1. Believe in yourself. Believe you will be able to give up smoking. Recollect the most difficult challenges you faced and realize that you have a will power and determination to give up smoking. Everything depends on you.

2. Put in writing all the reasons why you want to give up smoking (advantages of life without smoking): to live longer, feel yourself better, for your family, save money, smell better, easier to find a partner, etc. You know what is bad in smoking and what you ll get resisting it. Write all these things on the paper and read every day.

3. Ask your relatives and friends to support you in your decision to give up smoking. Ask them for a complete support and patience. Let them know beforehand that you may be nervous or even irritating during the period of getting rid this addiction.

4. Set a date of your finishing of smoking. Take a decision in what day you will quit smoking forever. Put this date in writing. Plan it beforehand. Get prepared your brains to *the first day of your new life*. You even can hold a special ceremony due to your last cigarette or the morning of the date of your refusal of smoking.

5. Talk to your doctor about your refusal of smoking. The support and set received from your doctor is a proved method to enhance your chances for success.

6. Begin to do exercises. Sport is incompatible with smoking. Exercises distress and help your body to recover from damage caused by smoking. In case of necessity, begin with a short walks once or twice a day. Then increase these up 30-40 minutes exercises 3 or 4 times a week. Before you take up any exercises consult your doctor.

7. Do deep breathing exercises during 3-5 minutes every day. Breathe in through your nose slowly, then outwind for several seconds and breathe out through the mouth. Try to practice these breathing exercises with closed eyes.

8. Decrease the number of cigarettes gradually (if you decrease the number of cigarettes, certainly you should specify the date when you refuse of smoking COMPLETELY). Methods of gradual refusal of smoking are as follows: planning of the number of smoked cigarettes for every day up to the finishing of smoking, decreasing the number of smoked cigarettes daily, purchasing of cigarettes in the quantity no more than a pack, substitution by another brand of cigarettes in order not to enjoy the process of smoking.

9. Try to give up smoking forever. Many of smokers tried on themselves that the only way to resist smoking is to give up abruptly and completely without any attempts of decreasing of the number of smoked cigarettes. Nevertheless, find the very methods that will be the most convenient for you: giving up smoking gradually or abruptly. If one of the methods hasnt worked, try another one.

10. Find a partner for you another smoker who wants to give up smoking too. Cheer up each other, go to each other every time when you feel that you cant resist. Visit our forum or enter our chart, there you will find some help for sure.

11. Clean your teeth thoroughly. Pay attention to how quickly their state is enhanced and how there are whitening. Imagine yourself and enjoy the idea of how they look in a month, three months or year.

12. Drink a lot of water. In any case water is good for your health and the majority of people dont drink it in enough quantity. Water will help you to *wash out* nicotine and other chemicals from your body; moreover it will help you to lessen your desire for cigarettes, satisfying your *mouth demands*.

We wish to succeed in your determination to give up smoking! This is worth it!

The majority of smokers from other reasons why they are still smoking bring forward their fears to get on weight. Almost all their acquaintances who gave up smoking really got on weight and they do not want this happen to them. Is there any direct connection between withdrawal from smoking and getting on weight? What is the reason of this reaction and will we be able to manage our weight after giving up smoking?

Generally, even according to statistics you will put on weight slightly. Many people who gave up smoking havent put on weight at all. Research showed the weight increases by 4,5 in average and mainly it concerns experienced smokers who used to smoke out more than a pack of cigarettes per day.

Nicotine is substance included in cigarettes that has a little impact on the weight of your body. When you gave up smoking nicotine is taken out from your body and it can be seen only short-term increase of the weight by 1-2kg mainly due changes of body water balance.

The main reason why people who gave up smoking put on weight is due to the fact they substitute cigarettes by food, a new one overtakes the previous habit. Sometimes such people eat something instead of an after lunch cigarette. This new habit, which occurs unconsciously, is the very reason for the increase of weight of those people who gave up smoking.

In case if after giving up smoking you pay attention to what and when you eat and increase your physical activities, you will not put on weight. On the other hand, even if you put on weight by 4-5 kg, that will be nothing in comparison with damage to health because of continuance of smoking.

Smoking is the reason of more than 400000 fatal cases annually in the USA.

Even in case if you put on weight by 50kg, it would be better to give up smoking. With a cigarette smoke you inhale approximately 4000 chemical combinations, 40 out of them turn out to be carcinogens, substances leading to cancer. Smokers have heart attacks two times frequently than non-smokers have. The probability of lung cancer development is 12 times higher for smoking women and 22 times higher for smoking men.

So, please forget about putting on weight. To control your weight you just need a little strong-willed actions and physical exercises. But instead of this, you will receive strong health; you will feel yourself better and perspectives of your life will be not as gloomy as those of smokers.

1) The most effective and easiest way to break a habit of smoking was discovered by psychologists. Do not smoke out your cigarette up to the end: the majority of carcinogens and other dangerous substances is concentrated near the filter of a cigarette. Mark all the cigarettes in a pack with a black line, firstly at least by a third and then, day by day move this line forward

2) Involve in this matter as many of your acquaintances as you could. Psychologists suppose that together with other people it is much more easier to resist smoking.

3) The next step to freedom from nicotine is to smoke out 1-2 cigarettes less than you did before and to prolong intervals between smokings.

4) Such things as antismoking plasters and chewing gums will simplify your task considerably.

5) 3-4 weeks before the date when you are going to refuse smoking completely begin to practice self-hypnosis methods. Before going to bed and after getting up in the morning say yourself: *Begging with the certain day I give up smoking easily*. Or: *On a certain date I will give up smoking and I will be healthy*. You can create yourself your our interpretations: the main thing for them is to be brief and express your determination to make your life healthier*

6) Declared war on nicotine, take care of reliable rearward: do not be nervous a lot, turn hands to matters you enjoy, read thrilling detective stories, go out to theater, meet with pleasant people, in another words, do anything that you enjoy and move as much as you can. Physical activities tone up brain-cortex of cerebral hemispheres and slow down impulses going from infracortical pleasure centers that push you to take a cigarette again.

The worst disease for your health is smoking. The Medical Association of Great Britain described in figures the damage to a general state of health, human reproductive abilities and his or her libido, which is caused by smoking. Today in Britain 120 thousand men in the age begging from 30 up 50 years old suffer from impotence caused by smoking. Every year brings 5000 miscarriages and mothers give births to 14000 babies before their due time; smoking women give premature births to babies three times frequently than non-smoking ones do. Moreover, smoking women suffer from female sterility more frequently. Women who smoke should give a serious consideration to the question of whether smoking costs all these problems.

It is said a lot about damage of smoking. Nevertheless, concerns of scientists and doctors coursed by this widespread addiction, increase as far as the majority of people doesnt consider smoking to be bad for their health.

Smoking is not a harmless occupation, which you can give up without any efforts. It is a real addiction that is dangerous because of the majority of people does not take it seriously. Nicotine is one of the dangerous phytotoxins. Birds like sparrows and pigeons die out only if you just bring a glass stick wet with nicotine to their beaks. A rabbit dies from one forth of nicotine bead, a dog dies out from a half of it. The fatal dose of nicotine for people makes up from 50 up 100mg or 2-3 beads. The very dose goes to the blood daily after smoking out of 20-25 cigarettes (one cigarette consists of approximately 6-8mg of nicotine, 3-4 out of which go to the blood). A smoker doesnt die because this dose enters his body gradually, not in one go. Moreover, the part of nicotine is neutralized by formaldehyde, another poison included in tobacco. Such a smoker within the period of 30 years smoke out about 20000 cigarettes or 160 kg of tobacco, absorbing in average 800g of nicotine.

Regular consumption of not big quantities of nicotine that are not considered to be lethal grows into a habit, which is called addiction to smoking. In this way, nicotine is included into exchange processes of human body and becomes essential. Nevertheless, if a non-smoker receives a considerable dose of nicotine, he will die.

In Nice, France, as a result of the competition *Who will smoke more* two winners died after smoking out of 60 cigarettes, all the other participants with serious poisonings were sent to hospital. In England was reported a case when a forty years old man who had been smoking for a long time, during a difficult working night smoked out 14 cigars and 40 cigarettes. The next morning he fell ill and in spite of provided medical assistance he died. In the literature there was described a case when in a room, where tobacco in bunches was stocked, a girl was put to bed and in several hours she deceased. Children who spend a lot of time in places with a cigarette smoke suffer from respiratory organs diseases more often than other children. Babies, whose parents smoke, during their first year of life tend to suffer from such diseases as bronchitis and pneumonia more frequently and as a result the risk of development of serious affections increases.

Children, whose mothers smoked during the period of their pregnancy, tend to have strokes. They suffer from falling-sickness more frequently. Children who were born by smoking mothers tend to get behind their peers in their mental development.

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