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I’ve never felt so weak in my entire life. I want to quit smoking so badly but every time I try I only find myself obsessing on wanting a cigarette. My roommates smoke, my friends smoke and it seems like we all want to quit but end up caving for one reason or another. Does anyone have any advice that could help me?

I understand your pain. Its all about standing up for yourself. Like high schoolers, its like giving in to peer pressure, but on yourself.

I have been addicted to many things and cigarettes were the worst. If you’re a cold-turkey kind of person, try that and see how it goes. If not, bum when you are drinking alcohol ONLY (social smoker) and limit yourself to only 1 or 2 per social-smoking nites.

Here is how I did it:
1. Do NOT buy a pack of smokes. If you have them, you will smoke them. Bumming from friends and strangers constantly gets old quickly and they will eventually be annoyed.

2. Don’t even think about it. The more you think about it, the more you want one. When you think of smoking one, think about how your throat feels right then, think about gross crap like mucus and phlegm and tar… ew.

3. My boyfriend helped. He quit smoking and stayed strong while the rest of us continued. Every time I would smoke he would be very, very, very upset. He is worth more to me than smoking cigarettes.

4. Buy lots of gum.

5. When you quit, realize that it will take a long, long, long time to not want one… but even then, even my 80 year old grandmother still has dreams about wanting cigarettes and she quit 20 years ago.

6. When you do quit, you will feel ill, you will feel tired and down and cranky and pissed off and crazy. This will pass. Do not give in!

7. This next one is entirely dependent on your personality…. if you like the social habit part of things, partake in the social habit part. If it is too difficult for you to stay social without wanting to bum, then don’t partake. You may lose friends over it, but what kind of friends are those?

8. Sooner or later you won’t feel like the only one not smoking… my group of friends quit one by one… and the last one standing outside smoking felt very alone.

You can do it! You can do anything…. trust yourself.

 

Let’s talk about why we smoke. It may come as no surprise to smokers but most nonsmokers do not understand how strongly addictive tobacco products can be. Like an old school advertisement used to say, “It’s what’s inside that counts.” It begins with nicotine.

Nicotine is a drug that is a natural component of tobacco. Nicotine is highly addictive and is considered by many to be as addictive as heroin or cocaine. The longer one smokes the more the body becomes physically and psychologically dependent on nicotine.

Researchers find that smokers must break their psychological and physical dependence in order to become smoke free long term.

Once smoke is inhaled the nicotine is carried deep into the lungs. Once in the lungs it is absorbed quickly directly into the bloodstream and travels through the body.

Nicotine exerts a dramatic affect on many parts of the body such as the heart and blood vessels, hormonal system, metabolism, and the brain.

Unfortunately nicotine is found in breast milk and even in cervix mucous secretions of smokers. During pregnancy, nicotine freely crosses the placenta and has been found in amniotic fluid and the umbilical cord blood of newborn infants.

Now here’s the way the psychological addition takes hold so deeply. Once inhaled the nicotine triggers pleasurable feelings that induce the smoker to crave smoke more. This drug also acts like a depressant by interfering with the way information travels between nerve cells.

Once the nervous system becomes adjusted to the presence of nicotine, smokers find their habit increasing by several additional packs per week. Additionally, their blood nicotine levels increase proportionally.

Once level of tolerance to the drug is developed by the smoker the smoking habits continues to increase.

What Happens When Smokers Quit

According to the American Cancer Society, the following benefits are experienced once smokers break the habit.

• 20 minutes after smoking stops the heart rate and blood pressure drops.

• 12 hours after stopping, carbon monoxide levels in the blood drop to normal.

• 2 to 3 weeks after stopping circulation improves and lung function increases.

• 1 to 9 months later coughing and shortness of breath decreases. Additionally the cilia fain lungs regain normal ability to handle mucus, clean the lungs and reduce risk of infection.

• 5 years after quitting the risk of stroke is reduced to that of a nonsmoker of 5 to 15 years.

• 10 years after quitting the cancer death rate is ½ that of continuing smokers. ”

So How Do I Quit?

Use these 5 Top Tips To Begin Your Life As A Nonsmoker

1. Eliminate guilt. Changing a habit takes several weeks so a few missteps are part of the normal pattern of change. Don’t beat yourself up should you finding yourself smoking again after you’ve started your program.

Guilt triggered emotions and reactions cause more failed non-smoking results than any single other factor. Be kind to yourself and forget about guilt. You will be successful if you follow this program.

2. Decide on a date when you will become a non-smoker (set it close enough to be realistic but not so close as to be stressful)

3. Write the date on a 3 X 5 business card and look at it at least twice a day for the next 30 to 45 days (in the morning before getting out of bed, at noon/optional, at night as the last thing you do before retiring)

4. Spend some time during the day visualizing yourself as a non-smoker. It may take a while to get comfortable with this exercise but it is well worth the effort. Find a quiet spot where you won’t be interrupted for at least 15 minutes.

Turn off the ringer on your phone and let everyone know you need some quiet time. See yourself involved in activities as a non-smoker. Enjoy the feelings, sights and sounds that would naturally be part of the surroundings that you are visualizing. Allow yourself to spend as much time as you want, enjoying activities as a non-smoker.

5. Most often there are events, activities, which have created habit patterns that are directly connected to smoking. For some it is the first cup of coffee in the morning. Others find when they are out socializing with friends they smoke more than at other times.

Review your own smoke related habits for situations that tend to contribute to heavier smoking than other activities. Eliminate or modify the frequency of times when you engage in those activities for the next 30 to 45 days.

Alex Rich
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-smokers-quit-137879.html

 

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I am pregnant and need to quit smoking. We planned on quitting after the pack we have (we split packs), However I found two new packs in his coat tonight. How do I get him to understand that him smoking while I have to quit is not going to help me and lying to me is not going to help either? He does not know I found the packs.

Every ex-smoker I have ever known, including myself, quit smoking the exact same way. We made a decision to quit, and just stopped. I never understood how people cold do that until it happened to me. My particular trigger was being rushed to hospital in an ambulance, feeling like I was dying of a heart attack. My fear of death was stronger than my love of smoking. I never wanted to be in that position again.

Being pregnant should be the trigger for you. Just imagine that little fetus in there inhaling all the hundreds or thousands of toxic chemicals that you are exposing him/her to and all the birth defects and bad health it could suffer as a result. If that doesn’t give both of you the will to quit, then I am sorry for you and your baby.

 

Have you decided to quit smoking? Did you also make such decision in the past? Is the present decision to quit smoking the final one or conditional? Have you realized that it is in your own interest to quit smoking and that you are not obliging anyone else? Are you contemplating to take to any of the quit smoking aids?

Think again. If, even now, you feel that smoking aid is a panacea, you are on the wrong track again! The will power of a person is supreme, and one without the second! To such a man of steely determination, all smoking aids are junk!

Any new industry that is started, is of course not started with the intention of closing down. Quit Smoking Aids industry also means the same! With the astronomical increase in the number of smokers, the number of those wanting to quit it, is also on the increase! The point to be noted here is that quit smoking products are responsive products. In an ideal situation, when no smokers are left on the face of this earth, what will the Quit Smoking Aids will do? We do not know, but if we analyze their present style of functioning, they want us to believe that it is impossible to quit smoking, without their well-advertised aids!

For every product that comes out in the market, there is a research laboratory and a team of scientists to back up. Well, what is the alternative? The rational human mind will not believe any cock and bull stories, with regard to quitting smoking. They want proof for everything. But, let us not lose ourselves in scientific mumbo-jumbo as well! The manufacturers of such products have almost forgotten why such products were initially launched at all!

Nevertheless, if we enter into a factual inquiry about these Quit Smoking Aids, take note of the following products, which have caught the imagination of the supporting community. They are:

1. Nico Cure
2. Final Smoke
3. Habitrol
4. Nicoderm CQ
5. Nicorette

There are varieties and categories of quit smoking aids. Reportedly, their function is overt and covert both. They are: books and magazines, cigarette modification products, video tapes, audio tapes, thought changing products, electronic and computer products, smoke and odor removal items, no smoking signs and much more.

Non-nicotine based quit smoking aids are: nicotine patch, gums, inhaler, nasal spray and nicotine lozenges. There are also herbal quit smoking aids. Smokeless cigarette is one of them. It reportedly helps quitting. Many such products promise smoking cessation, zero cravings with ‘guarantee’ of no relapse. Ultimately, the only product that has the capacity to outsmart all these aids, is within your own heart! Have a will to grow out of this smoking habit and grow your will!

Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/are-you-looking-for-quit-smoking-aids-55535.html

 

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I want… I NEED to stop smoking.(cigarettes by the way). I know my health is going to go downhill from here…and I don’t want that. I’m only 21 and want this to end before I start having children. I have health insurance…and was going to talk to my dr. But has anyone out there quit for good? If so, any tips?

Start chewing gum or putting tic taks in your mouth or something that keeps your mouth busy besides cigarettes. You have to decide you need to quit for yourself, not your mom saying you should quit or your coworkers. When you feel like you need a cigarette, go and distract yourself with something else. Go and read a book or take a bubble bath. Take your mind off of the situation. If the information availible isn’t enough to make you quit then here this: Smoking is a very dangerous addiction. It will cause disease and or death in your lifetime if you don’t make 2008 your year. Smokers will die an average of 12 years older than nonsmokers ( do you want to have a long life???) There is an increased risk of cancer and stroke with smoking. Causes Larynx Cancer, Lung Cancer, Oral Cancer, Bad Breath, Stained Teeth, Hoarse Voice, smoky odor and risk to asthma to your children ( glad you are considering that in your quitting plan. It shows it has importance in your life. ) Quitting Smoking has so many benefits to your health and well being. You should go to a website where you can connect with other smokers who are going through the same thing you are for support~ it helps to know that you’re not alone… Quit Cold turkey~ it’s one of the easier methods Stop carrying cigarettes with you… Work on it one day at a time… don’t think about tomorrow, next day, next year, your time is now. Don’t dwell on the fact that you are depriving yourself of a cigarette but rather that you care enough about yourself to try and fix your problems. Be proud that you are not smoking! Avoid social situations which would trigger the urge to have a cigarette such as going to a bar. Make a list of the positives of quitting and when you want a cigarette get out the list. Drink Fruit juice the first few days as well as veggies. Practice deep breathing exercises when you have a craving. If you encounter problems and stresses in your life assure yourself that smoking will not fix the problem but probably make it worse! I hope that I have helped you!

Best Wishes, Molly

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