The late Allen Carr wrote a number of books on how to stop smoking, having stopped smoking himself after 31 years as a 100-cigarette-a-day chain smoker.
Born in London, he started smoking at the age of 18, while doing National Service, and finally managed to quit at the age of 48, after seeing a hypnotherapist. Carr […]
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One method that may help you to give up smoking is counselling. Counselling is not a specific technique of quitting smoking as such, but rather a method that can help you overcome a number of problems, and simply clarify your own ideas about how to deal with them. When you seek counselling, what happens is […]
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If the advertisements I see in the newspapers are anything to go by, the proponents of neurolinguistic programming, or NLP, make some pretty fantastic claims on its behalf. They claim that one session will make you smoke free for life, and they charge a pretty hefty fee too – one ad in my local paper […]
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If you want to take advantage of some of the ideas of Chinese health philosophy, which postulates that the health of a person is dependent on the energy known as qi, and that disturbances in this flow can be rectified by traditional Chinese medicine, and yet you don’t like the idea of needles, perhaps you […]
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Let’s face it – a lot of people are put off acupuncture due to fear of needles. But, if that’s the way you feel, then maybe it’s time to think again – having acupuncture done is nothing like having an injection or a blood test, and in fact many people find the experience surprisingly relaxing, […]
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OK, all these Don’t’s sound a bit severe, but they go well with the Do’s! If you want to soften the advice a little you could try replacing the “Don’t …” with “Try not to …”.
Don’t go to places where you might be tempted back into smoking. Don’t place yourself in situations where people […]
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If you are a smoker, and you seriously want to kick the habit, what better time than now? Why not make it your New Year’s Resolution? It will probably be the best New Year’s Resolution that you ever make. So with this in mind, I have put together some useful Do’s and Don’t’s to help […]
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As well as setting a definite day to quit smoking, and following the advice given in my previous post, it is also a good idea to attend your local smoking cessation clinic, where you will be given advice about the best form of nicotine replacement for you, if you need it.
Another handy strategy is […]
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Here are some tips that may help you if you are thinking of giving up smoking. First of all, decide on the actual day that you are going to stop – pick a specific date and stick to it. A good way of stopping yourself from sneakily changing this date is to tell family and […]
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Current evidence seems to point to the fact that embarking on an exercise program will help you to quit smoking. This was in fact confirmed by a formal study carried out by Dr Bess Marcus in 1999 in the USA, where it was found that women who exercised vigorously while trying to quit smoking were […]
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