It makes sense to quit

I was reading the following article at quit smoking in 60 minutes about smoking and its effects in America. This article confirms that it is smart to stop smoking cigarettes and the sooner the better.

It does not matter how you quit smoking, will power, drugs, patches, acupuncture, hypnosis or NLP. It just makes sense to stop the habit of smoking cigarettes.

The article is as follows:

Tobacco use remains the leading cause of death and disease in the United States, accounting for more than 440,000 deaths each year. Approximately 160,000 of those deaths are due to lung cancer alone; the other 280,000 […]

Fill your lungs with Crap!

The lungs in our bodies are designed to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide when we breathe. The lungs also act as a filter and filter out pollutants from the air that we inhale. These pollutants enter our bloodstream and if in enough quantity can cause serious diseases.

When you smoke you add some interesting chemicals into your lungs and body. Here are some of the pollutants you add when you smoke:

Cadmium which is found most commonly in batteries. Cadmium is extremely poisonous and leads to kidney damage over time.

Tar is an ingredient found in roads and tires as well as cigarettes. […]

Imagine yourself as a non-smoker

We all live our lives according to our self-image. In other words we live our lives according to how we see ourselves. Our self-image comes from our self-beliefs which in turn come from ourselves, past experiences and what other people have said.

Often with people who smoke cigarettes their self-image is involved with smoking. They see themselves as smokers. The good news is that we can change our self-beliefs and as a consequence our self-image

How do we change our image of ourselves? We imagine! You have built up a self-image of being a smoker is who you are by imagining. You […]

Who’s Kidding Who?

I have had several clients lately who have come to quit smoking in 60 minutes who have told me that stop smoking is the biggest thing that they want to achieve.

The best advice that I can give you to quit smoking is to get very clear in your mind that you want to quit. When you do this then you will find that whatever method you choose to quit smoking will be more successful.

 

The interesting thing is that despite what they said they were not willing to carry out the exercises that I sent them to do before coming to […]

Urine today. Cancer tomorrow!

I was talking with a urologist last week when I had to go for an examination. One of the first things that he asked me was did I smoke?

I was intrigued by this and I asked him why he was so concerned about whether I smoked cigarettes or not. What he told me blew me away.

He told me that 90% of all bladder cancers that he saw were caused by smoking cigarettes. He said that when you smoke the toxins from the smoke enter your bloodstream. These toxins […]