Most smokers will say, “You should tell me how to stop smoking and not why should I quit.” There is no best time and right way to quit smoking. If you are planning to quit smoking, below is a guide on how to stop smoking: 1) Make a clear decision that you are quitting. You are the only who can decide for yourself if you want to quit. You must be willing to quit smoking and no one should be… (more…)
It is unfortunate that by 2025, 100 million people will have died because of smoking, and a large percentage of them will be young people. It is estimated that the number of smokers around the world is 1,100,000,000 and 3.5 million of them die every year (10,000 a day), because of this habit. Just take a look at what smoking can do to your health: It is a common cause of blindness. Studies that included 12,468 patients found that more… (more…)
After years of smoking, smokers are conditioned to light a cigarette to smoke for everything that happens. They smoke when they are happy, they smoke when they are stressed out or even angry, and they smoke to stay awake. Those folks even smoke when they are hungry. The list goes on and there can be many reasons to why people smoke. Often, people associate reasons to smoke with pleasure or a justification. The reasons seemed to be “right” to smoke… (more…)
Learning to smoke cigarettes was the hardest and most miserable task you undertook when you were young! Smoking cigarettes was something that you had to learn to do. Learning to smoke took some persistence and putting up with the misery of coughing and hacking after every pull on a cigarette. What were you mastering? You were learning to suppress your body’s natural protective responses to hot, polluted smoke going into your clean, pure lungs. Lungs created for clean air only!… (more…)
There was a knock at the door. I was expecting a couple to arrive for their quit smoking appointment. The guy said his partner was in the car crying and that they would have to postpone. The problem was that this lady was already having a stressful day as her brother was undergoing serious surgery, but she suffered from depression and was on some new meds. The result was that everything became too much for her and she didn’t come… (more…)