7 Tips to Help you Quit Smoking for Good
Quitting smoking is not a easy thing to do. In fact, it can be very difficult. The psychological and physical addiction to nicotine makes it very difficult to just quit. But this can be done, and it was dome by millions of people who regained their health as a result.
There are no easy solutions to quitting the smoking habit. The withdrawal symptoms as well as the psychological need will be there and make it hard for you to quit. But there are quite a few ways to make it easier to go through those first few weeks of being smoke free. If you make if past the first month, your chances of quitting for good are much higher.
Let’s take a look at a few of the most valuable tips we can offer:
Go cold turkey – Don’t reduce the amount of cigarettes you smoke each day. Just stop totally. This seems counter-intuitive, but it’s much better to quit all at once that to reduce the amount. Reducing the amount of cigarettes will not help you quit, it will only make it harder, and claim a heavier price from your health.
Replace your smoking with another habit – this is a useful way of coping with the habit itself. You can replace smoking with eating carrots, for example. Another way is to replace it with physical activity, or drinking water. The important thing is to create new and useful habits instead of the smoking habit.
Quit with a friend – If you have a friend that wants to quit smoking, you can quit together. This will force you to watch each other’s backs, and make sure none of you gets back to smoking. Work out a support system that includes meetings once a day, phone calls etc. so that you keep supporting and encouraging each other.
Use nicotine replacement – There are plenty of products out there that make quitting smoking much easier, as they replace the nicotine fix smokers are used to getting. Taking a nicotine chewing gum, pills or patches makes it easier to deal with the withdrawal symptoms. When the physical side of the quitting process is handled, it’s easier to cope with the psychological side of the addiction.
Use breathing exercises – Learning to breath correctly and to the full capacity of the lungs makes it easier to cope with the withdrawal symptoms and the dizziness and nausea you might feel. Yoga breathing techniques will do fine for that purpose and you can learn that from every book that deals with the subject.
Quitting smoking is not easy, but the price you might pay with your health is a lot more difficult to handle. Start planning your smoking quitting today, and set a date to do it. In 10 years time, you will greet yourself for doing so.
Ron Hel-Or
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im looking for some good tips to quit smoking?
cold turkey is not an option for me.ive tried the patches,lozenges,etc.are there any natural things i can take or any other thing that will help me quit?i know all about keeping candy or even fruits and vegetables handy,but that does not work either.and im not gonna get hypnotized either.
just stop
u know what the harms are
just think what it actually has in it
do u know how many chemicals are used in it
so how can u even vink bout doing it
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I am also a heavy smoker. It seems that you require more will power than anything else. You have to stop all together and not step by step by reducing quantum. If not able to stop due to the surroundings, then go to the place for at lest 15 days where you do not get cigarette. Try keep you mind busy with such a thing which might divert your attention.
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I smoked for 30 years and quit.
It took me like 5 good tries where I’d quit for months then go back.
I read that this is like the average times it take to quit.
I did a mixture of things to quit;
-I called the Lung association and the Cancer society and asked them to send me anything on quitting smoking. One paper had the ingredients of cigarette’s, there’s ammonia in there , arsenic and rat poop!
I learned in order to change a habit successfully one must substitute. So we have these "triggers" on when we want a cig. IE-in the car, on the phone, after work. Have a substitute of what you will DO instead. IE eat a carrot, drink a ton of water, chew on gum, take 5 deep breaths(do this a lot anyway). If you just stand there and take it you will prob. fail. The wanting of a cig. will go away weather you have one or not-say this statement a LOT>. Have a plan-this is important. What are YOU going to do instead of smoking at that party?
I quit drinking coffee and ANY alcohol when I tried to quit. These were triggers.
I read this literature every night or like a month before bed trying to brain wash myself.
-I picked a quit date and revolved my schedule around it. On that day I went to the movies, went to the mall. Went places I could not smoke.
-I stayed away from smokers as much as I could for at least a few weeks. Made people mad-their problem and I told them this. I stayed off the phone(trigger). I had gum in my car for when I got off work. I sang in my car-hard to sing and smoke.
-You have a physical addiction-those things above will help you mentally-I did the patch-it helped me from committing murder.
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My mom had empysema. She struggled for breath every day. She’s now in a nursing home, also had many strokes. ALL of this from smoking. That home is filled with former smokers. So keep smoking and you will die an awful death. Yes we will all die someday but the death of a smoker is slow and painful. I don’t say this to be mean just facts.
-I prayed a LOT. God helped me. I am praying for you right now!
After 7 or so months I didn’t want one at ALL. And never did again. Each week got better.
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I’ve helped quite a few of my friends quit and frankly the only way that I’ve seen work is cold turkey. The problem with patches, gum, lozenges etc is that you’re still receiving what your addicted to–the nicotine. The patches and gum are just replacing the smoking part, not the main part–the addiction of the nicotine. Therefore you run out, you don’t feel like forking out $40-$50 for another box and thus you’re back to square one.
Now you’ve reached the first step, which is wanting to stop. I find the next to be completely educating yourself about cigarettes. A lot of people think they pretty much know everything, trust me you’d be surprised. The reason I find this to be a step to take is it makes your desire to quit stronger and you’re more likely to succeed in stopping because once you start reading different things, you learn a lot you didn’t know and you find quitting to be something that needs to be and will be done.
The whole success in quitting comes in the desire, motivation, cessation and will power of you. Cold turkey is an option for you, you just find the idea unsettling with the cravings and withdrawal effects. The thing is those that I helped quit said it was easier than they thought it was going to be. It’s just making yourself do it and fighting the cravings. The 3rd to 4th day is said to be the worst, as the nicotine makes one last attempt to replenish itself before it is completely out of your system. Once you get through this, its easy from there. You just have little cravings that creep up ever so often that are easy to overcome. The point is making the decision that you’re never going to smoke again from there, not even one because one is enough to get you right back into the addiction. Also try to avoid things you associate with smoking ie places you’d go to smoke, certain routines that became habit. Keeping yourself occupied also helps.
Don’t wait until your given a death ultimatum to motivate you, as a lot of times thats what it takes for some. Learning that right after quitting, your body begins to start healing from the smoking damage and that by stopping you have the potential to completely reverse the damage that has been done, depending on how long you’ve been smoking, quitting seems like a really good idea that can be done if you put your mind to it.
There are drugs out there to help stop the cravings over time, but as far as natural, no.
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