Use Stopping Smoking Tips To Help You Kick The Habit
Using Stopping Smoking Tips will help you kick a habit that consists of inhaling 4000 different chemicals into you lungs each time you take a drag of a cigarette. None of these chemicals are good for you and they will certainly not help to prolong your life.
Your biggest obstacle to overcome, will be the VERY strong cravings for nicotine you will experience. If this is not your first time trying to quit smoking, then you already know exactly what I am talking about and how tough it is. The tips combined with other resources listed on my blog, Stopping Smoking Tips, and if you to choose to also get a hypnosis and smoking cessation program or another type of plan, will all help by working in conjunction with each other to assist you with the fight. A formidable force to battle those cravings, will help you get through that difficult period.
Nicotine has caused a whole lot of changes in your brain, due to it's chemical structure being similar to that of acetylcholine and serotonin, which gives it the ability to affect the chemicals that regulate your mood, memory, and attention.
It will take 72 hours for your blood to become nicotine free and 90% of it's metabolites will exit the body via your urine. The most difficult part will be those 72 hours, but your cravings will decrease each day you remain smoke-free. Take just one puff and you will have to start all over with the 72 hour detox period.
Stopping Smoking Tips
- Pick a quit day within the next 2 or 3 weeks to quit. Having a deadline makes it easier to plan how you will handle situations that make you want to smoke. Make a list of reasons for quitting smoking and carry it around with you to review often.
- Replace cigarettes with gum, healthy snack options, Cinnamon sticks and such, when the nicotine cravings hit.
- Let your friends and family know you are quitting smoking, so they can offer you support.
- Remove all ashtrays, lighters, matches, and smoking related paraphernalia.
- Before your quit day rolls around, start leaving your cigarettes at home and when you smoke make it the only activity you are doing at the time, to reduce cigarettes being associated with activities such as drinking coffee, talking on the phone, and driving.
- Learn to relax. Restlessness resulting from withdrawal will drive someone to smoke again. Do breathing exercises. Take 10 deep, slow breaths and then hold the last one, breathe out slowly and relax all your muscles. Exercise, yoga, and meditation offer great ways to reduce stress and relax.
- Change your surroundings when a craving hits. Take a walk, do some stretching, clean up around the house...anything to distract your mind.
- Measure your success one day at a time. Don't think about quitting forever. Just say to yourself 'I am not going to smoke today.' ONE DAY AT A TIME!
- Drink plenty of Cranberry juice the first 3 days. It has been shown to accelerate the removal of nicotine from your body.
- This tip will make you think, at least it did me. I wrote this down and taped it above my computer. Unfortunately, I forgot the website I found it on. --> 'Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption, until smoking cripples and then KILLS YOU, or you decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever. As long as neither of these options appeals to you the solution is as simple as...no nicotine just one day at a time, NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
Free Stopping Smoking Help
For free support with a trained counselor, who will talk to you about quitting smoking call 1-800-QUIT NOW. This number forwards you to your State's tobacco cessation program. They will offer you live support. The counselor you speak with will offer a choice of free services, including self-help materials, a referral list of programs in your community, and one-on-one phone counseling.
The National Cancer Institute's Smoking Quitline offers proactive counseling by trained personnel. Call 1-877-44U-QUIT.
You can also join your areas Nicotine Anonymous 12-step program based on AA. If your area does not have one, then you could start one. Find out how at the Nicotine Anonymous website --
--> http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/
Search for meetings in your area here --
--> http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/meetings.php