Quit Smoking In 3 Hours

We are all too well aware of how costly cigarette addiction is for those who are seemingly trapped by the twisting curls of smoke rising from the little white sticks. Aside from the financial cost of cigarette addiction, which can easily add up to thousands of dollars a year, the severe health problems associated with smoking, such as cancer and heart attacks, should deter smokers from lighting up. The reality however is much different. Smoking cigarettes remains the third leading cause of death in the United States. But why is kicking the nicotine habit so difficult despite its glaringly harmful consequences? Could it be that the true reason behind cigarette addiction dwells deep within the subconscious mind.

Rick Beneteau and Rick Saruna the co-creators of the Quit Smoking Right Now program believe that's exactly where the key to cigarette addiction resides. According to Beneteau and Saruna the only way to permanently eliminate nicotine addiction is to use specialized NLP (Neuro-Linguistis-Programing), a popular form of hypnosis therapy. Beneteau, a self confessed life long smoker who puffed away at cigarettes for 39 years, was finally able to permanently quit his smoking habit after using advanced NLP techniques as applied by Saruna. The whole process took a mere three hours to complete. "He said all I had to do to was set aside three hours of my time and pick the date for what I now call D-Day, or done-day," expresses Beneteau. "I believed in the power of the mind and all…but Rick's promise would have been an absolute miracle in my case!" he adds. But in the end it did work and Beneteau has been smoke free ever since.

According to the Quit Smoking Right Now program, there are strong unconscious thought patterns that govern a nicotine addict's mind, preventing the smoker from kicking the habit. These include false notions that may have been slyly put in place over years of exposure to the tobacco industry's special advertising campaigns. Beneteau and Saruna believe that in addition to these false beliefs, a general lack of knowledge regarding the physical realities of nicotine addiction and the extremely addictive ingredients laced into cigarettes, prevent successful quitting among the %90 who try to quit smoking.

Beneteau and Saruna contend that the only way to permanently quit the smoking habit is to remove these false ideas from the subconscious mind and learn the truth behind nicotine addiction. "It was your mind that convinced your body to start smoking in the first place…and it is only your mind that can convince your body to stop," argues Beneteau. The Quit Smoking Right Now program does not involve any medications, supplements, special diets or exercise programs, instead the program relies on the use of NLP hypnosis therapy to permanently eliminate nicotine and cigarette addiction in a matter of hours.

Rick Saruna has joined forces with Rick Beneteau, a successful internet entrepreneur, in order to bring his program online. The program has had many successful participants. "It was quick and easy, I tried everything else but nothing worked, now I don't even have an urge for a cigarette after 40 years of smoking, you have to try it to believe it" says Linda Russell one the many of the program's success stories. Jim Quarrington another previous chain smoker adds, "ten minutes into the program and I knew I was going to be able to quit, I remain tobacco-free over a year later."

Are you man enough to butt-out?

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Men around the world smoke more than women. But why? Because tobacco companies and advertisers have targeted men for the longest time, or is it just that women care more about their health? There are men, who smoke two or three cigarettes a day and think since they are not into chain or heavy smoking, they will not get affected. Other ones believe that smoking actually improves their digestive system. It is hard to imagine why men don't understand how harmful their habit is.

As human beings, when confronted with a problem sometimes we are reluctant to recognize that the problem actually exists. We tend at times to be in denial. Smokers are not sheltered nor are they immune to these basic human characteristics. Some men, although they, or those close to them, may be experiencing some of the cigarette smoke’s side effects such as: tooth decay, premature ageing, cataracts, hearing loss, breathing complications, impotence and numbness of fingers, they choose to neglect the harsh realities that all of these could be attributed to cigarette smoking.

A smokers’ lung resembles burnt meat. The blackened lung is a result of tar deposits that all smokers breathe into their lungs with every puff they take. Cigarette tars contain some of the most carcinogenic chemicals known to man. Some of us have close friends who have been smoking cigarettes for years but have been defiant in accepting the fact that they are indeed hooked and are sick because of tobacco smoke.

Those smokers who are in denial continue to inhale thousands of poisons with every puff. These poisons rob them of their endurance and their health. One day, these poisons may eventually rob them, or those close to them, of their life. Smoking related diseases are responsible for 1 in 10 adult deaths worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, the tobacco epidemic kills an average of two people every 12 seconds.

Unfortunately, most of men have smoked and are still smoking. This makes all men very much at risk of the harmful effects of smoking. Stop smoke cigarettes every single day in order to maintain a constant blood nicotine level and satisfy the addiction, please, start tobacco free life, and protect yourself from tobacco smoke.

Thanks to all the mothers who have quit

The responsibility of being a mother begins prior to birth and woman's choice to quit should be celebrated. A recent study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to infants with heart defects. Smoking during pregnancy causes major health problems for mother and baby.

Quitting smoking takes practice, but it lowers these risks. Women who quit smoking cut the biggest risks of death from heart disease within five years and have a 20 percent lower chance of dying from related cancers in that time.

Smoking during pregnancy may cause problems with the placenta, the source of the baby's nutrition and oxygen. Mother's smoking can cause a baby to be born too early and have low birth weight; making it more likely the baby will become sick or die. Babies with moms who smoke are more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and have health problems such as ear infections and pneumonia.

Women who quit smoking in pregnancy have better general functioning, including more sustained relationships, more skillfulness in use of community resources and less disrupted and stressful life circumstances compared to pregnancy smokers. Quitting smoking is a really difficult thing to do at any time, but one of the most important things mothers can do for their children is to stop smoking.

How I quit smoking

By Paul Burri

I know several people who are trying to quit smoking and I appreciate how difficult that is. It took several years for me to break the habit. It was quite a few years ago and here’s how I did it.

It was way, way back in 1954 and I had just been discharged from the Army. Many people will be surprised that as early as the fifties, there were cancer warnings about the dangers of smoking. But back then we had none of the patches, pills, medications and other aids for quitting. At the time I had been smoking for about six years and was up to two packs a day. I tried “cutting down” with no success. I tried substituting candy and chewing gum with no success. I tried self-hypnosis. I was trapped in the old cliché: "It’s easy to quit smoking; I’ve quit thousands of times."

At the time, both my wife and I were working; I in Los Angeles and she for Walt Disney in Burbank. We had only one car so I would take the bus to work every morning. In the evening the bus went right past the Disney parking lot so I would get off there and wait around for 15 or 20 minutes for her to get off work. Then we’d drive home together.

Since I had been doing this for several months, I got familiar with one of the guards at the Disney parking lot and he and I would talk about various things. One day as we were talking, I took out my pack of cigarettes and lit up. At the same time, I offered one to my friend. He recoiled in mock horror and said to me, "Are you trying to poison me?"

I replied, "I guess you’ve quit, huh? I wish I could."

He answered with a remark that I have never forgotten. He said, "You can too if you really want to."

I never smoked another cigarette from that moment on.

As always, I look for what lesson is to be learned from that experience. I think it is that you can achieve whatever you want to if you are really sincere and the motivation is really there. Conversely, if you find it "impossible" to break a habit or to achieve a particular goal, it’s because you do not have sufficient motivation.

I am reminded about something I wrote in an earlier column that had to do with setting goals. At a seminar I attended we were asked to make a list of 10 goals we wanted to achieve. On the second day, we were asked to make a new list showing what we needed to do to achieve those goals. On the third day we were to list what we were actually doing. It was pretty embarrassing because we had goals, we knew what we had to do to achieve those goals — but few of us were doing what it took to get there.

I do not want to minimize the pernicious nature of various kinds of addictions nor the extreme difficulty of escaping from them. I also do not want to oversimplify the problem, but I do believe that one’s own strong self-motivation is an important first step. I sincerely believe that you can achieve whatever you want if you are really motivated to do so.

Don't give up giving up

Quitting cigarettes means walking away from an addiction to something containing over 4,000 known chemicals. This is why quitting smoking is one of the toughest things to do. But it gets easier with practice. Perhaps the most telling testament to the difficulty of quitting is the number of people who routinely say "I've tried to quit smoking more than once." In fact, the average person who has successfully quit smoking has only done so after five or six failed attempts.

A big problem for many smokers trying to quit is handling the craving for nicotine. Nicotine increases the levels of chemicals in the brain that regulate mood, attention and memory, making it far more difficult to avoid a craving than many people might think.

Here are some helpful tips to help you to quit smoking:

- Pick a quit day within the next two or three weeks to quit. Having a deadline makes it easier to plan how you will handle the people, places and situations that make you want to smoke. Make your own list of reasons for quitting: health, family, money...

- Replace cigarettes. Many people chew gum in lieu of smoking cigarettes. To make that beneficial, make sure the gum is sugarfree to avoid damaging teeth. Some people simply reach for food when a nicotine craving hits. If you take this road, make sure the food you choose is healthy, such as fruits and vegetables (i.e., carrots, celery, apples).

- Speak with friends, family, and colleagues who can give you support. Start making the lifestyle changes that will support your plan. Leave cigarettes at home when you go out, remove the ashtrays from your home. Consider joining a support group. Some people find it helpful to talk to others who are also trying to quit.

- Learn to relax. Because nicotine affects chemicals in the brain and, in turn, mood, quitting can make a person cranky and restless. In fact, nicotine withdrawal and dependence have been recognized as disorders by the American Psychiatric Association for 20 years. Oftentimes, the restlessness that results from withdrawal will drive someone to smoke again because they cannot relax when a craving hits. Take 10 slow, deep breaths and hold the last one. Then breathe out slowly and relax all muscles. Imagine a soothing scene and allow your mind to escape as you concentrate on that scene.

- Leave the room. Merely changing surroundings when a craving hits works for some people. Head outdoors for some fresh air, walk down the hall to a different room or change what you're doing when cravings hit.

- Don't fall into the trap of "Just one won't hurt." "Just one" often turns into more than that, as anyone who has tried and failed at quitting before can attest. The problem with the "just one" approach is that it negates all the work a person has done up to that point.

Health benefits of quitting smoking are unlimited!

Quitting smoking is the single best thing you can do to improve your health and quality of life. Non-smokers have a much lower risk of getting dozens of smoking-related diseases like lung cancer, heart disease, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD, including emphysema). You will look and feel younger. Smokers are more likely to wrinkle at an earlier age and have deeper wrinkles.

Quitting smoking increases the chances of living a longer and healthier life. After about 15 years, an ex-smoker's relative risk of getting lung cancer is only slightly greater than that of someone who has never smoked. Similarly, their relative risk of a heart attack is reduced almost to the same risk level of someone who has never smoked.

Once you have quit, you will know you can succeed at difficult takes and take more control of your life. Quitting helps you believe in yourself. Many smokers remember the exact day they quit because it is a source of great pride. You'll feel proud of your ability to overcome something so challenging.