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Look For Information And Encouragement At A Stop Smoking Forum

Wherever you look, the writing is on the wall; cigarette smoking is injurious to health. However, this statutory warning is unable to reflect the horror of the disease and death that cigarette causes so that now in many places a cigarette pack also contains the skull and bones image to better drive in the point. Smokers not only put their lives in peril but also cause all those around them to suffer the dangers of passive smoking.

Quitting smoking tests the nerves of smokers to the extent that they may need help and support to accomplish this seemingly insurmountable task. The extreme physical and emotional dependence on nicotine causes the smoker to experience great anguish while quitting smoking. However, a strong determination coupled with aid and support can make the burden easier on the smoker. One option to make quitting successful is by participating in stop smoking forums. The online forums are a great source of information and motivation to stop smoking.

Forum as a source of information:

If you do not feel that you can adopt the cold turkey method to stop smoking, you can try out the stop smoking forum to enlighten you on various aspects of giving up the habit. Here, you will find abundant information on alternative therapies, traditional treatment methods and so on. Those smokers who are first timers at quitting can get a lot of help from the information that is prominently displayed for this very purpose. One important and immensely valuable feature of a stop smoking forum is the experiences of former and present smokers that are posted. Their feedback is very crucial because it tells you about the mistakes that they made or the successful tactics that they adopted. You can thus, steer clear from similar mistakes and emulate their winning strategy.

Social pressure:

While you gain from the experience of others it is also a good idea to share your own stop smoking plan. So, introduce yourself to the stop smoking forum and talk about the route that you are taking to quitting, the problems that you are facing as well as how you have successfully overcome some obstacles. This will benefit other smokers trying to quit who will take courage from your experiences. So while you have to put up with the splitting headaches caused by withdrawal, knowing that you are a source of encouragement to others will make it more bearable. Another manner in which stop smoking forums can be beneficial to you is that when you start interacting socially via the forum you are under greater pressure to maintain your non-smoking status, which will make it very awkward and difficult for you to light up even if you want to.

It is easier to suffer a relapse when you are alone in your quest to stop smoking. Whereas, when you have to post your progress every day on the forum, cheating yourself and others will be task that will not come easily to you. And if you do succumb, talking about it on the stop smoking forum will not only lessen your guilt but will also bring out encouragement from others to not lose heart but keep at it.

So, explore your social environment and network to derive maximum benefit from it to help you succeed in your struggle to give up this dreadful habit.

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Please Advice! Do Docs come to this forum?
How much should be the FBS to start taking medicine. Docs take FBS test twice or three times within 10 days and if it is above 160 on three tests , they tell you to start taking medicine. other doctors insist that you can control it by diet and they don't dadvice you to start taking medicine. Which one is the correct procedure or advice? I met a doctor who daringly told me that he does not prescribe tablet or insulin injection unless the FBS is 250 or above. When should one start taking medicine? Some laymen say if it is 127 or above taking medicine is imperative. Still others say any amount above 110 and even less than 126 is not normal. many say below 126 but above 100 is pre-diabetes and no need of medicine. It is conflicting if one considers these suggestions being said on different fora, including this forum. My FBS within a ten days test 176, 165, 144. Now, for 4 months it is between 90-125. No medicine so far. Am I diabetic? I want to

I'm not a doc. I am a pharmacist. If your FBS is over 126 then you are technically diabetic. A MD might not start you on medication at that time due to your willingness to institute lifestyle changes. Remember, these are guidelines and so some docs might not start meds until 160 blood sugar. If you monitor your diet, exercise, lose weight, and monitor your blood glucose you may be able to delay or reverse those numbers without medication. I know a pharmacist that is doing just that. He takes no meds and is controlled with diet and exercise.
Now, the doc that says that 250 FBS is ok to not start meds and institute lifestyle changes is just plan wrong. Remember, that if your fasting glucose is getting up to 250 then when you are eating it's going much higher. Even if it never got over 250 you are doing damage to you kidneys, eyes, nervous system, vascular system, gi tract, and many other systems. Not to mention, you are spilling glucose into you urine at those levels. That leaves you more susceptible to yeast and bactieral infections manifesting as- UTIs. (the glucose in the urine gives them something to chew on-urine is usually sterile). Also, diabetics immune systems are compromised and they get more infections. That doc is not being daring-he's being just plain stupid.
For you with a FBS of 90-125 with diet and lifestyle changes-go for it. You're doing exactly the right thing. Just keep up what you are doing and make sure you keep on monitoring. More than likely at some point in your life, you will become diabetic. But, that could easily be years, if ever.

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