Zyban is a nicotine free drug used in the treatment of cigarette addiction. It helps by reducing your urge to smoke.As it contains no nicotine, it can be used with nicotine replacement patches and gums under medical supervision.

Zyban is Glaxo’s version of the drug Bupropion Hydrochloride specially formulated for slow sustained release in the body. Buproprion is also the main active component of the anti-depressant Wellbutrin. To avoid dangerously high quantities of the drug in your blood stream, you are advised not to use Zyban or other versions of the drug as an anti-smoking remedy if you are being treated for depression with Wellbutrin

How does Zyban work?

Zyban as an anti-smoking therapy was discovered by chance. The active ingredient of Zyban was originally used as a treatment for depression, but it was found that many users were giving up smoking. Further investigation revealed that it blocks the chemicals which when released by nicotine result in pleasurable sensations. It also reduces craving for nicotine and withdrawal symptoms.

How to use Zyban

Zyban is taken orally in tablet form. You are expected to be able to stop smoking within 12 weeks of starting the treatment. The adult dosage is 300mg of Zyban daily and you should be able to reduce your cigarette usage within a few weeks. Some sources recommend that you cease taking the drug if it is not effective within 7 weeks.

Side effects of Zyban

Most people tolerate Zyban well, but there are a large number of possible side effects including sleeplessness, nausea, vomiting, headache, weight variation, nervousness, dizziness, skin rashes and disorders, constipation, diarrhoea, tremors, anxiety, tinitus (ringing sounds in the ears), sweating, high body temperature, abnormal dreams, cough, drowsing

By Adam Eason

Powerful Hints to Stop Smoking

Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints are for aiding you to stop smoking and are sure to assist you in helping your neurology change and thus enable you to stop smoking with ease. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1.

Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.

When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air – pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2

Next, think now of all the reasons you don’t like smoking, the reasons that it’s bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it’s dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it’s expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you’ll feel good when you’ve succeeded in stopping. You’ll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3

Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself “I’ve gotta quit”, or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice ‘You’ve got to quit’ or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.

Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4

Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.

Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it’s months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5

Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it’s very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6

Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off – but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.

Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7

You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time – see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.

Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.

Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.

Now we’re going to programme good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.

So, next I’d like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you’ll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.

Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say ‘No thanks, I don’t smoke’. And feel fantastic about it!

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 8

Get social support. Your commitment to stopping smoking for the rest of your life can be made much easier by talking about it to friends and family and letting them support you. They will congratulate you on doing so well too! You really did stop smoking.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 9

Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation and in the past they used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head, shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine just stresses your body more and is like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.

Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 10

Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Feel how good it feels to stop smoking and be a non-smoker. Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.

Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good.

Copyright 2005 Adam Eason All Rights Reserved.

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By Kitty Barker

Let me start by saying that some activities you should avoid during your pregnancy. The effects of smoking during pregnancy showed by studies are definitely one on those activities. Smoking during pregnancy is a very bad choice. You risk the nightmare of having a stillborn baby, to suffer a miscarriage, or to deliver a low birth-weight baby.

Sudden death syndrome referred to as SIDS is a condition whereby a perfectly healthy baby dies unexpectedly during sleep. This is possibility is doubled for babies whose mom smokes. The effects of smoking during pregnancy far out weigh any benefit. Actually no benefit has ever been found for the mother, father, and baby.

It is a proven fact that cigarette smoking can increase the risk of a wide variety of pregnancy complications including premature rupture of membranes, vaginal bleeding and premature placental detachment just as a few examples. One of the effects of smoking during pregnancy is smoking interferes with your absorption of vitamins B and C and folic acid. Neural tube defects results because of lack of folic acid which is caused by smoking.

The problem with smoking is the cigarette itself. The smoke from the cigarette and even the second hand smoke contain very dangerous chemicals. The chemicals that are really dangerous to the baby and the mom such as carbon monoxide and nicotine are toxins that move through the bloodstream and harm your developing baby. Your baby is contained in a smoke-filled womb and this reduces the flow of oxygen to your baby. The effects of smoking during pregnancy are too risky at best.

Nicotine can cause your baby’s heart rate to increase, and can decrease your baby’s supply of nutrients because of your increased blood pressure and blood vessel constriction. This is just the start for the baby’s complications as they continuously grow with each trimester.

It is always best to quit smoking before you become pregnant, however, if you are already pregnant please quit during the first trimester. In the early part of the pregnancy it is sometimes easier to quit smoking as the distaste for cigarettes begins now. If you stop your smoking in the early part of the pregnancy you can avoid many of the alarming birth defects your child may suffer.

Effects of smoking during pregnancy can cause miscarrying this is avoidable by not smoking. In the first trimester is important for your baby’s development. That is why it is very serious matter that you quit smoking. I know you do not want to stop your baby’s development so stopping now could help to insure that you have a healthy baby.

The second trimester of your pregnancy is very vital to the baby’s health. The effects of smoking during pregnancy become more acute during this time. You can decrease your chances of developing such complications as placenta previa going into pre term labor and even stillbirth. Every cigarette that you do not smoke increases the baby’s chance for life itself. If you have not been able to stop during your first trimester please cut down on the amount you are smoking until after the baby is born.

Smoking in the third trimester is not advisable at all. It is not too late to stop smoking now. If you do decide to stop now you still have a chance to improve your delivery of a healthy, full-term normal birth-weight baby. Smoking is directly the cause of decreased birth-weight.

This is a lot to think about and so little time to do it. The effects of smoking during pregnancy are such a great risk that this is something no mother should avoid. An impaired fetal growth has a direct connection with smoking during the pregnancy. One thing perhaps that you had not considered is if you quit smoking by now you have better odds of not loosing your baby to SIDS.

The effects of smoking during pregnancy can affect the baby even after the child is born. You can preserve the oxygen flow to your baby during delivery by quitting. Your baby is prone to having breathing problems after birth such as Asthma, Bronchitis, and other breathing disorders. The child may not be as healthy as could be because of suffering from being born premature. Smoking presents many risks for your baby that you can prevent if you only stop “SMOKING”.

Author – Kitty Barker who often writes for and with Pregnancy Information where there is far more information, news and resources. She also writes for Pregnancy Weight Gain. If that link is inactive, you can paste this link into your browser – http://pregnancy-and-baby-tips.com

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NLP is a method that focuses on finding out exactly what experts in a particular field or area do to produce excellent results and then applying the information to create models that you can learn to accomplish the same results.

The key to this method is careful examination, questioning and observation of the values and beliefs that lead to their success. The next step is developing strategies to cope with any challenges that arise – taking into the fact that we are all unique individuals e.g. if there are personal triggers that lead to your smoking, developing methods to avoid those triggers.

Did you know that your subconscious mind stores all your habits, mental blocks and inhibitions? Each of these tendencies or properties comes with specific feelings and sensations. How did this come about? For each of these tendencies, at some point in time possibly when you were quite young, you experienced certain sensations or feeling repeatedly – some positive and others negative or unpleasant.

Because of the repetition, these emotions were reinforced and became more dominant in your mind and memory than other memories, experiences and feelings.

What then happens is that your subconscious mind tries to relive the experiences over and over again – which in turn reinforces them in your memory – especially the pleasant ones.

But how does that affect you as a smoker?

Basically, when you smoke a cigarette or cigar, you experience pleasant sensations – both mental and physical which you then associate with the smoking. Your subconscious mind then tries to get you to experience the thrills of the smoking again and again until it convinces you that smoking has become becomes a necessity for you.

To destroy the habit, it is necessary to persuade your subconscious that its conviction that smoking is beneficial to you or needed by you. One way to do this is to replace these memories with even more pleasant ones. One way of doing this is by using Hypnosis.

There are two main stages in the process of hypnosis:
The first step, is the relaxation stage and the second stage comprises of focusing on the unconscious actions or problems that lead you to smoke.

While you are relaxed, your subconscious mind is much more receptive to instruction. You will need to practice getting into this state several times until you perfect the art. Getting into the relaxed mode is essential for you to be hypnotized. Once you perfect this, you can turn your focus to problem solving. (Note that you can use the same method to solve most personal problems as well, not only smoking)

By: Phil Warren, A.I.I.P.,C.L.T.

A key strategy for living a longer, stronger, prolonged, healthier life comes as no surprise — don’t smoke. If you’re a smoker, you’re simply more likely to die prematurely — from heart or lung disease. Scientific facts prove that smoking can take more than 10 years off your life. But there’s good news. Quitting now means health benefits can start in just minutes, and your risk of heart disease is cut in half in about a year. Now, the question to be asked is: How serious are you in wanting to quit smoking?

There’s real hope for people who seriously want to stop smoking.

For more than 30 years now people all over the world have been helped with their addictions using a simple pain and drug free solution, yet it is still widely unknown in the United States. It’s a solution that has no reported side effects and is very relaxing. Laser Therapy or LLLT (low level laser therapy) uses a cold laser on various meridian points of the body to produce endorphins. Endorphins are the feel good chemical that the body naturally produces when you do something pleasurable. That increase in endorphin levels, helps minimize cravings that one might feel during the first days after one quits smoking, or during a weight loss program to help reduce sugar / food cravings. It’s also a highly effective way to reduce stress. Most people after having laser therapy of this type report a calmness and reduction in stress levels.

The problem with the quit smoking patches and drugs sold or prescribed in the marketplace.

Until now, drugs that purport to help you quit smoking have largely ignored the root of the problem Nicotine — the chemical that keeps you hooked to those insidious packs of cigarettes and unless you rid your body of that nasty chemical as quickly as possible the success of any Smoking Cessation treatment is reduced dramatically.

This is why LLLT professionals also suggest a simple yet effective detoxification regime that includes vitamins, minerals and liquids to help rid the body of toxins such as nicotine. The vitamins and minerals in this detoxification program are readily available natural products that have been in use for many, many years and are now combined in a unique way to help rid the body of nicotine.

In conjunction with the laser therapy and detoxification program a relaxation CD is usually provided to help people keep calm and reduce stress a reason many people give as to why they started smoking in the first place or why they are unable to stop.

Studies from Asia, Canada and the United Kingdom are producing quite remarkable success rates and the emphasis on Nicotine detoxification is providing a long-term solution to this life threatening addiction.

However, this therapy is by no means a magic bullet, it takes a willingness and determination on the part of the smoker to stick with the two week detoxification program, make permanent but simple lifestyle changes and of course the desire to stop.

About the author: Phil Warren A.I.I.P., C.L.T. and his Matrix Laser Centers are at the forefront of this new and exciting laser technology to help you quit smoking — in most instances after only one 60-minute appointment. Call 619-260-9191 today for a free initial expert consultation filled with information to help you effectively, efficiently and positively change your lifestyle. For more information check out http://www.matrixlasercenters.com

You want to stop smoking. Perhaps you’ve never tried but are convinced you could stop if you did. Or perhaps you have tried to stop several times – and failed. Why did you fail? Possibly you did not prepare yourself for the mental challenge of stopping – and it’s a massive mental challenge. To quit smoking successfully, you need adequate mental preparation. The more prepared you make yourself, the greater your chances of succeeding and staying cigarette free.

Are you really prepared to stop smoking?

Why do you want to stop smoking? There are many reasons you might be trying to stop. You might be trying to kick the habit because you have heard about the diseases it causes and the threat to your health. It might because you find yourself wasting a lot of money. Maybe your husband or wife or children are putting pressure on you to quit smoking.

Unfortunately, it’s been found that quitting smoking because of some external reason or someone else rarely works or rarely works for long. The only way you’ll stop is if you do it for yourself – not for others. You have to stop smoking for YOU.

What makes you to smoke?

You started to smoke (and keep on smoking) for a variety of reasons. There are both physiological (addiction inducing chemical substances in cigarettes) and psychological (emotional) reasons.Some smoke for the taste, some because it makes them confident or calms them down. Some people find it relaxes them in tense moments. For others it numbs feelings and reduces stress. Alleviates loneliness, gives something to do. Gets rid of boredom. Kills time while waiting etc. Basically, smoking fills a void, fulfils a need you have.

Make a written record of the reasons you smoke or how it makes you feel when you smoke compared to when you don’t.

You need a substitute for your smoking

To successfully stop smoking, you need to find some replacement therapy for the nicotine you breathe in when you smoke. What can you substitute for smoking in your life? It is easy to find a substitute for the nicotine which causes the physical symptoms and craving, but to succeed in quitting, you also need to find a substitute for the emotional void you feel when you quit.

Next to the reasons you’ve listed, think of and write down some activity you can partake in that will help you develop similar sensations or feelings.

Other things you can do are:

Hang out with people or make new friends who will support you and help you feel good – preferably non smokers!

Get yourself a new hobby that keeps your mind and your hands busy. It could be doing a course, teaching yourself a new skill, a sport or exercise. Do something that gives you a daily sense of achievement.

Try to exercise for a short while everyday. It could be several short walks, a jog, a session in the gym, swimming, tennis, dancing or any other exercise. It will probably be more fun if you make it a group or family affair. Once it becomes routine, you’ll be surprised how it helps you reduce stress and improves your mental and physical fitness and sense of well being.

Author: Peter Finch

Herbal stop smoking methods really do seem the order of the day. When other popular methods such as nicotine replacement therapy and medication therapies are showing either their inefficacy or their potential dangers to the human system, it is but obvious that people want to play safe and go the natural way.

Herbs have also shown their efficiency at smoking cessation and that indeed helps a lot. In fact, it is not wrong to say that such methods have taken an important place on the smoking cessation shelf.

There are many reasons why herbal stop smoking methods work. First and foremost, herbs are natural products. They are derivatives of plants. As such, they are much safer than the medicinal therapies which include synthetic chemicals. People trust natural herbs more and do not mind introducing them into their bodies.

In addition, natural herbs do not have the long list of contraindications that chemical antidepressants have. Herbs can be safely used in almost all people, even with those who have some health conditions. And herbal stop smoking methods do not create the delusions and hallucinations that synthetic chemicals can do.

Though these methods seem to be new, they have been in use since centuries. Saint Johns Wort is a common herbal antidepressant that has been used since age-old times. Even common herbs like peppermint, spearmint and clove have the capacity to make the person actually hate the taste of nicotine.

This is an important point to ponder on. While conventional medicine therapies try to cure the addiction after it has occurred, herbal solutions prevent the addiction itself from happening in the first place. If a person is a mild smoker and he or she takes the herbal quit smoking formulations, then there is never a chance that they will convert into chain smokers. On the contrary, their addiction will be weaned away effectively.

There are many things that herbal medications can do for the smokers body. First and foremost, they will create distaste for the taste of nicotine itself, which will help to stop the addiction. But a sudden stop on nicotine might cause the person to enter into depression.

Herbal remedies can work here too. Most of the herbs used in herbal quit smoking formulations, like the SmokeRX, have antidepressant properties. They can positively stimulate the nervous system and help the quitting smoker to face the different pangs of withdrawal.

Last but not the least, herbal smoking cessation methods can flush out the toxins that years of cigarette smoking might have accumulated in the body. This is something conventional medicine cannot do. Within a few days of using herbal remedies for smoking cessation, the positive impact on health becomes noticeable. With a little more time, the body could revert to its original normal healthy state.

It is no wonder then that herbal stop smoking remedies are becoming so hugely popular. Their effectiveness has proven that they are today the best options available for determined smokers who want to give up their habit.

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Bring to your mind an occasion on in which you felt absolutely relaxed and calm. Think perhaps of a time during a holiday lying on a beach, or just in bed on a weekend morning, or while camping, or an evening out with friends.

Think of how you felt during this event away from daily problems and in a relaxed environment. If you can’t recall any particular event, it’s okay to invent or imagine one, or to combine a real relaxed event with an imagined one e.g. imagine yourself in place of your favorite movie star in a relaxed scene.

The next thing to do is to transfer yourself to that scene mentally i.e. go there mentally. To do this, just imagine how you would get to that scene from where you are now. Get a pen and write down all the steps you would take to get there from where you are now.

Your steps might appear something like this.
1. I am sitting comfortably on my favorite chair.
2. Now I am shutting out my worries.
3. My nerves have calmed down and I am feeling more relaxed.
4. My breathing is becoming more rhythmic and relaxed.
5. I am breathing more deeply. (Concentrate on your breathing for a minute or two.)
6. I am feeling that I have gone to the beach. (Try to picture in your mind the details of that environment.)
7. I am enjoying the natural surroundings; the pleasant smells around me, enjoying the view that surrounds me on every side, and the sounds coming to me from every angle.
8. The atmosphere is so soothing and relaxing.
9. I feel totally relaxed.
10. I am totally relaxed.

Once you write down these steps, revise them, and learn them thoroughly because once you start the relaxation process you can’t stop to read your notes.

During the whole relaxation process, you will be speaking to yourself. You can speak silently or make yourself a recording while talking through the process and play this back to help you relax. While you are recording you should speak in a slow, smooth and soothing tone of voice. Give yourself enough time while recording each of the steps to imagine the feelings you would experience if you were really at the scene.

Once you are ready to start the relaxation process, get yourself comfortably seated. Close your eyes and start talking yourself (silently, if you want) through each of the steps in turn. Or play the recording and let your mind follow each of the steps as you listen. Allow yourself enough time to catch the emotions and feelings triggered by each step.

Once you reach the last step, go back down the steps in reverse and return to normal Try to practice these steps so that you can relax quickly whenever you want to.

The next step is to focus on solving the problems. To do this go through the relaxation steps, but instead of going back down, go onto the problem solving steps that follow.

Bronchitis is an inflammation of the air tubes or passages in your lungs. The inflammation leads to a mucus forming in them and blocking them to the passage of air.Smoking cigarettes has been found to be responsible for up to 80% of cases of chronic bronchitis.

Its symptoms include coughing, spitting and fever, shortness of breath, inability to sleep – and it may last for months on end and re –occur every year. However once you succeed in giving up smoking, your lungs should return to normal – after about 5 years.