Experimental Drug Curbs Smokers' Nicotine Cravings - David R Bradley cimes in...

If you're looking to quit smoking, there's no need for an e-cigarette, patch, gum, and certainly no need to pop a pill that will further alter your brain chemistry.  Nicotine is already altering your brain chemistry.  When you go for a time with out injesting nicotine, you're body begins to withdraw.  It's normal, not a problem and part of becoming a non smoker.  Sometimes you need to suffer, strain and work to appreciate fully your accomplishment.  Why should getting off cigarettes be any different?

Pick up a copy of my book, How To Stop Smoking Without Killing Anyone to kick the habit.  Get it right the first time!  You have to power to stop smoking.  Will you use it?

Tips To QUIT Smoking - Tip Number 1

10 Tips to help you QUIT smoking - number 1 in our countdown - STOP TRYING TO QUIT - "do, or do not, there is no try" - smoking a cigarette is a decision you make - you decided to start - now, decide to stop.

Tips To QUIT Smoking - Tip Number 2

10 Tips to help you QUIT smoking - number 2 in our countdown - USE RESPONSIBILITY - break down the word - the ability to respond - choose your response to the urge to smoke...

Tips To QUIT Smoking - Tip Number 3

10 Tips to help you QUIT smoking - number 3 in our countdown - Say it LOUD n PROUD!  "My name is...  and I'm a SMOKER!"  Take responsibility for being a smoker!  Listen closely towards the end and you can hear a lady coughing!  Not planned!  All part of the show kids!  Not my show apparently...

Tips to QUIT Smoking - Tip Number 4

10 Tips to help you QUIT smoking - number 4 in our countdown - Identify your HIGHER purpose!  If you can't quit smoking for you, do it for a purpose greater than you!  What do you live for anyway?

Sage Stallone's Cause Of Death: Heart Attack

Sage Stallone died from a heart attack.  At least that is what the Huffington Post is reporting.  Tragedy being that this is a reality.  Rare, but real.  A very dear friend of mine, Joseph Tobin, left the party way too early due to aortic dissection.

While being 36 and dying from a heart attack is rare, it does happen.  Sage Stallone tox report came back clean...  except for the lungs.

The L.A. County Coroner is being quoted as saying that Sage was a heavy smoker and "the habit likely helped contribute to his death, as smoking is one of the chief causes of heart disease due to elevated blood pressure, increasing the risk of clots."

Any time we loose someone too soon, you have to ask, was he done?  God knows.  We don't.  We are all here to fulfill a purpose, to aid in the creation of a better planet.  Had Sage fulfilled his purpose?  Was it simply time for him to go work from Infinity because he can get more done there?  Again, God knows, we don't.

What I can tell you is this.  Deliberating cutting short the life you were given is...  well, it's a great many things, but let's just leave it at selfish.

Now I don't know Sage.  I never met him, never knew him.  I know his father obviously and have admired him from afar.  I also understand what it means to loose a loved one.  I have empathy for Mr. Stallone and wish him peace.  Sly, or any parent, should not have to loose their children.  Kids aren't supposed to die before their parents.  It doesn't make since.  Not in the least.

We are all on this Earth to live at our highest self.  We are here in order to fully understand our infinite nature.  Perhaps the lesson Sage can teach us to fully appreciate the fragility of the vessel.  And while the human race as a species and the body has the potential for great strength, survival, and creation, the body is still a machine.  If you don't replace your oil in the car, if you put diesel in a petrol engine, if you drive a full throttle all the time, the car won't run right and will not last as long.  Period

We've been giving this miraculous machine to work with while we're here on Terra Firma.   You must maintain the machine.  You must respect it.  It is a gift.  It is also on loan.  Consider it that way for a second and recognize that you very well might just have an obligation to return it in good condition.  When you rent a house, apartment or a car, you are expected to return it in the same condition you got it, why would the gift of life be any different?

So, that's the lesson.  Sage, I'm confident you are working from above to continue your purpose.  I wish you and your family peace.  While your time here was short, you may very well have saved countless lives with your story.

Tips to QUIT Smoking - Tip Number 5

10 Tips to help you QUIT smoking - number 5 in our countdown - DO THE MATH - How many cigarettes have you smoked this week, year, month?  If you smoke a pack a day, how many cigarettes will that be in 20 years?  Assuming you live that long...  math can be motivating!