Tanner Brooks
Mrs. Galbraith
English 101
9/15/2016
Last month Jon saw a commercial on T.V. about the harmful effects smoking has on the body. The commercial showed how smoking can lead from things as minor as bad breath and yellow teeth to something as severe as lung cancer. Jon, a frequent smoker, decided he would put down his cigarettes for good. Jon threw his last pack of cigarettes in the garbage that day. Today though, Jon is still smoking. He only went two days without smoking and began to experience great withdrawals. Jon thought he had to buy another pack just to feel better. Jon saw the commercial again today and decided that he could not do this alone; he needed help. Jon called the number on the commercial and began to speak to a specialist who gave him great advice on how to quit his habit for good. The specialist told Jon that there were five steps he needed to follow in order to start his journey to quit smoking. Set a quit date, stay busy, avoid smoking triggers, stay positive, and ask for help from others (“Quit Day:5 Steps”) The first step in the process to smoking is to set a quit date. Setting a quit date requires
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Quitting smoking is a very hard habit to break, and a good attitude is imperative to one’s success. In order for one to succeed in quitting smoking they must take each day one day at a time and not think of quitting as forever. By living in the moment and paying attention to today the time will add up and in turn will help one stay more positive. Another way to stay positive is to reward one selves for quitting. According to Text from Medline Plus’s article “How to stop smoking: Dealing with cravings” one should:” Plan rewards for each stage of quitting you get through. The longer you go without smoking, the bigger the reward.” A suggestion is for one to reward their self for every week they are smoke free. Make each reward more fun and enjoyable than the
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…
You are more likely to quit forever if you are using the services of NHS stop smoking. Visit the Web site without smoke or ask to your medical of the family to get help let of smoking.
He confided in me that he has a very demanding job, doesn’t really have many friends and cares for his sick mother who’s in a nursing home. Smoking seemed to be therapeutic for him, even though he knew how terribly unhealthy it was. My heart went out to him so I offered him my help, Pro Buono. The great news is, after just a few sessions, he’s able to eat a meal without smoking a cigarette. He's got a long road ahead of him, being a smoker for over thirty years, but he's dedicated to his therapy sessions and after each one he shows magnificent signs of
Smoking is a habit and can become classically conditioned to think of a cigarette every time an individual learn to associate the pleasures of smoking with all of their daily activities they usually perform while smoking. For example, if they smoke while drinking a cup of coffee, the sight and smell of a cup of coffee could trigger the craving for a cigarette or if they smoke while driving to work, getting into the car can result in a craving for a cigarette. The smoker needs to identify and plan for all of the places and behaviors they associate with smoking before they are able to quit. Once they have identified all the things that trigger them in the craving. They will have to change their daily routine, so they can eliminate the connection between the triggers and smoking.
This web site is operated by Moores University California San Diego (UCSD) Cancer Center under the direction of Shu-Hong Zhu, PhD, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine. It is called California Smokers' Helpline. Members of this center have been trained professionally about caring and helping smokers quit. Most of them have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The center has counselors that can speak fluently in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese – six languages spoken commonly in California – for helping services. These services are supported by California Department of Public Health, First 5 California, Center for Disease
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.
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.
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.
Smoking has killed 20 million Americans since 1964 (“CDC's Tips from Former Smokers campaign”). It’s the number one cause of death that can be easily prevented. Anti-smoking advertisements frequently pop up throughout our society, often showing harmful effects of tobacco through graphic videos and images. This advertisement is very disturbing and shows the terrible effect cigarette smoking can cause. In this TV commercial for (CDC's Tips from Former Smokers campaign), Terrie talks about how she gets ready for the day after the effects of treatment for throat cancer causing her to lose her teeth, hair, and to have a laryngectomy.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and worldwide (Centers for Disease Control, 2013, World Health Organization, 2008). Tobacco cessation counseling is a vital component of any public health strategy seeking to decrease mortality, disease and costs associated with smoking. To that end, the Healthy People 2020 Tobacco Use Objectives cover three main areas: reducing tobacco use, instituting health system changes, and creating social and environmental changes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2013). Objective TU-10 falls under the category of health system changes as it seeks to open doors for patients to make quit attempts and to pursue tobacco cessation methods by increasing
Do you know smoking is very dangerous? Smoking has become a huge addiction problem for several different ages in America, to the point in which it may seem impossible to quit. To quit smoking, you must go through a lengthy process, and through rough times, but in the end its worth it. First, you must get rid of all your cigarettes. The next step, you need to do is replace smoking with nicotine patches, gum, and sunflower seeds this will help curb the urge to smoke. Furthermore, join a support group to help you throughout the process, and family and friends are also a good support base. It is never too late to stop smoking. If you address smoking early as an unhealthy habit you can try and avoid getting cancer, live a long and wonderful
Have you ever wondered why people smoke even though they know it is bad for them? They do this because smoking is addictive. Once you start you can't stop until you really put in the effort to quit.
-Therapeutic interventions: There are five steps to help a patient stop smoking, which are listed in the following: ask to identify smoking status at every visit, advise all smokers to quit, identify smokers who are open to make a cessation attempt, assist the patient to stop, and arrange a follow up. It is important that the provider refrain from expressing disapproval of patients who did not currently wish to stop smoking (Pignone & Salazar, 2018). Because
Anything that can be learned by the subconscious mind can be unlearned. Over the years, your mind has developed the habit of smoking. It thinks that it needs a cigarette to feel normal. If you can change this belief and habit, you can quit smoking for good.
Let me just warn you that once you do quit smoking, you can NEVER just smoke one. Once you do, you are right back to smoking again. So don't do it. The first night you quit smoking it won't be as hard as you may think but the next day will be a whole different story. From personal experience quitting before the best advice I can give you is to stay busy. If you are bored or just sitting around you will want to smoke a cigarette; so plan ahead before you quit. Line up activities, take some classes, go out with friends (hopefully non-smokers).