Cigarette

I recently noticed that one of my clients (Let’s call her Maria for the sake of this article) at my teaching profession was going through a common phase amongst people who want to stop smoking and finally escape from nicotine addiction, where they start to become frustrated, angry, desperate, unhappy, or annoyed with themselves that they smoke. But because of the lack of education about why she was a smoker and what the nicotine was doing to her, plus the true fact that she had not achieved that true desire that is needed to stop, she was going through an emotional rollercoaster, what I have named as  “Panicotine Syndrome” ©

This phase will eventually present itself to all smokers who have their two cents worth upstairs and they realise that they truly are mugs for smoking and they want out. But before I continue with telling you about my “Client” above, I would like to touch on a couple of things if I may. Wanting out of this wonderfully designed poisonous trap is great, however, unless you, the smoker who wants to quit smoking, puts in to practice a couple of crucial things then this phase will be about as far as you get in your quest to quit smoking before you roll back down the hill and light up another cigarette once again.

The point here is this:-

Nothing objective can be achieved without preperation or plan and the desire to endure all that presents itself during execution. The needed desire to see it through and succeed is only a desire that differs from any previous half hearted ones that the person with a true objective has had.

What I mean is this…You will always be a smoker unless you know completely why you do it and what makes you do it. When you know this, and have that superior desire, a little support, you too can walk away from the prison of nicotine addiction easily. I did, thousands of others did too. You are no different.

But when the “Panicotine Syndrome” © phase comes along to you, what will you do?

Lets get back to Maria…

We finished our meeting and with another client we headed off to a local cafeteria for a beer and some tapas. Now if you dont know , in Spain, if you are not a smoker then you may feel somewhat alienated because the majority of the population here smoke. They are all professional nicotine addicts thru and thru …and proud of it. The level of tobacco company brainwashing has peaked to the max here and it’s a pity.

We found a bar..I braced myself and thought ok ..I can suffer this for an hour so as not to be unsocial. The moment we walked through the “puerta” Maria started fumbling inside her handbag and drew out the marlboro lights. Before the order had left my lips she was puffing away like it there was no tomorrow. Ok so..I didnt say anything when the blue poison started to drift up my nostrils as Maria knows that I have a few things to say about smokers and smoking, she fanned the smoke away from my face with a wink and a smile. We clinked our glasses and drank. We spoke about the “Global Crisis” whilst munching away on small cuts of Spanish tortilla. Ten minutes had passed and it was a nice relief to have a glass of beer and some tapas. Then Maria Lit another cigarette and I frowned. I frowned because I was a little taken aback by the short time between this one and the one before. This social gathering of ours went on for about an hour or so as we had a couple more drinks and some more “Spanish Culinary Delights”

But during this hour Maria smoked 4 cigarettes and when we left and she got in her car another one found its way between her lips and a lighter.

Why?

Why did Maria have to smoke all those cigarettes in such a short time? Even when Maria and the majority of all smoker know how bad it is for them, they still continue to have bouts of chain smoking. Some smokers smoke cigarettes like this for weeks, months or years. Why? The true answer is Maria and other smokers that do this, are trapped in realms of nicotine addiction. Nothing more, Nothing less. Additionally, tagged to the answer is that because of this evil addiction, Maria and smokers alike have a proven misconception of two things. First of all that the cigarette is actually doing them something good ( see my List Of Excuses Post ) when in reality it’s doing the complete opposite. And that the smoking of a cigarette is helping them overcome some kind of boredom that in the eyes of a smoker is apparantely physically fixed with a cigarette, when the true fact that boredom is really just a state of mind.

Maria and all smokers are being fooled constantly by the power of this poison (nicotine) and the tobacco companies and our beloved media showing and convincing smokers that social events can only be enjoyed with a smoke. The more you smoke the more fun you will have. (And the more money we make while you are killing yourself..now thats fun) The more they use it the more they are fooled. They are fooled into believing that social events are not only enjoyable but cool.

Have you ever heard so much puppydoo in your life?

Maria has developed a tolerance and a fear to smoking cigarettes like all nicotine addicts do. It’s addiction shrouded by feel good buzzes, hits lifts, boosts or whatever a smoker claims to get when inhaling the poisons. The tolerance of nicotine which or wonderful, complex bodies can withstand up to a point, and the illusionary fear that life will be terrible if she decided to quit smoking and become a normal human being.

Maria probably was tired, maybe stressed from personal issues, enjoying the atmosphere and the drinks, thinking about what to wear tonight, bored, needed to have a better opportunity to taste the beer. Whatever was going through Maria’s mind-life during that hour was surely not in her eyes something called “nicotine addiction-where the substance makes think that the more you use it, the more you benefit from it”

This is the brainwashing we have in our society.

There is no need as a human being and for Maria to live a normal, healthy life to use cigarettes. It is the truth and I am a product with millions of people too of that truth. If you chain smoke then the more you do it the more you are addicted. The good thing is that you can stop smoking, stop chain smoking, if you have the desire and the know how as to why you smoke tobacco.

Smoking cigarettes creates the ongoing need for the next one.

Break the chain and live again.

Anthony Schneider

www.the-ex-smoker.com

Anthony Schneider
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/why-do-smokers-chain-smoke-737564.html

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My friends is smoking about 5 cigarettes a day
Newports I think
Is that too much?
And I don’t know if they’re addicted but if they are how long does it take to quit?

Well honestly any cigarette smoking is too much. But if you look at it on the average 5 cigarettes a day isn’t as many as most smokers. Quiting is something very different and personal for everyone. If you do have the strength to quit it could take many many many tried or for some it may not be as difficult. It’s more up to the individual and the quiting method they choose.

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Smoking can and does kill many people every year. Why do people still smoke? Besides being the cause of lung cancer – a killer disease, smoking is also becoming more and more cost prohibitive! At $4.00 + per pack, a two pack a day habit amounts to 4 x 2 x 365 = $2,920.00 per year! Yet, the money is really secondary, the real cost is the ill effect on one’s health, and by the way, it’s not only the issue of longevity; it is also the state of your present health and well being. Smoking saps your energy and robs you of a much greater sense of well-being that could be yours if only you could quit smoking (and get some exercise).

The plan I have for kicking the smoking habit is the method that I used myself almost a decade ago – I’ve been smoke free ever since! It does not involve any drug, nicotine patch or pill and is cost free. Furthermore, I quit on the first attempt, never picked up a cigarette again, and did not gain substantial extra weight – other than two or three pounds max!

Let me state straightforwardly that I am not a doctor nor do I pretend to be one. Furthermore, the plan I will present to you is neither new nor revolutionary. Again this is simple but effective way to quit smoking forever. Other approaches, I am sure, work as well as this one. Some of them may work faster. But, the main selling point I have for my approach is this: QUIT SMOKING THE EASY WAY is the EASIEST method to quit smoking PERMANENTLY!

The basic idea behind this approach is to gradually withdraw from the smoking habit over time, thus substantially weakening the addiction to the point that it loses its stronghold over the smoker’s body and mind. It is damn hard to abruptly stop a habit of say two packs a day cold turkey. It is so difficult that many smokers who try such an approach will likely fail, and many thereupon give up, resigning themselves to the long-term dangers and ill effects of tobacco addition for the remainder of their lives.
It is a lot easier, on the other hand, to cut back gradually over time and thereby reduce habit down to 5 or 6 cigarettes a day and then to stop completely. It is the difference of quitting a two packs a day habit vs. quitting a 5 cigarette a day habit. The addiction substantially loses its stronghold over the smoker. It still remains but has become a lot weaker and therefore easier to gain control over.

THE PROGRAM

1. The first step is the easiest: simply take note of how much you are smoking and especially note the frequency of your cigarettes. Keep a record of the time of each lite up. The basics of this method are to reduce the frequency of cigarettes by gradually increasing the time intervals between lite ups.

2. Now take the record you’ve created and average the time between lite ups. Of course, use common sense in doing this! You are not going to add the six + hours of sleep into the average. We want an average time interval between smokes during your waking hours when you are free to lite up. This last point is important because the average will be skewed if you average in hours when you are not allowed to lite up, as for example during work. Again, the average should be during the day and evening when there are no constraints upon your smoking.

3. Next, simply watch the clock! Keep yourself to the time interval that you have established. Do this for three days to accustom yourself to the program. Easy so far! In fact you have made a great start and have yet to reduce your smoking by a single cigarette! As easy as this is, please don’t cheat the system! If you have set the interval at 30 minutes and had to wait 2 hours to your work break to lite up, you are not allowed to smoke 4 in a row! If your interval is 30 minutes that means that from the time you put out your first cigarette to the time you lite up the next, AT LEAST 30 minutes MUST elapse!

4. Now the hard part: withdrawing! Whatever your time interval is; increase by 20%. This may sound like a lot, but it’s really nothing! If your interval was at 30 minutes; a 20% increase puts your interval at 36 minutes. So all you have to do is hold on for another 6 minutes! Come on! How hard is that! For an interval at 1 hour the 20% increase puts you at 1 hour 12 minutes! You see the reason why many people fail in their attempts to quit smoking is that they give up. This is not rocket science, since the only time you can possible fail in this is by giving in and lighting up again. I think most people who try to quit cold turkey feel overwhelmed by it. Psychologically they think to themselves that they can NEVER have another in their lives, and that thought seems overwhelming. They gradually develop defeatist attitudes thinking that it is just to hard for them or that they are not equal to the task. My system is so much easier. You don’t have to feel overwhelmed! All you have to do at this early stage is to wait an extra 6 or 12 minutes. It’s not a lifetime! Hence, you don’t feel overwhelmed! The downside of this program is that it does take longer than quitting cold turkey, but the great advantage is that it is for easier! Once you have increased your interval stay for 10 days.

5. By now you get the idea! Increase the interval again, by another 20%. You may find this a bit harder than the first interval increase, but essentially it s the same deal. If you interval started at 30 minutes it went to 36 minutes at the first increase. This increase brings it to 43.2 minutes. Round up to 44 minutes. Consider this: after this step you would have decreased you habit by 40%! Going from 36 minutes to lite up to 44 minutes is simply waiting an additional 8 minutes. If you are craving a cigarette by then just convince yourself to hold on just a few more minutes. Develop strategies for taking your mind off of it for that brief time. Eat a snack. As you cut back to lower levels of smoking though the method of increasing time intervals you may find it getting a bit tougher. If you do, just increase the number of days before the next interval increase. The basic method is really the important lesson; the specific timing between stages can vary. Most importantly: NEVER GIVE UP! The remainder of the program is fairly predictable: increase intervals by 20% steps – or less if you begin to find it tough going – until you are down to 5 or 6 cigarettes a day. Once you have hit that point; stay there for at least ten to 15 days. You should then be able to stop smoking completely and forever!!!

The following is an illustration of how it may work for a 2 pack a day smoker. While the key is focusing on increasing the interval between cigarettes, each % of increase in time interval should = a corresponding decrease in the amount of cigarettes smoked daily.

40 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 32

32 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 25.6 (round down) 25

25 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 20

20 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 16

16 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 12

12 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 9

9 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 7

7 cigarettes reduced by 20% = 5

Final step is to quit all together! The final step is the hardest because it is at this point that you finally commit to not smoking not just for the next interval but for the rest of your life! Yet, it ought to be a lot easier at this point than it would have been at the outset if you were to quit cold turkey. Still this is definitely the toughest point. Personally, they way I handled this is though physical exercise. This helped me a great deal to take away the last bit of craving in that crucial period. Another substitute is food or munchies. If you just eat then naturally you will gain a few pounds. Personally, I think a few extra pounds aren’t a bad trade off for what could be a killer addiction. Actually, if you eat a little more and you exercise the calories may balance out more or less.

If you spend 10 days for each step, you would be able to quit in 90 days. If you find this tough along the way you may stretch the time-line. If you stayed on each step 20 days that is still only about 180 days or so; 6 months. That still isn’t bad for the goal of staying smoke free for the rest of your life!!!! Again, this is not meant to be the fastest way to quit smoking. However, this is probably the easiest way to stop and stay stopped. I would recommend this method to anybody, but this is especially helpful for those who have already tried and failed at other methods.

Roger Leblanc
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/quit-smoking-the-easy-way-31379.html

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“Smoking is injurious to health” – All the cigarette packets have this printed in bold on their covers. But the fact is how many of us have noticed and thought about it.

cigarette smoking has been attributed as one of the most important source of mortality around the world. As this fact has come into limelight, most of the countries are coming up with the smoking ban in pubs, bars and restaurants. If this is not enough, smoking in workplace has been banned by most of the companies. Such strict rules may be difficult to be followed by the employees who are smokers. With this regulation over the smoking, an allocated area sheltered for smokers to smoke outdoors but still undercover came into the offering.

Outdoor ban over smoking in certain areas also is due to the litter problem of the cigarette butts and the smoke, which can be passively inhaled by the non-smokers. A convenient disposal of the cigarette butts and a safe place to smoke was necessary and thus, came the birth of smoking shelters.

Smoking shelter offer a safe area with the protection from the weather. It is a designated covered place for smokers of a company with no smoking policy. Discarded cigarette butts are an added fire risk in most of the places. This can be prevented with the shelters exclusively for smoking. It not only helps a company to keep in control of where people smoke but also keeps the office premises smoke free and free of cigarette butt mess.

Most of the smoking shelters are weatherproof, indicative of keeping the shelter conditioned for the external weather. It keeps the people who smoke in these shelters, warm, and dry. The cleanliness of the company complying with the government smoking laws can be easily followed with the help of these smoking shelters.

The smoking shelters offer fire resistance as well is designed to be waterproof. Seating arrangements are also been made as a provision in most of the shelters to keep the smokers at their pleasure. Feeling at ease and comfort ability while the staff or customers smoke is an instant solution with the smoking shelters. Air inside the shelter can be kept clean and recycled with the external environment with the help of vents present on the roof of the smoking shelters.

Nancy Dsouza
http://www.articlesbase.com/small-business-articles/use-of-smoking-shelter-89004.html

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smoking is one of the top reasons why so many people age 18 and up are dying. 2100 people die a day because of this. Should we as the young community inform more about the whole fiasco, or should it be banned after all?

I think non-smokers should butt out.

Smokers already can’t smoke in so many places it isn’t funny – even when we were already separated before – it just seems like non-smokers have to whine and cry about EVERYTHING – go smoke a cig and chill out – besides – banning cigarettes would make alot of smokers homicidal and the first people we will be killing off is the whiny ass non-smokers who wouldn’t go the hell away and just mind their own f*cking business

Do you have unprotected sex and then use a public restroom – ever? then you are putting my life at risk and we should make that illegal also

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Besides cleaner air for us non-smokers ?
Agrippa the Roman …the health care savings alone will more than make up for the lost tax revnue

I think it gives a heads-up warning to lower and middle-class people who can barely afford cigarettes now. Maybe they will understand that cigarettes are too costly and spend their money on something beneficial. Though, their is some people out their who’d go to great lengths to obtain cigarettes and probably skip payments (now thats only of those who smoke many packs a day resulting in a large sum of their pay checks yearly),

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It is true that the law of supply and demand dictates that a higher price means a lower quantity is demanded, but funding S-CHIP with Federal Cigarette Tax Increases is a Poor Tax Policy. A cigarette tax increase hurts the poor more than virtually any other way of raising money. High Cigarette Taxes Encourage Smuggling and Associated Crime.

It is often said that cigarette taxes should be increased because government needs revenue. Such an argument is possibly the worst used by advocates of higher cigarette taxation. Why not tax coffee or spinach or impose a tax based upon the number of blades of grass in a taxpayer’s yard? Just because the government needs revenue to fund some general spending program that has broad benefits doesn’t mean that an arbitrarily selected group of people should pay the tax. o_O

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I like newport and so does my mom. If you want you can also just name your favorite brand.

Marlboro lights
never tried Newports.

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How many people will CHOOSE better health ?

Me, my husband and many others. We do not feel we should be taxed to benefit another. If the money was going to care for smokers it would be a different situation. What comes next?

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The smoking is not only harmful to the smokers but also the people standing near bye. I have seen lot of people smoking carrying their babies.

I welcome people to stay home if they don’t like people smoking. It’s not a perfect world. If you don’t like what you see, stay home in your nice clean house.

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