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A Simple Exercise For Quitting Smoking
This exercise to help you quit smoking is one that I have used with success. It is an adaptation of a general method for breaking bad habits or addictions. Unlike many other stop smoking help methods, this is meant to be used over a period of days, weeks ...
Expecting Mothers - Quit Smoking
All mothers-to-be, who are waiting for their babies desperately, must take care if they are smokers. Your only priority is the unborn baby and you must be attentive regarding his health. The first thing you can do for your baby is to quit smoking. Several ...
Quit Smoking - For Your Health's Sake
Quit Smoking - For Your Health's Sake by John Mac In the US it is estimated that 30% of the 570,000 cancer deaths in 2005 were caused by smoking. In the UK smoking kills approx. 114,000 per year or 300 per day which equates to 20% of deaths. Smoking ...
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Quitting smoking needs to be done in few steps. Firstly, the smoker should strengthen his resolve as to why he wishes to quit. What is the purpose he wishes to stop smoking? He should consider the health consequences, the social implications, and the fact that he is totally controlled by his cigarettes, the expense and any other personal problems cigarettes have caused him. It is helpful to write down all of these negative aspects of smoking. In the future when he does get the thought for a cigarette, his own reasons for quitting become powerful ammunition for not returning to smoking.
When the decision is made to quit, the smoker should implement a program that has the greatest potential of success. The first and most important step is to quit cold turkey. To accomplish this goal he should dispose of all smoking material. Cigarettes, cigars, pipes, butts, ashtrays, lighters--anything that was considered smoking paraphernalia. If cigarettes are not there, they can not be smoked.
The person only needs to live through the first few days, one day at a time. Physical withdrawal may be rough or very mild. The symptoms will be overcome by making it through the first few days without taking a puff. Within three days the physical withdrawal will peak and by two weeks will cease altogether.
Anyhow, the real obstacle is the psychological dependence to cigarettes. Most of the smokers are convinced smoking is essential in performing many normal daily activities. Dealing with stress, working, driving, eating, sleeping, waking up, relaxing--just about everything requires smoking. The only way to overcome this perceived dependence is by proving to oneself that all activities done with cigarettes can be done equally well without cigarettes. Just living through the first few days and functioning in normal required roles will prove that the smoker can survive without cigarettes. It may be difficult, but it is possible.
Once the initial quitting process is overcome, the rest is simple. Sure there will still be times when the ex-smoker wants a cigarette. But these smokers must realize that he does not have the option of only one. Because he is a nicotine addict, smoking is now, and always has been an all or nothing proposition.
It is never too late to stop smoking it you decide to quit this habit. Discover more how to quit smoking in less than 30days.
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