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Scott Gottlieb the commissioner of the FDA delivering a keynote speech on new regulations on nicotine and tobacco at the SRNT annual conference. #nicotine #tobacco #fda #srnt2018 #quitsmoking #smokingkills #smokefree #stopsmoking #srnt (at Baltimore, Maryland)

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Does Quit Tea Help You Stop Smoking Or Is It A Rip Off? - Guy Counseling

Does Quit Tea really work to help you stop smoking? Is the product a scam? Here's my review of Quit Tea from the perspective of an ex-smoker who hasn't had a puff in one year. Does Quit Tea kill the urges? I share my personal experience.

That’s when I learned about Quit Tea from word of mouth. After using it for the past year, I’d like to share my experiences with you. What you are about to read is real. I’m not getting paid one cent for this review. In my experience and speaking only for myself, I have to say the product was helpful. I’ve been off the cigs for over a year now and I don’t think I could have made it this far without the tea.

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Quit Tea is still one of the most popular natural and alternative ways to replace your smoking habit. #quittea #herbaltea #quitsmoking #stopsmoking #smokingkills #smokefree

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Switching your cigarettes for a cup of herbal tea is a way to replace the habit. #heathy #herbaltea #smokefree #smokingkills #quitsmoking

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Spearmint flavored NicPicks are now available on QuitMarket.com. These innovative nicotine infused toothpicks @nicotinetoothpicks are a great way to help you replace the habit and get through your nicotine cravings to successfully quit smoking. #quitsmoking #smokefree #healthyhabits #nicotine #stopsmoking #smokingkills

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Starting November 26, tobacco companies must run court-ordered TV and newspaper ads telling the truth about the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke. It’s a good step, but we also need strong corrective action by elected officials at all levels to win the fight against tobacco once and for all. tfk.org/TobaccoRacketeers

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One of the ads that a federal judge ordered big tobacco companies to show on prime time television about how nicotine changes the brain to make smoking very addictive.

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Committing to new habits that protect your body and health is good both for mental health, and to successfully quit smoking!

Dr. Daniel Seidman, Director of Smoking Cessation at Columbia University, Author of "Smoke Free in 30 Days"

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Various approaches are necessary because there’s no one way to get people to stop smoking.

Dr. Steve Schroeder, Chairman of Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

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Substitution Strategy for Quitting Smoking

ADVERTORIAL Replace A Bad Habit With A New Healthy Habit You might not be aware, but habits control a large portion of your day. Most habits are helpful, brushing your teeth, tying your shoes, backing out of the driveway, these are all things we do repeatedly that no longer require concentration. Our lives are full of habits, mostly good, some bad. Smoking cigarettes is an addiction, but more importantly it is a bad habit, and the distinction is important. The physical addiction to nicotine lasts as long as there is any left in your bloodstream, at most a few days. Cravings to smoke a cigarette, the first few days after quitting, are behaviorally caused cravings. When a smokers sees a trigger to smoke, and the brain starts to anticipate a hit of nicotine, which causes the cravings. These craving can be as compelling as a chemical addiction, but it is important to understand the difference. And to overpower the behavioral craving it is important to understand your reward for smoking. You probably already know that smoking isn’t all that pleasant. So why do you smoke? The reward for smoking is typically not the hit of nicotine. Smoking cigarettes serve all kinds of needs, like a break from work, a chance to socialize, or relief from boredom or stress. In a typical day, you put a cigarette to their lips 250 times, keeping you stimulated and your hands and mouth busy. Find out what smoking means to you and you a new habit to replace smoking, that provides the same reward. This is called the Substitution Strategy for Quitting Smoking, and it is far easier and more effective to replace your smoking habit, than just trying to stop. Most smokers have a hard time quitting unless they find a new habit to replace smoking with the cravings start. Triggers to smoke and cravings for a reward will never stop, but it is possible to replace smoking for a new routine. To start, ask yourself, when do you smoke? You may think you already know your triggers to smoke; morning coffee, drive to work, lunch, walking the dog, or with a drink in the evening. Those are times that you might smoke, but think about what need smoking fulfills at those times. For example, if it is while walking the dog it could mean that smoking helps relieve your boredom while your dog relieves himself. When you have your list and reasons, now it is time to get creative and find a new activity that will fulfill that same need. Stress, boredom, excuse to get outside or socialize, can all be solved by something else. Walking, exercise, or stretching, can get the blood going and help with stimulation. Eating raw vegetables, or nuts, sipping a healthy drink, eating dark chocolate or chewing licorice replaces the oral, hand to mouth habit, and keeps your mouth busy. Getting coffee or tea with friends can be an excuse to take a break and chat. Quit Tea is one option specifically created to help you get through those cravings for a cigarette and replace the habit. The herbs in Quit Tea are relaxing, detoxing, and healthy. If you make a cup of Quit Tea every time you are triggered to smoke, after a short time the habit of making a cup of herbal tea will be automatic. A lot of people have already successfully quit smoking using the Substitution Strategy without even knowing it! However you do it, finding a new healthy habit to replace smoking is the key to long term quitting success. Quitting is not easy, but if you have a good replacement, and stick with it, eventually you won’t even remember why you ever wanted to smoke cigarettes. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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Natural Ways To Boost Dopamine After Quitting Smoking

ADVERTORIAL For a little while after quitting smoking, it is normal to feel a little down. Nicotine is a stimulant that causes the release of dopamine, the pleasure hormone, and after stopping smoking your body no longer releases it normally. Researchers used to believe that low dopamine was a risk factor for addiction to smoking and other drugs. But a new study shows that dopamine levels do return to normal and it can take up to 3 months for dopamine levels to return to non-smoker levels. It Can Take 3 Months For Dopamine Levels To Return To Normal After Quitting Smoking The study results indicate treatments that might boost the dopamine system in smokers would help increase quit smoking success rates. Low dopamine is a contributor, however, there are ways to boost dopamine levels naturally, making it easier to quit smoking and stay smoke free. Natural Ways To Boost Dopamine Levels Low dopamine levels can lead to lack of motivation, fatigue, addictive behavior, mood swings and memory loss. These first 3 months after quitting are a particularly vulnerable time for relapse. There are a number of ways to boost dopamine levels naturally after quitting smoking, which will help improve mood and temporarily supports your willpower to stay smoke free. Staying calm and remembering it is temporary is an important first step. Nicotine use causes the release of dopamine, and addiction is connected to abnormalities in the dopamine system. Exercise Promotes Dopamine The most obvious is exercise. Aerobic activity for 20 minutes causes your body to release release dopamine. Running, brisk walking, yoga, lifting weights, or anything that gets your heart rate up will do the trick. Yoga and meditation are also helpful to remaining calm and centered. Lower Stress, Sugar, Caffeine Decrease stress, sugar, and caffeine. All of these disrupt your normal dopamine production, so it is best to avoid these as much as possible. Switching from coffee with sugar to green tea will not only help decrease sugar and caffeine, but green tea also has L-theanine, which boosts dopamine. Stress negatively effects your adrenal functions. It is important to get enough sleep and have a good routine. Supplements Supplements can also help boost dopamine levels, and other feel good brain chemicals such as serotonin and GABA. L-theanine, L-tyrosine, SAM-e, GABA, and 5-HTP all help alleviate feelings of depression and anxiety, and will help temporarily support your willpower. Quit Support is one product with these ingredients that boost levels do dopamine and serotonin, helping to elevate mood and decrease the risk of relapse after quitting. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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Make Quitting Smoking Easier By Improving Health

ADVERTORIAL Of course it is always advisable to quit smoking. Ceasing the use of tobacco is the number one thing anyone can do to improve health. However, there are many ways to become healthier first, which will also make it easier for you to quit smoking later. Having a healthy diet, taking vitamins and supplements, regular exercise, enough sleep, and detoxing are all important for preventing disease, reducing stress, and improving health. Proper Nutrition Raw fruits and vegetables are wonderful for your health and quitting smoking. There is has been a lot of research into raw foods for quitting smoking. Raw foods can change the perceived pleasure from smoking. Studies have shown that enzymes in uncooked food bind with compounds left in the mouth after smoking and produce an unpleasant aftertaste that the brain may learn to associate with tobacco. Also, consuming raw foods, like carrots, celery, berries, help keep your hands and mouth busy while quitting. Supplements Thankfully, it is possible to at least neutralize some of the damage done by smoking through proper nutrition. Vitamins A, C, D, and E, are found in fruits and vegetables, and should also be heavily supplemented to help improve your body’s response to damaged cells. Diseases happens when your body is not properly repairing damaged tissues, or is not able to keep up with the damage being done. A high quality multivitamin is a good start. Exercise Exercise is so important for your health and quitting smoking. It helps lower blood pressure and cholesterol, improve mood, increase energy and control weight, and help you sleep better. Exercise helps you quit by improving blood flow and causing a release of the pleasure hormone dopamine. Dopamine is the same chemical that nicotine triggers, and during withdrawal your levels of dopamine drop, leading to feelings of depression. Just 20 minutes of exercise will make your brain start releasing dopamine again, and help you feel better. Detoxification The body’s own detoxing organs, the liver, kidneys, and colon, are excellent at collecting and removing waste and toxins from your body. These organs also need proper nutritional support to work properly, because they are working overtime. It is important to drink lots of water, and have a healthy raw foods in your diet to support these cleaning organs. Removing toxins is helpful for quitting smoking because the sooner nicotine and other toxins are completely out of the system, the sooner your feelings of withdrawal will subside. People who smoke tend to be less healthy in general, not eating properly or exercising enough, taking vitamins, and getting regular sleep. A healthy diet and lifestyle, proper sleep, and exercise, will help improve healthy and make it easier to quit smoking. You can do all of these things now to start improving your health, and eventually giving up smoking will seem easy! Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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Proper Nutrition Makes Quitting Smoking Easier

ADVERTORIAL Thanks to public messaging, we are all aware of the negative health consequences of smoking. Smoking introduces tar into your lungs, and and toxins into the bloodstream, that cause many serious illnesses. Cigarette smoke contains a number of poisons, such as carbon monoxide, cadium, arsenic, cyanide, benzene, ammonia, formaldehyde, and many more. Even nicotine is a poison, used to kill insects. When you inhale these toxins, your body has to work overtime to counteract all of the negative health effects. These harmful chemicals cause damage to bodily tissues. The damage requires your body use up reserves of vitamins and minerals to repair itself, leaving little leftover for normal health maintenance. This often leads to nutritional deficiencies, and a decline in health. Here are some example of the specific ways smoking leads to vitamin deficiencies.. Vitamin E Vitamin E is an antioxidant and one of the main vitamins used in cellular repair, building red blood cells, and boosting your immune system. Smoking depletes vitamin E levels because so much of it is required to rebuild damaged lung and artery tissues. Smoking also causes damage to the mouth, throat, and many other bodily tissues that also require vitamin E for repair. When your cell do not get repaired, it can lead to cancer. Researchers have shown low levels of vitamin E are correlated with higher rates of cancer. Vitamin C Smoking introduces a significant number of free radical into your bloodstream. Vitamin C is one of the body’s main antioxidants. It is required for the repair of every tissue in your body, from your skin to liver cells. Research has shown that due to the high level of free radicals in tobacco smoke, each cigarette depletes your body of 25 mg of Vitamin C. Since vitamin C is vital to your immune system, many smokers tend to be sicker than non-smokers. B Vitamins Despite marking messages, smoking actually causes a lot of stress on your body. When there are too many free radicals and not enough antioxidants, your body goes through something called oxidative stress. Nicotine is a stimulant that causes spikes in blood pressure, and the carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke actually stealing oxygen from your bloodstream. All this stress causes the release of cortisol, and your body uses available B vitamins for the production of energy, metabolizing of food, all to counteract the stress. Prolonged stress can lead to serious health risks, such as anxiety, depression, premature aging, and heart disease. Also, stressful situations are one of the major triggers to smoke again, and stress in general makes it more difficult to adhere to a smoking cessation plan. Omega-3 Omega-3 fatty acids are considered important for heart and brain health. It has also been studied for smoking cessation. Smoking has been shown to reduce levels of fatty acids in the brain, leading nerve cells damage and problems in areas of the brain involved with feeling pleasure and satisfaction. Higher levels of Omega-3 help with mental health, cravings, and impulse control. An Omega-3 deficiency makes it harder for the smoker’s body to deal with its craving for another cigarette. Supplementing Your Diet Thankfully, it is possible to counteract some of the negative health effects through proper nutrition, and even reverse some of the damage. Healthy raw foods such as fruits and vegetables have enzymes that can bind with compounds left in the mouth after smoking and produce an unpleasant aftertaste that the brain may learn to associate with tobacco. There are many excellent multivitamins and herbal supplements that can help smokers improve their health, and begin to feel better. Health supplements will also make it easier to quit smoking when you feel ready. They will also be part of a smoking cessation plan, and help improve health after quitting. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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Get Rid Of Your Smoking Habit For Good

ADVERTORIAL Obviously smoking cigarettes is bad. What is not obvious is that most smokers are only moderately addicted to nicotine, and withdrawal lasts a few days to 3 weeks. Many go back to smoking weeks or even months later, when craving for cigarettes has nothing to do with the addiction to the nicotine. The habit of smoking can last a lifetime. Cigarettes become a ritual, where the reward for smoking eventually has anything to do with nicotine. Most people smoke at the same times every day, in response to the same triggers, and the habit becomes deeply ingrained. It is a habit often performed without thought. How A Habit Is Formed A habit has 3 parts, the cue, action, and reward. Most people are familiar with their cues to smoke. The action is smoking a cigarette, but not the reward. The reward is likely something unrelated to smoking, like the relief from boredom, a break from stressful activities, or an excuse to socialize. Once a habit becomes ingrained it can’t be erased, but it can be replaced! Recent research shows how a habit becomes a behavioral dependency. When an action follows a cue and something good happens, the body releases dopamine, the pleasure hormone. After the habit is repeated a number of times, the brain begins to release dopamine in response to the cue. That means just the sight of a cigarette makes it almost impossible to think about anything else. A counselor can help recognize the triggers and reasons for smoking, then offer alternative habits. Most smokers that quit smoking cold turkey probably use some sort of habit replacement without knowing by swapping cigarettes for unhealthy snacks. While the snacks work to keep the hands and mouth busy, it doesn’t satisfy the same cues and rewards. A good new habit, if the reward for smoking is a break from daily activities, might be making a cup of herbal tea. Habits are a powerful force that can be used to greatly improve health and wellness. Becoming aware of the cues to smoke, and replacing it with a new healthy habit, is an effective way to replace smoking for good. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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How To Stop Smoking For Good

ADVERTORIAL If you are a smoker, chances are you have probably tried to quit before, and you know it is can be a challenge. It is not a lack of desire or willpower. You have not found something new to do in place of smoking. Finding a new habit to replace cigarettes will help you to stop smoking and never go back. Your cravings for a cigarettes come from 3 places. First, the craving for nicotine and its stimulative effect, which everyone is familiar with. Second, to desire to avoid nicotine withdrawal. Ceasing nicotine can cause uncomfortable feelings for a few days to a few weeks. And third is a behavioral dependency to the habit of smoking cigarettes. Most people are not aware of how powerful the habit is, and it can last a lifetime! For most people smoking is ritual. It is done at the same times every day, when the same things happen, or events take place. Smokers have a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette, talk on the phone, have a cigarette, walk the dog, smoke a cigarette. These habits are engrained deep in the brain, in the basal ganglia, and can’t be erased… but they can be replaced. The Habit Loop of Smoking This habit of smoking is a cycle called the Habit Loop made up of a cue, action, and reward. The cue can be anything from a stressful event, to a time of day, or place. Next is the action, which is smoking a cigarette, however it is not the reward. The reward whatever you get out of smoking, like relief from boredom, an excuse to socialize, or a break from stressful events. The brain learns that when the you get your cue to smoke, and follow it up with a cigarette, something good will happen. Nicotine replacement therapy is generally unhelpful because it does nothing to address this long term habit of smoking. Most smokers are only moderately addicted to nicotine, and withdrawal lasts a few days to 3 weeks. However, most people who have quit smoking go back to their old habits months later, when their craving to smoke has nothing to do with a physical addiction to the nicotine. Habits are a powerful force. They save brain power by helping us perform repeated actions on autopilot, saving brain power. If you can become aware of your cues to smoke, and replace the habit with something new and healthy. Become aware of your cues, and you can harness the power of habits to create new healthy ones, that will do greatly improve your lifelong wellbeing. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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Secret To Quitting Smoking For Good

ADVERTORIAL It is more like a secret hidden in plain sight. Many people actually quit smoking this way, without knowing this method is a studied and practiced in psychology. It is often referred to as Habit Reversal, or the Substitution Strategy for Quitting Smoking, and if understood and properly used, it can be very effective for long term quit smoking success. The very simple idea behind the Substitution Strategy is that it is easier to replace a habit than it is to break one. Habits have 3 parts, the trigger, the habit or action, and the reward. This is called the habit loop and here is how it works. Your triggers to smoke will always be in your life. They are stress, drinking, boredom, or seeing other smokers. The habit of smoking, not the reward. And the reward is why you repeat the habit, not the action itself. The reward is the break from work, the stress relief, the energy hit, an excuse to get outside, relief from boredom, and so on. Ideally the new habit will provide those same rewards. Understanding your reward is the important. If possible, it is important to avoid your triggers as much as possible. However, there will always be stressful situations, other people smoking, needing an excuse to get away, or other reasons for lighting up. Since these triggers to smoker cannot always be avoided, you simply need to retrain our response from smoking to something else healthier. Start by learning when you normally smoker. If you stop what you are doing at 2:00 pm every day and go outside for a cigarette, next time try doing the same thing with a cup of tea. Make sure to take long slow breaths, sip the tea, and focus on the cup in your hands. The herbal tea can be an ideal alternative response to a trigger you formerly associated with cigarette smoking, that will provide a similar reward. Most people use this secret to quitting smoking without knowing it, but in an unhealthy way like snacking on junk food to keep their hands and mouth busy when quitting. Healthy snacks could work, such as chewing on raisins, tooth picks, or gum. Really any new routine that can provide a similar reward can be your secret to quitting smoking for good. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now

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5 Best Ways To Quit Smoking Naturally

ADVERTORIAL If you have decided to quit smoking naturally, good for you! There are many reasons quitting without prescription medications and more nicotine. Prescription drugs can have unwanted side effects, and nicotine can just prolong the addiction, as well as being a poison. You might already know that nicotine kills is an insecticide, and about 60 cigarettes at the same time could kill you too. Here is a short list of 5 ways (4 plus cold turkey) to quit smoking naturally. Behavioral Modification Therapy To Replace the Habit Nicotine causes a physical addiction in the body, however that addiction only lasts about 3 weeks after your last cigarette. The hardest part of quitting is actually the habit, which can keep you feeling those urges to smoke for the rest of your life! One behavioral modification method is called Habit Reversal, which means to replace the habit of smoking with something new. Learn your triggers, know your rewards, and insert a new healthy habit every time you feel the urge. Herbal Remedies To Gently Ease Symptoms Herbal remedies are a simple, gentle way to quit smoking. Many herbs can help ease some of the issues related to quitting smoking, making it easier, as well as improve your health. One herb that is used in many natural quit smoking aids is lobelia, a.k.a. puke weed, or Indian tobacco, because it stimulates the same brain receptors as nicotine. There are products that help ease tension to temporarily support willpower like Quit Tea and Quit Support, and other products for lung health and herbal detoxification. Simply drinking a few cups of herbal tea everyday will really help. Exercise For A Healthy Distraction Exercise can provide tremendous benefits for quitting smoking. Exercise increases endorphins, improves blood flow, helps detoxification, and just makes you feel better. Activities like running, yoga, and cycling a great workout, and distraction from smoking. If you do not currently exercise, adding exercise will really help you break the old routines you had when you were a smoker. Mindfulness To Become Aware Of When And Why This might sound too new age, but there is a lot of research that shows meditation and mindfulness training can drastically improve your chances of quitting success. The idea is simply to become aware. Most people don’t really think about when they smoke, never mind why. If you can become aware of the whole experience, it will be easier to recognize your triggers to smoke, so you can avoid them, figure out why you smoke, so that you can find new habits to replace your needs, and eventually no longer have the desire to smoke. Cold Turkey If You Want To Ignore The Other 4 Finally, if you want to ignore these other 4 simple and helpful tips for quitting, there is always the good old fashion cold turkey. It is how most people quit, and isn’t a bad method if you do it right, and have the willpower. If you do decide to do it cold turkey, here is a little advice. Pick a date with some significance, tell everyone you know that you are quitting, and remove everything related to smoking from your life before the quit date. Ready To Quit Smoking? Show Now