Monday 25 April 2011

Effectiveness of Physical and Mental Smoking Cessation Products


Quit smoking is not easy as both mental and physical parts of a person get addicted of smoking that stimulate urge for smoking again and again. When a person thinks to give up smoking, he may fid it difficult to skip cigarettes after a time because cravings become unbearable and smoker smokes again to relax. Quit smoking process can be made successful by using different products available in market that are produced to help physical and mental smoking cessation. Are these physical and mental smoking cessation products really effective? Every smoking cessation product have its own pros and cons. Today we will discuss most commonly used physical and mental smoking cessation products:
Electronic Cigarettes
Electronic cigarette is one of the newest solutions that are becoming more and more popular because of their increasing success rate. This smoking cessation product is appreciated by smokers as it directly tackles physical habit of smoking. It looks like a real tobacco cigarette but in fact it is not dangerous like real cigarette as it doesn’t contain carbon monoxide, tar or other harmful chemicals. This smoking cessation product helps the smoker to control of his smoking habit so that he can wean himself off of the addictive nicotine that his body has gotten used to.
Hypnotherapy
It is another very effective solution which tackles psychological barriers in smoking cessation process. Lots of ex-smokers have commented very positively for effectiveness of hypnotherapy because they found that they overcome their mental irritability of stop smoking by going through hypnotherapy.
Nicotine Patches and Gums
Nicotine patched and gums are considered as best solutions to help smokers in quitting smoking. These products are used in Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) that the body will be able to avoid painful side effects of nicotine by cutting down the amount of addictive chemicals of nicotine present in blood of smoker. These smoking cessation products can be obtained from pharmacies and are needed to be used for a course of almost three months to get desired results.
Acupuncture
It is a therapy which works by focusing on the principle that the body needs steady flow of energy and will become ill if blocked. The needles used in acupuncture therapy are then used to relieve these blockages of energy. Different reports show that people who have given up smoking claim that this treatment helped them to tackle the side effects of quitting smoking like dizziness, irritability and shakiness. 

Friday 22 April 2011

Mental and Physical Parts in Smoking Cessation


Smoking is such an addiction that not only traps mind of a person addicted to smoking but also makes his other body parts habitual of nicotine addiction that is why it becomes too difficult for a person to give up this habit because when he gets mentally prepared for quitting, his physical addiction hinders his success and vice versa. To train both mental and physical parts of a person for quitting, special smoking cessation process is being followed. Today we will have some discussion about mental and physical parts in smoking cessation.
Tobacco in a cigarette is a most addictive substance that traps smokers physically and mentally. Both hands and mouth of a smoker are directly involved in smoking. Smoker uses his hand especially two fingers in smoking and continuous use of physical parts makes it a permanent habit that is why when a smoker sits idle, his hands and mind are tempted to smoke again and again.
Several physical parts of a smoker are directly affected by smoke and toxic chemicals in tobacco. In danger parts of smoker include lungs, oral, esophageal, renal and bladder and brain. Tobacco addiction causes serious health risks to these parts of smokers like cancer of lungs, lungs, oral, esophageal, renal and bladder. Nicotine in tobacco takes fewer seconds to reach brain and releases dopamine that causes feelings of pleasure. Just because of this dopamine, smokers claim that they feel them better concentrated towards their work after smoking. Similarly nicotine released from cigarettes causes a person to feel relaxed with every cigarette and a person goes on smoking and smoking.
So, you saw that a tiny cigarette contains thousands of chemicals that trap mind of a person and then cause severe health risks to smoker. If you really want to give up this unhealthy habit, you need to plan for eradicating both mental and physical addictions by planning a routine to make your physical parts habitual of other things and use a substitute of cigarette to given up its addiction. 

Wednesday 20 April 2011

How Smoking Cessation Aids Work?


Different smoking cessation aids are being used to help smokers in giving up this habit. These smoking cessation aids include medications, therapies, cessation plans, society, cessation resource centers etc. All these aids work to lessen cravings and motivate a smoker to live smoke free. How smoking cessation aids work is a commonly asked question. With continuous consumption of cigarettes, smokers develop special affection with this habit putting that fact at a side how adversely smoking affects their health. All smoking cessation aids work to lessen this affection for smoking. Different smoking cessation aids are provided to smokers according to his health conditions. It will go too long to discuss working of all smoking cessation aids so here I will discuss how smoking cessation medications work.
Smoking Cessation Medications
Smoking cessation medication includes different stop smoking pills like Zyban and Chintax, herbal drugs, nicotine patches, and nicotine gums etc. These medications were produced to relieve stop smoking symptoms and reduce addiction for nicotine released from cigarettes. These medicines provide smoker’s body with nicotine to reduce urge for smoke. A person who takes smoking cessation pills can easily bear smoking cessation symptoms such as anxiety, headache, dizziness, dry mouth etc.
Every smoking cessation aid shows desired results after taking some time and time frame required by each smoking cessation aid varies from person to person for instance a person who is chain smoker will be able to give up this habit in double time as compared to time taken by a routine smoker.
Don’t worry for the extension in time taken by a smoking cessation aid and have trust it will work. I have seen many people who have successfully given up this habit simply by taking Zyban so be strong in your determination to stop smoking, success will be yours.

Monday 18 April 2011

Smoking Cessation Aids

Let’s have useful information about smoking cessation aids. You must have seen either you are a smoker or not that every packet of cigarettes comes with a note that smoking is not good for health but still people smoke. Even cigarette companies also declare that smoking is hazardous for health but I am worried why these companies don’t stop producing cigarettes. Don’t worry if cigarette companies don’t care for health of smokers, there are several health care institutions that are working to uproot smoking habit from society. They provide special smoking cessation aids to help people in giving up this unhealthy habit. You can say smoking cessation medicines, smoking cessation therapies and society are some of the most effective aids to help smokers in quitting. Here I will discuss role of smoking cessation aids that are very effective to make smoking cessation process successful.
First and main smoking cessation aid comes from health care professionals. Different health care professionals in smoking cessation resource centers work by following three rules of aids that are prevention, cessation and protection. They prevent people from starting smoking, help people in quitting and protect them from smoking again using different therapies and medicines.
Other smoking cessation aids include:
  • Smoking therapies like nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), varenicline, hypnosis etc
  • Smoking cessation medicines like smoking cessation pills, herbal drugs, nicotine gums etc.
  • Smoking cessation plans that are designed depending on the health conditions of addicted person and intensity of his smoking habit.
  • Social circle of smoker also plays vital role in helping him to quit this habit.
You can get more information about smoking cessation aids from the link shared below:
Smoking cessation aids

Friday 15 April 2011

Types of Smoking Cessation Pills


All habitual smokers are advised to quit this dreadful habit because smoking can lead to many health dangers. There are several quit smoking methods that are used on the basis of different principles. Most commonly used stop smoking methods include; smoking cessation resource centers, quit smoking aids, medications and smoking cessation pills. This posting is about smoking cessation pills. There are several types of smoking cessation pills that are suggested by physicians according to health conditions of smoker. Here I provide you information about most commonly used smoking cessation pills with pros and cons of smoking pills.
Chantix
This smoking cessation pill has been approved by FDA and is supposed to show lesser side effect. One special point about Chantix that I analyzed from my search is that it doesn’t use nicotine to help the smoker in quitting smoking. Different studies have stated that maximum people have successfully given up smoking using Chantix. This medicine has active ingredient varenicline tartrate” which help the smoker in overcoming withdrawal symptoms. I personally rate Chantix most effective than other stop smoking medicines.
There are different side effects of Chantix but these side effects are far less than its benefits. Most commonly experienced side effects of Chantix include headache, dizziness, dry mouth etc.
Zyban
This smoking cessation pill is also approved by FDA to help smokers in quitting smoking. Several health professionals suggest this medicine for people to treat cravings. Its effectiveness is more as compared to other smoking cessation medications like gums and nicotine patches. This medicine works on brain receptors and reduce desire to smoke again.
Like other medicines Zyban also has some side effects that can include dry mouth, vomiting, restlessness, headache etc.

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Smoking Cessation Pills


Smoking cessation is a complete process undertaken to uproot smoking desire in an addicted person. If a person tries to stop smoking without taking assistance from any healthcare professional or without following a proper smoking cessation plan, he will obviously find it difficult to get rid of this unhealthy habit. To go through smoking cessation plan different techniques are being used for instance smoking cessation laser therapy, smoking cessation hypnosis, smoking cessation acupuncture and smoking cessation pills. Each smoking cessation method works on different principle but with same motive to help a person in quitting smoking. Laser therapy, hypnosis, acupuncture are the methods that are used by specialists on addicts but smoking cessation pills are only suggested by doctors according to health conditions of a person then he himself keeps continuous use of smoking cessation pills without making frequent visits to doctors.

Why smoking cessation pills are used? These pills are used to relax smoking withdrawal symptoms. A person who skips cigarette from one to second time, it becomes difficult for him to stay away from smoking because of feelings of restlessness, depression, anxiety, nausea, dry throat, dizziness, fatigue, frustration, reduced concentration, weight gain, tightness in chest and cravings for more tobacco. Some people become impatient and again start smoking. To relieve these withdrawal symptoms, smoking cessation pills are being used. There are different pills that are used for this purpose.
Smoking cessation pills work on basis of special procedure to root out addiction for nicotine in cigarettes from mind and body of addicted person. These smoking cessation pills boost up energy level of two brain chemicals that are “Dopamine and Norepinephrine”. These pills perform same reaction as nicotine does to relax one’s mind. Basically these two chemicals work to boost energy in body and when a person develops habit of nicotine addiction, these chemicals in his mind become habitual of taking nicotine to refresh and become slow and cause the addicted person feel dizzy and other withdrawal symptoms if he skips smoking. When he takes smoking cessation pills, these chemicals gain their energy thus help a person feel fresh without cigarette.

Monday 11 April 2011

Smoking Cessation Resource Center

Where to go for proper help for smoking cessation will be our topic of discussion today. If you don’t have any idea about how to help your friend who has developed smoking habit in quitting it then I will suggest you to recommend him to go to some smoking cessation resource center. Smoking cessation resource centers are special places where healthcare professional solely provide their services to addicts in stop smoking using different smoking cessation methods. So many smoking cessation resource centers are working all over the world with same motive to help people in living smoke free lives. Most common smoking cessation methods that are used by smoking cessation resource centers include suggesting smoking cessation pills, special smoking cessation therapies, nicotine patches, and gums and compose personal smoking cessation programs for individuals according to their health and intensity of smoking habit.

A person who finds it difficult to give up smoking by his own efforts can get better results by following proper smoking cessation plan suggested by healthcare professional. You can prompt a person to visit smoking cessation resource center by explaining benefits of going to smoking cessation resource centers. If you are interested to know what is a resource center and reasons to join smoking cessation resource center then visit the link shared below:

Smoking cessation resource center
Now come to another question that comes to mind while talking about smoking cessation resource centers that which one is best. I have spent a lot of time in searching names of top ten smoking cessation resource centers to share with you. Efficiency of every smoking cessation resource center is judged by the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods used by a smoking cessation resource center. Different smoking cessation methods may consumed varied amount of time to show desired results. Well all smoking cessation resource centers I have studied about follow time based programs like eight days residential program, fifteen days quit smoking program, one month smoking cessation program etc. Average time period taken by these programs ranges from one week to three months. Well time taken by a smoker to quit also depends upon his willpower and other health conditions that will help him in quitting and recovering.
American Cancer Society, Baltimore Washington Medical Center, Tobacco Cessation Resource Center are the names of smoking cessation resource centers that are well-known for their services.