1) Decision
The most important thing about quitting smoking is the decision to do so. You should tell yourself that you are going to try to quit smoking. You don’t have to commit to it for your entire life, but in order to start a change with this habit; your first need is to decide to try that way.

2) Join a group
First of all, in order to get guidance for quitting smoking you should join a group. This group should be mainly a task oriented group and act as a support group only as a second priority. The group should be conducted by an export guide that will follow you for the entire journey. Being part of a task oriented team is very crucial in your chances for succeeding with your way.

3) Taking notes
Smoking for most of the smokers in the word, has become almost as an automatic reflex, without thinking about it. In order to follow after your change in the smoking habit and in order to pay attention to each and every cigarette, you have to take notes. Each and every cigarette you smoke has to be recorded in a way that forces you to think about each and every one and force this habit to go through your head before put light the next cigarettes to come.

4) Reducing the amount
During your group sessions you would be given some task in a way that will help you with you decision to try and quit smoking. One of the task would be to try and give up the most unwanted and unimportant cigarettes. For example, you should decide with yourself and with your group colleagues, to give up smoking while walking. With time you should notice a decrease in your total daily and weekly amount of cigarettes.

5) Using medication
When reaching to the point that are stuck on a minimum amount of daily smokes and not being able to quit more cigarettes, it would be the exact time to put into use the heavy artillery. This is exactly the time to begin taking anti smoking medication such as Zyban or Champiks.

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1) A heart attack
This is the No.1 danger when you smoke cigarettes. Smoking can cause failure in your heart function and can cause a heart disorder and even dying. Smoking can cause lots of other heart and blood system diseases even if you don’t feel like it does.

2) Breath diseases
If you are a heavy smoker then you are probably familiar with the phenomenon when you try to climb the stairs and your breath is very heavy? This is exactly what is happening to your lungs. They act as a filter and get blocked with dangerous foreign materials that among many other bad things, it can cause cancer.

3) A stroke
Imagine yourself wake up in the morning and suddenly you feel confused, without being able to speak with your wife, can’t move your legs and even faint or louse your conscience. These are exactly some of the stroke’s symptoms. Stroke happens when a vital vein in your brain is being blocked or brakes. It is the No.2 cause for death right after the heart disorder.

4) A high blood pressure
Smoking causes a high blood pressure. It raises your level of nerves towards your surrounding and can even cause a heart failure or a stroke. High blood pressure is silent killer that can cause even death.

5) Mood extremism
Smoking causes many extreme mood reactions such as incontrollable anger, a low sensitiveness, nervousness, impatient and many other mental phenomenons. The urge to hold a cigarette all the time, take control of your normal life, and you find yourself living your life from one cigarette to another.

6) A low physical fitness
Smoking harms your physical fitness in a way that makes you believe that everything is normal and you don’t understand why is making exercise tend to be so difficult and hard. It even prevent from you to reach to your best achievements even without knowing that you can reach more.

7) Damage your sexual life
Smoking is the No.1 cause for impotence in its different levels. It harms your sexual life and causes you to feel less pleasure when having sex. It reduces your passion and desire for making sex and you don’t even know the difference after smoking for so many years.

Cancer
Smoking is the No.1 killer reason. It causes among other diseases, also different kinds of cancers. Some of the main kinds of cancers that are caused by smoking are lung cancer, prostate cancer and throat cancer. Cancer is a very difficult disease to fight with and causes death in many cases.

1) Quit with decision
Researches have proven that only 3% of the people, who decide to quit smoking without smoking, would succeed not to smoke beyond the first year of their quitting. Therefore it is better to quit with other available methods.

2) Quit with drugs
A person who uses drugs such as Champick or Zayban has more chances to succeed with their decision to quit smoking. From my own experience with Zayban, this drug is not so dangers for schizophrenia sufferers even though it is an anti depression drug. You can give your P doctor the excuse that you prefer of receiving a psychotic disorder than to continue with your life as a smoker.

3) The combined treatment
It seems to be that the combined treatment is most affective way to quit smoking. It combines between group therapy with a professional conductor to taking anti smoking drugs such as Zayban and Champick. This method has a 50% chances to remain a non smoker even after the first year of quitting smoking and is recommended by me.

No matter what the method you decide to quit smoking with, you should remember that it would only improve your life in aspects such as – your physical health, your ability to bread, your fitness, your smell and many other reasons.

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1) Exercise
In order to control the amount of calories that remain in your body at the end of each day, you should get a physical activity such as exercise. In that way, you would burn more calories than gaining them as extra fat.

2) Diet
When the problem is your eating habit, then one of the most important ways of treating your weight is by controlling it with a suitable diet. In order to receive the right menu of what you can and can’t eat during the day, you should consult with a diet expert.

3) Be active
One of the most common phenomena when you suffer from schizophrenia is luck of motivation to do stuff, and therefore gaining extra weight as a result. The solution is being active. You have to find dailies activities that would force you to do stuff with yourself or with others and as a result you would burn unwanted fat.

4) Don’t eat snacks
As a result of not doing stuff and lying most of the time in front of a TV set, there is always a will to make your mouth busy. If you don’t smoke then you eat snacks, and snacks are the No. 1 cause for gaining extra weight. The solution is if you want a snack; try to eat fruits, dry fruits and vegetables instead. Don’t eat those fatty industrialized materials.

5) Reduce your medicines
This should be done only with your p doctor supervision. You can reduce your psychiatric drugs to a minimum dosage, but beware not to stop taking them completely! You should remain with an optimal dosage that would cause you minimal side affects, and still would balance and do what is supposed to from.
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1) Be assertive
Sufferers of schizophrenia disorder should act in an assertive way. They should claim things for themselves that otherwise will not be given to them due to their schizophrenia. They should stand up for their right to be treated as normal as possible.

2) Find a job
In order to be independent and earn your own money without being supported by the government, people who suffer from schizophrenia should find a job that both keep them occupied during most of the day and therefore not thinking only about their illness, and earn a decent living from it.

3) Find a mate
One of the most important polls in life is your partner to life, your boy or girl friend, or your sole mate. A partner in life helps very much to deal with the daily lives and support you in everything you do. He or she is also the person to talk and share with almost about anything.

4) Do exercise
Doing exercise has many benefits such as reducing the amount of the bad cholesterol in your blood, helping you sleep better and deeper, reduce body weight and blood pressure, remaining in fitness and so on.

5) Defining goals
One of the most important ways to release sufferers from their fixation is by determine goals in life and going to reach them. It also helps them to show themselves that they are capable of doing stuff and get things that others think they can’t.

1) Self care
People don’t like to hang out with others who don’t take care for them selves. People prefer hanging out with people who wash every day, clean their teeth and do basic hygienic activities as a way of life.

2) Manners
People prefer to hang out with others who are polite. They prefer people who do things in a polite manner and not with a vulgar attitude. Try to treat others in a polite manner rather than in a vulgar way. This way you would promise yourself a good, mannered name.

3) Control
You should try in all time, to control your angers. If someone gets you mad and make you angry, try to count to ten. Don’t let that person to take you out of control. By controlling your angers, you promise yourself to be known as a more relaxed person.

4) become Friendly
People prefer to hang out with more friendly people. Try to have a positive attitude toward other people. Try also to communicate rather than remain silent among other people.

5) Assertiveness
Try to be assertive. You should show to your surroundings that you are your own master of will. If you want something then you will act in a smart way to get it.

Be cleaver and you would work your way up in the society ladder.

1) Funerals
Avoid from attending to funerals. Or just attend the laying down ceremony, and be abstained from the actual burial itself. This act can cause you an unwanted trigger for your disorders later on.

2) Quarrels
Avoid from taking part in unwanted quarrels. Those quarrels can cause undesired emotions and physical reactions that can increase your emotional stress and blood pressure, and therefore can be an unwanted trigger for disorders.

3) Stressful activities
You should monitor which activities are causing you to unwanted stresses, and then avoid them or minimize them to a minimum as much as you can. Such activities can be – meeting friends from the past, too complicated tasks, staying with your family and so on.

4) Remain awake at nights
Don’t let yourself remain awake at nights and try to go to sleep even if you don’t feel like at first. If you can’t sleep anyway, try to complete your missing sleeping hours during the next day. A continuous lack of sleep can be a very dangerous trigger.

5) Forbidden activities
Don’t break the law, don’t use forbidden substances such as drugs, don’t heavily drink alcohol, don’t smoke too much cigarettes, avoid pornography. All of those activities and more can cause you unwanted stresses and can trigger your disorder to erupt.

The main reason for all of the above, tend to be mainly lack of motivation and a total despair.

Addiction to smoking tends to be almost the number one problem of people who suffer from schizophrenia due to many reasons. In order to live longer and to prolong your life span, you should consider quitting smoking, the sooner – the better.

In order to quit smoking, you should join a task oriented support group for quitting your addiction to nicotine and cigarette. This group should meet once a week, for a period of minimum 10 weeks. During your meetings, you develop a simple method to reduce the amount of smoked cigarette, and to conduct a diary about your smoking.

During the 3rd or 4th week, you should begin taking peels that neutralizes the need for the nicotine. From my own experience with a drug named – ZYBAN, it is completely safe for people who suffer from schizophrenia, even though the first week for using this drug is accompanied with several days of inconvenience, with a few sleepless nights. Everything should return to ordinary during the second week. None the less you should consult your doctor before and during the use of any drugs, including ZYBAN.

Life with out smoking are beautiful, the smells, the tastes, and the air in your lung – you should try to believe what I’m saying.
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