I have a 15 minute “daily” Stop Smoking program on Blog Talk Radio. Unless I have a conflict, it is M-F at 2:30 pm Eastern, and at noon on Sundays. You can find the show at:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drsallystopsmoking
You can listen live, or download and listen to any of the archived shows anytime.
I have been trying many combinations, but I think that just using my webcam during the show is the best solution.
Here is the first try. I had to edit the 15 minute show to 10 minutes to fit on YouTube, but the main part of the show is here:
A free ebook is available at www.stopsmokingwithdrsally.com.
I know you can do it, and I am there to help!
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Here are the extensive Free Support options for the Stop Smoking Community!
1. Free Ebook with tips, ideas, exercises to help you to quit smoking
2. Free support to help you stop smoking:
Almost daily motivation and support show M-F 2:30pm Eastern, and Sundays 2pm Eastern.
Listen Live or Download and Listen Later on your computer or Ipod.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drsallystopsmoking
3. Ning support group. Go to www.drsallywitt.ning.com and join the main group, and then the Stop Smoking sub group.
4. Skype Support Room. If you are a skype member, send me a note to drsallywitt and I will add you to the room.
5. Ecademy club http://www.ecademy.com/club/Stop+Smoking+with+Dr.+Sally
6. Facebook club Stop Smoking with Dr. Sally
7. Growing Bolder Stop Smoking group
8. Myspace Group http://groups.myspace.com/stopsmokingwithdrsally
9. Blog http://stopsmokingwithdrsally.blogspot.com/
10. My main blog/site http://www.drsallywitt.com
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Every day I look for additional free resources for my clients and radio show listeners who want to Quit Smoking forever. I really want to help everyone in the world that wants to stop smoking forever!
When we have a good solid base of packages sold in English, we will be translating the package into the Spanish language. We have inquiries for the package in other languages as well, and will do them one by one as the sales base increases to support the translations.
This is an older article, but very good. I discussed the first 5 tips today on the radio show at
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and then I will finish with the other 5 tips on tomorrow’s show.
Here are the extensive Free Support options for the Stop Smoking Community!
1. Free Ebook with tips, ideas, exercises to help you to quit smoking
2. Free support to help you stop smoking:
Almost daily motivation and support show M-F 2:30pm Eastern, and Sundays 2pm Eastern.
Listen Live or Download and Listen Later on your computer or Ipod.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drsallystopsmoking
3. Ning support group. Go to www.drsallywitt.ning.com and join the main group, and then the Stop Smoking sub group.
4. Skype Support Room. If you are a skype member, send me a note to drsallywitt and I will add you to the room.
5. Ecademy club Stop Smoking with Dr. Sally
7. Growing Bolder Stop Smoking group
8. Myspace Group http://groups.myspace.com/stopsmokingwithdrsally
9. Blog http://stopsmokingwithdrsally.blogspot.com/
10. My main blog/site http://www.drsallywitt.com
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Ten unusual quit smoking tips
WhyQuit News - Monday, October 03, 2005
Reggie, a 19 year old College of Charleston student shares a message about the challenges of quittingTired of the same old quitting tips? How will you navigate the up to 72 hours needed to reach peak withdrawal and again reside inside a nicotine free body? The below cold turkey quitting tips are vastly different from the advice rendered by those advocating the use of weeks or months of nicotine replacement products.
1. The Law of Addiction - “Administration of a drug to an addict will cause re-establishment of chemical dependence upon the addictive substance at the old level of use or greater.” Yes, just one powerful puff of nicotine and all your hard work is down the drain. Adherence to just one rule guarantees success to all … Never Take Another Puff.
Nicotine rewired your brain, growing millions of nicotinic receptors in eleven different regions. Although your mind’s nicotine induced dopamine/adrenaline intoxication is an alert high, your chemical dependency is every bit as real and permanent as alcoholism. Treating a true addiction as though it were some nasty little habit is a recipe for relapse. There is no such thing as just one puff. Nicotine dependency recovery truly is an all or nothing proposition.
2. Measuring Victory - Forget about quitting “forever.” Like attempting the seemingly impossible task of eating an entire elephant, it’s the biggest psychological bite imaginable. Instead, work hard at adopting a realistic and do-able victory yardstick that celebrates freedom an hour, challenge and day at a time. If you insist on seeing success only in terms of quitting forever then on which day will you celebrate?
3. Emotional Phases - Chemical dependency upon smoking nicotine is one of the most intense, repetitive and dependable relationships you’ve likely ever known. It has infected almost every aspect of your life and thinking. Be prepared to experience a normal sense of emotional loss when quitting that gradually transports you through six very different phases: (1) denial, (2) anger, (3) bargaining, (4) depression, (5) acceptance, and (6) complacency. This emotional journey is normal and a necessary part of recovery.
4. Do Not Skip Meals - Each puff of nicotine was your spoon releasing stored fats and sugars into your bloodstream. It allowed you to skip meals without experiencing wild blood-sugar swing symptoms such as an inability to concentrate or hunger related anxieties. Don’t add needless symptoms to withdrawal but instead learn to spread your normal daily calorie intake out more evenly over the entire day. Don’t eat more food but less food more often.
Drink plenty of acidic fruit juice the first three days. Cranberry is excellent and a bottle will cost you about the same as a pack of cigarettes. It will help to both accelerate the up to 72 hours needed to remove the alkaloid nicotine from your body and help stabilize blood sugars. Take care beyond three days as juices can be rather fattening.
5. Avoid All Crutches - A crutch is any form of quitting reliance that you lean upon so heavily in supporting recovery that if quickly removed would likely result in relapse (a person, product, service or activity). If you feel the need to lean upon a quitting buddy be sure that your buddy is either a sturdy long-time ex-smoker or a never-smoker.
With the exception of using extreme care with alcohol during early withdrawal, you do not need to give up any activity when quitting except for using nicotine. Likewise, successful long-term quitting is not dependent upon you engaging in any new activity either. Contrary to the junkie-thinking you’ve likely fed your mind, everything you did as a smoker you’ll soon adjust to doing as well or better as an ex-smoker.
6. Crave Coping Techniques - You have conditioned your mind to expect the arrival of nicotine when encountering various times, places, activities, people, events or emotions. The first time you encounter each crave trigger you should expect a short yet possibly powerful anxiety episode lasting up to three minutes.
Don’t fear or hide from your triggers but confront and extinguish each of them. You’ll find that most are re-conditioned by a single encounter during which the subconscious mind does not receive the expected result - nicotine. Welcome and embrace every episode as each reflects a beautiful moment of subconscious healing, and the reclaiming of another aspect of your life.
Average number of craves per day
One crave coping technique is to practice slow deep breathing while clearing your mind of all needless chatter by focusing on your favorite person, place or thing. Another is to say your ABCs while associating each letter with your favorite food, person or place. For example, “A” is for grandma’s hot apple pie, and “B” is for …” It’s doubtful you’ll ever reach the challenging letter “Q.”
7. Cessation Time Distortion - A recent study found that nicotine cessation causes significant time distortion. Although no subconsciously triggered crave episode will last longer than three minutes, to a quitter the minutes can feel like hours. Keep a clock handy to maintain honest perspective.
8. Caffeine/Nicotine Interaction - Amazingly, nicotine somehow doubles the rate by which the body depletes caffeine. Yes, your blood-serum caffeine level will double if no caffeine intake reduction is made when quitting. Although not a problem for most light to moderate caffeine users, consider cutting caffeine intake by roughly half if troubled by anxieties or experiencing difficulty relaxing or sleeping.
9. The Smoking Dream - Be prepared for an extremely vivid smoking dream as tobacco odors released by horizontal healing lungs are swept up bronchial tubes by rapidly healing cilia and come in contact with a vastly enhanced sense of smell. See it as the wonderful sign of healing it reflects and nothing more.
10. Relapse - Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption until smoking cripples and then kills you, or you decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever. As long as neither of these options appeals to you the solution is as simple as … no nicotine just one day at a time, Never Take Another Puff!
The above tips are a sampling of the educational offerings available at WhyQuit.com, the Internet’s oldest forum devoted to the art, science and psychology of cold turkey quitting. A free quitting resource staffed by volunteer professional cessation educators, WhyQuit carries the not-for-profit concept to the extreme of actually declining donation offers.
Visitors to the site can download a free 149 page PDF quitting book by Joel Spitzer. Spitzer has devoted over thirty years to helping Chicago area nicotine smokers break free and currently presents clinics and seminars for the Evanston and Skokie Departments of Health. Entitled Never Take Another Puff, it’s an insightful collection of over 90 short articles on almost every quitting topic imaginable.
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Contact info:
John R. Polito, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (843) 849-9721
Editor WhyQuit.com
College of Charleston cessation programs presenter
Last updated April 19, 2006 20:47 EST
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We are committing to a regular schedule through Thanksgiving as much as possible for the Stop Smoking Tips and Motivation show!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drsallystopsmoking
Weekdays at 2:30 pm Eastern time, and Sundays at noon Eastern time.
If I have a conflict of schedule, I will try to remember to cancel that day’s show!
There will always be plenty of wonderful archives for you to use!
Listen live, call in with questions, or download and listen on your ipod!
This program beautifully supplements our online Stop Smoking package…
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You will be able to get our free ebook on the site.
The package is only $97 during the introductory period. It is slated to be offered at $297, so make sure and order it soon!!
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Stop Smoking for your family, your kids
Today we will be talking about how smoking affects you, your family, your kids. What are your children seeing when they watch you smoke? What are they learning? There is a great page on the website kidshealth.org that will help us hit the major points on this topic.
We have a great 15 minute program of encouragement, motivation, and tips to help you stop smoking. We try to do it every day that we can, and vary the times to allow more people the chance to hear us live.
Go to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drsallystopsmoking and mark the show as a favorite so that you can get notices of the upcoming shows each week. Download and keep past shows on your computer, ipod, or mp3player.
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If your wife, husband, mother, father, daughter, son, friend, or other relation that you love dearly still smokes, it may be time for you to help.
Yes, to come to a private session for Hypnosis, and other therapies, the client needs to be completely ready. It may be possible, however, if you buy this system for your loved one, they may be able to do a little bit at a time, and get themselves ready to actually Quit Smoking on their own!
Every day, people inch closer and closer to achieving their dreams and goals. They take one step forward and then take two steps back. They feel like they failed at the attempt, and may not even want to tell you that they tried.
The key is to change the programming that is going on in their subconscious mind. The tools that we offer in the Stop Smoking program are all very positive suggestions that help the user feel good about themselves, and it helps them to believe that it is possible for them to change and to really be free of smoking forever!
It is completely possible to Quit Smoking without side effects, or taking another negative habit in it’s place.
The unique combination of Hypnosis, NLP, EFT, Energy Clearing, Energy Healing, and Intuitive Counseling has proven time and again to bring about quick and permanent change. Hundreds of people have stopped smoking, even with their first session. The techniques that are taught in this program can be used to get through times of extra stress and temptation without any additional assistance.
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