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This helpful excerpt from ‘The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Women’ will give hope with these panic busters.

‘The symptoms of a panic attack vary from person to person, but they usually include a combination of the following: breathing difficulty, sweating, chest pain or discomfort, loss of balance, feelings of unreality, trembling, tingling or numbness in the extremities, nausea, palpitations, smothering sensations and hot or cold flushes. There is always an overwhelming anxiety. Most attacks last just minutes, and few go on for more than an hour. You can beat panic attack. If your doctor has confirmed that what you are experiencing is bona fide panic and not something else, you can learn to cope with the symptoms - calmly. Here’s how:

- Talk yourself out of it - “Tell yourself, ‘Okay, I’m having a panic attack. I know that I’m not having a heart attack or dying or going crazy. This won’t last long. It will pass. I’ll get through it’,” says Dr. Vogel. This self-talk - part of an approach called cognitive behavioural therapy - should take the edge off the anxiety and your symptoms should start to fade.

- Relax, one muscle at a time - While you’re reminding yourself that you’re going to be fine, try deep breathing or some other relaxation technique, like progressive relaxation, says Dr. Vogel. Relaxation helps diminish symptoms, end attacks and lower the chances of future attacks.’

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Can it be done? Garry Egger says yes, research has shown you can quit smoking without piling on the weight.

One of the excuses you  often hear from smokers for not stopping is that they are worried they would put on weight. However, research has shown that it’s possible to keep your weight down while you go through the process of quitting smoking. Smoking does keep body weight down because it raises your metabolic rate and gives you something to do with your hands, apart from putting nutrition in your mouth. However, it shifts fat from otherwise harmless parts of the body (the hips and buttocks), to places where it is more dangerous (around the waist).

Also, the teenage girl who is smoking to keep her weight down should be aware that putting off quitting until later can make the problem worse. Fat is redistributed to her upper body, increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes and a number of other problems. Females are also likely to suffer a ‘bounce-back’ effect after restricting their body weight artificially for so long. Long-term obesity, which is very hard to shift, is the likely result.

If smoking is the number one preventable cause of disease, the paradox is that obesity through inactivity is about to overtake it. And because quitting smoking and obesity are so intimately related for many people, it’s vital for smokers to know the proper approaches to weight management at the same time - or preferably before - they attempt to quit.’

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Very interesting item taken from ‘The Doctors Book of Home Remedies’ by Editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books.

‘A belch is swallowed air that comes back up - usually, with a noisy, embarrassing vengeance. In fact, 70% of air in the gastrointestinal tract is swallowed air, says Dr. Ernestine Hambrick, a colon and rectal surgeon. A few simple tricks can minimise belching, say doctors.

Skip the bubbly stuff; and bubble gum - Certain foods and drinks are particularly wind-producing. Stay away from sparkling drinks and chewing gum.

Drink from a straw - Drinking through a straw results in less air-swallowing.

Yes! Chew you food - The more quickly you eat, the more likely you are to take in air, says Dr. Hambrick. If you chew your food thoroughly before you swallow it, air is less likely to enter your digestive tract.

Put a few morsels in your tummy - Haven’t eaten all day? If your stomach gets too empty, says Dr. Karlstadt, it’ll fill up with windy air. Problem is, the air doesn’t stay put, but sooner or later comes out as wind - and you can’t control when….’

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