Kit : Quit Smart Stop Smoking Guidebook, Hypnosis Audiotape, and Cigarette Substitute Review

Kit : Quit Smart Stop Smoking Guidebook, Hypnosis Audiotape, and Cigarette Substitute
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I was a die-hard smoker. If I had limited time to either go to the restroom or go outside for a smoke, the urge to smoke would always win. I tried the different stop smoking programs with no success. Fortunately, three years ago, I discovered the QuitSmart System. Finally a comprehensive program that really works! Each component included in the Kit - book, hypnosis tape, and cigarette substitute - provides its own unique value.
The Guidebook is packed with useful information and advice; it is easy to reference over and over. During peak urges to smoke, I would reread my favorite sections. There is a partial list of 4000 chemicals smokers inhale: arsenic, DDT, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide to name a few. In the section about withdrawal symptoms as your body heals itself, one point says, "Feeling dizzy or lightheaded sometimes occurs as your brain gets more oxygen than it is use to."Wow, this information would always kill my urge to light up!
The Hypnosis audio tape proved to be priceless. At work, instead of my usual, inconvenient smoke breaks (ten floors down and outside near the dumpsite), I used a portable player with headsets and listened to the tape. It was amazing how well the audio helped me to calm down and focus on my tasks. At the end of my work day, instead of a cigarette to help me "unwind," I listened to the tape.
The Cigarette Substitute's unique design allows you to adjust the draw to your liking; the deep breaths provide a calming sensation. Also, the Cigarette Substitute fulfills the need to do something with your hands and mouth--more satisfying than chewing a pencil or pen all day! During my previous attempts to quit smoking, irritability was a pitfall. A close friend once said he would rather I smoke than put up with my irritability! Along with the QuitSmart System, I chose to use the Nicotine patch. Irritability was never an issue. The QuitSmart Guidebook includes very helpful information on your medication options (from patch, gum, and inhaler to Zyban tablets), including a chapter on the Nicotine patch written by the Duke doctor who invented it.
This program eases you into quitting; it gives you time to prepare for your quit date. Buy this Kit now-even if you are only thinking about quitting or dread the energy and focus it takes to stop. You will discover a unique support system that may prompt you to set that special date sooner than later!

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Developed by the Director of the famous Duke UniversityStop Program, The Quit Smart Stop Smoking Kit provides all the toolsyou need to break free from cigarettes.The QuitSmart Guidebook presents the latest coping methods to ease youthrough the quitting process (including info on selectingmedications). The self-hypnosis tape helps you relax as you developthe care and respect for your body that naturally lead to permanentfreedom from smoking. The patented Cigarette Substitute features anadjustable draw and gradually breaks down the power of real cigarettesto tempt you.The QuitSmart System has been selected by hundreds of well-knoworganizations including Apple Computer, Kaiser Permanente, LockheedMartin, NASA, and the U.S. Airforce Academy.

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Fortune January 18 2010 Hyundai - Toughest Car Company, Meet Lou Dobbs, Vancouver/2010 Winter Olympics, Winter Beach Getaways Review

Fortune January 18 2010 Hyundai - Toughest Car Company, Meet Lou Dobbs, Vancouver/2010 Winter Olympics, Winter Beach Getaways
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"Hyundai Smokes the Competition" by Alex Taylor III was the most appealing article in this issue, and reported on the 43-year-old company's best-in-class quality and aggressive volume goals. Its 21-story headquarters south of Seoul has monitors watching operations around the world from Beijing to Montgomery, Alabama - including its Ulsan, Korea plant, the world's largest integrated auto factory.
Combined with sister company Kia (owns 39%), Hyundai has 80% of auto sales in Korea, while U.S. sales are +7% in a -24% market. Kia has become the 8th most popular brand in the U.S. in only 15 years. In China, Hyundai is in second place, behind VW among international car makers. In 2008 it introduced the Genesis model as an upgrade from Sonata. This last December, U.S. customers saw the 2011 Sonata two months ahead of schedule. Hyundai is already 4th among the world's car-makers and was named years ago by Toyota as the company it feared most. Its goal is 6.5 million units in 2 years, vs. 5.9 million in 2009. En route, it is introducing a new model this year, the $60,000 Equus, to compete with top Mercedes, BMW, and Audis costing $20,000 more. Hyundai introduced its first hybrid last summer - it has developed lithium-polymer batteries 40% smaller and 35% lighter than Toyota's nickel-metal-hydride ones.
When Hyundai's current chairman took over in 1999 the emphasis changed from sales volume to quality - it adopted the Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, and implemented weekly quality meetings attended by the chairman. Hyundai now ranks ahead of Toyota on J.D. Power initial ownership surveys.
The firm is building a $5 billion steel mill in Korea that will focus on producing lightweight, high-tensile auto steel.

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Laurindo Almeida / Broadway Solo Guitar Review

Laurindo Almeida / Broadway Solo Guitar
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Since the product description above is so brief, I thought customers might enjoy this excerpt from Guitarist's Forum at gfmusic: This high quality, hard-to-find book features 11 note-for-note transcriptions from Laurindo Almeida's incredible, classic LP "Broadway Solo Guitar." Includes detailed performance notes written by Myrna Sislen, a noted performer and former student of Charlie Byrd. Please note: This book features standard, [...]. However, TAB is not included.
Includes Solo Guitar arrangements of the following Broadway standards:
As Long As He Needs Me
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Little Girl Blue
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
My Funny Valentine
People
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
The Sound of Music
Was She Prettier Than I?
What Kind of Fool Am I?
Is It Really Me
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Intermediate to advanced arrangements. Includes: Was She Prettier Than I? * What Kind of Fool Am I? * The Sound of Music * Little Girl Blue * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * People * My Funny Valentine * As Long As He Needs Me.

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For Smokers Only: How Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life Review

For Smokers Only: How Smokeless Tobacco Can Save Your Life
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I recently acquired this book, and couldn't put it down. I have smoked for 21 years, a pack-a-day. Before I bought this book (about a week or so), I made the decision to switch to smokeless tobacco. I came across this book and bought it to reinforce my decision.
Dr. Brad Rodu, Professor and Chair of Oral Pathology with the School of Dentistry with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, explodes all the myths and misconceptions concerning smokeless tobacco and it's health risks, including the big one that switchers trade one form of cancer for another. He includes many useful statistics to back up his claims, which are ignored by the fanatical anti-tobacco prohibitionists. While there is a slight increase of risk for oral cancer among smokeless users over the risk among non-tobacco users, the other problems associated with smokeless tobacco use are minimal, especially when compared with smoking tobacco use. The problem, you see, is with the nicotine delivery system. Combustion of tobacco causes 3,000 different chemicals to enter the lungs and all other organs and systems in the body. Not good. Radu points out that nicotine is what we are addicted to, NOT all the carcinogens and deadly toxins contained in tobacco smoke. Smokeless also doesn't produce harmful second-hand smoke, or discolor clothes and homes, or make burn-holes in beds and car seats, or cause house and forest fires, or stink up everything around it in general, like automobiles. He compares nicotine to caffeine, as both drugs have similar effects on the body, are both addictive, and neither is thought to directly contribute to any serious disease or health problem.
Rodu does not advocate starting any tobacco use if not currently using, and in fact would like to see its use eradicated in the next generation or two - he properly notes that the safest thing is to not use any tobacco at all, but nicotine is such a difficult addiction to shake. If other smoking-cessation programs don't work for you (which they often don't), then switching to smokeless tobacco is a viable and MUCH SAFER alternative. In fact, it is 98% SAFER THAN SMOKING. The life expectancy of a smokeless tobacco user is almost identical to that of a non-tobacco user, while smokers lose an average of 8-15 years of life, and those last years are often a horrible, miserable experience.
I have been off of cigs for almost 3 weeks now, using various U.S. Tobacco products, mostly the pouches in some yummy flavors. I have almost no desire to light up - in fact they stink to me now, and I can really smell a smoker when they get within range. The only time I want a smoke is when I wake up, or after a large meal, but that desire quickly goes away after I put in some smokeless tobacco. The only drawback so far is that it stains my teeth quite a bit, but I can breathe so much easier, and have so much more energy. The teeth-staining problem just requires more teeth maintenance, i.e. using mouthwash, a tooth pick, floss, etc. There is also a risk of gum or tooth loss, but my dentist has assured me that he would much rather see me using smokeless tobacco than smoking, and that I would just need to see him twice a year or so. As Radu points out, soon I will have a much lessened (almost non-existent in a few years) risk of heart attack, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, shortness-of-breath, COPD and all the other horrible things and cancers associated with long-term smoking.
I have recently talked to two older gentlemen that have used smokeless for 50 and 42 years, respectively, and no problems were noted, except one guy said he had some receding gum problems, but has not lost any teeth.
Smokeless tobacco is also much cheaper than cigarettes, as Rodu points out that smokers pay more money for less (but far more dangerous) tobacco.
Cigarette smoking kills about 420,000 people each year. It is the largest identifiable and PREVENTABLE cause of premature death in the United States. 20% of all deaths annually are because of smoking. If all of the 46 million American smokers would take Dr. Rodu's unconventional yet quite possibly effective advice, more lives would be saved, if not lengthened. The deaths from tobacco use would be down to about 6,000 per year!!! About 1.7 million smokers have made the switch, according to his stats, although the copy I have was printed in 1995.
If you are a smoker and have failed many times at quitting (as I had), this book is for you. It even illustrates (in pictures) how to properly use smokeless tobacco for 'rookies', and even shows women using the stuff. More 'spitless' products are available, to be even more discreet. If you have switched, and are meeting resistance with the same old tired (and inaccurate) mantras unjustifiably aimed at smokeless tobacco from friends, family members or health-care professionals, then this book is also for you. If you are tired of being a pariah in today's increasingly anti-smoking society, this book is for you. (Just try and find public places to light up these days - you can enjoy smokeless tobacco nearly everywhere, discreetly - and he points out the myth about swallowing tobacco juice being harmful is false, except for maybe an upset stomach.....)
Best of luck to all you current smokers out there - there is hope! I plan on using this as a stepping-stone to quit my personal tobacco use altogether.... But for the time being, I am not going crazy while I can now call myself, for the first time in 21 years, a non-smoker......

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An explanation on the advantages of smokeless tobacco to cigarettes and as a better alternative to the nicotine patch.

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Hank Winton: Smokechaser Review

Hank Winton: Smokechaser
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My mom had an old copy of this hanging around the house when I was a kid, from when she was a kid. It tells the story of a young man who wants to be a forest ranger, specifically what is called a smokechaser, who watches for and puts out forest fires. The book is very well-written; dramatic, detailed, and develops the characters and their relationships well. This book always makes me want to get out of the house and off the computer and out into a park or forest, which is a plus.

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English Smocks Review

English Smocks
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I have the fifth edition, 1971, of this 20-page publication, English Smocks with directions for making them. In it Ms Armes presents a brief history of English smocks, who wore them, their colors, materials and decoration. Detailed directions for making them follows, accompanied by 12 black and white photographs of actual smocks. Included, at least in my edition of the book, are 13 folded paper inserts detailing various embroidery designs identified by their county of origin and type of worker or occasion, eg Stafford & Shropshire Gardener and Warwick Shepherd Wedding Smock.


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Fire Department Company Officer: Study Guide Review

Fire Department Company Officer: Study Guide
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I have used this book for over 3 years and the latest edition is a winner. Students at West Georgia Tech College in LaGrange, Georgia use this book for the Fire Science Leadership course.
The students like it and benefit alot more it you include roll playing. If you need more information call me 706-845-4323. Tom Smith

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