001).
Smoking affects employees on several levels as summarised below, any one of which can impact their performance at work.
Health deteriorates
Heart attack risk increases threefold.
Risk of heart disease increases by 70%.
Cause 90% of lung cancers.
Responsible for a proliferation of other cancers.
Risk of type 2 diabetes increases by 2 to 3 times.
Cause 1 in 3 deaths by 2020.
Cause 13 deaths / hour in the UK.
Reduces sexual performance
Reduced stamina.
Risk of impotence in men increased by 50% (30 – 50 years of age).
Fertility reduced to 72% in women (compared to non smokers).
Pregnant women pass effects to unborn children.
Changes appearance
Premature wrinkles around eyes and mouth.
Skin becomes dry due to reduced blood circulation.
Fingers become tobacco stained.
Teeth become stained brown and increased risk of gum disease.
Smell of tobacco on clothes, car, house and office.
Suppresses appetites
Taste buds suppressed leading to unbalanced diets.
Damages children
Children are three times more likely to smoke if their parents smoke.
Impairs decision making
Reliance on the temporary calming effects of smoking to avoid issues and reduce stress.
Corporate Benefits Of No Smoking
Any organisation that introduces a support programme for smokers as well as initiating a no smoking policy, is likely to experience significant gains in productivity and workplace attendance. These gains far outweigh the costs of any smoking cessation programme and include:
Reduced employee sick days due to heart disease, lung cancer, aggravation of asthma, decreased coughing, and reduction of respiratory complaints.
The supportive attitude to employee welfare stimulates reciprocal positive attitudes from employees and this helps smoker morale.
71% of smokers want to quit (Lader D. and Meltzer H. Smoking related behavior and attitudes. Office for National Statistics 2001) and this goal is easier for them if their employer creates a smoke free environment and particularly if the employer introduces a smoke cessation programme.
Recognition amongst non–smokers that they will also benefit from elimination of passive smoking and seeing increased productivity from the new non-smoking colleagues improves the moral of non-smokers.
Creates the corporate image of a caring organisation and this opens doors with environmentally concerned customers.
Improved company image (both internally and externally) and possible incremental business from organisations that are environmentally aware.
Reduced risk of future legislation and we say future as the law concerning smoking in companies is not exactly crystal clear but that will change.
Employee Benefits Of Stopping Smoking The most common reasons given for the lifestyle change to stop smoking are:-
Improved health and wellbeing.
Improved prospects of a long life.
Improved physical appearance.
Improved job prospects.
Improved chances of a new relationship or marriage.
Improved chances of becoming pregnant.
Improved sex drive and performance.
Improved job / career prospects.
Compliance with no smoking regulations.
Setting a good example to children.
Being more socially responsible.
Introducing A Smoking Cessation Policy
Smoking policies (according to ASH) are not about whether or not people smoke, but about when and where they smoke and whether their smoke affects others. Smoking in the workplace needs to be tackled like any other management challenge. Any smoking policy requires clear guidelines for all parties involved and we suggest a 5-stage process to establish this:
Employee Feedback – Pre Stage
Carrying out an internal survey amongst employees to clearly establish attitudes and opinions of both smokers and non-smokers, together with opinions (if applicable) of unions, customers and suppliers. This survey provides a benchmark to assess the scale of the opportunities to be gained from the introduction of any smoking policy and treatment programme and also provides a yardstick against which to measure the future gains. A second analysis should establish the hard employee facts such as sick days for both smokers and non smokers.
Establish Dialogue With Employees
The survey is the starting point and the findings from this and the proposed course of action should be discussed with employees in order to ensure recommendations meet the needs of both the company and the employees. It is normal to set up a working party with representatives of both smoker and non-smoker employees. In establishing the policy framework it has to be remembered that we need to comply with Section 49 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978, which specifies that 12 weeks notice is required of changes to working conditions.
It is also worth noting that restrictions on smoking do not relate to a factor inherent to a person, such as age, gender, colour or social class, but to a voluntary activity. In this respect it is wrong to claim that they are discriminatory.
Finalise The Policy
Any smoking policy is likely to go through a few iterations before it is acceptable to all parties. This time is well spent if later problems are to be avoided. The policy will be designed to comply with Section 2(2)(e) of the Health and Safety at Work ETC Act 1974 and will detail:
General principals of the policy.
Common area where smoking is not permitted.
Work areas where smoking is not permitted.
Any use of designated smoking rooms.
Smoking in company vehicles.
Unions / Health & Safety representatives.
Staff information.
Restrictions applied to visitors and temporary staff.
Adequate signage.
Recruitment policies.
Treatment programme to help smokers end smoking.
Enforcement of smoking policy.
Policy amendments.
Initiate The Policy And Communicate
Any policy should ideally go through two stages. Firstly a restriction on smoking, together with the introduction of a smoker programme to help them stop smoking and followed by a company wide smoking ban.
Companies should use their normal methods of communication to ensure the policy is clearly visible to all employees and visitors.
Employee Feedback – Post Stage
It is beneficial to repeat the employee smoker survey 6 to 9 months after any change in policy and the commencement of company stop smoking treatments. This will enable organisations to measure the return on their investment, establish reduction in sick days and measure improvements in employee productivity and attitudes. It is also beneficial PR to use the findings to communicate the environmentally friendly policy and caring attitude towards employees and visitors.
Support and Treatment
The introduction of any new smoking policy, should be accompanied by advice and support to enable smokers to quit, should they choose to do so. Simply ordering employees to stop smoking is short sighted, as their habit is driven by their addiction to nicotine, one of the most addictive substances known and more addictive than drugs such as cocaine.
There are many different methods and products on the market to help smokers to end their habit. The most popular are nicotine replacement therapies or using smokers helpline and counselling. However, the quickest and most beneficial solution appears to be the treatments that cancel out the electromagnetic charge of nicotine in the body. These treatments have success rates in excess of 85%, generally eliminate nicotine addiction within 24 hours and have virtually no withdrawal problems. This provides for a rapid ROI.
David Bacon MBA, BSc, MMRS, is a partner in Energy Medicine a UK energetic medicine (bioresonance) business that has been helping people with allergies since 2000.
Energy Medicine was established in Hemel Hempstead in 2000. The company uses sensitive micro-electronic equipment to identify and treat allergies / intolerances and to help clients to stop smoking.
Further information concerning smoking treatments can be found by contacting http://www.ENDsmoking.co.uk or by email to enquiries@energymedic.co.uk
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Smoking, Learned Breath Problem to Change Stress - Core-Breathing to Replace Smoking and Stress
When its time for a person to stop smoking and start to live their whole life, some time should be spent to realize what smoking is doing for them on a emotional level by the way the habit affects stress and their emotional mood. Smoking is an emotional physical act that has been learned that was created into a habit that changes a persons emotional mood while they smoke. When a person just stops smoking their is a physical and emotional mental conflict that takes place in the body and mind. How a person address these affects has a major affect on their attitude about recovery from smoking and what do they want to create emotionally from not smoking. Since smoking is a set of created emotions that is used every time person pickup a cigarette and when a person stop picking up that cigarette it changes their whole emotional experience. Developing new emotions is never ease but always a challenge and finding people that have enhance their enjoyment of life is a suggestion. Asking good questions is part of learning after person stops smoking.
By realizing the single most powerful physical act you do as you smoke, is to affect stress and create a calm mood within the context of the learned emotional habit of smoking. This is done on your exhalation of the smoke within the habit to affect physical stress, that affects emotions. Smoking can be seen as a breathing habit to affect stress and a persons emotional mood.
This program views smoking as breathing or breath problem for the act of smoking affects how a person breathe. This is an energy point of view, base on breath and ones spirit for they are link together and realizing this link gives a smoker ideas and concepts that lets them affect their stress and emotions that can replace the smoking affect that changes their stress. Smoking is learned form of breathing that affects your physical and emotional reality by changing stress that is repeated in the form of habit. Simply, smoking is habit to change your stress which changes your physical and emotional state of being and has other influences on how person feels.
The power of core/breathing program deals directly with stress in shoulder and tension in body through its techniques directed by the mind that enhances physical force and feeling through the physical body. There is a saying in this program, "Change your stress, you can change your emotional reality" and the most affective proven way is affect stress is in your breath exchange between inhale and exhale, for smoking is about how you breathe with a cigarette. View point, your breath supports your physical, emotional reality for how you breathe within emotional situations affects your stress.
Once person decides to stop smoking the first thing that happen is they are changing their breathing pattern during parts of the day and that breathing pattern is smoking created to affect stress. The problem for smokers is not having that breathing pattern with cluing from a cigarette that lessen stress in shoulders which affects the feeling through out the body. Missing that habit that changes stress is a real emotional problem and finding ideas and techniques that affect stress makes the transition from smoking to be non-smoker lot more effective.
It has be shown that by changing your breathing pattern by extending breathing range affects physical stress which affects emotions for every major stress reduction program has breathing part of their program. If you take a view point that smoking is a breathing habit that affects stress by changing your breathing pattern through the use a cigarette to affecting stress, then first question to change from smoking is how to breathe to affect stress. By learning a different breathing patterns and one that makes a person physically stronger and holding less stress into habit to replace smoking breathing and its affect to reduce stress. By seeing and understanding the end goal that your smoking habit does for you, gives a view what you have to do to create the same affect, yet it will be different and new with out a cigarette.
With clear view of your smoking habit as way to breathe to affect stress and your emotional state, it opens a new way to address the affects of smoking habit in a very direct way where the person create their breath to affect stress in a mindful way. Keep in mind always, look for the best methods that create ways to lessen conflict physically and emotionally when your stopping smoking. Change is hard when it address emotional stress within one behavior for it affects the mind, body and spirit to change from a old way of action to new way being.
This is a way of thinking about change for there is three points of view, they are mental, physical and spirit for these are words to focus on when a person wants to consciously change. It is the interplay between them that within person behavior action that person works with to over come smoking habit. Look at smoking from energy point of view to start off with and see how it affects mental and physical. For smoking has three basic parts that integrate together to affect stress and finding ways to affect each and then have them blend together.
The real problem when person address stress head on is " PEOPLE LOVE THEIR STRESS" for it makes up their emotional reality and when you touch on that part of being human, fear holds people back base on not understanding and how to replace the fear with some form of emotional sense of self while interaction with others around them. Self is some form of, on going emotional value projection, interacting with others that affects emotional connections to life. Some types of fear stops good emotional development and its very much physical to mental for its about enjoyment within your own emotions.
Keep in mind the affect of smoking has on persons emotions will very greatly and its base on how they learned how to smoke and at what age and the level of fear around them at that time. When a person learns to smoke which is learning to breath with smoke which impacted their energy level that had affect their physical feeling to the brain that affected their attitude to deal with their fear. To stop smoking will affect people in very different ways but underlining emotions that person has to deal with is fear going back to when they learned how to smoke. People that had low level of fear and it was very much part of being with the group, for them to stop will have little affect but people that was going through lot emotional fear conflicts (children its about about fear of not knowing and their surrounding with others and how they fit in) and smoking help them get through it, will have a real emotional physical conflicts that they have to go through and work out with their stress. Stress is learned and the mind and body deals with it in different ways given the individual.
The three cluing components that make up smoking that once understood can aid someone in their program not to smoke and recover from smoking by finding ways to address stress. First is the physical cluing of the cigarette itself, and even the pack of cigarettes, will get the mind to start to think about smoking within its learned emotions set that affect stress that has be learned through repeated emotional behavior. Cigarette is a physical item that a person can feel when they hold it, that sends a signal to the brain and bring about emotional state of mind. The physical input is very strong force and not having the item that triggers a mental connection to emotional state that affects stress is a real lose to deal with stress.
Second component that interacts with the other two, is a persons mental state of mind that was learned from the time they learned to smoke that forms the emotional context of the habit to smoke that affects stress. The mental state of a person does not do will when it loses a large emotional state of expression and a outlet of emotions and not having a way to change stress. The physical act of smoking is an emotional outlet of a person energy and just stopping it creates emotional confusion and the more person was using smoking to deal with stress the greater the conflict of not having the outlet. For some, eating becomes replacement of smoking to affect stress in shoulder, because they have to use their jaw which affects stress in shoulders and eating lowers person energy level like smoking.
The third component is breath, energy and spirit for they are all link together for understanding the affects that person creates when they smoke a cigarette. In this program the act of smoking lowers a person internal energy which affects a person ability to be emotional in what ever they are doing physically that is calming. Be clear the affects of smoking to lower a persons energy to be emotional affects their judgment and decisions within their behavior. When person smokes they lower their internal energy in two ways one with smoke that replaces oxygen and the other with nicotine that lowers the flow blood through out the body that effect strength and emotions. Smoking deals with stress by changing the level of internal energy that the mind has to work with to express emotions within physical behavior. This part is the most powerful force to be understood to change your smoking habit to new more powerful form of breathing, that can make a person stronger and changes stress. People change when they become stronger within what they are doing for its about enhancing physical feeling and the brain expressing them.
What is addicting part to smoking is its the most repeatable form of exhalation that is directed to physical stress and feeling connected to stress. The exhalation of smoke relaxes the shoulders and body and the inhalation through the cigarette affects feeling of stress and body to enhance the affects of exhalation of the smoke from a cigarette. How you inhale and exhale has major affect on the body and feeling of stress. The next is the smoke itself coming from the cigarette that replaces oxygen for it makes you physically weaker for its like choking from not having oxygen and that will make you weaker. The third is nicotine which enhances the affects of smoke by reducing blood flow to the heart and the rest of the body. When person learns to smoke they learn how to bring the smoke in and not choke on it and then releasing the smoke with long exhale which will affect stress in shoulders.
The myth that nicotine is addictive has hurt recovery from smoking and dealing with stress. The idea of nicotine is addictive comes from lawyers that wanted to prove point to make money but common sense tells a different story. Keep in mind nicotine has an affect on the body within smoking the question is how it works out side of smoking.
I like to explain the Myth of Nicotine as a addictive drug within smoking for within clarity, a person does not waste their time and effort and lowers emotional frustration build up. There is relationship here that once realized can give more choices to be affective in changing a persons smoking habit and its emotional reality created from smoking. You are responsible for your behavior and creating choices is never ease when a person wants to change a learned habit that has emotional affect within their behavior. Do not waste your time and thoughts on nicotine as part of your over all recovery. It does have physical affect but not an addictive affect and the need to stop nicotine in your blood should be as fast as you can for recovery. In the view point of this program nicotine patch is harmful to person and their recovery for keeping a chemical that affects blood flow can not be good for a persons heart and feeling. To stop smoking is a physical challenge and a person can choose to take it up as such or give in to all the negative affects. Through the techniques of the power of core/breathing a person may find the tools to change and learn about them self in ways that are surprising but will lower the frustration of coming off smoking.
Nicotine out side of the act of smoking, does not carry addictive force. The idea of nicotine as an addictive force in smoking was created by lawyers which created the confusion about the influence nicotine within the habit of smoking. The lawyer left a impression that nicotine is the main addictive force in the act of smoking. The real addictive force behind the smoking habit is the method of inhaling and exhaling that affects physical stress and gives a sense of calmness. Nicotine adds to the affect of stress and mood change through smoking but without the whole learned method of smoking a person has develop, nicotine does NOT affect person in an addictive way.
Common sense facts shows nicotine does not carry addictive behavior and desires within its digestion by it self. Caffeine has more addictive effects then nicotine when person consumes it by it self. Using common sense about drugs that have addictive affect for if a drug has addictive force there should be people in drug rehabs to recover from nicotine patch addiction. The fact is there is no black market for nicotine patches and people are not setting around waiting for their fix of nicotine in patches and there are no people that are in drug rehab for nicotine patches addiction shows nicotine by its self has NO addictive force over a person. Nicotine patch acts more like a placebo with some chemical affect to lessen physical affects of not smoking. If person wants to lessen the physical and emotional affects of stopping smoking they should create breath like they smoke and create the mental focus they have when they are smoking to relax the shoulders and body and calm emotions. Keep in mind here, smoking is a form of breathing that replaces oxygen that affects a persons physical stress and emotional state and nicotine enhances it but does not create the affects for you have learned to change your stress by smoking. Between smoke from cigarettes replacing oxygen and nicotine lowering the flow of blood to internal organs reduces energy ability make persons physically weak thereby affecting the mental state to produce calmness.
When you stop smoking you stop a learned pattern of breathing which focuses on exhaling and the mind seeing the smoke or the exhale going out of the month which clues the mind to have attitude that relaxes the shoulders and then body and changes for moment in time a persons mental focus by effecting and reduced energy.
When recovering from smoking a person needs to be clear in what manifest the need to smoke, so they can deal with the need to smoke which affects behavior and attitudes. If a person believes they are recovering from nicotine they are not dealing with the real addictive force within the act smoking and that is the affect of the exhale to change stress which affects old learned emotions with the help of smoke and nicotine within the behavior of smoking.
Purpose to smoking for once a person understands purpose to smoking they can start to think about other physical behavior to replace the act of smoking. Purpose is key part to recovery and change, other wise person could feel the need for smoke under emotional pressure to deal with stress.
From energy point of view which is the power of core/breathing, the first physical change person can do is learn a form of breathing that extends exhaling in conscious mind way that affect stress. Replacing smoking breathing with all of its physical movement to affect stress with another form of breathing with its physical movement that affect stress is the most affective way to recovery from smoking and not wanting to smoke again. Looking at the emotional develop side of smoking and changing the need to smoke related to when smoking was learned and the emotions of the time.
Smoking is an spirit recovery of one self interacting with others around them. To smoke a person has to shape their torso while they are creating their breath in order to smoke. If breath and spirit are linked and smoking affects breath ability to form spirit within person that has influence on persons physical feeling and that affects person judgment and decisions that they are making every day. Example is food, for smoking killed off the ability to taste of foods that person is eating. Flavors within food is killed and it takes time to grow back the ability to taste the flavors within food. Smoking lowers a person ability to taste foods which affects enjoyment of food and a persons decision to eat some foods over others, because of the taste change from smoking. This is just one example of how smoking affects judgment and their are many more examples. So stopping smoking enhances physical signal to the brain for under the influence of smoking it was numb within it emotional development.
In this program the act of smoking is about creating relaxation of the mind and body through the act of exhaling. It is about your spirit affecting your mind and body to relax the shoulders muscles and body muscles to affect the minds emotional state. Finding techniques that create the same affects physically, mentally and emotionally of lessening stress with out smoking. There is NO reason you can not increase the enjoyable feelings of smoking with out smoking if you choose to be creative within your spirit within what your doing. (keep in mind spirit and breath relationship)
How to enhance the affects of relaxation with out smoking is by understanding the process or the step by step mental, physical and breathing a person creates to smoke their cigarette. Keep in mind, smoking is an affective way to reduce stress that is learned and each person has their own method to smoke to create the affect of relaxation and enjoyment. The word enjoyment is key word to replace your old smoking behavior with new behavior that creates enjoyment to be relaxed.
The most POWERFUL act a person does when they smoke is the exhale, for that is the driving force to relax the shoulders and body that a person has learned to bring about their learned emotional feeling that has some form of calmness within smoking.
This idea to replace smoking is center around core/breathing to relax shoulder and make person stronger and higher sense of a person physical body in movement. Creating the longest exhale is a game to be played with and experience the affects on shoulder stress is the basic goal. The reason people smoke while they are working at a desk is they are thinking but as soon as they pick up a cigarette their thought change ever so little and when they inhale the mind is their because they are coordinate the hand to smoke and then pause after the inhale. Then looking at the smoke leaving and the shoulder come down ever so little but they relax feeling is for only a moment before person goes back thinking and that is enough to know and feel in order to do it again. Every time you think, given the level of emotions within the thought, the shoulder will be engaged and have level of tension which is energy stored in those muscles that support that thinking.
You start off your change from smoking to non-smoking by breathing like you smoke when you feel tension is only the beginning. Now to replace the act of inhale with a cigarette a person inhale through the nose. Then pause for second or longer would be better so the mind can connect to the torso feeling of having oxygen and the muscles holding it. Then exhale like you did when your smoking and here is little bit of art here. Lips and tongue play a role is relaxing the shoulders as you exhale. When people smoke they shape their lips in different ways as they blow the smoke out. Also think about your placement of the tongue as your exhaled the smoke it is down touching the back of the lower teeth. This is all about shaping the mouth area to affect shoulders stress as you exhale.
learning to engage the core by moving the belly button out to inhale and pulling in for the exhale as you walk or seated but create your breath by moving the core. Then short inhale and long exhale by pulling in the belly button. It is bring in air through the nose, pause and then exhale out the mouth through the lip shape and tongue down touching the back of the lower teeth. The mind is feeling and directing the exhale as you exhale you release the shoulders. Then PAUSE while the stomach is pulled in and feel muscle tension and then relax shoulders. This is done for second or more (enjoyment) and feel shoulder area to direct it to release it.
This is fast release of stress in shoulders and relaxation of muscles to some degree equal to smoking over time and then more, much more to play with and develop.
This is the short version of core/breathing for the highest level is inhale and exhale out the nose by using the core to affect the whole torso and have no stress in shoulder and feeling hands and feet as they move.
Within this program there is walking to affect stress and feeling energy flow that changes muscle feeling and high level of mind body coordination that affects emotional stress feeling and body tension. Creating new set of motions with movement is opportunity to affect your spirit within walking.
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By realizing the single most powerful physical act you do as you smoke, is to affect stress and create a calm mood within the context of the learned emotional habit of smoking. This is done on your exhalation of the smoke within the habit to affect physical stress, that affects emotions. Smoking can be seen as a breathing habit to affect stress and a persons emotional mood.
This program views smoking as breathing or breath problem for the act of smoking affects how a person breathe. This is an energy point of view, base on breath and ones spirit for they are link together and realizing this link gives a smoker ideas and concepts that lets them affect their stress and emotions that can replace the smoking affect that changes their stress. Smoking is learned form of breathing that affects your physical and emotional reality by changing stress that is repeated in the form of habit. Simply, smoking is habit to change your stress which changes your physical and emotional state of being and has other influences on how person feels.
The power of core/breathing program deals directly with stress in shoulder and tension in body through its techniques directed by the mind that enhances physical force and feeling through the physical body. There is a saying in this program, "Change your stress, you can change your emotional reality" and the most affective proven way is affect stress is in your breath exchange between inhale and exhale, for smoking is about how you breathe with a cigarette. View point, your breath supports your physical, emotional reality for how you breathe within emotional situations affects your stress.
Once person decides to stop smoking the first thing that happen is they are changing their breathing pattern during parts of the day and that breathing pattern is smoking created to affect stress. The problem for smokers is not having that breathing pattern with cluing from a cigarette that lessen stress in shoulders which affects the feeling through out the body. Missing that habit that changes stress is a real emotional problem and finding ideas and techniques that affect stress makes the transition from smoking to be non-smoker lot more effective.
It has be shown that by changing your breathing pattern by extending breathing range affects physical stress which affects emotions for every major stress reduction program has breathing part of their program. If you take a view point that smoking is a breathing habit that affects stress by changing your breathing pattern through the use a cigarette to affecting stress, then first question to change from smoking is how to breathe to affect stress. By learning a different breathing patterns and one that makes a person physically stronger and holding less stress into habit to replace smoking breathing and its affect to reduce stress. By seeing and understanding the end goal that your smoking habit does for you, gives a view what you have to do to create the same affect, yet it will be different and new with out a cigarette.
With clear view of your smoking habit as way to breathe to affect stress and your emotional state, it opens a new way to address the affects of smoking habit in a very direct way where the person create their breath to affect stress in a mindful way. Keep in mind always, look for the best methods that create ways to lessen conflict physically and emotionally when your stopping smoking. Change is hard when it address emotional stress within one behavior for it affects the mind, body and spirit to change from a old way of action to new way being.
This is a way of thinking about change for there is three points of view, they are mental, physical and spirit for these are words to focus on when a person wants to consciously change. It is the interplay between them that within person behavior action that person works with to over come smoking habit. Look at smoking from energy point of view to start off with and see how it affects mental and physical. For smoking has three basic parts that integrate together to affect stress and finding ways to affect each and then have them blend together.
The real problem when person address stress head on is " PEOPLE LOVE THEIR STRESS" for it makes up their emotional reality and when you touch on that part of being human, fear holds people back base on not understanding and how to replace the fear with some form of emotional sense of self while interaction with others around them. Self is some form of, on going emotional value projection, interacting with others that affects emotional connections to life. Some types of fear stops good emotional development and its very much physical to mental for its about enjoyment within your own emotions.
Keep in mind the affect of smoking has on persons emotions will very greatly and its base on how they learned how to smoke and at what age and the level of fear around them at that time. When a person learns to smoke which is learning to breath with smoke which impacted their energy level that had affect their physical feeling to the brain that affected their attitude to deal with their fear. To stop smoking will affect people in very different ways but underlining emotions that person has to deal with is fear going back to when they learned how to smoke. People that had low level of fear and it was very much part of being with the group, for them to stop will have little affect but people that was going through lot emotional fear conflicts (children its about about fear of not knowing and their surrounding with others and how they fit in) and smoking help them get through it, will have a real emotional physical conflicts that they have to go through and work out with their stress. Stress is learned and the mind and body deals with it in different ways given the individual.
The three cluing components that make up smoking that once understood can aid someone in their program not to smoke and recover from smoking by finding ways to address stress. First is the physical cluing of the cigarette itself, and even the pack of cigarettes, will get the mind to start to think about smoking within its learned emotions set that affect stress that has be learned through repeated emotional behavior. Cigarette is a physical item that a person can feel when they hold it, that sends a signal to the brain and bring about emotional state of mind. The physical input is very strong force and not having the item that triggers a mental connection to emotional state that affects stress is a real lose to deal with stress.
Second component that interacts with the other two, is a persons mental state of mind that was learned from the time they learned to smoke that forms the emotional context of the habit to smoke that affects stress. The mental state of a person does not do will when it loses a large emotional state of expression and a outlet of emotions and not having a way to change stress. The physical act of smoking is an emotional outlet of a person energy and just stopping it creates emotional confusion and the more person was using smoking to deal with stress the greater the conflict of not having the outlet. For some, eating becomes replacement of smoking to affect stress in shoulder, because they have to use their jaw which affects stress in shoulders and eating lowers person energy level like smoking.
The third component is breath, energy and spirit for they are all link together for understanding the affects that person creates when they smoke a cigarette. In this program the act of smoking lowers a person internal energy which affects a person ability to be emotional in what ever they are doing physically that is calming. Be clear the affects of smoking to lower a persons energy to be emotional affects their judgment and decisions within their behavior. When person smokes they lower their internal energy in two ways one with smoke that replaces oxygen and the other with nicotine that lowers the flow blood through out the body that effect strength and emotions. Smoking deals with stress by changing the level of internal energy that the mind has to work with to express emotions within physical behavior. This part is the most powerful force to be understood to change your smoking habit to new more powerful form of breathing, that can make a person stronger and changes stress. People change when they become stronger within what they are doing for its about enhancing physical feeling and the brain expressing them.
What is addicting part to smoking is its the most repeatable form of exhalation that is directed to physical stress and feeling connected to stress. The exhalation of smoke relaxes the shoulders and body and the inhalation through the cigarette affects feeling of stress and body to enhance the affects of exhalation of the smoke from a cigarette. How you inhale and exhale has major affect on the body and feeling of stress. The next is the smoke itself coming from the cigarette that replaces oxygen for it makes you physically weaker for its like choking from not having oxygen and that will make you weaker. The third is nicotine which enhances the affects of smoke by reducing blood flow to the heart and the rest of the body. When person learns to smoke they learn how to bring the smoke in and not choke on it and then releasing the smoke with long exhale which will affect stress in shoulders.
The myth that nicotine is addictive has hurt recovery from smoking and dealing with stress. The idea of nicotine is addictive comes from lawyers that wanted to prove point to make money but common sense tells a different story. Keep in mind nicotine has an affect on the body within smoking the question is how it works out side of smoking.
I like to explain the Myth of Nicotine as a addictive drug within smoking for within clarity, a person does not waste their time and effort and lowers emotional frustration build up. There is relationship here that once realized can give more choices to be affective in changing a persons smoking habit and its emotional reality created from smoking. You are responsible for your behavior and creating choices is never ease when a person wants to change a learned habit that has emotional affect within their behavior. Do not waste your time and thoughts on nicotine as part of your over all recovery. It does have physical affect but not an addictive affect and the need to stop nicotine in your blood should be as fast as you can for recovery. In the view point of this program nicotine patch is harmful to person and their recovery for keeping a chemical that affects blood flow can not be good for a persons heart and feeling. To stop smoking is a physical challenge and a person can choose to take it up as such or give in to all the negative affects. Through the techniques of the power of core/breathing a person may find the tools to change and learn about them self in ways that are surprising but will lower the frustration of coming off smoking.
Nicotine out side of the act of smoking, does not carry addictive force. The idea of nicotine as an addictive force in smoking was created by lawyers which created the confusion about the influence nicotine within the habit of smoking. The lawyer left a impression that nicotine is the main addictive force in the act of smoking. The real addictive force behind the smoking habit is the method of inhaling and exhaling that affects physical stress and gives a sense of calmness. Nicotine adds to the affect of stress and mood change through smoking but without the whole learned method of smoking a person has develop, nicotine does NOT affect person in an addictive way.
Common sense facts shows nicotine does not carry addictive behavior and desires within its digestion by it self. Caffeine has more addictive effects then nicotine when person consumes it by it self. Using common sense about drugs that have addictive affect for if a drug has addictive force there should be people in drug rehabs to recover from nicotine patch addiction. The fact is there is no black market for nicotine patches and people are not setting around waiting for their fix of nicotine in patches and there are no people that are in drug rehab for nicotine patches addiction shows nicotine by its self has NO addictive force over a person. Nicotine patch acts more like a placebo with some chemical affect to lessen physical affects of not smoking. If person wants to lessen the physical and emotional affects of stopping smoking they should create breath like they smoke and create the mental focus they have when they are smoking to relax the shoulders and body and calm emotions. Keep in mind here, smoking is a form of breathing that replaces oxygen that affects a persons physical stress and emotional state and nicotine enhances it but does not create the affects for you have learned to change your stress by smoking. Between smoke from cigarettes replacing oxygen and nicotine lowering the flow of blood to internal organs reduces energy ability make persons physically weak thereby affecting the mental state to produce calmness.
When you stop smoking you stop a learned pattern of breathing which focuses on exhaling and the mind seeing the smoke or the exhale going out of the month which clues the mind to have attitude that relaxes the shoulders and then body and changes for moment in time a persons mental focus by effecting and reduced energy.
When recovering from smoking a person needs to be clear in what manifest the need to smoke, so they can deal with the need to smoke which affects behavior and attitudes. If a person believes they are recovering from nicotine they are not dealing with the real addictive force within the act smoking and that is the affect of the exhale to change stress which affects old learned emotions with the help of smoke and nicotine within the behavior of smoking.
Purpose to smoking for once a person understands purpose to smoking they can start to think about other physical behavior to replace the act of smoking. Purpose is key part to recovery and change, other wise person could feel the need for smoke under emotional pressure to deal with stress.
From energy point of view which is the power of core/breathing, the first physical change person can do is learn a form of breathing that extends exhaling in conscious mind way that affect stress. Replacing smoking breathing with all of its physical movement to affect stress with another form of breathing with its physical movement that affect stress is the most affective way to recovery from smoking and not wanting to smoke again. Looking at the emotional develop side of smoking and changing the need to smoke related to when smoking was learned and the emotions of the time.
Smoking is an spirit recovery of one self interacting with others around them. To smoke a person has to shape their torso while they are creating their breath in order to smoke. If breath and spirit are linked and smoking affects breath ability to form spirit within person that has influence on persons physical feeling and that affects person judgment and decisions that they are making every day. Example is food, for smoking killed off the ability to taste of foods that person is eating. Flavors within food is killed and it takes time to grow back the ability to taste the flavors within food. Smoking lowers a person ability to taste foods which affects enjoyment of food and a persons decision to eat some foods over others, because of the taste change from smoking. This is just one example of how smoking affects judgment and their are many more examples. So stopping smoking enhances physical signal to the brain for under the influence of smoking it was numb within it emotional development.
In this program the act of smoking is about creating relaxation of the mind and body through the act of exhaling. It is about your spirit affecting your mind and body to relax the shoulders muscles and body muscles to affect the minds emotional state. Finding techniques that create the same affects physically, mentally and emotionally of lessening stress with out smoking. There is NO reason you can not increase the enjoyable feelings of smoking with out smoking if you choose to be creative within your spirit within what your doing. (keep in mind spirit and breath relationship)
How to enhance the affects of relaxation with out smoking is by understanding the process or the step by step mental, physical and breathing a person creates to smoke their cigarette. Keep in mind, smoking is an affective way to reduce stress that is learned and each person has their own method to smoke to create the affect of relaxation and enjoyment. The word enjoyment is key word to replace your old smoking behavior with new behavior that creates enjoyment to be relaxed.
The most POWERFUL act a person does when they smoke is the exhale, for that is the driving force to relax the shoulders and body that a person has learned to bring about their learned emotional feeling that has some form of calmness within smoking.
This idea to replace smoking is center around core/breathing to relax shoulder and make person stronger and higher sense of a person physical body in movement. Creating the longest exhale is a game to be played with and experience the affects on shoulder stress is the basic goal. The reason people smoke while they are working at a desk is they are thinking but as soon as they pick up a cigarette their thought change ever so little and when they inhale the mind is their because they are coordinate the hand to smoke and then pause after the inhale. Then looking at the smoke leaving and the shoulder come down ever so little but they relax feeling is for only a moment before person goes back thinking and that is enough to know and feel in order to do it again. Every time you think, given the level of emotions within the thought, the shoulder will be engaged and have level of tension which is energy stored in those muscles that support that thinking.
You start off your change from smoking to non-smoking by breathing like you smoke when you feel tension is only the beginning. Now to replace the act of inhale with a cigarette a person inhale through the nose. Then pause for second or longer would be better so the mind can connect to the torso feeling of having oxygen and the muscles holding it. Then exhale like you did when your smoking and here is little bit of art here. Lips and tongue play a role is relaxing the shoulders as you exhale. When people smoke they shape their lips in different ways as they blow the smoke out. Also think about your placement of the tongue as your exhaled the smoke it is down touching the back of the lower teeth. This is all about shaping the mouth area to affect shoulders stress as you exhale.
learning to engage the core by moving the belly button out to inhale and pulling in for the exhale as you walk or seated but create your breath by moving the core. Then short inhale and long exhale by pulling in the belly button. It is bring in air through the nose, pause and then exhale out the mouth through the lip shape and tongue down touching the back of the lower teeth. The mind is feeling and directing the exhale as you exhale you release the shoulders. Then PAUSE while the stomach is pulled in and feel muscle tension and then relax shoulders. This is done for second or more (enjoyment) and feel shoulder area to direct it to release it.
This is fast release of stress in shoulders and relaxation of muscles to some degree equal to smoking over time and then more, much more to play with and develop.
This is the short version of core/breathing for the highest level is inhale and exhale out the nose by using the core to affect the whole torso and have no stress in shoulder and feeling hands and feet as they move.
Within this program there is walking to affect stress and feeling energy flow that changes muscle feeling and high level of mind body coordination that affects emotional stress feeling and body tension. Creating new set of motions with movement is opportunity to affect your spirit within walking.
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