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Dealing With Nicotine Withdrawal – You Can Survive It!

  • Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Quitting smoking has always carried the burden of dealing with nicotine withdrawal, one of the scariest and most difficult parts of quitting. Luckily, it can be easier in a few easy ways.

First, you should know exactly what’s going to happen. The symptoms of nicotine withdrawal will tend to pull you back towards smoking.

You will be irritable. Things will wear your patience thin very, very quickly. People will probably remark that you’re being short tempered.

It won’t make you want to smoke, but you’ll likely feel cold-like symptoms as well. Coughing, sniffling, and the like are all the body’s response to the poisonous chemicals you’ve been putting in it by smoking.

You’re also going to feel a sense of depression or regret. I went through three days of feeling like I was going nowhere as I was quitting. Annoyingly, the conditioned response to being depressed is to smoke a cigarette, which would undermine the entire thing.

The good news? The symptoms go away. It takes a couple of days, but after the first three days are over you’ll notice that they’ll drop to a fraction of their intensity, and they should be gone after a full week.

If you know what you’re getting into, it becomes more manageable to deal with the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. The first time I tried quitting (cold turkey, I might add) I became extremely depressed and confused on the second day, because I had no idea why I was experiencing those symptoms. I tried several times to quit cold turkey, but never lasted more than two or three days.

Incidentally, the way that I finally quit was with something called the EasyQuit System which is a behavioral therapy book on curing your mind’s need to smoke. After reading through it, I found quitting to be exceptionally easy and quit without looking back at all!

Dealing with Nicotine Withdrawal

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The First Few Days of Quitting Smoking – What to Expect

  • Posted on July 2, 2009 at 10:40 pm

The first couple of days after you quit are the hardest to deal with. It gets easier as time goes on, but the first 72 hours are the absolute hardest. Luckily, if you know what to expect, it makes it easier to cope with.

Why 72 hours? It takes about that long for your body to completely stop the effects of nicotine. While there are still traces of nicotine in your blood after 72 hours, it has stopped affecting you at this point.

As the nicotine levels in your blood decrease, you will begin to experience the physical symptoms that come from nicotine withdrawal. Irritability and cold symptoms are the most noticeable, but there are a few others that generally won’t be noticed unless you’re looking for them.

The irritability and general lack of patience will be the most noticeable. You may notice yourself less able to concentrate, and more likely to snap at friends and colleagues. Explain to them beforehand that you’re quitting smoking and what to expect.

On the third day, cravings will be at their worst. You will generally experience frequent cravings for cigarettes, and it may take completely over your thoughts and cause you to be completely unable to work, thinking that smoking will make you able to think once again. This is the way that cigarettes keep you hooked, by making you believe that you need them to function.

Keep pushing through it, and your mind will slowly realize that it doesn’t actually need cigarettes to keep working. As time goes on, you will feel fewer and fewer cravings, and will be able to function better.

Quitting smoking doesn’t have to be hard! I quit in an afternoon while reading these guides on quitting and, surprisingly enough, smoking as it tells you to do.

The First Few Days After Quitting Smoking

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Jump Start Your Plan To Getting Back With Your Ex

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Most people suffering from a break up would spend too much time wondering if they can actually make up with their ex, but never actually gotten down to work on getting back together. This is probably due to their inability to judge rationally and likeliness in resorting to self pity. However, hope of getting back with your ex girlfriend or boyfriend is highly possible since the two of you already share a part of your lives together.

In fact, the odds of getting back with an ex will be greatly increased if the break up is handled tactfully right from the very beginning. The worst thing you can do to jeopardize your chance of getting your ex back is by forcing, begging or threatening the other party to come back. Hence, if you want to get your ex back, it is important to let the your ex make the move. Basically, your strategy should revolve around inducing your ex into giving the relationship another go.

If you are certain that you really want to get back together with your ex, lover you must be willing to afford the time, patience and effort to win your ex back. Sitting down to analyze the root of the break up is a crucial starting point. This is because you simply cannot improvise without identifying what went wrong in your relationship. Ask yourself is there anything you can do to change the outcome of your previous arguments. Since you cannot actually change your ex, changing your approach will yield different results from your ex boyfriend or girlfriend.

More often than not, your break up could stem from one single issue that need solving. Earlier in this article, you would have known that to get back with your ex, you need to do whatever it takes, especially in tolerating and understanding the other person’s needs. Be honest with yourself when judging how far you are willing to compromise and give to maintain the relationship. If you can’t stand being the one who back off all the time, then perhaps the relationship will not last even if you have successfully get back with your ex.

For most couple, working to solve their problems would be interrupted if past mistakes are constantly brought up in the heat of discussion. Let bygone be bygone and the two of you would have a sharper focus on the problems ahead, instead of dwelling in past mistakes. This is one of the most common mistake that can dampen the communication between lovers, causing any effort to get back together unsuccessful.

We have all heard advice given by friends and family members in handling our relationship problems. Sadly, even advice given with the best intentions can backfire in the course of getting back with your ex. The art of making up with an ex lover is complex if not delicate, and only tried and tested methods are proven time and time again to be the best solutions around.

Getting back with your ex is a delicate task, and you must never left out the details on how to react when your ex response to your strategies. Visit http://www.WinningExBack.org/get-ur-ex-back-magic-of-making-up.html today.

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The Necessity of Barrenness – Part 1 of the Barren Womb Series – Sarah

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Gal. 4:28 Now brethren we as Isaac was, are the children of promise Ishmael and Isaac represent two covenants, a covenant of the flesh (the natural) and a covenant that is spiritual. (Gal 4:23, 24) But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Abraham had two sons by two different women – one his wife and one a slave. A son of the flesh – Ishmael and a son of promise Isaac. When Abraham took Sarah to be his wife she was barren. (Gen 11:30). But God promised Abraham that though he was childless, he would be the father of many nations and through him the world would be blessed. However, Abraham and Sarah could not fully grasp this.

They were both beyond the age of reproduction. Abraham was seventy-five years old when he was commanded of God to leave his home and Sarah was 65. Abraham, however, believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness (Gen 15.6). But the challenge would be in the waiting.
Ten years passed, both Abraham and Sarah aged far beyond the child-bearing. They would however, learn a lesson in faith and patience (Heb 6:12). Sarah came up with a plan to solve the problem themselves; the slave Hagar would be the surrogate. The plan seemed logical and may have worked, but God had made a promise. God never needs human ingenuity to fulfill His promise. God only needed the certainty that Sarah’s womb was barren and incapable of bearing a child.

The plan was flawed, Hagar conceived and resented Sarah. In turn, Sarah treated her badly and Hagar ran into the wilderness pregnant. God sent her back and saved her from death. He told her that her son would father a nation. Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. But this was not the child of promise. The bible says that the Lord visited Sarah. When Sarah was 90 years old, she gave birth to Isaac, the child of promise (Gen 21:2). The two sons grew and Ishmael began to pick on his brother Isaac. Sarah became angry and told Abraham that the child and mother must leave. The bondwoman’s child would not inherit with their son. Abraham grieved over this, but God comforted him (Gen 21 9- 13). God assured Abraham that the child and Hagar would be alright. Once again Hagar and her son were in the wilderness and soon without water. God provided them a well in the desert, where He
reaffirmed the promise concerning her son.

All of this happened because Abraham and Sarah did not understand the necessity of barrenness; As a result, Isaac and Ishmael are seeds of conflict to this day. Abraham was wealthy and had hundreds of men. He could have found a place for the child and mother among his tents. But there were not two heirs. The child of the slave woman could not dwell with the child of promise. The son of Abraham’s wife represented the promise, as well as the order of God. Through the child of promise, God would restore his relationship with man. The promise came without human intervention, because God made the promise.

What is your promise? Whatever it is you must become barren, incapable of producing it yourself. To be barren is to be empty. You must be empty of self. God is still looking for a barren womb to work a miracle in. Barrenness is necessary, a place of helpless where we are empty of our own will. This is when God performs miracles.

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