We often take up smoking to fit in with our peers, especially while at school.  Its conceived by some as being hip and schoolchildren are the largest group to take up smoking.

When Do We Start Smoking

Some recent and startling statistics revealed here, show that in the UK by ages 12-13-yrs 31% of kids had tried smoking, which almost doubled at 59% by ages 14-15 yrs. There are also mumblings that subliminal advertising is aimed at the teen girl market with the implication that smoking keeps you slim.

How Cool Is It To Start Smoking?

Marlon Brando 1949

Smoking played a large part in the movies, especially between the two world wars and then afterwards when youth culture really began to take-off. In 1953 when Marlon Brando played the first sexual screen idol/rebel in the filmThe Wild One. 

It made a hero of and helped launch the bad boy image (as we know it today), then James Dean took it forwards as the indolent adolescent that later imitators failed to nail. 

The anti-establishment rights-of-passage examples we’ve seen time and again since, provide a screen image for displaced teenagers, where adolescence can find itself both vulnerable and headstrong. But whatever your first cigarette story illustrating how (and when) you started, turns into an expensive and fairly non-glamorous habit as the years go by.

Making A Difference

However, the good news is that the quick-change techniques used here are excellent in unearthing the tracks and triggers of the habit, to help undone the habit.

And once you stop you can look forward to breathing normally again, reducing any aches and pains that often inhabit a smoker’s body, gain more clarity and reclaim your taste buds.

And if you’re concerned that you may take up over-eating where smoking left off (a very common concern) you can rest assured you do not have to replace one habit with another, but instead have an opportunity to restore your life (in all aspects) as you see fit.

When To Stop

The Anti-Smoking Law introduced in the UK in July 2007, has seen an increase in the numbers of people quitting the habit, as it’s becoming more challenging to have a smoke in a public area, for example your local pub, which is not such fun, out in the cold, in the dead of winter.

Various techniques are suited to Stopping Smoking and together we’ll find a best fit for you.

Tell me more …

If you’d like to learn more you’re welcome to an introductory chat – see how to kick-start the process – all sessions are ‘private and confidential.

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