22 octobre 2009
Tips to Get rid of all nicotine
Attitude - A positive can-do attitude is important to both the conscious thinking mind and the primitive lizard brain, which is in control of the body’s fight or flight panic responses. Take pride in each hour of healing and each challenge overcome. Celebrate the full and complete victory each day of freedom and healing reflects. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely do-able. Yes you can!
Patience - Years of satisfying low blood-serum nicotine levels conditioned us to be extremely impatient, at least when it came to our addiction. A deprived nicotine addict could inhale a puff of nicotine and have it arrive in the brain and release dopamine within 8 to 10 seconds, and oral nicotine users could feel it within minutes. Realize the importance of patience to successful recovery. Baby steps, just one hour, challenge and day at a time, and then celebrate. Keeping or Carrying Cigarettes, Dip or
Chew - Get rid of all nicotine delivery vehicles, including replacement nicotine products. Keeping a stash of nicotine makes as much sense as someone on suicide watch keeping a loaded gun handy just to prove they can. Why toy with failure or play mind-games with your ongoing healing and freedom? Build in some delay for those less than three minute crave episodes. Fully commit to going the distance and seeing what it is like to awaken to new expectations of a nicotine-free life.
05 août 2009
Nicotine supply
The need to replenish one’s nicotine supply gets recorded in what may be the highest
definition memory the mind can produce. Our mind is essentially told, “Hey, pay attention
to this!”8 Continued nicotine use causes these extremely salient memories to quickly pile
up. They soon begin burying all remaining memory of life without it. We quickly “forget”
that it was ever possible to function without it.
Our rewarded and punished mind was left totally yet falsely convinced that nicotine use
was essential for survival, that it defines who we are, gives us our edge, helps us to cope,
and that life without it would be horrible or even meaningless.
Rewarded by dopamine
and punished by an endless need for more nicotine, we quickly grew to believe that we
cannot function comfortably without it.
Why can’t you starve yourself to death? Have you ever thought about it? Not only are we
rewarded with dopamine “aaah” sensations when we anticipate eating or actually do so, we
are punished with anxieties and hunger pains when we wait too long between feedings.
Yes, what goes up must come down.
As our body slowly metabolized and rid itself of the
nicotine we introduced via our method of delivery, we gradually experienced increasing
mood deterioration and escalating distress, punctuated by insula driven anxiety, depression
and anger. We each endured greater extremes in daily mood swings than non-users, and
the greater our dependency the more unstable our moods
26 janvier 2009
Safe cigarettes
What makes the cartridges especially dangerous is the possibility that nicotine could enter the body as a liquid, rather than strictly as a gas, if you're clumsy. In that case, it would only take between four or eight milligrams to do serious damage
"None of the medical doctors have ever said that this is a healthy alternative," said Earles. "They are taking out all of the carcinogenic compounds, but there is research being done proving that nicotine might actually have different transformable compounds. That once they are in your body, they can transform and become carcinogenic."
The studies linking tobacco to diseases usually consider the cheap cigarettes online as a whole, instead of just the nicotine. So, not much is known about nicotine's effects or metabolites.
To try to cope with the risk of overdosing, manufacturers have installed safety devices that cut off the e-cig's operation if too many puffs are taken in a short time frame, or if they last over eight seconds.
E-cig users must realize that nicotine is a potentially lethal substance, and should be treated respectfully. Still, it's better than getting nicotine and all that other nastiness.
"From what I can understand talking to smokers [is that] even though nicotine is what they're addicted to in the smoke, I don't think they're going to feel that sense of relaxation or euphoria that they get from the cigarette," said Earles.
The chemical addiction to nicotine that smoker's feel should be satisfied, but whether the smoke and mirrors are adequate to replicate the routine of lighting up is up to them to find out.
22 janvier 2009
E-cigarettes given wary eye by officials
Fontana resident Gregory Puetz sells electronic discount cigarettes, a stainless steel contraption with liquid nicotine that is powered by a rechargeable battery.
It looks like a cigarette and when users puff on it, an LED lights up as if the cigarette is burning.
But when the user exhales, what looks like smoke is actually water vapor.
Puetz is not the only person selling these faux cigs.
There has been a significant increase of electronic cheap cigarettessales following the introduction of smoking bans similar to those being weighed in Rancho Cucamonga, according to the World Health Organization.
The City Council is mulling tighter restrictions that would ban smoking in outdoor areas such as Victoria Gardens and restaurant patios.
This is where Puetz said he believes his product fits in. Smokers can continue their nicotine habit without exposing others to second-hand smoke because the "e-cigarette" has no tobacco or carcinogens.
Puetz, 45, an engineer, has been selling this new nicotine tool part-time since May.
Four years ago, his mother, a former smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer. She was treated and has since quit the habit.
"My mom and dad had been smoking since I was born and before," Puetz said. "Had this been around for my mom, she
wouldn't have gotten cancer."
Although electronic cigarette marketers claim it is much safer than tobacco, some experts are wary of the device that was first developed in China in 2004 and hasn't gone through the rigors of clinical trials.
The electronic cigarette is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration and WHO.
he electronic cigarette may have potential to be a safe smoking cessation aid but not enough is known at this time, according to WHO statement.
"WHO is concerned with lack of understanding surrounding the organic compounds or vaporization products in the electronic cigarette, in addition to the absence of any published studies demonstrating efficacy and safety of any electronic cigarettes," according to the statement.
"The WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation strongly recommended that these class of products not be exempted from clean air laws that restrict cigarette smoke exposure until adequate evidence is provided to assure the regulatory authority that use of the product will not expose people to toxic emissions."
Puetz stresses that his cigarette alternative is not a smoking cessation aid, although the nicotine levels - high, medium, low or no nicotine - can be adjusted.
But he said some of his customers use the "e-cigarette" to help them quit.
The brand that Puetz sells, In Life, costs $130 for a starter kit and includes the device, battery and eight nicotine cartridges.
Refills of eight cartridges cost $24.95. A cartridge is comparable to a pack of cigarettes.