Quit Smoking Forums – Support For Your Smoking cessation
October 1, 2008 by admin
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Finding smoking cessation support is not so difficult – if you just know where to look…
The best bid on an online quit smoking forum is might be QuitNet, who claims to be the largest online quit smoking forum.
But there are multi many opportunities in various quit smoking forums and blogs for support for a smoking cessation. The vast majority, if not all advertising funded, and you’ll probably have to live with that, it is at least not tobacco advertising … but of course most often advertisements for quit smoking medication like quit smoking pills.
Use the Internet to help you find smoking cessation support forums, smoking cessation blogs, chat rooms or with like-minded people who even go the way. There are tons of options to choose from, you have to think about that there are 108 million domains, representing websites on the Internet here at the end of 2007. So you should not have problems finding Internet support if it is your favorite track. How to quit smoking cigarettes is a big, big problem.
You can also go to your local pharmacist, I am not entirely familiar with their organization, but I know that the pharmacies also organizes smoking cessation programs, and I would guess that they also have support groups you can join, or you could take the initiative to create a support group in your community - there are guaranteed a lot of people who want to stop smoking near you.
Help is what quit smoking forums are all about. Get support from smokers like you that are quitting and ex-smokers alike. From simple smoking cessation tips, to shared experience of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and other quitting medication or even quit smoking acupuncture – the quit smoking forums are designed to help smokers and ex-smokers help each other quit smoking… for good!
- So go ahead, browse the forums – thousands of quit smoking tips and words of encouragements are posted every day.
- Ask for help – Don’t be shy! Post a message in the forums, visit a chat room, send mails to friends.
- Find a buddy – Add a friend to your “buddy” list so you’ll know when they’re online. Find users with a quit date near yours.
- Support others – The magic of every quit smoking forum lies in the support provided by both successful quitters, but also wanting to quitters like you.
- Find help from others who try the same quit smoking medication like you – for instance a quit smoking pill.
- If you are afraid of gaining weight consider diet pills – celebrate the beauty of being alive. Being healthy and slim is the best way to start a new lige without smoke.
Helping others will even help you stay quit.
Quit Smoking Meter – Your Very Own Quit Smoking Calculator
September 30, 2008 by admin
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Everyone who has tried to quit smoking have experienced the quit smoking symptoms, withdrawal symptoms, that makes you want to start again. In that situation you need some extra motivation to stay on the right track. You already know of the stop smoking benefits, but what happens when you stop smoking is that when the withdrawal symptoms are the strongest, you might forget all the good reasons to quit smoking.
One tool to remind you and help you remember all the is a Quit Smoking Meter or Quit Smoking Calculator. The quit smoking meters comes in many different shapes and colors, but what they basically do is to keep track of how long time you have not smoked, how much money you have saved not smoking and, most importantly, how much your life has been prolonged due to your smoking cessation. None of them take into account the costs of quitting smoking. How much does a quit smoking pill costs? Or other quit smoking medication? Or quit smoking acupuncture?
Some of the quit smoking meters are free, while others costs a small amount. A lot of quit smoking websites offer a quit smoking meter when you sign up their quit smoking program.
In the following I’ll go over the best quit smoking meters.
Quit Keeper
Quit Keeper is a free quit meter that tracks various statistics as you quit smoking.
The statistics it tracks include:
- How long you have been quit.
- How much money you have saved.
- How many cigarettes you haven’t smoked.
- How much of your life you have saved.
- Listing your anniversaries and those of your buddies.
Features
- A quit meter that is absolutely free!
- Use a hot-key to put your quitting statistics into an email message, a forum posting or a chat room.
- Tracks the increasing price of cigarettes
- (the only quit meter that can do that).
- Tracks your milestones and those of your buddies.
- A great tool to help you as you quit smoking.
- Easy to install – easy to use.
- Small, fast and efficient.
- Easy to customize.
- Quick, small download (about 100k!)
SilkQuit Meter v2.60
The current version of SilkQuit calculates the time you have been quit, the total amount of money not spent on your habit, and the time you’ve saved by not smoking. Your quit duration is shown in years, calendar months, weeks, hours, minutes and seconds. By using a configurable hot-key combination you can paste detailed quit information into any document, handy if you’re involved with an online support forum.
Features
SilkQuit v2.60 has the following features:
- Designed to be unobtrusive by minimising to a small icon on your taskbar
- The only meter in the world that calculates calendar months correctly
- Tracks your true quit time; does not add/remove an hour during daylight savings and standard time changes
- International currencies and time formats supported automatically
- One-touch operation to “hot-paste” your quit details into any document
- Calculates time quit in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds
- Calculates number of cigarettes not smoked since you quit
- Calculates money saved in your local currency
- Calculates time saved by not smoking
- Customise the text which appears in your quit details
- Single click access to SilkQuit Chat
- Multiple users supported
http://www.tobaccofreeguam.org/meter.htm
A great online quit smoking meter, which help you track
- How long you’ve been smoke-free
- How much money you’ve saved
- How much your savings could be earning
- How much time you are adding to your life by not smoking
So go ahead – find your favourite quit smoking meter and quit smoking today!
Quit Smoking Pills – Zyban and Chantix, Chantrix
September 27, 2008 by admin
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Zyban and Chantix are two different pills that can be used as an aid to smoking cessation. The pills must be prescribed by a doctor after detailed evaluation. They both increase the chance to become smoke-free, but they are not miracle cures.
Along with the growing interest in smoking cessation, several pharmaceutical companies launched quit smoking pills to stop smoking. In 2001, Zyban, which contains bupropion, and in 2006 came Chantix, which contains varenicline. Several new drugs are on the way.
Zyban
Zyban is a pill that works by reducing the urge to smoke and reducing withdrawal symptoms by a cessation. The pill contains no nicotine, but instead the substance bupropion. It affects the nervous lanes in the brain, which usually triggers symptoms of a cessation. Bupropion was originally developed and approved for the treatment of depression, but it turned out that some of the subjects quit smoking. Subsequently, Zyban been tested and approved for smoking cessation.
Chantrix
Chantix is a quit smoking pill like Zyban, which works by reducing the urge to smoke and reducing withdrawal symptoms by a cessation. The active substance in the pill is varenicline. The substance works by blocking the places in the brain which is affected by nicotine. This will minimize withdrawal symptoms. Varenicline is the first quit smoking pill, which is designed specifically for smoking cessation
Effectiveness
Smoking cessation pills are much newer than nicotine replacement, and is therefore not so many studies of effectiveness. In the studies that have been made, all smokers – in addition to the pills – also received advice on their cessation. Approximately one in four smokers are smoke-free after one year. Some studies suggest that quit smoking pills, and particularly Chantix, is slightly more effective than nicotine replacement, but others conclude that there are no major differences.
Recommendations
Cancer Society recommends that smokers who wants to quit smoking takes part in a smoking cessation course or gets individual advice of a smoking cessation by a counselor. Advice should include knowledge about medicines for smoking cessation, how they function and side effects in the short and long term. Recent research shows, that the risk of HPV transmission increases significantly in smokers, which increases the risk of developing cancer.
Since nicotine replacement is the most proven drug for smoking cessation, you should try it first. Quit smoking pills are good alternatives, but they both require a prescription. Physicians should consider whether there may be circumstances that talks against the use of medication.
Before using the quit smoking pills, visit one of the many quit smoking forums and ask for other peoples experiences with the different quit smoking aids.
