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To many, cold turkey conjures up visions of torturous pain, suffering and general drudgery. In fact, it is easier to stop smoking using the cold turkey method than by using any other technique. Cold turkey induces less suffering and creates a shorter period of withdrawal. Most important, cold turkey is the approach by which the smoker has the best chance of success.

Smokers must recognize that they are drug addicts. Nicotine is a powerfully addictive drug. Once the smoker has smoked for a fairly long time, the body requires maintenance of a certain level of nicotine in the bloodstream.

If this level is not maintained, the smoker will experience varying degrees of drug withdrawal: the lower the level, the greater the intensity. As long as any nicotine remains in the bloodstream the body will keep craving its full complement.

Once the smoker quits, the nicotine level will eventually drop to zero and all physical withdrawal will cease. Cravings for an occasional cigarette may continue, but this is due to an old habit not to a physical dependence.

Cutting down on cigarettes or use of nicotine replacement strategies throws the smoker into a chronic state of drug withdrawal. As soon as the smoker fails to reach the minimum requirement of nicotine, the body starts demanding it.

As long as there is any nicotine in the bloodstream, the body will demand its old requirement. Smoking just one or two a day or wearing a patch which is gradually reducing the amount of nicotine being delivered will result in the smoker not achieving the minimum required level, creating a chronic state of peak drug withdrawal.

This state will continue throughout the rest of the smoker's life unless one of two steps is taken to rectify it. First, the smoker can stop delivering nicotine altogether. Nicotine will be metabolized or totally excreted from the body and the withdrawal will stop forever. Or, the smoker can return to the old level of consumptions accomplishing nothing.

Therefore, cold turkey is the method of choice. Once the smoker stops, withdrawal will end within two weeks. The rest of the process involves changing the way you think and staying away from cigarettes and the temptation that they provide.

Many people are also afraid of gaining weight when they don’t have the oral fixation that a cigarette provides – calorie free! Weight gain isn’t a reality of quitting smoking. You can take steps to prevent it.

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It’s been in the news for the past few years, the hormone that is released from our body when we are stressed causes weight gain. This hormone, cortisol, can be decreased significantly with herbal products such as Relacore. The best kept secret for avoiding abdominal weight gain due to stress is by the use of adaptogens.

Adaptogens to the Rescue - Ginseng

Adaptogens also help decrease cortisol. Adaptogens are herbs that adapt to your body’s needs. Various adaptogens include Ashwaganda, Astragalus, and Ginseng of the various types.

I recommend American ginseng because it is the least likely to cause side effects among the ginsengs. Ginseng decreases the effects of stress, helps support the immune system, and treats digestive problems such as ulcers. In his book, The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies, Mark Stengler, N.D. states that in his experience the most effective dosage for American ginseng is 1,000 to 2,000 mg daily of the capsule or 1 to 2 milliliters of tincture two to three times daily. I like to take ginseng early in the day and with meals. It is better to start with a lower dose and increase slowly to find out what is most effective for you and to prevent jitters. Stengler also states that ginseng takes about two weeks to take effect on the body.

Please do not take any type of ginseng during pregnancy or lactation unless you have the direct care of a knowledgeable and certified or licensed health practitioner.

Nurture Stress Away With This Natural Wonder

Excessive stress causes adrenal burnout. This directly affects our hormones, including cortisol. The best way I know how to cure adrenal burnout AND decrease abdominal fat is through the use of the nourishing herb nettles.Taken straight for six to eight weeks at one to two cups per day, dry leaf nettle infusion is known to cure deep adrenal stress. Drinking nettle leaf infusion also resets your metabolism and improves the work of your digestion, thus giving you flatter abs. Taken consistently, this herb gives you so much extra energy you didn’t even know you had. Plus, it has so much pure and natural nutrition that you end up losing your cravings for sweets. Nettle contains protein and is a calcium-rich herb, and can take the place of one to two of your ‘Abs Conscious Plan’ milk servings. The less stress you have, the less likely you are to crave unhealthy sweet snacks that lead to fatter and not flatter abs.

To prepare nettle leaf infusion, boil 1 quart of distilled water and pour it inside a glass jar that already contains 1 ounce (about a handful) of organic dried nettle leaves. You then must cover the jar and steep for at least 4 hours. Pour yourself a cup of the mild tasting infusion either warm or cold, by itself or with any drink you wish to mix it with. I take one to two cups daily. I prepare it by pouring 12 to 16 ounces of boiling water in a glass jar that contains a heaping tablespoon of dried nettle leaves. I tell every person I meet about nettle leaf infusion because it has given me a new outlook on life due to the “feels good to be alive” feeling I have gained from taking it. I first heard about it from a very wise octogenarian I met at a beauty salon. Then after researching, I found extensive information online provided by Susun Weed, a powerful voice of the wise woman herbal movement.

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The primary high ticket product strategy is a complete one, provided you know how to avoid some of the myths surrounding it and do not limit yourself to just keyword research.

The concept deals with an end-to-end strategy where there is constant traffic of sending and building lists. Leaving out the luxury markets, purchases are influenced more by needs than wants.

However, online information is a completely different ball game, as the customers will not be anyhow influenced by any of its physical appearance or qualities. Information is more important than just having an enjoyable time while reading a fiction novel, and that is why people spend hundreds of dollars to get the necessary information.

You must always pay importance to this, besides choosing a niche. The primary high ticket product strategy is not just about building a list of people and then forwarding sales pages to them. That is not just how things work.

Try and concentrate instead on the needs of people, and then create an initial and several backend products which will cater to those needs.

If there is a lot of keyword searches and comparatively lesser competition, we generally tend to believe that the particular market then can be exploited as it is a good niche. That is however, not always the case, and keywords and competition do not always help when it comes to choosing a niche.

The basic idea is to have two keywords if a comparison is to be made. We thus have keyword A and keyword B.

Suppose keyword A ends up with 1 million searches per month, and there are only 10 websites which serve that niche, and then keyword B ends up with 10 searches per month while having 1 million competing websites on the other hand, the general tendency is to believe that keyword A can thus be better exploited than keyword B and the former can prove to be a far better niche as there is very little competition.

We generally tend to believe that when it comes to keyword B, there are already existing and competing websites, and we will thus never be able to enter the field and exploit the niche.

However, over the last few years, the development of automated software has helped people find their niches, and choose specific niches whenever there have been confusions regarding unbalanced searches and competitions, and have thus helped in maintaining the primary high ticket product strategy.

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This is where many online sellers fall short. Statistics show that most people DO NOT BUY the first time they read about a product. Usually it takes 7 OR MORE TIMES before folks are willing and most importantly, ready, to purchase something. 7 OR MORE TIMES. So using a good follow up system is integral to your earning success.

Often times, a "follow up" system is already part of your autoresponder system. Whether you run this yourself or not. But, what is a "follow up" system?

A follow up system is just what it sounds like: "A system utilized for following up with previous, current, or future customers by sending out scheduled notices". Many times, this follow up system generates more profits for you. In all actuality, a subscriber that has bought from you in the past WILL buy from you again. IF they are satisfied with their purchase that is.

So, the object here is to send your mailing list of subscribers more than 1 emailing AFTER your FIRST promotional emailing. Now, does this mean you have to pitch the same product every time?

NO! And, should you send out the emails consecutively? NO! And YES!

That last question is really up to you and how fast you want to profit from your list. It also depends on any pre-determined qualities you've applied to your specific mailing list.

For instance, Do You Have A "Set" Time Frame For When You Will Be Sending Out Mailings? Weekly? Bi-Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly?

Maybe the subscriber wasn't really intrigued by your last promotional product. Or maybe they were broke that week. Point is, it takes more than just the inital "thanks for buying" follow up. And if you're not willing to go this extra step, believe me, someone else will!

Take a chance. Send out a couple extra emails to your customers/subscribers. The worst they can do is delete it, or unsubscribe. In which case, you stood more to lose than gain from an unresponsive or uninterested subscriber.

Whatever you decide on when to send follow up mailings, be sure that you have let your subscribers KNOW IN ADVANCE to expect these types of commercial mailings from you, and approximately how often they will receive them.

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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, on the night before Christmas, a little child was wandering all alone through the streets of a great city. There were many people on the street, fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, uncles and aunts, and even gray-haired grandfathers and grandmothers, all of whom were hurrying home with bundles of presents for each other and for their little ones. Fine carriages rolled by, express wagons rattled past, even old carts were pressed into service, and all things seemed in a hurry and glad with expectation of the coming Christmas morning.

From some of the windows bright lights were already beginning to stream until it was almost as bright as day. But the little child seemed to have no home, and wandered about listlessly from street to street. No one took any notice of him except perhaps Jack Frost, who bit his bare toes and made the ends of his fingers tingle. The north wind, too, seemed to notice the child, for it blew against him and pierced his ragged garments through and through, causing him to shiver with cold. Home after home he passed, looking with longing eyes through the windows, in upon the glad, happy children, most of whom were helping to trim the Christmas trees for the coming morrow.

of it may be for me.” So with timid steps he approached a large and handsome house. Through the windows, he could see a tall and stately Christmas tree already lighted. Many presents hung upon it. Its green boughs were trimmed with gold and silver ornaments. Slowly he climbed up the broad steps and gently rapped at the door. It was opened by a large man-servant. He had a kindly face, although his voice was deep and gruff. He looked at the little child for a moment, then sadly shook his head and said, “Go down off the steps. There is no room here for such as you.” He looked sorry as he spoke; possibly he remembered his own little ones at home, and was glad that they were not out in this cold and bitter night. Through the open door a bright light shone, and the warm air, filled with fragrance of the Christmas pine, rushed out from the inner room and greeted the little wanderer with a kiss. As the child turned back into the cold and darkness, he wondered why the footman had spoken thus, for surely, thought he, those little children would love to have another companion join them in their joyous Christmas festival. But the little children inside did not even know that he had knocked at the door.

The street grew colder and darker as the child passed on. He went sadly forward, saying to himself, “Is there no one in all this great city who will share the Christmas with me?” Farther and farther down the street he wandered, to where the homes were not so large and beautiful. There seemed to be little children inside of nearly all the houses. They were dancing and frolicking about. Christmas trees could be seen in nearly every window, with beautiful dolls and trumpets and picture-books and balls and tops and other dainty toys hung upon them. In one window the child noticed a little lamb made of soft white wool. Around its neck was tied a red ribbon. It had evidently been hung on the tree for one of the children. The little stranger stopped before this window and looked long and earnestly at the beautiful things inside, but most of all was he drawn toward the white lamb. At last creeping up to the window-pane, he gently tapped upon it. A little girl came to the window and looked out into the dark street where the snow had now begun to fall. She saw the child, but she only frowned and shook her head and said, “Go away and come some other time. We are too busy to take care of you now.” Back into the dark, cold streets he turned again. The wind was whirling past him and seemed to say, “Hurry on, hurry on, we have no time to stop. ‘Tis Christmas Eve and everybody is in a hurry to-night.”

Again and again the little child rapped softly at door or window-pane. At each place he was refused admission. One mother feared he might have some ugly disease which her darlings would catch; another father said he had only enough for his own children and none to spare for beggars. Still another told him to go home where he belonged, and not to trouble other folks.

The hours passed; later grew the night, and colder grew the wind, and darker seemed the street. Farther and farther the little one wandered. There was scarcely any one left upon the street by this time, and the few who remained did not seem to see the child, when suddenly ahead of him there appeared a bright, single ray of light. It shone through the darkness into the child’s eyes. He looked up smilingly and said, “I will go where the small light beckons, perhaps they will share their Christmas with me.”

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Our breakfast consisted of what the Squire denominated true old English fare. He indulged in some bitter lamentations over modern breakfasts of tea-and-toast, which he censured as among the causes of modern effeminacy and weak nerves, and the decline of old English heartiness; and though he admitted them to his table to suit the palates of his guests, yet there was a brave display of cold meats, wine, and ale, on the sideboard.

After breakfast I walked about the grounds with Frank Bracebridge and Master Simon, or Mr. Simon as he was called by everybody but the Squire. We were escorted by a number of gentleman-like dogs, that seemed loungers about the establishment; from the frisking spaniel to the steady old staghound; the last of which was of a race that had been in the family time out of mind: they were all obedient to a dog-whistle which hung to Master Simon’s buttonhole, and in the midst of their gambols would glance an eye occasionally upon a small switch he carried in his hand.

The old mansion had a still more venerable look in the yellow sunshine than by pale moonlight; and I could not but feel the force of the Squire’s idea, that the formal terraces, heavily moulded balustrades, and clipped yew-trees, carried with them an air of proud aristocracy. There appeared to be an unusual number of peacocks about the place, and I was making some remarks upon what I termed a flock of them, that were basking under a sunny wall, when I was gently corrected in my phraseology by Master Simon, who told me that, according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting, I must say a MUSTER of peacocks. “In the same way,” added he, with a slight air of pedantry, “we say a flight of doves or swallows, a bevy of quails, a herd of deer, of wrens, or cranes, a skulk of foxes, or a building of rooks.” He went on to inform me, that, according to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, we ought to ascribe, to this bird “both understanding and glory; for, being praised, he will presently set up his tail chiefly against the sun, to the intent you may the better behold the beauty thereof. But at the fall of the leaf, when his tail falleth, he will mourn and hide himself in corners, till his tail come again as it was.”

I could not help smiling at this display of small erudition on so whimsical a subject; but I found that the peacocks were birds of some consequence at the Hall, for Frank Bracebridge informed me that they were great favourites with his father, who was extremely careful to keep up the breed; partly because they belonged to chivalry, and were in great request at the stately banquets of the olden time; and partly because they had a pomp and magnificence about them, highly becoming an old family mansion. Nothing, he was accustomed to say, had an air of greater state and dignity than a peacock perched upon an antique stone balustrade.

Master Simon had now to hurry off, having an appointment at the parish church with the village choristers, who were to perform some music of his selection. There was something extremely agreeable in the cheerful flow of animal spirits of the little man; and I confess I had been somewhat surprised at his apt quotations from authors who certainly were not in the range of every-day reading. I mentioned this last circumstance to Frank Bracebridge, who told me with a smile that Master Simon’s whole stock of erudition was confined to some half-a-dozen old authors, which the Squire had put into his hands, and which he read over and over, whenever he had a studious fit; as he sometimes had on a rainy day, or a long winter evening. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert’s “Book of Husbandry;” Markham’s “Country Contentments;” the “Tretyse of Hunting,” by Sir Thomas Cockayne, Knight; Izaak Walton’s “Angler,” and two or three more such ancient worthies of the pen, were his standard authorities; and, like all men who know but a few books, he looked up to them with a kind of idolatry, and quoted them on all occasions. As to his songs, they were chiefly picked out of old books in the Squire’s library, and adapted to tunes that were popular among the choice spirits of the last century. His practical application of scraps of literature, however, had caused him to be looked upon as a prodigy of book-knowledge by all the grooms, huntsmen, and small sportsmen of the neighbourhood.

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Market Yourself And Your Products - I won't go into the whole "Marketing" subject here... Naturally, we all know how incredibly extensive the subject could be. But I do want to point out a few things that you need to recognize when marketing yourself and your business online.

Marketing doesn't have to cost a fortune! Advertising, however, can become quite costly... and there is a difference! When marketing your business there are a few things that should be brought to the forefront.

You need to recognize the fact that traffic is your ultimate goal! More importantly, you need to (eventually) be able to sell that traffic once they land on your website. That's where you need to be a SUPER Salesperson!

But how you acquire the traffic is just as important. We all know about Google Adwords and Overture, but to be honest, in my opinion they are all a bit overrated and can become quite costly for a small business. Don't misunderstand, there certainly are effective ways to use the "Pay-Per-Click" search engines, but that's not something I'd like to discuss in this report… (Perhaps we'll save that subject for another report in itself).

You best efforts should focus on providing quality content and useful information related to your niche' market. Once you do this, the search engines and other websites will pick up on this content and start indexing your web pages rapidly -- referring folks to your website for FREE. Now that's a bargain! More importantly... GET YOUR MAILING LIST Setup! That's when you'll really make the sales!

You should immediately begin writing creative, interesting articles relating to your niche’. Once you’ve written an article, you can submit it to hundreds of article directories and gain valuable links back to your website free. A great place to learn more about writing and submitting articles is Article Marketer.

Everything we've talked about up to this point has dealt with effective marketing so take each topic and utilize what you've learned. Put a few of the ideas to the test. If you implement some the strategies I've outlined here, you'll be a much better SALESPERSON in the long run... and that's what it's all about... Becoming a SUPER SALESPERSON!