Smoking cigarettes is one of the most addictive habits a person can have. Research shows that smoking cigarettes can have severe negative impacts on a person’s health. This leads many to investigate quitting the habit, but this venture comes with many challenges. Symptoms of withdrawal can be overwhelming if the process of quitting is not handled properly. If you are looking to quit smoking cigarettes, consider these options to help ease you out of the habit.
Create New Associations with Cravings
Cigarette cravings are powerful for those trying to quit. It is important to avoid giving in to these cravings. This can be done by creating new associations and doing something else whenever you feel a craving. The next time you crave a cigarette, consider chewing on a piece of gum, drinking a glass of water or sucking on a piece of hard candy. Over time, this re-trains your brain and can help break the habit more quickly.
Use a Cigarette Alternative
Quitting smoking cigarettes altogether by going “cold turkey” is not easy to do. Many people choose to use cigarette alternatives to help ease the process. There are products available that imitate the effect of cigarettes. These smokingthings often include lower doses of harmful ingredients such as nicotine, which is the main addictive ingredient in cigarettes. These products can help ease you off of high nicotine doses without completely changing your routine.
Start Exercising
Regular exercise can improve your physical and mental health and help distract you from cigarette cravings. Activities like going for a jog, playing group sports with friends, and weightlifting help mitigate the feelings of cravings by engaging your body and directing your attention to a productive and healthy task. Exercising can also help build long-lasting healthy habits, can help improve heart and lung function and can help prevent weight gain.
Reach Out to Friends and Family
Social isolation can be harmful to someone struggling with quitting cigarettes or experiencing withdrawal symptoms. You do not have to tackle this challenge alone and should utilize the love and support of people around you. Make a commitment to contact friends and family members regularly. You can ask them to help keep you accountable or create a check-in system to help keep you on track. Remember that your loved ones are there to help and want the best for you.
Quitting smoking cigarettes can be difficult, but with conviction and a well-prepared plan, it can be done. Use these ideas to help you along the way.
Right now, it seems people do a lot of sitting. After all, with the summer heat rising, it’s hard to get outside. Add the COVID 19 closures, and life, well, has simply left people to be at home. Being cooped up doesn’t mean that fitness is tossed to the side. Rather, this is an opportunity to carve out you time, working out some of that excess energy and frustration. If you’re looking to drop a bit over the next month or so, here are five important tips to follow.
1. Establish a Designated Workout Time
Don’t get overwhelmed. Much like the older routine, you’ll need to carve out a schedule. If you previously hit the gym in the morning, then establish a time frame for at home. Set it on your phone with a buzzer going off to remind you. When it rings, get going. Did you take hour long cardio classes? If so, hop online to find some free moves. Keep up with the same allotment. You may feel better checking off that box.
2. Supplement Your Diet
Boost your body’s ability by using vitamins and supplements. If you’re working out, you’ll need to recharge anyway. Focus on getting high levels of omegas, vitamin B and thiamin. Sermorelin studies, furthermore, indicate that this additive might improve your ability to increase muscle and strength while decreasing body mass.
3. Think Green
Vegetables and fruits, particularly leafy foods such as spinach, are high in vitamins and fiber. They fill up the tummy, providing essential nutrients. As a bonus, they are low in calories too, so you can eat more of it. Consider adding salads, veggie plates and homemade juices to your diet. Just avoid adding sugars, dips and too much dressing.
4. Don’t Buy Junk Food
Sweet and salty cravings are intense. Yes, the chocolate chip cookie and chips taste good. However, they aren’t going to satisfy. Filled with grease and chemicals, they could increase your temptation, causing you to gorge on more than you need. The best solution is to leave it at the store. If it’s not in your place, you can default to something else.
5. Hydrate
Sometimes your stomach is growling not because you’re hungry. Instead, it’s simply the acid moving about. Avoid eating, and grab some water instead. 6 glasses of 8 oz cups a day might help you feel satiated longer. Purchase a large container with measurement lines. Carry it with you from room to room. Drink it as you go, refilling it as needed.
Be proactive. Remain dedicated.
If you love decorating your interiors lavishly, you probably dream of living in a bigger property. When you have more floor space, you automatically have more options to create visually impressive rooms.
For many people, it’s only natural to dream about owning a larger property. When people sell their businesses or win the lottery, they often move out of their existing homes and buy a large mansion that fulfills all their needs.
Being able to entertain is the allure of a larger property. When you have more space, you can host bigger and better parties. Plus, when you upgrade your home, you can add features, like swimming pools, which come in handy when you want people to come over.
Of course, you’d like all this stuff, but whether you can afford it is an entirely different matter. The majority of people assume immediately that owning a mansion is out of the question, and it isn’t something that they can do on their modest incomes. But when they investigate their finances more thoroughly, they soon realize that that’s not always the case.
In this post, we’re going to look at some of the signs you can actually afford that big house you want. Remember, always look for the best mortgage rates.
Your Monthly Expenses Are Low
If you and your partner both have professional jobs and earn regular, reliable paychecks, you might have noticed something: you often have spare cash leftover at the end of the month. For many couples, the remainder is small – maybe a couple of hundred dollars a month. But for others, it is much more substantial, sometimes running above $1,000, accumulating in a savings account every month.
To make sure that you’re not seeing some sort of weird financial artifact, run through your budget in detail. Often couples can wind up accumulating more money than they spend when they get promotions but keep their lifestyle the same. Take a look at any extra payments you’re now getting and compare it to your average expenses over several months. If you notice a consistent gap between the two, it could be a sign you’re ready to upgrade your home and life.
Your Credit Is Good
If you follow sound financial advice and always spend less than you earn, your credit score will slowly improve. After about ten years into your career, it’ll be so good that you’re able to get the best interest rates when you apply for a mortgage.
FICO rates credit scores above 740 as “very good” and anything over 800 as “excellent.” If you don’t know what your score looks like, you can now request to view it only using various tools. These days, checking your score doesn’t actually affect it, so you don’t need to worry about this.
Your Emergency Funds Are Plentiful
The coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of emergency funds. Everyone needs a stash of cash they can draw on when the economy goes into freefall, as it did this spring.
If you have a lot of money sitting in savings accounts, it could be a sign that you’re ready to take the next step up the housing ladder. These days, most mortgage providers want 20 percent down on a property. FHA loans will usually accept much less than this. If your emergency funds are topped up, and you have enough money to see you through the next six months, you’re in an excellent position to plow extra savings into your deposit. Usually, you have enough for a new house deposit, using equity released from the sale of your old one.
Check the amount of cash in your emergency savings. If you can cover six months of regular expenses and the cost of moving, you’re probably in a financial position to upgrade to a bigger house.
You Have A Low Debt-To-Income Ratio
Except for mortgages, most debt is a drag on your wealth and something that actively gets in the way of acquiring the property that you want. The less money you owe to creditors, the lower your monthly interest expenses, and the more likely you are to be accepted for a bigger mortgage.
Mortgage broker Altrua Financial points out that most buyers can access lower rates if they scour the market for products that suit their needs. Often, the lowest rates are available for people who have the best debt-to-income ratios. Most people with debt-to-income ratios below 43 per cent can get access to mortgages. Those closer to the upper threshold will have to pay more.
You Are On Track With Your Savings Goals
According to figures, the average person saves around 7.5 percent of their pre-tax income per year. Financial experts suggest that most people aim higher than that if they can, as this will compound well into the future.
The ideal savings rate is around 15 percent, but that can be hard to achieve. Financial advisors suggest that people take it “one percent at a time.” If, for instance, you currently save five percent of your income, you could try increasing this to six, then seven, then eight, and so on. Once you get into the habit of saving more vigorously, you ultimately build momentum, adding to your savings far more rapidly than you ever thought possible.
If your savings goals are on track, then it could be a sign that you’re ready to splash out a bit more on your accommodation. People with savings rates north of 20 percent should think about whether their current living arrangements are serving them well. A savings rate of this magnitude usually implies plenty of extra room for expenses. You may be living too far beneath your means.
Would you like to live in a house with more floor space and beautiful features? If so, it could be in reach. You don’t have to be a millionaire to own a large property. Even people of modest means can adjust their budgets to prioritize their homes over other expenses in their lives.
Many health food stores are now stocking CBD/THC products such as oils, creams, drops, gummies, and powders. You might be a little bit confused by all the options and how they can benefit you. In general, the properties are the same; however, they differ in content and quality depending on their target usage. Some people like to consume it in different ways as well, for those who want smoke or vapor, you will need to know how to roll a joint without papers. There are many easy ways to do this. Here are some of the wellbeing benefits offered by CBD/THC products.
Helps to Relieve Joint Pain
If you have chronic pains in your elbows, knees, or fingers, it can have a seriously detrimental effect on your wellbeing. It can be hard to do everyday activities nevermind take part in a workout regime. But if we can’t exercise and our movement is restricted, we may not feel very happy or satisfied. CBD/THC influences the pain receptors in our nervous system. It dramatically reduces painful symptoms allowing you to visit friends and do light exercise.
Improves Your Quality of Sleep
There is nothing worse than not being able to sleep at night; insomnia is very common and can seriously impact a person’s life. Not getting enough sleep can mean not performing well at your job or forgetting about important events. There are many solutions to sleep deprivation; some people find that exercising during the day helps, or burning essential oils such as lavender in the bedroom. Other solutions include valerian root and, increasingly, CBD oil.
Supports Your Fitness Routine
It’s a little known fact that CBD/THC products can actively support a fitness routine. It can even help you to build muscles if that’s your aim. It does this in several ways. First of all, the components in the oil relieve any joint pains allowing you to go to the run, walk, or go to the gym when you weren’t able to before. Secondly, because it makes you tired, taking some CBD oil after a workout can help your body recover more quickly. For those who like to train hard, this can be very beneficial.
Reduces Feelings of Stress and Anxiety
Feelings of anxiety and stress are very common. They can range from mild to sometimes disabling fear of speaking in public or even going outside. An anxiety issue can have a severe effect on your mental and emotional wellbeing. Sometimes anxiety is predictable; there are certain events and situations you know will cause it. Other times it comes on entirely unexpectedly. At times like this, it’s good to have some CBD oil available. Other products can be good too, such as capsules.
Makes Your Skin Look Younger
CBD/THC products are also excellent for the skin, especially for specific skin conditions such as acne and psoriasis. The compound in the oil or cream reduces inflammation and has calming properties that help the skin look and feel younger. Studies have shown that the features in CBD/THC products can slow the process of aging by counteracting the damage caused by free radicals. How’s that for an excellent wellbeing benefit.
If you like the book/movie Crazy Rich Asians then you are going to LOVE this week’s Book Club choice….Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan. I am told that this is Kwan’s most decadent book yet..
The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can’t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin Charlotte. “Your mother is Chinese so it’s no surprise you’d be attracted to someone like him,” Charlotte teases. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment building, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world–and her heart. Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures. – Amazon.com
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You know I love Anthropologie and I LOVE when they have Anthro day because most of the items are on sale. All weekend Anthropologie is offering 20% off clothing, shoes and accessories and FREE shipping…It a great time to stock up on a new summer dress or blouse. I did not love the shoe selection but I only glanced quickly but there were some great jewelry pieces for a great deal. Check out the Anthropologie site for more information!! Bon Weekend
I love this purple embroidered top.
The have a large selection of masks…
This multi-color embroidered blouse would look great with white jeans..
I have this tunic dress in my cart..I cannot decide on which color to get!!
Another really cute dress that I added to my cart…
This sweater is so perfect..you can wear it all year round..
I also have my eye on this really cute swing blouse..