Monday, March 9, 2009

How to Stop Smoking

By charlie reese

Anyone who's ever successfully quit smoking can tell you it's not an easy task. Most people fail several times before they finally succeed. There's not ever a convenient time to quit. You can't afford to lose your job because you exploded at your boss. Biting the head off your spouse over nothing most often results in a fight, followed by you lighting up. Who wants to use their vacation to quit?

Let's face it. You need all the help you can get. Family members, especially if they are lifelong non-smokers, may not be able to be very helpful. On the other hand, the quit smoking forums are filled with sympathetic people who know just what you're going through. The ones who have broken the habit can be especially helpful. Best of all, these quit smoking forums are peopled with individuals from all over the world, at all hours of the day and night. So, if you find yourself jumping out of your skin over desires for a little puff, unable to sleep in the wee hours, you can get online and find one of your quit smoking forum buddies to chat with and get you through the moment.

To gain maximum benefit from the quit smoking forums, you'll want to first locate one in which you feel comfortable, ahead of your quit smoking date. Let the other members know of your upcoming quit date. You'll find these people to be highly supportive. Some have already quit, but stick around the forum nonetheless, just to be able to be a success story. The quit smoking forum members often have some ingenious tricks and tips you might never think of on your own, to help you out.

The most difficult obstacles to quitting occurs in the first few days. This is when your body is flushing nicotine through your body, with no replenishments in sight. It's all you can do to stop thinking about smoking. You are experiencing withdrawal from a substance you've had in your body for, probably, many years. Other unpleasant symptoms include sweating, sometimes profusely and at the most inopportune time, a hair trigger temper and sensations of toxins racing through your bloodstream. Insomnia and irrationality can also pose a considerable problem.

While the majority of the nicotine and other nasty chemicals contained in cigarettes is flushed from your system in the first 72 hours, your next obstacle is overcoming the psychological desires. Many smokers have triggers which cause them to automatically light up. For example, some people always have a cigarette with their morning coffee. Others, when thinking through a problem, light up to enhance their concentration. This process can be quite a bit more manageable if you join a quit smoking forum.

According to Narcanon, many former heroin addicts claim that quitting smoking is more difficult than kicking heroin! In large part, this is probably due to the fact that cigarettes are legal and readily available, 24 hours a day. Nonetheless, you can see why so many people fail many times before they meet with that glorious success. - 14130

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