The 10-point plan also called for a nationwide counseling and support line for people who are trying to quit smoking, an idea that was immediately put into practice. It has been said by the Health and Human Services Secretary that more than $25 million would be given for the toll-free, nationwide support line that should be established by the end of 2004.
The 10-point plan also calls for:
Close to 50 million Americans smoke and it costs the nation $75 million in direct health care expenses. It is estimated that three out of four smokers seek to quit, but fewer than five percent who quit for a day are able to maintain that for longer periods of time.
Yahoo! News February 3, 2004
Nearly everyone knows and understands that smoking is not good for their health. No mystery here. Many of you also likely know that I believe eating sugar is worse for you than smoking. As with smoking, it is possible to be addicted to sugar.
To help smokers, or sugar addicts, successfully quit and maintain a healthy diet, my team and I found a wonderful tool that is at your disposal. Psychological acupressure techniques like the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are a great way to get on the road to better health.
EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, as I said above and is based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over 5,000 years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem--whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, disease, pain, etc.--and voice positive affirmations.
This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit"--the emotional block--from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health, helping break bad habits and the healing of physical disease.
For more information on this subject, you can check out my free EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT. Beyond that you can try my EFT Series on DVD or VHS, which provides in-depth instruction on EFT.
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