Stop Smoking Tip

Be cautious of companies that boast outrageously high success rates and look for a program with sufficient follow-up support.

When a client first stops smoking, laser therapy helps to alleviate the withdrawal symptoms, such as anxiety and irritability. When my clients come back every couple of months throughout the year, the laser treatments help them to reduce stress. This formula boosts long-term success.

It’s also a good idea to be cautious of companies that boast an exceptionally high stop smoking success rate. For example, a BC-based laser therapy franchise advertises a 94% success rate. This success rate is based on a one-week time period.

Rather than choosing a company that promotes a one-week success rate, I would suggest opting for a program that gives you long-term support.

Visit www.revitalizenow.ca for more information.

“I have noticed a definite increase in my energy! I am truly impressed with my results so far and believe my goal is achievable. Before I would never have dreamed of setting my sights so high, as the thought was quite overwhelming. This cleanse is truly a wonderful program!”

Barbara released 19 pounds during her first Isagenix nutritional cleansing program.

For a free phone consultation, please call 604-609-2004 or email info@revitalizenow.ca.

Fred M., Vancouver, released 23 pounds during his first Isagenix nutritional cleansing program.

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Hundreds of thousands of people throughout North America have seen excellent results with the Isagenix nutritional cleansing program. These systems are formulated to help you cleanse of impurities, reduce body fat, shed inches and increase energy. It’s a proven system that really works!

Benefits:

1) reduced body fat and weight loss,

2) diminished appetite and fewer cravings

3) improved energy

4) clearer skin

5) enhanced mental clarity

“We’re both incredibly rejuvenated. We sleep better and we feel happier. The nutritional cleansing program has taught us better eating habits and helped us lose a lot of weight in a short time period. I lost 18 pounds and 15 inches with my first short program. My wife Shelagh shed about 10 pounds and 13 inches. She lost 4 inches from her waist!” — Cory K. and Shelagh S.

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The survey, which was conducted by a local business that specializes in smoking cessation (Revitalize Now!), questioned 50 smokers outside of their place of work in the downtown core. Forty-four smokers out of 50 (88 percent) confirmed that they want to quit smoking.

The majority (80 percent) of the smokers who were surveyed said that health is their primary factor for wanting to quit. Many of the participants expressed a desire to have more energy and breathe easier, as well as wanting to avoid life-threatening diseases.

Thirty two percent of the smokers commented that they want to stop smoking for financial reasons, while 30 percent claimed that the smell of cigarettes makes them want to butt out. Eleven percent said that they want to quit due to the social stigma attached to smoking cigarettes. Finally, nine percent of the participants commented that they want to stop smoking because it consumes a lot of time.

When asked what holds them back from stopping smoking, 21 percent felt that the addiction to nicotine prohibited them from stopping smoking, while another 21 percent claimed that they lacked sufficient will power or discipline to quit. Eighteen percent noted that the ingrained habit of smoking cigarettes makes it difficult to quit.

Stress was also a common response, with 27 percent of the participants claiming that stress keeps them from quitting. Nine percent said they continue to smoke because their friends smoke, which makes it challenging to quit.

“I was really surprised at the high percentage of smokers who said they want to quit,” says Rachel Shoniker, the founder of Revitalize Now!. “This shows us that although the majority of smokers want to quit, stopping smoking can be extremely difficult,” says Shoniker.

Revitalize Now! offers a multi-disciplinary stop smoking program that includes laser therapy, far infrared sauna therapy, coaching and free follow-up support within one year.

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For more information, please contact:

Rachel Shoniker

Revitalize Now!

Ph. 604-609-2004

info@revitalizenow.ca

www.revitalizenow.ca

“Laser therapy is one of the best decisions I ever made. I’ll admit, having failed at quitting smoking so many times before, I was doubtful that laser would work for me. But it did!! Thanks Rachel and Revitalize Now! for all your knowledge and support!”

Visit www.revitalizenow.ca to book a free consultation or for more information.

Successful change requires concentration and repetition. In the beginning, it takes a tremendous amount of conscious awareness and energy for us to create and break habits and change habitual thinking. Our brains are designed to conserve energy for important things like breathing and coordinated motion. Our brains, if given the choice, will choose to revert back to established habits because they require less energy. However, as we continuously practice our new habits over and over, neurons begin to bond with each other. In other words, neurons that fire together, wire together. After a period of time and with repetition, your new habits won’t require energy.

A research psychologist by the name of Dr. Michael Schlund conducted a test to determine what happens in the brain when we learn a new behaviour based on rewards. Schlund put volunteers into an MRI machine and they were asked to press one of two buttons to make decisions. When they pressed the right button, they would win money, which was their reward. The volunteers soon learned which button was the correct one to press in order to win the money. They repeated this process over and over and over.

Schlund discovered that when volunteers achieved the money reward for clicking on the right button, the frontal lobe lit up. The frontal lobe is the part of our brain associated with self-control, decision making and behavioural change. With each repetition, their frontal lobes lit up more and more, which meant their brain activity continued to increase as they learned the new behavior. Here’s the good news – within about 50 repetitions, the reverse started happening. The frontal lobe lit up less and less. The brain started to exert less and less effort and finally minimal effort once the task officially became a new habit and wired into the brain.

To learn more about laser therapy to stop smoking, go to www.revitalizenow.ca or call 604-609-2004.

– Michelle F., non-smoker since September 2006

When a person inhales cigarette smoke, nicotine reaches the brain (via the bloodstream) in about eight seconds. It only takes 15-20 seconds for nicotine to make its way throughout the entire body. Nicotine enters your body in the form of thousands of little droplets, which penetrate into the branches of your lungs. From the lungs, it’s a fast trip to the heart, where nicotine is pumped out to every part of your body.

As you know, nicotine is a stimulant. Nicotine mimics the effects of ACH or acetylecholine, which is one of our body’s neurotransmitters. There are certain receptors that respond to ACH. Our adrenal glands have these receptors on them. Our adrenal glands release certain neurotransmitters when we are confronted with a physical threat or ‘fight or flight’ situation. The result is that our heart rate increases, while less blood flows to our extremities.

These same receptors also respond to nicotine. This is why nicotine has a stimulating effect. When we inhale cigarette smoke, the same ‘fight or flight’ response is triggered. With the first cigarette of the day, our heart rate increases and our blood pressure goes up.

On the flip side, smokers will often say that cigarettes help them cope with stress and calm them. In my opinion, there are two reasons for this. First, when nicotine starts to decrease in your blood and you boost the nicotine level in your system, you will avoid withdrawal symptoms, which might calm you. Second, it has also been shown that larger doses of nicotine have a calming effect. Apparently, there was a time many decades ago when nicotine in extremely high doses was used to sedate elephants. It’s obviously impossible to inhale these extremely high doses, but it has been suggested that taking longer and deeper drags of a cigarette could have the ability to calm a smoker.

You can now see why it is important to incorporate stress reduction activities into your daily routine when you stop smoking. I would suggest that you read some of other blog entries for tips to help you adjust to a smoke-free life. Good luck!!

One of my clients is a 50-year old lady who quit smoking with me almost a year ago. She suffers from depression. She told me that she still listens to the CD every day on her drive to work and when she arrives at her office she feels happy, positive and inspired. What a great way to start the day!

Here is the CD that I recommend: “A Meditation to Help You Stop Smoking” by Belleruth Naparstek. You may find it online at http://www.lifenow.com.