Cigarette

I have a kitten (12 weeks) old that keeps steeling cigarette butts out of the ashtray. I heard it could kill them and my friend said its good to help them for de-worming. Which is true?
I should’ve said , hes eating them and putting them in his water dish.

Well if they are harmful to humans, then they are certainly harmful to your kitten. Dump the ashtray in the trash instead of leaving the butts in it.

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I’m trying to find out if and/or how cigarette smoke can cling to a person if no one is smoking in your presence (i.e. someone smokes in a room, you enter 2 hours later, you smell like smoke).

I need scientific facts so links to reports or studies would be greatly appreciated. Other possible questions I’d need answered for this report include:

Is it possible that smoke molecules can cling to you if someone smokes several rooms over?

Can the odor from an ashtray cling to a person (unlit cigarettes of course)?

If you’re around a person who smells like smoke, is it scientifically possible for the odor to rub off on you?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Is it possible the smoke smell is something a non-smoker would pick up after walking in the house? The odor may not necessarily be on the clothes but something "in the nose" of the person who smelled the smoke. Any scientific data to back it up?

Thanks
The reports on smoke molecules and how they "cling" to individuals. I have some data on how it sticks to an individual while in the presence of the odor but I need data on the lingering of the molecules/odor.

You can smell like cigarette smoke if you, your clothes, or the furniture you are sitting upon has been exposed to people that smoke.

If someone uses perfume or cologne and rubs up against you, some of that scent will linger on you. It’s gotten many a man in trouble. Also, I’m sure there are people out there who can tell you they work with people who they can smell coming way before they see them. It’s the same with cigarette smoke.

Ask a smoker what happens to the clothes they haven’t worn in awhile in their closet. They turn yellow wherever they’ve been exposed to the air.

I know from personal experience when I was a smoker that even before opening the door on my house I could smell the cigarette smoke lingering around the outside of the house. After I no longer smoked, I could smell that the house and car actually reeked of cigarette smoke.

If you are doing a report on whether or not smoking should be allowed in enclosed public places, I don’t think it should be. I respect your right to smoke, (I used to get irate at people who took the position I now take), but your right to smoke ends when I have to re-breathe the air you are polluting.

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How many people do you know who have quit smoking for a month or a year or and then started up again? What methods did they use to quit smoking: hypnosis, drugs, cold turkey? If they started back up after trying to quit smoking, hypnosis was probably not one of the things they tried. Is that your story, too? Unfortunately, it’s really common.

Anyone who has smoked for a number of years comes to a point where they really want to quit. In fact, they’re desperate to quit. That’s when they find out just how addicted they are. Because even though they have really good reasons, and a lot of motivation to quit, they can’t.

Has this already happened to you? Have you already had the experience of wanting to quit because the new baby was on the way? Or your new boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t smoke. So you don’t want to anymore either? Or maybe you’re just tired of seeing so much of your hard-earned cash literally go up in smoke!

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit smoking, good intentions are usually not enough. Nicotine addiction is so strong, that you’ll need all the help he can get. The good news is, there’s a lot of help available. You have a lot of good quit smoking methods and products to choose from.

Quitting smoking is really a two-pronged process. You have to deal with both the physical nicotine addiction, and the psychological habits that you have created around smoking. Let’s call them your “smoking rituals”.

Everyone who has smoked for any number of years has actually built a whole set of smoking rituals that are unique to them. One of the reasons it’s so difficult to quit smoking is that the rituals become self reinforcing. What exactly does that mean?

It means that when you first began smoking you developed a set of habits, or actions, that you used every time you lit up your cigarette. And these are things like having a favorite ashtray, preferring a particular brand of cigarettes, using matches instead of a lighter, or always buying a red or a yellow lighter.

Now think about how many cigars or cigarettes you smoke every day. Do you smoke one pack a day? That’s 20 cigarettes. So that’s 20 times a day that you use your red lighter, or you look at that gold and white cigarette package. And then there are all of the habitual places and times that you smoke. You have a cigarette sitting in your favorite chair, or you light up after every meal.

So after even one year of smoking, do you really wonder why every time you see your cigarette lighter, or you finish a meal, it just feels natural to have a cigarette? In fact, it feels uncomfortable not to have one. And we’ve only been talking about your behavioral habits.

When you quit smoking cigarettes, you also have to face your nicotine addiction. And the physical addiction to nicotine is as strong or stronger than a physical addiction to heroin. The good news about that is: once you stop putting nicotine into your system, most of it flushes out within a couple of days.

Quit smoking drugs, like patches and pills and nasal sprays, are intended to help you get through the physical withdrawal period. They’re supposed to help reduce the nicotine cravings, and you’re supposed to gradually taper off from them. They work about 20% to 30% of the time for long-term smoking cessation. But if you talk to people who have successfully quit smoking for 10 or 20 years, you’ll probably find that they used self hypnosis at some point to help them stop smoking for good.

Joanne Fallwater
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/quit-smoking-hypnosis-will-help-you-quit-for-good-724079.html

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