DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE!
DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE FROM SMOKING!
Destroy The Grip That
Nicotine
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Visiting The Grip Destroyer's Website
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Marlboro Memories: Salem Started The Grip Destroyer's Stop Smoking Story
"I have more memories than if
I were a thousand years old."
Charles Baudelaire
(1827-1867)
Click the 'Play' Button of the audio below to start streaming
"Salem Started The Grip Destroyer's Stop Smoking Story"
(16 minutes 0 seconds).
"You've Got Me Hypnotized; I'm Certainly Mesmerized..."
(Song Lyrics to "You've Got Me Hypnotized"
by Irving Berlin - November 20, 1911).
Speaking of being mesmerized, today - May 23 - is the birthday of the
Father of Hypnosis, Franz Anton Mesmer. Happy Birthday, Mesmer!
Hypnosis is a state of mind characterized
by relaxed brain waves and a state of
hypersuggestibility."
Thomas Yarnell, PhD.
Some people are not willing to try hypnosis to stop smoking because of
their fears and misconceptions regarding hypnosis.
These fears and misconceptions concerning hypnosis inhibit their ability to
enter in to this safe and natural, relaxful state of mind.
However, when one understands what hypnosis REALLY is, ones fears and
misconceptions about hypnosis melt away and one can then easily and
effortlessly enter in to the very relaxful state of hypnosis.
The complimentary Grip-Destroying Pre-Induction Talk Audio below explains
what hypnosis REALLY is. When you know what hypnosis REALLY is, you
will be able to benefit fully from the complimentary Grip-Destroying, Stress-
Relieving Hypnotic Audio (see blog post dated Wednesday, April 16, 2008).
Just click the "Play" arrow below and wait a few seconds for The Grip-Destroying
Pre-Induction Talk Audio (4 minutes & 50 seconds) to start streaming.
How Do YOU Spell Relaxation?
"Relaxation means releasing all concerns
and tensions and letting the natural
order of life flow through one's being."
Donald Curtis
Most smokers report that one of the reasons that they smoke is to handle stress.
Everyday worries, responsibilities, and hassles can all contribute to stress.
Quitting smoking itself is stressful and adds to your stress load.
You may become more aware of stress when you quit smoking. This happens
because smoking cigarettes actually relieves some of the stress by relaxing
powerful chemicals in your brain.
After you quit smoking, handling the normal stresses in your life may become
more of a challenge.
To help you handle the normal stresses in your life that may become challenging
after quitting smoking, listen to this Grip-Destroying, Stress-Relieving Hypnotic
Audio(13:52 minutes).
At the Grip Destroyer.com, Relaxation is spelled H-Y-P-N-O-S-I-S - a very safe and
natural way to relax your mind and body and relieve stress.
Global Tobacco Epidemic
Smoking is a global problem.
-Worldwide
5.5 trillion cigarettes are produced and smoked annually. That's
105 billion cigarettes sold every week; or
15 billion cigarettes sold every day worldwide;
10 million cigarettes sold per minute, or
170 cigarettes sold per millisecond, globally.
-The total number of smokers, worldwide, is expected to keep increasing each year.
-1.3 billion people smoke worldwide.
-According to the World Health Organization, there will be 2 billion smokers, worldwide,
by the year 2030.
-Between 80,000 - 100,000 children, worldwide, start smoking every day.
-Smoking tops the list in every country around the world as the single largest
preventable cause of diseases and premature deaths.
-Tobacco use is so devastating to the human body that it is a risk factor for
6 out of 8 leading causes of death in the world.
-Worldwide, tobacco will kill one billion people in the 21st century; a ten-fold increase
from the 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
-The World Health Organization finds that tobacco use already kills 5.4 million people a year.
-1 in 10 adults are killed by smoking-related diseases globally - that is half of all smokers
dying from smoking-related diseases.
-Someone in the world dies from tobacco every 8 seconds.
-Annually, in the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 5 million
years of potential life lost due to premature death.
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
(Quote by Fletcher Knebel)
No If's, And's, or Butts...
cancer mortality in the United States." This statement is as true today as it was in 1982. (see
www.cancer.org).
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of cancers of the lung, larynx(voice box), oral cavity(mouth),
pharynx(throat), and esopahgus(swallowing tube connected to the stomach) and bladder, and
it contributes to the development of cancers of the pancreas, cervix, kidney, stomach, and also
some leukemias.
For many cigarette smokers, Tobacco Road often ends at the doctor's doorstep before it ever
ends in death.
In the year 2000, about 8.6 million people were suffering from at least one chronic disease due
to current or former smoking, according to the Center For Disease Control. Many of these people
were suffering from more than one smoking-related condition. The diseases occurring most often
were chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.
These diseases can steal away a person's quality of life, long before death. Smoking-related
illnesses can limit a person's activities by making it harder to breathe, get around, work, or play.
"Cigarettes are the only substance sold that, when the user follows the instructions carefully,
will result in the consumer becoming toxic, chronically ill or dead!" (stated by Dr. Max Snyder
in his documentary, "The Medical Aspects of Tobacco".).
A Pack of Cigarette Smoke & Mirrors
U. S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Thursday, August 17, 2006 that the tobacco industry
engaged in a decades-long racketeering enterprise that conspired to hide the dangers of smoking.
Judge Kessler said that the conspiracy dates back to 1953, when a group of tobacco companies met
together at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and devised a coordinated public relations plan to
counter public health concerns associated with cigarette smoking and to deceive the public about
the negative health effects of cigarette smoking.
Judge Kessler said that "even after the 1964 U. S. Surgeon General's Report linking smoking to
lung cancer, tobacco companies continued to falsely deny and distort the serious health effects
of smoking."
As late as last year (2006) she wrote that the defendants still did "not admit the serious effects
of smoking which they recognized internally decades ago."
In the 1,653-page ruling Judge Kessler stated:
"Over the course of more than 50 years, defendants lied, misrepresented, and deceived the
American public, including smokers and the young people they avidly sought as 'replacement
smokers' about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke,
they suppressed research, they destroyed documents, they manipulated the use of nicotine
so as to increase and perpetuate addiction; they distorted the truth about low-tar and light
cigarettes so as to discourage smokers from quitting and they abused the legal system in
order to achieve their goal - to make money with little, if any, regard for individual suffering,
soaring health costs, or the integrity of the legal system."
In short, the defendants have "marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception,
with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy
or social costs that success exacted," her ruling said.
"After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris Company (one of the five tobacco companies
in this lawsuit) has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This
formal acknowledgement comes far too late, but still we must all welcome it. It can be the begin-
ning of clearing the air." (Quote by Bill Clinton).
C is for Carton of Cleverly Crafted, Carcinogen-Carrying, Cancer-Causing Chemical Compounds!
the cigarette is also a very efficient and highly engineered cancer(carcinogen) delivery system.
A cigarette contains over 60 of the most carcinogenic(cancer-causing) compounds known to man.
Some of the carcinogens(cancer-causing chemicals) in a cigarette are:
-Poisonous chemical element.
This deadly poison is used to
make insecticides. One of the
most dangerous chemicals in
cigarettes. Arsenic
-Cancer-causing chemical used
to make everything from pesticides
to detergent, to gasoline. Benzene
-One of the most potent cancer-causing
chemicals in the world. Benzoapyrene
-Toxic metal. Causes damage to the
liver, kidney, and the brain. Linked to
lung and prostrate cancer. Cadmium
-A known cancer-causing substance,
linked to lung cancer. Formaldehyde
-Very toxic chemical used mainly in
rocket fuel. Hydrazine
-Cancer-causing, highly radioactive
element. Polonium 210
-Cancer-causing, toxic mixture of
dangerous chemicals. Tar
A pack-a-day smoker (20 cigarettes in every pack) will take in about 75,000 doses
of these (and other cancer-causing chemical compounds) in one year - a deadly
dose-delivery dispenser!
Definition: " A cigarette is a euphemism for a cleverly crafted product that delivers
just the right amount of nicotine to keep its user addicted for life
before killing the person." (Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Health
Organization Director General).
Where There's Smoke, There's Poison!
What smokers frequently do not realize is that the cigarette is a very efficient
and highly engineered poison-delivery system.
Some of the poisons found in cigarettes are:
- Harsh chemical found in nail polish remover;
used to make paint stripper. Acetone
- Highly toxic substance found in cleaning
fluids like toliet bowl cleaner. Ammonia
- Gas; used in lighter fluid. Butane
- Poisonous gas found in car exhausts. Carbon Monoxide
- A banned insecticide. DDT
- Poison used in gas chambers.
Poison used as a fumigant to kill ants.
Industrial pesticide. Hydrogen Cyanide
- Insecticide. Methoprene
- Poison found in mothballs. Naphalene
- Poison Nicotine
- Toxic substance found in embalmer's
glue; used as an industrial solvent. Toluene
"Smokers are inhaling a lethal cocktail of 600 additives, as well as nicotine, every time
they light up."
When the tobacco is burned, more than 4,000 chemical compounds have been found
in every cigarette - 400 of them are toxic.
"Tobacco surely was designed to poison and destroy mankind."
Philip M. Freneau (1752-1832) American Poet, Poems, 'Tobacco'.
Hey Valentine! "What's Smoking Got To Do With It?"
An American dating service surveyed over 2900 singles to uncover their opinions on dating, love, and smoking.
According to the survey, 61% of singles said that they would not go on a date with someone who smoked.
Moreover, if they discovered, after the first or second date, that their date smoked, 38% would not pursue
the relationship any further.
Another study, "Smokers Are More Likely To Be Dateless," found that smoking and dating don't mix
(Austrailian Medical Journal, December 13, 2004).
The University of Sydney looked at over 130,000 advertisements on Austrailia's largest dating website
(www.rsvp.com.au) before arriving at it's conclusion that "those whose pictures received the greatest
number of hits were non-smokers."
That smoking makes it more difficult to attract responses to dating advertisements is supported by
evidence from the largest dating service in the United Kingdom, Dateline, which reported: "Often
if one of our client's queries that they haven't received many responses from potential partners,
we can trace it back to the fact that they admitted on their 'compatibility' form to being a heavy
smoker"(Department of Health (UK) February 11, 2000).
When all of the smoke has cleared, it appears that smoking and dating don't mix.
