Hypnosis can help you quit smoking, chewing, and any other tobacco addiction you may have. Cigarettes and other nicotine products are not only unhealthy but they also drain your funds. North State Hypnosis is here to help you say goodbye to the tobacco habit forever. Our nicotine cessation hypnotherapy program is tax deductable.

Call Brian Stracner at North State Hypnosis (530) 828-0880 for help today.

Smoking a cigarette exposes you to 4000 chemicals, 200 of them are deadly, and 60 of them cause cancer. Some chemicals are added by the ciggerete companies, while others are from the cigarette smoke. Tobacco companies are not required to tell you what ingredients they put in cigarettes, or why. The top three ingredients are the most harmful.

Nicotine: A drug more addictive than alcohol or heroin. Also an active ingredient in insect sprays.

Tar: Collects inside the lungs forming a sticky mass, which damages lung tissue.

Carbon Monoxide: A poison found in car exaust; destroys red blood cells causing death.

Cyanide: The deadly ingredient in rat poison. Causes internal hemorrhaging.

Formaldehyde: The foul-smelling liquid used to preserve the dead, also used in makeing carpets.

Ammonia: A poisonous gas and powerful cleaning agent used to clean toilets. Helps the body absorb nicotine.

Arsnic: A potent poison used to kill rodents.

Butane: A flammable chemical in lighter fluid. Used in ciggarette paper to make it burn longer.

Acetone: A poisonous solvent and paint stripper commonly found in nail polishes.

Toluene: A poisonous industrial solvent banned in nail polishes.

Pyridene: Used as a chemical dog repellent spray.

Hydrogen Cyanide: Used in gas chambers for executions.

Benzene: The poisonous toxin found in moth balls; banned in paint thinners.

Methoprene: A chemical in cigarette smoke which is also used in flea spray.

Vinyl Chloride: Chimical usedin the manufacture of PVC pipe.

Xylene: A product of tobacco smoke. A carcinogenic found in permanent markers and pens.

Propylene Glycol: Adds moisture to tobacco and improves nicotine delivery to the brain.

Stearic Acid: Used to make candle wax.

Turpentine: A highly toxic chemical. When inhaled it causes seizures.

Hexamine: Found in charcoal lighter fluid.

Lead: Poison that stunts growth, causes brain damage, banned in paints and gasoline.

Cadmium: Highly toxic chemical used in car batteries and metal plating; known to cause cancers.

Silicon: A substance used in adhesives; now banned in breast implants.

How much are you spending on cigarettes?

These prices are based on a pack-a-day smoker. Prices of tobacco products may very. This does not include medical and other health costs caused from nicotine products.

Benefits of quitting smoking by the hour

Within 20 minutes of the last cigarette

• Blood pressure drops to normal
• Pulse rate drops to normal
• Body temperature of hands and feet increase to normal

Within 8 hours

• Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
• Oxygen level in blood increases to normal

Within 24 hours

• Chance of heart attack decreases

Within 48 hours

• Nerve endings start regrowing
• Ability to smell and taste improves

Within 72 hours

• Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier
• Lung capacity increases

Within 2 weeks to 3 months

• Circulation improves
• Walking becomes easier
• Lung function increases up to 30%

Within 1 to 9 months

• Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath decreases
• Cilia regrow in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs, and reduce infection.

Within 5 years

• Lung cancer death rate for average smoker (one pack a day) decreases from 137 per 100,000 people to 72 per 100,000

Within 10 years

• Lung cancer death rate for average smoker drops to 12 deaths per 100,000--almost the rate for nonsmokers
• Other cancers--such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, and pancreas--decrease (there are 30 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer)

All of the facts on this page are from the American Lung Association.

North State Hypnosis is here to help you quit that habit once and for all. Call Brian Stracner at 530-828-0880 today for a free consultation. We can help you stop smoking, chewing, or any other nicotine addiction you may have with hypnotherapy. Hypnosis works!