Acne Prevention

Orginal Tips For Acne Prevention

Acne has long been one of the most common problems among many people, causing nnot only physical effects, but also psychological and social ones as well.

So how can you combat this problem?  There are various treatments available both over-the-counter and prescribed by a physician, but perhaps, the best way to begin treating your acne is to take steps to prevent it.  Below are tips that will show you how to do just that.

Cleansing your skin is the most essential acne prevention measure you can take.  Not only does this clean off dirt, bacteria, and other unwanted materials, but it also removes excess oils that can cause breakouts.  It is important that you do not over wash your skin, as this will remove oils that actually help your skin.  This will result in dry, irritated skin, and can further aggravate your condition. 

Use a gentle soap or acne cleanser.  Cleansers have been developed to specifically help with acne, and are available both over-the-counter or through a prescription.

Zip popping is a bad habit to get in to, and perhaps, a hard one to break.  They are bothersome and sometimes painful, and it would seem that you would receive relief from popping them and getting rid of infectious pus.  This is not so.  In actuality, popping pimples pushes the bacteria further into the skin and can cause further irritation to the problem area and the skin surrounding it.  Use a skin toner in addition to washing your face instead.

Stress is also an aggravating factor to acne sufferers.  When you are stressed, chemicals in your body are working against you and can cause your skin to react and breakouts to occur.  Get plenty of sleep, eat right, and try to remove yourself from stressful situations. 

If you have acne on parts of your body such as your chest and back, wear lose clothing. This is recommended especially when indulging in activities such as working out.  Tight clothing can irritate your skin, and will aggravate your acne.  It can also be uncomfortable to acne sufferers as well.  This is also relevant because when you work out, you sweat, which can add unwanted materials to your skin and help influence breakouts.  Tight clothing can trap these materials on the surface of your skin, or may even cause you to seat more.  Lose clothing will prove more comfortable all around.

There is no sure way to cure acne, and many factors play into its causes.  Depending on your skin type, certain tips may be more important than others.  Follow these tips, and stay on an acne regimen that works.  Don't deviate from your acne treatment routine, as this will cause it to not be effective.  Remember, too, that it often takes time to see the results of prevention and treatment.  Consult a physician if nothing seems to work, or if you are unsure about what you should or shouldn't use to treat your condition.

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Controlling Asthma Condition

Way To Control Your Asthma Condition

Breathing Exercises Should Be One of Your Tools in Completely Controlling Your Asthma Condition Until recently, western medical research has been inconclusive in determining whether or not there is real benefit for an asthmatic to conduct breathing exercises as part of an overall asthma management program. These exercises have certainly been popular in many alternative type asthma management programs but have not yet been embraced by allopathic, or traditional western physicians. But they are beneficial and will help an asthma sufferer reduce symptoms and increase strength. The two most often practiced techniques are Buteyko (named after the Russian doctor who developed them) and a yoga training technique known as pranayama. In very simple terms, Buteyko exercises involve breathing through the nose (not mouth), exhaling for as long as possible and then holding the breath as long as possible at the end of the exhale. During the inhale, a series of short, but shallow breaths are practiced. Pranayama is about correct posture, relaxation and controlled, slow inhalation and exhalation, with a focus on using the diaphragm muscles to assist with breathing. While breathing techniques have long been supported by naturopathic physicians, it is only in the last several years that the allopathic medical community (traditional doctors) has moved to try and quantify any potential benefit from these exercises. One study, published in the March 2004 edition of ?Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine? concluded there might be some benefit, although more study was required. In several patient groups (some using buteyko training and others using pranayana), there did appear to be reduced asthma symptoms although lung function did not appreciably change (as measured by PEFR). Nevertheless, patients felt better and did experience a reduction in need for relief medications. How do breathing exercises help asthmatics Since asthma is related to inflammation of the lungs and constriction of the smooth involuntary bronchiole muscles, how can doing breathing exercises help alleviate symptoms? For starters, it is estimated that some 30% of asthmatics suffer some degree of breathing dysfunction. Bad habits are easily learned when suffering from asthma symptoms and it is not uncommon for those habits to continue in between attacks ? breathing through the mouth and short, shallow breaths for example. This type of breathing deprives the lungs of their full potential to effectively exchange oxygen with carbon dioxide. Breathing exercises enforce good habits where the full range of lung function is used. Consequently, the body gets the oxygen it needs and the chronic asthmatic feels better, with more energy. And not only will it make the breathing process more efficient, there is evidence that breathing muscles (diaphragm and lung muscles) are strengthened. So even if breath training doesn?t directly improve lung function, eliminating bad habits will improve overall health and quality of life. And this new energy level is important in getting stronger and finding the motivation to attack asthma with a total management plan that results in symptoms being completely controlled ? with very little, if any need for medications. In addition to increased energy levels and stronger lung muscles, there is another benefit to breathing exercises ?even if it doesn?t directly result in increased lung function. And that is when actually enduring an asthma attack. Anyone who has asthma knows what it is like to struggle for breath. You can?t get enough air into your lungs and just as agonizing, you can?t seem to get any air out. Asthmatics who practice correct breathing exercises are much more likely to be able to endure, in a controlled manner, an asthma attack than those that don?t. Of course that is not to say that controlled breathing replaces relief medication ? it most certainly doesn?t. But it does contribute, in a real way, to stabilizing the attack because the asthmatic can fight the temptation to start breathing in an uncontrolled manner. Indeed, biofeedback, a technique in which patients are trained to basically will themselves to breath more efficiently, seems to be getting more and more traction. Controlling asthma cannot be achieved by only using one tool. Multiple tools should be used ? in addition to the control and relief medications prescribed by your physician. Diet, exercise, trigger controls are all essential components; and so is a good and consistent program of breathing exercises. Using all of these tools will allow an asthmatic to completely control her disease and enjoy a symptom free lifestyle.

Easy Tips to Quit Smoking

Quit Smoking Crazy Tips!

Have you made up your mind to quit smoking? You know you want to quit, but you just can't figure out how. Every day you get out of bed hacking your head off, coughing until you can barely breathe, and you say to yourself, I have got to quit. The next thing you know you're lighting up again and wondering why is it so difficult to quit. If you are finally ready to give it everything you've got to quit smoking, then read on. The first thing you want to do is keep a journal for a few days of every time you light up. What time is it, what were you doing when you decided to light up, and what made you want the cigarette? Next, go over your journal to figure out why you light up each time. Do you absolutely feel the need to have a cigarette with your morning coffee? What is it that makes you feel good when have the cigarette with your coffee? Is it just a habit because you've done it for so long, or do you really enjoy that morning cigarette? Do you find yourself lighting up after each meal? Is it just a habit, or does it really top off your dinner? Is there something besides a cigarette that you could replace it with after each meal? Do you find yourself lighting up whenever you are bored, stressed, on the phone, watching TV, driving or other things that happen every day? Is there something besides a cigarette that could replace the feeling you get from it while doing these activities? These are the questions you need to ask yourself and find out if you really enjoy smoking or if it has just become such a habit to light up at certain times. Take plenty of time to go to your journal and answer these questions. You may find that you don't really want a cigarette and you just need to find something to replace it with. Spend the next few days paying close attention to each time you light a cigarette and then ask yourself, do I really want this right now? If the answer is no, put it away. By taking the time to figure out when and why you smoke, you'll begin to understand your habit. By understanding why you smoke, it will make it easier when you set your quit date to stick with your program. Well Here Is The Tips: A. Reason to Quit! 10 good reasons to quit smoking : 1. It makes you smell bad. Have you ever gone somewhere and had someone take a weird face, like whoa you stink? The smell that smoking leaves on you is very noticeable to non-smokers. 2. It makes you cough. Have you ever woke up in the morning and got into such a coughing jag it felt like you were about to cough up a lung? Wouldn't you love to not have that problem anymore. 3. Smoking causes wrinkles. Do you really want to get more wrinkles and look older than you are sooner than you need to? 4. Smoking makes you sick. Smokers have higher insurance rates due to the fact that they are way more likely to become ill than non-smokers. 5. Smoking costs a lot of money. If you smoke only one pack cigarettes a day at four dollars a pack, you are spending $120 a month, $1440 a year. If he smoked two packs a day that's $2880 a year. What kind of a wonderful vacation do you think you could go on each year if you take that money and put it away instead of wasting it on cigarettes? 6. Smoking makes your lungs go from healthy and pink, to black raisin looking shrunken unhealthy organs. 7. Smoking saps your energy. Each time you light up, you are putting toxins into your body. This makes it harder for you to breathe which makes it harder for you to keep your energy level up. 8. Smoking makes your teeth yellow. Wouldn't you love to have a beautiful white smile? 9. Smoking deadens your taste buds. The more you smoke the less you can taste your food. Wouldn't you like to enjoy your meals again without having to add extra salt or pepper just make it so you can taste it? 10. Smoking makes you look unattractive. No matter what anybody says, having a ring of smoke around your head, does not make you look sexy. Smoking is an unattractive habit B. POSITIVE TIPS Positive tips to help you give up smoking : 1. Make a plan to quit smoking and make a decision what day you will quit and then stick to it. 2. Talk to your doctor about quitting. Have him give you any help or advice he can to get you started by the day you specified. 3. Use deep breathing exercises every time you have the urge to smoke. Spend about five minutes taking in a deep breaths and holding it for a few seconds and then letting it out your mouth. Do this until the urge passes. 4. Write yourself a note naming all the reasons you want to quit. Carry it with you all the time and each time you have the urge to smoke read your list. 5. Start a daily exercise program to help relieve stress. Exercise will also help you recover from years of damage from smoking. 6. Remember that giving up smoking will be one of the most difficult things in your life to do. Give yourself a pat on the back every time you resist the urge. Tell yourself I am a non-smoker, I am strong, I believe in myself and I can do this. 7. Find a friend or family member that will help you and support you all you are working on quitting. Have them be your on call person when you need help that will talk you through it each time it becomes difficult. 8. Visualize yourself as a non-smoker. Close your eyes and imagine yourself saying no to someone when they offer you a cigarette. See yourself throwing your cigarettes away and being rewarded for it. The more vivid to make this visualization the better. 9. Wash your walls, ceilings and floors to get the smell and cigarette stains out of the house. Sit back and enjoy the fresh air. 4. Wash all of your bedding and clothing and fill your closet with some wonderful sachets to make it smell great. Lay on your bed and hug your pillow and smell that wonderful smell. Each time you think about having a cigarette, remember how fresh everything in the house smells and realize you don't want to have that awful smell in your house or on your clothes anymore. 10. Drink a lot of water to flush out the nicotine and chemicals from your body as quickly as possible. 11. Avoid doing things that you found out by writing in your journal make you want to smoke. Find new activities that do not include smoking and start doing them. Work at this every day. Each day it will become a little easier. Just keep thinking about how great you are going to feel when to accomplish this. "You can do it if you just put your mind to it" Okay that's all the way hope you like it. Thank you for Not Smoking.