Stopping Smoking

Written by Ian

Stop Smoking - The Easy Way!

I'm now a week into my nicotine free life, and i have to say it's been quite easy the past three days. I'm doing it the Allan Car way, which is basically cold turkey with no nicotine substitutes, just a solemn vow of never having another, along with some positivity.

Allan Cars book 'Stop Smoking the Easy Way' is brilliant, it's basically full of truths about smoking, once you read it and understand you want to stop, and find it easier because you know the truth. The truth about cigarettes is so simple you don't want to believe it, the only reason you want one is because you had one one before. You had some nicotine before. You don't want one because you enjoy it or that its a 'habit' these are constructs of your mind craving nicotine, and that's a fact.

I had tried a month ago after Christmas and was using nicotine patches as a crutch, they seem to work as it mentally gives you a reason to not smoke by wearing one. But there is something very wrong, you cant quite put your finger on it. Until you realise the massive flaw in trying to get yourself off an addictive drug with the same addictive drug. It's complete insanity really. I failed with the patches, one day i got very angry for very little reason and i hadn't put one on, instead of putting one on i decided in my anger that i deserved a cigarette, i deserved my 'fix' through the proper channel.

We have been and are being fooled by the replacement nicotine con; The corporations that sell Nicotine don't really care how it goes into your body (if it kills you or not) as long as they get to sell it to you, either through the lie of stopping smoking with it or the lie of smoking itself.

Many people will have given up smoking using patches and gum, and they will accredit the replacement to giving up, when it was them who stopped despite still putting nicotine in their systems, which actually makes it more difficult to give up.

I'm not saying it has not been a little difficult the past week, it's been an emotional rollercoaster, like getting back in touch with emotions and issues i had blocked out with smoke! I do think that when you smoke you often push things aside emotionally that you would normally deal with. They are 'dummies', adult emotional pacifiers, and we are being incredibly childish and irresponsible by using them.

Irresponsible because if we get ill because of smoking someone else in society will have to look after us. Even if this is paid for privately it is still an irresponsible drain on resources.

If you are a smoker please read Allan Cars Book!, even if you are not thinking of giving up yet - you will soon want to, and be able to.

 

 

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Eco Friendly Beauty Products - How To Protect Yourself And The Environment

Written by William Colber

Why on earth should you worry about eco friendly beauty products? The answer is very simple in that we should be doing everything we can to protect our health and the environment in which we live and breathe. Now that might seems a gargantuan task but actually, it is much easier now than it was a few years ago.

It is alarming to realize that there are still thousands and thousands of personal care products which are anything but eco friendly beauty products. They still contain petroleum, parabens, synthetic fragrances, sodium lauryl sulphates and parabens.

This was brought home to me yesterday when I picked up a facial cleanser in a supermarket. The label says it is delicate but when I looked at the label I thought that some of the ingredients there were anything but delicate. There were lots of parabens (such as methylparaben, butylparaben and propylparaben) and the ubiquitous SLS which is a corrosive detergent to help lubricate engines!

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