How much is a pack of smokes? We’ll Duke University says its over $40 over pack!
In the book “The Price of Smoking,” Duke health economists calculated this sum by analyzing all the costs of smoking — personally, to the smoker’s family and to society at large Read more ›
Health and Safety News
Orange County Tobacco Education Coalition Meeting on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
The mission of the OCTEC is to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke in Orange County by mobilizing a broad-based network of community organizations and committed individuals. Read more ›
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As far as a smoker who is considering hypnosis to stop smoking, I wonder if there is any benefit when Doctors recommend that alternative approaches be tried in conjunction with other quitting methods such as medication, therapy, the patch, or nicotine gum.
Journaling is highly beneficial for the soul, and even necessary if you feel depressed, angry or sad. It is a great way to understand your feelings and what makes you tick. The clarity it provides is amazing. Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Creativity, recommends three pages a day. The first page is the “busy mind” talking — the part of us that writes things such as “I’m tired and not in the mood to do this”; “I have to remember to pick up the dry cleaning tomorrow” or “I don’t feel like working today”. After the busy mind has the opportunity to vent, we can then go deeper, whether it happens on the second paragraph or the second page. I like to get up each morning and write 3 pages of “stream-of-consciousness” (as Julia calls it) writing. Many of my questions and concerns are answered when I journal, and I evolve by leaps and bounds. Read more ›
By Andrew M. Leon, BSN, MS, CH
Certified Hypnotherapist
After centuries of use in various cultures in many parts of the world, man’s ability to induce and use relaxation and trance as part of the healing art is still viewed as magic or occult by many, even in the enlightened western world. Such an attitude places us in the position of a miner who celebrates the gold nugget discovered in a superficially tapped gold mine with nothing more than a small pickax and never realizing that the mother lode, the real power of the mind lies beneath his feet. Without instruments and the knowledge of geology, he cannot know that the nugget, over which he is celebrating, is only a micro-fragment of the wealth that lies below and for us the real power of the mind lies even closer if we are willing to pursue it a little further. Read more ›