{"id":1741,"date":"2015-01-07T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.healwithin.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2015-01-07T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T20:53:20","slug":"womens-cycle-and-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Cycle and Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt as if\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you are ready to pull your hair?<\/li>\n<li>you feel the urge to smoke one cigarette after another, yet you can\u2019t stand the stinky smell?<\/li>\n<li>you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, go light up a cigarette, take a puff and put it out only to realize you had not smoked over three weeks?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, there may be a good reason for your madness. Did you know a woman\u2019s menstrual cycle could play a role in determining how easy (or difficult) it is for a woman to stop smoking? \u00a0 If you have thought of stop smoking as your New Year\u2019s resolution, then perhaps you might benefit from checking your ovulation calendars. That may be because declines in levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone boost nicotine withdrawal symptoms and also boost the activity of brain circuits associated with craving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking the menstrual cycle into consideration could help women to stop smoking easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a woman\u2019s follicular phase (after one\u2019s period but before ovulation), seeing cigarette and smoking imagery greatly activates at least five different centers of the brain, indicating higher cravings. But during a woman\u2019s luteal phase, only one center of the brain responds with limited activation. That makes sense. \u00a0 \u201cCraving for nicotine is strongest during periods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Studies reveal that uncontrollable urges to smoke are stronger at the beginning phase that begins after menstruation. \u00a0Hormonal decreases of estrogen and progesterone possibly deepen the withdrawal syndrome and increase activity of neural circuits associated with craving. \u00a0It\u2019s been proven that <a href=\"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hypnosis <\/a>can help ease menstrual pain and cramps, balance hormonal cycle, and help one\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/stop-smoking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop Smoking.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women and girls have bought into the myth that they gain more weight after quitting smoking, so they continue smoking for <a href=\"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/weight-loss\/\">weight <\/a>control.<\/li>\n<li>Women and girls tend to smoke as a \u201cbuffer\u201d against negative feelings, while men smoke more from habit or to enhance positive sensations.<\/li>\n<li>Most women express emotional dependency to tobacco in the midst of life difficulties and when \u201cvery unhappy\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Female addiction may be reinforced more by the sensory and social context of smoking, rather than by nicotine, suggesting that patches may not be so effective an aid.<\/li>\n<li>Women quit less easily than men due to their different responses to nicotine as well as a lack of social support, fear of weight gain, <a href=\"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/hypnosis-for-depression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">depression <\/a>and hormones.<\/li>\n<li>Hormonal imbalance and monthly cycles attribute to the success of quitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To book your session to Stop Smoking\u00a0Today \u2013 contact: \u00a0info@healwithin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt as if\u2026 you are ready to pull your hair? you feel the urge to smoke one cigarette after another, yet you can\u2019t stand the stinky smell? you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, go light up a cigarette, take a puff and put it out only to realize &#8230; <a title=\"Women&#8217;s Cycle and Smoking\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/?p=1741\" aria-label=\"Read more about Women&#8217;s Cycle and Smoking\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_saved":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,51,74,28],"tags":[33,85,13,14,29,26,19],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","category-depression","category-femininity","category-smoking","tag-femininity","tag-happiness","tag-hypnosis","tag-hypnotherapy","tag-stop-smoking","tag-stress","tag-wellness"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Woman1-250x166-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"arbpen-hw","author_link":"https:\/\/hw.arbpenconsulting.com\/?author=1"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women&#039;s Cycle and Smoking - HealWithin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women&#039;s Cycle and Smoking - HealWithin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you ever felt as if\u2026 you are ready to pull your hair? you feel the urge to smoke one cigarette after another, yet you can\u2019t stand the stinky smell? you suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, go light up a cigarette, take a puff and put it out only to realize ... 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