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Cigarette Smoking: What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmokers
Cigarette Smoking: What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmokers
Cigarette Smoking: What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmokers
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The smokers who feel idiotic for developing a smoking habit in the first place, the thought of quitting may seem even harder to fathom. But take heart: “Cigarette Smoking: What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmoker” discusses tobacco hazards to smokers and nonsmokers and the use of “Breathing Exercises” and other natural ways to stop smoking.

This guide has the tips, strategies and advice you need to give up cigarettes for good. Learn how to set goals, identify and break smoking habits, choose nicotine patches and medications, design a long-term health plan, find support networks and deal with withdrawal symptoms, weight gain, stress and depression-- without lighting up.

Words of warm encouragement are accompanied by multiple proven techniques to conquer the quitters' enemies. The material is presented succinctly, with good use of tables, and is referenced appropriately.

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Release dateFeb 11, 2011
ISBN9781458162656
Cigarette Smoking: What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmokers
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Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon

Note: INFORMATION on BOOKS "HEALTH & SPIRITUAL SERIES" is provided below. Professor, Dr. S. S. Dhillon has an advanced degree in life sciences and molecular biology from the west and a fascination with yoga, breathing, religion and spirituality from the east crafted out of studies at Yale University, U.S.A. and Punjab University, India. Therefore, he is uniquely qualified to present a synthesis of eastern and western approaches towards Health, Weight, Vegetarianism, Meditation, Yoga, Power of Now, Spirituality, Soul, God, science, and religion. He has published over 12 books and 40 research papers, and has expressed his views in the news media and workshops. He has been the President, Chairman of the board, and life-trustee of a non-profit religious organization and has expressed his views in the congregation and at international seminars. Most of his titles are now available at Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble: http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=book&ATH=Dr+Sukhraj+S+Dhillon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sukhraj+dhillon&x=18&y=18

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    Cigarette Smoking - Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon

    Cigarette Smoking:

    What It’s Doing to Smokers and Nonsmokers

    By Dr. Sukhraj S. Dhillon

    Copyright © 2011 by Dr. Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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    Copyright © 2011 by Dr. Sukhraj S. Dhillon

    © Sukhraj S. Dhillon, Ph.D.

    First Published By: PPI Publishing Co.

    Printed in the USA

    This booklet discusses tobacco smoke hazards to smokers and nonsmokers and the use of Breathing Exercises and Other Natural Ways to Stop Smoking Permanently.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Introduction

    1. THE HABIT OF SMOKING

    2. SMOKE-RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS AND BENEFITS OF QUITTING

    3. STOPPING THE HABIT OF SMOKING

    4. SMOKING, OXYGEN DELIVERY, AND BREATHING

    5. BREATHING EXERCISES TO REPLACE SMOKING

    6. ONE-WEEK, BREATHING SCHEDULE AND OTHER TIPS FOR EX-SMOKERS

    Appendix A. Withdrawal Symptoms and How to Handle them

    Appendix B. List of Resources and their Programs for Help in Quitting

    Back to Contents

    Introduction

    The well established dangerous effects of tobacco smoking such as lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema-bronchitis are familiar to many of us. Cigarette smoking has probably caused more bodily harm than all the wars of recorded history combined. The yearly death rate of lung cancer alone is over 80,000 in the United States. The major cause of lung cancer is cigarette smoking. It has been estimated that during the past ten years cigarette smoking was a causative factor in the deaths of a least 2 million Americans and countless numbers of people in other countries where cigarette smoking is commonplace. Statistics taken in 1992 determined that 20% of all deaths in the world occur due to smoking. Smoking is still on the rise in the developing world but falling in developed nations. About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily - or 10 million every minute according to 2002 WHO data. The rate of smoking amongst women and people from Asian countries has risen steadily in recent years. It has not merely reached epidemic proportions, it has become a scourge, a health disaster unparalleled in the history of the world.

    Although smoking has always had its critics, the far ranging and deadly serious consequences of habitual cigarette smoking did not really begin to make their impact on the public's attention until the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was published in the mid 1960s. Unfortunately, in spite of data available on the higher death rate among smokers as compared to nonsmokers (American Cancer Society, 1966), people continue to smoke. Most smokers, however, in all sincerity believe that they would much rather not be smoking. They would prefer to relax, gain confidence and feel energetic in some other way. Smokers Don't want to be told why to quit, but how to quit. This guide is definitely written for them.

    For every person who smokes in the United States there are three others who don't. And a large majority of those who don't smoke are vitally concerned with the problem as well. Cigarette smoke is a significant source of indoor air pollution that can harm nonsmokers, whether in home or in a public place. A smoker lights up during a meal, or on the bus, and spoils our enjoyment of food, travel and even the outdoors. Some of us are obliged to sit in smoke-filled rooms and inhale tobacco smoke, which we hate and is a potential risk to our health; this guide is also for all of us who don't smoke.

    If you are a smoker, this guide teaches you how to conquer the cigarette smoking habit. It reminds you to consider the fact that smoking is related to the breath for its effects and it has to be involved with your respiratory system in some way. This guide considers the effects of smoking on the oxygen delivery (respiratory) system and how to use breathing practices to stop the devastating habit of smoking. The techniques are put together in a unique, powerful program for stopping the cigarette smoking addiction.

    You must realize, however, that there are no miracle cures, and you must put forth a fair amount of commitment and effort. After all, stopping smoking is very much a personal matter, and it rests upon a quiet and private decision you make with yourself. I hope you have made the decision and are ready to use this guide in order to implement it.

    Back to Contents

    Chapter 1

    THE HABIT OF SMOKING

    In 1971, the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, which was established to study heroin addiction, took a long, hard look at cigarette smoking and

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