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On Smokeout Day, What We Know About How to Quit - US News and World Report

From USNews:
On Smokeout Day, What We Know About How to Quit - US News and World Report: "I will give you, in a nutshell, the simple so-called 'secret' to stopping smoking, overeating, or changing just about anything in your life. Not one person in 100 will apply the method because almost everyone prefers to maintain their age-old habits and to complain to anyone who will listen about how hard they've tried, but how helpless is the situation in which they find themselves.

I read the 'secret' about 45 years ago, have applied it to my life ever since, and am continually amazed at how simple it is.

Here goes: 'In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits.' -John Lilly-

It's that simple. As long as you continue telling yourself (i.e. believing and reinforcing) how difficult it is, you will never be able to control whatever aspect of your life you're talking about. On the other hand, as soon as you adopt the belief that it's easy and actually a trivial problem, you'll be able to change. I'm already laughing at the criticisms."

On Smokeout Day, What We Know About How to Quit - US News and World Report

From USNews:
On Smokeout Day, What We Know About How to Quit - US News and World Report: "Flip things around in your mind. When you have a craving, close your eyes and enjoy it. Yes, I said enjoy it. Let yourself feel the craving come over you and pass through you. Allow the craving to have its full force and relax through it with your eyes closed. Use the time that the craving hits to take a little mental break the same way you used to take a smoke break.

After you get through the very first craving remember it! Remember that you NEVER have to go through a craving that bad EVER AGAIN! No matter how they feel, each successive craving will actually be less. Remember that first horrible craving each time you think you want another cigarette and ask yourself if you want to go through that again? If you EVER pick up another cigarette you will have to do just that! This alone should keep most people from ever lighting another one up."

SIRT1 - DNA Protection & Repair

From USNews:
...maintain their telomerase levels: switching from regular to nonfat dairy products, adding two or three servings of fruits and vegetables to their diet, or doing just a few minutes of daily meditation, for example. The same may be true for other longevity boosters such as calorie restriction, which is thought to extend life span by boosting SIRT1, a protein involved in protecting and repairing DNA (and thus protecting against potential killers like heart disease and cancer). Cutting calorie intake by a hunger-pang-producing one third might help people live about 20 percent longer, suggests David Sinclair, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who conducted studies, similar to the monkey one, in mice. He says reducing calories by a smaller amount—say, 50 calories a day—could moderately boost SIRT1.
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"maintain their telomerase levels: switching from regular to nonfat dairy products, adding two or three servings of fruits and vegetables to their diet, or doing just a few minutes of daily meditation, for example. The same may be true for other longevity boosters such as calorie restriction, which is thought to extend life span by boosting SIRT1, a protein involved in protecting and repairing DNA (and thus protecting against potential killers like heart disease and cancer). Cutting calorie intake by a hunger-pang-producing one third might help people live about 20 percent longer, suggests David Sinclair, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who conducted studies, similar to the monkey one, in mice. He says reducing calories by a smaller amount—say, 50 calories a day—could moderately boost SIRT1."
- Calorie-Restricted Diets and Other Ways to Avoid Aging - US News and World Report (view on Google Sidewiki)

Telomerase

From USNews:Even if you've been slipping up until now, making healthful changes today can turn back the clock—or at least slow it down. Ornish's research has found that a low-fat diet, regular exercise, and relaxation techniques all work in synergy to increase levels of telomerase, an enzyme thought to slow cellular aging and prevent healthy cells from turning cancerous. Specifically, he found that telomerase was boosted by 30 percent in prostate cancer patients who followed a plant-based, whole-grain diet with very little fat or sugar for three months. The men also took fish oil supplements, did daily 30-minute bouts of exercise, and practiced yoga or meditation for an hour a day. "Telomerase turns up those genes associated with disease prevention and turns down the genes associated with heart disease, diabetes, and cancer," explains Ornish.
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"Even if you've been slipping up until now, making healthful changes today can turn back the clock—or at least slow it down. Ornish's research has found that a low-fat diet, regular exercise, and relaxation techniques all work in synergy to increase levels of telomerase, an enzyme thought to slow cellular aging and prevent healthy cells from turning cancerous. Specifically, he found that telomerase was boosted by 30 percent in prostate cancer patients who followed a plant-based, whole-grain diet with very little fat or sugar for three months. The men also took fish oil supplements, did daily 30-minute bouts of exercise, and practiced yoga or meditation for an hour a day. "Telomerase turns up those genes associated with disease prevention and turns down the genes associated with heart disease, diabetes, and cancer," explains Ornish."
- Calorie-Restricted Diets and Other Ways to Avoid Aging - US News and World Report (view on Google Sidewiki)

Epigenetics

Always suspected something like this was true.
in reference to: Epigenetics Finds That Our Genes Are Not the Whole Story - US News and World Report (view on Google Sidewiki)