Example Of Wellness Journal

Goals of therapy: Is to eliminate nicotine cravings and desire to smoke in 10 weeks.

Breaking the addiction to smoking is never an easy task. There are so many excuses for not quitting while conversely there are just as many justifications to quit. However, whereas some may quit successfully boasting of awe-inspiring feats of willpower others may find that they remain stuck in a continual fluctuation struggling to break the addiction with a self imposed evil that seems almost inescapable.

You will listen to my voice taking you through the changes you want to make… As you are completely relaxed… you will respond to my suggestion… From now, you will stop smoking… This is your wish and desire on which you will act on from now… No one is able to make the change except yourself… Think of the positives gained by yourself in total command… your response is yours only… You are the only benefactor… Think of the harm cigarettes cause...think of lungs being completely black… foul smell from your mouth…your clothes smelling … continue with your breathing in and out...think of your family… Think of spending money on buying cigarettes as money going down the drain…Don’t turn them into passive smokers… your health and that of your family matters…You will continue with further sessions which will help you achieve the change…

Of the roughly 42 million adults in the US that use tobacco, nearly 69% of smokers want to quit and more than 42% of those wishing to quit will make the attempt through various methods(1). These methods range from the "cold turkey" method, nicotine replacement therapy, behavioural therapy and even medicine. Each method has it's unique strengths and weaknesses as well as varying success rates. There are many reasons to quit and many ways in which to do so, either with methods that involve slowly weaning off of nicotine, like gums and patches from replacement therapy, to nicotine-free methods which require support from various sources.

How are you doing today? Feeling better? I personally haven't heard that many good things about the e-cig; in fact, I was recently driving in a car with a coworker who smokes the e-cig and found myself having a difficult time breathing from the fumes. It was so bad that I seriously wanted to jump out the window (lol) and was counting down the minutes till we got to the restaurant. She told me that she is physically addicted to some chemical (possibly the menthol) and has tried many times to quit in the past year. Interestingly, she purchases the kind with 0 nicotine and can't seem to stop. Talk to you soon. I'm sick with the flu and headed to

The journal entry will provide the weekly entries of week seven and eight, along with how leaders influence their work environments. Also, considering the protection, assessments, and academic learning experiences. The promotion of my personal leadership ways to provide and protect and honor in my work environment. Also, the reflection on the ‘Issue of headship’ video.

Nicotine polacrilex gum can be used when needed for breakthrough withdrawal and craving symptoms. It offers partial nicotine release so patients can decide when they want extra nicotine on top of their baseline release. Gum should be chewed once or twice and parked between teeth and gum for 1 minute, this should be continued

As I approached my 50th birthday and realized that I'm now a middle-aged man who had been smoking for 20 years, I knew I had to find something that would help me kick the addiction once and for all. I read several articles and books on how to quit smoking, but nothing I read seemed to keep me from going back to cigarettes.

Tobacco is the primary avoidable cause of death in the world, causing an estimated 4.9 million deaths per year [World Health Organization (WHO) 2007]. Smokers have a fifty percent chance that their addiction will kill them. Over fifty illnesses are caused or deteriorated by smoking (Action on Smoking and Health, 2004)ONLINE. Smoking cessation is the most important decision patients can make to enhance their health. Ensuring they obtain applicable support to do so can make a huge difference to their chances of achievement.

E-cigarettes have exploded onto the scene in the past three years. Whole stores dedicated to these devices have opened their doors to the public and business is thriving. E-cigarettes are battery-charged devices that have an atomizer, or heating element, in them to vaporize liquid nicotine. The user is able to inhale this vapor and get the nicotine without the other 4,000 chemicals present in tobacco cigarette smoke (Schroeder). Nicotine is a chemical that is produced by the tobacco plant. People have discovered that by smoking the leaves of a tobacco plant the nicotine in the leaves is delivered into the bloodstream. Nicotine by itself is not an awful drug as far as drugs go, although it is highly addictive, it is the tar in cigarettes that does so much damage. Tobacco use remains the number one preventable cause of death in the U.S. with 480,000 Americans dying prematurely from tobacco related disease. Kicking this habit remains difficult for most (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Mark Twain once wrote “It’s easy to quit smoking, I’ve done it hundreds of times.”

The specific health promotion topic in this paper is childhood obesity. Obesity is defined as a body mass index equivalent or greater than 95th percentile of a child's body weight. Obesity identifies biologically those children who will later in life develop comorbidities, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and muskoskeletal problems. This health promotion topic is chosen because of the recent epidemics and prevalence of childhood obesity. The prevalence of obesity in childhood is a big concern because of its adverse consequences in the short and long term. According to World Health Organization (WHO), the rise in childhood obesity for the past ten years has been very alarming. It was noted that Overweight and obesity now rank as the

In the early 1980s, gum-like tobacco products were developed for tobacco chewers and snuff users. The chewing gums served as a drug-delivery system for nicotine. By the late 1980s, anti-smoking efforts of health professionals and increasingly stringent regulations against smoking in public places created a new market for nicotine-containing gums. Such "medicinal" gums might help in nicotine withdrawal. The objective was to have the addicted smoker chew rather than smoke, with the hope that eventually the person would become a non-smoker and a non-chewer--at least, a non-nicotine chewer.

Quitting cigarettes isn’t difficult as it seems. Our program provides an easy way to quit smoking. It doesn’t matter how long you have been smoking, we can fix you.

It is the most common addiction throughout the world with 1.1 trillion people smoking currently, consisting about a third of the population over 15 years old. While nicotine is the addictive substance in the tobacco that causes addiction, tobacco will increase health risks of heart attack and vascular diseases. Nicotine dependency is a complex brain disease, and we need to start thinking of it as such. New ways of ingesting this substance have been created, that try to lure and appeal to demographic, particularly younger, to consume nicotine. Regardless of how many years someone has smoked, stopping at any point will valuable and improve your quality of life. Changing the public’s view on addiction is a subject of importance, so many of others can view this as a brain disease more than a personal decision. To fight this addiction, you have to rewire your behaviors in your brain and have a drive to overcome this horrific addiction. The brain can luckily keep changing and be trained to stop cravings with a multitude of different strategies. Anyone can be affected by addiction, we need start treating addicts with evidence-based practices rather than jailing them. Through more education and laws enforced, we can only hope that the number of tobacco users can decrease more and everyone can learn to live a healthier, full life without addiction and the painful diseases that derive from

The fifth participants Jester, 41 and from London, suffers from asthma and COPD and smoked between 15-20 cigarettes a day. Since completing the study, Jester has felt drastic improvements to his health. Vaping has helped him quit smoking the most and he is currently between 4-0mg of nicotine and continuing to quit altogether. Here's what he has to say: It has been a great wake up call to see how easy it was to quit the habit of over 30 years. I must admit I did not hold out too much faith in vaping at first, but over the last few days with the help of this kit I have managed to pretty much all stop smoking.