Tries to kick cigarettes

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Cohron smoked cigarettes for 44 years and was satisfied with his addiction, but I had bronchitis and almost all the years that I have the air with the minimum of physical effort.

He left after three years in 1970 with the help of a hypnotist, but fell again in the grip of smoking.

Now 68 and retired from the banking sector, to Cohron in 2006, when he left the Cooper-Clayton method to stop smoking. Within weeks of starting the program, Cohron was cigarettes and it is "clean" since then.

"Cigarettes control me physically, emotionally and psychologically," said Cohron. "I enjoyed smoking and I would not stop.

"But when I went to my doctor (pulmonologist Dr. William O'Bryan) told me that I had to stop." After 65 years, took advice and Cohron Cooper-Clayton here.

"I do not think I can (GO), but Dr. O'Bryan said that when it is one week, two weeks or one month and feel the need for a cigarette, go get a suit, smoking and treat all new stop.

"It made me feel that I could fail and start again." Cooper-Clayton method was developed by Richard Clayton of the University of Kentucky, a sociologist and expert on addictions, and a Lexington dentist Thomas Cooper, a heavy smoker until he and the methodology of Clayton, helped create.

The method combines nicotine replacement therapy with a nicotine patch, gum or lozenges, in conjunction with behavior modification and support groups.

The Cooper Clayton Smoking success with approximately 40 percent of the time, said James Rafferty, a cancer control specialist with the office of the Kentucky Cancer Program in Owensboro. Smokers who quit successfully turkey cold from 3 through 5 for percent of the time, he said.

"Our class last year, 46 percent of people quit smoking," said Rafferty. "We are thrilled." In 2002, 34 percent of Kentucky adults smoke, according to Becky Horn, a health educator at the top by Owensboro Medical Health System. The latest data show that the figure fell to 27 percent, "said Horn.

The Cooper Clayton class is free and lasts 13 weeks. Registration takes place four times a year in Green River Heart Institute (688-0808) and is implemented through a partnership with the Kentucky Cancer Program, Green River District Health Department, GRHI and OMHS.

The class is on Tuesdays at 5:30-to-6: 30 Health Park OMHS.

On entering class, a person continues to smoke for a week, recording the number of cigarettes smoked and time of day to determine peak periods of smoking. This is a revelation, since many do not realize how much they smoke.

"It 'amazing to hear people in the class to say how much they need to stop smoking, but not," said Cohron.

Cohron used the nicotine patch, although the method can not work for everyone.

"I think I have enough nicotine in my body," he said. "You have to. The former have a patch of 21 mg and then decreased to 14 mg.

"I was in the review by the end of six weeks." A typical class begins with the question "How are you this week?" and people tell their stories.

"There are many answers," said Rafferty. "Some say that their sleep patterns change, or feel they can eat a whole cow.

"And sometimes the answer is: 'I'm fine." "After the last support group, the class to watch a short video of that week Cooper Clayton step for planning.

Not everyone who enters the program closes, though.

"If someone continues to smoke on the sixth week, asking them not to return," said Rafferty. "This is because many of the people in the class are now non-smoking, and it is very hard to be someone who still smoke.

"You do not want the balance of the chaotic regime. We're not anti-smoker, but to work in the process, we have to do." People who leave the program are welcome back in the future, "said Rafferty.

"If it were easy to quit smoking years ago, people could do alone," said Rafferty.

The increased cost of cigarettes drives some people to quit smoking, but almost everything is for health reasons.

The American Heart Association, smokers have an increased risk of developing various chronic diseases, such as the accumulation of fat in arteries, several types of cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Many studies show that smoking is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, leading to a heart attack.

Smoking causes temporary changes in the heart - which beats faster, increases blood pressure and reduces blood flow. Tobacco increases the level of carbon monoxide in the blood. Cigarette smoke contains nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic and DDT.

Nicotine, a component of tobacco and snuff, is the main reason that snuff is addictive, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Nicotine withdrawal symptoms are irritability, anxiety, depression, anxiety, cognitive and attention deficits, sleep disturbances and increased appetite. These symptoms can begin within a couple of hours after your last cigarette, cause people use tobacco and snuff.

Horn said it usually takes five to seven times for a person to quit smoking.

"People get discouraged and quit, but we call it a paper and act like it never happened," said Horn. "That helps us. Horn said the Prime Minister Clayton Cooper, resulting in 50 or more people, but by the second or third class, participation drops as some not yet fully committed to stop.

Perhaps your family ties to quit smoking, but to make your opinion, "he said.

Vand Grift Josh, 28 years, trying to stop the fourth time. A smoker for 10 years, Vand Grift, the owner of a business photography and web design company previously approved prescription drugs Chantix and Zyban, but limited results. He said the side effects of drugs have not been compensated fairly.

Instead, Read break the routine that led to certain practices and has little success with this approach in the past two months. He is the reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked is not on after eating or first thing after waking in the morning or when stressed.

"For me it is a spiritual need," he said. "They never seemed to (smoke) was that big of a problem until I decided to put down their cigarettes. He is much more difficult than you think.

"I do not smoke, but according to what is happening every day, I could not stay with my plan." Grift Water Cooper Clayton, even though her mother to stop after crossing the program. Vand Grift is a mission trip to Haiti on Saturday and plans to quit smoking for good then.