How To Stop Smoking

Unimaginable today. But back then "ignorance is bliss" was turning a tidy profit for the tobacco companies. By generating an impression such as trust, and then making the association with their brand, some advertising campaigns (below) had their audiences by the dingos literally,

(turn your head and cough please!)

Certainly this ad must have been considered genius in the marketing circles at the time. In 1946 I wonder how many patients were actually talking to their doctors about the brand of smokes they would recommend? And if doctors actually recommended brands? See more doctors recommend Camels video. Doctors could really show you how to stop smoking back then!



Here we have a classic example of Freudian Advertising. Can you see the phallic symbol?
It is a common marketing method used everywhere in today's advertising.
Now that's one phallus cigar loving Sigmund Freud could appreciate!
For more information see phallic symbolism in advertising.




You might say that a lot of advertising has its own unique way of lying to us.

Many ads try to produce a common unconscious desire in a person such as glamor, freedom, sexual prowess and the like and combines its association with having/buying a certain product.

However, the example below is, well you tell me. I have not researched the awareness of smoking related deaths for back when this poster was produced, for that is a subject of another lens. You can check out how smooth and kind smoking was on the throat of this woman though.




Why Did We Start Smoking In The First Place?

One of the most unfortunate things to have occurred in this century is the conditioning of people through advertising and its various methods in the promotion of tobacco use. Kudos to the tobacco companies for conning millions of us to smoke their tobacco so they may profit billions. What do they do with all that dammed money anyways? Live like kings or fund cancer research? Read about the cure for cancer conspiracy here. And then if your in the mood check out this one last video called SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE). Incidentally, I didn't know the Flintstones smoked.

Hypnosis to stop smoking has worked for many people. The idea behind hypnosis is that you can program your sub conscious mind to work for you. By reaching a relaxed trance state using hypnosis techniques and then listening to various forms of hypnotic suggestions and affirmations, you are better able to respond to hypnotic stimulus than normal awake states because you do not have the 'mind chatter' or conscious barriers that often sabotage positive reinforcement and new learning strategies.

There are great advantages for getting quit smoking hypnosis programs from the internet, one for sure would be the time saved from finding and scheduling hypnotherapy sessions with a trained and certified hypnotherapist. Another good reason of course would be not paying significant amounts of money for hourly hypnosis sessions that are not even guaranteed by your friendly hypnotist, and even if they were, you would still have to take the time out to travel there and basically wonder if this is really going to help me quit smoking this time.

Most quit smoking hypnosis downloads and Cd's come with generous guarantees, and the convenience of having a tool that you can use in a matter of minutes to stop smoking might be more gratifying than your next cigarette! But finding reputable and quality hypnosis products to help you quit is not the easiest of tasks, because you want to make sure you get good value preferably from a professionally trained hypnotist or hypnotherapist. Here are two excellent places to find well known and certified stop smoking hypnosis Cd's and Mp3's.

Stop Smoking with Hypnosis Finally- Be Free

Quit Smoking Naturally Through Hypnosis

Using subliminal messages to break the habit of smoking cigarettes can be a very effective and easy method to use. Unlike using hypnosis techniques which require you to be in a trance like state that can temporarily impair motor performance, you can listen to subliminal affirmations/suggestions anytime and anywhere. Even while you sleep!

The idea behind how subliminal messages work is that you are exposed to a message or idea that is presented to you so quick that it does not register in the conscious mind. But the unconscious mind is fully aware of the message and can make sense of it. It has been discussed that subconscious learning ability may surpass conscious learning ability in many ways.

It is important to be able to find reputable companies that manufacture high end Subliminal audio recordings. It will go a long way in boosting your willpower.

Why take the time and pay money to go attend a quitting smoking program when you can get the benefits and convenience of having one shipped to your home? These programs are the classic example of the 'shotgun' approach meaning that it offers you a variety of methods and means to help you stop smoking.

Some programs would consist tablets or pills to help with the feelings of cravings and withdrawal. Nicotine gum to aid in the the cravings and aid with the oral fixation habit of smoking. Vitamins to help with the damage caused by smoking and to strengthen your immune system. A program guide to give you a step by step process on how to successfully stop smoking. Other materials and resources such as exercises that will help you stay healthy and give your body something else to think about instead of that next cigarette. They all usually include audio supplements like hypnosis, guided meditations, subliminal or binaural beats. There is the Cigarest Stop Smoking Program or the one shown below,

The electronic cigarette is the next generation in stop smoking aids and smoking alternatives. The mainstream of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), has been the dominion of nicotine patches, nicotine gum and nicotine gels, but not anymore. The E-cigarette offers some interesting options for people who do not want to smoke tobacco anymore. The E-smoke presents two basic choices, one as a nicotine replacement therapy and the other as a non nicotine smoking cessation aid.


SmokeStik

These electronic cigarettes can do a remarkable job simulating the real thing. This electronic device mimics the smoking experience by using a Atomizer nozzle to produce a vapor when the E-smoke senses you taking 'taking a drag' and then produces a vapor from a combination of pure nicotine, propylene glycol and a tobacco flavoring, While you talk a drag from the device the tip lights up with red LED's to simulate a burning effect! It runs on rechargeable batteries and has disposable smoking cartridges. That's basically it.

It should be noted that most brands of E-cigarettes offer choices in their cartridges between nicotine, non-nicotine and flavored. The E-smoke can be considered a definite improvement over smoking regular cigarette tobacco if you choose to keep your nicotine addiction, or it can be used as a non tobacco smoking device as you gradually wean yourself off a nicotine addiction and the smoking habit. When you consider the cost it is still significantly lower than a cigarette habit. And if you have been unsuccessful with breaking the nicotine habit, using this will prevent you from inhaling thousands of cancer causing chemicals and having the tar from smoke clogging your lungs. For more information, see below.

There has been controversy over some big name pharmaceutical versions of the 'Stop Smoking Pill' associated with the side effects when taking them. These pills fall under various trade names but they are basically the same drug. When some of the side effects are said to have chances of increased depression and even suicide, why would anyone want to consider using these pharmaceutical grade smoking cessation prescriptions at all? I would rather use a natural method instead of pharmaceutical perscriptions that really mess with the natural balance of brain chemicals!

Rx-Hale for Nicotine Withdrawal to Stop Smoking

There are many natural medicinal approaches for treating Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms and cravings using Herbalism techniques. With the progressive technology for improving the extraction and preservation processes for the active ingredients in 'herbal-remedies', these new brands of herbal medicinal supplements show rival most pharmaceutical brands on the market and there are no unwanted side effects.



Some of the most common symptoms of smoking withdrawal include irritability, moodiness, restlessness, problems with concentration, insomnia and can include many other different symptoms as well depending on the person. Here are are a few good choices for reducing irritability and restlessness while quitting smoking and staving off some of those nicotine cravings. They help with maintaining healthy eating and sleeping patterns to!

Calm yourself and your nerves from nicotine withdrawal with high end nutritional supplementation and natural herbal formulations, you'll be glad you did!

Stress Relief Technique - Bring greater calm and peace of mind into your life with this brilliant, natural stress relief technique you can apply right now.

Granted there are the anti-smoking cancer commercials where they use special effects and makeup, hiring actresses and actors to play the parts of cancer victims like the one here. But further down are some real cancers, real people, real pictures, real statistics and real operations on cancers just to give you an idea on whats involved with the risks of smoking and perhaps additional motivation as well to quit the habit of tobacco smoking and chewing!
Be forewarned that some of the images and videos below are capable of frightening some people!
Staged cancer commercial, take one - Oral Cancer
Getting ready for the commercial

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"Quit Smoking Cold - Quit Smoking Tip 6"
Some interesting smoking facts from About.com
20 Shocking Smoking Facts
National Cancer Institute
Cancer Mortality Maps And Graphs
Free Help to Quit Smoking
SmokeFree.gov
National Institute of Health
Quitting Smoking: Why To Quit and How To Get Help

Foundation for a Smokefree America was founded in 1989 by Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. A former pack-a-day smoker, Patrick saw his father, oldest brother and other relatives die from cigarette-induced emphysema, heart disease and cancer. So the myth of evil monstrous men laughing maniacally over piles of money hidden in huge corporate company offices is not entirely true. Some of them are actually quite human.

Teens And Smoking. Where do these teens who smoke come from? Young People are constantly exposed to advertising for everything from sugar laden cereals to plastic trinkets and toys that cost way too much and break a little too soon, and of course colorful candy cigarettes! A recent memo from the tobacco companies indicated that they wanted to bombard kids with cigarette ads on ice cream trucks. I swear as a mother, I would chase that truck down the road like a terminator and rip off the offending signs and then throttle the driver with my own two hands. No mercy and no exceptions about it. It is hard enough to deal with the issue of teens and smoking, younger children don't need the additional advertising pressure from the ice-cream man to become teen smokers.

Each day over one thousand teens become addicted smokers. Those are the children from ages 13 to17, and they will make a decision that will take them the rest of their lives to escape. Teens and smoking can become a tragic thing. You can lecture them, threaten them, beg and plead with them not to do it, but sometimes nothing will ever make a difference your teens and smoking will be a rebellious issue. You just have to know that you did your very best not to let these teenagers make the wrong choice for themselves. And that is exactly what is happening. For every three children that take up this smoking habit, one will eventually die of a tobacco related illness. Pretty sad odds for the beginnings of the teenage smoker.

Statistics for teens and smoking are not good. The majority of them will start before the age of 18 and almost smokers will start before the age of twenty. The saying goes that if you don't start by the time you are 20, you never will, but that is not always true. There are enough teen smokers to wonder what else can be done to stop them from ever starting in the first place? It's a crime now to sell cigarettes to youths under the age of 18. It is against the law for teens to possess them. But they still manage to get them anyways. I know that some parents would prefer to think that it is easier to just allow their teenagers to smoke, but that's not dealing with the issue of teens and smoking, especially theirs.

Almost ten percent of middle school youths do smoke, that number more than doubles once they get into high school. Apparently over 60% of teen smokers want to quit. But how do they exactly reach out for help quitting smoking when they are not supposed to be doing that anyways? Asking for help means admitting that there's a problem. Its difficult enough for adults but for teens and smoking it may be a more difficult scenario to cope with and the teen smoker is often the rebellious smoker.

Parents especially need to figure out the ways to keep our children from ever taking up this damaging habit. It should be nearly impossible for kids to get hold of cigarettes in any way. We need more education on teens and smoking and more realistic graphic details of what kind of damage cigarettes do to the human body. And we need to discover ways to allow those teenage smokers already addicted to nicotine and the social habit of smoking to quit without fear of repercussions. This is for non smoking youth. We want healthy and non smoking teenagers. Address the issue of teens and smoking!