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The Obamas – Barack, Michelle Obama, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama sit down for their first family interview in Butte, Montana. Barack’s daughters love seeing their father come home, especially now since he’s always campaigning. But what certain messy habit of his could they do without?

Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. born August 4, 1961 is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, he spent most of his early life in Honolulu, Hawaii. From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta with his mother and Indonesian stepfather. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office and serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. After an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003.

The following year, while still an Illinois state legislator, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with 70% of the vote. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, he co-sponsored bipartisan legislation for controlling conventional weapons and for promoting greater public accountability in the use of federal funds. He also made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In the current 110th Congress, he has sponsored legislation on lobbying and electoral fraud, climate change, nuclear terrorism, and care for returned U.S. military personnel.

Since announcing his presidential campaign in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War, increasing energy independence, and providing universal health care as his top three priorities. He married in 1992 and has two daughters. He has written two bestselling books: a memoir of his youth titled Dreams from My Father, and The Audacity of Hope, a personal commentary on U.S. politics.

Personal life

Obama met his future wife, Michelle Robinson, in 1988 when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley & Austin. Assigned for three months as Obama’s advisor at the firm, Robinson joined him at group social functions, but declined his initial offers to date. They began dating later that summer, became engaged in 1991, and were married in October 1992. The couple’s first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha (”Sasha”), in 2001. Applying the proceeds of a $2 million book deal, the family paid off debts in 2005 and moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6-million house in neighboring Kenwood. The house purchase and subsequent acquisition of an adjoining strip of land drew media scrutiny in November 2006 because of financial links with controversial Illinois businessman Tony Rezko. In December 2007, Money magazine estimated the Obama family’s net worth at $1.3 million. Obama plays basketball, a sport he participated in as a member of his high school’s varsity team. He is left-handed. Before announcing his presidential candidacy, he began a well-publicized effort to quit smoking. “I’ve never been a heavy smoker,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune. “I’ve quit periodically over the last several years. I’ve got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I do not succumb. I’ve been chewing Nicorette strenuously.” Replying to an Associated Press survey of 2008 presidential candidates’ personal tastes, he specified “architect” as his alternate career choice and “chili” as his favorite meal to cook. Asked to name a “hidden talent,” Obama answered: “I’m a pretty good poker player.”

A theme of Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In Chapter 6 of the book, titled “Faith,” Obama writes that he “was not raised in a religious household.” He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet “in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.” He describes his Kenyan father as “raised a Muslim,” but a “confirmed atheist” by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian stepfather as “a man who saw religion as not particularly useful.” The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand “the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change”:
He joined Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988. A megachurch with 10,000 members, Trinity is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ.

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Jerry has been smoking for around 13 years. Why did he start? He thought it was cool…. He smokes about 15 cigarettes every day on average and has tried quitting a few times; he’s even tried self-help books! Having realised that smoking isn’t cool it’s both smelly and expensive, Jerry thinks he’ll be a whole lot happier if he manages to quit. To follow Jerry’s videos, and for more tips on how to stop smoking, go to: http://www.mtv-smokescreen.com

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Do you really want to quit smoking? Hypnosis is the most painless method you can possibly choose. Compared to using patches, pills, other drugs or cold turkey methods to quit smoking, hypnosis techniques are extremely gentle, easy to use and easy to learn.

If you’ve ever known anyone who has tried to quit cold turkey, you probably steered yourself clear of them for several weeks or months. At the very least, they’re cranky and grouchy. At worst, cold turkey quitters can be just plain mean and completely unpleasant to be around.

And they can be very short tempered. They’ll shout about silly things like who ate the last chocolate chip cookie, when there’s a full, fresh box sitting in the cupboard. Sometimes they’re so overly sensitive they’ll cry if you burn the toast.

If you’ve ever tried to quit cold turkey before, you may have even done some of those things yourself. Quitting smoking is a tough process, and cold turkey is anything but painless and gentle.

But when you quit smoking using hypnosis, you learn easy ways to handle your temper and emotions. When a strong nicotine craving grips your gut, you won’t need to grit your teeth to force yourself not to reach for a cigarette. Instead, you’ll have gentle mental techniques you can use to ease your way through.

And have you ever known anyone who tried to quit using nicotine replacement gum? Or have you ever tried it yourself? The gum tastes like the floor of a pub after closing on a busy Saturday night.

Even if you’re desperate to quit smoking, it can get really difficult to force that nasty-tasting gum into your mouth.

It gets to the point where you feel like you’re punishing yourself for quitting, instead of rewarding yourself. Chewing nicotine-laced gum is definitely not a pain-free and gentle approach to stopping smoking.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, has no disgusting after taste. And it doesn’t get harder and harder to do the longer to try it. In fact, just the opposite it true. It gets easier and easier the longer your use it.

The mental techniques you use when you quit smoking with hypnosis actually begin to become new habits themselves. You’ll find that you begin to use them automatically when nicotine cravings arise. But instead of reaching for your cigarettes and lighter, you’ll be able to just start mentally running through your hypnosis routine.

And have you ever had to stop in the middle of whatever you were doing (watching the play-off games? visiting at a friend’s house?) just to drive to the nearest store to pick up a fresh nicotine patch? When your patch runs out of juice, the nicotine cravings are just as strong (and painful) as when you were smoking.

Does that really surprise you? It shouldn’t. Stop and think about it for a minute. There’s only one difference between using a cigarette or cigar to fill your body up with nicotine and using a patch to do it: the patch doesn’t create smoke.

The patch is definitely easier on the environment. And the people around you will breathe more easily because you’re using it. Technically, you may have quit smoking when you use the patch. But you haven’t quit your nicotine addiction. And those killer cravings will keep coming back to haunt you.

But with a hypnosis program, when you get a gut-wrenching craving for nicotine right in the middle of your best friend’s wedding, you won’t have to grit your teeth in agony. Instead, you’ll only have to remember your hypnosis cues and mentally put them into play. Nice and easy. They’ll be available for you to use whenever and wherever you need them.

Cherie Cann
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/want-to-quit-smoking-hypnosis-is-almost-painfree-746388.html

Smoking is emerging to be one of the major causes of death in the modern world. This is attributed to the growing consumers of tobacco. Tobacco is responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults all over the world, which translates to around 5 million deaths every year. It is because of this fact that cigarette smoking is now a public health priority.

With the prevalence of cigarette smoking came its adverse health effects on its consumers. Smoking poses dangers directly and indirectly to the public. An indirect public health concern that cigarettes may pose is accidental fire. As for the health risks in smoking tobacco, the disease mainly strikes the cardiovascular system, resulting to heart attack, respiratory tract diseases, and even cancer.

In spite of these risks, the number of cigarette smokers all other the world has not dropped considerably. Though several smokers claim to have been meaning to quit this habit, they just find it so difficult. The fact is that after smoking for quite sometime, quitting smoking will prove to be very hard, but not impossible.

Why is it hard to quit smoking?

Foremost, this is because most smokers become addicted to the nicotine contained in tobacco products. Nicotine has a deadly addictive power. How? When a person puffs a cigarette, nicotine particles find their way to the lungs through inhalation.

From there, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream just like the oxygen people breathe. It travels with the blood to the brain where it locks onto certain receptor areas. Dopamine is then released into the brain. This is the chemical that makes the smoker feel a euphoric sensation. Smokers find it difficult to quit because they come to be dependent on this good feeling. And in wanting to experience this repeatedly, this leads to dependence a sign of addiction.

A person who attempts to quit may experience withdrawal symptoms. Topping the bill of withdrawal symptoms is depression. With the absence of the chemical that produces the relaxing feeling, the brain becomes distressed without it. Other withdrawal symptoms from smoking include:

- Headaches, dizziness, and nausea
- Shakes, chills
- Cough, dry throat nasal drip
- Hunger, fatigue
- Constipation, gas or stomach pain
- Insomnia, troubled sleep

Not knowing what to do with their hands is another common complaint among ex-smokers while quitting. Once people get hooked, smoking becomes a big part of their lives. They seem to enjoy holding on a stick of cigarette and puffing on them. And after a long period of lighting up, it becomes a routine. As a fact, humans are creatures of habit. By some force of habit, smokers find themselves reaching for a cigarette and lighting it up automatically without thinking about it.

Certain triggers in the environment may also hamper a smoker’s desire to quit. Things may turn on a smoker’s need for a cigarette. These may be feelings, places, and moods. Even the things done routinely may trigger this craving for a smoke.

For those who have been smoking for quite a while already, they may not realize it but they form some emotional attachment to cigarettes. They find the cigarette calming and comforting during those stressful times. Cigarette smoking somehow becomes an extension of their social life, particularly when they are emotionally at the highest or lowest. Giving the smoker a feeling that giving up smoking would seem like giving up a trusted friend.

These are only some of the major reasons why it is hard to quit smoking. But there are also several strategies and quitting techniques that may aid smokers to finally give up on this tenacious habit. Quitting smoking all begins with one’s intention to stop. They must have the will power to overcome the craving for smoke. There are also a lot of quit smoking products in the market. These may also be worth trying. Support groups are proved to be very helpful, too.

Smokers must understand that to quit smoking may take more than one attempt. They must also try several methods before they can finally succeed. Smoking is a stubborn habit because it is closely tied to the acts in the course of people’s everyday lives. Even so, with determination, will power, and a strategy, to quit smoking is not out of the question.

Gaetane Ross
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/why-is-it-so-hard-to-quit-smoking-138799.html