At the beginning I had that urge I mentioned above very often, quite a couple of times a day. During the first few days I even got the impression, I wanted to smoke all the time. After a few weeks the frequency of that urge began to reduce more and more. By now I feel that urge only once in a few weeks.

I strongly believe that the smoking cessation relapse rate goes very close together with the frequency of the urge occurring. During the first few days you practically feel that urge all the time. Of course this makes the relapse risk increase for every smoker during that time. Almost 80% of all smokers who want to stop smoking relapse during the first 7 days of smoking abstinence.

This may first seem to be shocking but believe me, most of the do not even know, that the relapse rate decreases dramatically afterwards. This means that if you can stay abstinent for the first two weeks your chances of becoming smoke free for good are much higher. From those who resist the first two weeks only 35% relapse during the first six months, and from those who resist the first six months only 5% relapse during the following years. As you see the longer you manage to stay abstinent the higher your chances of success.

This is what I had to know when I felt that urge some days ago and if you put that into relation with the frequency of the urge to smoke that a smoker who tries to stop it feels, you will very soon see that both, frequency of the urge and relapse rate over time are proportional to each other. The key is to resist as long as you can at the beginning.

Now what happens after a longer period of smoking abstinence? I can tell you: It becomes easier and easier day by day. The urge that you now have to fight 10 times a day will only return once in a few weeks, and if you are able to resist it in a high frequency at the beginning you will easily be able to resist that urge once in a couple of weeks. After some months you will easily be able not even to think about smoking anymore for days and weeks. How does that sound to you?

I know exactly how hard it is to stop smoking at the beginning. And this is why I made the Smoker Smack Report available to all of you who are serious to stop smoking. The Smoker Smack Report will help you enduring the first 7 days of smoking abstinence, so that you can be able to stop smoking for good!

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This is not meant to be insulting to any smoker now but just imagine someone blowing irritating and bad smelling stuff into your face all the time. If someone did it with a spray can, you would mind too.

Now let me tell you some facts about second hand smoking:

Did you know that sitting in a pub in which smoking iss allowed is aproximately like smoking five cigarettes each and every hour! Just imagine smoking that much? Second hand smoke is not only bothering it is also significantly health harming. The health risks of a non-smoker who is being exposed to second hand smoke on a regular basis is just as high as for a smoker.

The American Lung association names about 3.000 people who died from lung cancer as a result of second hand smoking in the year of 2004. They also talk of 35.000 deadly heart diseases as a result of second hand smoking in the same year. There have been more than 80 studies on second hand smoking in the United States. The results of those stuidies are basically the main reason why smoking has been prohibited in public places.

In the 90s most tobacco companies have been brought to trial as a result of a new anti-mafia-law. During those trials documents have been published that prove that the tobacco industry knew very well about the risks for smokers and second-hand smokers, though they denied it all the time. Those documents were the foundation for most of the anti-smoking laws that have been pushed through since the 90s especially for the prohibition of smoking in airplanes.

You must now understand that there is noone and nothing who wants to keep you from smoking out of spitefulness. It is just the only effective way to protect people from inhaling the harmful tobacco smoke involuntarily. And it protects not only non-smokers but also smokers, as smokers are being affected by second hand smoking just as non-smokers.

If you want to know more about Harmful Smoking Effects please feel free to read the section on how smoking can hurt you and your environment. Read More..

Let’s start with the different toxic substances that are contained in cigarettes, such as benzopyren, benzol, tar, carbon monoxide and let’s not forget the wide know nicotine. All those substances have their own individual effect on your body. Some of them make you addicted to nicotine, others intoxicate you by replacing oxygen in your blood and cause an oxygen undersupply. Other substances cause cancer.

Now if I have a look at the ingredients benzopyrene (highly carcinogen) and benzol, I seriously ask myself, how I could have been able to spend money on inhaling carcinogen stuff over a period of nine years…

Benzopyrene – Do you know what it is being used for in cigarettes? The purpose of benzopyrene is to make the tobacco smoke smoother, so that it does not hurt when you inhale it. This makes it possible for adolescents to inhale the smoke, as well as for smokers to inhale the smoke deeper into the lungs which strengthens the addiction of course.

If you make yourself clear, what the tobacco industry is willing to do, just to keep you smoking, you will see how stupid it is to even spend a dime on cigarettes – The tobacco industry should pay YOU for every day of your addiction – Once you suffer from a disease that is typical for smokers, it might already be too late to do something. So much for the health risks.

Let’s not forget about all the other disadvantages of smoking:

• Your sense of smelling gets worse
• Your sense of tasting gets worse
• You smell bad
• Others smell, that you smell bad…
• You are the slave of your addiction
• You might bother others when you smoke

And I think that’s only a few…

Summing it all up, I think giving up smoking was the best decision I have ever made. Anyway it was not easy, especially at the beginning´and I spent much of my time looking for information, that was able to help me. You can find all this information on Smokefreeaces.com in the stop smoking section.

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I want to introduce myself to you all.

My name is Christian Stan. I have been smoking for 9 years,and finally I managed to quit it. After quite a lot of failures my last attepmt was successful and I have set up this blog to share all the methods that have helped me with you!

I will be posting here on a regular basis, but for now, I want to welcome and invite you to read everything on smokefreeaces.com you might find interesting and don’t forget to check back every day, there will be new content online!

I do also love comments so please go ahead and leave one, if you feel like it!

Have a great day!

Christian