Dying To Quit

Historians and scientists a few millennia from now are likely to see tobacco as one of the major bafflements of our time, suggests Janet Brigham. Why do we smoke so much, even when we know that tobacco kills more than a million of us a year? Two decades ago, smoking was on the decline in the United States. Now the decline has flattened, and smoking appears to be increasing, most ominously among young people. Cigar smoking is on the rise. Data from a generation of young smokers indicate that many of them want to quit but have no access to effective treatment. Dying to Quit features the real-life smoking day of a young woman who plans to quitâ€"again. Her comments take readers inside her love/hate relationship with tobacco. In everyday language, the book reveals the complex psychological and scientific issues behind the news headlines about tobacco regulations, lawsuits and settlements, and breaking scientific news. What is addiction? Is there such a thing as an addictive personality? What does nicotine do to the body? How does it affect the brain? Why do people stand in subzero temperatures outside office buildings to smoke cigarettes? What is the impact of carefully crafted advertisements and marketing strategies? Why do people who are depressed tend to smoke more? What is the biology behind these common links? These and many fundamental questions are explored drawing on the latest findings from the world's best addictions laboratories. Want to quit? Brigham takes us shopping in the marketplace of gizmos and gadgets designed to help people stop smoking, from wristwatch-like monitors to the lettuce cigarette. She presents the bad news and the not-so-bad news about smoking cessation, including the truth about withdrawal symptoms and weight gain. And she summarizes authoritative findings and recommendations about what actually works in quitting smoking. By training a behavioral scientistâ€"by gift a writing talentâ€"Brigham helps readers understand what people feel when they use tobacco or when they quit. At a time when tobacco smoke has filled nearly every corner of the earth and public confusion grows amid strident claims and counterclaims in the media, Dying to Quit clears the air with dispassion toward facts and compassion toward smokers. This book invites readers on a fascinating journey through the world of tobacco use and points the way toward help for smokers who want to quit. Janet Brigham, Ph.D., is a research psychologist with SRI International in Menlo Park, California, where she studies tobacco use. A former journalist and editor, she has conducted substance use research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the University of Pittsburgh

Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ. Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with her life. She felt like a single parent raising her four young daughters alone. She finally told her husband, "I quit," and left the thriving church he pastored, beginning a journey that transformed her and her marriage for the better. This book is for every woman who thinks, "I can’t keep pretending everything is fine!" Geri speaks like a friend as she uses personal stories and biblical principles to help you find your way out of superficial spirituality and move to a deep, meaningful, lifechanging relationship with God. And the journey begins by quitting. Geri quit being afraid of what others think. She quit lying. She quit denying her anger and sadness. She quit living someone else's life. When you quit those things that are damaging to your soul or the souls of others, you are freed up to choose other ways of being and relating that are rooted in love and lead to life. When you quit for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way, you're on the path not only to emotional health, but also to the true purpose of your life. Check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available.

Are you serious about ending your addiction to cigarettes? Are you ready to break free of tobacco without drugs, patches or the agony of withdrawal? HOW TO STOP DYING FOR A CIGARETTE uses the how, when and where of your smoking habit to attack the root cause of your addiction. As you dissociate smoking from the activities to which you’ve attached it, you begin to resent its intrusion into your life. The more you lessen your intake of nicotine and reduce your physiological cravings, the more smoking becomes downright annoying. Before long, you won’t want to be bothered to light up anymore, and you’re free. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it’s not! This workbook/diary, a pen or pencil and the sincere desire to get out of the clutches of tobacco companies are all you need to get started. The author created this program and used it successfully to end her 25-year smoking addiction without medication, hypnosis or workshops. The only side-effects were loss of stale tobacco odor, cessation of constant coughing, heightened senses of taste and smell, increased energy level, and a much higher likelihood of living into old age! Following simple exercises and recording your experiences and feelings in the included diary that only you will read will guide you toward freedom from tobacco. It can be done! The sincere desire and determination to succeed are all you need to get started with the HOW TO STOP DYING FOR A CIGARETTE program. Pick up this book, and you’ll have made a great start toward putting down cigarettes for good.

Grab This 6x9 Stop Smoking Habit Tracker and Motivational Journal to help increase your chances of quitting smoking for good! Research shows that you are more likely to quit smoking for good if you choose a quit date 2 weeks in advance. This allows you to prepare to become a non-smoker and gather your supplies. This journal prepares you during the 2 weeks for your quit date. By establishing good habits and identifying your triggers you can empower yourself to quit because you are identifying what is keeping you addicted. Once your 2 weeks of preparation are done then you are monitoring your gradual release from nicotine over the next 30 days period. The motivational passages help you with your inner reflection on the many changes you are going through. I personally had been smoking for 30 years since I was a teenager. I had many multiple failed attempts at quitting. I created this journal to help myself and my husband to quit. This journal comes out of using strategies I used in this book. It is my wish for you that this Stop Smoking tracking Motivational Journal will allow you to use the same techniques I used to finally break free of this very expensive habit. What You Will Find Inside this Stop Smoking Journal: Reflections upon why quitting is important for you and your family Color coding your personal smoking tracker to identify your smoking triggers Sections for activities to do for 2 weeks before, 1 week before, Night before, then 30 days Helpful tips for getting through your first day of not smoking 8 Action tips to help you quit smoking Tips to really help you stop in 30 days 30 days of motivational prompts for each day after you quit As a former long-time smoker, I truly hope this Quit Smoking Journal helps you in your journey to stop smoking for good and kick the Nicotine habit forever. Wishing You A Healthy Life

Quitting Smoking, something that thousands of people think about doing every single day. Did you know that over 450 thousand people die every year from a smoking related illness? Like many I smoked, smoked for 26 years. I watched family members die from this addiction, a long horrible painful death. Not something I cared to follow, so I made a decision back in 2003 to quit smoking, something I had tried to do so many times before. But on that January day, I made the decision unlike so many previous attempts, and made it stick. I want that for you. There are plenty of lotions and potions and magic pills being peddled on the shelves of your local stores that claim they can help you quit smoking. I tried them all. The difference in what I am sharing with this book is what actually worked for me. And the funny thing was that it wasn't hard.So if you want to learn how this 26 year smoker, quit and to this day has remained quit without one cigarette in that time, take the time to read what I have put on these pages, it works. It's not bullshit, it's not magic, its just simple and a common sense approach to this challenge. Look forward to helping you on your journey.

Do you want to quit smoking FOREVER?! After reading this book, you will NEVER want to inhale another cigarette! Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Proven To Work Method To Quit Smoking Naturally Chapter 2: A Quick Reminder Of What Cigarettes Are Doing To You Chapter 3: Overpowering The Withdrawal Period Chapter 4: The Modern Medical Strategies To End Cigarette Smoking Chapter 5: 10 Things You'll Notice Once You Quit Smoking Chapter 6: 22 Ways To Save Yourself And Your Body Once You Quit Smoking Conclusion Think of how bad-ass it will feel to FINALLY tell your family and friends that you've QUIT SMOKING! The author, John Gianetti smoked for 20 years, and he tried to quit on and off for 5 years, but couldn't despite his wife and kids constantly complaining. Then he met a man named Josh Wolverton who shared the secrets you're about to learn in this stop smoking guide. What Readers are Saying: "If you are chain smoker, you must know well that it is quite difficult to the habit. You might have already tried many methods to quit smoking. There are various methods to quit smoking. These methods can be better implemented with a good plan that can address both the short-term and long-term challenges of smoking. This book discusses various methods to change our carving for nicotine and change our life totally."

This isn't a self-help book about giving up smoking -- it's a candid, irreverent, eye-opening story about one woman's struggle to overcome her tobacco addiction. In her heartfelt memoir, Beard shares the crazy cocktails of medicine and diversion tactics she employs in her attempt to rid herself of her addiction. Having tried to quit more times than she kept count, she identifies the false assumptions and unhelpful social attitudes to reveal changes that would have a powerful impact on the success rate of quitting.

Temple Hayes is poised to join the ranks of Brene Brown, Joel Osteen and Louise Hay, and she has a running start—her spiritual home is the overflowing First Unity of St. Petersburg, Florida. Her audience is expanding quickly as her message of hope reaches the hearts of millions of restless seekers and those abandoned by mainstream churches: it's time to stop dying a bit every day and start embracing the God who created us. Hayes' profound eight-step program guides readers through a simple belief-examining process that will propel them to a healthier and more prosperous life. Chapter by chapter she encourages them to create their own life-path by getting to know the truly divine creations that they really are, accepting and loving all of who they are, and embracing the fundamental truth of life as a never-ending journey. Hayes' unique writing style will captivate readers through her blend of Jesus's parables, Zen koans, insight from Mark Twain, Southern storytelling, and a good dose of common sense. She skillfully fills the pages with 'aha' moments that will awaken people to the realization that they're either growing or dying—as she says, when we're serving we're giving, and when we're giving we're really living. When Did You Die? is a bestseller in the making that will propel Hayes into the media spotlight as the global spiritual leader she truly is.

The nation has made tremendous progress in reducing tobacco use during the past 40 years. Despite extensive knowledge about successful interventions, however, approximately one-quarter of American adults still smoke. Tobacco-related illnesses and death place a huge burden on our society. Ending the Tobacco Problem generates a blueprint for the nation in the struggle to reduce tobacco use. The report reviews effective prevention and treatment interventions and considers a set of new tobacco control policies for adoption by federal and state governments. Carefully constructed with two distinct parts, the book first provides background information on the history and nature of tobacco use, developing the context for the policy blueprint proposed in the second half of the report. The report documents the extraordinary growth of tobacco use during the first half of the 20th century as well as its subsequent reversal in the mid-1960s (in the wake of findings from the Surgeon General). It also reviews the addictive properties of nicotine, delving into the factors that make it so difficult for people to quit and examines recent trends in tobacco use. In addition, an overview of the development of governmental and nongovernmental tobacco control efforts is provided. After reviewing the ethical grounding of tobacco control, the second half of the book sets forth to present a blueprint for ending the tobacco problem. The book offers broad-reaching recommendations targeting federal, state, local, nonprofit and for-profit entities. This book also identifies the benefits to society when fully implementing effective tobacco control interventions and policies.