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Smoking is dangerous; plain and simple. If you are the smoker it is dangerous to you in many ways. And, non-smokers, did you know that you are in danger from second hand smoke yourself. Second hand smoke seems so harmless, yet in some ways it can be even more lethal than putting the cancer stick up to your very own mouth!

Read on if you want to find out about some of the most harmful smoking effects associated with the habit of cigarette smoking.

1) Second hand smoke. Did you know that the terrible effects of smoke can enter through the skin! This alone should make a smoker think twice about smoking around people suffering from asthma, heart disease, and allergies.

2) Smoking robs you of your youthful appearance; it can cause permanent damage to our skin after a very short period of time.

3) It can cause the onset of gingivitis, an inflammation and infection of the gums surrounding the teeth. And of course, we all know it causes the teeth to become yellow.

4) It can cause a thinning of bones, also known as osteoporosis.

5) It can cause many heart and lung diseases that, of course, cause one to age prematurely.

6) When you begin smoking, it is highly likely that you
will develop an addiction to nicotine.

7) Women who smoke have a higher incidence of infertility.

Women who smoke during pregnancy, greatly increase their odds of miscarriage.

9) Some of the ingredients in cigarettes are pure poison: ammonia, benzene, DDT, butane gas, carbon monoxide, and arsenic.

This is just a small sampling of the harmful smoking effects I identified during my research. Frankly, the list is enough to keep me on the wagon!

John was a longtime smoker and is now pleased to offer his stop smoking program tips.

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HOW I QUIT SMOKING USING NLP

By 

VIKRAM KARVE

Whenever I undergo any training or course, I try and apply the concepts and skills I learn during the program upon myself in order to ascertain efficacy of the training for I firmly believe in the time-tested adage that “The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating”. 

Thus, the first thing I decided after completing NLP Practitioner Training was to try and apply the concepts I had learnt and imbibed on myself. 

NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming. Sounds complicated and high falutin, isn’t it? Actually NLP is quite simple – let’s see how I applied it in my daily life.

At that point in time, I was a smoker. I had tried to quit smoking many times with little success. 

Now I’d try a simple concept from NLP to give up smoking. 

I succeeded beyond my expectations and gave up smoking in a day. 

I conquered the craving, the urge, for smoking and never suffered any “withdrawal symptoms”. 

I quit smoking forever in one go. 

Let me describe to you, Dear Reader, that red letter day of my life. 

I woke up early in the morning, as usual, made a cup of tea, and the moment I took a sip of the piping hot delicious tea, I felt the familiar crave for my first cigarette of the day. 

I had identified my first “Smoking – Anchor” – Tea. 

I kept down the tempting cup of tea, made a note of the craving [anchor] in my diary, quickly heated a glass of water in the microwave oven, completed my ablutions, stepped out of my house, and embarked upon my customary morning constitutional brisk walk-cum-jog deeply rinsing and cleansing my lungs with pure refreshing morning air, which made me feel on top of the world. 

I felt invigorated and happy. I had overcome my craving and not smoked my first cigarette of the day. 

Returning refreshed from my brisk bracing morning walk, I stopped to pick up the newspaper, and spotted my friends ‘N’ and ‘S’ across the road beckoning me for our customary post-walk tête-à-tête with tea and cigarettes at our favorite the tea-stall. 

Here lurked my second “Smoking – Anchor” – my smoker friends. 

I felt tempted, but I steeled my resolve. 

I waved out to my smoker friends, turned away and briskly headed home. 

They must have thought I’d gone crazy, but it didn’t matter – I had avoided my second cigarette of the day. 

That’s what I was going to do the entire day. Be aware, look inwards, fully cognizant and mindful in order to ensure that I identify all the stimuli that triggered in me the urge to smoke – my “smoking anchors” which could be anything, conscious and unconscious, internal and external, tangible or intangible – people, situations, events, feelings, smells, emotions, tendencies, moods, foods, social or organizational trends, practices, norms, peer-pressure. 

Then I would conquer and triumph over these stimuli, demolish these negative “smoking-anchors” and establish and reinforce new positive “healthy” non-smoking anchors using a Technique called Force Field Analysis. 

I’ll tell you more about Force Field Analysis later.

Dear Reader, read on and see how my first non-smoking day progressed. 

After breakfast, I didn’t drink my usual cup of coffee – a strong “smoking anchor” which triggered in me a strong irresistible craving and desperate desire to smoke. 

I drank a glass of cold bland milk instead, and thereby averted my third cigarette of the day. 

It was nine as I reached my workplace and I had not smoked a single cigarette. Rather I had not smoked my customary three cigarettes! 

It was a long day ahead and I had to be cognizant, observe myself inwardly and devise strategies to tackle situations that elicited craving for smoking – recognize and conquer my “smoking anchors”. 

Anchoring is a naturally occurring phenomenon, a natural process that usually occurs without our awareness.

An anchor is any representation in the human nervous system that triggers any other representation. 

Anchors can operate in any representational system (sight, sound, feeling, sensation, smell, taste). 

You create an anchor when you unconsciously set up a stimulus-response pattern. 

Response [smoking] becomes associated with [anchored to] some stimulus; in such a way that perception of the stimulus [the anchor] leads by reflex to the anchored response [smoking] occurring. 

Repeated Stimulus-Response [SR] action reinforces anchors and this is a vicious circle, especially in the context of “smoking anchors”. 

The trick is to identify your “smoking anchors”, become conscious of these anchors and ensure you do not activate them. 

And then transcend from the SR Paradigm to the SHOR Paradigm to set and fire new positive anchors. 

What’s SHOR? 

SHOR stands for Stimulus-Hypothesis-Options-Response – I will tell about this management model soon too.

The moment I reached office I saw my colleague ‘B’ eagerly waiting for me, as he did every day. 

Actually the freeloader was eagerly waiting to bum a cigarette off me for his first smoke of the day. “I only smoke other’s cigarettes” was his motto! 

I politely told him I had quit smoking and told him to look for a cigarette elsewhere. 

He looked at me in disbelief; taunted, jeered and badgered me a bit, but when I stood firm, he disappeared.  

I had not smoked my fourth cigarette of the day! 

I removed from my office my ashtray, my lighter, all vestiges of smoking, declared the entire place a no-smoking zone and put up signs to that effect. 

The working day began. It was a tough and stressful working day. I was tired and suddenly my boss called me across to his office and offered me a cigarette. 

I looked at the cigarette pack yearningly, tempted, overcome by a strong craving, desperate to have just that “one” cigarette. 

Nothing like a “refreshing” smoke to drive my blues away and revitalize me – the “panacea” to my “stressed-out” state! 

It was now or never! 

I politely excused myself on the pretext of going to the toilet, but rushed out onto the terrace and took a brisk walk rinsing my lungs with fresh air, and by the time I returned I had lost the craving to smoke and realized that physical exercise is probably the best antidote – a positive “non-smoking” anchor – and, of course, I had not smoked my fifth cigarette of the day! 

It was the famous Stoic philosopher Epictetus who said: 

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and cannot control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.” 

We often let our feelings set our anchors, govern our lives. We let feelings drive our thoughts, not realizing that thoughts drive actions, actions produce results, and results in turn produce more feelings, reinforce anchors, causing a vicious circle which may ultimately lead to loss of self-control. 

Such “feeling-anchors” not totally controllable, as many times feelings are produced by external circumstances beyond your control, and if negative feelings are allowed to drive our thoughts and actions, then undesirable results emanate. 

The best solution is to establish “thought-anchors” as drivers of your actions. 

It is well within your control to think positive, good and interesting thoughts. 

In fact, the happiest person is the one who thinks the most interesting and good thoughts, isn’t it? 

That’s the essence of NLP. 

Reprogram your anchors, recondition your mind, control your own life, change for the better and enhance your plane of living. 

This technique works for me, and I’m sure it’ll work for you too. 

Maybe it is so effective because it is so breathtaking in its simplicity. 

 

VIKRAM KARVE 

Copyright © Vikram Karve 2009

Vikram Karve has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/karve 

 

Vikram Karve, 52, educated at IIT Delhi, ITBHU and The Lawrence School Lovedale, is an Electronics and Communications Engineer by profession, a Teacher by vocation, a Creative Writer by inclination and a Foodie by passion. An avid blogger, he has written a number of fiction short stories and creative non-fiction articles in magazines and journals for many years before the advent of blogging. His delicious foodie blogs have been compiled in a book “Appetite for a Stroll”. Vikram lives in Pune with his family and pet Doberman girl Sherry, with whom he takes long walks thinking creative thoughts.

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Well Spring is just around the corner and surprise, surprise, the success and controversy surrounding the electronic cigarette (as written about in Part 2 of this series of articles) rumbles on and on.

As an observer it is fascinating to see so much staunch opposition to a product that has the potential to rid the world of smoking related cancers! No its not yet been tested or approved by the world health organisations, no there is not yet a piece of paper that declares the electronic cigarette “safe” but surely something with this much promise should be being embraced by one and all and the powers that be should be frantically busy with the testing so the world at large can either welcome a hero or dismiss another false dawn.

Meanwhile, Joe Public continues to flock towards the electronic cigarette like penguins to an iceberg. As awareness of the product grows, more and more people are willing and eager to give it a try. What does this show? Personally I think it proves just how desperate most smokers are to quit smoking.

I don’t really think the fact that an electronic cigarette looks remarkably like a real cigarette has anything other than an initial “wow” factor. Ill health and a despondency with some of the other “quit smoking” products available, combined with a real urgency to stop smoking is lighting the way for these e cigs.

Let’s have another look at some of the claims made by the electronic cigarette companies:

• Can be up to 80% cheaper than smoking real cigarettes
• No lighting, no burning, no tar and no real smoke (only vapour)
• No cancerous substances (during the burning of tobacco there are approx. 40 cancerous substances)
• No need for ashtrays, no cigarette butts, no horrible smells and no air pollution (no CO2)
• Due to the various strengths of the renewable cartridges, nicotine strength can be gradually lowered to ease nicotine addiction.

 

There are more claimed benefits than those mentioned above but it’s clear looking at some of these why the electronic cigarette is proving to be such an attractive proposition for smokers. Also the ways these items are packaged and distributed by some companies make it easy for non smokers to make purchases as gifts for smoking relatives and friends.

Ultimately until there is some official feedback and decisions made by the health organisations other then mere speculation, then it’s very much a case of making personal decisions regarding the electronic cigarette but one thing is for sure we are going to hear a lot more about them yet.

 

Another month passes and the jostling continues in the electronic cigarette world. Part 3 in this series of articles keeps a watchful eye on the unfolding drama.

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Nobody finds it easy to quit smoking and I understand it very well. I’ve recently managed to quit smoking so I am well aware of how difficult it is to kick this horrible habit out of our lives once and for all. Below I’ve listed some of the things that have helped me quit smoking a lot easier and reduce the withdrawal symptoms and cravings that I had to go through.

1. Eat healthy and start doing daily exercises

The body and mind are tightly connected, therefore by eating healthy you’ll not only strengthen your body that is most likely to be weakened after you quit smoking but you will provide the right nutrients and vitamins that you need to reduce the withdrawal symptoms and cravings to smoke another cigarette.

2. Have a positive mind-set and fix a specific date to quit

The first essential step in your “quit-smoking” journey is definitely your decision to quit. However fixing a date is important as well. It would be perfect if you could take a few days of work so you have the chance to relax a bit more. Don’t hide your desire to quit from anyone, actually telling your co-workers, friends and family members that you want to become smoke-free, will bring you lots of benefits. You will need support!

3. Last but not least, try and stay away from people or situations that will remind you of smoking. The temptation is high!

You can read a great book for example that will keep your mind of cigarettes. Try and do jogging, tennis or anything that involves movement! Stay away from bars or discos where your friends might offer you a cigarette.

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