Smoking Cessation
Smoking Cessation Benefits
By Tom Dainty
If you are a smoker, apart from being chastised at every opportunity by the anti-smoking police, you will no doubt be aware that smoking is bad for your health. The answers lie in the smoking cessation benefits that come from quitting the evil weed. Smoking os so bad for your health it beggars belief.
Rather than thinking in terms of smoking cessation benefits, I want to look at the downsides of smoking in terms of your health
Smoking Cessation Benefit #1: Reduced risk of cancer
When you smoke, you are literally ingesting cancer-causing (carcinogenic) substances all the time you inhale. Overtime, these carcinogens cause cell damage and help to mutate the DNA in your cells. Eventually your body becomes overwhelmed and somewhere, there is a good chance of you developing cancer.
Smokers also have higher risks of virtually all forms of cancer, but these risks start subsiding the minute you stop smoking.
Smoking Cessation Benefit #2: Reduced risk of COPD
Another major disease caused by smoking is collectively known as COPD which stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. For you and me that means long term damage to lung function disease.
In simple terms, emphysema suffocates you to death because your lungs stop being lungs and instead become stagnant bags of air in your chest! Most smokers suffer from very mild bronchitis caused by the irritation of inhaling hot toxic smoke into the lungs every hour or so. This manifests in wheezing and the smoker’s cough where the smoker expels the excess mucus produced in response to this irritation.
Smoking Cessation Benefit #3: Reduced risk of heart disease
Smoking causes many physiological changes in the body both on a short term and long term basis. This in turn makes it harder for your heart to pump blood around your body.
Smoking Cessation Benefit #4: Reduced risk of stroke
Smokers run a much higher chance of having a stroke, particularly in later life. Smokers with high blood pressure run a twenty fold higher risk of stroke compared to non-high blood pressure non-smokers.
Laser Smoking Cessation
You may have heard of the laser smoking cessation technique in conversation or read it in a magazine but what is it and can it help you? The thought that there might be a solution for us [smokers] captures every smoker’s imagination.
Unfortunately, the laser smoking cessation process you may have heard about is not the salvation that you hope it might be. Before even bothering to wonder why laser light instead of metal needles or normal light would be a more effective variation of acupuncture, we should also ask whether or not acupuncture itself is a well-founded process for treating smoking (or anything else for that matter).
The answer is a conclusive ‘no’! Research from the Cochrane Collaboration shows that acupuncture has no better success at helping people quit smoking than quitting cold turkey. Acupuncture has been found useful only in relieving pain but not in any other field of medicine, addiction treatment or therapy.
The bad news is that this sort of treatment [laser smoking cessation] falls into the sphere of what I call ‘meta-medicine’. Whilst there are practitioners out there who will try to sell you laser smoking cessation therapy or so-called bioresonance treatments, their methods are no more proven than standing in a bucket of frogs is for helping you stop smoking.
My advice to you is to stay well clear of unscientific processes to deal with nicotine addiction and tobacco dependence. You are much better off avoiding unspecified herbal concoctions and faith healing methods and sticking closer to the mainstream and always demanding a 100% money back guarantee.
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