What is the best way to quit smoking?

Question 1
What is the best way to quit smoking?...  I'm 22 and have smoked ever since i was 18. I am a socially sensitive person (self-counscious, no self-confidence, easlily hurt, hate uncomfortable eyecontacts, always dont know what to say....you name it!) so i get really stressed out when i have to face all the people in school and smoking has always been my only way of relaxing. Like all smokers i know smoking is very bad for me, and like most smokers i have wanted to quit for a long time but havent been able to. More than my other smoking friends, tobacco has effected my health in a really obvious way already. I get constant heart aches, my voice is always dry, i get head aches, throat pains and lately i got bronchitis. Even though, i still cant quit. I have tried exercising but if i move too much i cant breathe. I feel like i really need thoses freaking ciggs to make it through each day. So what should i do? I cant quit or take a yr off from school it is really not an option. More confidence? Dont think that i havnt tried.

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1)   Reduce 2 to 3 sticks everyday & I am sure you will be able
to quit smoking within a short period. - Elisabeth Chandler

2)   the only way to quit smoking, is not by reducing the amount of sticks at day. what you need to do is quit from one day to another, after that buy yourself some incense in case you smoke inside your house and something else for your vehicle. if you smoke there too. wash your clothes and blankets and the key is to really want to do it. - Juan Perez

3)   The best way to quit is nicotine replacement therapy. - Lesley Brown

4)   I'm 23 and Iv'e quit for about 2 years now, i was smoking since i was 14. I just used a different alternative that's still not a good habbit, but less dangerous than cigs. I stopped smoking altogether and switched to cigars and pipe tobbacco, because those are bad @ss and you don't inhale. It's just as relaxing and just as cool ;) Also a lot cheaper. You spend 10 dollars a week on cigars or pipe tobbacco and 10 dollars a day on a pack of smokes. Nicotine is what makes it hard so take that out of the equasion and your set. Eventually stop smoking cigars and pipes when you are cool and confident ;) Good luck bud - Jason Colter

5)   A friend show me these these awesome electronic cigs that were free. These were amazing, more vapor, good taste, they gave me a whole month kit. I am sure they still offer this much, I was shocked that they offered me this much for this offer. Get them while they still send this much for free. http://eeciginfotoday.tk - Avril Svoboda

6)   Well the easiest way is too switch to lights and a pack that you don't like like pallmalls are nasty. Than when you feel like you just kinda need to smoke you will wait to you really need to because you dont wanna have to deal with the taste. So your basically training yourself not to smoke anymore. eventually you won't need em. - James Madison


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Question 2
Are vitamin pills a necessity?...  My mom begs me to take them every morning. I don't see how they can be beneficial. They haven't even been scientifically proven. My boyfriend's father use to take vitamin pills, and ever since then he has had back problems, I don't know if the back problems could be related to the consumption of the pills, but is vitamin pills really necessary?

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1)   Well, the answer is not so simple.
If you're young and healthy, don't waste money on vitamins, just eat properly and exercise.
If you're pregnant or plan to be, you should be taking folic acid and are likely to require iron tablets as well.
If you have osteoporosis or are at risk or are above 65, you should take calcium and vitamin D.
As you get older, it is sometimes necessary to take B12 and folate. - ssspecialk

2)   One study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health shows that 68% of Americans are magnesium deficient. Other experts put the number closer 80%.

What depletes magnesium:

Mental stress
Physical stress
Coffee
Sugar
High sodium diet
Alcohol
Cola-type sodas
Tobacco
High perspiration
Medical drugs of all types, especially diuretics, digitalis
Low thyroid
Diabetes
Chronic pain
A high carbohydrate diet
A low carbohydrate diet
A high calcium diet.
A low calorie diet
Because of the competing nature of calcium and magnesium, excessive calcium intake from foods or supplements can lead to a magnesium deficiency.
Disease such as pancreatitis, arteriosclerosis, kidney malfunction.
Malabsorption problems caused by chronic diarrhea or vomiting.
Fluoride

Just a few others:

39% were found to be low in vitamin B12 regardless of eating 3x the RDA. Due to far too low a B12 reference range, it is estimated deficiency is present in a far greater proportion of the population than 39% as reported by Tufts University. Vitamin B12 is the hardest of all vitamins to absorb in the digestive tract.

One study found that 100% of 174 university students had some degree of Vitamin B6 deficiency.

About 70% of elderly Americans and 90% of Americans of colour are vitamin D deficient. Depending on which research you cite, in the United States at least 50% and possibly more than 90% of the population is vitamin D deficient. One European study found that 100% of hospitalized patients were vitamin D deficient. If you live above the 35 degree latitude - eg: 2/3rd of the US, canada, europe - there is NO vitamin D due to the angle of the sun from November to March.

I'm all for my multi vitamin tablets which uses natural vitamins and minerals when possible. Your choice if you want to take a multi vitamin but some deficiencies show no symptoms but are slowly damaging the body. - ƦєdAиgєℓ

3)   Why does the government mandate that certain foods be fortified with vitamins if they are not beneficial? "Researchers have found that 50-70% of NTDs (Neural Tube Defects) can be prevented when women supplement their diet with folic acid, a water-soluble B vitamin." [1]

What about iron? "Iron deficiency anemia remains an enormous global problem. Up to half of the children in developing countries and ≈10% of the children in developed countries are estimated to be iron deficient. Iron deficiency leads to impaired physical work performance, cognitive impairment, and adverse pregnancy outcomes " [2]

Iodine is so important that the United States Government decided to fortify salt with iodine. Iodine is a common supplement found in multi vitamins. Iodine is needed for your thyroid which can impact your weight, energy, etc.

Even the best diet meaning 10 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day is tough to maintain for life. Is it possible for you to maintain that kind of diet? Vitamins and minerals are not miracle pills, but I doubt that they have anything to do with bad backs. Vitamins and minerals are needed by the body so what can be the harm in taking them? The safety record of vitamins is proven and what could be the harm in taking a vitamin or two? - Chicago Mike

4)   Only if you are lacking in those vitamins. Barring folic acid in pregnancy, routine vitamin supplementation is of no therapeutic value.

Correlation does not imply causation, his back problems were likely unrelated to the vitamins. - Rhianna does Medicine Year 1

5)   What hasn't been scientifically validated are government sponsored RDA values.
Optimum amounts for each individual vary with each individual. A mass production mentality governing mass medical treatment is a major problem in the mind set of people transitioning from the old style of conventional medicine to the much better holistic model.
It's prudent to consider that because modern agriculture methods have resulted in severe soil depletion our produce now only contains about 50% of what it did 50 years ago. So vitamins help to fill that gap. They won't, however, make up for a fast food/junk food diet.
Since MD's don't get any training in nutrition they generally tend to miss all but the very obvious signs and symptoms of vitamin and mineral deficiences (scurvy, rickets, anemia).
There's no correlation between "back problems" and vitamin use. - thenoseknows


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Question 3
Are there people who have received acupuncture?...  I major in acupuncture in College
I am Japanese. Is it popular in America?

Do you have a good felling about it?

Dose it have effect on illness?

If you find any miss spelling、grammar　and so on,
could you tell me?

So I am studying English hard too.

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1)   acupuncture is very popular in America. It's used in chiropractic offices. I'm not sure how well it cures viral or bacterial illness's, but more for muscle pain, and muscle spasms. The needles are pressed into the pressure points, relieving pain. - SmileySixy

2)   Popularity has nothing to do with effectiveness.

For instance here in Europe, mainstream medicine is very popular,
because it's apparently cheap (but we pay a lot through taxes, so it's not very transparent).
and because it's so called scientific but it's mainly applied statistics.

Don't worry about acupuncture,
if you learn through experience and listening carefully to the bodies,
and anything you see more (and more),
the eastern philosophy will give you more and more insights.

If you want to help people more,
by giving them self-help,
you can study Jin Shin Jyutsu,
another Great Japanese Art.

Good luck,
with your Under-Standing. - SmartAss

3)   Hello Buddy, Your English is fine. some small mistakes but probably better than mine.

Does it have AN effect? No. The effect is in the mind ( the placebo effect) this means that if you have pain then it can make you convince yourself that some improvement has taken place but if you have a rash or a broken bone or even Cancer then Acupuncture will have no effect at all.

Avoid any 'medicine' based on chi or chakras. Despite it being popular it is still rubbish. - Angelhil Xtra

4)   Acupuncture is extremely popular in North America and is considered to be a preferable treatment to using toxic drugs by growing numbers of people. There is a steady increase in practitioners, not only of Acupuncture but TCM in general.
Martial arts are very popular in North America and this has also tended to popularize Eastern forms of medicine too.
Many conventional MD's, Chiropractors, Osteopaths, Naturopaths and Homeopaths enroll in acupuncture courses on a regular basis.
Users of holistic medicine are generally better educated than the average and research non-conventional therapies before making decisions about what form of treatment they wish to choose rather than having drugs foist on them. They are not arrogant enough to claim a know-it-all attitude and realize that masses of people who go to Western doctors only do so out of "faith" not knowledge. - thenoseknows

5)   Acupuncture is supposed to work through mechanisms that are inconsistent with what we know about physiology (how the body works) and anatomy today. But because people have reported benefits from them, attempts have been made to see if these methods work anyway, and do so beyond the placebo effect (The effect created by expecting it to work and all that).

It turns out, that acupuncture can't do anything that a placebo can't do. So you have a system that (with present day knowledge) looks like placebo and works like placebo. In short science tells you that acupuncture does not have effects of its own. And in addition there are some serious risks involved: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21440191

The original system had 360 acupuncture points (based on the number of days in the year - not anatomy). This number has risen to more than 2000 points, so hardly any spot on the skin is not an acupuncture point. Different acupuncture systems operate with 9 to 11 meridians. After all these years that acupuncture has been around, no research has been able to document the existence of acupuncture points, meridians or chi.

Acupuncture is neither as old nor as popular as is commonly supposed: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=11713#more-11713 - JLI


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Question 4
What are great things to help an ulcer?...  

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1)   Orange juice does wonders. I always use it when i have an ulcer. U dont have to gargle or anything, just drink it. - Vault Boy

2)   Proton pump inhibitors (drugs that end in -azole), no booze, no coffee, no cigarettes. High carb diet (pasta, bread) and avoid things that are spicy or difficult to digest such as meat and greens. Avoid orange juice, it's too acid. - ssspecialk

3)   It depends on the type of ulcer. Some ulcers are caused by bacteria so you need an antibiotic. But, in general, avoid:
- Spicy foods. Like hot peppers, curry.
- Black pepper.
- Acidic foods like tomatoes, pickles, anything that uses vinegar. - csroberts

4)   Stomach ulcer? It's usually caused by Helicobacter pylori.

Combination therapy of antibiotics and PPIs resolve the problem in 9 in 10 cases.

Ignore that obnoxious cat who will be along shortly to tell you to drink cabbage juice. She is completely and utterly medically and scientifically illiterate. - Rhianna does Medicine Year 1


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Question 5
i have taken 4 sleeping pills 2 valium5 and 2 valium10 im feeling sleepy and also getting unconsciousness.i wa?...  i want to remove the effect of those sleeping pills.can anyone please tell me how to do this..please its urgent..

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1)   You over dosed - Jules ☺ ☻ ♥ ♦

2)   These are not sleeping pills these medicine are called antydepression there are for hipertention, but definately u have taken overdose thts why u r feeling dousy just drink lots of water nothing will happened - DIPAK

3)   2 cups warm water with 4 tsps sea salt, then chug down about 2 ltrs water. It should cause you to throw up and/or get diarrhea.
or just drink the water
Or call poison control or go to the er - Candie Barr

4)   This is high dose 30 mg, take doctors advice.
Need to drink Plenty of liquids( water, soda. orange juice).avoid cold drinks(pepsi, cola etc)
Vomiting after drink ing warm water will also help. - afaq khan


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