How to Stop Smoking

By Darwin van Panhuis


Learning to smoke cigarettes was the hardest and most miserable task you undertook when you were young! Smoking cigarettes was something that you had to learn to do. Learning to smoke took some persistence and putting up with the misery of coughing and hacking after every pull on a cigarette. What were you mastering? You were learning to suppress your body's natural protective responses to hot, polluted smoke going into your clean, pure lungs. Lungs created for clean air only! You were controlling your body's reaction with your mind![]

I don't believe that these campaigns even help to prevent youngsters from starting to smoke either, every youngster knows that one experimental cigarette won't get them hooked, and when they light it up and see how bad it tastes, they further believe they aren't going to get hooked, so it is OK for them to smoke a few more experimental ones. No, the real reason to stop smoking, is because anybody who smokes has fallen victim to the biggest and most powerful trap that man and nature ever conspired together to create. The nicotine trap. We are brainwashed from an early age into believing that cigarettes are precious and give immense pleasure, and that this is where the addiction comes from. A dying man in a movie is always given a cigarette, the last request of a doomed man is for a cigarette. Our conscious minds might not notice the message, but our subconscious takes it in.

Furthermore, we are always reminded how difficult quitting is, how reliant our body is on cigarettes. The thought that our body can be reliant on anything but water, food and sleep, is a strange thought to me. This is how confusing the message has got.In truth, if you are smoking, you are just putting a poison into your body, a very addictive one at that, and the pleasure DOES NOT COME until you extinguish that cigarette, forcing the nicotine to rapidly leave your body and your brain to begin to crave nicotine, which in turn makes you light up another one, and there is the pleasure, the relief at ending the cravings.

Determine Your Quit Date,As you have almost certainly discovered in earlier efforts to stop smoking, it is not easy to go from actively smoking 1 pack of cigarettes or more a day to being a non smoker the next. Even though some ex smokers could stop like this, the majority simply can't. As an alternative to attempting to wake up the following morning as a non smoker, resolve to wake up tomorrow with the objective of smoking minimally one less cigarette than you did today.Eventually, you really want to be smoking just about 10-15 cigarettes a day before you quit smoking for good - either without medication or with the assistance of aids to stop smoking. Based upon on how much you smoke each day and the amount of cigarettes you decide to reduce each day, your specific quitting date will arrive around about a couple of weeks to 45 days or so from today.

A simple yet effective approach to decreasing your daily cigarette intake involves decreasing the quantity of cigarettes you smoke by only one every day or every other day - the final decision is yours. In the event that you carry numerous reservations about giving up smoking, you might be smart to try decreasing by a cigarette every other day so you're able to comfortably work toward your quitting goal.If you want to stay focused, you would be wise to create a cigarette smoking tracking chart - again in a miniature notebook you will have the ability to keep with you as the days pass. An ideal tracking chart will include 4 basic columns: Time craving hit, time you actually smoked, the trigger of your craving, and something you could have done differently.It is going to be crucial that you record each craving you bypass completely. After you have gotten rid of one particular cig in a day, keep that cigarette out of your daily smokes. For example, if you resolve on your first day to do away with your after lunch cigarette and go for a stroll instead, engage in the same contrary action on an ongoing basis after lunch rather than smoking. In one more day or two, you could cut out your cigarette for one of your breaks at your job or your first cigarette, or on a routine car ride.Sticking to a program of this structure will offer you fantastic practice not smoking at random times during a day until your substitute action to smoking has grown to be automatic.

Internet search engine data suggests that quit smoking information is searched for more than twice as much during the 4-week period around New Year. The sad fact of the matter is that most smokers have a look for information and end up reading the same tired old advice about how to quit smoking - and that it isn't easy. Unfortunately, most of this information is based on why they should quit smoking. They then fail to quit smoking and leave it another year before having another go.

Look for an all-natural remedy for stopping smoking naturally to help reduce the cravings to smoke. There are some excellent stop-smoking formulations to help you quit smoking naturally. Natural products containing the herb echinacea are known to help your body resist cravings. Sarsaparilla helps prevent the weight gain and passion flower aids in reducing tension and anxiety. Burdock root, kelp and hyssop are good for eliminating nicotine deposits from the body. Aromatherapy oil can be used at times when the desire to smoke becomes almost unbearable. Rub the oil under your nose; the action and the aromatherapy vapor together will help you overcome the urge. Flower essence therapy, using Dr. Bach's Emergency Extract can be used in times of intense stress that may cause you to smoke. These flower extracts may be found at health food stores or Whole Foods, and they really work!

Stop smoking hypnotherapy entails the process of giving suggestions to your subconscious mind by a trained hypo-therapist. Every cigarette smoker has their own personal psychological triggers that bring a positive experience from smoking, like the smoke, the smell of cigarettes, operating a car, being stressed out, after eating a meal, or while watching TV. Hypnosis allows you to get free of these types of cravings and create a stronger and improved cigarette free identity. These treatments additionally offer a convenient home system by means of CDs or through other audio recordings. The result of this therapy varies from person to person. It depends entirely upon the susceptibility of the person to hypnosis. Hypnotherapy treatment alleviates the cravings and the need to smoke. Sometimes several hypnosis sessions are required to obtain permanent results.

Thirdly, if you want to know how to quit smoking easily, you have to change your attitude towards cigarettes. That is all done in your head - by changing the way you think about cigarettes. Taking pills or taking more nicotine in another form does not do it - changing your mindset does.I know people who have said they will quit smoking cigarettes and only 'have a cigar or two once in a while'. Within a couple of weeks of giving up cigarettes, they are smoking 10 cigars a day that probably do more damage than the 20 cigarettes they used to smoke. This is because they are addicted to nicotine and will get it in any form they can Fourthly, possibly the most important means of how to quit smoking easily, is to accept your life without cigarettes. After all, you weren't puffing away on a Marlboro when you were born. It just might be possible to spend the rest of your life without cigarettes.As ever, my final piece of advice is to never quit trying to quit smoking.




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