List down reasons why you want to quit smoking. List down why you like to smoke. Decide whether the reasons you want to stop exceed the reasons you want to smoke. When you have decided to entirely quit smoking only then continue with reading the checklist. If not, only look at it when you re ready to quit. Do not quit smoking until you have completed the checklist. Also list down where and with whom, and when did you smoke. Visualize and write down how did you feel when you wanted to light a cigarette. Now imagine the same event, same people and same place but the feeling without smoking. Now imagine a scenario , if someone offers a cigarette to you, how would you feel. What would you say and what you be thinking. Refrain from consuming alcohol during the period of which you want to quit smoking...

Not feeling good lately. Having a hard time enjoying a good dinner for fear of the discomfort that may result later. Are you finding it harder and harder to lose weight. Do you or members of your family find it takes longer to get over an illness or injury. Scientists the world over are increasingly saying many of these problems and more are probably related to our modern diets. Even though the food we eat tastes and looks fine to our eyes, most of it is filled with fat and harmful chemicals that don t even have to be listed on the label. Did you know that the taste AND smell of many foods in restaurants are achieved almost entirely with specially designed chemicals. Without those chemicals, the french fried you enjoyed yesterday would have tasted like grease lumps and smelled even worse. Specially...

I have never been a person that is constantly afraid of something going wrong with my health or of dying. In fact, I have spent most of my life without fears about health or death. My wife, on the other hand, has always been really concerned about issues relating to her health and to the health of the ones she loves most. I guess some would call her paranoid about health issues. I had never met someone so paranoid about health issues until I met my wife. It took me a few years to really understand where she was coming from when she would urge me to the doctor at the first sign of a cough or cold. I spent the first years of my married life quite frustrated by her and her constant paranoid ideas about our health and life. My wife decided to begin going to counseling to discuss her issues of being...

I took a few herbal diet pills in college once on a whim, and I didn t eat anything for nearly two days afterwards. I also didn t really get much sleep either. Anything that makes you wired like that and kills your appetite so completely just isn t good for you. While they were ephedra free and were supposedly totally natural and safe, I don t think I d ever felt so polluted and ill in my life. A year later I discovered that the FDA had banned the same herbal diet pills I had taken, and I have to wonder what it was I had put in my body. Herbal diet pills are very popular these days as an alternative to more traditional methods of weight loss like diet and exercise. Herbal treatments in general are very trendy today, which I find a little worrisome for several reasons. First of all, just about...