active tell people where they can find you facebook you tube and instagram muscles in balance because that's the secret that you have is you get muscles and balance to help hopefully soon so what are the things we're going to talk about today is that i have written a book and it's called the benefits of smoking now i am not advocating that people actually smoke and i'm going to give this over to a job because it's going to become part of what we do today but we're we're heading into a new year and there are two number one well i see the number one but the top two reasons or resolutions that have kind of been over the years are guess which one first yeah i guess which ones first is weight loss yeah absolutely right lowest that they've ever been really but yeah which is great but there's something else that's popped up the we'll talk about that i sort of as we go so what i wanted to do have a little fun i'm going to test angels so hearing her flip the paper here ok so let's start with question number one ok sure false cancer is caused by the nicotine in cigarettes so so are you asking me  asking you ok so i in the past i would have said true i definitely would have said it in the past so what would you say right now today let me explain to you why i wrote this book because i actually didn't do that did you grow up with smokers at all as a kid growing up yeah that's when you know if you were in dare say i don't smoke in my house right i never smoked but you wouldn't you know disrespect grandma if she smoked or absolutely it was the thing and if you think about it back in the sixty's in the seventy's in the eighty's you know cigarettes were safe yeah they were safe to smoke well because  grew up my mom and my dad both were smokers and i can remember being in a car and going on a long trip five hours is a long trip and both of them chimneys and i would have the window cracked this  because because they have the air conditioning on right and i'd be like a dog trying to get some fresh air kind of coming in or on my brother and i remember i used to pull up my shirt i hated what did you say this is you know oh but you wouldn't care oh no wouldn't dare but what happened was my dad started to have chest pain he ended up going for an x ray and they found that he had lung cancer so he stopped he stopped he stopped he's just stopped and you know the day ended up taking out part of this long and you know the cancer in it up spreading but he stopped but if your mom kept smoking yeah because that that's time they didn't know about second hand smoke oh that time we didn't know a lot i mean everybody you didn't know anything but when i started working with my patients in the hospital the one thing that i wasn't really good at understanding was helping them quit smoking because i happen to believe there were three benefits to smoking one it becomes people's number one stress tool number two it keeps him from going through withdrawal because what happens if you don't have nicotine a person actually goes through withdrawal if you ever remember being around somebody who's quitting smoking and they were so nasty you don't want it like coworkers oh my god you want to run and then the third is it's they're always there for them best friend and if we don't do something to replace those three things that we just set the person up for failure and so that's why i wrote the book was to help people understand here's why it's so hard to quit and then here's what you can do about it i don't know how your father went cold turkey well it just was i don't know if it was the thought of losing his life and his children and you know that much i never going to go most people can when i went to a tobacco treatment training program so i actually was trained as a tobacco treatment specialist i i used to think that nicotine caused the cancer that's in my head i thought it was the nicotine that was so bad for you come to find out it nicotine doesn't happen to be one of them it's the substance that people's brains in fact i've heard that nicotine is almost as addictive as heroin that it really on the brain so there's i think this little one right very good so you're going to go wrong the next one so let's go let's go it's no question quiz number two you can't you can't smoke while wearing a patch you can't smoke while wearing a was always taught don't ever smoke with a patch on because you'll have a heart attack but the truth is that's not the case and so so is it you can smoke with having a patch yeah i just picked yes yes absolutely in the past the way that the little warnings were on nicotine patches was do not smoke while wearing this patch thinking that would cause her shanab a heart attack but the truth is that they've now the food and drug administration has changed the warning because you can but here's what's more important about it if you people say oh i tried that patch that didn't work you know i've had patient that never worked for him that's no good i can't quit but here's the thing this right here if your body let's say so here's the thing i want people to understand to one cigarette could equal up to four milligrams of nicotine that a person takes whether smoking so somebody who smokes one pack a day and i didn't know this until i took my class how many cigarettes were in a pack and i don't know ten that then yeah for all that money you get ten right but what that means is if if they smoke one pack a day their body is used to getting forty milligrams of nicotine you want to know what patches are right so they're getting an extra hit so they're only getting half that's why the patch never worked for him because it wasn't and i are make sense yeah yeah this and this again this was so amazing which is why i love sharing this with people because if you're somebody who smoking and you are pretty big smoker a good smoker your poll and out this four milligrams so it can be two to four so so a patch might work for some people if they're low on this it or they're only smoking a half a pack a day before the milligrams your body's still going to go through withdrawal because it's missing the other twenty yeah and so that is actually why people usually end up smoking with the patch because commercials yeah so i would see my son is working now he's working in another country but it was in st barts and it seems like everybody smokes there i didn't take a picture because it was so gross but in the supermarkets there's pictures of like they're very like a brown package not even appealing with with mouth cancer and everybody smokes and i'm like how can you buy that and put that in your pocket or look at that packet when it's so gross and everybody smokes yeah because of this right here so it doesn't don't you know the packaging doesn't matter it it is it is the power of this substance is what nicotine that it really it really irritability you know just hangs and i like all those if you've ever been around body if they're real withdrawal symptoms that a person has and and i think the packaging is designed to it could turn a few people off but then on that same note carol you've seen some of the newer commercials where the you know you have the the woman who i part of a face do you think that that even makes an impact on us i do or you do i do yeah and research has shown that it does yeah you know because the those are kind of the the negative consequences actually watch those commercials yeah yeah it's it's it's it's really it's really a really horrible sort of addiction because you could talk to people who don't not like smoking but they can't stop  ditty and i wondered you know people that have this addiction if they're watching that and they know so many people that have the same addiction and i don't know anybody that has that you know from a could be could be but you're saying i working but it is working and and what i want people to understand it is if you've tried a patch and it didn't work and you were smoking will here's why the pageant work because chances were you weren't replacing enough of the nicotine so there is this thing called an r t and that stands for nicotine replacement therapy so that that's what the patches or the pa and and let you say that's the brain in here is this reward center in there that just take that nicotine in just boom you know shoot out all these good hor feelings and hormones and chemicals there are two types nicotine replacement therapy the package the gum or this what it does is it safely supply the nicotine until the person can gradually kind of wean themselves off there's other things you've and when he finally took this medication he was able to because what this does is instead of nicotine it actually works to just it works on its own reward center so that the person doesn't have the craving in the first place so they're too little bit different whereas this is one thing but this is actually just medications that can help prevent this kind of help break that up  my older brother try that he lives in costa rica but i think he was lucy hansen some people and what they say is of a you know that you have to kind of monitor closely because some people have that kind of reaction to it but does that does that i mean i don't it was understand it this is the whole thing of hostage keeping is right here with this nicotine and that really the piece it keeps disease i'll say it again half of all smokers will die from much of bacco related disease i don't know i'm going to say yes yes yes fifty percent the way i like to describe it to my patients was would you get in your car every single day and go to work knowing there was a fifty percent chance that you were going to be killed in an accident well now the one but yeah that this this is the cost you know really understand the impact that smoking has on a person's health so the up that is true all right what's our next one ok  natural tobacco is safe to smoke natural what is that if you're harvest it yourself in your backyard yeah it could be that ok is safe to is smoke have you ever seen a commercial first like the spirit you know words like the natural tobacco no i is so bad for us it's the bernie it's not the bad although tobacco has some things in it just natural to the plant it's when you burn something  becomes dangerous so whether it's natural to back go quite honestly whether it's marijuana or it's your good old brand names it is the actual burning ok this create the here's the problem with these they're good like if you said to me carol like if i had a pregnant woman or a pregnant family member and if it carol i'm either going to smoke or i'm going to use a c cigarette guess would probably tell or pick the east cigarette because smoking is like by far but what is so dangerous about these things is are not regulated meaning that these things are where cigarettes were fifty years ago nobody knows what's in them nobody knows what other toxins might be in whatever it is that you're inhaling into your lungs and your brain was how do you do you light them well there's a couple different things but it's mostly an electronic mechanism and so it can kind of heat up and then there's nicotine the kind of there are different kinds the cigarette makers have come up really good with you know their own nine really where cigarettes were fifty years ago the onion and look where we look where we ended up you know and with kids because the other thing is if we can get kids hooked kind of with the the candy flavors in a different this is what gets me worried for people you know that it's when or when i mean is it safer than cigarettes smoking a cigarette absolutely but is it safe i couldn't say the act but if you're going to he's always has this other little mechanism with a man and it in it has some exhaust like stuff here comes up i want it smoke but when her mother went to the hospital for a health emergency and had her blood work done they asked her you know when her mom attempted suicide and she looked at them like what are you talking about turns out that she had radiator fluid that was in her bloodstream and the way they take it back was to the sounds of it being that it was part of in the air from when he was v p but she didn't try to kill herself with radiator fluid so percent of all lung cancer is tobacco caused but you know i think you said something about it's all that other stuff that's in the smoke it's not i'll think of it it think of it if there's still some carcinogens in tobacco like chewing tobacco but usually the only way they're going to get it into their lungs is to do what smoking yeah yeah a moment because baseball players  king is really not good for our health wow and member i told you that there are seven thousand so the surgeon general when it first port came out it was originally determined that there were four thousand compounds in smoke yeah right well a few years back and of course with the advent of technology and science what they found is that there are this many compounds in smoke acetone butane from outside as yet formaldehyde you know like those are some of the more dangerous and the carcinogenic kinds of  things and so if you think about that the person it smokes those seven thousand carcinogens which cause the cancer and all the other stuff really i would think that if i was a smoker around and and i was addicted that this would be enough for this show for me so you try to get help and want and you know what i think you think about it is people really want to quit too but it's how do you do that and so what i want to do is share a little bit about that because what research has shown plus you know support so we used to have quit centers i think we all went away with the government funding is it took it away in new jersey  this has been shown that a person could have up to thirty six percent chance the first time they try to quit smoking but this has to be the correct amount the n r t the replacement therapy and then the support being around people that you know can kind of understand what you're going to and be supportive of that and the cold turkey only i think it is like a small percentage four to seven percent are successful with cold turkey to the very very first time they try so think about this would you want to thirty six percent chance or would you want to try your four to seven percent chance and i think it's like that with any addiction like if you know you're addicted to sugar or you know reached you or coffee or tea you know well well it all comes back to what the brain yeah dreaming for yeah yeah and that is this and what what i learned was that i might have to have one of my patients on a package right which is twenty milligram a half especially if they smoked a pack and a half a day right which imagines the money that cause right but so if they smoked a pack a half a day that could be sixty milligrams that they're actually needing the body is used to get it so the body doesn't get it it starts to go through withdrawal so what i would have is somebody on a patch plus they could use the gum or the large and shock and these things come in different milligrams you can get it like in a two milligrams and then like say a four milligrams so it almost has to be the right information to be able to do it because here's a take i'd have person on a patch and then they could have another fifteen lodges throughout the day you know she might be an hour every two hours they're having one if if it was here you know this would be again that would give them another thirty milligrams and in that case you know what they're not the brain will be screaming at him i mean much because it's a little less and they're not dealing with the smoke and they're not having all the health complications or go along with the smoker you have and so it really and then most insurances now what actually cover the nicotine replacement therapy because they know that in the long run it's going to save them it saves them more money if they can cover the patch and if the doctor got to get a doctor to be able to write for the nicotine replacement therapy can't just go in and say ok i want it you know but yeah this is how this is actually how we can help more people be able to do what they want to do which to me is why it's so important just us being able to talk about this and share this because there are a lot of people who still want to quit they can't sharing thank you so much for tuning in and you can see at the end of this we'll see some web billing so you can go to and leave your questions and if you know anybody who wants to quit smoking it's called the