How To Quit Smoking? Best Ways To Quit Smoking? -
What are your thoughts on how to quit smoking?
Really what is the best ways to quit smoking?
Is it all in your head? Do you recommend the patch? The gum? Just stopping cold turkey?
Or are there any programs out there that can really help someone to quit smoking permanently?
I don-t believe in the hypnosis method - but I am open to other suggestions.
it really depends on your personality, and what influences you the most
I am a very strong person..so when I said -stop-..I just stopped and I made SUCH A DEEP decision that I never looked back..my friends couldn-t believe it..but I understand the human mind and how it works
I REALLY REALLY recommend reading -unlimited power- by Anthony Robbins and listening to his Audio because he tells you HOW you can do anything basically
in the end...wasting money on the patch and gum and other b.s are just fake ways to get you addicted to other things
it-s not -quitting- smoking..it-s STOPPING
...in the end you need to make a DECISION..
either a life scare that will motivate you, or you just wanting to be BETTER..helping your body..it just doesn-t make logical sense to smoke..
Your DESIRE to stop has to be larger than ANY EXCUSE
seriously...how determined are you?...
EVERY habit was ONCE a choice...
if you want different results...make a different choice..
seriously....do it...but do it for the right reasons...and do it with passion....
listen to Anthony Robbins
Same way people could lose weight, stop putting the cigarettes to yuor mouth! It IS that easy. I smoked for 6 years, and quit. Cold Turkey. No one is forcing you to smoke. Yes, it IS an addiction, but they can be broken. If obese people would have a salad once in a while (God forbid) they would lose weight too!
best way is to not start.
My aunt used the gum method. She-s off and going strong! =]
Good luck!! =]
Guide to Quitting Smoking
What do I need to know about quitting?
The US Surgeon General has said, -Smoking cessation [stopping smoking] represents the single most important step that smokers can take to enhance the length and quality of their lives.-
Quitting smoking is not easy, but you can do it. To have the best chance of success in quitting, you need to know what you’re up against, what your options are, and where to go for help. You-ll find this information here.
Why is it so hard to quit smoking?
Mark Twain said, -Quitting smoking is easy. I-ve done it a thousand times.- Maybe you-ve tried to quit, too. Why is quitting and staying quit hard for so many people? The answer is nicotine.
Nicotine
Nicotine is a drug found naturally in tobacco. It is highly addictive -- as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Over time, a person becomes physically and emotionally addicted to (dependent on) nicotine. Studies have shown that smokers must deal with both the physical and psychological (mental) dependence to quit and stay quit.
How nicotine gets in, where it goes, and how long it stays
When you inhale smoke, nicotine is carried deep into your lungs. There it is absorbed quickly into the bloodstream and carried throughout your body. Nicotine affects many parts of the body, including your heart and blood vessels, your hormones, your metabolism, and your brain. Nicotine can be found in breast milk and even in mucus from the cervix of a female smoker. During pregnancy, nicotine freely crosses the placenta and has been found in amniotic fluid and the umbilical cord blood of newborn infants.
Several different factors can affect how long it takes the body to remove nicotine and its by-products. In most cases, regular smokers will still have nicotine or its by-products, such as cotinine, in their bodies for about 3 to 4 days after stopping.
How nicotine hooks smokers
Nicotine produces pleasant feelings that make the smoker want to smoke more. It also acts as a kind of depressant by interfering with the flow of information between nerve cells. As the nervous system adapts to nicotine, smokers tend to increase the number of cigarettes they smoke. This, in turn, increases the amount of nicotine in the smoker-s blood. After a while, the smoker develops a tolerance to the drug. Tolerance means that it takes more nicotine to get the same effect that the smoker used to get from smaller amounts. This leads to an increase in smoking over time. The smoker reaches a certain nicotine level and then keeps smoking to maintain this level of nicotine. In fact, nicotine inhaled in cigarette smoke reaches the brain faster than drugs that enter the body intravenously (IV).
Nicotine withdrawal symptoms can lead quitters back to smoking
When smokers try to cut back or quit, the lack of nicotine leads to withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal is both physical and mental. Physically, the body reacts to the absence of nicotine. Mentally, the smoker is faced with giving up a habit, which calls for a major change in behavior. The physical and mental both must be addressed for the quitting process to work.