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Smoking and Cravings

Smoking and Depression

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Stopping smoking effects

Decreased heart rate

While you smoked, your heart had a hard time getting sufficient oxygen to everywhere you needed it, because your red blood cells were flooded with carbon monoxide. 

Once you stop smoking, and the carbon monoxide clears from your bloodstream, your blood will be much better at carrying oxygen around the body, and so your heart will not have so beat so hard or fast, to achieve the same result.

Depression / feeling ‘down’ after stopping smoking

Many people feel ‘down’ when they give up smoking.  This can often be to do with a feeling of ‘loss’.  Maybe the person has had to stop for health or family reasons, but really didn’t want to stop for ‘themselves’. 

So, two things can help under a situation such as this.  Exercise can help, because it releases the bodies natural ‘feel good’ chemicals (endorphins), and  hypnosis / hypnotherapy to stop smoking can also help, as it can replace feelings of ‘loss’, with feelings of pride in becoming, and staying, a non-smoker.

Dizziness

When a person smokes, their body is exposed to large amounts of carbon monoxide.  Carbon monoxide is absorbed into the red blood cells much easier than oxygen, and so a shortage of oxygen to the brain often occurs.  This is why smokers often find exercise so difficult, often reporting that they get very short of breath. 

When you stop smoking, your red blood cells are no longer flooded with carbon monoxide, and the oxygen can be carried more easily to the brain.  It is this return to near-normal oxygen levels that can sometimes produce dizziness or light-headedness, and is a sign that your body is regaining its normal functions, and is unlikely to last for more than a day or two.

Dry throat after stopping smoking

When someone smokes, their body does all it can to prevent the poisonous toxins from reaching the lungs.  One of the ways it does this, is by producing more mucous in their airways, to try to catch the particles of smoke.  When the person stops smoking, their body no longer needs to produce the excess mucous. 

Until their mucus production stabilises, they may experience a drier than usual throat.  So, until things get back to normal, many people find having a glass of water, or keeping some boiled sweets handy, really useful.

Fatigue

This is short term.  Nicotine is a stimulant, and smokers will often report that they smoke to get a burst of energy.  Without this harmful stimulant, temporary fatigue may set in. 

This effect will lessen over a short while, and before long, you will find that you actually have MORE energy, as the result of your body working more efficiently and more oxygen becoming available to your body and muscles.

Be careful not to eat too many sugary foods during this time, in an effort to try and help with your fatigue.  But, if you crave those sugary foods, eat plenty of fruit, instead, and drink plenty of sugar-free drinks.

Headaches

The lack of oxygen in the blood when you were smoking, would have affected your brain just as much as any other part of your body.  Now that you have stopped smoking, your brain may be experiencing a return to normal levels of blood oxygen, and this may cause a headache.  This is a good sign that the blood is beginning to perform efficiently again.  Obviously, if it persists, or you're worried, seek medical help.

Hunger after stopping smoking

You may find that once you stop smoking, your body may crave sugars, or more food in general.  Your body could be trying to get the same stimulant ‘hit’ that nicotine is no longer giving.  Another reason why you may feel hungry, is that because your body can now burn more energy, it needs to receive more energy too! 

But, if you eat sweets and such like, your body will receive only a very temporary ‘hit’ from the sugars they contain. 

As fruits and vegetables contain sugars that take much longer for the body to metabolise, the benefit to the body if you eat these instead, will not only be healthier, but also longer-lasting. 

Drink plenty of water as well, to fill your stomach.

Stop Smoking Testimonials

"You’ve completely cured my lack of willpower and confidence"

... a stop smoking client from Essex

"Hi Paul, hope you are well,

Just wanted to let you know it's been a week now since my therapy and I haven't smoked. In fact in a way it feels like I've never smoked.

I haven't had any cravings and I have no problem being around other smokers. The therapy has worked so well for me, I feel great and things in my life seem to be coming together nicely.

I have recommended you to 3 of my close friends.

I will continue to recommend you to people who could benefit from your treatment as I am over the moon with results I have seen in myself."

...a stop smoking client from Hitchin

"I was going to get back to you earlier but decided to wait until i had been through everything and still not smoked.

It's been 5 weeks and i still have not smoked, i haven't even had a craving!!

I dont know how you've done it and im sure a lot of it is to do with wanting to give up, i have been on holiday, been to family gatherings and all my family smoke, and even had emotional upset and i cannot believe that through all that i have not had the urge to have a cigarette.

I wanted to say thanks "

A stop smoking client from Bedfordshire

"She stopped smoking so easily after coming to see you, that I've come as well, because I want the same for me."

...a stop smoking client from Warwick

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Book your stop smoking hypnotherapy session with Paul, and he can help YOU to stop smoking.

During the session, Paul will listen to you, talk to you about how smoking has fitted in with your life in the past, answer all your questions, and explain how he can use hypnotherapy to help YOU.

Then, during the hypnotherapy part of the session itself, you can sit back, relax, and experience one of the most interesting, enjoyable and relaxing experiences there are...

Leaving the session as a non-smoker, you'll feel full of confidence and motivation, ready to enjoy better health, more money in your pocket, and a huge feeling of achievement... simply feeling that you've regained control of your life!

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