If you have been looking for the best smoking facts and possible giving up smoking effects ... look no further!

A smoker's heart will beat an average of 35,000 times more per day than a non smoker.

Why?

Well because nicotine makes your veins smaller and makes it harder for your body to pump your blood through your veins.

Each Cigarette you smoke contains 4,700 chemicals

A staggering 200 of those are highly toxic - poisons include, lead, niclear fuel and methane a poisinous gas. And a whopping 43 of these chemicals cause cancer

It takes 72 hours to remove all the nicotine from your system

It only takes three days to rid your body of nicotine! In three days you can be rid of it once and for all!

But when you use the 'cutting down method' or when you use nicotine patches, gums, lozenges and inhalers you prolong this time from anywhere between six weeks and a year!

No wonder you irritable and suffer terrible side effects after you've been wearing a patch for 8 or even 24 hours!

The average daily nicotine patch has more nicotine in it than you would inhale through cigarettes in one week

Have a look at the side of your pack of cigarettes and see how much nicotine they contain. Then do the same with your patches, gums inhalers etc.

Why do the pharmaceutical companies give you more nicotine in patches and gums than you would get through smoking? You wouldn't give a heroin addict more heroin in another form would you?

Smokers using Nicotine Replacement Therapy are four times more likely to stop smoking

But did you know that only 8% of smokers who use nicotine patches and gums succeed! And the everage time it takes to stop smoking with patches is three months!

You don't need ANY will power to stop smoking

Smoking is 99% in your mind, your subconscious mind to be exact. In case you weren't aware there are two parts to the mind - the conscious, the part you are using to read this and do your daily tasks.

And the subconscious mind - tha part that controls your heartbeat, your breathing, your habits, your deepest desires and the part that conrols you. This part of the mind controls your smoking.

But your will power is controlled by your conscious mind. Your will power is in a different part of your mind, so it just can't help you!

Sure you may know someone who stopped smoking through sheer grit and determination, but you can be sure they didn't enjoy it and that it was pretty hard and painful. You don't need to go through this!

Planning each and every stage of the stopping smoking process is the best strategy

In all areas of life, failing to plan is planning to fail.

When you plan exactly what you have to do to stop smoking, how you are going to deal with each and every day and issue and problem that can arise you will be ten times better equipped to to succeed.

When you stop smoking you're definitely going to want to eat more

Why?.

A couple of reasons really.

Nicotine suppresses your appetite, so your body tells you it needs food. Next, your body is going through a cleansing process, removing those 4,700 chemicals, poisons and toxins. It's going to need energy to clear all this gunk out.

And you are almost definitely used to ending some if not all of your meals with a cigarette. When there is no cue or reminder to end your meal, you keep eating.

Up to 90% of the nicotine in cigarettes goes up in the side stream smoke

Most of the nicotine that you are supposedly addicted to is lost in the smoke that leaves the tip of your cigarette, there is no way that you are as addicted to smoking as you are told and you have been led to believe.

Within 20 seconds of inhaling, nicotine and carbon dioxide enter your blood stream and brain

Almost the very instant you inhale smoke your body starts suffering. Your blood pressure jumps 20 points within 10 seconds, your brain is starved of oxygen and nicotine reduces the size of your veins and arteries within 20 seconds.

The result is your body goes under intense stress to try to remove all these nasty substances, and you do this yto yourself anywhere between ten to eighty times per day.

No wonder you feel so bad when you finally stop smoking - your body has to remove years' worth of gunk from your every cell, organ and body part.

You will experience a very, very heavy cough.

Why?

Well because your body is doing it's very best to remove the 4,700 chemicals from your body. Coughing and sneezing are one of th best ways to do this.

You've probably already experienced this to a certain degree - when you cough heavily each morning. Every night you spend 7/8/9 hours asleep - not smoking. So your body takes this chance to remove all the garbage in your lungs, heart, veins ect.

When you stop smoking for a few days this process is ten times stronger so you are definitely going to cough and splutter more.

You will experience a strong smokers dream

When you are asleep or in the middle of the day your body will be cleaning out all the toxins. This often leaves a strong taste of tar, nicotine, ash and smoke in your mouth and nose. If you happen to be dreaming or highly busy in the day occupied on some other matter, you can confuse this, and think that you have actaully smoked.

Don't let this fool you! It's a dream and can seriously make you think you've lost your battle

You will feel groggy, tired, sleepy and will have less energy

When you stop smoking your body works overtime to clear out all the chemicals. This will take a lot of energy, tiredness is a natural side effect.

You can have inexplicable panic attacks

Throughout your years of smoking you have relied on cigarettes to give you confidence, help you solve problems, prepare you for tough times and had them as a friend. When you stop smoking you will no longer be able to rely on cigarettes, this can lead you into a bit of a blind panic.

It's human nature to feel at a loss when you are making a large change in your life

You will bargain with yourself

Almost every smoker does it! It iis very likely that you will come to a point where you are anxious about stopping smoking

One of the giving up smoking effects is a stage where you try to talk yourself out of stopping smoking! You can either, convince yourself that you can't do it, you're not ready or not 'strong enough or you will lose your enthusiasm.

This is again natural, but be ready and be aware that if this happens you should re-consider how you are going to stop smoking

You can end up fighting yourself about how much you want a cigarette

This is a mental side effect.

Seeing other smokers with cigarettes in their hands, exhaling smoke and appearing to 'enjoy' themselves, can make you pretty jealous!

This can be mentally punishing, so be prepared and know that the only way you are going to beat this is by talling yourself and knowing deep down that you want to stop smoking and remove cigarettes from your life for good.

A lack of confidence?

Without your trusty cigarette you can experience a lack in confidence and doubt yourself.

The doubt can be in both your ability to stop smoking and also your ability to do even the smallest things, like have a drink or talk to new people at parties or gatherings.

This all stems from your reliance on cigarettes to cope with life's problems!

Head aches, nausea and other physical side effects

We are told that these side effects are because your body wants nicotine, when in fact they are simply part of the cleansing process.

When you have the flu you feel terrible when your body tries to remove all the germs, so it's only logical that when you stop smoking you feel terrible because your body is tryint o remove all the toxins.