Tips to Quit Smoking

Neglect CIGARETTES, Be Passionate to be Healthier without SMOKING!!

1) Believe in yourself. Believe that you can quit. Think about some of the most difficult things you have done in your life and realize that you have the guts and determination to quit smoking.

2) Write down the BENEFITS why you want to quit like you may live longer, feel better, for your family, save money, smell better, find a mate more easily. You know what's bad about smoking and you know what you'll get by quitting. Put it on paper and read it daily.

3) You must set a quit date. Decide what day you will quit smoking cigarettes forever. Write it down and plan for it. Prepare your mind for the "first day of the rest of your life".

The story that MAY influence YOUR DETERMINATION:

- You might even hold a small ceremony if you want so, when you smoke you last cigarette or on the morning of the quit date. After you quit, plan to celebrate the milestones in your journey to becoming a non-smoker. After two weeks of being smoke-free, see a movie. After a month, go to a fancy restaurant just be sure to sit in the non-smoking section. After three months, go for a long weekend to a favorite get-away. After six months, buy yourself something frivolous. After a year, have a party for yourself. Invite your family and friends to your "birthday" party and celebrate your new chance at a long, healthy life.

ACTS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE :)
Loving your LIFE always...

Nicotine Gum?

Nicotine gum is a type of chewing gum that delivers nicotine to the body. It is used as an aid in smoking cessation and in quitting smokeless tobacco. The nicotine is delivered to the bloodstream via absorption by the tissues of the mouth. It is currently available over-the-counter in Europe, the US and elsewhere. The pieces are usually available in individual foil packages and come in various flavors including orange, and mint. Each piece typically contains 2 or 4 mg of nicotine, roughly the nicotine content of 1 or 2 cigarettes, with the appropriate dosage depending on the smoking habits of the user. Popular brands include Nicoderm/Nicorette and Nicotinell. Alternative nicotine replacement products include the nicotine patch, nicotine pastilles/lozenges and the nicotine inhaler.

An Option?

If you are angry that so many things have been added to the cigarettes you enjoy so much, you should be. Many of these chemicals were added to make you more able to tolerate with the toxic amounts of cigarette smoke. They were added without regard to your health and with the intention to keep you addicted. As the tobacco industry saying goes, "An addicted customer is a customer for life, no matter how short that life is". Remember this, just make sure that you have the last laugh. Regardless of the countless chemicals in your cigarettes, quitting is always an option.

Toilet Bowl Cleaner?

As you all knows, most people prefer to use ammonia for things such as cleaning windows and toilet bowls. You may be surprised to learn that the tobacco industry has found some additional uses for this household product. By adding ammonia to your cigarettes, nicotine in its vapor form can be absorbed through your lungs more quickly. This, in turn, means your brain can get a higher dose of nicotine with each puff. The complete list of chemicals added to your cigarettes is too long to list here. Here are some examples that will surprise you:

• Fungicides and pesticides -- Cause many types of cancers and birth defects.
• Cadmium -- Linked to lung and prostate cancer.
• Benzene -- Linked to leukemia.
• Formaldehyde -- Linked to lung cancer.
• Nickel -- Causes increased susceptibility to lung infections.

Filters Don't Work

Actually filters do not remove enough tar to make the cigarettes less dangerous. They are just a marketing ploy to trick you into thinking that you are smoking a safer cigarette. The solution to the bitter-taste cigarette was easy. Just have some chemists add taste-improving chemicals to the tobacco. Unfortunately, some of these chemicals also cause cancer and not all of the chemicals in your cigarettes are there for taste enhancement. For example, a chemical very similar to rocket fuel helps keep the tip of the cigarette burning at an extremely hot temperature. This allows the nicotine to turn into a vapor so your lungs can absorb it more easily.

What Is In a Cigarette?

Cigarette contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and 400 other toxins. These include nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT. Nicotine is highly addictive. When this nicotine is inhaled into the lungs, the nicotine reach the brain in just six seconds. Nicotine in small doses is a stimulant to the brain. In large doses, it's a depressant by blocking the signals between nerve cells. In even larger doses, it's a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Nicotine in the cigarette will make the smoker feel calm. As a cigarette is smoked, the amount of tar inhaled into the lungs increases, and the last puff contains more than twice as much tar as the first puff. Carbon monoxide makes it harder for red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Tar is a mixture of substances that will form a sticky mass in the lungs after sometime. Most of the chemicals in cigarette smoke stay in the lungs. Remember, the more you inhale, the better it feels and the greater the damage to your lungs.

Who is Cigarette?

A cigarette is a disposable smoke delivery device consisting of a small cylinder of shredded tobacco leaves wrapped in paper. Commonly the standard size for a cigarette in Malaysia is less than 10cm in length and 10mm in diameter which is ignited to inhales its smoke. The Malaysians has their own history of cigarettes. For example, some smokers roll their own cigarettes by wrapping tobacco in paper. Nowadays, machine-made cigarettes are sold in a small cardboard packages of 20 cigarettes. Commercial cigarettes usually contain a cellulose acetate or cotton filter through which the smoker inhales the smoke. The filter will serves to cool and somewhat clean the smoke.