For years the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Association have put an effort into letting people know that they need support to actually stop smoking permanently. They have done so because the hard statistical evidence proves that when people who try to stop smoking use a support system their odds of success at achieving their quit smoking dream go up exponentially.
But what support systems have been available up to now? If you are a smoker and you want to make it to your permanent quit smoking goal and you accept the fact that you need support to do it how do you get it? Well, if you buy a nicoderm product you can call them afterwards and ask for a CD. What's on it? Who knows? Who ever gets it?
Otherwise, if you live in a state that offers a quit smoking helpline you can call that toll free. They hire people and train them on what to say to you to help you through a commitment threat moment when lighting up seems like a good idea again.
When you call what do you get? Not all state run programs are the same but in California you will receive, when you call, several options including a one on one counseling session to end your craving hell. Their statistics evidence that those who call the program are twice as likely to succeed then those that don't and try to work it out on their own. If you live in California you can call them at 1-800-NO-BUTTS anytime between 7AM and 9AM Monday thru Friday and on Saturday you can call between 9AM and 1PM. To find the state run help line in your state just submit a query through any search engine and it will surely pop up in the first link position or page.
If your local area runs a smoking cessation group you can attend weekly meetings and get help that way. Or, if none of those options appeal to you then you can sign up with a number of the internet programs that will counsel you online or send you email messages to help support you through quit smoking commitment hell. Additionally, you can set yourself up with a private counselor to help you through it all through once a week or so individual sessions.
Hypnosis and subliminal programs don't count as support methods so you can scratch those out completely when it comes to getting support. Books don't count either because the support you get must be ongoing not a once read and you're done. Also, when you are having a difficult moment that you need support to get through, you aren't likely to go read anything especially a book.
Until one year ago those were all of the helpful support methods that have been available period. The statistics also evidence that regardless of those offerings of support the vast majority of smokers, in fact at least 95% of smokers, try to go it on their own completely. The result? 95-96% of smokers begin smoking again, giving in and giving up on their commitment before the first year is even over.
Why don't those smokers get the support help they need? Who knows? Maybe most smokers still don't know about the failure rate when it comes to going it alone. Or maybe they just aren't the kind of people who like reaching out to get formal support help when they are stuck in a moment of quit smoking hell fire.
We know, from our own extensive efforts over the past year, that most smokers aren't in fact aware of the current failure rate when support is not received. That lack of information is causing them to continue to make the effort to stop smoking not knowing they are in fact doomed for failure not because they are hopeless but because they aren't getting the support they need to actually succeed.
For all those who knew that they needed support but didn't like the options that have been available up to now you should be very relieved to know that a real solution gives you the right help, in a new and innovative way, and that keeps 99% of everyone committed forever has arrived. For those who didn't know, up to now, that they need support to in fact succeed, you will also be happy to know that the options to get the support that is needed have been expanded.
Habit Braker Enterprises Inc has developed a new hip way to get the supportive help that smokers need to quit smoking permanently by delivering short but effective audio messages, designed specifically for smokers to stay committed to their goal, and that can be downloaded into a cell phone, iPOD, MP3 player or be used in a CD player providing everyone with 24 hours of round the clock quit smoking supportive help that can be accessed instantly, privately, as many times as is needed, anywhere you go and everywhere you are.
Never before has such a system existed to allow individuals who are trying to keep the commitment to stop smoking permanently access to supportive motivational real help, designed just for smokers, through their own personal portable audio device such as a cell phone. The system works so well to keep people committed through its 14 short but powerful, entertaining and even sometimes humorous but still effective different messages, that 99% of all users of the system to date, and over the past year, have succeeded at quitting permanently.
If you want to stop smoking permanently you will first have to face and accept the fact that you need to get supportive help to actually succeed. Otherwise, you will only continue to spin your wheels into an endless cycles of failed attempts to quit smoking. There are many choices to decide how to get the support help you need. Now it's just a matter of picking one that works for you and your lifestyle.
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For some reason, nicotine replacement therapy has become one of the most popular ways to stop smoking in the world today. The main principle of this method is to replace the addictive ingredient in the cigarettes, i.e. nicotine with an agent that is less harmful and less addictive. Naturally, the replaced substance must be similar to nicotine in taste, or it would not be an ideal replacement at all.
In most cases, the Indian tobacco, i.e. lobelia is used. Indians have been smoking beedis (i.e. herbal cigarettes with lobelia wrapped in betel leaves) for centuries, without any addiction. Also, these herbal cigarettes do not contain any tar. Nicotine replacement therapy uses several products such as lozenges, gums, cigarettes, patches, etc. with substances similar to nicotine.
The main intention of the substances used in all kinds of nicotine replacement therapy is certainly to gradually wean away the person from the addiction and protect him or her from pumping dangerous tar and carbon monoxide in the body. They have attained a degree of success and popularity too, and indeed doctors have also been prescribing these methods for hardened smokers.
But the fact remains that with nicotine replacement therapies, the person is not actually kept away from nicotine. In some cases - such as the nicotine patches - nicotine itself could be used in the therapy. If that is done, then the person does not really get deaddicted at all. Tar is prevented from entering the body, but the addiction to nicotine could persist. There is a very high chance that the person may revert to active smoking as soon as he or she stops using the nicotine patch.
In short, a person on a nicotine patch may have to wear it for life. Then there are other problems too. Nicotine patches can cause irritation of the skin. That could be a reason why its use could be discontinued. Some people have also experienced nightmares and vivid dreams when on the nicotine patch. So, it is not guaranteed that nicotine patches and nicotine replacement therapies may actually work.
Even medications cannot be considered as very effective ways to stop smoking. All medications that are used for smoke cessation nowadays, such as buproprion and varenicline, are nothing more than antidepressants. These medications would help smokers to resolve their anxiety pangs that occur when they are giving up smoking, but they do not actively dissuade the person from smoking. Also, they cannot repair the organs already damaged by the smoke. Doctors would not recommend antidepressants to everybody because several conditions of the body may make their use dangerous. Old people and pregnant women, for example, must not take antidepressants at all.
With such disfavor for most smoke cessation methods that exist today, the herbal remedies are making their presence felt as effective ways to stop smoking. These are made from natural herbs, which do not have side-effects on the body, and can be used by most people, even with health conditions. Herbal remedies wean people away from their addiction and also repair the damage that has been caused in their body due to long years of smoking.
Several herbal ways to stop smoking are popular today, like the SmokeRX, which is a kit of herbal supplements aimed at bringing results within as less as seven days. Hundreds of herbal remedies are available today, and they are also showing good results. Herbal remedies work because they address all the problems smoking causes, and do not target just one of the problems. They can be used against the addiction, depression as well as for the repair of the tissue and cell damage already caused.
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