8 TIPS TO QUIT SMOKING

Prepare the D-Day

In the days before the arrest, reduce your intake of tea, coffee and alcohol, and start to incorporate walking into your daily activities. The day before D-Day, throw cigarette butts, cigarettes and lighters. Remember to store all the ashtrays so that nothing interferes with your decision. Upon waking, place your first patch or chew your gum first. If you smoke after breakfast, take your first gum that time.

Move!

To avoid gaining weight, you must burn your calories wisely. Exercise is the only way to build muscle mass. And the greater the muscle, the more one consumes calories even at rest. The smoking cessation to find a better breath, it becomes even more fun to run or play tennis.

Learn about cooking light

It's time to take the steam cooking, the wok and nonstick pans. Use and abuse of herbs, spices, cheese 0%, lean protein and vegetables.
Fill magnesium
It is the ideal anti-stress. He fights insomnia, anxiety and fatigue caused by smoking cessation. It is found in whole grains, dried fruits, seaweed, some fish and seafood

Take iron

An iron intake prevents irritability often associated with smoking cessation. The oxygenation of the organism and cellular exchanges are less well when it is missing. Avoid, however, supplementation and opt for the liver and egg yolk, containing a lot.

Capitalize on the iodine

Nicotine is no longer there to prevent the storage of fat; iodine will fill this role naturally. Oysters, shellfish, soy and garlic contain many...

Boost the production of serotonin

If the missing drives to eat sugar, because sugar is transformed in the brain L-tryptophan, an amino acid which neurons need to make serotonin, regulating mood and appetite. While it is preferable to remove the cakes and sweets, it is important not to overlook the complex sugars that contain bread, pasta and rice.

Adopt breathing ventral

Once you feel the urge to smoke or to nibble the sweet breathing through the belly. While sitting on a chair put his hands on his belly and breathes calmly. You should feel your hands rise and fall to the rhythm of your breath. Hold for 10 to 15 breaths.

And laugh!

Studies have shown that a minute of laughter is equivalent to half an hour of complete relaxation. The faces, gestures and other causes tremors that promote the secretion of endorphins, a natural morphine. And when you laugh, you burn calories and act positively on all body functions. Then, fly the killjoys!

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Computer technology improves Home Entertainment

Each time the computer industry tries to make incursions into the home entertainment center by offering products that are designed to use the home TV screen as a computer screen, consumers offer a lot of resistance. Again, the computer industry continues, as evidenced by Intel Vivo technology and the fact that the media center version of Microsoft Windows XP operating system and different versions of Vista operating system are designed to make computers a part of the entertainment center home.

While consumers have been busy resisting the incursion of the home computer in the home entertainment center, computer equipment has been sneaking in every case. This raid occult can be seen in the form of new forms of TV technology. DVD players, digital TV converters, satellite receivers, DVR, video and game systems are all the computers in one form or another.

One side effect of having all this new technology in a completely computerizes is that there is an unprecedented level of compatibility between computers and the Internet, and home entertainment center. For example, there are a variety of devices that use Internet connections to provide their users with more options. The TiVo is a good example of this. TiVo’s to download their program guide information from the Internet and are also capable of being programmed to record specific TV shows from another location on the Internet. Some of the newer TiVo’s are also able to download movies from the Internet to be viewed on televisions. Other devices that can do include some versions of Sony HDTV sets, the Voodoo, the Sling box, Microsoft Xbox 360, and many others. Apple TV is capable of downloading videos from your home computer (which can get the video from the Internet or a digital camcorder), and the ability to download movies directly from the Internet should be arriving for the Play Station 3 from Sony.

Another interesting result of the overlap between computer and TV is the introduction of portable video devices. A portable video device is a hand held, battery portable device that can store video on a built in system for storing data and then display it on a television screen or its built in screen. These devices are available in various sizes and capacities. For example, there are versions with only two gigabytes of storage space and such a small screen you have to wonder why nobody has given them the ability to play videos.

At the other end of the 'extreme are devices which have largely screen sizes, the ability to store more than one hundred hours of video, access the web over a Wi-Fi connection, and also record video that is played off other devices and stored on their own hard disk. Data storage systems use either flash memory or more conventional hard drives, and screens can be conventional LCD technology or energy saving OLED screens. Some of these devices can also download videos from some Digital Video Recorders if all the compatibility issues are taken care of.

All of these devices show the benefits that computer technology can be applied to home entertainment.

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Depressed teens 'face adult risk'

Teenagers who have minor depression are at a higher risk of mental health problems later in life, a study says. Psychiatrists at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute spoke to 750 people.

Anxiety, severe depression and eating disorders were all far more common in 20 and 30-year-olds who had had minor depression as adolescents, they found.

The British Journal of Psychiatry report said further research was needed to unpick the reasons for the link.

UK charities said specialist services for young people were vital.

The study was based on interviews with 750 14 to 16-year-olds who were then assessed again as adults.

It found that 8% of participants had minor depression as teenagers.

By the time they got to their 20s and 30s, the risk of them having major depression was four times higher than those who did not have signs of minor depression at the first interview.

There was a two-and-a-half times increased risk of agoraphobia, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder and a threefold risk of anorexia or bulimia.

Early help

The researchers defined minor depression as milder than clinical depression but lasting at least two weeks and including symptoms such as feeling down, losing interest in activities, sleeping problems and poor concentration.

Study leader Dr Jeffrey Johnson said more research was needed to see if depression problems in teenagers were an early phase of major depressive disorder or if minor depression earlier in life contributed to the development of more serious problems later on.

Lucie Russell, director of campaigns at Young Minds, said the study highlighted the importance of giving teenagers the right support when problems first arise.

"Ensuring teachers, social workers and the rest of the children's workforce have the appropriate skills and knowledge to identify when a child is showing signs of depression will enable young people to get help early before problems escalate to crisis point."

But she added that access to specialist services was a problem with some parts of the country having year-long waiting lists.


Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8227485.stm

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