1. Marijuana contains many of the same chemicals found in cigarette smoke and many in larger amounts. Tar, for example, is more concentrated in marijuana smoke than in cigarette smoke.
2. Smoking marijuana causes the heart to race and the mouth to get dry and eyes to be bloodshot.
3. Studies show that the drug can damage your short-term memory, warp your natural sense of time, alter depth perception slow the reflexes and reaction time. (more…)

Nicotine addiction is as powerful as with any drug and this makes it a very difficult to stop smoking cigarettes. When you stop smoking, your body reacts with withdrawal symptoms and inevitably, you give in and start smoking again, if only to get some relief from these symptoms.

When you decide to quit, you have to deal with the nicotine addiction as well as breaking the habit of smoking, so it is a double-edged sword. Health authorities have been stressing the potential health problems associated with smoking for some time, and this has created several new solutions to the problem of trying to stop smoking.

The top of the range of products to help you stop smoking are the prescription medications available from your doctor. Make sure you ask about potential side effects and any on-going problems with taking these medications.

There is a wide range of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products available without prescription. These pills, patches and gum are useful in helping you break the grip nicotine may have on your body. Be aware that you are still putting nicotine into your system, and you advised against using them as a long-term stop smoking strategy.

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- There are more than 1,000 people in US die from smoking related disease.

- However, there are more than 5 times of people quit smoking in US a day.

What are destroying your life from smoking

If you are smoking, it is mean that you are harming your health. Cancer, Gum disease and bad breath, Coughs and shortness of breath, High blood pressure, Mouth and throat cancer, heart attack, strokes and also chronic lung disease are diseases that caused from smoking and that lead to about half of the deaths in the US every year.

What are the benefits of quit smoking

- You will have more money left. From www.canstopsmoking.com, “If there are both you and your mate smoking, it will be cost around 15% of your incomes” or “It was 40 a day. It was £8, £9 a day, £60 a week. I realised it was the right time to do it.”- Jeff, Dumfries

- If you start to quit smoking from to day, you will have added days for your life to spend with your grandsons. From calculation , if you start smoking when you were 20 year old and smoke 20 cigarettes per day for 20 years, it’ means that you have smoked 7,305 days and this has already reduced your life span by 3 years and 21 days.

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Over the years I have noticed how everyone’s beliefs can differ in relation to whether they think that smoking is an addiction or simply a habit. This core belief has a missive impact upon how easy or how difficult you find it to stop smoking. If you think that you are addicted to smoking then you will find it more difficult than if you thought it was just a habit. Your thoughts and beliefs shape your experiences about everything in life, not just stopping smoking.

Not only will believing in the addictiveness of smoking impact upon how easy you find it to stop smoking, it can also create a justification for remaining a smoker. It becomes easy to say to yourself “I’m addicted now so I can’t stop smoking” and then not even try. Also, if you think that smoking is an addiction, it is easier to fool yourself into the belief that continuing to smoke is not your fault – that you cannot help yourself because you are the victim of an addiction. This thought pattern is anything but empowering!

To stop smoking easily you have to get your mind around this subject. It is important to ask yourself why you assume that smoking is an addiction. We know that innumerable chemicals are produced as you smoke even a single cigarette and this may lead one to believe that smoking must therefore be addictive. But we also know of many people who have decided to stop smoking and have done exactly that; they stopped smoking and didn’t get withdrawal symptoms, not a single symptom. We know others who tried to stop and didn’t manage it. We know people who got angry when they stopped or put on a lot of weight.

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Marijuana is a dangerous addiction that affects and threatens the physical, emotional and professional well being of an individual. Its ill effects have made most countries ban its import except for therapeutic use. Yet it is smuggled through mysterious channels and is available to addicts at phenomenal prices. Marijuana addiction is awful, as it becomes an all-consuming passion, leaving room for little else in the addict’s mind. It alters the way his mind functions and makes it incapable of rational, intelligent thinking. Hence treating this addiction is crucial.

Treating the addiction to marijuana does not simply entail getting the addict to stop smoking it. It is a process of education where the addict has to be taught about its ill effects, short term, which he must be experiencing, and long term, which will ruin his life and that of his family as well. The three-step knowledge he needs is about addiction, recovery phase and the relapse. It is also important for the family to understand the reasons that pushed the addict towards marijuana, as often negativism, low self esteem, lack of confidence lead to a low sense of self worth and there is a need for an emotional anchor, which appears in the form of marijuana. It gives them the ability to feel good and be happy for sometime, till it becomes obsessive.

Marijuana addicts need to know how the drug works and how it affects their bodies. New addicts feel confident in being able to shake off their addiction, but it is not so easy. The starting point is always the addicts inclination to leave his addiction and his willingness to accept help. The treatment has to be customized to his needs and requirements, and requires a lot of family support and encouraging signs like reemployment opportunities and other feel-good factors. The process is long drawn and requires medication as well. Residential programs are available in many centers that have perfected techniques of de-addicting patients.

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