 Stop
smoking in Derby and Nottingham
There are many reasons to quit smoking. For you to be
successful, the only reason you need is the one that
is right for YOU! If you stop smoking, it will help
your health and your family's health...and, it will
save you money.
Your health
If you quit smoking, you will have less chance of having
a heart attack, stroke, or blood vessel disease. It
will also lower your chance of getting cancer of the
lungs, voice box, mouth, neck, oesophagus , bladder,
and cervix . Your chances of having a lung disease such
as asthma will also be lower. If you stop smoking, you
will have less chance of broken bones due to osteoporosis.
Your family's health
Your family will also be healthier if you quit smoking.
By not breathing harmful second hand smoke, your spouse
or children will have less chance of lung cancer. Your
children will also have a lower chance of ear and lung
infections and chest colds. By not smoking, you will
reduce the risk of your baby being born prematurely
or with a low birth weight. The chance of Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome (SIDS) in your new-born will also be
lower.
Do you want your children to smoke? It is well known
that children of parents who smoke are more likely to
grow up to be smokers.
Other reasons to quit smoking
If you quit smoking, you will be able to save money
and decrease bad breath. Your clothes, hair, and skin
will smell cleaner. Your teeth will not have tobacco
stains. You may also have fewer wrinkles. Your decision
to stop smoking will make the air around you cleaner.
Air that is free from harmful tobacco smoke can be enjoyed
by everyone.
The pay off
In addition to being easier on your wallet and the ones
you love, quitting smoking has health benefits that
start almost instantly and extend for the rest of your
life:
Within 20 minutes
Blood pressure, body temperature and pulse rate will
drop to normal.
Within eight hours
Smoker's breath disappears. Carbon monoxide level in
blood drops; oxygen level rises to normal.
Within 24 hours
Chance of heart attack decreases.
Within 48 hours
Nerve endings start to regroup. Ability to taste and
smell improves.
Within three days
Breathing is easier.
Within two to three months
Circulation improves. Lung capacity increases up to
30 percent. Walking becomes easier.
Within one to nine months
Sinus congestion and shortness of breath decrease. Cilia
that sweep debris from your lungs grow back. Energy
increases.
Within one year
Excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of
a smoker.
Within two years
Heart attack risk drops to near normal.
Within five years
Lung cancer death rate for the average former pack-a-day
smoker decreases by almost half. Stroke risk is reduced.
Risk of mouth, throat, and oesophageal cancer is half
that of a smoker.
Within 10 years
Lung cancer death rate is similar to that of a non-smoker.
The precancerous cells are replaced.
Within 15 years
Risk of coronary heart disease same as a person who
has never smoked.
The cost of smoking
If you haven't already decided to stop smoking for health
reasons, then consider this. Smoking 20 cigarettes a
day costs £135.00 a month*.
Put this another way, if it was invested for ten years
you could have one of the following nest eggs:
Individual Savings Account - £19,425 *
Bank or Building Society - £17,389 *
Stakeholder Pension - £27,700 *
Saved under mattress - £16,000 *
* 2004 figures
Why hypnotherapy works in
quitting the habit
Hypnotherapy was proven to be the best method of stopping
smoking by WHICH magazine in 1994 and also NEW SCIENTIST
magazine in 2001. Their findings were as a result of
an in-depth study of all methods of stopping smoking.
I have a 95% success ratio based on ONE SESSION of treatment.
The important aspect of this is that the session is
tailored to the individual client in finding the reasons
and the factors why that person smokes. The reason why
so many people fail to stop smoking is because there
is no real incentive to give up. They feel that they
have given something up "for nothing" ie.
There is no tangible or immediate reward/benefit. What
I do is offer people something in return. Every time
they do not smoke they will get a "buzz" far
greater than the one they ever used to get from smoking.
As a closing statement, think of this:
The difference between a smoker & a non-smoker
is not that a non smoker doesn't smoke - its that a
non smoker has no desire to smoke.
Queries and Questions
Please email Geoffrey
Schofield for further information.
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