Why You Are Kidding Yourself If You Think Smoking Helps You To Relax At Work

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With a lot of legislation starting to restrict smoking in or around the workplace, smokers are beginning to feel ostracized around the workplace. Many claim that smoking helps them relax at work bringing rise to greater productivity. But if you analyze what goes on during a typical cigarette break you will soon discover that it is not the cigarette that makes smokers feel more relaxed... Think about it for a moment...

During a typical cigarette break you get out of your normal work environment for five to ten minutes. You then light this cancer-causing stick; you take a big breath in. You hold the breath in and then you take a long relaxing breath out. You repeat this over a five period.

Smokers feel that this relaxing effect from a cigarette break is due to the cigarette. It has nothing to do with the stick that you light up. You feel relaxed by the way that you breathe while smoking.

During your next break, consider taking a deep breath in, holding it for a while and then gently blowing the air out. Do it for 5 to 10 minutes and I guarantee that you will feel relaxed too.

How can I say that?

That method of breathing has been used in many meditative practices for centuries.

Imagine the difference if a 30 a day smoker did the same inhale/hold/exhale breathing for a few minutes thirty times a day.

My challenge to all smokers who say that they are addicted to cigarettes or that cigarettes help them to relax is this: Whenever you feel the desire to smoke, start to inhale/hold and exhale right where you are. You don't need to duck outside or into another room. This breathing method is more convenient, will save you and your bossso much more time and money and will help your health rather than hinder it.

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Dr. Paul Lanthois is a chiropractor, speaker and work life balance expert. He is the director of The Work Life Balance Foundation which provides health, stress management and work-life balance lifestyle programs specifically for businesses and their employees. Dr. Lanthois has been a successful Australian chiropractor for nearly 20 years. He has spoken to many business and community groups such as Optus Telecommunications, St. George Bank and the SA Police Force. For two years Dr. Lanthois was the coordinator of health management at Action Coach (formerly Action International) Billionaire in Trainingï¿ Entrepreneur seminars. His academic background consists of: - A Masters of Chiropractic at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. - A Post Graduate Diploma of Chiropractic Sport Science, Macquarie University. - A Bachelor Science (majoring in Anatomy and Physiology), University of Adelaide. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Foundation For Nutrition and Health. Perhaps his most important qualification is that he successfully overcame his own energy burnout while managing two companies and raising a family and has developed a step-by-step proprietary process to recharge the weary and re-ignite the burned-out. Dr. Lanthois new book : From Burnout To Balance In 4 Weeks: The Business Health Program To Boost Morale and Productivity is due to be released in November, 2009.
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