Breaking The Habit - How Being an ex-smoker

We humans are creatures of habit, often doing things pure ritual and routine development recently. All routines or habits, however, are not necessarily bad. There are some good habits and routines that have been forced to develop in our lives in order to do things.

The only problem is, when it comes to doing something that is bad for us, our nature to cultivate habits becomes a curse rather than a benefit.

Recently the survey a number of ex-smokers and asked them how they came to take up smoking in the first place, why he decided to quit and, most importantly, how they finally managed to kick the habit and to this day today remain ex-smokers.

Adolescence

An interesting and probably become apparent that came to light was that most people started smoking in adolescents, and rarely had to have no desire to quit until well into their twenties or thirties. Most he admitted that this was due to the fact that it was not until they are adults they really think or care much about the consequences of smoking and what long term affects can have on your body and health.

Teenagers (and all we have been through it) that often have false sense of security that they are indestructible. I talked to a number of adolescent smokers and asked if they had any desire to stop smoking, or any guilt feelings about smoking. The common answer: No, not really. And no one seems too concerned about the damage it might be doing to them.

In my research I have found the most common reason for a teenager who would start smoking is cool. Smoking made them feel more adult and self-confidence as more and more people. Some have succumbed to peer pressure, while others are taken in order to fit in with their boyfriend or girlfriend, or to impress the opposite sex. Some children thought that made them look more severe and appear more masculine. Several admitted it would be rebellious, but I wanted to do the exact opposite of what adults told them to do. If your parents say things like, Do not smoke is bad for you or You’re too young to smoke, just beginning to smoke despite their parents. Other teens said they smoked cigarettes to relax. Problems at home, the pressure to do well in school, confusion of puberty, all contributed to the cause of many to take up the habit.

Adulthood

Those who started smoking in adulthood most seemed to put the bottom up the reason: It is understood that it is relaxing and helped them deal with the pressures of everyday life. Most said that they do not to look cool or to fit groups of peers and colleagues. This was a reason that seemed to refer exclusively to teenagers age group.

Catalysts for quitting

The first response I received when I asked a former smoker why stopping smoking, said, There is no particular reason, but any reason is a good reason to quit.

Most adults seem to think more deeply about their future health, with an underlying fear of the possibility of lung cancer or other related disorders. Some relatives had seen die, or die from the snuff-cancer or any disease and frightened in quitting.

Fitness is another important catalyst to give the simple habit. We now live in a very health conscious and fitness-oriented society, so that smoking has become taboo and something needs to be done.

A woman, who had been a smoker for ten years, said she sat down one day to find approximately only the number of times she had lit a cigarette during that stage. She had an average of about thirty cigarettes a day for ten years, and that would have been produced by the ritual of lighting a cigarette over a hundred thousand times. She said, That’s when I stopped when I realized it was a hundred thousand steps closer to an early death, I decided I had had enough.

Many women wanted to quit because they were pregnant, or pregnancy will be used as an incentive, because he fears the damage they inflict on the unborn babies who were carrying.

But how these people successfully quit and remain non-smokers?

Tips To become an ex-smoker

The same man told me that he interviewed any reason was a good reason to quit exposed very clearly: No matter what your reason for quitting is, there is only one way to stop smoking and stop smoking successfully. You have to really want to do! You have to really want to beat that habit! No mercy shown to it! was his advice.

Therefore, the will is an important deciding factor between success and failure. There is no way around that fact. No matter what quitting aids they choose to help them quit smoking, there must be a will to succeed and a strong affirmation for anything stop. If the fund that do not really care if they succeed in it or not, the result will be exactly that: a nonchalant, warm attempt that ultimately culminates in a return to smoking. And how many times has happened to the people?

One question I asked each ex-smoker is whether a gradual reduction of their daily cigarette intake was the most effective method to quit smoking, or cold turkey is more successful. The response was overwhelming for the cold turkey method. It seems to get faster results. More painful at first, but easier and faster over time. Cold turkey, said a person has the will and unity. So the first step is then to gather the will and drive, and lots of it!

Another way to beat the habit was to change to a law of tar Dejar De Fumar nicotine and smoke to mark these first few weeks before trying the cold turkey plan. The theory behind this is that reduced the craving for something when it’s time to quit completely, fewer physical hunger for a cigarette during the first difficult days.

Anyone who has previously tried to quit and no will be familiar with the intense physical need for a cigarette in the early days. Mouth water, nicotine cravings. Lung pain, yearning to be filled with toxic smoke cigarette. However, a mild brand and smoking decreased for several weeks before quitting smoking will help reduce this physical longing.

With this method, some people experience a need to smoke more, while in the lower tar and nicotine brands, as addiction is not fed as much as had been accustomed to. This requires that resisted being possible. However, the most difficult urge the principle is to fight physical craving, rather than the ritual or associations of habit. These associations can be countered by modifying sections of your daily routine.

Plan

Anyone who has ever been successful at anything in life will tell you that you need a plan. Set a specific date for quitting and mentally build and prepare for that date.

Write a plan on how you will attack this habit, and refer to that plan from the day prior to and during the stop smoking.

More advice and tips

These are some segments of advice from those interviewed how to quit and stay an ex-smoker.
– Be sure to remove all cigarettes in the house. Seeing only cigarettes around to tempt to light.
– Place NO SMOKING signs around the house or workplace as a reminder not to smoke or to give in to the urge.
– Be aggressive with the habit. Do not give him. It is determined to succeed.
– As much as possible, stay away from smokers during the first critical days and vulnerable.
– Position yourself in positions where you can not smoke, or where smoking is prohibited.
– Write a list of good points to quit smoking and refer to it whenever the urge strikes to light.
– Be confident in your ability to quit.
– Think about the strength of character that will benefit from the conquest of addiction.
– Consider the money you will save.
– Think about the health benefits.
– Do not inhale on a cigarette unlit. This will only mcontraene the custom of celebrating in a smoke.
– Remove items from the home and workplace that remind you of smoking (eg, ashtrays).
– Give up when your motivation is at its highest peak.
– Have your last cigarette before going to bed. That way when you wake up will have eight hours ahead to kick the habit.
– Trying to quit as one of his greatest ambitions in life.
– Praise you in your ability to break the habit.
– Take deep breaths.
– Stay off the extent possible. Enjoy the fresh air.
– Get plenty of exercise and immediate notification to the health benefits of not having toxic fumes into the bloodstream.
– Avoid situations during the first few days usually associated with the consumption of snuff.
– Brush your teeth regularly.
– Chew gum. fresh breath and mcontraene It gives your mouth something to do. This will also help prevent over eating during this period.
– Test the nicotine gum.
– Use nicotine patches.
– Break your regular routine for the first days, but back to it as soon as possible and learn to adapt as an ex-smoker.
– Congratulate little to achieve the milestones along the way.

These are hints, tips and advice from people who have managed to quit and quitters remained.

Always remember

As difficult as it may seem at the moment, there is life after smoking.