HEALTH
Private and Confidential
CALLING SMOKERS …
IT’S ABOUT TIME!
“Nicotine patches are
great. Stick one over each
eye and you can’t find your
cigarettes.” ~Author Unknown
I have heard so much about
Stoptober on TV and radio
programmes. I anticipate there
are a lot of smokers feeling a failure
because they are no longer the
majority in their non-smoking group
of friends and family.
“The cigarette does the
smoking - you’re just the
sucker”. ~Author Unknown
So why do you smoke? And
why not? You feel you are
getting something out of
smoking ... or at least you
think you are.
The most common reasons
people tell me are:-
“it relaxes me”, “I have time-out for
myself when I smoke in the garden”,
“I reward myself with a cigarette”,
“smoking gives my confidence”,
“I know I have finished my meal
when I smoke”, “I smoke because
I am bored”, “I want to be like my
friends and the film stars”, “I have no
willpower to stop”, etc.
“One thousand Americans
stop smoking every day - by
dying.” ~Author Unknown
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What are the most common
motivations to Stop ... why
now, what’s in it for you?
• Health and Family issues
• Wasting Money – it’s like asking
for a £1K to £3K pay rise. Think what
you can do with the money.
• Maybe you have current health
problems or fear for the future.
• Perhaps you have recently
discovered you are pregnant, just
had a baby or wish to get pregnant
and have a healthy baby.
• To always be there for your
children and spend quality time with
them.
• To take back control of your life
and improve fitness.
• To improve breathing and fitness
and perhaps lose that unpleasant
cough and bad taste in the
mornings.
• To travel freely as a non-smoker
and not have to guiltily slide away
for a smoke away from friends and
family who hate it.
What is happening inside
you when you smoke?
“Much smoking kills live
men and cures dead
swine.” ~George D. Prentice
There are over 4000 chemicals
introduced to your body, over
40 known cancer causing.
This then puts your body into
sheer terror, the flight or fight
response happens, this is the
sympathetic nervous system
we all use when feel we are
in danger. The adrenalin is
released, heart rate and blood
pressure increase, carbon
monoxide blocks out the
oxygen intake and so it is a
lethargy feeling that is mistaken
as a relaxation.
How can the body relax
when it the autonomic
nervous system has to fight the
dangerous chemicals! This
puts an enormous strain on the
endocrine system and so other
illnesses just don’t get sufficient
help to heal. But I don’t want
you to think about that too
much, right now.