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New Year’s Resolutions and Cigarette Smoking

  Let me give you my thoughts on deciding to quit smoking as a New Year’s Resolution. I'm sure many many, many people have come before you, and on New Year's Eve, they have sat down and said something like “That's it. I'm done. I'm going to quit smoking. I'm going to lose weight. I'm going to get a better job. I'm going to make more money. I'm going to change my life. I'm going to dress better.” Whatever it may be, that is a good time to make changes. Sometimes you need a focal point. Sometimes you need a reason. Sometimes you need that extra little push to just turn around and say “It's that time”. However, my concern is that you don't just impulsively decide to quit smoking. The choice to stop smoking cigarettes is a huge, life-changing decision, and a wonderful one. I'm just concerned that you don't just make that decision without commitment. Give this decision your best effort. Make sure that it is not just something you say, ...

Advice for Someone To Stop Smoking

Advice for Someone To Stop Smoking I used to be a cigarette smoker. For those that may not know me, I quit smoking about 15 years ago and have never looked back. When I was a smoker, and I smoked for a long period of my life, I felt that I probably quit mentally in stages over time while I smoked. What do I mean by that? There were times, for example, when I had a really bad cold. On one hand, I had the need to smoke. On the other hand, I felt lousy. I was congested. Any smoker knows when you have a cold, and you try to smoke, and the smoke is going in there and you already can't breathe, you really are pretty much choking yourself. You are really making yourself more miserable, yet you still have that need to get that nicotine in you. It becomes a really miserable period of time. I think people start to mentally say to themselves that they need to quit smoking ahead of time, so you kind of have different stages where your mind is starting to tell you that this is just not right an...

Celebrities That Smoke Cigarettes - 1

  Celebrities That Smoke Cigarettes. People love to know how celebrities live, especially film and tv stars.  Although they may have more money than most people, which makes everyday things like grocery shopping or cutting the lawn easier for them, they still may have the same habits or even problems that everyone else has. Smoking is no exception. There are a number of celebrities that smoke cigarettes, but many of them keep that out of public view, opting not to be seen puffing on a cigarette where they could be seen or photographed. I want to point out at this point that all the info gathered for this series of blog posts and shorts video has been researched online, and it’s assumed to be accurate. We have no way of knowing if the celebrities really are current or past cigarette smokers, or may quit in the future because I have no first-hand knowledge about any of the celebrities' lives. Our first celebrity has one both Golden Globes as well as Academy awards.  As an a...

How to Stop Nicotine Addiction Forever?

  The question of how to stop nicotine addiction forever has a simple answer, but it may not be easy. Let's take a look at the way nicotine addiction affects most people. According to many experts I have researched, nicotine is usually out of your system in roughly 24 hours. In some cases, the nicotine can last longer in your system, possibly a few days. I don’t know if anyone can predict that, but if you have any concerns about nicotine, please speak to a qualified medical professional. For the most part by the second day after you quit, it becomes more of a mental addiction. This is the part that you have to be prepared for. Because of all the ways, you have associated smoking with your daily routine, such as drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette.  You have to be able to battle this mental addiction. I am not sure if that is an actual term, but I think it does help to describe the difficulty of continuing to not smoke, even after the chemical addiction has stopped affectin...

What are the Side Effects When You Stop Smoking?

When you prepare to quit smoking cigarettes, it is normal to want to know what are the side effects when you stop smoking will be. Side effects are kind of a collection of things that your body and your mind especially, are going through when you stop smoking, because of the nicotine. Chances are that your body has grown dependent on nicotine for many different purposes - to relax, to focus, to get ready, to calm down, etc. It’s not that you need it to live, and not that it lasts a long time in your system when you stop smoking. However, there will be some period of adjustment time, when you will have to deal with some withdrawal symptoms. There's also a mental addiction which I always talk about. The fact that you just mentally believe that you need a cigarette. This is a whole lot easier to control than it is to actually control a chemical addiction, such as nicotine. But the mental addiction can last longer. Nicotine is generally out of your system in a day or so, but old habits...

How To Stop Smoking Tobacco?

  How To Stop Smoking Tobacco? If you want to know how to stop smoking tobacco I think I can help. My name is Bill and I'm an ex-smoker.  I quit some time ago and I urge everybody that if you smoke, and you want to stop smoking tobacco, start by taking a step back from the whole process. Think to yourself - what is it right now that you really like about smoking? You could even make a written list if you want to sit down and do so, but at least have a mental list in your head. Then I urge you to sit down and think about the things you don't like about smoking.  What happened to me, at least when I was still a smoker, is I found out that I was just always captive to the next step in my day of smoking. What I mean is that I would get up in the morning, and one of the first things I wanted to do, and that need in my body was, to have a cigarette. So I’d have to start the day with a cigarette. In my case, at least for a number of years before I quit smoking, I did stop smokin...

How To Stop Smoking If You Love Coffee?

  If you want to learn how to stop smoking, and if you love coffee, I think I can help! My name is Bill. I'm an ex-smoker. I've always loved coffee. I have gotten up since I was probably in junior high school, with a fresh hot cup of coffee every morning. That's probably an early age to start, but I've always loved the taste and the flavor, and the aroma of coffee. I drank coffee before I smoked cigarettes. For most of my life I drank my java black, without milk and sugar, so I'm not taking all the cream and sugar and everything else. It's just a nice cup of black coffee. Throughout my life, most smokers that I have known of enjoyed coffee, but not everyone that enjoys coffee wants to smoke! So it’s fair to say that many people would agree that smoking and cigarettes go hand in hand. I remember years ago when I was young, actually seeing a cartoon in one of the magazines that said something along the lines of “Remember when we used to talk about our problems ove...