Smoking - tips on how to quit

Email this page to a friend  Bookmark & Share Printer-friendlThere are many ways to quit smoking. There are also resources to help you. Family members, friends, and co-workers may be supportive. But to be successful, you must really want to quit.

Most people who have quit smoking were unsuccessful at least once in the past. Try not to view past attempts to quit as failures. See them as learning experiences.
It is hard to stop smoking or using smokeless tobacco. But anyone can do it.
Know the symptoms to expect when you stop. Common symptoms include:

• An intense craving for nicotine
• Anxiety, tension, restlessness, frustration, or impatience
• Difficulty concentrating
• Drowsiness or trouble sleeping
• Headaches
• Increased appetite and weight gain
• Irritability or depression

How bad your symptoms are depends on how long you smoked. How many cigarettes you smoked each day also plays a role.
FEEL READY TO QUIT?
First, set a quit date. Quit completely on that day. Before your quit date, you may begin reducing your cigarette use. But remember, there is no safe level of cigarette smoking.
List the reasons why you want to quit. Include both short- and long-term benefits.
Identify the times you are most likely to smoke. For example, do you tend to smoke when feeling stressed or down? When out at night with friends? While drinking coffee or alcohol? When bored? While driving? Right after a meal or sex? During a work break? While watching TV or playing cards? When you are with other smokers?
Let your friends, family, and co-workers know of your plan to stop smoking. Tell them your quit date. It can be helpful if they know what you are going through, especially when you are grumpy.
Get rid of all your cigarettes just before the quit date. Clean out anything that smells like smoke, such as clothes and furniture.
MAKE A PLAN
Make a plan about what you will do instead of smoking at those times when you are most likely to smoke.
Be as specific as possible. For example, drink tea instead of coffee. Tea may not trigger the desire for a cigarette. Or, take a walk when you feel stressed.
Remove ashtrays and cigarettes from the car. Put pretzels or hard candies there instead. Pretend-smoke with a straw.
Find activities that focus your hands and mind. But make sure they are not taxing or fattening. Computer games, solitaire, knitting, sewing, and crossword puzzles may help.
If you normally smoke after eating, find other ways to end a meal. Play a tape or CD. Eat a piece of fruit. Get up and make a phone call. Take a walk (a good distraction that also burns calories).
CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE
Make other changes in your lifestyle. Change your daily schedule and habits. Eat at different times, or eat several small meals instead of three large ones. Sit in a different chair or even a different room.
Satisfy your oral habits in other ways. Eat celery or another low-calorie snack. Chew sugarless gum. Suck on a cinnamon stick.
Go to public places and restaurants where smoking is prohibited or restricted.
Eat regular meals, and don't eat too much candy or sweet things.
Get more exercise. Take walks or ride a bike. Exercise helps relieve the urge to smoke.
SET SOME GOALS
Set short-term quitting goals and reward yourself when you meet them. Every day, put the money you normally spend on cigarettes in a jar. Later, buy something you like.
Try not to think about all the days ahead you will need to avoid smoking. Take it one day at a time.
Even one puff or one cigarette will make your desire for more cigarettes even stronger. However, it is normal to make mistakes. So even if you have one cigarette, you don't need to take the next one.
OTHER TIPS
Enroll in a stop smoking support program. Hospitals, health departments, community centers, and work sites often offer programs. Learn about self-hypnosis or other techniques.

How does smoking affect my lungs and breathing?

 

Every cigarette you smoke damages your breathing and scars your lungs. Smoking causes:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that gets worse over time and causes wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and other symptoms
• Emphysema, a condition in which the walls between the air sacs in your lungs lose their ability to stretch and shrink back. Your lung tissue is destroyed, making it difficult or impossible to breathe.
• Chronic bronchitis, which causes swelling of the lining of your bronchial tubes. When this happens, less air flows to and from your lungs.
• Pneumonia
• Asthma
• Tuberculosis 

People with asthma can suffer severe attacks when around cigarette smoke.

Smokers are liable to  DIE young!!!!!

Tips On How To Help Someone Quit Smoking

If you know someone that's a smoker, then you do have a good cause to be concerned. Still noted as the number one cause of lung cancer fatalities in the U.S., smoking is also tied to various other frightful types of diseases and cancers. You might then be questioning is this the time to help someone quit smoking, once and for all.

Many individuals are still oblivious to the terrible health effects that are at a result of this habit. One significant point to help someone quit smoking is to have them feeling motivated to give up. What might work with this individual? Are they in the least bit health aware? Have they got small children or grandchildren that they wish to see grow up?

Often, all it needs to assist someone is to guide them though the effective ways to stop smoking and to offer them the necessary support. Are they fearful that they might miss their familiar parties and hangouts? Make arrangements with them to go somewhere else. Are they concerned their friends might not wish to stop by if the house is entirely smoke-free?

One more way to help someone stop this addiction is the various tools and aids; quit smoking products comprise of, nicotine gum, patch, pills, sprays, inhalers. What you can do is research some of these tools in advance so that you're able to present them when required, and demonstrate how efficient and safe these aids genuinely are.

Probably the finest assistance you can offer someone is encouragement, especially if they are someone that has attempted to stop in the past and failed. Let them realize that this is all right, as many former smokers attempt several times before they were successful in quitting. By fulfilling all this and supporting them, you will be successful in your pursuit to help someone quit smoking.

Tips On How To Help Someone Quit Smoking

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If I am permitted to use the slogan of the Federal Ministry of Health in my country, Nigeria which goes thus "SMOKERS ARE LIABLE TO DIE YOUNG"

If you know someone that's a smoker, then you do have a good cause to be concerned. Still noted as the number one cause of lung cancer fatalities in the U.S., smoking is also tied to various other frightful types of diseases and cancers. You might then be questioning is this the time to help someone quit smoking, once and for all.

Many individuals are still oblivious to the terrible health effects that are at a result of this habit. One significant point to help someone quit smoking is to have them feeling motivated to give up. What might work with this individual? Are they in the least bit health aware? Have they got small children or grandchildren that they wish to see grow up?

Often, all it needs to assist someone is to guide them though the effective ways to stop smoking and to offer them the necessary support. Are they fearful that they might miss their familiar parties and hangouts? Make arrangements with them to go somewhere else. Are they concerned their friends might not wish to stop by if the house is entirely smoke-free?

One more way to help someone stop this addiction is the various tools and aids; quit smoking products comprise of, nicotine gum, patch, pills, sprays, inhalers. What you can do is research some of these tools in advance so that you're able to present them when required, and demonstrate how efficient and safe these aids genuinely are.

Probably the finest assistance you can offer someone is encouragement, especially if they are someone that has attempted to stop in the past and failed. Let them realize that this is all right, as many former smokers attempt several times before they were successful in quitting. By fulfilling all this and supporting them, you will be successful in your pursuit to help someone quit smoking.

Quit Smoking Advice

Every smoker attempts to quit at some point. After all, after years of smoking, you start asking yourself the question "Why am I still smoking this filthy thing" or "Why can't I stop smoking!" This article will explain why and give you advice what you can do.

What you have to understand is that you can't "convince" yourself to quit smoking with those futuristic images of whatever bad could possibly happen to you as a result of continuous smoking. Those futuristic images aren't kinetic but the cigarette pack that you're holding is. The cigarette that you run with your lips with is. The taste buds and your lungs know it's real.

You begin smoking and pretty soon it grows into a habit. Now, something that you were doing willfully is now happening subconsciously and you can't stop it willfully - because it doesn't happen willfully anymore! You not only get to the chemicals and tobacco inside the cigarette but you're just so used to the touch of the cigarette - you feel it on your lips, as you breathe smoke through it you feel the sensation in your lungs - and you subconsciously become "used" it it just like you subconsciously flinch when something comes fast at you.

Now, when you just abruptly stop smoking you're taking away something that you depended on for such a long time. Something that has been with you all these years - think of it like losing someone very special to you. They made you feel good, you depended on them, had them by your side, and all of a sudden it gets taken away. What do you feel? Inability to focus, concentrate, you're not in the mood for anything - those are very similar withdrawals that you exhibit in both cases!

There is, however, a method that you can unlearn yourself from the habit. The method has an exceptionally high success rate and the whole idea behind it is transforming your mind before changing your behavior. Think about it. Your perception of something will ultimately change the behavior you have towards something. So what I'm going to teach you is change your perception on cigarettes and addiction. Furthermore, I'm going to teach you how to unlearn the habit so you can finally stop smoking for good.

There is a 3 step program that has proven to work over and over again. The program is called the Quit Smoking Recipe and the success rate is simply astonishing. The program not only changes your perception on smoking altogether but also lets you in on a little secret of how you can actually beat smoking without having to battle withdrawals! It's truly the one book that you can't miss out on if you want to quit smoking for good.

How I Stopped Smoking on My Own After Smoking a Pack a Day for 23 Years, and Then I Quit Myself

By Vince Stead

I started smoking cigarettes when I was just 13 years old. Like a lot of kids in my neighborhood, some of the kids smoked, and some of them did not. Most of my friends smoked cigarettes, especially when we at house parties, or just every day.

In the navy you smoke a lot. The cigarettes are a bit cheaper, because when you go out to sea, they sell the cigarettes cheaper to you, and don't charge you the high taxes you have to pay when you are import, so it is much cheaper if you wait for the ship to go out to sea.

In the navy, lots of people drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, even thou it is obviously getting harder and harder to find a place to smoke, without some coming down on you.When I quit, cigarettes were no where near as expensive as they are these days!

Well, my mother had died from lung cancer, and her age was not that far away from the age I was approaching. One night, I was in my kitchen, and their was a medical book someone had left, and when I was reading something in it, it said that if a person quits smoking, and does not smoke for 10 years, it is like they did not smoke. I don't know if that is true or not, I'm no doctor, but I thought about it, even if it was half true, I figured I better stop, because I'm just going to die from it like my mother, she was 37.

I looked at the calendar, and it was only about 2 weeks and it would be my fathers birthday. I'm a terrible remember of dates, but I could remember that I quit smoking on my dads birthday.

I figured the only way I could quit smoking, would be if I tortured myself with cigarettes, to the point that I hate them, and never want anything to do with them again, and I knew I had to make it work, or I would just keep smoking cigarettes, and I already smoked about a pack a day every day, for 23 years, and I knew it was not good for me, but I always would have that craving, after sex, after food, after even a toke of you know what, and that never changed, I never lost that craving, but cigarettes are a thing of the past, for about 10 years now, and it worked for me.

I went into my garage on the eve of my fathers birthday, and I don't think I ever even told him that I picked that day to quit, he was a working alcoholic most of his adult life, owned and ran a chain of 5 bakeries, and was always working, but would drink every single evening at home. He was always nice to me, but his vice was alcohol, my mothers were cigarettes, and she died at 37, my father lived into his late 70's, and he drank almost a fifth a day, and lived a long life, but cigarettes killed my mom way to early.

I thought about that, and I hardly drink anyway, just at parties or when we do something special.

I say in my garage, and lit up a cigarette, and then smoked it, then lit up another one, and smoked, it, don't think I ever smoked one right after the other, unless I was heavy drinking, and then I lit up a 3rd one, and I could not almost take that one, and then I started inhaling the cigarette into my nose, and it was burning, and my eyes were burning, and I started thinking I hate these cigarettes, and then I lit up another one, and smoked it, and could hardly smoke it, and then snorted it up my nostrils, until it was burning so bad, my body hated it, and wanted to reject it now, and my eyes were watering and burning, and I did it more, and I did it until my nose was so burning from the smoke, and my eyes could not take it, and then I put everything out, and went in the house, and from that point on, I have never ever had the craving for a cigarette, and now since the price is like $5 a pack or so, I'm so glad I quit, and I could smoke with my friends some funny weed sometimes, and I never get a craving for a cigarette, and even when I drink anything, like alcohol, or a big mean, I never have a craving for a cigarette, I don't even think about it.

If I'm in a casino playing a machine or something, and someone sits down next to me with a cigarette, it actually stinks to me now, and I wish they would go away from me. I have seen it from both sides, and I do not recommend it to anyone, it's just me. I was in the navy for 8 years, and I don't care if I was in another country, if I had to eat some bugs off the ground, I would, so this is not for everybody, just letting you know how I kicked the habit myself, and did not have to go threw a withdraw system that does not work for a lot of people, my body did the natural thing, it told my body it does not want that crap anymore, since it was tortured with it. I wonder if anyone else ever quit like that?

Vince Stead has 13 books up for sale for far, and one called "Navy Fun". He was in the navy for 8 years as a Yeoman, and he visited 16 countries, and went around the world in 1986.

He has worked for himself for the last 20 years, and lives in San Diego.

You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even his own website at http://www.vincestead.com

You can get every one of his books as a book at regular price, and you also get them as digital downloads for only $2.99 each.

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Quit smoking advise

Every smoker attempts to quit at some point. After all, after years of smoking, you start asking yourself the question "Why am I still smoking this filthy thing" or "Why can't I stop smoking!" This article will explain why and give you advice what you can do.

What you have to understand is that you can't "convince" yourself to quit smoking with those futuristic images of whatever bad could possibly happen to you as a result of continuous smoking. Those futuristic images aren't kinetic but the cigarette pack that you're holding is. The cigarette that you run with your lips with is. The taste buds and your lungs know it's real.

You begin smoking and pretty soon it grows into a habit. Now, something that you were doing willfully is now happening subconsciously and you can't stop it willfully - because it doesn't happen willfully anymore! You not only get to the chemicals and tobacco inside the cigarette but you're just so used to the touch of the cigarette - you feel it on your lips, as you breathe smoke through it you feel the sensation in your lungs - and you subconsciously become "used" it it just like you subconsciously flinch when something comes fast at you.

Now, when you just abruptly stop smoking you're taking away something that you depended on for such a long time. Something that has been with you all these years - think of it like losing someone very special to you. They made you feel good, you depended on them, had them by your side, and all of a sudden it gets taken away. What do you feel? Inability to focus, concentrate, you're not in the mood for anything - those are very similar withdrawals that you exhibit in both cases!

There is, however, a method that you can unlearn yourself from the habit. The method has an exceptionally high success rate and the whole idea behind it is transforming your mind before changing your behavior. Think about it. Your perception of something will ultimately change the behavior you have towards something. So what I'm going to teach you is change your perception on cigarettes and addiction. Furthermore, I'm going to teach you how to unlearn the habit so you can finally stop smoking for good.

There is a 3 step program that has proven to work over and over again. The program is called the Quit Smoking Recipe and the success rate is simply astonishing. The program not only changes your perception on smoking altogether but also lets you in on a little secret of how you can actually beat smoking without having to battle withdrawals! It's truly the one book that you can't miss out on if you want to quit smoking for good.
Ref:- Kevin_T_Decker