By Mira Williams
 In spite of those products, you are likely to return to square one, or even worse, you may end up smoking more than you did at the time when you planned to abandon the cigarettes. If you have tried giving up, you will also have found that NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) products do replace the nicotine in smoking, but they do not replace the smoking habit.
In some cases, people remain smokers for years after giving up, simply because they still miss their cigarettes. They maintain some nostalgic notion about smoking and they are almost every day tempted to light up again. Most of them do revert back to smoking at some stage. If you have indeed tried everything else, including acupuncture and counseling, there is another method of smoking cessation, which has a completely different approach to helping you to give up: Clinical Hypnotherapy, better known as Hypnosis.
Clinical Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis for medical purposes. There have been countless studies, patient-controlled, as well as individual and group clinical trials. Without exception, those studies clearly prove that hypnotherapy |
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By Roger Les Rabbit
 Smoking remains the largest preventable cause of death and illness in the UK, with approximately 120,000 people dying of smoking-related illnesses each year. The main diseases caused by smoking are chronic obstructive lung disease, e.g. emphysema, many types of cancer and coronary heart disease - although it is actually associated with over 50 diseases.
It is estimated that one in two smokers will die from a smoking related disease, causing, on average, six to eight years of life lost per smoker. Smokers can also impact the health of those around them, for example their children, through passive smoking.
Smoking not only has health implications, but costs money, is a major cause of fires in the home and is also responsible for a significant proportion of litter on our streets.
What do cigarettes contain?
Tobacco smoke contains around 4,000 chemicals - here's just a few of them and their impact on the body:
Nicotine A drug that stimulates the brain and keeps people hooked on smoking. It is responsible for the withdrawal symptoms experienced by those giving up, such as craving, |
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