In order to really quit smoking it is necessary to break the
chains that smoking creates in your life.
If you are addicted to smoking purely due to the nicotine addiction you
are certainly not alone. This is one of
the biggest reasons why smokers continue to smoke. It is also one of the reasons why the tobacco
company sits around confidently while the economy struggles and people are
cutting back. If you are addicted to
their product, you are not going to cut back.
In fact, if you are addicted you may find that you are using the product
even more. This creates huge profits for
the tobacco companies, and leaves you with a huge problem as you are struggling
to get your addiction under control.
What is really surprising is the fact that people will have
sympathy for someone who is addicted to drugs, alcohol, gambling and a plethora
of other addictions. However, the
sympathy tends to stop at the idea of being addicted to cigarettes. This is a stigma that has affected society in
a way that people are often laughed at for saying that they are addicted to
cigarettes. Yet, the fact remains that
people are in fact addicted. Learning
how to control the addiction is critical to success, after all those who are
addicted to drugs rarely ever just quit cold turkey successfully.
You need to realize that you are addicted to smoking, and
that the reason is typically due to nicotine.
The exact manner that you get the nicotine is not important. What is important is avoiding the harmful
effects on your body that smoking has.
If you need to slowly cut back your nicotine consumption you are not
alone, and to prove it there are dozens of stop smoking aids on the market. Several even offer small dosages of nicotine
to help smokers deal with their nicotine addiction while still working to quit
smoking. Looking towards products such
as nicotine gum or even the patches may be your only help in quitting.
While there are plenty of tricks such as breathing
exercises, magnets, and other stop smoking aids that you can use, many are not
designed for people actually addicted to the nicotine. What you may not realize is that the bulk
majority of smokers have become dependent on the nicotine to one extent or
another. While some smokers rely much
more on the nicotine than others, they are still addicted to an extent. It is important to break this dependence in
order to actually be successful at quitting smoking. This is not an easy process, and it must be
done carefully.
If you are not careful in the process of breaking your
nicotine addiction, you could actually make things worse. For example, the nicotine gum and the patches
come in different dosage levels. These
levels coincide to the amount that you smoke.
The intended purpose is to start at the level that you typically smoke
at and slowly decrease the amount of nicotine that you consume each day. Slowly over time your addiction would be
gone, however to crush this instantly you would just need to use a stronger gum
or patch than you need for your smoking habit.
A one pack a day smoker could create far more problems for themselves if
they used the gum or patch intended for those who smoke two packs a day for
example.
Being sure that you are using the proper dosages is
critical. Ensuring that you are taking
your time and carefully dealing with your nicotine addiction is very important
as well. If you have the support of your
friends, family and co-workers, you will have a much greater success rate. Just as those recovering drug addicts take
things a single day at a time, you need to do the same for your nicotine
addiction. Simply rushing out and
attempting to quit could create a huge self-esteem problem and you fail to
control the addiction to nicotine. Going
slow and accepting your problem will set you up for a much higher success rate
and improve your overall health much faster.
- Mohammed Zahran -
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