According to the 2007 edition of Life and Breath, a report that utilizes the most recent available data for the surveillance of chronic respiratory diseases in Canada, over 3 million Canadians cope with one of five serious respiratory diseases:

• Asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Lung cancer
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Cystic fibrosis.

Long-term smoking may lead to a host of respiratory diseases, such as poorly healing influenza, pneumonia, emphysema, bronchiectasis (damaged bronchial tubes), respiratory distress syndrome and sleep apnea. However, most quit-smoking approaches focus on a psychological component. As a result, the toxins continue staying post-smoking in you liver, lungs and other tissues. This increases the chances of the health problems years down the road. One of the well-known facts is that the Allen Car who was an advocate of a popular book on How to Quit Smoking, died of lung cancer 32 years after he quit.

#1 Advanced Detox

Nicotine in cigarettes is the main addictive substance in tobacco. Its constant presence in the blood acts as an addictive drug, making a smoker to take another cigarette even when he decided to quit. Eliminating nicotine and other toxic substances that your cells accumulated during your smoking life, can help reduce (sometimes even eliminate desire) desire to smoke and decrease chances of developing post-smoking respiratory diseases. This effect might be due to:

• Decrease the toxic load and amounts of stimulant nicotine present in the blood.
• “Clear” the taste buds, which means changing of the taste. Natural foods will start tasting good, and bad substances will become more unpleasant. In fact, many people shared that eating their favorite unhealthy foods did not bring them previous enjoyment and satisfaction, and some testified that after that they vomited or had diarrhea – sign that body was getting rid of unwanted unhealthy substance.
• Eliminate smoke particles and tars from lungs, thus helping them cleanse and regenerate themselves, as well as to restore cells ability to carry oxygen.
• Eliminate smoke related toxins from different organs of the body, where they would be otherwise stored for months or even years.
• Improve the body’s metabolism.

Fresh Start Health Retreat Center offers a supervised, highly effective, and thorough whole-body detox program, including the whole digestive tract, liver, kidneys, blood and lymph cleanses, accomplished by specially prepared cleansing drinks. Because of a variety of well-combined components and a thought-through tested system, it is one of the most intensive whole-body cleanses.

#2 Anti-oxidant Support

When you detox from nicotine and other multiple toxins contained in cigarettes, your body utilizes an extremely high amount of anti-oxidants. Sometimes it may run out, and when it does, it may lead to some unpleasant side effects, such as broken capillaries on your skin. To prevent this, we have included into your program a special package of anti-oxidants, to support your system.

#3 Healthy Nutrition 

Because cigarettes are full of toxins,  their use can lead to nutritional deficiencies. For example, one of the side effects of smoking is osteoporosis (leaching of calcium from bones). The reason for that is that calcium is a major buffer that neutralizes body acidity or toxicity. Tobacco has the most acidifying effect on the body and because of it makes your body to use up at an accelerated speed its calcium, potassium and other nutrients to neutralize the acidity.

When you eat live, vegan meals, consisting of primarily fresh fruits, vegetables, greens, sprouts, seeds and nuts, you increase the amount of antioxidants, which as mentioned previously, are super helpful with prevention of health issues associated with quitting.

Additionally, raw food has highly healing properties because of its high digestive enzyme content. Enzymes contribute to raw foods’ anti-aging properties and have a tonifying effect on your digestive system. Cooking at temperatures just slightly higher than body temperature leads to destruction of virtually ALL enzymes. According to Dr. Howell, about 40-60% of enzymes necessary for digestion of every meal should come from foods we eat, and the rest comes from our pancreas. Consumption of raw foods allows taking off a great load from weakened pancreas (a major organ of enzyme production), as well as other organs, glands and tissues that produce it and letting them rest, and in the same time huge amounts of undisturbed and undestroyed by heat vitamins and minerals in fresh foods provide great source of materials needed for replacement of unhealthy tissues with healthy ones.

#4 Fresh squeezed Dandelion Juice,  used in your program, is a top-quality liver cleanser that is safe and effective. Juice is liquid food up to 90% of which, according to Dr. Joel Robbins, is absorbed and utilized by the body. Because of this, juices are a great restoration therapy for the body tissues damaged by smoking,  food additives, pesticides, parasites, and overgrowth of unhealthy bowel flora. Dandelion Juice is extremely rich in chlorophyll, which is so amazing similar in its chemical composition to our blood. So you can compare drinking of the juice with a healthy blood transfusion. Since your circulation may be severely impacted by smoking, green juices play an important anti-inflammatory function.

#5 Daily Walks in the Ocean Air constitute a very important part of our stop-smoking program. They are important for general health and help the body oxygenate blood and tissues that are so desperately asking for it. Cancer cannot survive in an oxygen-rich environment. Plus, sunshine (and we have lots of it here), fresh air, and exercise are the greatest antidepressants known.

#6 Daily Educational Lectures and Videos that are eye-opening and inspiring. They will help you to create a healthy foundation for your life as a non-smoker.  These are just a few things you will find out:

• Which foods you should avoid to prevent more toxins coming into your body
• Emotional Wellness: How to self-nurture and strengthen your Nervous System
• What do you need to do to help your liver detoxify and be healthy
• How to improve your digestive health
• And much more.

Our lectures are in-depth, evidence-based and empowering.

#7 Smoking Cessation Spa Therapies

Upon arrival, we will perform a live blood analysis and then repeat it (the retake is not included in the 7-day program). It is really amazing to see what is happening with your blood as you quit smoking. It highly motivates you to keep up with the change and to realize that you want to continue being healthy.

Halotherapy is designed to help you cleanse your lungs from numerous toxins you were exposed to when smoking.

Salt scrubs and steam baths will help you rejuvenate your skin. as they effectively pull and release the toxins.

Other therapies, such as Ionic Foot Detox and Infrared Sauna are also available.

We 100% believe that you can do it and will support you in your decision

This is your most comprehensive program, helping you quit smoking, cleanse all major body organs and systems, and provide the tools necessary for your successful transition to new life habits and a new level of health.