| If you are a smoker of anything, you have heard the | | | | starved for oxygen, and screaming in pain, |
| advice 'give up smoking' at least once a week, if not | | | | tremendous energy is used in just staying alive, so |
| every single day. Unless you live on another planet, | | | | losing weight, strength and the ability to think all go |
| the 'smoking is bad for your health' message has | | | | with emphysema. |
| landed at your door frequently. There are so many | | | | At the last the poor smoker simply smothers. |
| statistics, scary pictures, and medical authorities | | | | Horrible! This is so bad for the smoker but considering |
| delivering this message that even those in the most | | | | that others that live with the smoker must contend |
| advanced stages of denial probably accept that | | | | with second hand smoke. It is reported to be even |
| smoking is bad for your health. | | | | more dangerous than actually smoking. The child or |
| Smoking is pleasurable and also addictive. There have | | | | spouse that you love with all your heart and soul is |
| to be some pretty powerful reasons to stop | | | | being killed by your smoking habit. How is that for |
| smoking. This is your best friend, your comforter in | | | | motivation? |
| times of stress, your first line of defense when | | | | Now for the 'carrot' aspect of giving up smoking; |
| threatened, so how can you turn your back on all | | | | more kisses and hugs when you no longer smell and |
| that? The good news is that there are some really | | | | taste like a dirty ashtray. Your home, car and office |
| good products to help you, when you find the | | | | will no longer be coated in a yellow oily film that is |
| motivation to give up smoking. | | | | the residue of the smoke you exhale. Your |
| For motivations let's look at the old carrot and stick. | | | | appearance will improve as the dryness of your face |
| First the 'stick' points to consider. Hundreds of | | | | and the ensuing wrinkles gradually disappear. That |
| research studies on animals and humans prove that | | | | puckered upper lip will gradually smooth out, making |
| smoking is a leading cause of several cancers. | | | | you seem years younger. |
| Cancers eat you alive by robbing your cells of food. | | | | Several options are now available to assist you in the |
| Cancers develop quickly in smokers because the | | | | process. There are drugs like Chantix, hypnosis, |
| toxins in the smoke block the cell's ability to fight. | | | | patches, and fake cigarettes. Many of these are paid |
| Whether the cancer starts in the mouth, throat, or | | | | for by health insurance. Chantrix has a support |
| lungs, it is ugly to the max. Not only physically ugly, | | | | program in which a real person, who understands the |
| but pain filled ugly, so painful that no amount of drugs | | | | struggle with addiction, calls on the telephone to |
| can provide relief. If the very real possibility of cancer | | | | empathize with you. You are not a bad person, just a |
| was not scary enough, there is emphysema. In this | | | | good person in need of a lot of support in the very |
| case the lungs gradually lose the ability to send | | | | difficult process to give up smoking. |
| oxygen to the body. Not only are all of the cells | | | | |