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I smoke in the Flat and My support workers are talking about turning it into a smoke free flat. But I rent it off the council it’s my flat my name is on the tenancy. Can my support staff zoo me or get me fined. I’ve a minor learning disabiltie. but I get housing benfit and income support and disabltie allownce. So my rent gets payed. there just there to Support me.

If you cannot smoke in your own home
What the hell is this world coming to?
If they dont like it
Then you may well have to get some new support workers.

`I don’t believe it does i smoked for over 35 years and quit, after my left lung collapsed twice, that was caused the Dr’s said from smoking,the second time my lung collapsed it fell from my chest cavity and had to be reattached, i have had to have chest tubes inserted through my soft tissue which was inserted under my left arm through my ribs cage very painful after having all that happen to me i quit smoking, it was called determination and after all i had been threw, i called it quits and i did it takes alot of will power and determination, if you are ready to quit do it.

How can I tell someone to stop smoking? She knows all the facts (it gives you cancer, emphysema, etc.), but she is young, so she still has that invincible mentality. What can I tell her about smoking’s cosmetic effects that will make her consider quitting? (besides the usual stains your teeth and your hands)
Thanks!

You cant MAKE someone stop smoking if they don’t want to. If she knows all the facts about what smoking can do to you then she is definitely addicted. The most effective way of stopping smoking is through multiple sessions of hypnotherapy. This process deals with the physical aspects of the addiction and the psychological aspects. Most stop smoking techniques don’t tackle the psychology which is why they are so ineffective. Willpower alone is about 4% successful, nicotine replacement therapy (patches, gum etc) are about 5% successful, multi session hypnotherapy can be up to 85% successful.
Hypnotherapy is only worth doing if your friend really wants to stop, its pointless doing it if she doesn’t want to stop.

I cannot use any stop smoking aids, ie the patch or gum etc… any good methods on how to quit smoking?

Make sure you surround yourself with support from before your quit date arrives. I found online forums most useful as we were all experiencing the same thing. I’m proud to say I’m now over 3 months quit.

Good luck with it and below I’ve provided a link to one of the great sites I found most helpful.

What smoker has not at some point tried to flip a cigarette out of a closed car window? There you are, trying to fish it out of your lap without burning yourself or the seat, and even worse, trying to maintain control of the vehicle if you are the driver. The only consolation in this case is that maybe you are the only one in the car witnessing the crazy antics.

Combined with the times your cigarette has accidentally dropped off a balcony, singed your good clothes, or almost set your long hair ablaze, you may be starting to realize how lucky you are that these incidents have not yet resulted in much greater damage and cost to you or someone else. Is it time to quit smoking? You are not alone, each day thousands of people make the decision to quit, and succeed.

The decision to quit smoking can be successful, if you have will power, determination, and for many it helps if you have something to replace the cigarettes with. From alternate sources of nicotine, to the real or imagined reward of being able to kiss someone without tasting like smoke, there are many different methods that have helped people make this transition.

Whether you decide to stop smoking for the sake of your own health, or out of concern for your loved ones, there are many resources available to help you quit. Patches, gum, herbal cigarettes, toothpicks, straws or cinnamon sticks have all been found useful by some former smokers. Others recommend learning an instrument, meditation or hypnosis. Because smoking involves physiological, habitual and psychological factors, you can approach quitting from any of these directions, or ideally, some combination.

If you turn to snacking, remember to choose healthy snacks to avoid gaining weight and trading one unhealthy habit for another. Sunflower seeds, carrot sticks, licorice, pretzels or unbuttered popcorn are all relatively low-fat snacks to soothe your oral fixation. Other healthy replacements include drinking water, going for some exercise, or distracting yourself with some mental or physical activity. While many of the tricks used involve keeping your mouth busy, some find it equally important to occupy their hands with something, from a stress ball to playing cards, or knitting.

For additional help, do some browsing online, learn from others, join a support group, check out an anti-smoking agency, and evaluate your options. What works for some does nothing for others, but you are sure to find a method to quit smoking that works for you. Cold turkey or slow and gradual, do not give up. Better health for you and an improved quality of life for you and your loved ones is in sight.

Mike Durand
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/i-need-to-stop-smoking-79251.html

You started smoking on a beautiful note. At that time you never imagined in your wildest dreams that to stop smoking would be such a deadly effort. You have tried several methods, rather many quit smoking methods have used you to make fun of you.

You are where you are and now the suggested method is stop smoking through injection.

Will this alternative really help you, so that you can live the rest of your life smoke-free? Half of your life is already wasted in searching and experimenting with the various methods to stop smoking.

Researches claim that this stop smoking injection makes you forget about smoking once and for all. It has a success rate of about 80%. Hope you are not among the remaining 20%. I am aware you have tried many other therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medications and nicotine replacement therapy, all in vain.

Nicotine and your brain are comrades in arms. The brain can never forget the obliging nicotine sensation and demands more and more of it. Therefore, you smoke more and more. Something has to be done to break this link. The stop smoking injection contains substances that confront the nicotine receptors in your brain. When the brain fails to establish contacts with nicotine, and refuses to recognize it, your desire for the nicotine-containing cigarette is decreased. Well, you no more need it at all!

Normally, one injection does the job. The second one would be necessary, in some cases. The treatment is given to you in ideal conditions in a clinic, under the supervision of your own doctor. He will make a careful note about your stop-smoking condition.

Why, then in some cases, you don’t get satisfactory results in the first instance? It is because many of the smokers do have other problems, apart from the nicotine addiction. Your doctor will therefore examine your total health, after you are injected with the first shot.

The injection therapy is very affordable. High from the normal standards, but low from the actual standards! Also calculate what an astronomical amount you will spend on your nicotine products- the cigarette packets! Another favorable point is that such treatment related expenses, including the injection charges are covered by health insurance policy.

So far, this stop smoking injection therapy does not lead to side effects, it is reported. This probably is the reason for its growing popularity. Second aspect of the popularity is the quickness with which you can have this treatment.

You are in a hurry. You started smoking in a hurry, and if now you have come across a method to give up smoking in a hurry, why not avail it?

Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/are-you-thinking-of-using-a-stop-smoking-injection-83730.html

The most popular way to stop smoking, is known as “cold turkey”

It’s the most popular method but is it the right method for you lets look at stop smoking cold turkey and see.

Smoking “cold turkey” means to stop smoking instantly with no reduction i.e. just stop and cope with the cravings with no help.

How effective is it?

Quitting smoking “cold turkey” means to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement therapy aids as nicotine provides the addictive nature of smoking it causes withdrawal symptoms.

Withdrawal of nicotine causes the following:

Irritability, fatigue, feelings of stress and nausea.

They are intense and will always be there in the first few weeks after giving up, although the first 3 – 4 days are the worst.

The symptoms and severity gradually reduce and eventually cease altogether and after about a month your body no longer needs nicotine fix.

If you are quitting smoking by “cold turkey” there are several ways to increase your chances of success

1. Drink lots of water to flush out your system at least liters a day and more if possible.

2. When cravings start – THINK of all the reasons why you are quitting cigarettes.

Concentrate on why you don’t want to smoke and all the health and financial benefits it will bring.

Focus on these benefits for a few minutes and block everything else out your mind to motivate you not to smoke.

3. Get support if you need it.

If you can do “cold turkey” do it with someone else or get support and help from groups, either on the Internet or a meeting group.

4. Keep yourself busy and occupy your day and make sure you don’t have time to think about smoking especially in the first 3 days.

Your chances of success depend very much on two major factors:

How much you want to quit and whether or not you believe you can do it.

If you think you can then of course you will.

If you think you cant you will not achieve your goal.

You may want to consider something else though.

People quit smoking “cold turkey” as they think nicotine is bad for you but it isn’t, as we shall now see.

Fact:

You will double your chances of success if you give yourself a fix of nicotine outside of cigarettes.

Let’s look at how to double your chances of success.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Nicotine does not cause death or disease, on the contrary its good for you.

It improves concentration, mood and attention and is actually part of the natural food chain and we consume trace elements everyday in foods such as tomatoes and potatoes to name just two.

If you take it in organic form you can beat cravings and get some potential health benefits.

NRT Products include:

Puffers, inhalers, gum and patches.

As the health benefits of nicotine are now well known companies are looking at producing nicotine supplements not just to help smokers, but help with a variety of conditions which need improvements in mood, attention and concentration.

They are looking at these to treat conditions such as: Depression, Altzeimer’s and Parkinson’s disease to name just 3.

A new smoking alternative

The first is already on the market. Originally aimed at smokers when they didn’t want to smoke, or couldn’t smoke It’s simply organic nicotine in water.

It’s very popular due to its convenience.

Simply take a few sips whenever you feel the need.

This product is now being taken not just by smokers but those who want to gain potential health benefits as well.

Finally

Try smoking “cold turkey” if you wish, but using NRT will double your chances of success and if you know the facts, you will see nicotine in pure organic form does no harm, so this is a great way for smokers with low willpower.

Sacha Tarkovsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/smoking-cold-turkey-is-it-the-best-method-for-you-90721.html

Once glamorized on television shows, in magazine ads and other places, cigarette smoking can be one bad habit to quit. In fact it’s one habit that people often start at a very early age, from childhood on. And it’s one habit that has a high death rate resulting mainly from cancer associated with smoking.

People try to stop smoking cold turkey, or turn to religion, patches, nicotine gum, hypnosis and more. With so many choices available for help to quit smoking, here are some tips to add to them in order to conquer bad cigarette smoking habits once and for all and breathe fresher, healthier air.

Change Mindset

Start thinking clearer, and your mind will lead your body to a clearer, healthier state. You can begin by heading to your local library and checking out books, videos, cassettes, DVDs and other resources to help you stop smoking. Other good topics are on self-improvement, healthy diets, and motivational and inspirational themes. See if there are any support groups in your area on any of these subjects and search online for forums to find friends to work through any issues with and have fun with to get your mind off smoking and onto better subjects.

Also line up some support people on your home front, off line. You don’t need friends who still smoke that will say things like, “Well, a half a pack a day isn’t bad, don’t worry about it.” You need encouraging, healthy friends to see you through the good times and bad times like you’ll see them through in exchange. So get a list going of people you can reach out to instead of reaching for a smoke: healthy neighbors, family, friends, etc.

Develop Healthier Habits

A great way to break an old habit is to start a new one. So here are some you could replace smoking with; like instead of lighting up:

1. Put your cigarette money aside in a jar and save it for a special celebration trip somewhere fun.

2. Instead of picking up a cigarette, pick up a book, magazine, newspaper or newsletter and catch up on your reading.

3. Instead of smoking, do some journaling, logging your pain, agony, hope, improved health, etc. Have fun and use magic markers and stickers in it and don’t worry about your spelling!

4. Instead of smoking, go to a gym and work out or work out at home or outside.

5. Instead of smoking, do something nice for someone else- and don’t tell them!

OK, time to get moving. Go get ‘em!

Viz
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/what-can-you-do-to-stop-smoking-129065.html

To start smoking, you require the help of only one thing- a lighter or a matchstick. You can do it even without that. A fellow smoker with the burning stub will come to your help. Only when the issue of stop smoking gets priority over all others, for obvious reasons, there are several methods to assist you-or to confuse you.

Today’s so called successful methods become tomorrow’s failure method. Using laser treatment to quit smoking is considered to be one of the most effective smoking cessation methods. This method was introduced to the public only in the recent years and is considered to be a modern and innovative method for quitting smoking. It is trusted method because laser method is used in many other medical branches for various other types of treatment with success. But laser treatment is costly.

The principle involved in laser treatment is simple and scientific. Certain nerve centers can encourage changes in the body. Acupuncture, reflexology, use the very same principle in treating the patients. If pressure is applied on those points, you get the desired results.

Stop smoking laser treatment means the same. Those relevant points in your body are treated with low intensity laser beams. The smoking cessation in you has begun. You feel relaxed, as far as smoking cravings are concerned. The thing that is most liked about this laser treatment is that the results are announced immediately after the examination.
This is your first lesson in smoking cessation. Don’t you take it as the final guarantee.

Nicotine is such a powerful agent, that you can not confront and defeat it by laser therapy alone. Your psychological aspects of addiction are more intense than the physiological aspects. Laser deals with the physical aspects. One excellent virtue about the laser therapy is that it has no side effects. This is a great assurance. In this modern medical treatment, you are sometimes more worried about the side effects than the original disease itself.

So, you accept the laser treatment therapy, in your efforts to stop smoking. But, before that, you need to know some relevant information.

The treatment is very costly. Be prepared for it. Sometimes, you don’t get good results. So club this treatment, along with other types of treatments.

Finally, let your strong will power to quit smoking remain strong. That is the real laser beam!

Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/using-laser-beams-to-stop-smoking-91828.html

My mother in law is dying of cancer, given 4-6 weeks. She is a smoker, there are 4 family members who live at her house, all smoke. It’s as bad as a bar. She is planning on dying at home and wants to see her Grandson, my son Ty. I am 7 months pregnant, and can’t stand to be around smoke.

They don’t stop smoking when he comes over. Last week, my husband took him and they both came home smelling awful. My son was congested that night and for two days after. My husband hates it too, but feels we are being out of bounds right now asking her to stop her one enjoyment when we visit.

I was told it’s pretty ballsy of me to even consier asking them to stop smoking in their house when we come over (by family members). I don’t want to offend her or cause a rip in the family right before she dies.

Should I just stick it out the next 6 weeks so Ty can spend time with his grandma before she dies?

I understand your concern about Ty, and the unborn, I would be too if I were you. Since grandma’s on a limited time, try your best to ignore this otherwise awful habit. It’s too late to make her understand. On the bright side Ty will get the bestest example not to smoke! I pray that grandma somehow comes to senses, and she feels well.