Smoking Statistics
Smoking stats: The Facts and Figure on Smoking and Other Smoking Related Information.
Are You Looking to Stop Smoking?
Well, you have three options here:
1) You can come to one of our hypnotherapy practices, to have a one-to-one hypnotherapy session with Paul Douglass, Avon Hypnotherapy's stop smoking specialist.
2) If you are in the UK, but too far away to come to one of our practice locations, use our find a therapist service, and we'll help you to find a stop smoking hypnotherapist in your area.
3) You can download our mp3 stop smoking hypnotherapy session. Due for release in March 2008, the stop smoking download can be pre-ordered now, and you'll receive details of how to download your hypnosis session on the day it's released.
 Heya!
Its almost now 6 weeks ago that I had a smoking hypnotherapy from you.
And I just wanted to let you know that its going great since that day I never touched a cig or smoked one!
Its great, I`m feeling great.
Thanks a lot for that!
oh and the stawberries are lovely! 
Kind regards
Janice Rijken
(Name Used With Full Permission)
Smoking Statistics
Tobacco kills 10,000 people EVERY DAY worldwide (3.6 million per year). Tobacco is expected to be the biggest single cause of death in the world in the next 25 to 30 years.
Smoking kills 400,000 people a year in the United States alone, that's almost 1,100 every day. The figures for the UK are around 121,000 people a year, or approximately 330 per day. Approximately 38% die of cancer, 28% die a slow and agonizing death from chronic lung disease and emphysema, and the other 34% die of heart disease and other circulatory problems.
It has been estimated, that just 1/60th of a gramme of nicotine on your tongue can kill a person in minutes.
Tobacco companies are well aware that it is mainly young people who start smoking. It is for this reason that they target their advertising towards young people wherever they can. They know that they have to attract a given number of new smokers every day, to counteract the number of people that die due to smoking.
In the USA alone, 3,000 teenagers started smoking TODAY. Of these, smoking will eventually kill over a thousand of them.
300,000 children under 18 months old develop bronchitis and pneumonia every year in the United States, due to the effects of passive smoking.
Hypnosis has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to stop smoking of all methods of stopping smoking.
Parents smoking directly causes asthma, coughs and wheezes and even middle ear infections in children.
Teenagers are more than twice as likely to smoke if both their parents smoke.
Smoking during pregnancy causes babies to be born with a reduced birth weight. Around 4,000 babies a year, in the United States alone, die directly as a result of their mothers smoking during pregnancy.
A UK smoker who smokes around 30 cigarettes per day, will spend around £2,600 per year on their habit.
Feline lymphoma is a form of cancer affecting cats who live in homes where people smoke.
In affluent countries, smoking is one of the most common causes of blindness.
Following surgical operations, smokers will find that their wounds take longer to heal than non-smokers, due to the collagen fibre levels in the body being depleted. Smokers may also find that their healing wounds may be prone to rupture. This can often prove to be fatal, especially in cases of bowel surgery, for example.
Pneumonia, collapsed lungs, and other such complications of complete anaesthesia, are four times more likely in smokers than in non-smokers.
Thromboses of the heart and brain are the most common causes of sudden death. Smokers are very susceptible to thromboses, on average developing the disease some ten years before non-smokers.
Women who smoke during pregnancy, increase the child's likelihood to die during childbirth, to double that of a non-smoking mother. Should the child survive childbirth, it is also twice as likely to die during it's early years, and twice as likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome ('SIDS' or 'cot death').
New born babies who breastfeed from mothers who smoke, have as much nicotine in their blood as their mothers do.
The risk of brain haemorrhage is highest in women smokers, and is even higher if she also takes the contraceptive pill.
Smoking is one of the major causes of male impotence, increasing the risk of erectile dysfunction by some 50%, and affecting as many as 120,000 males in the UK alone. It has been reported that a male experiencing erectile dysfunction, should take this as a warning that blood vessels are being damaged, and this includes the blood vessels in and around the heart.
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