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Hypnosis works very well if you wish to quit. It will help you quit not make you quit. It will take several trips to the hypnotist to get it under control.

i want to quit smoking but i dont want to buy those stop smoking aids that are expensive and never work. have any suggestions?

Smoking is more of a psychological addiction than a physical one. If you really want to quit you must discover the reasons why you smoke and then eliminate or change these thought processes.

Once you deal with the psychological side of smoking it makes the quitting process easy, no matter your level of addiction.

Quitting smoking does not require any patches, gums, hypnosis or anything like that. These methods are expensive, time consuming and simply do not work. All that is required is a bit of motivation, self belief and determination.

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I need smoking facts!!! Does anyone know any? Preferable about the UK

MAny thanks

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Choke on these jaw-dropping smoking facts

Laugh or cry these smoking statistics are real, and enough to make you scratch your head in wonderment at the quirkiness of the human race.

We all steer ourselves through life in different ways, and it should be nobody else’s concern what we choose to do, as long as it doesn’t harm others, and as long as we accept the consequences of our actions and are willing to pay for them.

Society is set up to protect us and others by constraints, advice and laws, but since time began people will still do what they want to do… often with unfortunate or utterly catastrophic results.

Our world’s smoking facts
Life, from the beginning — rolling in the hay, to the end — pushing up daisies:

Pregnancy and babies
In U.S. alone, figures show that expectant mothers who smoke cause the deaths of over 600 boy babies and 400 baby girls each year. Babies who survive but suffer from smoking related problems cost the country approximately $800 each to help, totaling nearly $4 million.(3)

Children
A UK survey shows the mean age for young people to try their first cigarette is 11 years old.

Teens
U.K. By age 12-13years, 31% of kids had tried smoking. This doubled to 59% by age 14-15.

Adults
Many smokers get angry once they are diagnosed with a life-threatening disease and they do some extraordinary things:
Take Barb Tarbox from Edmonton, Canada — ex-model, died of lung cancer aged 42 in 2003.
She spent the last 7 months of her life parading her slowly emaciating body and bald head due to radiation, around schools, TV spots, print ads and anywhere she could get the message across to try and stop, "even one child from picking up a cigarette," she said.
She made people cry at her appearances especially near the end when she couldn’t walk or feed herself and had to be wheelchaired into halls to passionately speak.
She left a 10 year old daughter and husband of 20 years — and a lot of smokers there and then threw away their cigarettes.

AUSTRALIA

Smoking statistics for 2005 show that 17% of Australians smoke. In 1993 this figure was higher at 25%.
Other drugs: Ecstasy has become popular and figures have risen in recent years. Other drugs have declined in use. Marijuana is tried by 11 % of Australians.(8)
NSW is the most populated state with 6 million people, and around 18% of the adults are smokers.
This means a social and health burden to NSW taxpayers, families and businesses of $6.6 billion per year.
In the latest figures, 6860 deaths were attributable to smoking and 353,180 hospital bed days were for people suffering tobacco-related illness, at a cost of $254 million.
Of the total tangible costs of smoking, 58 per cent were borne by individuals, 29 per cent by business and only 13 per cent by governments.(4)
150 smokers end up in hospital each day because of their habit.(5)
NSW spent $7 million each year on prevention programs.(6)

CHINA
The facts about smoking in China are scary and getting scarier by the minute:

It produces more tobacco than any other country.
It has an estimated 350 million smokers — that’s 1 in 3 of the world’s smokers.
36% of the population smoke, including 70% of all Chinese men. Most of them have no knowledge of the facts about smoking or any awareness of the consequences they face.
More than one million people a year die in China from tobacco-related diseases, including lung cancer and heart disease.
These 1 million smokers were mainly aged 35-69 and this figure is predicted to increase to 2 mil in just 15 years.
In fact the biggest killer in China is lung cancer, beating road accidents (and if you drive in China, you’ll know what this means!).(2)

CUBA — home of smooth cigars and black tobacco cigarettes:

In an effort to have Cubans live longer, Fidel Castro issued a stop smoking resolution back in Feb 2005, banning smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as halls, theatres, sports facilities, transport, and designated areas in clubs and restaurants. Cubans laughed at the idea and mostly ignored this attack on their sacred vice, and the authorities are not interested in enforcing the ban.
Castro himself quit chomping on cigars in 1986 to try and set a good example to other Cubans and to support his health ministry’s anti-smoking efforts.
Cubans took no notice and currently 40% of the population of 11.2 million smoke.
The cheapest pack of cigs costs ½ a day’s pay and one cheap cigar costs ¼ of a day’s pay.
Smoking death statistics for Cubans, that cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death, with the highest percentage caused by smoking.
Doctors are some of the heaviest smokers even though they were banned from smoking during work back in 1990.

ENGLAND & WALES

45,000 people die each year from COPD (chronic bronchitis and emphysema), or diseases precipitated by COPD, such as pneumonia, heart disease and stroke. Smoking is the leading cause of COPD. A smoker i

hey guys thanks in Advance for the answers.

im a male 22 years old have been smoking weed on and off for about 6 years now….. previously when i was around 18 i was prescribed medication for symptoms of psychosis……voices and smell hallucinations. my Doctor told me more than likely this was cannabis related…. now please don’t be judgmentally and say its my own fault because i know it is and have been told it enough by other people. now after having given up the weed i found that the hallucinations and voices stopped completely but i began to suffer with intense feelings of fear and anxiety in everyday situations. ( for example if i where to be sat in my living room watching the tv and i heard a noise…. no matter how faint that noise it would be like i could hear someone kicking in my door and walking up the stairs) i have had this on and off for a couple of years mainly when i settle into a new area and begin to see the darker sides of it…. i have moved several times even to different parts of th country but always after a couple of months to a year of living their the fear and anxiety come back as strong as ever. now a few months ago i began to "blaze up" again because i found that it helped with my creativity as i have just started up a graphic design company in which i needed to impress my new clients….now to supplement my income i work part time in a local off license/video shop and find that on a daily basis im becoming frightened of being robbed, attacked anything that could harm me i become increasingly frightened towards the end of an evening when the local pubs begin kicking out time in case i get an unruly drunk in that takes offence to anything i do…… im still getting the feeling os fear and anxiety even when im at home and im completely sober. so to recap i know the weed is causing it and i have realised i need to give it up and am in the process of quiting but in all honesty what is it going to help me with if i continue to get these fears even after years of not smoking?

so my question is "what should i/ can i do to get my life on track and stop being a victim of my own fear and anxiety?"

remember i am quitting so please didn’t just say stop im looking for advice and guidance from those with knowledge or experience please be nice lol
when i refer to doctor i mean psychiatric doctor i was diagnosed with symptoms of psychosis

You physician is trained in prescribing med’s he/she is not a psychologist; that’s who you should be seeing as you suffer from continues anxiety and feeling of paranoia- that’s a anxiety disorder or possibly a personality disorder.

Honestly, some of your fears appear legitimate(working in a dangerous place etc.) so that could be reactionary anxiety which is ok but if you are in a constant state of anxiety, that does change the biochemical (neurotransmitters) make up of your brain.

Cannabis is used to treat anxiety disorders- it does not cause them although they can ENHANCE paranoid thoughts. If you suffer from a psychological illness that involves paranoia you shouldn’t take cannabis.

In regards to cannabis research, the populations used in these study are bad samples. The populations used are people who suffere disparigingly from poor nutrition, poor access to health care, and use street cannabis which is dip/laced in things like liquid drano etc.. The poor nutritution and health care are enough to account for these differences; this is evident in studies not using those populations that not have such detrimental findings (see the jamacian study, and the canadian study).populations. look it up or watch some documentaries on it -there plenty.

I have smoked for 14 years and am trying again to quit cold turkey. This is the hardest thing in my life. Anyone ever quit smoking successfully? How is life now for you as a non smoker? Need advice! Thanks!

I quit a little under a year ago—unfortunately it was too late for me and I will suffer for it for the next year MAYBE with the 2 terminal illnesses I acquired… I smoked for 35 YEARS and quit cold turkey last November after being told of my illnesses… it was EXTREMELY difficult but I did it… what I did MAY help you… if so, feel free to use my idea… I love oranges so, I went out and got NAVAL ORANGES (the big seedless kind) and whenever I wanted a cigarette, I reached for an orange, peeled it, pulled the pieces apart and ate the orange… I realized it took as much time to peel and eat the orange as it took to smoke a cigarette and as long as my hands and MOUTH were functioning in about the same manner as they would while smoking, I must have tricked my brain into becoming smoke satisfied… I would eat 12 or more oranges a day for the first couple of days and then gradually dropped down to where I stopped HAVING to eat the oranges after a couple of weeks. I now RARELY crave a cigarette but when I DO, the craving never lasts too long…. when driving the car, I would take pre-peeled oranges in a ziploc baggie and reach for them when I felt like smoking—-I was able to quit and did NOT gain any weight as oranges are non-fattening.!!! I just wish I had come up with this idea on how to quit 25 YEARS ago rather then waiting until I was sentenced to death. I hope YOU are successful so that someday you don’t have to be telling THIS SAME STORY to someone else looking for quiting advice—I’m hoping that when YOU tell this story, you are smoke free and SICK FREE