How To Stop Smoking

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the Unites States. With the ill effects of this habit on the teeth, skin, lungs, and cardiovascular system, a lot of smokers have made several attempts to kick the habit. Unfortunately, the withdrawal symptoms caused by nicotine addiction are difficult to fight.
Fortunately, there are now a lot of stop smoking treatments and products available for the people who want to stop their dependence on this highly addicting and fatal habit. These stop smoking treatments stem from western (traditional) and eastern (non-traditional) medicine. Although none of them can guarantee a 100 % success for you to stop the habit, these stop smoking treatments and products can in fact help you along with the cessation process. Nicotine Gum
This is one of the most popular aids for a person who wants to stop smoking or have already stopped but still cannot kick the nicotine craving. These gums contain nicotine and it is released thru chewing, so instead of lighting up a cigarette they just reach for the nicotine gum. Nicotine Patch
The nicotine patch is another stop smoking treatment that is a part of nicotine replacement therapy. These patches are impregnated with nicotine which the user sticks to his or her skin. It can be stuck anywhere on the body and is easily concealed under a person’s clothing, allowing people to kick the habit without the unsightly gun chewing that just looks wrong on executives of respectable companies. The patch releases small amounts of nicotine which is just enough to fool your brain that you are smoking, but without the dangerous effects or ingredients that are absorbed when smoking. Stop Smoking Pills
There are a lot of pills that can help you in quitting the habit. One of the more popular brands in the market is called Zyban. This pill doesn’t contain any nicotine, which would explain its popularity for the people who just don’t want to quit smoking but also want to remove their dependence on nicotine. It also has the effect of an anti-depressant without being an anti-depressant pill. Quit Smoking Injections
This is one of the most popular modes of stop smoking treatments because just one dose of this drug will help the smoker quit the habit. The substance found in the medication essentially blocks the nicotine receptors in a person’s brain, inhibiting his craving for nicotine. Herbal Products
If you prefer a natural stop smoking treatment, there are a lot of herbal products that will aid you in breaking the habit. There are pills and drops available that work on the same principle as many chemical pills. There are also teas that help reduce the craving for cigarettes. Instead of lighting up, just help yourself to a cup of herbal tea. There are also herbal cigarettes that look like the nicotine ones but without the harmful components, such as nicotine and tar.
Combining a suitable stop smoking treatment and a good behavior therapy will help you realize and fully understand why you need to quit smoking and lessen your dependence on nicotine. Moreover, a good behavior therapy will aid you immensely in organizing your life without smoking.
Regardless of what stop smoking treatment you may choose, you should always consult with a physician in advance. The doctor can recommend to you the best options and can also monitor the progress of your journey in quitting the habit.

Originally posted 2009-11-26 11:30:55.

There are several stop smoking programs, but for millions of smokers, for reasons that they find strange, none of these work. But I am going to tell you that none of this is really a mystery.
Smoking termination programs aren’t the answer. I know as a former smoker who has not had a cigarette in at least three years. I tried a slew of stop smoking programs, as well as nicotine gum, cigarette rationing, and switching to lighter and lighter smokes, but nothing worked for me. The reason was that stop smoking programs aren’t really the answer.
No, I am not going to pitch some fresh product, or revolutionary fresh program to end smoking. Come on, keep reading – I don’t have anything to sell you. The simple truth is the only way to stop smoking is to just discontinue. That’s it. No stop smoking programs, no incentive systems, no rules about only smoking with friends, or only smoking one day a week, or only smoking on days you sleep in or are hung over. None of this works.
Whatever stop smoking programs tell you, the thing that is hard about not smoking is the re-arranging of your social routine, not the actual nicotine cravings. It is nice to be able to grab a smoke with friends, nice to be able to take a moment to step outside and enjoy a tasty cancer stick. So, you have to be completely firm with yourself and not give an inch. The only successful stop smoking program is to tell yourself that, from now on, I will not smoke.
Don’t be too ambitious all at once. Many people suddenly get an impulse to transform every phase of their life at once, enrolling in stop smoking programs in the same week that they start exercise programs and new diet plans. This is a bad idea, and will not help you quit smoking.
The most excellent way to well and truly end smoking is to let yourself go a little in other ways. Its okay to put on a small number of pounds, its okay to have some junk food, or let your exercise routine go. If you have too many rules for yourself at once, you will lose all of them. And yes, for some people, stop smoking programs can work because they provide a support group. But remember, the only real crucial stop smoking program is your resolution to, once and for all, stop smoking.

Originally posted 2009-11-27 00:16:05.

 

When you examine how long you have been smoking cigarettes and/or using other tobacco products and how much you use on a daily basis now, your decision to quit smoking may be the most important decision you have made in your life. You have finally decided to take control of your life again and become healthy.

Little did you know that when you started smoking quitting would be one of the hardest things you would ever do. Nicotine is absolutely the hardest drug to quit. You really do have some options to look at now that you have decided to quit. Look these options over very carefully.

One of your first options will be to either develop a plan to follow or just stop willy-nilly and see what happens. Developing short-term, even daily, goals will help you on your trek to a smoke-free life. Sticking to your plan will help you endure the irrational beliefs and triggers you will have as you work to succeed in your attempt to stop smoking. These irrational beliefs and triggers will be discussed in a future article.

One of your best options is looking at any aids that may help you quit. You should always talk to your doctor before using any aid to stop smoking. Although people have been known to become “secondarily addicted” to the stop smoking aid, it is highly recommended that you have a way to wean yourself off any aide used. Do try what you want, but be advised that not all aids work for everyone, use your discretion.

The next option you will have is when you quit smoking. Some folks just “stopped” and others picked a date to stop. Choose what you want to do. Although the anticipation of a start date may be what really gets you excited and ready to stop, just stopping will also work if you look at your plan and just charge through. Which ever you do–follow through with your plan!

I the early stages of quitting you may really need to avoid others who smoke and people who are negative to you about your quitting. Your self-esteem or self-worth will be fragile and you may slide back into smoking very easily. Stay with positive people and make sure they are nonsmokers.

The last thing to discuss when you quit smoking is your determination. If you are not determined and committed to quit you will find the road to a smoke-free lifestyle a little more bumpy to travel. These are possibly the two most critical factors in your plan.

 

Originally posted 2009-11-23 23:19:07.

An easy way to stop smoking? If you have already tried a variety of aids, and you have tried many kind without any help at all, it should not be that hard.

To be able to stop smoking you need to have knowledge about what the tobacco addiction. The smoker becomes physical and psychologically addict to the nicotine and to be able to quit he needs to get rid of nicotine from their body. Even if you try to quit without the aids, you will need help to quit cigarettes.

There are many kind of goods on the market that can help you to quit smoking. If you want to quit cigarettes you should consider one of the natural products on the market. It’s may going to seem difficult before you try to stop, but keep in mind that many people could done it successfully every year.

Tobacco prices are skyrocketing and more advanced aids being offered to the public. We could spend millions in advertising, constantly harass you about the dangers of smoking but there are much more elegant and gentle ways for you to stop it.

Moreover there is also the option for asking help from professionals. Natural cures to help you stop smoking, no matter how you feel about it in principle, if you don’t try it you will never know if it will work for you.

No matter how hard it may be to stop smoking, be assured that the benefits far outweigh the pain. To stop that you have to force yourself to try it. So, making decision is hard. But if you know how to do it right way, it is not hard at all.

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Originally posted 2009-11-23 11:35:49.

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Originally posted 2009-11-15 00:43:21.

Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and hints for aiding you in stopping smoking are sure to assist. It is up to you to ensure that you do these things to really enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking for good.

Powerful Hint 1.

Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, the natural balance returns.

When people smoke, more than half of what they breathe is fresh air – pulled through the cigarette right down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly and give you power over the way you feel and help you let go of those old cravings and thus making it easier to stop smoking.

Powerful Hint 2

Next, think now of all the reasons you don’t like smoking, the reasons that it’s bad and the reasons you want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on a piece of paper. For example, you experience breathlessness, it’s dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, your friends and family are concerned and it’s expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you’ll feel good when you’ve succeeded in stopping. You’ll feel healthier, you’ll feel in control of your self, your senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that piece of paper.

Powerful Hint 3

Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when you thought to yourself “I’ve gotta quit”, or that you felt disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone of voice ‘You’ve got to quit’ or somebody you know was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now to come up with 4 different times that you felt that you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking.

Remember each of those times, one after another, as though they are happening now. I want you to keep going through those memories and make them as vivid as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I want you to take a few minutes now to keep going through those memories again and again, overlap each memory with the next until you are totally and utterly disgusted by cigarettes.

Powerful Hint 4

Have a think to yourself about the consequences of you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental effects of not stopping right now and how a simple decision you make today can make such an impact on your future.

Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be when you stop smoking. Really imagine it’s months from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel how it feels to be a non-smoker.

Powerful Hint 5

Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it’s very important that you have a clear out and remove all tobacco products from your environment. Move some of the furniture in your house and at work. Smokers are accustomed to smoking in certain situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on the telephone at work move the phone to the other side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters and anything that you used to associate with smoking. Make your environment conducive to stopping smoking.

Powerful Hint 6

Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for you, so carry on taking that time off – but do something different. Walk round the block, have a cup of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the digestion is slowed down and your body starts to eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for at least two weeks after you have stopped.

Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system.

Powerful Hint 7

You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your body to release happy chemicals, so next we are going to programme some good feelings into your future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as possible. Remember that time – see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. Where abouts in your body were those feelings, imagine turning them up and spreading them through your body to make them more intense.

Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, go through it again and again, all the time squeezing your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make those images big and bright, sounds loud and harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are making an associational link between the squeeze of your fingers and that good feeling.

Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger together you should feel that good feeling again. Go ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and remember that good feeling.

Now we’re going to programe good feelings to happen automatically whenever you are in a situation where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking.

So, next I’d like you to squeeze your thumb and finger together, get that good feeling going and now imagine being in several situations where you would have smoked, but being there feeling great without a cigarette. See what you’ll see hear and take that good feeling into those situations without a need for a cigarette.

Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you a cigarette and you confidently say ‘No thanks, I don’t smoke’. And feel fantastic about it!

Powerful Hint 8

Get social support. Your commitment to stopping smoking for the rest of your life can be made much easier by talking about it to friends and family and letting them support you. They will congratulate you on doing so well too! You really did stop smoking.

Powerful Hint 9

Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they encounter a stressful situation and in the past they used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts pop into your head, shout the word “STOP” in your head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine just stresses your body more and is like that itch that can never be properly scratched; the more you smoke, the more you have to. So say “STOP” and steer clear of old slippery slopes.

Powerful Hint 10

Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Treat yourself each time you get past a certain milestone; the first week or first month, the six month target. Let yourself know that you did something really special here.

Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your self, by running through these exercises time after time; you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier and successfully stop smoking for good.

Originally posted 2009-11-30 05:14:29.