How can I quit smoking? -
smoking is hard to quit, i dont smoke but I can help you understand what your doing to maybe gross you out. :-)
Physical addiction (Nicotine) is real, your body craves it after long term use. Psychological addicion as in the movement of your arm to put something in your mouth has an effect as well.
In your trechea, you have cells called -Psudostratified Ciliated Columnar Epithelial Tissue- which are cells lining your trechea. On them are cilia (small hair like projections) which beat in a wave like motion to pull out dirt, smoke, dust, etc., and dump it into your stomach. (That cough, clear your throat you do in the morning is that (the cells work best lying down)). When you smoke, it paralyzes those cilia and everything toxic, as long with anything else you breath in for the next hr stays in there too. regulalry smoking will cause them to consistantly still. so not just all the junk in the cigs get into your lungs, but people (dust :-)) whatever else gets in there.
If you quit!!... the first week is the hardest because your body is repairing and reactivating those cells and cilia starting to pull out all the junk in your lungs.
Hope this helps some.
It will be as hard as you make it, i know from personal experiance, i quit at one point and i told myself it was going to be easy, and it was, this time around its reallllly hard, and i quit the first time cold turkey, I wish i would of never picked them up again, but my dad got cancer removed and had to have heart sergery a week and a half apart,,, no stress or nothin, but make a promise to yourself that you will do it and try everything out there and make sure you have a really good support system around you, that will understand your mood swings :)
cold turkey, patch, gum, hypnosis, accupuncture. contact american lung association for more details.
You started smoking because you wanted to, right? So now you stop smoking because you want to. When you started you most likely had to overcome some unpleasant experiences such as coughing, dizzyness, smarting eyes, nausea, numbness in fingers, not to mention spending money!... but it was exciting because it was new and it ultimately made you feel good/cool/belong to group/rebellious/grown-up.
Now, you want to stop, you will have to overcome some unpleasant experiences also, all quite tolerable to get to your desired destination of a non-smoker, and until it becomes a habit not to smoke. You-ve just got to go and do it.
Lots of help at this website...