Showing posts with label smoking cessation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking cessation. Show all posts

Friday, July 06, 2007

Genuine EasyQuit System Testimonials

Hi Pete,

I would like you to know that I quit smoking half way through reading your book and have not smoked since! It has been 1 month and I am so happy that I did it!! I never thought that I would be able to live without them but there is one thing I know for sure and that is that I will never pick up a cigarette again in my life thanks to your book!!

I feel so much better knowing that each day my lungs are clearing up and that I have less of a chance of having heart disease. Your book has definitely changed my life. I have tried to quit before on my own and it never worked. I am not sure exactly what in your book changed my thinking, but it worked and I am very grateful to you. You have saved my life!!!!

Thank you!!

Susan Ellston, Florida

Hi Pete.

You'll be glad to know I've been a non-smoker since sometime in February. I didn't even keep track of the day because cigarettes just don't mean anything to me anymore. I just stopped. Thanks.

Tricia Brunken, Massachusetts

Hi:

I must thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have been smoke-free for almost 3 months now. I don't even miss it. I was terrified to even try to quit but after reading your book - it was possible. And I never even cheated once!! Again, thankyou.

Donna Deck, Ontario, Canada

Well Pete,

I must say I entered into this thinking that it was just another bunch of BS to get rich!!! However, by the time I had reached the last chapter of your book, I no longer wanted another cigarette – thank you. I hope you do, if not already, get rich as I am in a much better place thanks to you.

Ron Collins, Florida

Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that will help any smoker quit tobacco. The EasyQuit System works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Visit http://easyquitsystem.com/ to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking that boasts 96% customer satisfaction.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Quit Smoking Benefits

There are many quit smoking benefits – and obviously health benefits are the main reason why most people want to quit smoking.

Secondly, money plays a part in quitting smoking and the benefit to the average smoker is in excess of $1500 per year, so that is a good quit smoking benefit!

Thirdly, the way you and your clothes and your car and your house smell after you have stopped smoking are more good quit smoking benefit. For non- or ex-smokers, tobacco is a very pervasive and disagreeable odour.

Your appearance will also improve as your skin will have a better pallor to it and your teeth can be cleaned a little better without the incessant wash of smoke over them.

But lets get back to the health benefits. It will obviously vary from person to person, but every smoker can enjoy a several benefits from quitting smoking.

1) Within 20 minutes of a cigarette, blood pressure and heart rate decline to 'normal'.

2) Within 8 hours, or a nights sleep, nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in the blood are down by at least a half.

3) Within 2 days, carbon monoxide and nicotine will be virtually non-existent in the blood. Your lungs will start the process of cleaning themselves and your taste and smell will start to improve. However, whilst these are good quit smoking benefits, it is at around this time that the withdrawal symptoms will be at their worst.

It is not uncommon for a sore throat, coughing, irritability, constipation and sleeplessness to set in at this point of quitting tobacco. These are common side effects of quitting smoking.

4) Over the coming few months, breathing will become easier and energy levels will increase. The blood's oxygen carrying capacity is back to 100% and the circulation of the body will have already improved.

5) By the end of the first year, lung function can improve by up to 10%, and wheeziness could become a thing of the past.

6) Ten years after quitting smoking, the ex-smoker benefits from a halved risk of lung cancer and a normal risk of heart attack.

Other quit smoking benefits include confidence, fitness and energy levels being better along with a much improve complexion and more youthful skin. Fertility in both men and women improves and the chance of pregnancy complications is much reduced.

One of the biggest quit smoking benefits can be found in families; infants have a much higher chance of still birth, premature birth or even cot death (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS). Children of smokers have higher chances of asthma, pneumonia and chest and ear infections during childhood and are much more likely to become smokers themselves.

Quit smoking benefits are numerous, the disadvantages of quitting smoking are non-existent!

Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that will help any smoker quit tobacco. The EasyQuit System works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Visit http://easyquitsystem.com to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking that boasts 96% customer satisfaction.

Quit Smoking Programs

There are many different quit smoking programs available to day. In this article we shall look at some of them and their relative effectiveness.

The most obvious quit smoking program is to use the old cold turkey method. This involves simply depriving yourself of cigarettes or tobacco. It has the very lowest success rate of all quit smoking programs at around 5% after 6 months.

Another well known quit smoking program is the use of nicotine replacement therapy or NRT. Nicotine replacement therapy products vary from transdermal patchs that infuse nicotine across the skin, to gums, inhalers and nasal sprays.

The gums, lozenges, spray and inhalation systems all leave a pretty nasty taste in the back of the throat and the patches do little to help immediate cravings. Only about 1 in 10 people who try manage to stay smoke free after 6 months of using one of these quit smoking programs.

Zyban or Wellbutin is another well know quit smoking program. It is thought to double your chances when taken alone, up to 10%. When used in conjunction with NRT, this quit smoking program can win over up to 20% of quitters after 6 months. As programs go, combined zyban and NRT is an effective quit smoking program.

Recently, a product called Varenicline and known as Chantix or Champix has been approved for the market. This is considered to be a 'magic pill' solution to smoking and its manufacturers boast up to 44% success after 6 months. Independent studies, however, have been unable to reach such heady success and success rates are considered to be in the high 20% region after 6 months. Again, this is a relatively effective quit smoking program.

Finally, there are a number of other highly effective quit smoking programs available over the internet. They are not 'magic pills' as they require time and effort from smokers to address their desire to quit smoking.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming are all recognised alternative methods for quitting smoking. These quit smoking programs claim very high success rates and the British Medical Association has published success rates in excess of 70% for some of these methods.

When you are looking to quit smoking once and for all, it may not be the accepted and well known methods that will work for you, so it always worth looking at the alternatives.

Pete Howells has written the EasyQuit System that will help any smoker quit tobacco. The EasyQuit System works by giving smokers the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit rather than just telling them smoking is bad for them. Visit http://easyquitsystem.com/ to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking that boasts 96% customer satisfaction.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The Nicotine Replacement Therapy Scam

Over the last year, I have read more than my fill of theories on smoking cessation. I have seen some amazing claims made by people about Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRTs) or selling herbal and other remedies.

The simple fact of the matter is that smoking is the response to an addiction to nicotine. People smoke because they have a physical need for nicotine and the place to get it quickly is through a cigarette or other tobacco product.

The pharmaceutical industry claims that nicotine replacement is an effective way of quitting smoking. They are missing the point in order to make a profit.

It is far more likely that people who quit smoking will stay quit if they are no longer in the throes of nicotine addiction. To this end, nicotine replacement therapies have very low long term (26 and 52 week) success rates because they maintain nicotine addiction.

NRT patients are frequently still addicted to nicotine many months after quitting smoking - if they are successful in quitting smoking at all - and it is not uncommon to find former smokers still chewing nicotine replacement gum or lozenges even years after stopping smoking.

The pharmaceutical companies do not mind this situation though as they have effectively stolen a customer from the tobacco industry and turned them into a long-term customer of the pharmaceutical industry.

The rouse doesn't end there either. Tobacco is heavily taxed whereas nicotine replacement therapies are not. The tobacco companies make very healthy profits from selling tobacco products despite up to 80% of the price being taxes and duties.

The manufacturing costs of nicotine replacement therapies are only marginally higher than those of cigarettes and the like. The selling price of nicotine replacement therapies is only marginally lower than tobacco products, despite the bulk of cigarette costs being taxes and duties. To this end the pharmaceutical companies are making huge profits on nicotine replacement therapy products by taking the 'tax chunk' as profit.

Nicotine replacement therapies do not work effectively in the long run and that has been shown on many occasions and in many studies. These therapies are used as a means of profiting from nicotine addiction with little interest in the welfare of the smoker themselves.

The only genuine method of overcoming smoking is through change of attitude and it is proven that the most effective methods for quitting smoking do not rely on any form of substitution, whether nicotine or some other herbal remedy. Long-term smoking cessation is only readily achieved when smokers can understand and master their addiction and understand how to control it. Knowing how to change ones attitude to cigarettes is the key to success.