There are many reasons people choose to start smoking. Some give in to stress, social pressures, financial difficulties or even because they want to be accepted by a particular group. There are many more reasons why people choose to try to stop smoking.
Diseases that are attributed to smoking include respiratory diseases such as emphysema, asthma, heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, stomach cancer, cervical cancer, kidney and bladder cancers, pancreas cancer; esophagus and throat cancer etc. Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion each year in health-care costs including $81.9 billion in mortality-related productivity loses and $75.5 billion in excess medical expenditures.
Nicotine is an addictive drug and cigarettes have now been proven to causes physical injury. In a study done by the U.S. army on its soldiers, the ones that smoked broke more bones, sprained more ankles, and got more blisters while hiking then the soldiers that didn’t smoke. The risk of getting lung cancer decreases about 30% to 50% after not smoking for ten years, this rate continues to decrease the longer people stay smoke free. 87% of all cases of lung cancer are smoking related.
Smoking by parents is also associated with a wide range of adverse effects in their children, as well as exacerbation of asthma, greater than before frequency of colds and ear infections, and sudden infant death syndrome. An estimated 150, 000 to 300,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infections in children less than 18 months of age, resulting in 7,500 to 15,000 annual hospitalizations, are caused by secondhand smoke.
Stop Smoking Help
Nicotine replacement products can help relieve withdrawal symptoms people experience when they quit smoking. Nicotine patches, nicotine gum and nicotine lozenges are available over-the-counter, and a nicotine nasal spray and inhaler, as well as a non-nicotine pill, are currently available by prescription.
Massage, studies looking at massage’s effects on tobacco addiction, smokers were taught to massage their ears and hands when they craved a cigarette. After one month, they had reduced the number of cigarettes smoked and their cravings for them by 40 percent. There will be a follow-up at three and six months to see if the results hold. “Massage provides a distraction that takes away from the nervous-habit aspect of smoking,” says Tiffany Field, Ph.D., the institute’s director.
Magnets, based on the principles of auricular therapy, or the stimulation of acupuncture points in the ear, alternative medicine treatment uses acupuncture points of the ear to curb addiction. This technique utilizes two small magnets that are positioned opposite each other on a determined point of the left ear. This electromagnetic therapy activates the production of neurotransmitters in the brain, removing the desire to smoke. Some magnets are comprised of 24K gold, both for its highest conduction properties and to eliminate allergic reactions. Non-invasive and chemical free, utilizing the most successful natural therapies without the pain and costs involved.
Hypnosis has been used to treat thousands of people effectively for more than 8 years principally on the East Coast. Over 95% of them needed only one session; the other 5% needed some reinforcement of two and four sessions to successfully overcome the smoking habit completely and permanently.
Hypnosis helps eliminate the desire and craving for cigarettes, pipes, and cigars and the same techniques have been successful in stopping substance abuse such as marijuana. In addition it aids in strengthening their self-confidence, self esteem and self control
Hypnosis therapy gives people the subconscious mind suggestions and instructions it needs to change and clear out all of those thoughts, imprints and impressions, which are currently causing them to smoke. This is one of the main reasons why hypnosis can be so powerful in helping people overcome the smoking habit permanently.
