Šalje: QuitSmokingTips [bwprice@quitsmokingsupport.com] Poslano: 3. ožujak 2001 14:47 Prima: List Member Predmet: QuitSmokingTips - Volume 3 Number 11 QuitSmokingTips - http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ..................................................................... Friday March 2, 2001 *** Volume 3 Number 11 *** ..................................................................... ...IN THIS ISSUE... 1 What's New on QuitSmokingSupport.com 2. Using Visual Imagery on Your Nicotine Freedom Day 3. Quitting is difficult but beneficial at any age! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: Quit Smoking with the help of an artificial cigarette. Keeps your hands, mouth and mind busy, without the deadly smoke. http://www.quitsmoking.com/ez.htm ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` TRAIN YOUR MIND TO FINALLY STOP SMOKING FOREVER. Mental imagery and addiction specialist, Marvin H. Berenson, M.D. has developed a program that trains your mind to quit smoking permanently. The Think Yourself Smokeless program includes a step-by-step booklet, a motivational journal and an audiotape. Money back guarantee. Go to http://www.thinkyourselfsmokeless.com for more information and a free newsletter. Order the program online today and receive a valuable free bonus. You have nothing to lose but a dangerous habit. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` "SMOKESAVER" turns your computer into a virtual therapist. By replacing your screen saver, SmokerSaver drops in on you several times a day, every day ? bite-sized instalments that accumulate into a comprehensive 30-day course. 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 Thinking about quitting smoking? Get some of the most interactive online support available at: http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/76750 Visit our Amazon.com bookstore at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/amazon.htm Over 15 excellent quitting smoking books to help you to quit smoking! Add your name to our growing list of over 3,300 ex-smokers at: http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/feedback.htm ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 2. Using Visual Imagery on Your Nicotine Freedom Day by Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful of what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The soul never thinks without a picture. -Aristotle Much research has shown that using our "mind's eye" through visual imagery is an effective way to improve our behavior. For example, athletes are trained to use their mind's eye to picture themselves successfully reaching their goals. More specifically, a diver will be taught to recreate in his/Her mind the entire dive sequence of actions. This type of rehearsal actually improves performance, particularly when it involves attention to different body sensations. These sensations include what a person may see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and the motion they may feel in their bodies. So, we ask you to do the same in order to successfully become, and stay nicotine free. Use your mind's eyes to imagine yourself waking up feeling strong and confident on your Nicotine Freedom Day, the day you stop using tobacco in any form. Use all of your senses to create the experience of placing your feet on the floor from your bed, standing up, getting dressed, eating breakfast, etc. Taking two minutes to do this every day before your Freedom Day will increase your strength and confidence. Then, imagine other scenes. Imagine yourself asking to sit in the non-smoking section of a restaurant, refusing someone's offer to give you a cigarette or "dip" oftobacco. Imagine yourself standing in front of someone you are trying to impress. He or she lights up a cigarette. You smell the smoke. You want to ask for a cigarette, but your mind keeps reminding you of your quitting plan. You force yourself to think a strength-building thought like, "I'm a non-smoker." You take a slow, even breath. The craving passes like a wave through you, and you congratulate yourself for another success. You walk away feeling proud of yourself. If this technique works for olympic athletes, make it work for you in your own time of need. Use everything you can and spend a few minutes creating a picture that will inspire you! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` ========> 3. Quitting is difficult but beneficial at any age! Even at 60, giving up smoking almost completely removes the risk of lung cancer, research has found. People who have not already developed the condition are unlikely to do so after they quit. Professor Julian Peto, of the Cancer Research Institute, told a conference in London that the finding indicated a need for new public health strategies. Currently they focus mainly on dissuading children from starting but fail to encourage adults to quit, he said. Public health focus... The Cancer Research Campaign backed the call to focus efforts on persuading adults to give up. The government is due to publish a white paper on public health in the autumn, hich will cover strategies to prevent smoking. Jean King, head of education for the campaign, said: "We have been pressing the government to put more on cessation in its white paper." She said: "People should realise that there are benefits at all ages. "After 10 years the risk of cancer is significantly reduced, and it only takes one year to cut the risk of heart disease." She added that although nicotine was extremely addictive and hence difficult to give up, there were plenty of support bodies to help smokers quit. The finding came as the result of long-term research projects such as the 40-year British Doctors Study. They allow doctors to compare the health of 60-year-olds who stopped smoking at 50 with that of smokers of the same age. Smoking triggers cancer... The reason for the advantages of quitting applying at any age could lie in the sequential way lung cancer develops. Tobacco can trigger changes to cells. A series of these changes must occur to trigger lung cancer, so if someone gives up smoking before all of them have taken place, they are unlikely to develop the disease. Professor Peto said: "It has not been until the last year that we could see the full horrors of what smoking does." He said that half of all smokers die as a result of their tobacco use, not a quarter as was previously thought. Other factors that could cause the cancer were a poor diet lacking in fresh fruit or vegetables and prolonged exposure to the sun. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` 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! 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