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.
What is
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. With hypnotism stop smoking can make the
difficult withdrawl procedure much more smooth and
efficient. Smoking affects how long you live. 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.
How can
I find a hypnotist smoking cessation? how to stop smoking
hypnosis?
The best way to
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meditation, because the best way to give up smoking is by
mind control, because stopping smoking without help is
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Is the
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The hypnosis for
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Is
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The hypnotherapy
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How
long would it take using hypnotherapy to stop
smoking?
Typical hypnotism
smoking cessation takes away most of the drama within a
few hours, and gradually the subject begins to feel
healthy and free of their habit.
what
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
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Cardiovascular
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Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process
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two to four times more likely, so hypnotherapy for
smoking problems is the best alternative.
Cardiovascular
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vessels are involved, and all of them are more common in
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Coronary
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particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth
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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.
I am a
pensioner can I use hypnosis to quit
smoking?
this is an
excellent idea, and age is not a question, because anyone
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I am heavily
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strong like hypnosis to stop smoking thru hypnosis is
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ever, especially for my bad throat?
The smoking
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My father wants
to stop smoking by hypnosis, but he's a bit afraid and
thinks it may make him like a zomby, is he
right?
Of course not.
The smoking hypnosis cd is harmless and the trance like
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What’s
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The best and
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suffering of withdrawl.
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Is the
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audio?
The quitting
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How can I avoid
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..the easiest way would be to give your husband a session
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I am looking for
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and place messges for me to forget my old habit and to
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hypnotic sessions?
the price changes
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In smokers, the
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Fact: The blood vessels in the eye are sensitive and can
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non-smokers. Smoking obviously worsens asthma and
counteracts asthma medication by worsening the
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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.
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development of ulcers. Smoking increases your risk of
periodontal disease, which causes swollen gums, bad
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Can I stop
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specialist?
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If I download a
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If you try to
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Quit Smoking
facts with hypnotherapy
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.
Does hypnosis
work for smoking problems? there are some people who can
never give up, because they are so keen on the habit that
they feel no reason to stop, and have no motivation at
all.
Is there a mp3 in
audio of hypnosis to stop smoking?
Yes the audio
format is mp3 and can be downloaded easily.
Is this online
hypnosis to stop smoking easy to understand or are there
complex instructions and forms to fill in?
Very easy and
enjoyable, and the only tool you need is a comfy sofa and
a pair of stereo headphones.
aler 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.
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.
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
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
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. 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) , 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. 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) .
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. It causes them of some of the more common
symptoms of abstinence it would be : 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. 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
