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"There is never a bad time to quit smoking, of course, but smoking is linked to increased hot flashes. Quitting also improves your health in other ways, such as lowering your risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer. RELATIONSHIPS Another issue related to menopause, one that makes many women reach for pharmaceutical help, is that they and the significant others in their lives worry that they will lose their libido (the premise of Feminine Forever, and the cause of the entire mess), but in my family that didn't seem to happen at all. I think that hormone "replacement" is really a bad idea." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"So successful, in fact, that about twice as many people discuss cholesterol with their doctors during physical exams (67 percent) as are counseled about the importance of routine exercise (34 percent) or as are advised (if smokers) to quit smoking (37 percent). Even the most obvious counseling, advising obese people to lose weight, occurs at only 42 percent of obese people's yearly checkups. Heart disease is the number one killer only because eventually, if nothing else kills us, our hearts will give out. Of much greater importance is what robs us of the prime years of our lives." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"So not only should people with smoker's voice quit smoking, they should be examined periodically for precancerous and cancerous lesions. Chronic hoarseness can also be a telltale sign of long-term heavy drinking. Excess alcohol, like smoke, can irritate the vocal cords as well as the mucous membranes in the mouth and throat. A very husky voice can be evidence of a hormonal imbalance in either sex. In women, it can be a sign of a hormone disorder called masculin-ization, in which there are high levels of the male hormone androgen. (See Chapter 1." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"If you have asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, or if you smoke or recently quit smoking (within six months), you should not use this drug. Because of possible damage to the lungs, you should have your lung function checked six months after starting to use inhalable insulin, and then every year thereafter. Furthermore, if you currently need injectable insulin, inhaled insulin can be used at mealtime, but not as a replacement for your longer-acting injections." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"If your friend had been a smoker all of his or her life and looked to you for advice, would you tell them to cut down to only two cigarettes a day, or would you tell them to quit smoking all together? It's in this way that I'm telling you that moderation, even with the best intentions, sometimes makes it more difficult to succeed. T. COLIN CAMPBELL, THE CHINA STUDY Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's reasonable deception. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A subsequent scan showed that the blockage had returned. Omar quit smoking and redoubled his efforts to follow Diet Evolution. Two months later the blockage was down 20 percent; nonetheless, Omar opted for an operation to allay his fears. When we opened his carotid artery, there was absolutely no. evidence of cholesterol plaque; instead, a thin layer of scar tissue was all that remained of the blockage. We placed a tiny patch over it and sewed him up. More than anything, this experience confirmed to him (and me) that following Diet Evolution would be his permanent way of life." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Carter also advised Paula to quit smoking, take a B-complex vitamin, and take red cayenne pepper capsules to strengthen her nervous system and possibly stimulate her circulation. Several weeks later, Paula returned for a second NES scan, which revealed a host of body-field distortions, including Polarity, Nervous System Driver, Stomach Driver, Muscle Driver, Kidney Driver, Bone Driver, and Energetic Integrator 10 (Circulation/Pericardium Meridian). Although a NES protocol customarily does not include more than four or five Infoceuticals, Carter had Paula take all seven Infoceuticals." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Your Homeopath urged you to quit smoking and drinking tea but you told her that you feel really well with a cup of English breakfast tea and a smoke! She proceeded to tell you that you really needed to quit your bad habits. However, her eyes lit up when she found an unusual homeopathic remedy, called Carbolic Acid which suited your symptoms perfectly. You took that remedy along with the supplements and diet. After one short month you had fewer cravings for tobacco and tea. Your breath problem and heartburn improved and rarely cause a problem now." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"SMOKING If you are a smoker, the first and most important step you can take in your health program, without exception, is to quit smoking. Easy to say, but for most people, very hard to do. Nicotine was discussed briefly in chapter 8, "What Are We Doing Wrong?" It is extremely toxic to the body and, as any smoker or former smoker will tell you, very addictive. I have been told that it is even more addictive than hard drugs. If you are serious about reclaiming and improving your health, there is no doubt that you need to quit! "Oh," you might say, "I've tried many times but it's so hard to do." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"WARNING SIGN Here are two more reasons to quit smoking: smokers are 70% more likely to suffer hearing loss than nonsmokers, and living with a smoker doubles your risk of hearing loss. SIGNING OFF Ear signs are sometimes so subtle that we barely notice them, while others come in loud and clear. Remember, any sudden hearing loss, pain, unusual discharge, or bleeding from the ear requires an immediate call to your doctor or trip to the emergency room. Other ear and hearing signs can be evaluated and treated by various health care professionals." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"For those of you with GERD and ulcers I recommend that you stop taking arthritis medications, cut down on excessive alcohol, quit smoking, and, if needed, take an antacid. If this doesn't help, take H2 blockers, and next PPIs." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Reduce sodium to less than 2,500 mg per day. • quit smoking. • Do not exceed one alcoholic beverage (5 oz) per day. • Practice regular aerobic exercise (30 minutes or more, 5-7 times per week)—e.g., a brisk walk. • Reduce or eliminate coffee (both caffeinated and decaffeinated). • Strive for healthy body weight. • Practice stress management such as meditation or relaxation exercise 15 minutes each day. Daily Supplements for Cardiovascular Disease Plant sterols/stanols: 2.0-3." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Consider avoiding all sodium; at the least, reduce sodium to less than 2,500 mg per day. • quit smoking. • Do not exceed one alcoholic beverage (5 oz) per day. • Practice regular aerobic exercise (30 minutes or more, 5-7 times per week)—e.g., a brisk walk. • Reduce or eliminate coffee (both caffeinated and decaffeinated). • Strive for ideal body weight. • Practice stress management such as meditation or relaxation exercise 15 minutes each day." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Erwin just won't quit smoking," she said. "His breathing just gets worse and worse, and now the doctor is telling him he might need an oxygen tank soon with that tubing and the horrible little prongs in his nose! I insisted he come here so maybe he could improve his health a little, maybe postpone the oxygen tank a few years—and maybe buy a little more time for him to quit smoking." "Actually, I've quit dozens of times," Edwin said. "The trouble is staying stopped." He paused for breath. "I don't know why I just can't stay away for more than a week or two, but I just haven't been able to." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"It's easier to join a group than to lose weight, exercise regularly, or quit smoking."28 The politics of community; or what does hierarchy have to do with it? But was that the end of the story? By the time Putnam was writing these words, something had happened to the original epidemiological argument linking better health to better community. Working away in London on his study of health differences among British civil servants, Michael Marmot was beginning to have some second thoughts." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This suggests that couples trying to conceive make certain that the father-to-be, as well as the prospective mother, quit smoking early on in their family planning. Vitamin C for Healthy Sperm jglutination could very well be the cause of your infertility problems. What is it? It's a condition in which sperm clump together and become sluggish. Fortunately there's a natural, nutritional treatment: A high dose (1,000 mg) of vitamin C daily for one month. Trying to Conceive? No Vino for You I f you and your partner are trying to conceive a baby, then lower that glass." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Herbert DeloRey has had a great deal of success helping people quit smoking by using the following technique. It takes considerable time to accomplish depending on the degree to which one smokes. It is simply this: Start with the number of cigarettes you are presently using each day and keep this as the absolute maximum ration for the day; no exceptions! Do this for 21 days. Each three-week period thereafter, reduce the ration by one cigarette, until finally you are down to one cigarette for the final three-week period, and then none. Dr. DeloRey explained how this works." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It's interesting that although 67% of the patients talk to their doctors about cholesterol, only 34% are advised to exercise and 37% are advised to quit smoking - obvious contributors to heart disease. Yes, many experts claim that many of those new "risk factor pills" are more dangerous than the possible disease, because of the side effects and because natural treatments are not done, but this is not even our point here. Our point is the way those marketing gurus THINK." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"After reading several of the studies I've included in this book, she committed to giving daily exercise a try, and she quit smoking marijuana again. "There was no alternative," she says. "I had to do something." What she did was get an indoor bike trainer of the type used by serious cyclists to hone their balance and stamina—you pedal on free-spinning drums, acutely aware of the possibility that you could slip off and careen across the room. I'm not sure how Zoe settled on this extremely challenging form of exercise, but it has worked out tremendously well." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"I've seen patients put on psychotropic drugs to quit smoking or lose weight. These drugs were not made for that." " What are the worse side effects you have ever seen? " Dr. Benoit O. Choiniere: "I have seen a tremendous negative effect of drugs on kids. Even at the age of 11 or 12 years old, they are being put on psychotropic drugs. This is the worse thing you can do to a kid: to create an addiction on a kid. At first the kid will be taking a normally prescribed drug and then if you stop giving it to him, the percentage would be very high that eventually they would turn to illegal drugs." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Your recovery plan will need to address each one of these benefits and offer another alternative which works. To quit smoking successfully, you will need to turn up your awareness to a very powerful level. You will need all the detective skills you have. Use your food journal to get started with this process. Focus on your smoking patterns with the kind of attention you did to look at your sugar use. When and why do you reach for a cigarette?" - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"But Kerr also discovered that patients were more likely to modify their behavior, to quit smoking, take their medicine properly, and begin exercising, on the advice of a trusted and caring doctor. The second ingredient in maintaining health is making sure patients are given the correct diagnosis and the right treatment. Research has shown that the ability to diagnose turns on a doctor's skill at establishing a bond with her patient, to coax the patient into revealing the nature of his illness." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Only one in five patients with chronic pulmonary disease was advised to quit smoking; one in ten alcoholics received counseling. While counseling smokers and drinkers may hardly seem like advanced medicine, it can persuade a certain percentage of patients to change their habits—and dramatically improve their health. The bottom line is this: Whether you are rushed to the hospital or you walk in the door, your chances of getting all the treatment that is recommended for any given condition are about the same as flipping a coin." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Lucid dream researchers Jayne Gackenbach and Jane Bosveld report of one woman who created an environment in a lucid dream to accomplish several different healings: [The lucid dreamer] has used lucid dreaming to quit smoking, stop biting her nails, lose weight, and rid herself of hives and menstrual cramps. Although she has never seen a doctor for her hives, she is often bothered by them and has controlled them by suggesting to herself as she falls asleep that she needs to calm down." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"I figured I was done for anyway, so why work so hard to quit smoking? You know—the condemned man and his final smokes. But now, I'm starting to make plans for the next few years, and I'm quitting! Finally, once and for all." "He's down to 8 a day," Ingrid said. "I'm so proud of him! And he's not cheated on anything once. He's even able to walk to the park with our grandchildren again." "And I never, ever smoke in front of them anymore!" DR." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"It is also one of the quickest ways I have seen people quit smoking. I have yet to discover anyone who can fast and still smoke at the same time. Your body is also able to rid itself of the toxins from smoking far more quickly during a fast, and once the fast is broken there is no craving for the taste of tobacco. I am deliberately not going into too much detail on fasting in this chapter, as I merely wish to point you in the right direction and ensure that you find a person who has experience with fasting to help you. (Fasting is a subject that requires a book of its own!" - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"There are alternative sources of nicotine for those who wish to quit smoking. They are available either in transdermal patch form, as chewing gum, and as nasal sprays and inhalers. Some of these are available over the counter, while others require a prescription. Q Buproprion (Zyban) is an antidepressant that acts on the brain in the same manner as nicotine. It can help some people to stop smoking. If you are concerned about gaining weight after you quit, buproprion may help limit the amount of weight you put on." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "If you take any medications, consult with your physician about the possible need for an adjustment in dosage after you quit smoking. Tobacco alters the absorption and utilization of many medications, including insulin, asthma drugs, and certain antidepressants, blood pressure medications, and painkillers. Considerations Q The difficulty of quitting appears to be related less to how many packs a day you smoke than to how early in life you started smoking." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"How to Eliminate Toxins from Tobacco Smoke • quit smoking! You may need a support group to help you. • Avoid smoking inside the home. Go outside to smoke (at least 1 00 feet away from the house). • When you have the urge to smoke, distract yourself with an activity of some kind or take a short walk. • Ask visitors to step out of the home if they must smoke. • When going to restaurants and other public places, ask ahead of time if they are smoke-free or have designated non-smoking areas. • Never smoke near a child, not even outdoors." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "Smoking/Tobacco You simply MUST quit smoking! You may need a support group to help you so don't give up. § Foundation for a Smokefree America o www.anti-smoking.org 2 1 (310)471-4270 Quitnet® Quit All Together www.quitnet.com The Stop Smoking Center www.stopsmokingcenter.net 1 (866) 674-2642 Soap (Organic) To aid in removing microscopic parasites from your skin, wash your hands frequently throughout the day with warm water and natural tea tree soap. Clean in and beneath your fingernails as well. E3™ Nourishing Soap www.ghchealth.com/organic-skin-care Herbaria™ Soap www.herbariasoap." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

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