Smokers take 7.5 Weeks Extra Leave Per Year

Smoking breaks during office hours now cost the Irish economy up to €5m per day in productivity according to the Office of Tobacco Control.

For every staff member who takes a smoking break every hour, a company looses over 6 hours productivity per week per smoker,” says Brenda Sweeney Director of Allen Carr Easyway Clinics. “That is 7.5 weeks of productivity per smoker per year and that doesn’t include absenteeism due to smoking related illnesses.”

“According to Dr Michael Boland, chairperson of the Office of Tobacco Control, the majority of smokers ‘want to quit’ and employers should actively assist employees who want to give up,” says Brenda.

“Investing time and resources in smoking cessation programmes is a win-win situation for both employers and employees. The medium to long-term benefits are significant.”

Many corporations in Ireland have chosen Allen Carr’s method to assist employees who wish to stop smoking, including Waterford City Council, AXA and ESB. In 2008, five seminars were organized for ESB staff across the country with almost 100 attendees in total. A recent follow-up survey indicated that 70% of those that attended the seminar remain off cigarettes.

 

Easyway is offering 10% discount for corporate clinics booked for January, February and March. For more information, contact 1890 379929 or visit www.easyway.ie.

Smoking Through Distress

In the Irish Times today Alison Healy writes:  SMOKERS ARE poorly equipped to deal with distress without resorting to cigarettes because of their implicit belief that smoking helps them to deal with difficult feelings, a conference for psychologists was told yesterday.

Nigel Vahey of NUI Maynooth said research had found that a key psychological component of tobacco-dependence involved the implicit belief that smoking was an effective way of regulating unpalatable feelings.

“In other words, to the degree that smokers implicitly believe that smoking can enhance their enjoyment and reduce their distress, then they are more likely to engage in smoking as a means of controlling and coping with fluctuating feelings throughout the day,” he said.

Smoking was used as a way to avoid dealing with painful thoughts and emotions but this was unproductive as it did not make those feelings go away permanently.

“Such people who smoke to regulate their feelings, whether consciously or unconsciously, become very poorly equipped to cope with distress of any sort without recourse to smoking,” Mr Vahey said.

This made quitting even more difficult.

“Smokers must not only cope with biological cravings for nicotine, but must also learn to cope with distressing feelings in more productive ways.”

He said treatment that dealt with this issue was more successful long term than nicotine replacement therapy or other medications. END

This is why the Allen Carr Easy Way Clinics a have such a high success rate as it deals with the issues and does not use any replacement therapies or medications.

Gum Disease and Smoking

Dental researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, observed a group of cigarette smokers with chronic gum disease over one year and found some symptoms were more likely to improve in the people who quit during the study period.

Chronic gum disease, which is characterised by inflamed gums that increasingly recede from the teeth, can lead to tooth loss in its advanced stages if preventive action is not taken.

The researchers’ findings, revealed today in the academic publication, the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, therefore provide yet another reason for smokers worldwide to quit their habit for the good of their health.

Statistics show that smokers are still up to six times more likely to develop gum disease than non-smokers, because the detrimental effect the habit has on their body’s immune system makes them less well-equipped to fight back.

Financial gain from quitting cigarettes

It is nearly 4 weeks since I quitted. I used to smoke 30 a day.

In the recent budget a box of 20 increased by 50c to €8.05. Therefore I am saving €12.00 per day. I have calculated that I have saved  a total of €360 since I quit. There are 6 more weeks to Christmas which means I will have saved a total of €900 by then.

 That €900 saving will more then cover the Christmas presents for my 2 young sons. In addition to feeling the health benefits  I also feel the financial ones.

Is there an easyway to give up smoking?

 Allen Carr Easy Way Clinics uses no gimmicks or aids, is equally effective for heavy or casual smokers, and requires little or no willpower and you needn’t even put on weight. All Allen Carr therapists are ex-smokers who used the method themselves to get free. They don’t lecture you on all the reasons you shouldn’t smoke (you know them already) instead, they destroy the illusions that keep you smoking and show you how to get free! It is the opposite of the willpower method that concentrates on the reasons you shouldn’t smoke: the health, the money, the slavery, and the stigma. They focus instead on why you continue to smoke in spite of the obvious disadvantages.

Visit: www.allencarr.ie for clinic advice.

Dangers of Champix

The safety of the anti smoking drug, Champix, is being closely monitored by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) as it is now one of the most commonly complained about drugs in the United States.

 

Champix is a drug that works directly in the smokers’ brain to easy withdrawal symptoms, but it is now feared that it is linked to phychiatric problems, including suicidal behaviour! 

 

 

What we don’t understand is why smokers, who want to give up, take another drug into their system when there is a simple guaranteed drug free method of giving up – which is the Allen Carr Easyway clinics. It only takes a day and you get your money back if you are not satisfied – now that’s something Champix doesn’t offer!

 

Reasons To Quit Smoking Before Your Wedding

Puffing away in your wedding pictures is not the most romantic image to remember. If you are finding it hard to give up smoking before the big day why not try Allen Carr’s Easyway to stop smoking? It will help you quit and the money you save will help pay for your honeymoon!

 

Four good reasons you should quit smoking before your wedding day:

 

0% Sexy

Nobody likes brides sneaking out for fags on their wedding day, let alone pictures with the bride puffing away in them.

 

No Weight Gain on your Waist:

According to Brenda Sweeney, managing director of the Allen Carr Easyway Clinics in Ireland, Easyway doesn’t affect your weight as long as you follow its instructions correctly. You can stop smoking and your waist will not ‘suffer’.

 

Weight Gain in Your Pocket!

 

“It could pay for your honeymoon!” says Sweeney. Quit on time!

 

Healthier Kids

If you are planning to start a family soon after tying the knot you should seriously consider quit smoking. Smokers are less fertile than non-smokers and they are also more prone to suffer miscarriages. Also, smoking during pregnancy deprives the child from oxygen, conditioning the baby’s growth and making him more likely to suffer from respiratory conditions.

 

Allen Carr’s Easyway is the world’s most famous and effective method to stop smoking. The clinics have a success rate of over 90% and have a three-month money-back guarantee. His flagship book, ‘The Allen Carr Easyway to give up Smoking’ has sold millions of copies. 

 

In Ireland it is run by Brenda Sweeney, herself once a smoker cured by an Allen Carr clinic in London.  She opened her first Clinic in 1998 and since then, some 20,000 people have attended the Irish clinics.