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The sudden and unexpected decline in our economy has caused many in money trouble to smoke more tobacco and more often The stress and anxiety resulting from the current financial mess might be welcoming news for the tobacco industry, but it is definitely bad news for the millions of unemployed and financially strapped Americans trying to kick the tobacco habit.
 

 Money Trouble - People Smoke Cigarettes To Relieve Stress and Anxiety

 
A September 2009 study conducted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center has shown that financial troubles, such as losing a job or going through a foreclosure produces stressors that not only cause people to start smoking, but also makes it more difficult for smokers to stop.
 
The study also indicates that financially stressed smokers with money troubles are at least 20 percent less likely to succeed in actually quitting the smoking habit. Ironically, the study also shows that once a smoker's financial situation improves, so does the smokers ability to quit.

Treatment Options – Why You Need To Fight The Addiction

The US Center for Disease Control reported that adult male smokers lost an average of approximately 14 years of their life as a result of smoking cigarettes. Female smokers reportedly lost nearly 15 years of their life. Furthermore, women who stop smoking before pregnancy reduce their risk of having a child with a dangerously low birth-weight.
 
In the United States alone, smoking-related illnesses cause about a half-million deaths a year.
 

Physical Withdrawal – Smoking Addiction

Nicotine has a structural as well as functional affect in the brain of a smoker. When nicotine is suddenly withdrawn, physiological functions in the brain and other parts of the body begin to wreck havoc on your system. 
 
Your body recognizes the loss of available nicotine in the bloodstream. The body is signaled to release a series of biochemical instructions that makes the body go into physical withdrawal induced by unhealthy variances in internal blood sugar levels.
 
In the meantime the experience of withdrawal will manifest itself in sensations of anxiety, fatigue, throbbing headaches, nausea, and insomnia. And yet with all of this misery, you will still experience a craving to smoke. There is much insanity in this.
 

Treatment Options – Help In Quitting

The overriding goal of course is to bring about the decline and reduction in the amount one smokers leading to the complete and absolute cessation of smoking entirely.  There are many treatment options to consider.
 

Nicotine Replacement Therapy

A greater number of physicians and addition centers are prescribing nicotine replacement therapy to patients to reduce the cravings associated with normal to heavy tobacco use. Currently there are five different versions of nicotine replacement therapies: nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges, nicotine nasal spray and nicotine inhalers. Each of these has their own set of benefits and risks.
 

Acupuncture – Oriental Medicine – Kicking The Nicotine Habit

Acupuncture is an ancient form of oriental medicine that uses pressure points to trigger certain physiological reactions in the body. The use of these trigger points has been shown to reduce nicotine cravings and shorten the time it takes to withdraw from its uncomfortable symptoms.

Hypnotherapy – The Power Of Suggestion

Hypnosis can be an effective tool for altering lifelong behavioral patterns.  Hypnosis provides ways of helping you resolve your unconscious motivations surrounding the use of tobacco. Hypnosis targets the deep levels of your being, the unconscious mind, where you hold your deepest memories, beliefs, and motivations.
 
Hypnotherapy has been stigmatized with controversy over the years. Notwithstanding, it is important to keep in mind that the key to success in stopping smoking will come from the right combination of these and other approaches working together.
 

The American Heart Association

The overriding is to bring about the decline and reduction in the amount one smokes leading to the complete cessation of smoking entirely.  Many have found help through contacting the American Heart Association. Their toll free number is 1-800-548-8721.
 
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