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Smoking During Pregnancy

Smoking Statistics

Smoking and Alcohol

Smoking and Anxiety

Smoking and Boredom

Smoking and Concentration

Smoking and Cravings

Smoking and Depression

Smoking and Driving

Smoking and Irritability

Smoking and Mealtimes

Smoking and Relaxation

Smoking and Restlessness

Smoking and Rewards

Smoking and Sleep Patterns

Smoking and Social Situations

Smoking and Stress

Smoking and Tea Breaks

Smoking and the Telephone

Smoking and Television

Smoking and 'the good times'

Smoking and the Morning Cigarette

Smoking and Weight Gain

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Smoking: Addiction or Habit?

Stop Smoking: How Does Hypnotherapy Help?

Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy: How Much Does It Cost?

The Reasons to Stop Smoking

The Stop Smoking Session

Why People Think it's Hard to Stop Smoking

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The Facts About Smoking

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The Facts about Smoking

This page gives some smoking facts: facts about cigarettes, what they contain, and what they do...

Facts: The Cigarette

The cigarette is often seen as just simply shredded tobacco leaves, all wrapped-up in a piece of paper. 

Fact: The cigarette is actually a carefully-designed product, and designed in such a way, so as to make the smoking process as palatable as possible. 

Fact: The tobacco leaf part of the cigarette, is actually composed of two main leaf types, one which has a higher nicotine content than the other. 

Fact: These two leaf types are combined in varying ratios in order to give each brand its distinctive properties and varying nicotine strength.

Filler

Fact: As well as the two types of leaves, the cigarette manufacturers have a large amount of waste-products, such as stalks and stems.  Because it would be financially wasteful to simply dispose of these waste products, they add them to the blend of leaves. 

Fact: The fillers give an unpleasant taste and smell when they are burned, so they are mixed with a wide range of chemicals and flavourings, to make them more palatable.  These include products as diverse as chocolate, fig juice and liquorice.  Sugars are then added, to make the smoke more tolerable to the palette, and moisturisers and preservatives are also added, to increase the finished product's shelf-life.

Passive Smoking Facts

Fact:  When someone smokes a cigarette, the smoke comes from two main places.  Firstly the burning leaves and filler at the tip of the cigarette, and secondly, from the rest of the cigarette, as the hot gasses pass through the rest of the cigarette and the filter.

Fact:  When smoke is present in a room, something like 70% - 80% of that smoke comes directly from the burning tip of the cigarette.  It is this smoke which contains the highest concentration of nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide, and many of the carcinogenic (cancer-causing) agents. 

Fact: The smoke has many dozens of chemicals that directly cause cancer, and it does this by attacking the DNA of the person breathing it in.  Of course, the breathing of this smoke is not limited to the person smoking the cigarette, but will include everyone in the room.

More information about the dangers of passive smoking can be found here.

Facts about Low Tar Cigarettes

Fact: Tar has been associated with the increase in smoker's lung cancer, since the 1950’s.  With increasing awareness of this fact permeating the population, the cigarette companies saw a possible loss in revenue associated with more people wanting to quit smoking.

They addressed this 'problem' by introducing ‘low tar’ cigarettes.  Indeed, on a cigarette-to-cigarette basis, they do offer a slightly reduced amount of tar, and therefore, a slightly reduced risk of lung cancer. 

However...

Fact: This perceived reduction in risk often causes an individual to smoke more.  So in other words, increased consumption of the low-tar products, more than counteracts any possible ‘benefit’ of the lower tar brands.  Indeed, there is evidence that some kinds of lung cancer are only associated with low-tar cigarettes.

Facts about Nicotine

Fact: Nicotine is present as a liquid in tobacco leaves.  When the leaves are burned, the nicotine evaporates, and is inhaled with the cigarette smoke, it then passes into the bloodstream, and is in the brain within 20 seconds. 

Fact: As soon as the smoker finishes the cigarette, the levels of nicotine in the bloodstream immediately start to drop.  It continues to drop over time, until the smoker has to feed the craving once again.  It is this property that has caused nicotine to be grouped with heroin and cocaine, in the way it creates addiction.

Sobering thought:

Fact: If you put just 1/60th of a gramme of nicotine on your tongue, you would be dead within ten minutes. 

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 a Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy Session With Paul

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!

Book your stop smoking hypnotherapy session now:

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