Originally published July 16 2009
Quit Smoking: Try Juicing Fruits and Vegetables
by Kim Evans, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) Twenty percent of the population uses cigarettes, and according to the World Health Organization, cigarettes cause more than one in five American deaths. Modern medicine offers pills and patches to help you quit, but the simplest method to give up the cancer, heart disease, birth defect, and emphysema sticks has nothing to do with adding more chemicals to your body. It has everything to do with removing the chemicals from your body that you've been putting in there by smoking - the same chemicals that cause the cravings that make it so difficult to quit.
Juicing large amounts of fresh organic fruits and vegetables can be a powerful way to flush out those chemicals and poisons from your system. Not only are fresh squeezed juices nutrient-rich, but they are detoxifying as well.
To juice to quit, try to consume at least five large fresh fruit or vegetable juices each day, and have a juice - instead of a cigarette - each and every time the craving arises. Have more than five if needed, and get a juicing book and make your favorites. The more you like your juices, the easier the process will be.
The power-packed nutrition of fresh juice is often enough to immediately eliminate cravings. Within a week, your cravings will diminish considerably and getting through the days will be relatively easy. Keep up the process for a couple of weeks, even after you're no longer craving cigarettes. After a habit such as this, your body could use the extra care and nutrition.
Also take care with your diet during the process, and make most of your plant-based foods from nature, as opposed to processed or animal foods. Because detoxifying those chemicals from your body is what makes this work, you'll want to help your body along with your diet not hindering it.
Most people will also need an action plan for the bad day that's bound to come up, which is often the impetus that leads people back to the habit. Be sure to have your juicer handy, and reach for it, instead of a cigarette when this happens. Make sure you know your plan so when it happens, you're not surprised. And if you have a cigarette or two in the process, don't be hard on yourself, or think that your work is for not. Just keep going and reach for that juicer the next time a craving comes. If you keep it up, you'll get to where you're going, and the process should be relatively easy.
Incidentally, have you ever thought about why smoking is so detrimental to our health? Here's a hint: It's directly related to the toxicity of the chemicals in cigarettes. With large amounts of toxins and poisons in your body, your body has almost no choice but to produce problems.
When most of the population has health problems, and most people also consume foods with pesticide residue on them and all sorts of chemicals in them, it makes you think about the real cause of those problems too, doesn't it?
More:
http://www.americanheart.org/presen...
http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/ant...
http://www.living-foods.com/booksto...
About the author
Kim Evans is a natural health writer and author of Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse. Deep cleansing has helped her, personally, eliminate over a dozen problems in her own body - including several that medical professionals had said there were no solutions for, except long-term drugs.
Cleaning Up! outlines a powerful, easy to do, body cleanse. It's easy, at-home cleansing and includes colon cleansing, liver cleansing, candida cleansing and much more. It's designed to address the root causes of most all disease and offers deep detoxification that will remove more toxicity than most people think is possible... Learn more at www.cleaningupcleanse.com.
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