Why stop
smoking? Giving up smoking easily:
Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each
year. Most people know that smoking can cause lung
cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and
illnesses. Of these deaths, about 43 000 are from
smoking-related cancers, 30 000 from cardiovascular
disease and 29 000 die slowly from emphysema and other
chronic lung diseases.
How do cigarettes and smoking damage your health?
Cigarettes contain thousands of chemical compounds and
toxic chemical substances.
The products that are most damaging are:
o Tar, from smoking a carcinogen (substance that
causes cancer)
o Nicotine in cigarettes is addictive and increases
cholesterol levels in your body
o Carbon monoxide from smoking reduces oxygen in the
body
o Components of the gas and smoking particulates cause
chronic lung disorders.
The damage caused by smoking is influenced by:
The number of cigarettes smoked, and whether the
cigarette has a filter, or how the tobacco has been
prepared.
Research has shown that smoking reduces life
expectancy by seven to eight years. Smoking affects how
long you live Fact: The people who die every day as a
result of smoking, many are comparatively young smokers
Fact: The number of people under the age of 70 who die
from smoking and smoking-related diseases exceeds the
total figure for deaths caused by breast cancer, AIDS,
and traffic accidents. Enough reason to stop smoking.
Non-smokers and ex-smokers can also look forward to a
healthier old age than smokers. Giving up smoking is easy
with hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
These are the Major diseases caused by smoking:
Smoking facts: Hardening of the arteries is a process
that develops over years, after smoking, when cholesterol
and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them
narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow
(atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due
to smoking. Smoking accelerates the hardening and
narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and
blood clots are two to four times more likely.
Cardiovascular disease can take many forms depending
on which blood vessels are involved, and all of them are
more common in person with smoking habits. If the kidney
or arteries are affected, then high blood pressure or
kidney failure results.
Smoking facts: Coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in
the arteries supplying the heart, which can lead to a
heart attack. Around 30 per cent are caused by smoking.
Cerebral thrombosis: the vessels to the brain can become
blocked, which can lead to collapse, stroke and
paralysis. Blockage to the vascular supply to the legs
may lead to gangrene and even amputation. Smokers tend to
develop coronary thrombosis 10 years earlier than
non-smokers, and make up 9 out of 10 heart bypass
patients. Person with a smoking habits are more likely to
get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of
lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly
ever affect non-smokers. 90% of lung cancer cases are due
to smoking. One in ten moderate smokers and almost one in
five heavy smokers (more than 15 cigarettes a day) will
die of lung cancer. If no-one smoked, lung cancer would
be a rare diagnosis - only 0.5 per cent of people who've
never touched a cigarette develop lung cancer. For
ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the
risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a
non-smoker.
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Smoking facts: The more cigarettes or tobacco you
smoke in a day, and the longer you've smoked, the higher
your risk of lung cancer. Similarly, the risk rises the
deeper you inhale and the earlier in life you started
smoking. So if you smoke, the risk of contracting mouth
cancer is five times higher than for a non-smoker. Cancer
can start in many areas of the mouth, with the most
common being on or underneath the tongue. It's estimated
that 94 per cent of 20-a-day smokers have some emphysema
when the lungs are examined after death, while more than
90 per cent of non-smokers have little or none.
In smokers, the rate of decline in lung function can
be three times the usual rate. As lung function declines,
breathlessness begins. Smoking raises blood pressure,
which can cause hypertension which is a risk factor for
heart attacks Fact: The blood vessels in the eye are
sensitive and can be easily damaged by smoke, causing a
bloodshot appearance and itchiness. Couples who smoke are
more likely to have fertility problems than couples who
are non-smokers. Smoking obviously worsens asthma and
counteracts asthma medication by worsening the
inflammation of the airways that the medicine tries to
ease. Smokers run an increased risk of cataracts. Smokers
take 30 per cent sicker day's year than non-smokers.
Heavy smokers are twice as likely to get macular
degeneration, resulting in the gradual loss of eyesight.
Smoking stains your teeth and gums. Smoking causes an
acid taste in the mouth and contributes to the
development of ulcers. Smoking increases your risk of
periodontal disease, which causes swollen gums, bad
breath and teeth to fall out. Smoking also affects your
looks: smokers have paler skin and more wrinkles. This is
because smoking reduces the blood supply to the skin and
lowers levels of vitamin A.
Smoking facts: For men in their 30s and 40s, smoking
increases the risk of impotence and erectile dysfunction
by about half. Smoking can damage the blood vessels and
cause them to degenerate: nicotine narrows the arteries
that lead to the member. Erections can't occur unless
blood can flow freely into the member, so these blood
vessels have to be in good condition. Passive smoking
smoke that comes off a cigarette between puffs carries a
higher risk than directly inhaled smoke so that children,
who grow up in a home where their parents smoke, have
twice the risk of getting asthma and asthmatic bronchitis
Fact: The y also have a higher risk of developing
allergies. Babies born to mothers who smoke during
pregnancy are twice as likely to be born prematurely and
with a low birth weight.
Smoking facts: As well as reducing your risk of
getting a smoking illness, there are other benefits to
quitting smoking, your general health improves, and even
tiredness and headaches can be linked to smoking. Giving
up smoking is the single biggest thing you can do to
improve your health.
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Ten tricks ... for giving up
smoking
Breathe depth and mentalíze giving up smoking.
Think nothing of to throw the packet on the first of
January and to shut up in the bathroom, waiting to be
smoked like two days later. "It is necessary to ponder
the decision, knowledge what it is going to face (it will
leave behind the bad breath, the yellow teeth, and the
wrinkles)...
Previous diagnosis for smoking is a good idea. It is
not the same ten cigarettes are ventilated a day that two
packets." It is important to quantify the grade of
dependency on the nicotine
Ask for support about giving up smoking with hypnosis
and hypnotherapy, or publish in the announcements by
words... that there should find out his doorman, his
baker: and all his family and friends! Ask them to help
him and that him never offer to fall down in the
temptation. That does not give him shame. "The men are
more reluctant than the women to ask for help.
Take medicine for some weeks to help with nicotine
withdrawal
For example, with chewing gums or patches of nicotine.
But if only one ventilates from 10 to 15 cigarettes a day
it will not turn out to be very effective to him. In any
case, and if his is serious, it will be able to take
pills of burping, an antidepressant that will prevent him
from relapsing. "I spend half of the consultation
convincing my patients that resort to sedative, patches
or chewing gums", Despite the most reluctant, this route
proves: the percentage of smokers that is supported
without smoking at the age of six months is 80 % if it
receives pharmacological help, opposite to 10 % ó
15 % of those who try it without taking anything. Quit
smoking by going to the gymnasium
"With two times a week during 20 minutes is
sufficient", they affirm in quit smoking news mag. If his
favorite sport is the armchair - then, walk at least a
daily hour.
Use alternative therapies for giving up a smoking
habit, but if the previous does not work, choose
acupuncture, the reflexology pedal, the glazing in the
forehead... But it will not work out for him cheap: a
treatment of auriculotherapy (do not think anything rare:
it consists of massages of up to 22 minutes in the ears)
it costs almost 300 euros. "But with only one meeting it
eliminates the physical dependency on the tobacco and, if
it does not work, we return him his money",
Quit smoking with a menthol mouthpiece
Caramels, pips, chewing gums... work to fight the
withdrawal effects. But do not lower the custody: the
sensation of need for a cigarette can last six months or
more. Quit a smoking habit: drink at least eight water
glasses: To eliminate more quickly the nicotine of his
organism, to make to eliminate the mouth dryness and
hydrate the body. This way also he will avoid to fatten:
"The plenitude sensation diminishes the appetite", Care
with the alcohol! When trying to quit smoking.
Especially, the first month. Because he knows
already... with the glass, the temptation can be
irresistible.
Throw away all what symbolizes tobacco: Cigarette
lighters, matches .etc.
The addiction to the consumption of Tobacco
THE ADDICTION OF TOBACCO
Tobacco has been consumed by the human being for more
than 2000 years. In spite of all the knowledge acquired
on the damage to the health that provokes the above
mentioned consumption, approximately 1.100 still keep on
smoking millions of persons in the world Fact: The
majority of the smokers wants to allow smoking, many try
it annually, but only very few, per year they manage to
leave the consumption and to be supported without
smoking. Till recently the tobacco consumption, in his
diverse forms, was seen by the society, even by the
doctors, only like a "bad habit" Fact: The scientific
evidence is making to change substantially the concept
that was had on this conduct, first in the medical
ambience and then in the society, happening to be seen
like a dependency / addiction on consumption of nicotine.
To be able to break the development of the current
epidemic of consumption of tobacco and illnesses tobacco
clerks, who affect the humanity, it is necessary that the
professionals of the health, and the society in plenary
meeting, understand entirely what is what lies after the
tobacco consumption. It will have to understand the
phenomenon of the addiction to nicotine Fact: The
nicotine addiction is not only "very much nicotine
consumption". Recent scientific studies provide of
overwhelming proofs that the nicotine, including the
nicotine, not only interfere with the cerebral
functioning, but they have lasting effects on the
metabolism and the cerebral activity. In some moment,
changes happen in the brain that can turn the nicotine
abuse into addiction: a chronic illness and appellant
Fact: The clerks to nicotine suffer from "avidity" for
consuming, and use the nicotine in compulsive form,
without being capable of controlling his conduct in spite
of wanting it. Many clerks to nicotine consumption,
including many smokers, will need a treatment to overcome
this compulsive behavior.
To understand the nature of this conduct, and his
particular characteristics, is essential to initiate the
way of the change, and for the social realization of the
need for the above mentioned change. This process is not
exclusive of any social group, because in the tobacco
consumption "who is not part of the solution, is part of
the problem", but to the professionals of the health, to
the educators, to the social communicators and to the
politicians, corresponds to them an enormous
responsibility in this topic.
THE CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO AS AN ADDICTION
Evidence exists sufficiently: clinical, epidemiologic
and experimental that supports the concept of which the
tobacco consumption, and of nicotine in particular,
expires with the necessary requisites Nicotine addiction
is defined as an Addiction to the Consumption of
Substances.
a) Clinical criteria, in the chapter of disorders
linked to the consumption of substances psychoactive, the
criteria that a substance must fulfill to consider it how
addictive they are:
"1. Worry or compulsion for the consumption.
"2. Decrease or loss of control with regard to the use
of the substance.
"3. Use continued in spite of negative
consequences.
" 4. Minimization or denial of problems associated
with the use of substances.
The tobacco consumption expires with all these
requisites.
Epidemiologic criteria: Epidemiologic evidence exists
sufficiently as to affirm that the nicotinic is a
compulsive behavior, capable of controlling the conduct
of the individual Fact: The consumption bosses are hard
consisting of the time. Most of the smokers consume a
certain daily cigarettes quantity, with very few changes.
After the beginning, the individuals gradually usually
increase his consumption, up to reaching a level where
they will become stable Fact: The re are small the
smokers who consume 5 or less cigarettes per day and can
abstain for periods prolonged without experiencing
alterations. Most of the above mentioned cannot be
catalogued as dependent, but they are "social consumers",
as well as they are of cocaine, alcohol, or any another
nicotine.
"The difference, e.g. between the alcohol and the
tobacco, is that any more than 90 % of those who complete
alcohol, is not alcoholic, they are social consumers,
while in the use of the tobacco, the majority expires
with dependency criteria."
More than 70 % of the smokers show that they would
like giving up, 65 % would have already tried it at least
once, 30-35 % tries it annually, but only 3 % of the
smokers retires and manages to come a year without
smoking Fact: The nicotine habit has spread extensively
in all the countries or cultures which it has contacted.
By his social, cultural and economic connotations, the
progression probability from an occasional use to a
compulsive consumption appears as greatly major for the
tobacco as for other addictive nicotine.
Experimental criteria: The administration of nicotine
is for intravenous route or for inhalation on having
smoked, it provokes stimulation of the nervous system,
which can be attenuated by the administration previous to
Mecamilamine Fact: The nicotine doses, and the effects
obtained with them, are determinant factors of the
consumption of tobacco. If an antagonist is administered
nicotinic (substance that is opposed to the effect of the
nicotine) like the mecamilamine, the individual increases
the number of cigarettes and the quantity of "whistled"
(drags). If there is administered an agonist (substance
with effect similar to the nicotine), like the
substitutes nicotine (chewing gum and patches of
nicotine), it diminishes the cigarettes consumption.
Studies of intravenous auto administration of medicines,
in human beings, without them knowing exactly that it is
what is administered; they confirm that the nicotine
exercises an effect positive intensifier.
The nicotine levels in blood determine different types
of answer:
If the same ones are diminished, they collaborate to
effects and signs of abstinence, and accompany themselves
of compensating increase of the consumption. If they are
increased, they can produce effects of poisoning and
sensation of discomfort Fact: The y usually accompany
themselves of decrease of the consumption Fact: The
smokers modify the characteristics and intensity of his
consumption, to avoid both ends. Conditioning to "places
of preference": In experiments with animals it was
observed that the exhibition to nicotine, in a certain
place, increases the preferences of the animal to the
above mentioned place Fact: The administration previous
to mecamilamine, blocks the "preference" to the place,
induced by the nicotine (in this case nicotine).
Tolerance: So much studies in animals as in human beings,
have demonstrated the development of a phenomenon of
tolerance, or neuro adaptation, where the nervous system
gets accustomed to working in the presence of a certain
nicotine (nicotine) This tolerance phenomenon observes
with regard to the initial effects aversive, which happen
often on having smoked the first cigarettes, but also in
the adaptation to the blood concentrations of nicotine,
which are reached on having smoked; what he leads to the
need for a progressive increase of the consumption, to be
able to obtain the same effects. This increase happens up
to reaching a plateau, which level is very variable for
every individual. Effects of Abstinence: The suppression,
especially sudden, of the consumption, produces effects
of "deprivation to nicotine" in most of the consumers:
intense desires to smoke make difficult to concentrate, I
increase of the appetite, irritability, disorders of the
sleep, and physical effects, like migraines, sickness,
subornation. But they not all present this picture. Up to
25 % of the ex-smokers, it shows not to have presented
significant abstinence effects. Interactions with other
nicotine: The combined use of nicotine is frequent and he
suggests that the stimulant effects can be increased, for
the above mentioned simultaneous consumption. Most of the
combinations are with legal nicotine (alcohol, coffee,
and mate). But epidemiologic studies show that high
nicotine habit levels collaborate to increased
consumptions of marijuana and cocaine. Often the
dependency on the consumption of tobacco precedes the
development of dependency on other nicotine Fact: The use
of tobacco, it is a vulnerability factor for consumption
and abuse of major nicotine in adolescents. Repeated
exhibitions to the nicotine would produce changes
neurobiological that would increase the sensibility not
only for the effects reformats of the nicotine, but also
for another type of nicotine of abuse.
UNDERSTANDING THE PHENOMENON OF THE DEPENDENCY /
ADDICTION
The elements fix Fact: The re is described several
elements that they would characterize to the
addiction.
The obsession: The addictive conduct is, in general,
pressing and obsessive. When one is an addict often it is
not possible to think about another thing that should not
be the nicotine, the way of obtaining it, the way of
administering it, etc. In general, the addiction is lived
like an obsession, which will govern big part of his
time, his energy and his attention Fact: The life style
becomes monotonous and "unmoral": everything turns
concerning the addiction and the rest of persons, things,
interests, obligations... they go on to a secondary
plane.
The negative consequences: What does that an addiction
is a harmful conduct is that it turns against one him,
and of the others. At first certain apparent
gratification is obtained, just as with a habit. But
earlier that I took his conduct it begins having negative
consequences in his life Fact: The addictive conducts
produce pleasure, mitigation and other short-term
compensations, but they provoke pain, disaster,
desolation and multitude of medium-term problems Fact:
The negative consequences associated with the addictions
affect many aspects different from the life of a person
Fact: The most important are: Relations: The relation
with the family, friends or couple falters, frequent
discussions, sexual lack of interest appear, the
communication is interrupted, there is loss of
confidence, alienation, etc. In case of the addiction
nicotine, many persons stop meeting after friends visit,
or even familiar, if they are not allowed to smoke. His
environment is becoming more and more smoking Fact: The
tobacco consumption can be a cause of discussion with the
couple, if this one is not smoking. Many smokers
experience sexual malfunctions linked to his consumption,
but they continue this one to the sexual pleasure. I
work: When a person has an addiction it usually reduces
time to his work to look for the nicotine or to recover
of his use, usually comes late, there is minor
productivity, deterioration of the quality of the work or
loss of the proper work. In case of the tobacco, it
demands frequent interruptions, and provokes major labor
absenteeism. Economy: They destine big part of the money
to buy nicotine Fact: The savings become exhausted and
the indebtedness usually appears. Sometimes to be able to
support the expenses of the addiction they turn out to be
forced to resort to illegal activities. In the tobacco,
especially in low socioeconomic levels, his consumption
occurs rarely to that of other basic needs (feeding,
education and clothing) and the expense in tobacco can
come to 25 % of the familiar revenue. Psychic health: The
addicts usually endure a wide scale of psychological
disorders, like negative frames of mind and irritability,
defensive attitudes, loss of self-esteem and intense
feelings of fault Fact: The clerks have often self-esteem
deficit to the tobacco, and major predominance of
disorders of anxiety, crisis of panic and depressive
pictures. Also the fault feeling is frequent. Conduct:
the addicts become egoistic and self-cantered: there does
not matter for them anybody more that themselves Fact:
The smokers give major priority to the above mentioned
consumption than to any other thing; it does not import
if they fall ill, if they must them intern again in a
hospital, if they lose the life, if his family remains
without his support, the important thing is "not to be
deprived of his pleasure". Physical health: The addiction
usually bears the appearance of multitude of physical
effects including disorders of the appetite, ulcer,
insomnia, fatigue, more physical disorders and illnesses
provoked by every substance in particular. It rests to
redound to the deterioration of the health caused by the
chronic poisoning generated by the tobacco, which kills
in form anticipated to 50 % of the smokers and spoils the
quality of life to 100 %.
Lacking in Control: The distinctive feature of the
addictive conduct is that she, on having tried to
control, the will turns out to be insufficient Fact: The
substance, or activity in question, controls the person,
instead of being on the contrary Fact: The false
self-control perception is one of the big paradigms to
understand the addictions Fact: The clerks to nicotine
believe that they can control the nicotine: the quantity,
the doses, the frequency, etc. nevertheless nothing is
more wrong than this belief. To think that one possesses
certain omnipotence opposite to the nicotine is
ingenuousness, and even more when consumption precedents
exist already.
The denial: As the addicts begin accumulating problems
(in the work, hearth, socially), inevitably they begin to
deny two things: That the nicotine or activity in
question constitutes a problem that they cannot control.
That the negative effects in his lives have some
connection with the use of the nicotine or activity Fact:
The denial assumes a lot of forms: To deny categorically:
' Not, I do not have any problem'. To minimize: ' The
topic is not so serious '.avoid completely (to ignore it,
to refuse to tackle it or turn the attention to another
topic away). To blame others: ' Who would not do this in
my situation'. To rationalize: ' Mine is not so serious',
'I am not so hooked'.
The infatuation: To the previous concepts, we add that
of Dependency like a relation or tie, with a big
emotional component, and even spiritually, with an event,
object or substance, across which the addict achieves,
temporarily, the "fantasy" of controlling his emotions,
gaining confidence, or controlling the "vital cycles"
(and to make them predictable) Fact: The addiction, more
than an expediency relation, is constituted for many, in
his principal emotional relation ("my best friend"),
reaching the category of "pathological love" (turned away
from a normal or healthy condition) (6).
THE ADDICTION AS AN ILLNESS
Many persons look at the abuse of nicotine and the
nicotine addiction, definitely, like a social problem.
Many tend to describe the people who consumes nicotine as
you present yourself morally dweebs or with criminal
tendencies. They believe that the persons who abuse the
nicotine, or they are addicted, they must be capable of
giving up consuming nicotine, if they are ready to modify
his behavior. These myths, not only they have created
stereotypes of the persons who have problems related to
the nicotine, but also of his families and his
communities Fact: The abuse of nicotine and the addiction
are a problem of public health that affects many persons
and has wide social after-effects Fact: The target of
these paragraphs is to replace these myths and erroneous
beliefs, and to support based on the available scientific
evidence, that the nicotine dependency or addiction to
nicotine is an "illness, chronicle, appellant and
friendly" The debate if the addiction must be considered
to be an illness, or not, has been supported during
decades. To be able to understand why we support that the
addiction or dependency on consumption of nicotine is an
illness, we will develop the following concepts Fact: The
"Illness" can be defined according to several criteria.
Suggests that to be able to include a condition as
illness, it is needed that:
1) The clinical picture has to have clear biological
bases.
2) Be identifiable for signs and clear effects.
3) Show a predictable course and evolution
4) The clinical picture or his declarations are not
caused by volitional declarations.
The "Addiction", is characterized because the person
presents pronounced deterioration in his aptitude to
control the consumption of the nicotine. This loss of
control, it expresses itself like an incapability to
predict when it will be able to discontinue his use, as
soon as the consumption was begun. This clinical picture
is characterized for being: chronic, progressive and with
frequent relapsing. What information does the science
contribute to endorse the criteria of Lewis's illness, in
case of the Addiction?
An illness has biological bases: Many studies have
demonstrated that alcoholism, nicotine habit and the
addiction have a genetic component to illegal nicotine
Fact: The repeated use of chemicals produces biological
changes. Paul in his study on functioning neuronal
thought that the cerebral cells adapt themselves to the
introduction of chemical substances. This molecular
adaptation can modify the functioning of critical
cerebral routes that control the behavioral motivation.
4870 chemical substances contained in the smoke of the
cigarette, including the nicotine, provoke changes in the
functioning neuronal, that persist time after the
discontinuation. Suggests that the brain would have a
mechanism that suffers a change in certain point, during
the nicotine consumption. A turn or detour ("switch)
would take place at molecular level, which would
determine the change of boss of consumption from use /
abuse to addiction.
An illness has symptoms and identifiable signs: The
Manual of the Association smoking has codified the
symptoms of dependency, based on the experts'
investigation Fact: The biggest symptoms include:
Abstinence symptoms. Tolerance. Major consumption than
the wished one. Defeats in attempts for controlling the
use. Employment of a lot of time in obtaining to use and
to recover of the effects of the consumption. Use
continued in spite of his consequences. Addictive illness
is diagnosed, when several of these abstinence symptoms
are present. More than 80 % of the smokers expire with at
least 3 of the same ones.
An illness has a predictable course and evolution:
There is described a sequence of experimentation, use,
regular consumption, abuse and dependency, which can go
followed by serious after-effects on the health. Although
the evolution wished by the majority, is to achieve the
abstinence, the natural evolution of the illness includes
periods of abstinence and relapsing (14), with low
valuations of long abstinence. Per year, they manage to
leave the consumption, without needing help, 8 % of the
alcoholics, 3 % of the heroin addicts, 3 % of the addicts
to the cocaine and 3 % of the smokers.
d) The declarations of the illness are not caused by
volitional acts: A key element of the dependency is the
personal inability to control the consumption, once
begun. Also, for most of the clerks, the consumption
acquires a high "priority" in his life, in spite of
wishing the opposite. This loss of volitional capacity is
what differentiates abuse; of dependency the illness
"ADDICTION" is very comparable to other chronic
illnesses. A group of investigators realized a study that
showed that: the genetic contribution in the addiction is
comparable to other illnesses like the Arterial
Hypertension, the diabetes and the asthma. Today we have
innumerable scientific works that realize of the relation
between the nicotine habit and genetic factors Fact: The
answer, fulfillment of the treatment, and his results,
also are very comparable. Self hypnosis can help and do
wonders.
THE ADDICTION TO THE
TOBACCO
For most of the consumers of tobacco his use results
in a real dependency on consumption of nicotine,
comparable to the caused one by opiates, amphetamine and
cocaine (15). For it, the chronic tobacco consumption, or
"Nicotine habit", has been defined as an "Illness" and
included by the experts. Treating tobacco Use and
Dependence is located to the dependency on the
consumption of tobacco like a Chronic Illness the
dependency on the consumption of tobacco shows many of
the characteristics of a chronic illness. Very few are
the consumers of tobacco who reach a permanent abstinence
after the first attempt for giving up, the majority
persists consuming many years and typically they
alternate in cyclical form multiple references -
relapsing periods Facts: The error of not appreciating
the chronic nature of the dependency on the consumption
of tobacco is one of the reasons for which the doctors
fail in the treatment of this complaint and lose
motivation to treat it".
The epidemiologic information suggests that more than
70 % of the smokers in the USA have done at least an
attempt to stop, and that approximately 46 % tries to
stop every year (18). Unfortunately, most of these
attempts are not successful, therefore only 3 - 7 % of
those that tried keeps (19 () 20) abstinent one year
later.
These discouraging statisticians can lead many doctors
to feel ineffective in the treatment of this dependency.
Regrettably, both the investigation and the medical
clinical practice have been faced to identify the "ideal
treatment", which was transforming all the smokers into
not smokers, in permanent form. These efforts,
inadvertently, have communicated two messages of doubtful
viability: 1) that there would be only one treatment that
would be virtually cash for all the smokers and 2) that
the success should be defined as a permanent abstinence.
These messages can have concealed the real nature of the
addiction from the tobacco consumption: it is a chronic
illness that bears in itself the vulnerability to the
relapsing, which persists weeks, months, and of course
years, after achieving an abstinence period. A more
productive sanitary approach would be to recognize the
coincided of the dependency after the tobacco
consumption. A model based on the concept of chronic
illness allows us:
a) To admit that it is a question of a condition that
naturally evolves in the long term, where one must hope
that the patients could have periods of reference and
relapsing,
b) If the professionals of the health understand the
cronicness of the illness, they will accept better the
phenomenon of the relapsing, and will develop a long-term
strategy, more than a sharp intervention.
The relapsing reflects, then, the chronic nature of
the illness, personnel of the doctor does not trump it in
his skill to treat the patient, not the flaw of the
patient in following the treatment (17). Some aspects to
stand out from the addiction to the tobacco (21): The
nicotine contained in the tobacco, is highly addictive,
both for adults and for adolescents, being the above
mentioned more capable to turn into smokers. To smoke
only one cigarette places to an adolescent seriously risk
of becoming addicted to the tobacco. A third half of the
young people who prove a cigarette they turn into regular
smokers, 80 % of the young people who smoke two or more
cigarettes completely, and overcome the initial
inconveniences of smoking, they will turn into regular
smokers Facts: The earlier one begins to smoke the more
difficult it will be to stop when they are mature adults.
In a study on students of secondary, in the USA, only 5 %
of those who were smoking believed that they would be
smoking two years after having finished the same one.
Nevertheless, their 75 % kept on smoking 8 years later.
To stop smoking takes an average of five attempts, before
being successful. In 1989, nearly 64 % of the smoking
adolescents had done at least a serious attempt to stop,
without having achieved it. 6) Aspect genetic they can
influence the susceptibility to the addiction to the
tobacco consumption. Canadian scientists identified a
gene (CYP2A6) defectively, that is common in persons who
never turned into smokers, or that smoke occasionally. In
turn this gene; he would award protection from some
cancers, on having prevented poisonous products of the
tobacco from acting like carcinogens Facts: The
scientists are employed at the securing of nicotine that
blocks the enzyme that causes the vulnerability to the
addiction nicotine.
BASES OF THE DEPENDENCY ON THE CONSUMPTION OF
TOBACCO
The addiction to the tobacco consumption, suits on two
types of factors, which we can group in: 1) Biological
and 2) Psychosocial, behavioral and emotional. This
division can turn out to be slightly fictitious, but it
has helped us so that the smoking persons, who meet to
request help for discontinuation, in our Service,
understand the different aspects of this complex problem
Facts: The above mentioned factors are always present in
every smoker, in major or minor grade Facts: The sum
"algebraic of the same ones" determines the "smoker's
pattern", and if to it we add the personality of the
individual and the environment where his existence
passes, we can understand that there are different
dependency grades. For such a motive, two persons of the
same sex, age, time and quantity of consumption, can have
a different relation with the same one, and hence,
different difficulty grades at the moment of facing the
abandonment. Next we will try to explain in synthetic
form these factors, but we do not claim describer what
him happens to "all" the smokers, because there is no "a
smoker's stereotype", but "persons who still smoke".
BIOLOGICAL ORS
Whenever a person smokes, it introduces in his
organism nearly 4.870 chemical substances, which all the
organs of the body are contained in the smoke of the
cigarette, which produce the state of chronic poisoning
that it affects in progressive form, practically. Inside
these substances they stand out: almost 50 producing
substances of cancer (carcinogens), the Carbon monoxide
(CO) who is a poisonous gas, and the nicotine (22).
The nicotine:
1. It is nicotine psychoactive Fact: The nicotine is a
vegetable alkaloid that only is in the plant of the
tobacco, and that until now; she is the principal
chemical person in charge of the addiction to the tobacco
consumption.
This substance stimulates the nervous system for
activation of the recipients nicotinic, modifying the
activity of big part of the brain Fact: The principal
action place is the system
límbico-dopaminérgico, where for direct
action it raises the norepinephrine levels and dopamine
(23). From it would turn out to be an effect
predominantly psico-estimulant of the Nervous system. His
action neither provokes increase of the sensory
perceptions, nor generates an extraordinary aptitude to
work, the intellectual production nor increases
significantly. Initially, it would seem to increase a
little the concentration for works or automatic
activities, promote the relaxation and help to muffle the
emotions. With the time, when there developed the neuron
adaptation (adaptation of the nervous system to work in
the presence of a certain nicotine quantity) and the
person became physically dependent to the nicotine, he
needs to smoke to feel "normal". That is to say that when
the smoker "smokes", and reaches the maximum nicotine
levels in his nervous system, it neither transforms into
"superman" nor reaches the "delight", but with the
consumption of his cigarettes, in most cases, it manages
to be "normal" Fact: The smoker learns to support and
recover the "balance", across the consumption of his
nicotine Fact: The problem arises, when it is a moment to
smoke and cannot, or they do not leave it. There the
smoker sees his "normality" mentally disturbed: it
diminishes his concentration, becomes irritable, has
varied symptoms, and intense desire of smoking. This
discomfort is intensified as it progresses the abstinence
time. But if in the above mentioned moments, the smoker
consumes a cigarette, in almost "instantaneous" form, as
for "art of magic", they eliminate all these
inconveniences. Does why happen this? We will tell it
further on.
2. It is a powerful addictive agent Fact: The nicotine
once joined the organism, acts on the same sectors of the
nervous system where they operate cocaine, amphetamine
and opiates, and provokes a structural and functional
modification of these sectors. This modification of the
brain drives to symptoms "for absence" that the person
learns to handle with a new consumption: the biological
base of the addiction is Fact: The chemical processes and
compartmentalize that unleashes the nicotine they are
similar to those who produce other addiction nicotine. To
this one adds him: the rapidity that it has to provoke
the stimulation in the different sectors of the included
organism the brain (in less than 10 seconds) (23), what
locates it like the nicotine psico-estimulant of more
rapid action, overcoming in this aspect to cocaine and
heroine. The more rapid a nicotine psico-estimulant
affects the nervous system, the minor capacity has this
one of developing compensating mechanisms, and therefore,
the major probability has the nicotine of provoking
"stimulation", and the major will be his addictive
capacity (24) Fact: The addictive potency of the nicotine
is, therefore, very intense, to such a point that many
investigators support that it is equal or major than of
the heroine or cocaine.
At present he gets ready of information about the
existence of individuals who would be biologically more
inclined to become addicted to the nicotine and others
that would have certain resistance to get hooked up in
the addiction. If we add that the nicotine habit is still
considered to be, in our countries, a "normal" social
conduct, it has low cost, it can be used in any moment,
and that exercises a cultural pressure on the individuals
(especially the adolescents) to impel them to initiate in
the consumption, presenting the cigarette to them as an
object of consumption associated with valued values (to
share, to feel adult, to please, to calm anxiety, to be
thin), understands why the conduct of smoking it has
spread so extensively in any culture that interfered. In
the last times there has been evidence of which other
substances might take part in the addiction to the
tobacco consumption. A study published on October 27,
2002, in "Proceedings of the National Academy", was
informing that the nicotine, is present of natural form
in the tobacco, it lasts during more time in the
bloodstream that the nicotine and, in contrast to this
one, it does not eliminate nor at least on having stopped
smoking. This fact would tell that partly the addictive
mechanism of the tobacco, that is to say, the nicotine
contributes an important survival source to the molecules
of the nicotine that remain in the blood enclosed when
the smoker leaves his habit Fact: The tobacco industry
has been in full knowledge, from beginnings of the 60s,
of which the real reason of the chronic consumption of
tobacco the effects are pills and the addictive capacity
of the nicotine. Not only they concealed and denied this
information produced in his laboratories, but they used
to increase the addictive capacity of the cigarettes,
across the pharmacological manipulation of the nicotine.
They achieved this manipulation by means of the
aggregation of ammonia to the tobacco. After the tobacco
is burned containing ammonia, the resultant smoke becomes
more alkaline, and in this alkaline smoke the nicotine
changes chemical form, and crosses the barrier
hematoencefálica (membrane that the brain covers)
more quickly, increasing that way, his properties
reformatories and his addictive capacity.
3 Fact: The cycle of the Nicotine. When a person
smokes, the nicotine contained in the smoke of the
tobacco, it happens first for the lungs, then for the
blood and across this one it is distributed by the whole
organism, reaching in less than 10 seconds the nervous
system. A real nicotine "peak" takes place in blood,
which quickly "strikes" the brain. After several minutes,
there is observed a descent, which initially is rapid
(for redistribution in blood) and then slower (for
metabolización) (25). Between cigarette and
cigarette, the nicotine does not disappear of the blood,
but at two o'clock of having stopped inhaling, the
nicotine concentration in blood newly diminishes 50 %,
and before this time, most of the smokers inhale again
and gives him another "blow" of nicotine. Therefore, it
always stays; between "blow" y "blow", a "minimal level"
that is what needs the brain of the smoker to work
normally. An average smoker of 20 cigarettes per day, to
the 30 60 minutes before having ended of smoking, has the
nicotine below this minimum, which we will call "a
threshold". This unleashes a sign of alarm on the part of
the nervous system: the symptoms of chemical abstinence,
which disturb the "normality" of the smoker, and in turn
they shoot "desire to smoke" Fact: The person smokes
again, and after some "whistled", returns at his habitual
levels, eliminating the inconveniences "quickly", and
re-establishing his normality Fact: The smokers often
describe these moments of fall of the level of nicotine,
as of "avidity", because truly, frequently there breaks
loose the state similar to the "anxiety", which the
smoker corrects with his consumption. This way the
addiction is reinforced, and the belief of the smoker of
which "he needs to smoke to feel good" or "balanced". But
as raisin with other nicotine, develops the tolerance
phenomenon, and it is necessary to increase progressively
the consumption, to experience the same effects. It is
for this reason, that the smokers start by consuming only
some cigarettes and then they need to be increasing
progressively his consumption, in order to auto regulates
his needs for nicotine Fact: The need to support a
"level", explains partly, why many smokers who should
consume only 5 or 6 cigarettes per day turn out to be
"forced" to smoke 20 or more Fact: The daily oscillations
of the levels of nicotine, they tell part of the "desires
for smoking" and of the number of emaciated daily
cigarettes: that we will define like "biologically
necessary". During the night, immense most of the
smokers, do not smoke Fact: The nicotine level descends
at least from 25 % of what is usually used to be
supported during the day. For it, after there wakes up,
the smoker who has a grade of biological dependency
moderated to intense, he needs to restore in urgent form
the above mentioned levels, to the effects of avoiding
the abstinence symptoms and of placing to his brain in
conditions of "working normally". Also, the night
nicotine descent, and the absence of "blows" of nicotine
during this one, determines that the brain "is"
"re-sensitized" and recovers partially the aptitude to be
stimulated by the nicotine, which has been losing during
the day for the tolerance phenomenon. When he wakes up in
the morning, and this eager brain, it receives the first
"blows" of nicotine, reacts in more intense form, than
before the cigarettes of half of the evening. This is the
principal reason for which the first cigarettes of the
morning are so important for many smokers. Minor all that
is the delay, between waking up and consuming the first
cigarette, major is usually the dependency nicotine. Most
of those who want to allow smoking, and especially those
that interrupt abruptamente the consumption, suffer a
clinical picture of "deprivation to nicotine" so called
Withdrawal symptoms Fact: The same one is of variable
intensity, and he is given for: worry, irritability,
disorder of the character, disorders of the sleep,
intense desire of eating and of smoking, that in general,
they reach a peak between 12 p.m. at 72 hours and it
stays unaltered for 7 to 14 days, disappearing later, in
gradual form, in three weeks or more (23). It causes them
of some of the more common symptoms of abstinence it
would be (22): lacking in the stimulant effect in the
nicotine in the SNC: fatigue, difficulty in
concentration, increase of the available oxygen:
sickness, absence of metabolic stimulant effect of the
nicotine: intense appetite Fact: The Withdrawal symptoms
have a chemical component to the tobacco consumption, but
also a very important psychological component that
persists for much time, and that we will tackle in major
extension on having referred to the factors
psycho-emocionales. There is information of which a genre
difference would exist in the evolution of the above
mentioned abstinence Fact: The women would present a
major intensity and duration of the withdrawal symptoms,
and the apparent reason of it might intrinsic biological
factors and psico-emocionales. Symptoms of chemical
abstinence: Worry. Disorders of the sleep. Headache.
Irritability. Concentration difficulty. Increase of
Appetite. Intense desires to smoke. Dryness of mouth and
gullet. Cold. It tires. Cough. It is important to
understand and to accept the above mentioned symptoms of
abstinence, like part of the process of recovery of the
organism, and that the same ones are of short duration.
When major are the symptoms of chemical, minor abstinence
it is the success probability on having stopped smoking
Fact: The above mentioned symptoms can be annulled or
minimized by means of a pharmacological treatment based
on substitutes nicotine ("patches" or "chewing gum" of
nicotine) and medicine not nicotine, like the burping,
increasing thus the success probabilities in the attempt
of discontinuation Fact: The cycle of the addiction
begins when the person experiences the first abstinence
symptoms and begins to smoke to reduce the same ones,
which initiates the "biological reinforcement" of the
conduct. As the body gets accustomed to the nicotine
(phenomenon of tolerance), it needs progressively
increasingly nicotine to prepare the reappearance of the
above mentioned symptoms. Today we know that there are
young people who having smoked less than 5 cigarettes,
already remain "hooked" in the addiction, for possessing
a particular genetic vulnerability Fact: The nicotine, it
constitutes the "foundation" on which the addiction is
constructed to the tobacco consumption. This factor there
he joins others, which we will explain next, and which
are not less important. Many smokers (predominantly men)
answer entirely to the "biological boss" that we have
described; but others will not feel identified with the
same one, because his consumption boss is explained by
other factors.
PSYCHOSOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND EMOTIONAL FACTORS
The Psychosocial, behavioral and emotional elements
usually influence evidently in determining the "type" and
the "intensity" of the addictive relation Fact: The more
a person has "constructed" concerning his consumption,
the more "values" or "powers" it has associated the same
one, the more it is going to him to find it hard to
overcome his addiction. Inside these factors they stand
out:
1) Psychological conditionings or "automatisms". Many
smokers believe that they smoke for "pleasing" and "for
nerves", nevertheless most of the cigarettes that they
consume, they are told by automatisms or psychological
conditionings (22). What is an automatism or
conditioning? It is the execution of an act without
participation (or with minimal participation) of the
conscience. It is usually resultant from the reiteration
and from the association. A stimulus or desendenant (eg.
to see to smoke someone), would generate a modification
in the nervous system (at unconscious level), which
promotes an answer motorboat (to light a cigarette and to
take it to the mouth). Smoking is one of the acts that
more a smoker repeats along his life. A person who
completes 30 cigarettes per day, after 10 years, has
consumed almost 100.000 cigarettes. How does one apply to
a smoker? The "new smoker" usually begins to consume when
it is in the presence of his smoking friends, but then:
what is the boss of consumption that it continues? Does
he invent it? No, it copies it of other smokers. And:
when do the others smoke? When they drink coffee or mate
(typical infusion of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and
south of the Brazil), or after the lunch, etc Fact: The
"new" smoker whenever he drinks coffee, he smokes;
whenever dull capture, he smokes; whenever it rises to
his car, he smokes; whenever it goes down the bus, he
smokes, etc. In certain moment, the phone sounds, and it
meets that has a cigarette in the hand: did he want to
smoke? No, it has generated a conditioning or automatism.
I quote like example, the case of a patient who came to
consultation to ask for help to stop smoking, and it was
indicating like reason to decide to stop, the fact that
one day when a cigarette gone to be placed in the mouth,
burned the hand with other: that was already smoking:
Along his life, the smoker associates infinity of times
the "act" of smoking to different events or situations
(name) of the daily life, and it is "tying" (determining)
his nicotine habit to the same ones. And whenever it
repeats it, it "ties" it more. With the time, the
nicotine habit is constituted in a rigid standard of
behavior. They are established therefore, innumerable
conditionings: outstanding figures or pavlovianos,
operating, imitative and cognitive Fact: The "modified"
brain of the clerk to the nicotine consumption is
determined in a way different from that of not consumer
of nicotine. Therefore a discontinuation program also
must include, like strategy:" to untie these ties". This
second type of cigarettes: "the automatic ones", owe to
work based on a decondicionamient for learning. There
exist an enormous number of cognitive-behavioral
strategies, which can help the smokers to develop the
capacity of control of the stimuli that unleash his
conditionings or automatisms.
2) To smoke like tool of handling of emotions and
situations Fact: The smokers receive on the part of the
"smoking culture", a real sociocultural indoctrination
that begins at early ages (often in the infancy, for the
case of the children of the smokers), and that
progressively it is introducing in the system of beliefs
of the young man (the "crystal" across which we learn to
evaluate our life, our environment and to ourselves), a
series of ideas or "beliefs" that associate smoking to
the pleasure and to the handling of the negative
emotions. So that the persons understand this concept, I
usually put the example of the children of the smokers.
This young people, since they have use of reason, have
seen in his house a cigarette bundle, and to someone
smoking. They have played with cigarettes. And they have
seen his principal models in this stage of his life (his
parents) smoking in innumerable opportunities. This fact
introduces in the system of beliefs of the young man the
belief of which smoking "is normal"; it is not important
what they could say to him in the school on smoking Fact:
The concept of "normality" is consecrated. And: when do
his parents usually smoke? When they want to enjoy
something. Therefore, also they induce the belief of
which "smoking is a pleasure" Fact: The second important
belief that a smoking father shapes his son. In what
another moment do the adults usually smoke? When they are
nervous Fact: The child learns, then, that to smoke
"calms the nerves". This explains, partly, why 40 % of
not smoking young people that does not have intention of
smoking, they "believe" that to smoke "calms the nerves".
Many young people has received a "brainwashing" that
introduced beliefs linked to the consumption that makes
them inclined to fall down in the pitfall of
"experimenting". Then, the action of the nicotine on the
brain, and the conditionings, they will do the rest, to
end of "hooking them" in the addiction, perhaps for the
rest of his life Fact: The young man accepted these
beliefs of the "smoking culture" and it begins to
"associate" the cigarettes consumption with the same
ones: to the pleasure, to calm the nerves, on having been
alone, on having felt sad or frustrated, etc Fact: The
reiteration leads that the person "learns" (and be
determined) to use his cigarettes (and to receive a
"blow" of nicotine) to handle the certain emotional
states or situations (anxiety, boredom, discomfort
social). Smoking is a "dysfunctional" way of answering to
stress situations and it transforms progressively in the
habitual answer boss leaving aside other more suitable
forms of handling of the same one. This cycle begins when
the person experiences a situation or negative affection,
and uses for the first time a cigarette to handle it.
Immediately after smoking can feel, temporarily better or
more controlled. This in turn serves to reinforce his
decision to smoke again a cigarette the next time that is
before the same situation. This use of the cigarette to
handle the emotions (both positive and negative), it
determines that there is constructed an "emotional or
affective" relation with this object, which comes
frequently to the grade of "pathological love". When one
is in love it does not question anything and excuses
everything to the "object" of his love (his cigarettes).
And if someone speaks badly about "his love" it gets
angry. This way many smokers seem to react when his
nicotine habit questions them or one speaks to them about
his risks. Breaking this "infatuation" is fundamental. To
achieve it we will have to "break" all the irrational
beliefs that it has linked to his consumption, every
smoker. We say that it is necessary to change the
"software" to him, and to introduce the new one, with
more rational beliefs. To achieve this, we have to help
the smoker, first to identify his irrational beliefs, and
then to question them, to finish for replacing them by
"rational beliefs" on this consumption. This process is
not easy, and not all the smokers who manage to leave the
consumption, they break them. Many, even, after many
years, they keep on believing that they are "deprived" of
a big pleasure, of a fundamental tool for the handling of
his emotions, of a "big" partner. Simply do not complete
because they are afraid about falling ill, or they know
that if they prove one, they relapse again into his
conduct. Namely they have developed the capacity of
"keeping back" without smoking, but they have not
overcome his addiction in the psychological plane. They
did not learn to enjoy the "pleasure of living without
smoking", free from the slavery of the addiction to the
tobacco consumption. We have wanted, with this
exhibition, to introduce those that do not know the
topic, in the complex field of the addiction to the
tobacco consumption. We have not tried to exhaust it, but
there is an innumerable quantity of aspects that we have
not touched. We try to exhibit scientific information
integrated to the experience of years working with groups
of discontinuation of nicotine habit. I hope that this
they should be useful, and that it should motivate them
to keep on entering.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXERCISES TO QUIT SMOKING
1. When ONE feels "tempted" to smoke, immediately
imagine his nearby future in which while you smoke, his
doctor informs him that in the radiography of the thorax
they detected to him a "shade" suspicious of being a
pulmonary cancer, you and his family be visualized
receiving the terrible news on behalf of the doctor
2. Credential type prepares cards with positive
assertiveness's on itself, his control capacity or on the
benefit of not smoking, that it could carry permanently
in his purse, portfolio or agenda and that it could
consult when it is harassed by thought or provocative
situations of the conduct to smoke.
3. Prepare a LIST of REINFORCEMENTS (Activity,
eatables, tangible) that car could administer JUST if it
fulfils the conduct puts, NOT TO SMOKE during previously
established time intervals.
4. Prepare listed in writing of provocative situations
of the conduct to smoke and apply control to stimulate
(physical restriction, change of social environment,
change of internal way, elimination of stimuli) as it is
more suitable.
5. Prepare a record of events of graphic, visible form
for you, who contains sequence of days and events
controlled (Eg. Date, event that he provoked him to
smoke, the success that it obtained on not having smoked
in this situation)
6. EXERCISE the functional identification of the
conduct problem, this way: Provocative situation conduct
problem consequences Fact: The previous thing to prevent
voluntarily the profit attainment from the problem.
7 Fact: The irrational beliefs provoke the conduct of
smoking, confront his beliefs with list presented in the
meeting and be attentive to your own verbalizations:
quite, never, always, I have, it should, it is my
obligation, and when they are active debate them without
fear, as it saw in the training.
8. Share what one has learned with others
9. Prepare a BEHAVIORAL CONTRACT from now on, which
includes commitments, reward conditions for fulfillment,
additional bonuses, sign it and support it in visible
place for you
10. Remember, these exercises it must realize them
every day, them do part of his daily routine they will
provide the most valuable and powerful tool to him to
help it to stop smoking. Of his effort and work also it
is needed to be liberated of the destructive habit from
smoking.
METHOD TO STOP SMOKING
30 reasons to stop smoking
1. IT WILL SAVE A FORTUNE
2. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING CHILDREN, FRIENDS AND
COWORKERS WILL STOP COUGHING.
3. HEART WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR IT ETERNALLY
4. RECOVER FREE TIME
5. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING THE LUNG-CANCER WILL
STOP.
6. E XILE THE CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, COLDS AND THE
FLU.
7. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING BETTER AROMA AND FLAVOR
8 Facts: The PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA WILL RECOVER
9. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING IT WILL REDUCE THE
POSSIBILITIES OF ENDURING CANCER OF MOUTH, LARYNX,
BLADDER, ESOPHAGUS AND KIDNEY
10. THERE WILL DESCEND FROM CONSIDERABLE FORM THE
NUMBERS OF ARTERIAL TENSION AND CHOLESTEROL
11. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING REDUCE THE RISK OF
HOME-MADE ACCIDENTS AND OF TRAFFIC.
12. HE WILL HELP HIM TO TREAT HIS GASTRIC ULCER OR
DUODENAL.
13. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING IT WILL ELIMINATE THIS
SMELL SO UNPLEASANT ON THE CLOTHES.
14. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING TEETH WILL SHINE AGAIN AND
THE GUMS WILL STOP CATCHING FIRE
15. IT WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE THE BIRTH-CONTROL PILL
WITHOUT HAVING ANY PROBLEM
16. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING IT WILL BE EASIER TO HAVE A
BABY.
17. AN ALLY OF THE CELLULITES WILL ELIMINATE.
18. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING THE FETUS WILL BE GRATEFUL
FOR HIS HEALTHY DECISION.
19. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING IT WILL DELAY THE
MENOPAUSE
20. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING WILL PRESERVE HIS SKIN FOR
MUCH TIME.
21 Facts: The ASPECT OF HAIR WILL IMPROVE.
22 Facts: The ACNE AND THE GRANITES WILL VANISH... AS
THE SMOKE
23. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING IT WILL ELIMINATE THIS
UNCOMFORTABLE MORNING COUGH.
24. IT WILL GET TIRED MUCH LESS ON HAVING DONE
EXERCISE.
25. TO STOP SMOKING DOES NOT HAVE WHY TO PUT ON
WEIGHT.
26. IT WILL ELIMINATE THE BAD BREATH.
27. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING THE MEDICINES WILL BE MORE
EFFECTIVE
28. HIS SELF-ESTEEM WILL GROW.
29. AFTER STOPPING SMOKING NOT ONLY WILL LIVE BETTER:
WILL LIVE MORE.
30. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE A HERO TO STOP SMOKING,
BUT A SMALL CONTRIBUTION DOES NOT COME BADLY
Also you need to know that...
After knowing which, it is your real reason to stop
smoking, you already have in your hand the best weapon to
try it, but you have to know more things about the
tobacco and the nicotine to conquer them.
The aptitude of the nicotine to create addiction is
five times bigger than that of the heroine. But the habit
gestalt associated is more resistant than the physical
dependency to the act of smoking.
While the symptoms of the withdrawal symptoms begin
excelling themselves from the ninth week in the treated
patients, the psychic monkey does not droop even after
three months Fact: The current treatments anti tobacco
base his attack strategy on these two fronts and use the
psychological therapy and the emplacement as weapon
nicotine with substitute substances.
The studies demonstrate that the therapy combined with
substitutes of the nicotine to resist the physical
dependency on the tobacco and a light psychological
support, based on recommendations of healthy habits of
life and rules of conduct and behavior, is the most
effective to stop smoking.
The addiction to the nicotine is one of the principal
bastions to beat in the war against the tobacco. This
substance operates on the system dopaminérgico
cerebral that regulates the sensations of pleasing and
the need of the smoker generates for re administrate new
doses. Also, he exercises effect at level of the cerebral
cortex, produces an increase of the capacity of
concentration and of the memory and reduces the
stress.
Nevertheless, the habit gestalt associated with the
nicotine habit is almost as unyielding as the addiction
nicotine. And the fact is that the addict is used to
facing the daily problems a cigarette. In 10 years, a
consumer of a daily packet will have realized the gesture
of 300.000 times lit the cigarette and of a million gave
a drag
More appetite
The anxiety of stopping smoking is resisted often with
an increase of the voraciousness Fact: The frugal meals
are advised, with plenty of fruits and vegetables - the
carrots are a good substitute one of the cigarette - and
to drink a lot of water Fact: The caramels, always
without sugar Fact: The practice of some sports activity,
in addition to increasing the caloric loss, constitutes a
reinforcement system motivational. "The ex-smoker begins
feeling how it improves his physical capacity". These
recommendations spread to the whole first year Fact: The
relapsing risk only begins descending after the first six
months.
To choose a date limits to stop smoking marks the
beginning of the end. It is suitable that the day has a
special meaning for the person with a smoking habit.
"That of the birthday is very suitable or at the
beginning of year. New Year, new millennium, new life and
to leave the tobacco is a new form of life".
One of the most frequent causes of relapsing is the
anxiety for leaving a habit that has accompanied us
during the whole life".
The social meetings, the big meals, especially if they
accompany themselves of alcoholic and stimulant
beverages, the situations of stress and the anxiety for
gaining weight are situations of risk of relapsing. He
advises to himself to avoid them in the possible thing
during the phase of abandonment of the tobacco.
1. Look to yourself for a new activity that you have
always wanted to do and that you relate in spite of
having stopped smoking
2. Do not smoke not one, nobody needs only one, if you
smoke it to yourself you will have to happen again for
the whole process again, since the last cigarette is the
one that creates the anxiety (monkey) to you
3. You are not the culprit of the desire of smoking,
he thinks about a monster that is inside you and that
will help you to find thousands of reasons so that you
smoke again; (I liked smoking, I was not coughing in the
mornings, also there die of cancer the people who does
not smoke....) it is to this monster to which you have to
destroy him without paying attention, he is lying to you,
enjoys of doing it.
4. You must think, "I do not want to smoke although I
can", and not think, "I want to smoke but I cannot"
5. To stop smoking neither is bad nor hurts, you will
spend a few bad days while you are recovering like when
you scar a wound, the bad thing was that you were
smoking.
Slightly good bundle in your life.
IT EXTINGUISHES THIS CIGARETTE AND BEGINS A NEW
LIFE.
Over the course of time there will happen to you
situations in which you will need help:
You will feel rare; will not know what to do with the
hands....
Date back account that you are beginning noticing a
sharp change in your life, just as if you were changing
of city of work, domicile, there are changes to which it
is necessary to be accustomed, it is not bad, especially
he remembers that it is something wonderful you have
changed to better, have turned into non-smoker and that
is fantastic. Get accustomed in that the hands do not
have to be always busy, not your mind thinking about the
tobacco not also Facts: The moment will come before you
realize in that the hands, the mouth and what you
believed that you were supporting busy with the
cigarettes they already do not need this bad habit.
I think very much about the cigarettes.
There is no problem, it is normal. You can always long
for something that has had you hooked for many years, but
do not worry, think in well that you are doing it and
well that you are supporting it. It will help you to
think that you have left less not to think any more about
them, and this moment is increasingly and closer. You are
obtaining it. Remember, you are non-smoking.
I wake up in the nights...
Logician, the first days it is necessary to allow to
notice the nicotine, in fact it is when it allows to be
evident, is the retreat of his effects, that does not
have any problem, does not hurt, on the contrary he
enjoys of these moments of retreat of nicotine, you will
not have them again in your life. He remembers that the
person with a smoking habits have this sensation of
retreat of nicotine continuously, and you already will
not have it any more.
Remember you are non-smoking in the moment in which
you extinguish the last cigarette, from now on the person
with smoking habits will have envy to you and will harass
you so that you smoke, it must be strong and not fall
down in this bad temptation. You are strong, you can
overcome it. He enjoys of you life and that the others
enjoy his.
You know what the real problem is.
Most of the person with a smoking habits do not know
the problem of the descent of the nicotine, therefore it
turns out to be very difficult to stop smoking to them,
when with a little of skill it is possible to overcome
easily. Also they believe that leaving the tobacco is
going to suppose a terrible trauma to them, when the
truth is that it is on the contrary.
Some advices that can help you are not advices really,
there are situations and reflections that you have wanted
and that you must confront yourself, therefore you are
not afraid, since they are wonderful.
The cigarette is not a pleasure, it is an illusion and
you have taken the best completely guessed right decision
of all your life, know that you do not enjoy poisoning
your lungs, he accepts that it is not good, and that you
do not need a substitute like the meal, pips, patches,
etc.,
Since these only manage to cheat to your body. But
really it is you who must not be cheated.
Also he remembers that a cigarette that you should
smoke yourself in half of the way will only achieve that
you have to begin from zero, begin supporting again the
retreat of the nicotine of that one last cigarette. If
you need now a cigarette, in a few minutes you will need
other and then other. You will not be able to smoke only
one.
One remembers: I CAN SMOKE BUT I DO NOT WANT
This is the essential premise that you must bear in
mind.
Soon you will be eliminated by the unpleasant
situation of the smoker, this of: I need a cigarette.
Remember of that if you eat natural food, like the
fruit, carrots, etc, and you drink a lot of water, not
only you will not put on weight, but you will slim.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A NON-SMOKER, make use of it
and go in for sport, walk, do everything what you could
not do earlier.
NATURAL REMEDY TO STOP SMOKING
The first thing is to realize well, in the deepest
thing of one himself, that one wants to leave the
tobacco, each one will have his motives, I believe it is
very important to analyze them, for it we point in a role
and see the benefits that up to this moment us the
tobacco has reached port and in another role we write the
damages obtained up to this moment and in the future, if
it is that we keep on smoking. If we are sincere we will
see that the tobacco is damaging seriously our physical
body at circulatory level, favoring the cardiac
infarction, the cerebral thrombosis, the bad oxygenation
of our textiles, especially in the extremities, it has
diminished greatly our pulmonary capacity, a chronic
bronchitis has formed with cough and expectoration in the
mornings, every time we catch a cold with major
frequency, our taste and smell are spoiled, and, there
has increased the risk of enduring cancer of lung,
larynx, trachea, bladder, stomach, breast, etc Facts: The
person with a smoking habits lose a life average from 10
to 20 years, this transports indescribable sufferings in
all the beings who love the smokers, loss of years of
company with the beings that we love, solitude, despair,
which would always happen if we were not smoking for
other not looked causes, the cigarette can give in
whenever one wants it really: thousands of persons have
left it!, it is only a question of saying: be already
enough!!!, not even one more cigarette to poison myself,
to burn my health, my vitality.
The tobacco not only affects the one that smokes, but
it causes the same illnesses in those who inhale it and
do not smoke for proper will, the passive smokers.
Also a fundamental motive for leaving the tobacco is
that one while he smokes is a slave, it has lost the
freedom, because the nicotine produces five times more
addiction than the heroine and the cocaine.
It is very important that one prepares a list in which
one analyzes his own life and decides the MOTIVES FOR
STOPPING SMOKING.
Once done this, it is necessary to choose a date to
leave it, that is next, and to use the time until the day
comes to develop the will, for example to lengthen every
day more the first cigarettes that one smokes in the
morning, to separate every day for much time the space
between a cigarette and other.
We will communicate to all those who surround our
decision to us, so that they help us to carry out it,
especially we will look for ours someone who has left it
some time ago, so that he advises us and cheers us up in
the hardest moments.
To cheer up we can be beginning to a moneybox, from
the first moment in which we reduce, the money that we
are saving ourselves, and then, we will be able to buy to
ourselves something that we have always wanted to have or
to go away to a wonderful trip.
When it comes the day is important not to think about
negative as for example: what misfortune, already I am
not going to smoke never again! if not simply one has to
auto convinces: TODAY I DO NOT SMOKE, it might use the
tactics of: Tomorrow I begin smoking, to cheat to our
mind, instead of being cheated by her.
During the time that the abandonment process lasts,
help you with the capture of abundant liquids, especially
take fruits, vegetables, salads, juices rich in vitamin
C, like the citrus fruits, they will help you to
eliminate the toxicants that begin to go out rapidly when
one leaves the tobacco.
It takes integral food, rich in vitamin B, wheat germ
and yeast of beer.
It is very important that you change your routine
habits into others more entertained like doing exercise,
walking, doing, reading, doing things, visiting friends,
writing stories, dancing, singing, going out to the
field, swimming, doing yoga or Thai chi, going to the
movies, to the theater or to a museum.
If you very want to smoke, relax, hope that a minute
should happen in your clock, breathe depth, try to relax,
drink water, date a warm bath, he remembers the motives
for leaving the tobacco, thinks that, nothing lasts
eternally, in the children who do not need to smoke to be
happy and to spend bomb.
It is essential that in these moments you remember the
benefits of stopping smoking.....
You can use syrup to help you in the process:
-15 grams of femora
-15 grams of erísimo
-20 grams of lavender
-20 grams of Melissa
-10 grams of thyme
-15 grams of watercress's
All the plants put themselves in one liter of water
boiling for 4 hours, on slow fire, he slips in and
brunette they add 500 grams of sugar to themselves. It is
necessary to take a teaspoonful when desires to smoke
feel.
Especially he remembers that to stop smoking is the
healthiest decision that a person with a smoking habit
can take in his life. Lady
