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by Declan Stanley

The top five reasons to give up smoking are:

* Health – are you already suffering the ill effects of smoking? Perhaps members of your family are affected by second hand smoke leading to bronchitis, asthma or other health problems.

* Better professional image – do you really want to be remembered for your smoky breath and stale smell on your body from smoking cigarettes. You are brighter when you are smoke free.

* Sense of achievement – you have been controlled by cigarettes for so long. Now your desire to be happy, healthy and smoke free is driving you to take back control of you.

* Set a good image – maybe you have a baby or grandchild and you wish to set a good example to children. Or perhaps you have been promoted and your desire to be smoke free is two fold – better image at work and encouraging those under you to be become smoke free.

* More money – think what you could do with the money you can save by not spending it on cigarettes. It is like a tax free pay rise for you.

Am I Ready to be Smoke free?
Ask yourself the following questions, take your time and answer them honestly.

• What will being smoke free do for you?
• What have you been getting out of smoking until now?
• Can you list at least 3 reasons for becoming smoke free?
• When do you want to be smoke free?
• Is there any context in which you don’t want to be smoke free?
• What stops you from making the change?
• Is there anything you could lose as a result of being smoke free?
• What will you gain by being smoke free.
• What do you need to do in order to become smoke free?
• Is what you want worth wanting?
• What could go wrong?
• Can anything stop you?
• Are you ready to be smoke free?

Write your answers down to make sure you have really thought about becoming smoke free.

Checklist
You need to make sure that you are 100% ready to be smoke free. The reason why you have not become smoke free in the past was probably due to the fact that part of you (at a subconscious level) wanted to continue smoking. See Am I Ready to be Smoke free?.

You must ensure that:

• You are not undergoing any major life stresses at present
• You can devote 30 minutes a day to listen to your session for the next three weeks
• You are prepared to follow the Tips for Staying Smoke free

If you are a recovering alcoholic or drug addict you must ensure that you have a support system in place. You have worked hard to overcome your previous addiction so you do not want to revert to it. Support is extremely important.

Quit Smoking Right Now
The Quit Smoking Right Now program is a tried, tested and proven technique of hypnosis and NLP that makes it so easy for you to quit the nicotine habit, that by the end of only one session, you can be a confident, happy, healthy, relaxed non-smoker!

About the Author
Declan Stanley runs The Stop Smoking With EASE web site, a blog full of tips and advice to help you quit smoking right now.

Here’s a brief rundown of some conditions you may experience prior to talking with your doctor about possibly having diabetes:

• Thirst (constant)
• Urination (increased)
• Appetite (increased but usually with no weight gain)
• Tiredness (extreme)
• Nausea (general feeling of being sick)
• Yeast infection (in both men and women)
• Impotence (in men only)

An experience with one or more of these symptoms might make you want to visit the doctor as soon as possible to get checked out. Your body may be having trouble producing enough insulin to allow the conversion of sugar and starches to the sugar it usually uses to expend energy (thus the constant state of tiredness). In other words, you find yourself with an insulin deficiency.

In other cases your body becomes “immune” to the insulin it produces and it cannot use its own production to process sugar. At present you will only be able to manage your symptoms with proper diet, exercise and in some cases medicine; there is no cure.

If you do have diabetes, proper diet and consistent exercise is extremely important to you in order to keep the disease from becoming a problem. Getting a handle on what and when to eat will help you control this disease, however. A regular schedule of physical activity must also be included, e.g., walking, bicycling, aerobic dance, swimming, etc.

Visit your doctor — he or she might believe that medication is the best thing for your condition. Don’t let the notion that you’ll absolutely have to take daily insulin shots keep you out of the doctor’s office. Insulin also comes in pill form and it can sometimes be prescribed by a doctor depending on the patient’s condition.

So few people understand what diabetes is that it’s helpful to get a general bit of information on this disease. Even the most basic but factual information can help you get an idea about what to look out for in monitoring your own health.

Basically speaking, you cannot “get” diabetes from eating or drinking too much sugar. Whoever made up that story did us all a dis-service. You will end up overweight from your high caloric intake, but you won’t mysteriously develop what the “old folks” used to call “sugar diabetes”.

Too many high calorie foods and beverages will, however set you on the road to obesity. If you become obese from a steady diet of high caloric food and drink and neglect to exercise you will, however, increase your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

If you’ve got diabetes then you have a high level of sugar in your bloodstream. A state of diabetes means that the body has a problem processing glucose (i.e., sugar). You may have diabetes but show no outward signs of having any illness. Meanwhile, the damage is being one in your body — you see no obvious symptoms.

Here’s a list of some conditions you might find yourself dealing with. The symptoms include:

- a state of constant thirst
- an increase in urination
- a large appetite, usually without weight gain
- extreme fatigue
- a yeast infection (in either a man or a woman)
- impotence in males
- general feelings of being ill or nauseous

For more information about Diabetes and how you can recognize the sypmtoms and ultimately control the disease for a better life, visit Control Your Diabetes.