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Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms – Cope With Them and Quit for Good!

January 26th, 2010

Trish

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms are one of the major challenges for anyone who wants to give up smoking. If you can cope with them your chances of quitting go up dramatically.

Let’s look at the best ways of coping with nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

The most popular method to give up smoking

Is simply by giving up and not using any nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and is refferred to as “smoking cold turkey” however this causes a sharp shock to the system and nicotine withdrawal symptoms include:

Feeling stressed, anxious, nauseous and generally irritable.

This is the most popular method but is one that most people fail at and there is really no reason to do it.

People do it becuase they assume nicotine is the cause of death or disease, but this is not so.

Nicotine only provides the addictive nature of smoking and is not a killer (that is some of the other 4,000 odd chemicals consumed in smoking many of them poisons) so, you can take NRT and not suffer nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

NRT Products include:

Gum, patches, puffers and inhalers.

The one you like is very much down to personal choice, however all provide a measured dose of nicotine to help you cope with nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

Other smoking alternatives include:

The drug Zyban and a new product – Nicotine water.

The latter is convenient (unlike chewing gum) and all people like and have to drink water ( unlike patches you donâ??t need to put them on) you simply take sips of water whenever you feel the need.

All the above will help you get over nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cope with the craving.

A great way to stop smoking

Is to cut down first, reducing the amount you smoke each week by 10 or 20% and if you get a craving then you can use the above products.

By cutting down first, you are proving to yourself that you can do without cigarettes for periods of time.

This is a great confidence boost for people when they come to finally give up.

If you use NRT or other smoking alternatives, your chances of giving up for good are double compared with if you go cold turkey.

You don’t put yourself through the trauma - Its safe to take nicotine outside of cigarettes.

Finally

Not only is it safe to take nicotine outside of cigarettes, it’s actually good for you.

Recent medical research shows that it helps attention, memory and gives a felling of well being.

This will see a lot of new supplements hit the market to treat a number of conditions from depression to obesity.

We already have mentioned nicotine water earlier which is the first pure organic supplement and many more are expected to follow, not just to cope with nicotine withdrawal symptoms but to provide health benefits.

NEW ORGANIC NICOTINE DRINK
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Quit Smoking Ways That Work

January 26th, 2010

Trish

Most smokers admit that they would like to quit and are looking for quit smoking ways that will make it easier, minimize irritability and ease other withdrawal symptoms. There are so many quit smoking ways on the market that it can be overwhelming to choose one. First you need to make the decision to quit smoking, no matter what. Next, you should choose one quit smoking product and combine it with additional quit smoking support tips. The most important part is making the decision.

There is no one quit smoking way that is ideal for every smoker, which is why there are many quit smoking products and aids available. Pick a method that is right for you. Here are some common quit smoking ways to consider:

1) cold turkey;
2) nicotine patch, gum or similar;
3) hypnosis;
4) herbal products;
5) acupuncture; and
6) behavior modification.

The first two quit smoking ways above, have the lowest success rate and are not recommended. There are some herbal and hypnosis quit smoking products that claim a success rate of 90% or more, these are your best choice.

The most successful quit smoking ways available includes: using a hypnosis product, include behavior modification and other quit smoking preplanning tips. By combining multiple methods, you drastically increase your chances of success. Behavior modification includes:

1) identify triggers that cause you to light a cigarette;
2) find alternative methods of dealing with these triggers;
3) avoiding people, places and activities that you associate with smoking; and
4) create new habits and routines, which are not associated with your prior smoking lifestyle.

These changes will make dealing with withdrawal symptoms easier, provide confidence that you have a formal plan to quit smoking and break the mental connection between smoking and your daily activities.

The most successful quit smoking ways also involve preplanning, such as the following:

1) make a list of all the reasons that you want to quit smoking;
2) read this list twice daily before and after your quit date;
3) set a quit date at least 2 weeks away;
4) tell people about your quit smoking plan;
5) identify the behaviour modification techniques that you will use;
6) consider quitting smoking in your house and car before your quit date. This will break the mental connection between these places and smoking. It will also help remove the smell of smoke from these areas before your quit date;
7) find new ways to occupy your mind such as reading, taking a class, crossword puzzles, etc and acquire needed tools beforehand;
create a special reward for yourself to celebrate your success; and
9) learn all about the health risks of smoking and the benefits of quitting.

One of the quit smoking ways many have found to help is to figure the cost of smoking and plan on a reward for yourself with the money saved from not smoking. If you smoke $5 worth of cigarettes per day, in one year you will save $1,825 by not smoking.

It is difficult to stop smoking. But if you are prepared and use the quit smoking ways above, you have a good chance of succeeding. Make up your mind to quit smoking, prepare your plan and just do it.

If you need support, there are many organizations and volunteers who are willing to help a person kick the habit. They can share more quit smoking ways and tips to help you succeed. There is no harm in asking someone to help you quit smoking. Make the decision to quit smoking and do whatever it takes. It will be one of the biggest accomplishments of your life.
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Hypnotherapy Cds Can Enable you to Swiftly Stop Smoking

January 25th, 2010

Trish

If you are trying to quit smoking, you know how difficult it is to break this dangerous addiction. However, it is possible, and half of all adult smokers will succeed in quitting smoking forever. Many smokers have successfully quit smoking cigarettes by replacing them with different, more positive habits without having to suffer through withdrawal symptoms. By far, the most effective, easiest method to stop smoking and accomplish this end is hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation is one of the most commonly practiced forms of hypnosis. It is often cited as a tool to quit smoking along with strategies such as the use of nicotine gums or patches and other popular means. It helps end the smoking addiction by combating cravings to smoke, keeping you committed to quitting, and promoting stress relief and relaxation so you will not be tempted to smoke.

The smoking addiction has both physiological and psychological components. The physiological addiction is a physical addiction the body acquires for nicotine. This aspect of the addiction causes the physical withdrawal symptoms that make it seem near impossible to stop smoking. However, this is a short, temporary stage in the overall process of quitting the habit, which lasts only between three days and one week. By the end of this period, your body adjusts to regular, nicotine-free functioning. Based on thirty years of experience, I believe that the physical need for nicotine makes up only ten percent of the smoking addiction.

By far, the most challenging part of breaking the smoking addiction is overcoming the psychological addiction, which are the mental and emotional aspects of smoking. I believe this makes up ninety percent of the smoking addiction. When you develop a smoking habit, you develop an unconscious desire to smoke in certain environments, such as before going to bed at night. This is called a conditioned response. Stop smoking self-hypnosis works to eliminate the unconscious associations that cause one to crave cigarettes, thereby eliminating the conditioned response to smoke. Hypnotherapy also helps you stay motivated to give up smoking by reinforcing your beliefs that gave you the desire to break the smoking addiction in the first place.

Smokers get stuck impulsively lighting up and smoking. This is why many people who attempt to stop smoking using nicotine patches or gums alone have such a difficult experience. They soon overcome the physical addiction, but they have no relief or replacement for the ritual of smoking, which has become a mental habit and comforting source of stress relief. Hypnosis techniques eliminate this mental addiction and serve as stress reducers as well. As a relaxation tool, hypnosis helps effectively relieve anxiety and stress so you will lose the desire to smoke cigarettes.

Combined with some powerful NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques, stop smoking self-hypnosis can keep you committed to breaking the habit by training your unconscious mind to focus on the benefits of quitting. Eliminating tobacco benefits you in a great number of ways. Within days of quitting, body parts damaged by smoking begin to heal, damaged nerves re-grow, and your sense of taste and smell improves. Within weeks, blood circulation and lung function improve. Within a year, your risk of heart disease is less than half that of a smoker. Within five to fifteen years, your risk of stroke is the same as a non-smoker. Your risk of dying from lung cancer and numerous other cancer risks have decreased, and your risk of heart disease is the same as someone who has never smoked.

Despite the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of quitting, some smokers never overcome their habit. For the most part, this is because they’ve never really made a decision to quit. Other smokers are often afraid to experience withdrawal symptoms or let go of the smoking habit. Quitting smoking does not have to be the difficult process that makes so many smokers reluctant to even attempt quitting. Hypnotherapy provides a very simple, natural technique for quitting.

Hypnosis is a powerful implement for crushing cravings for cigarettes, building powerful motivation, and promoting relaxation and stress relief to eliminate the psychological aspects of the smoking addiction. Stop smoking hypnosis techniques can be easily learned from specialized self-hypnosis CDs that have been developed after decades of experience using hypnosis, Neuro-VISION video hypnotherapy, and NLP to help people kick the cigarette addiction.

Hypnosis CDs make it easy to stop smoking forever because they break the smoking addiction in a process that helps obliterate cravings and any desire to smoke. Whatever your motivation is for breaking the habit, hypnosis makes it easier to focus your mind on these reasons, which makes you feel a powerful urge to quit. Stop smoking hypnosis CDs eliminate the urge to smoke. Although quitting smoking can be an unsuccessful endeavor for some, those who take advantage of self hypnosis CDs have a much greater percentage of success because it makes the process a ‘slam-dunk’. Hypnosis is the most effective method for smoke cessation.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video quit smoking aids and received a U.S. Patent on the process. He offers a number of ways to quit smoking cigarettes if you are ready to stop smoking cigarettes now.

Beating the Nicotine Smog – Simple Steps

January 24th, 2010

Trish

We daily burn money! And, all for nothing! The smoke costs us money and the smog also ultimately bleeds us white! Still we can’t say ‘NO!’ to smoking. So, Beware! The villain is nicotine! In fact, nicotine is one of the most addictive of materials on earth. The worst part of it is that nicotine has millions of people in its throes. Nicotine can have serious effects on a person’s health. It is always advisable to stay away from nicotine. What is more, nicotine smog can affect the passive smokers as well. In fact, researchers have found that passive smoking is very dangerous. Irrespective of whether a person is a smoker or a passive smoker, the indisputable fact is that both can contract heart problems over a period of time. Smoking cigarette can also lead to asthmatic problems. These ailments raise their heads after a person crosses his middle ages. And needless to say, the person then will have to fight a really tough battle to even breathe! The culprit is the habit of smoking with nicotine being the catalyst!

Nicotine enters the human body mostly through cigarettes. When a person starts smoking, the nicotine emanating from the burning cigarette affects the person’s brain. That portion of the person’s brain gets affected which is directly connected with the pleasure modes of the person. Nicotine works on a person’s pleasure highways. As a result, nicotine compels the brain to play with a set of pleasure trips.

Once a person gets a flavor of these pleasures, it becomes rather tough for the person to bid goodbye to nicotine. Ultimately, a person becomes totally dependent on nicotine not only psychologically but also physically. Smoking conjures up an aura of positive wellbeing as it hikes the volumes of dopamine and neurotransmitter to the brain. Under such circumstances, a person fails to quit the habit. On the other hand, such pleasure feelings force the person to smoke more. On the other hand, this is also the reason why a person trying to quit smoking cigarettes starts getting the withdrawal syndromes. These common withdrawal symptoms are anxiety and depression. They are also accompanied by the person becoming easily irritable. He/she may also lose appetite and have problems in moving the bowels.

The withdrawal syndrome results from the brain not getting the artificial means of augmenting pleasure as the very nicotine sources, the cigarettes, are not there. In simple words, the neural highways are deprived of the hitherto regularly supplied catalyst, the nicotine.

There are innumerable medications that claim to help the people quit smoking. However, one thing is for sure, though. One quits smoking more then a hundred times! Hence, the most plausible way to say goodbye to smoking is to first convince yourself that you do need to quit smoking and that too immediately. You can start mind control exercises to condition your mind in such a way that you would refuse the next urge to smoke a fag.

Many people take to chewing gums. The constant munching can be a good exercise for your jaws and the gums. These sweetened gums are, however, not recommended for the diabetics. Alternative medicines have a whole lot of medications to help the people quit smoking. One vital herbal medicine is just a tincture of oats (the garden variety and not the oat straw) to beat the fag feeling.

There are also immense psychological effects of a person’s mental outlook taking effect on the person’s body language. There are instances of person carrying in their pockets dummy cigarettes. The moment they feel the urge to smoke, they whip out the dummy fag and they feign smoking for a few seconds. But, thank god this is a fag sans the smog.

After all, it is all in the mind. Think and thank your strong will power. Say No to nicotine today for a better future.

Nilutpal Gogoi is a writer and a freelance journalist having more than 18 years of service in several audio-visual and print media reputed organizations in North East India. He has published one popular adventure book for children and has published more than 1000 articles for various sites, as such

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I’m thinking about quitting smoking. People who have quit, how long does it take for the cravings to stop?

January 24th, 2010

Trish

I’ve only been smoking for 2 years, 15-20 a day. Has it done damage already after only a short time? I want to give up for health and the money. But i really like it. How will i quit?