{"id":27102,"date":"2016-08-16T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/afrocentric\/in-five-smoking\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:22:17","slug":"in-five-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/in-five-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"In Five: Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13184 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/quit-smoking-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"quit smoking\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/>Smoking is the unhealthiest thing you can do to yourself. <\/span><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\">Quitting smoking will stop the damage immediately and start reversing the effects very rapidly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\">It\u2019s best to choose a quitting date about 2-4 weeks away so you can plan, and choose sudden-stopping OR gradual reduction to zero.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\">The ideal quitting plan involves considering nicotine replacement, prescription medication, and support, as well as planning how to handle smoking triggers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\">Some weight gain does occur for most quitters but it is not severe (4-5kg usually), can be controlled, and is still way-healthier than smoking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #595959; font-family: Calibri;\">Most ex-smokers tried to quit more than once before they succeeded. Don\u2019t give up trying to give up!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-articles","category-smoking"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 21:06:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27439,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27102\/revisions\/27439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}