Stop smoking help and useful tips

Less then 30 years ago smokers were shown on television shows and in the movies lighting up their cigarettes. There were very few people who were against smoking. Despite the earliest warnings about the health hazards of cigarettes, there was no real push to get people to quit smoking.

Smoking is an addictive habit that normally begins when a person is in their teen years or early into their 20’s. It is very easy to become hooked on cigarettes but not nearly as easy to quit smoking, as people would like to think. Even with evidence of the dangers, many people are still finding it hard to quit smoking.

There is both mental and physical addiction.
The main drug in cigarettes is nicotine. It can take up to a week to work out of the system. The worst time when people quit smoking is the first 72 hours, but after that the physical craving for nicotine diminishes. The remainder of the addiction is considered mental, although there are physical aspects to it as well.

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Kicking an addiction is a challenge, and breaking a habit can be very hard. Smoking is both an addiction and a habit, so you can imagine how hard it is to quit. Most smokers do not quit smoking the first time they try. Most of them have to repeat the try three or four times before they can kick the addiction and break the habit. Anyone who quits smoking should be really proud of himself. These people have something to celebrate – they accomplished a difficult task.

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The quit smoking patches deliver nicotine to your body in small doses right through the skin without the disadvantage of smoking such as inhaling burnt paper and tobacco tars as well as afflicting people around you with effects of second hand smoke.

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There is no easy way to quit smoking

As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Just like there is no easy way to stop drinking or lose weight, there is no easy way to quit smoking. Even since it requires a lot of will power and determination, this does not mean that it can’t be done. A lot of people all over the world have kicked the habit, and they never say it was easy. But they all say it was worth the time and effort spent on it.

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An addiction to tobacco is both psychological and physical. It is very difficult to stop smoking or even cut down as every smoker knows. The main goal should be to give up smoking forever, but even reducing the amount you smoke is a good start and better than nothing.

Your addiction contains of two parts:

• physical addiction occurs when you become addicted to the nicotine contains in cigarettes This kind of addiction causes withdrawal symptoms if you or quit or even cut down;
• psychological addiction occurs when smoking becomes a part of your life. And if you want to quit or even cut down, your habits have to be changed.

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A little experiment which shows what you do with your lungs while smoking. It can be good motivation to give up smoking.

The process of extracting 7200 mgr Tar from 400 Cigarettes.

It can be helpful to write down and repeat some of "why I am quitting statements" about your goal to stop smoking. These statements are your reminders of what you want to avoid, change, and move away from by quitting smoking. Repeat them as often as you need to stay motivated and focused.

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When you stop smoking you gain some benefits at once. And even more of them will develop over time. These rewards will improve your everyday life a great deal.

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It can be helpful to write down and repeat a number of so-called "confidence statements" about your goal to stop smoking. Confidence statements are to be positive and true statements that you can repeat to yourself daily to stay focused and motivated.

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