A lot of people do not really realize the effects of smoking. Smoking can affect the human health in a serious way not to mention that it can also be deadly. Did you know that there are roughly 4,000 unsafe chemicals within a traditional cigarette? The effect of these chemical substances to the body is extensive and harmful.

Once you start to take a single puff on a cigarette, it can pave way for the start of nicotine addiction. It may get you addicted into cigarette smoking, as your body will crave for nicotine. For any smoker, ending a smoking habit can be really tough.

The second hand smoke is equally dangerous and non-smokers are troubled about this. And when they are around smokers, they will have their fair share of health complications and cancer risks even if they do not ask for it.

Smoking can cause:

• health troubles

• stained teeth

• faster aging

• financial burden

• loss of life

These mentioned impacts of smoking provides you all the reasons why you need to quit smoking. At this point that the government place a great importance on health and wellness, smoking bans and anti-smoking campaigns are carried out.

Because of these good reasons to quit smoking, cigarette manufacturers developed a clever device called the electronic cigarette. It targeted to aid people who smoke quit smoking in a powerful means and relieve nicotine cravings. It is a healthy solution to smoke. It appears like a cigarette and feels like one.

E-cigarette is known as a smoker’s clever choice. Why? It’s for the reason that it possess many benefits! It’s healthy, safe, and economical. Furthermore, it can be used anywhere and anytime.

It is healthy in the sense that it’s absent with thousand of dangerous components compared to traditional cigarettes. Yet, it contains nicotine and we cannot deny it. This device can help smokers fix their nicotine cravings in a gradual manner until they areable to get rid of it successfully. It creates vapor that seem to look like a actual smoke. So, one does not have to be concerned about second hand smoke.

Since you won’t be needing a lighter or matches as well as ashtray, it’s found to be safe and economical. It is battery-operated, helping you spend less and saving you from a trip to a cigarette store.

The best thing about electronic cigarette is that it can be used freely and in places where there is a smoking ban. People who smoke don’t have to find smoking area to smoke. And they do not have to go out from the office and endure the cold weather only to have a smoking break. The electronic cigarette can be utilized within the office, in a shopping mall or in a nightclub.

An electronic cigarette offers hassle-free, worry-free and guilt-free smoking. So, if you want to save yourself from upcoming health complications, accelerated aging, yellowish teeth and monetary worries then simply its best that you move to electric cigarette or likewise referred to as the safe cig.

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V2 electronic cigarettes also known as vapor cigarettes, are electronic smoking devices that substitute traditional cigarettes. These devices look and taste like real cigarettes. However, thanks to extensive research and development, this new generation of cigarettes eliminates the harmful effects of tobacco smoke and its unpleasantness to non-smokers. Around the world health awareness against smoking is growing at a rapid pace. In many countries smoking is banned in restaurants, bars, cafes, nightclubs, and many other public places. V2 offers a smart alternative that is far more tolerable for non-smokers even in an indoor environment. V2 uses an advanced patented technology that delivers a smoking sensation as well as nicotine (if desired) by dispersing harmless water vapor through the device. The vapor is virtually odorless. Smokers can continue to enjoy their smoking habit without being exposed to over 4000 harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Smokers have the option of deciding the desired level of nicotine (High, Medium, Low, or No nicotine). Features: – No Premature aging, no yellow teeth. – No First or Second-hand smoke. – No Tar, No Flame, No Tobacco. – Not offensive to others, can be smoked virtually anywhere. – Satisfies nicotine craving. Starter Kits include: – 2 batteries (1 long, 1 short). – 3 cartridges. – Power charger. – USB adapter. – Leather carrying case.

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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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The wise saying goes, “Don’t strike. If you strike, strike so hard, that there is no need to strike again.” To add something more, “You may have an hour to suffer. But you have a lifetime to live, live with the ideals which you cherish!”

Here, your cherished ideal is cigarette cessation. This three inch cylinder weighing about 5 gms has bothered you enough. Now is the time to strike hard. Your hour by hour suffering may be for a month. If you pass this test for one month, you have kicked the habit for ever.

This small word with eight syllables NICOTINE- how powerful it is, how it has pinned you down? How many times you wished to come out of the smelly trench, and how each time you slipped down and fell into the cigarette trench again!

Granted that your cigarette cessation desire is strong and your will power is not so strong. As a stop gap arrangement, you tan take recourse to certain cigarette cessation methods. Take NLP for example. NLP means Neuro Linguistic Psychology. This is not a guaranteed method for cigarette cessation, but one of the dependable tools to be of help to a desperate individual like you.

This method alone will not grant you emancipation from the smoking habit. Though, clubbed with other methods, it will definitely produce beneficial results.{mospagebreak}

Your concern and the concern of your close ones in view of your deteriorating health could be another strong reason for cigarette cessation. If cigarette smoking is for enjoyment, should you not live long enough to enjoy that enjoyment? If you are not there, where is your enjoyment? So also, by smoking, you are causing deliberate injury to your health.

But what about your family members, wife and young children who are the victims of your passive smoke? Why should they view your smoke coils? You have no right to cause cancer in them.

Practice the downward spiral method for cigarette cessation. Suppose you are smoking ten cigarettes per day. Make it nine…after a week, make it eight…and after another week seven per day…so on and so forth!

Prohibitive cost of the tobacco, and the merciless taxation on products like cigarette, is another reason for your cigarette cessation. Just think deeply how much money you have squandered to spoil your health by the cigarette smoke. This deep thinking is likely to awaken you. If you get strong but supportive promptings from your trusted friends and well-meaning relatives, this factor also will have deep impact on your cigarette ideas.

Cigarette cessation and smokers are arch rivals. One of them has to win, by destroying the other. Let the strong contender for the non-smoker category win!

Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/cigarette-cessation-and-smoker-56190.html

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Are you concerned about your health? If you want to quit smoking, hypnosis is the healthiest method. Just think about it for a minute. A quit smoking hypnosis program will teach your healthy habits that you can use for life. But quit smoking drugs have potentially dangerous side effects.

But just as dangerous can side effects be? After all, a lot of the drugs have to be prescribed by a doctor. Doesn’t a doctor’s supervision automatically make taking drugs to quit smoking safe? And aren’t they worth it if the end result is that you don’t smoke anymore?

First, you have to understand that all drugs have side effects. And some of them are more serious than others. You’re already addicted to nicotine, which is a heavy-duty poison. Did you know nicotine has been used for centuries as an insecticide to kill insects?

Well, when you use a nicotine patch or nasal sprays that are compounded with nicotine, you’re still delivering that poison into your system. True, you’re getting doses small enough that they won’t kill you as long as you follow the directions carefully.

But a long-time smoking habit isn’t just about the physical addiction to nicotine. People who have smoked for a number of years to develop “smoking rituals”. Those are the small actions that get repeated every time you smoke.

They are small things, like the way you hold your hand when you smoke your cigarette. Do you hold your cigarette between your index and middle fingers? Or do you like to hold it between your thumb and index finger?

You keep your lighter in your pants pocket? How many times a day do you reach for your lighter? Do you think it’s a coincidence that when you reach for your keys in your pocket, you suddenly crave a cigarette?

It’s no coincidence. Putting your hand in your pocket has become part of a “smoking ritual” that triggers your urge to smoke. Even if you just finished smoking a cigarette a few minutes ago, when you put your hand in your pocket again, you’ll think about having a cigarette.

That’s where the nicotine replacement drugs, like the patch and the nasal sprays and inhalers, can become dangerous. They take care of the physical cravings, but they don’t address the smoking rituals. So a lot of people end up using the quit smoking drugs, smoking their cigarettes or cigars on top of it.

That puts them in danger of having a nicotine overdose. Just because you don’t drop dead on the spot from smoking a cigarette or cigar, doesn’t mean that you can’t overdose on nicotine. You can. Not only can an overdose of nicotine make you violently ill, it can kill you on the spot. Like a dead bug hit with insecticide.

And what about the quit smoking pills? You can’t get them without a prescription, so you would think that they would be safe. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Even under a doctor’s supervision, some of the drugs themselves are just not safe.

If you take the time to read the list of potential side effects that these drugs can cause, it will make you think twice about taking them. You want to quit smoking because you want to be healthy. But do you really want to risk damage to your heart, liver, kidney and other internal organs while you’re in the process of quitting smoking?

There are other safer methods to quit smoking that don’t have any kind of physical health risk at all. No, you don’t have to quit smoking cold turkey. Hypnosis has the best long-term success rate of any of the methods that people use to quit smoking. And the side effects of using hypnosis, long term are actually good for you.

A good hypnosis program will give you tools to help ease the nicotine cravings. You’ll also learn ways to deactivate those “smoking ritual” triggers. And that’s really important for long-term success.

Joanne Fallwater
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/if-you-want-to-quit-smoking-hypnosis-is-the-healthiest-method-724076.html

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