Smoking Facts - Part 4

Hi,

My name is Mark Tiger, creator of this blog, and of the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.  Find out more about the program:

marktiger01@gmail.com

I was totally addicted to tobacco products, mainly cigarettes; and spent 20 years desperately trying to stop smoking without succeeding.

Finally in 1999, I used a method that I had created for myself; and I managed to become a non-smoker.  I have never smoked again since.

In 2005, I decided to share the methods that I had used to successfully become a Non-Smoker, with Smokers who wanted to become Non-Smokers.

After helping over three hundred Smokers to become Non-Smokers, my success rate was a little over 99%.  From this experience I have improved the program, to assist those who are already non-smokers; to remain non-smokers for the rest of their lives.

Smoking Facts – Part 4

How Do I quit?

8 out of 10 people find it most effective to stop smoking abruptly.  The truth is that you need to stop Cold-Turkey, there is no other way.  The reason that there is no other way is because of the addictive powers of Nicotine.  One smoke or dose of Nicotine leads to another smoke, until before you know it, you are back to smoking the amount of cigarettes per day, that you had smoked before.  Cutting down on cigarettes does not help, I have tried it many times before I finally got it right to become a non-smoker.  All cutting down on cigarettes does, is to make you think about smoking more during the day.  Some people believe if they just have one cigarette per day, that they have broken the habit. 

The most powerful reason why you can’t become a Non-Smoker, is not because of the habit, but because of Nicotine addiction.  Please don’t under-estimate the power of Nicotine addiction.  Some of my clients had experimented with Heroin, and told me; that it was much easier to walk away from Heroin addiction, then it was from Nicotine addiction.  I have heard people saying that Nicotine addiction is more powerful than Heroin addiction.

If you decide to have one cigarette per day, you are still addicted to Nicotine.  If you stop smoking, and you use Nicotine loaded chewing gums or patches, or electronic cigarettes, you are still addicted to Nicotine.  However I should just clarify here, that if you feel the damage from smoking spreading in your lungs; then you should use Nicotine replacement products.  But only until you have managed to become a Non-Smoker.  By Non-Smoker, I also mean, freedom from Nicotine addiction.  I say freedom, because any type of addiction puts you into slavery.

You need to decide that you will never have another cigarette in your life.  Addiction is not logical, and Nicotine addiction will have you doing all sorts of things, that seem to defy explanation.  I am always amazed at the lengths that people will go to, in order to have a smoke.  You can never have another cigarette in your life again, not even a drag.  Once you stop it is gone forever, otherwise you will invite Nicotine addiction back into your life.

At those times, when you would have smoked, you should actively plan alternative activities.  Don’t go and stand with the smokers.  If need be you may need to change your circle of friends.  You need to ruthlessly change your routines, in order to enable yourself to remain a non-smoker.

Stay motivated - the first few days are the toughest.  Actually the first three days are the toughest, and after that the first 27 days.  After that the addiction exists solely in your mind, the physical addiction has left your body.  

Avoid other smokers and smoke-filled environments.

Join a support group, like “Smokers to Non-smokers Association”.  This association is open to all those who are striving to become Non-Smokers, and Non-Smokers.  If you really feel low, you can use some of the techniques that we will demonstrate to you during the program, or join an ongoing “Smokers to Non-Smokers Coaching” program. 

Never use medical quitting-aids such as nicotine patches, sprays, chewing gums or green or smoke free cigarettes, after you have become a non-smoker.  The problem with all these method’s, is that they still give you Nicotine.  The only way to remain a Non-Smoker, for the rest of your life, is to stop taking Nicotine into your body.  You can use Nicotine replacement products, as part of the preparation to become a Non-Smoker.

Mark Tiger.

Become a Non-Smoker with the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

marktiger01@gmail.com

Smoking Facts - Part 3

Hi,

My name is Mark Tiger, creator of this blog, and of the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.  Find out more about the program:

marktiger01@gmail.com

I was totally addicted to tobacco products, mainly cigarettes; and spent 20 years desperately trying to stop smoking without succeeding.

Finally in 1999, I used a method that I had created for myself; and I managed to become a non-smoker.  I never smoked again.

In 2005, I decided to share the methods that I had used to successfully become a Non-Smoker, with Smokers who wanted to become Non-Smokers.

After helping over three hundred Smokers to become Non-Smokers, my success rate was a little over 99%.  From this experience I have improved the program, to assist those who are already non-smokers; to remain non-smokers for the rest of their lives.

Smoking Facts – Part 3

Whatabout pipe and cigar smoking?

These smokers tend to inhale less smoke than cigarette smokers; therefore their risk of heart disease is less.  Also the risk of strokes and many other ailments is also reduced to a certain extent.  Unless you start inhaling the smoke from a pipe or cigar, then you are back with the same risks as cigarettes.

On the other hand, they have an increased risk of developing mouth and tongue cancer.  If you have ever smoked a pipe, then you will know how difficult it is to get the tobacco mixture just right.  I smoked a pipe for a while, and had a lot of trouble getting my tobacco mixture just right.  I kept going to a tobacconist, and he kept changing my tobacco mixture, until finally it seemed to burn the tip of my tongue and my throat a little bit less.

Smoking a pipe or cigar these days, is also more difficult, then smoking cigarettes.  For example you get a smoke break, and need to clean your pipe out, pack it with tobacco, get it going nicely, and after a few minutes, you have to shut it all down, and store it in a bulky bag, until the next smoke break.  Cigars have the same problem, you really need about half an hour to enjoy a cigar.  Otherwise you get your cigar going nicely, and after a while you need to kill the fire and save it in a suitable container until the next smoke break.

Marijuana - good or bad for the heart?

The risk of a heart attack increases five times within an hour of smoking marijuana because of an increased heart rate and the changes in blood pressure that occur.  Now let’s say that you are a smoker, and therefore have a three times higher risk of a heart attack or stroke.  Now you add another five times that risk.  From a health perspective do you really want to do that to yourself?

  

There is no safe level of smoking.  The most important step for smokers is to become Non-Smokers.  There is always some benefit to becoming a non-smoker regardless of how many years you have smoked, regardless of the damage that you have done to your body.  I have helped people to become non-smokers, who had smoked for around fifty years.  I have helped smokers to become Non-Smokers, who had smoked for less than a year.  Why don’t you start the journey to becoming a Non-Smoker today?

Mark Tiger.

Become a Non-Smoker with the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

marktiger01@gmail.com

Smoking Facts - Part 2

Hi,

My name is Mark Tiger, creator of this blog, and of the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.  Find out more about the program:

marktiger01@gmail.com

I was totally addicted to tobacco products, mainly cigarettes; and spent 20 years desperately trying to stop smoking without succeeding.

Finally in 1999, I used a method that I had created for myself; and I managed to become a non-smoker.  I never smoked again.

In 2005, I decided to share the methods that I had used to successfully become a Non-Smoker, with Smokers who wanted to become Non-Smokers.

After helping over three hundred Smokers to become Non-Smokers, my success rate was a little over 99%.  From this experience I have improved the program, to assist those who are already non-smokers; to remain non-smokers for the rest of their lives.

Smoking Facts – Part 2

Smoking in South Africa

·         There are around 7 million smokers in South Africa.

·         80% of smokers have tried to give up a least once.

·         90% of smokers began smoking before the age of 18.

·         20% of smokers began before the age of 10.

·         Giving up old habits is not easy, smokers often lack the sense of urgency.  But what about the innocent, What about little babies?  If a baby’s mother smokes, if a baby’s mother smokes at home, if a baby’s mother smokes in the car.  By the time the baby turns 5 he/she will have inhaled the equivalent of 102 packets of cigarettes thanks to his mother's contribution alone.  This passive smoking means the baby will be 3 times more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke.  How do you feel about that?

·         Addiction to smoking is not the habit so much as the Nicotine addiction.  The habit can be broken in 21 days.  Addiction does not follow logical laws.  You may have noticed people who are addicted to substances, including Nicotine, do strange things; that go against what you would have normally expected them to do.  Addiction is unpredictable, and needs to be addressed on the mind level.  It is the mental addiction that needs to be addressed properly.  The Physical Nicotine addiction is actually so mild, that it is almost unnoticeable and not always possible to “feel the addiction”. 

·         Smoking is generally associated with lung cancer but smoking is the single greatest cause of heart disease.  By 2020, smoking will cause more deaths than HIV, TB, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicide and homicide combined. (World Health Organization)

·         Smoking narrows your blood vessels and enlarges naturally occurring blood clots.  By smoking you are basically causing a traffic jam to your heart.  (Ever feel a pain in your chest?)

·         Smoking almost triples the risk of heart disease.  It narrows blood vessels and expands blood clots, causing the cardiovascular equivalent of a traffic jam on the highway to your heart and brain. Reduce blood flow to the heart and you risk a heart attack.  Reduce it to the brain and you risk a stroke.

·         "Low" nicotine cigarettes may cause smokers to inhale more deeply or to smoke more cigarettes to get the nicotine their bodies crave.  You see it is the Nicotine, not the cigarettes that you are addicted to.

·         If you are concerned with the damage that the smoke is doing to your lungs, then you may consider using Nicotine replacement products, until you can achieve the status of a “Non-Smoker”.  I refer to electronic cigarettes, nicotine loaded chewing gums etc, when I refer to Nicotine replacement products.

Mark Tiger

Become a Non-Smoker with the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

marktiger01@gmail.com

Smoking Facts - Part 1

Hi,

My name is Mark Tiger, creator of this blog, and of the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

Find out more about the program:

marktiger01@gmail.com

I was totally addicted to tobacco products, mainly cigarettes; and spent 20 years desperately trying to stop smoking without succeeding.

Finally in 1999, I used a method that I had created for myself; and I managed to become a non-smoker.  I never smoked again.

In 2005, I decided to share the methods that I had used to successfully become a Non-Smoker, with Smokers who wanted to become Non-Smokers.

After helping over three hundred Smokers to become Non-Smokers, my success rate was a little over 99%.  From this experience I have improved the program, to assist those who are already non-smokers; to remain non-smokers for the rest of their lives.

Smoking Facts – Part 1

Have you ever wondered why somebody who daily, smokes a certain number of cigarettes will get to that number consistently, day after day.  There is a mechanism that helps smokers to achieve this, and we refer to it commonly as the Sub-Conscious Mind.  The Sub-Conscious mind is the goal achiever, and will help you to achieve your goals, whatever they are.  To be technically more correct, it is the super-conscious mind that achieves whatever program is in your sub-conscious mind.  The super conscious will 100% guaranteed, achieve whatever program is in your sub-conscious mind.  So as a smoker, you have a program in your Sub-Conscious mind that keeps you going as a Smoker.    

Without changing this program it is almost impossible to become a non-smoker.  Once this program is changed, you become a non-smoker almost on auto-pilot with minimal side effects.  It is this mind mechanism that drives you to smoke a pack of 20 cigarettes a day or 30 cigarettes a day or 40 or more cigarettes a day.  Some people eventually get up to 120 cigarettes per day. 

The program that we are going to give you, will harness the power of this mind mechanism i.e. the sub-conscious and the super-conscious mind; in order to facilitate becoming a non-smoker.  In this program, we present tried and tested techniques to change the program in your Sub-Conscious mind. 

The super-conscious mind picks up the new program and achieves the goal.  The Goal is automatically achieved, with minimal effort from the conscious mind and minimal side effects.  You will be a non-smoker for the rest of your life, if you follow the program with determination.  You will finally have your Freedom from Nicotine. 

Did you know that after three days of being a non-smoker, the Nicotine levels in your bloodstream sink so low, that you have essentially broken the addiction, from a physical perspective.  Actually after about 27 days, the Nicotine is very difficult to trace in your blood, and you have essentially finished with your physical withdrawal symptoms.  Every craving or thought about smoking after that is from the mind and not the body.  Nicotine addiction is mainly in the mind.  You see the mind remembers how it felt when the physical Nicotine addiction was satisfied.  Many people are drawn to start smoking again, after months or years of being a Non-Smoker; long after the physical withdrawal symptoms have worked their way out of the body. 

This program addresses the mind addiction, which I believe to be in excess of 90% of the problem associated with becoming a Non-Smoker.  This is probably why the success rate of this program is very close to 100%.

Mark Tiger

Become a Non-Smoker with the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

marktiger01@gmail.com

Introducing myself

Hi,

My name is Mark Tiger, creator of this blog, and of the "Smokers to Non-Smokers" program.

Find out more about the program:
marktiger01@gmail.com

I started smoking at the age of twelve, by the time I was twenty years old, I was completely addicted to nicotine products.  For the next twenty years I repeatedly tried to become a non-smoker.  I tried absolutely everything that I could find, but it was no use, nothing worked.  For twenty years I was smoking anywhere from 20 cigarettes a day, to 60 cigarettes a day, and desperately trying to stop smoking.

Finally in 1999, twenty eight years after smoking my first cigarette, and after twenty years of total addiction to tobacco products.  I finally managed to become a non-smoker.  It was the greatest day of my life, the biggest turning point in my life.  By the time I stopped smoking I had permanent bronchitus, it took me around three years to recover from the bronchitus.

About six years after becoming a non-smoker, I decided to share the methods that I had used to help other smokers to become non-smokers.

Since then, I have helped over three hundred people in one on one sessions to become non-smokers.  At the end of the program that I put them through, there were only three people that said that they were still smokers.  So my success rate was just a little over 99%.  I feel confident that if those three people, were to attend my re-structured and improved program, they would also become non-smokers.

However after a few years, I became aware that some of the people who had been through my program, and had become non-smokers.  Had after a period of months or years, become smokers again.  I set about restructuring the program, to make it even more powerful, then it already was; and also added a support structure for people who had already become non-smokers.  The new program is designed to turn you into a non-smoker, and keep your non-smoker status for the rest of your life.

What some of my former clients said about the program:

• By the time I got to the end of the Session, nearly four hours after sitting down; I was exhausted, but I was finally a non-smoker.

• It hit me when I got to my friends party.  All my friends were offering me a cigarette, and I told them all, that I was a non-smoker.  You should have seen the expression of shock on their faces.

• When I sat down in your chair, I doubted that you could help me, after more than 40 years of smoking.  Over the years, I had tried everything to become a non-smoker, nothing had worked.  When I got out of your chair a few hours later, it was with a sense of joy.  I was a non-smoker.

• When you started explaining the Layman’s Mind Map, I thought that this was going to be complicated.  But when you got to the affirmations, trigger points and a sip of water, it all started to make sense.  I knew I could do it, and I did.

• To be honest, I had no faith in your program.  I just attended your program, because my wife wanted me to, and she paid for it.  I even nodded off a few times, during the session.  An amazing thing happened:  When I got home I was a non-smoker.  I started referring all the smokers I knew to your program. 

Mark Tiger,  May 2012

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