My Best Health — Page 14 — Personal Health Guide

How Passive Cigarette Smoking Can Effect The Health Of The People You Live With

August 3, 2012 by admin

Most people are aware of the dangers of smoking, yet despite knowing about the dangerous effects of smoking on their personal health, many smokers never quit. They rationalize their habit by saying that they are only hurting themselves when they smoke. In actuality, smoking also influences the health of people who do not smoke. Friends, family, children, co-workers, and even casual bystanders may suffer negative effects from passive smoking.

First, what is passive smoking? You may be familiar the term “secondhand smoke” to describe the smoke inhaled by someone near a smoker. Secondhand smoke is a combination of smoke from a burning pipe, cigarette, or cigar, and exhaled smoke. It often contains higher amounts of dangerous chemicals than inhaled smoke, for example, twice as much nicotine and tar. This puts people exposed to secondhand smoke at an increased risk of smoking related diseases and health problems.

Research into passive smoking effects on health show increased risks of lung disease, heart disease, and various ailments for people continually exposed to secondhand smoke. Statistics on passive smoking show a link between secondhand smoke and cancer, with passive smokers having an a higher risk of lung cancer and heart disease. Sadly, it is not unusual for the nonsmoking child or spouse of a smoker to develop illnesses related to smoking because of constant exposure to secondhand smoke. Passive smoking is especially harmful to infants and children. Young children exposed to secondhand smoke are at a higher risk of respiratory infections and other respiratory illnesses. Children who have asthma are at a higher risk of having frequent asthma attacks. Passive smoking can also be responsible for increasing a pregnant woman’s risk of having a low birth weight baby or a miscarriage.

Due to the negative health effects of secondhand smoke, smoking has been outlawed in many public places, such as restaurants and bars. Passive smoking can also be a problem in the workplace. Workers who breathe in secondhand smoke have an increased risk of illness and even miss more days of work. This has led many offices to ban smoking, and some areas have even passed laws against smoking at work. Among workplaces with a smoking ban, employers report more productive employees and fewer absences from work.

Ultimately, most smokers begin searching for ways to stop smoking out of concern for the health of their family. There are several methods to stop smoking, and one of the most effective ways is through the use of a specially formulated hypnotherapy program. Hypnosis programs for quitting smoking are designed specifically to help smokers stop smoking without suffering from withdrawal. They are particularly successful because they help smokers beat the mental aspect of the addiction, which is the hardest aspect to overcome.

Self-hypnotherapy programs are designed to teach people hypnosis techniques to help stop smoking. One of the best things about such a program is the fact that smokers learn how to stop smoking without having withdrawal. Hypnosis techniques can reduce or even completely eliminate withdrawal symptoms associated with quitting smoking. Another great thing is that since people are taught how to use hypnotherapy on themselves, they don’t have to worry about relapsing. If they ever want to smoke, they just remember and use the techniques that helped them quit.

Hypnosis produces many effects to help people stop smoking. It is an excellent tool for ending tobacco cravings while also functioning as a relaxation aid to reduce stress and tension. It also acts as a motivational tool to completely eliminate the psychological addiction to smoking. This combination of effects gives hypnotherapy its effectiveness in helping people to quit smoking for good.

The benefits of stopping smoking include improved health for the former smoker as well as for friends, co-workers, and family. Those who want to stop smoking for the sake of their loved ones can turn to hypnosis for an effective and non-invasive tool for quitting smoking. Anyone can learn hypnosis techniques for quitting from an instructional program, and hypnosis therapy has a high rate of effectiveness because it makes quitting smoking faster and easier.

Alan B. Densky, CH offers quit smoking hypnosis CDs for breaking the cigarette habit. He is the inventor of the Neuro-VISION Video quit smoking hypnosis technology, which received a US Patent due to its efficiency. Contact him through the Neuro-VISION hypnosis self improvement site.

– Alan B. Densky, CH

Overcome Sleep Disturbances – Get a Good Night’s Sleep

August 3, 2012 by admin

If you feel cranky from lack of sleep, you aren’t alone. At least one in four adults in the U.S. experiences insomnia. This condition is a sleep disorder in which an individual cannot fall asleep after being in bed for 20 minutes. Sometimes, people fall asleep without a problem, but wake up and remain awake for the rest of the night. Some awaken often at night, or do not feel rested even when they have slept for many hours.

Although insomnia is often worrisome and irritating, severe cases may become quite dangerous. Individuals who are awake for 24 hours have the same problems with reflexes and motor control as individuals have drunk more than the legal limit before driving. Indeed, not sleeping for a whole night is as risky as driving while intoxicated!

Sleeplessness is caused by several elements, such as medication, anxiety, and poor sleeping habits. Drugs like antidepressants or theophylline may be causes of sleep disturbances. Consult the doctor who ordered the medication concerning whether a different drug can be ordered instead.

The majority of insomnia is the result of anxiety and stress. Individuals are worried about employment, careers, and friendships. Days are hectic and filled with things to do and people to see. Before the day’s work is done, the majority of individuals lack time to think about the day’s events. Unfortunately, for most people, the first chance they have to start reviewing these events is at night when they get into bed.

You’ve probably heard the old adage that 98 percent of what we worry about never happens. It is true! Furthermore, worrying about having one’s car repaired won’t assist you to make it to work tomorrow to earn a paycheck to help fix that car. Stress never resolves a thing. Unfortunately, as truthful as this is, trying to concentrate on that fact does not prevent you from worrying or improve the quality of your sleep.

People can become good sleepers by learning how to calm your mind and approach sleeping with positive expectations. Increasing numbers of people are avoiding the use of medication and trying a more innovative approach, which works well at treating most cases of stress-based sleeplessness. Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) experts can start offering needed relief after just a few short visits. Therapists can assist sufferers to uncover, treat, and alleviate sleeplessness almost instantaneously.

People are unique, so some techniques work better for certain people than others. Traditional hypnosis is generally the best approach for individuals who are open to suggestions from others. Those who resist other people’s suggestions usually do not benefit very much from insomnia treatment that centers on traditional hypnotherapy.

The majority of individuals who are affected by severe sleep disturbances are critical thinkers. They often tend to be less receptive to suggestion, and find it difficult to accept that a statement is true merely because an individual states that it is so. Most of the time, these individuals learn that both Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy are much more helpful in treating their insomnia.

Ericksonian hypnosis is works well by overcoming the normal resistance to post-hypnotic suggestion through concealing the suggestions within discussions, stories, and similes. It’s difficult to resist what you don’t consciously pick up on.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming does not require a person to be open to suggestion. It is a technology that permits individuals to focus the mind and use those identical thought patterns and processes that were used to cause a problem, to eradicate it. People can use a number of successful NLP methods to help the mind to use the stressful thought patterns and problems as automatic triggers for peaceful and relaxing thoughts. These methods will not only make you to experience a greater level of peace, they will help you to reach a deeper, more restful sleep.

Summary: Individuals suffering from sleeplessness typically have other illnesses. They are at risk for accidents and emotional issues. The majority of individuals don’t realize how severe the effects of sleep disturbances can be. Hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming are treatments that may aid sufferers start to conquer sleeping problems in just a few quick treatments. If the expense of visits to a good hypnotherapist is out of your reach, it’s possible to get excellent hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming tapes work as well as private sessions with a practitioner, sometimes better. Sleep tight tonight!

Alan B. Densky, CH. is certified by the NGH, and he is an NLP Practitioner. He offers hypnotherapy CDs for sleep disturbances. He hosts a FREE hypnosis article repository on his Neuro-VISION Video Hypnosis website.

– Alan B. Densky, CH