Šalje: QuitSmokingSupport.com [support@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 26. veljača 2001 12:00 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingSupport Newsletter - Volume 4 Number 9 QuitSmokingSupport.com - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday February 25, 2001 *** Volume 4 Number 9 *** ..................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Research Offers Reasons For Smoking Behavior 3. Did you know that... ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: Quit Smoking with the help of an artificial cigarette. 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This powerful interactive guide shadows you throughout the day, initially assessing your habit, then advising you, monitoring your progress, supporting and inspiring you, until you reach your ultimate goal of being a non-smoker. Visit: http://www.SmokerSaver.com for more information! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 1. What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com Be sure to register for our "World Famous" quitting smoking bulletin board at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 It's so famous that a book has been written about it! Visit our Amazon.com bookstore at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm Over 15 excellent quitting smoking books to help you to quit smoking! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Research Offers Reasons For Smoking Behavior Craving Cigarettes Not Necessarily Associated With Abstinence; High Self-Esteem Impedes Effort to Quit The American Psychological Association Many people make New Year's Resolutions to quit smoking. Two weeks into the new year many have relapsed and smoked a cigarette. New psychological research offers some reasons for this. One study found that if you can resist the urge to smoke, you will experience fewer cravings. Another study found that people with high self-esteem are especially likely to reject information suggesting that their health behavior (in this case smoking) has been unwise or risky. In the first study, which appears in the February issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA), psychological researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University assessed smoking urges several times daily in 214 smokers who quit for at least 24 hours while participating in the study. Each participant was equipped with a palm-top computer to record their urges to smoke. The research revealed that how much craving a person experiences on a given day predicts the likelihood of relapse the next day. But the best predictor of relapse was morning craving -- the stronger the craving was just after waking, the more likely the person was to relapse. The study also showed that craving was quite high before smokers quit, and dropped over time. Indeed, says psychologist Saul Shiffman, Ph.D., from the Smoking Research Group at the University of Pittsburgh, and lead author of the study, "cravings for cigarettes after abstinence seem to drop over time, so the longer you abstain the easier it will get." Dr. Shiffman's advice to smokers trying to quit: "Don't get discouraged, the longer you resist the urge to relapse, the fewer urges you will experience." Article: "A Day at a Time: Predicting Smoking Lapse From Daily Urge" by Saul Shiffman, Ph.D., Jean A. Paty, Ph.D., Walter G. Perez, Ph.D., Maryann Gnys, Ph.D., Jon D. Kessel, Ph.D., Mary Hickcox, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, and John B. Engberg, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 401-402. Additional new research suggests that smoking cessation programs should take into account lowered risk perception after a relapse. A second study, in the January issue of APA's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, looked at the conflict between knowing the health risks associated with smoking and relapse behavior. Psychologists at Iowa State University assessed 174 smokers before, during and after an attempt to quit and compared high and low self-esteem abstainers and relapsers. Each participant was asked to give their two main reasons for quitting, if they had any major illnesses (such as heart disease) and their level of self- esteem was assessed. Participants also provided the researchers with the names and phone numbers of two people who could verify their smoking status during the study. At the six- and 12-month follow-up, participants were asked about their smoking status -- if they had smoked and how long they had been abstinent. High self-esteem participants who had relapsed by the six- month follow-up reported a significant drop in risk perception at that time and this drop remained significant at the 12-month follow-up. In addition, these same individuals were less likely to commit to making another attempt to quit smoking. "People with high self-esteem have difficulty admitting that their behavior has been unhealthy and/or unwise, and sometimes that difficulty can have a negative effect on their health," says psychologist Frederick Gibbons, Ph.D., and lead author of the study. Article: "Cognitive Reactions to Smoking Relapse: The Reciprocal Relation Between Dissonance and Self-Esteem" by Frederick X. Gibbons, Ph.D., Tami J. Eggleston, Ph.D. and Alida Benthin, Ph.D., Iowa State University in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 184-195. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. Did you know that... Nicotine isn't always addictive. Smoking nicotine is addictive because it is delivered so quickly to your brain. Nicotine from cigarette smoke enters the body through the lungs, "upstream" from the brain, and travels directly to the brain in just 7-10 seconds via the arteries. In contrast, nicotine in a patch enters the body through the skin, slowly, "downstream" from the brain, and is diluted and broken down by the liver before eventually reaching the brain. Patches aren't addictive. "Light" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular ones. "Light" cigarettes have tiny holes just where your fingers hold them. Why? When you inhale, you get full-strength smoke. But when just the end of the filter is inserted into a "smoking machine" to determine the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content, the smoke is diluted by air entering through those holes. What's more, people inhale deeper and more frequently after switching from "regular" to "light" cigarettes, in order to keep the same average level of nicotine in their bloodstream. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` The contents of this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the opinions of QuitSmokingSupport.com. We want this newsletter to be the best one around. If you have suggestions, ideas, or feedback about this newsletter, feel free to email us at support@quitsmokingsupport.com Please feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone you know who may benefit from it! To unsubscribe to this newsletter, please go to http://www.listbot.com/ (c) Copyright 1995-2001 QuitSmokingSupport.com Take care and have a great week! Blair support@quitsmokingsupport.com QuitSmokingSupport.com http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to nosmoke-unsubscribe@listbot.com