Jeudi 22 octobre 2009
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Another means of navigating challenge is to engage in a mental
exercise or physical activity which occupies the conscious mind long enough to allow
challenge to pass.
Alphabet or counting association schemes demand some degree of focus and
concentration and provide an instant means of occupying the mind. An alphabet
association scheme can be as simple as going through the alphabet while trying to
associate each letter with person, place, animal or food.
Take food for example. The letter “A” is for grandma’s hot apple pie. “B” is for a nice
crispy piece of warm bacon. “C” is for a rich and moist chocolate cake. I doubt
you’ll ever arrive at the challenging letter “Q” before three minutes have passed and
the challenge subsides.
Physical distraction possibilities include turning to your favorite non-nicotine activity,
a brief period of physical exercise or something as simple as brushing your teeth.
Activities such as screaming into a pillow, squeezing a tree or biting your lip are
available should you feel a need to vent. The pillow won’t scream back, I doubt you’ll
hurt the tree and lips heal.
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Jeudi 24 septembre 2009
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As we navigated our day our subconscious recognized use cues and issued gentle commands letting us know it was again time for replenishment. Sometimes the urges were noticeable and sometimes not.
They could arrive as fullblown crave episodes if replenishment was way overdue. Recent findings suggest that the insula, in the brain’s limbic region, may act as a control center able to alter the
intensity of anxiety commands in response to encountering a time, place, location or emotion during which we had conditioned our subconscious to expect nicotine.
The intensity of a particular crave episode appears to be influenced by a number of factors. A 2007 study found that the two most significant were how recently the person had used their drug and
their level of impulsiveness.
The longer without nicotine the longer fear driven anxieties have to build. The magic period seems to be when the mind finds itself 100% nicotine-free yet still alive and functioning. Not only is
it functioning it’s thriving! If there is a moment of subconscious awakening it’s here. All levels of awareness are confronted with the reality that they’ve been living a lie, that once all
nicotine is out of our system, things slowly start getting better not worse. It’s here that fear of failure and fear of success come face to face.
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Vendredi 17 juillet 2009
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15:57
Article 11 of the FCTC states that health warnings on cigarette packages should cover at least 50 percent of the principal display areas (both the front and back) of the tobacco package, but at a
minimum must cover at least 30 percent of the principal display areas. It also requires that warnings be rotated; large, clear, visible and legible; and approved by the competent national
authority.
Strong international guidelines for Article 11 adopted in November 2008 during the Third Conference of the Parties recognize the evidence that effectiveness of health warnings increases with their
size and that pictorial warnings have a greater impact than text- only warnings. The Guidelines recommend pictorial warnings on at least 50% of the package and call for key requirements for the
content, position, and size of warnings.
Canada was the first country (2001) to implement pictorial warning labels that are compliant with the FCTC Article 11 Guidelines. As of May 2009, more than two dozen countries have passed
legislation requiring large pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages. Other countries are currently preparing strong warning label policies in response to the new FCTC Guidelines.
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Vendredi 10 avril 2009
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The Lucky Strike logo was created by famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy, who also created the logos for Exxon, Shell and
Coca Cola. The logo later became a prominent fixture in Pop-era artist Ray Johnson's collages.
Luckies are considered to be one of the Worlds finest cigarettes and have a loyal and faithful following, they also are a topic of an urban legend that was that one of every 20 in a pack was
actually a Marijuna joint, not true of course!
Lucky Strike Filters and Lights were discontinued in the US in late 2006. only the non filter ones are still available,Filter and Lights known as "Original Red" and "Original Silver" are being made
in Europe and are available on the internet.
Lucky Strike Cigarettes were first introduced as a finished cigarette in 1916 by the American Tobacco Company. Lucky Strike's dark green
pack was changed from green to white in 1942. In 1996, filtered Lucky Strike Cigarettes were launched, but it was not until 1999 that they were available all over the United States.
As of 2006, full flavored filtered, as well as light flavored filtered
Lucky Strike cigarettes have been discontinued in the
United States but you can find them from an online dealer for simple delivery. However, they are still marketed and sold in territories that are controlled by British American Tobacco. However, the
original, non-filtered Lucky Strike cigarettes are still sold all over the world, including in the United States.
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Lundi 30 juin 2008
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10:35
Yesterday's gasp is tomorrow's ho-hum and things move continually in and out of style — acceptance too.
Take the young in their swanky watering holes, downing quarts of the hard liquor the rest of us took a lifetime to kick, convinced at last it was bad for us.
Ot the magazine ad for St. Germaine's Delice Du Sureau, a liquor billed as "the new absinthe." It shows a sepia-tinted 1890s photo of two young women faced away from the camera in filmy garments
that would be decent in an ancient Rome kind of way, but for the two absolute peep-show windows in the back, exposing the twin peaches of their bare bottoms. Also, each girl has an arm
draped around the other's waist in such a way that her fingers ever so lightly dent the tender flesh of her friend's derrière.
Now I'm a member of the generation that threw away its own undergarments, donned body paint and kicked over every sacred cow it could find, but this picture shocked me to my Reeboks - though I
frankly thought I COULDN'T be shocked anymore with the way the young dress today, the girls in tops the size of potholders, the girls and guys alike in beltlines worn so low the bones flanking
their bellies jut like tiny Mount Rushmores.
You can see this picture for yourself, either by getting the June issue of Vanity Fair or by following the link to my blog Exit Only, directions below, but let's get back to the way
trends change - so much that you come to wonder if there's ANYTHING once banished that isn't later welcomed back and celebrated.
This Delice Du Sureau likens itself to absinthe, a commodity that perfectly illustrates this principle: In the past everyone loved it. Then it was banned. Everyone loved it over here.
Then it was banned over there.
A powerful brew made of wormwood, anise and fennel, it was THE drink of choice among all kinds of 19th century "artistes." I'm talkin' about fun-lovin' guys like Charlie-the-Chuckles Baudelaire.
Crazy Vinny Van-Gogh-Gogh. Polly-Wolly-Doodle Verlaine. And of course my own personal hero, Oscar the Wilde Man, that rock-star of an author who took America by storm when he came here in the
1880s in his ankle-length greatcoat with the green fur trim.
Oscar himself said absinthe made him feel as though tulips were sprouting from his lips. Others claimed it gave them a "lucid drunk."
But many others lined up against it, like several giants of 19th century art who depicted its evil effects: See Degas's "The Absinthe Drinker" in which a hatted lady in a bar sits staring
stupidly at nothing. See Maignan's "Green Muse," in which a cruelly grinning fairy in lime chiffon squeezes the temples of a tortured-looking poet.
One outraged citizen wrote that it makes "a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant." (Wait, the infant?!) And one of Emile Zola's novels has reports of an
absinthe drinker who stripped himself naked in the street and died doing the polka.
But surely there are worse ways to die. I know I fell down doing the polka at Charlie Potzka's girl's wedding and Charlie fell too and the two of us were having a wonderful time.
Anyway, now tolerance for the stuff is "in" and absinthe must be back on the OK Today list because you can buy it again in the States, and also your Delice Du Sureau and even your shocking
pictures too.
God knows what's next. Maybe the revelation that that — wo, hey! — tobacco's actually GOOD for you!
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