Stop Smoking Tips

Stop Smoking Tips

Most of men are smokers, many who want to quit smoking, and feel hard to quit smoking

There are various strategies that can be used to help myself get rid of smoking habits, like making chewing carrots to keep busy hands, took a deep breath in the fresh air, water minu, or even reward yourself.

Nevertheless here are some ways you can increase your chances of successfully quitting smoking and did not return to its original habits during the first weeks are very critical:

1. Record your progress. When you try to quit smoking gradually but steadily, the important thing you do is determine when you will actually leave the cigarettes. However in the meantime, record every cigarette you suck-where and under what conditions, advice Don R. Powell, Ph.D. president of the American Institute for Preventive Medicine at Farmingto Hills, Michigan, who is also a former smoker. This will help you identify situations that menyebabka you smoke and then specify alternative behaviors as a substitute for smoking.

2. Hold your desire. If you stop smoking gradually, each time you feel the urge to smoke 'wait five minutes before turning it on', says Dr. Powell. After a few days, extend the delay was up to 10 minutes. A few days later, extended again to 15 minutes, and so on. "You will find that the urge to smoke the longer it will disappear more quickly," he said.

3. Find help. Whether you want to stop suddenly or gradually by slowly reducing the more cigarettes you smoked, it would be nice if there are people who provide support. With support from some people, the result will

much different. Ask for support from friends and family, or of associations which both want to quit smoking.

4. Drinking orange juice. The most difficult part of the way to stop direct and comprehensive, the most popular (but not the best guarantee of success), is when you have to cope with the reactions due to the loss of nicotine intake, and this can last for one or two weeks. However, you will more easily cope with reactions such as irritability, anxiety, confusion, difficulty concentrating, and difficulty sleeping due to cessation of nicotine intake is much faster if you drink lots of orange juice during that period. That's because orange juice makes your urine more acidic, so more quickly expel nicotine from your body, says Thomas Cooper, DDS, a researcher nicotine dependence and oral health sciences professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

Besides citrus flavors in the mouth can make you feel that cigarettes are not good. However, if you stop smoking with the help of gum or a nicotine-containing plaster from the physician, avoid drinking grapefruit juice and other acidic drinks, because with it you want the nicotine stays in your system.

5. Imagine that you have the flu. Before giving the gum or patches contain nicotine, there is the usual doctors ask patients who want to quit smoking in order to imagine that they're sick with the flu.

According to Douglas E Jorenby, clinical coordinator at the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, this dependence symptoms similar to flu. You irritability, difficulty concentrating, lethargy. And as when a cold, not much you can do but wait until subside by itself. However, you will be able to pass through. As long as you do not give up and go back to the original habit, dependency reaction will disappear within a week or two weeks. "

6. Stay away from bars and cafes. The biggest temptation to smoke again is when you go to a bar or cafe, he said. Jorenby. "For many people, if one hand holding the drink, the other hand should be holding a cigarette. Therefore first stay away from bars or cafes for at least the first two weeks after quitting smoking." In contrast, frequently go to the library, place of worship, and other public places that prohibit people smoking. "People who quit smoking do not have to swear not going to the bar or the cafe again, but in our experience, a place that invites a high risk for you, unless you have managed to overcome the urge to smoke."

7. Write a letter to his beloved wife. When attacking your nicotine dependence, rather than taking cigarettes and lighters, lift the pen and write a letter to your wife to explain why smoking is very important in your life, said Robert Van de Castle, 'Ph.D., professor emeritus at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. In the letter, try to explain why you continue the habit despite knowing that it would reduce your life and may not be able to see your son graduate from college, get married or other important events.