Smoking in New Zealand

I've been in New Zealand for the past week on vacation. Smoking is not very popular here. Every cigarette pack had nasty pictures of what smoking can do to your health and every one under the age of 25 is carded. I've seen a few younger individuals smoking but not as many as in the Untied States. Cost may be part of the reason, a pack of cigarette is $11 to $12 NZ (about $7-$8US). A man on a

How Do You "Stick To It" When the Going Get Tough When Quitting Smoking?

Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things that many individuals will do in their lifetime. Why do some people seem to have what it takes to stop smoking and not relapse? Or the opposite side of the same coin, why do some smokers relapse? What is it the makes one quitter successful and the other slip comfortably back to smoking?When your reason(s) for wanting to be a non-smoker are more

Preparation for a Successful New Years Resolution to Quit Smoking

The Great American Smokeout sponsored by the American Cancer Society is next month where smokers are encouraged to quit for just one day, with the idea that the smoker might continue for another day and another day. As a spokesperson for tobacco issues for the local office, I'm often asked by reporters to give smokers one bit of advice to be successful at quitting. I believe that if the smoker

The Key to Staying Quit Forever

In most of my workshops, everyone quits smoking but that figure is misleading because I think that nicotine addiction is over estimated as a problem to quitting but UNDER estimated as a problem when dealing with relapse. Many smokers come to my workshops saying I'm their "Last Resort", they have tried everything and nothing works. I know these individuals will be successful long term because they

Take Positive Steps Toward Quitting Smoking

Quitting is a process where we change our behavior one step at a time. Thsi often starts with a statement such as, "I'm not going to smoke in the house anymore." "I"m not going to smoke in my car." or after we quit, we tell ourselves, "I'm not going to smoke ever again."But our brains are funny sometimes and the unconscious sometimes doesn't hear the word "NOT" because those kind of statments