How To Quit Smoking
One of the most vicious diseases in today’s times is
smoking. It makes a person baffle for air 3 times more than a non-smoker. It
has very many repercussions on the life of the smoker and those around him.
It leads to lung cancer and various heart diseases like asthma and emphysema.
We should thus abhor this deadly disease and quit smoking.
Quitting is not easy
But to actually quit smoking is not easy, because it is
an addiction. However there are very many ways and methods that help us to
quit smoking for instance we can opt for acupuncture therapy or aromatherapy.
We can also opt for non-nicotine cigarettes or go for precise prescription by
a doctor.
But first and foremost we need to decide in our heart to
stop smoking and should also fix a day for the same. Inform your family about
your decision and seek for their help and assistance. Throw away all the
cigarette packets, ashtrays and lighters. Stop buying any more cigarettes.
Rather think of the more useful and better things that you can buy with the
money thus saved. Ask the other family members also, who smoke, to stop
smoking. Keep yourself busy. Exercise regularly and meditate occasionally.
Eat healthy food.
After doing all this you may still feel severe urges to
smoke. You may also actually retort back to it, but that’s no problem, just
be persistent and bring back your decision on to the right track after this
break, because most of the people are successful only after 2-3 attempts.
Be prepared for
withdrawal symptoms
About 80% people retort back to smoking after once
leaving it and only 20% successfully accomplish the task. People retort back
due to many reasons. Some say they feel agitated. Others say that the aroma
when someone lights up is irresistible. But most of them do so due to the
fear of symptoms that appears after that last puff viz. weight gain,
aggressive thinking, dry throat, fatigue, muscle cramps, constipation,
dizziness, hypersensitivity to stimuli, etc. but these are all just temporary
symptoms and disappear in a few days. In fact after the initial bout is over
the blood pressure, heart rate, pulse arte all get back to normal. You thus
need to keep your will power strong and stick to your decision for a few more
days.
Some people are not able to continue with the smoke
cessation programs because they say that they are costly. But this is a wrong
perception because they are not costlier than the price spent for buying
cigarettes. And then isn’t it more logical to spend on your health rather on
a disease.
