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.
