4 Tips-How to Break the Smoking Addiction?

Introduction:

We’re Creatures of Habit:

“Form good habits…be a good person” is the universal motherly advice every one of us can recall when we scratch the realm of our memories. Tiny tots and youngsters are forever bound, protected and guided by their seniors and elderly in order to help them on to tread the path laid on time tested principles of honesty and good behavior. Yet sometimes unknowingly they take the forbidden route just to prove things for the heck of it.

Due to the extreme stress, strain and stretch of the competitive world around any person today is more susceptible to succumb to pressure and buckle under it. Here’s where the need for addiction in any form arises which however provides only temporary solace rather than erasing the real cause. We sometimes latch on to it and slowly get further and further suck into its false whirlpool leading us to lose our will power.

An addiction simply adheres itself to our self-belief eroding it gradually by digging into it. We just remain a shade of our previous selves hereby taking a short cut to a track that leads us to more acute physical and mental problems.

The Ugly Truth:

Tobacco usage causes more than 430,000 adult deaths per year in the United States.
Around 5 million under 18 years will die prematurely from smoking-related diseases.
More than 4,000 chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke of which at least 43 cause cancer in humans and animals.
Exposure to passive smoking, 3,000 nonsmokers die of lung cancer every year.
150,000 to 300,000 infants and children less than 18 months experience lower respiratory tract infections. Asthma and other respiratory conditions often are triggered or worsened by tobacco smoke.
Smoking among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders varies between 18% to 40% (including 9% to 13% females).
Tobacco use is linked with numerous adverse health outcomes, disability, and death across a spectrum, including heart disease, cancer, and chronic lung disease.

Smoking addiction affects one in three adults around the world. It may be widespread but it can definitely be beaten.

Find out more in this article:

Smoking causes the premature death of millions of people around the world every year, more lives than any war has ever taken. But the addiction can be broken and there are many different ways to do it.

1. Willpower Alone:

This must surely be the worst method to quit smoking:

In fact, the research proves that it is. Less than 5% of smokers who stop using this method will succeed in never smoking a cigarette again.

When you quit completely “cold turkey”, you will very quickly get intense cravings for a cigarette:

The only thing you can rely on is your incredible will to resist and hopefully you will break the smoking addiction.

Most smokers will find it so tough that they will just start smoking again:

They start to get many different symptoms such as headaches, nausea and shakes.

Don’t bother this method because it just won’t work and you might as well choose an easier method.

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2. Nicotine Replacement Therapy:

This includes patches, inhalers and chewing hum.
The theory goes that you can switch from cigarettes immediately to these nicotine products.
Then you cut down on these products over time before eventually quitting those too.

The problem is, although a bit healthier, when you quit cigarettes, no addiction has been broken. You are now addicted to patches.

Also, the cutting down theory sounds nice but it is as successful as cutting down on cigarettes which is also useless. The success rate from patches, for instance, is only 7% and that is only at the 6 month mark. Months and years later, this 7% will be reduced as the smokers start their addiction again.

3. CBT Methods:

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods are the best.

What this means is that you don’t use any products at all. You read or listen to someone describe to you how the addiction works, how it keeps a grip on you and how to defeat it. CBT is a medical science and used throughout the world to stop people with, for example, obsessive compulsive disorder or irrational phobias. It is very effective for quitting smoking.

4. Hypnosis:

Hypnosis has long been a popular method to stop smoking and most people walk out of their last session feeling like they’ll never need another cigarette again.

What hypnotists won’t tell you though is that their long term success rate is very poor indeed.

This is because the effect is only temporary. Your cravings will disappear but within weeks or months and sometimes even days, the cravings will return. If you want to quit smoking for a month then this is ideal for you but if you want to give up forever then steer well clear.

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Disclaimer: “Nothing in this article makes any claim to offer cures or treatment of any disease or illness. If you are sick please consult with your doctor.”

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