How to Stop Smoking

By Hieke Huiskes


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.

When I smoked I always looked forward to the after eating smoke and the first smoke in the morning. So when you try to break your addition and you are in the situation where you would usually smoke a cigarette, you find yourself craving one just out of habit. The activity has conditioned your brain to associate smoking with the activity. So as well as breaking the physical addiction you also need to break the psychological habits that have been set up.

Below are some tips to stop smoking,You must devote yourself to stop smoking. You must really want to stop smoking. An individual needs to develop a burning drive to give up smoking,Keep busy. When you find yourself in situations where you would normally have a smoke, substitute another activity for the activity of smoking. Brush your teeth, or chew gum until the craving passes. Don't dwell about the craving and on how much you "just got to have a cigarette",Chewing gum can help you since it keeps your mouth busy and gives you with something to do instead of smoking. Chewing the nicotine gum can be extremely helpful with warding off cravings,Avoid dwelling on the giving up process. You must positive be about becoming a non smoker and not obsess over how hard it is and how much you need a cigarette,Tips to Help You Quit Smoking Naturally

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.

Join a Support Group.There are a lot of nicotine groups both online and in the rooms of Nicotine Anonymous jam-packed with ex smokers who will be able to lend you support and guidance every day on keeping up with your quit. The more help you find from similar people with the same goal of quitting cigarette smoking, the higher your chances become of quitting cigarette smoking for ever.It's easy to discover how to quit smoking. Quitting can very well be a struggle, but the actions in the direction of a clean break from cigarette smoking addiction are very simple in nature. Step outside of your worries, and start paying attention to your inner most desires. Use this plan of how to quit smoking and run with it for a healthier, tobacco free life.




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