Ways to Stop Smoking

Smoking tobacco is both psychological habit and physical addiction. Everyone knows risks to health caused by smoking then why smokers don’t give up smoking? The answer that comes to my mind is less or no awareness of effectiveness of stop smoking programs. Although it may be difficult for a smoker to kick his habit of smoking but the main reason why a smokers don’t use different smoking cessation programs because many smoking cessation programs like smoking cessation pills or other smoking cessation therapies may be out of budgetary limits of a smoker. Here I would like to share some information about different ways to stop smoking that will not be so expensive as well as easy to be adopted.

Personal Stop Smoking Plan

To optimize chances of your success, you need to be motivated, have social support and better understanding of what to expect and develop a personal stop smoking plan. Developing a personal stop smoking plan to your specific needs and desires will be a great source of help for you. Make a list of reasons why you need or want to quit smoking. Main reasons of quitting smoking will include:

•  To become healthier and have more energy, fresher breath and whiter teeth
• Lower the risks of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, early death, skin wrinkling etc
• Save money
• Get respect and lost position in society
• Live stink free

You can motivate yourself to quit smoking by starting with:

• S: Set a date to start acting on your quitting plan
• T: Tell friends and family members about your plan to quit smoking
• A: Anticipate and plan for challenges that will come to you in quitting
• R: Remove cigarettes and other related products from your home, office, car and pocket
• T: Talk to your doctor and get his assistance in quitting smoking

Manage Cravings

You will feel dizzy or restless when you will not smoke or event have headache. Try to make you busy in different activities for few days and wait these cravings will not last after few days when your body will adjust. Try to stay active, keep your hands busy, keep your mind busy, try to get an oral substitute and drink plenty of water to deal with cravings and other symptoms of quitting smoking.

Get Support and Resources to Quit Smoking

There are different smoking cessation programs that have successfully helped people in giving up smoking habit. Most common methods of quitting smoking include:

• Quitting smoking cold turkey
• Systematically decreasing the number of cigarettes smoked in a day
• Reducing intake of nicotine gradually over time
• Nicotine replacement therapy or other non-nicotine medications to reduce cravings
• Taking assistance form nicotine support groups
• Trying hypnosis, acupuncture or counseling using cognitive behavioral techniques

Take Help from Family Members in Quitting Smoking

It is first and foremost necessity of acting on personal stop smoking plan to tell family members that you have decided to stop smoking. Get their support in your effort to give up smoking.

How Smoking Habits are Dangerous for Your Health?

Why do people develop habit of smoking? Does anybody tell them benefits of smoking? I don’t think so….. It is just because of ignorance of mind, influences from other smokers, bad company and carelessness of a person that he develops habit of smoking. Every person tells stories of health damages caused by smoking but there would be not a single person who will tell that I was ill and I became healthy with smoking but still number of smokers is increasing round the globe. I am very much depressed to see young generation addicted to smoking. I dedicate my today’s writing for awareness of all innocent smokers who don’t know how badly smoking affects their health. Not respiratory system is only a system of your body that gets destroyed by smoking but every organ of your body is exposed to continuous dangers because of smoking. Here I would like to throw light on few of bad effects of smoking habits on your health. I pray that this post comes in eyes of every smoker and develop an urge of quitting smoking. This is my little effort to save smoker’s lives.

 Oral Cancer

Different health care organizations have revealed that variety of cancers including cancer of oral cavity, esophagus, larynx and lungs are caused by smoke of cigarettes.  Different reports show that 90% of patients suffering from oral cancer are smokers. Laryngeal cancer is caused about 20 to 30 percent more in smokers than in non-smokers. Smoking causes inflammation around teeth which is termed as periodontists. This disease attacks very slowly with continuous consumption of cigarettes that is solid tool of smokers to invite other innocent individuals by showing their clean teeth to them and telling that we are smoking for several months and enjoying our lives but in fact they are also in darkness about their future health conditions.

Bad Effects on Heart and Blood Pressure

Sharp increases in heartbeat and blood pressure is a very common effect of smoking that is seen in all smokers. Every smoker always loses his temperament in case of emotional situations but some people control them but many of them fail to do so. Other than this anger that is considered very little issue, smoking affects heart of a smoker very badly. Nicotine released from cigarette’s smoke causes the blood vessels to get narrowed which results in high blood pressure. High blood pressure itself is a major cause of heart and brain problems. Long term effects of smoking are more worse than increase in blood pressure that include increases in levels of fibrin and cholesterol in blood that increases risks of heart attacks.  Other heart diseases caused by smoking include Coronary heart disease (CHD), Peripheral vascular disease (PVD), aneurysm, atherosclerosis etc.

Smoking Effects on Lungs

Lungs are the main part of a smoker’s body that is directly exposed to damages caused by smoking. More than 80% of lungs cancer cases are accounted by tobacco smoking. Cilia in smoker’s lungs become unable to remove the tar content of cigarette smoke which leads to lungs and laryngeal cancer. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is caused by smoking. Main symptom of COPD is shortness of breath, persistent cough with sputum and damages to lungs including chronic bronchitis.

Smoking Effects on Liver

There are numerous toxins present in cigarettes that cause chronic inflammation and scarring of liver. This may result in disease such as liver cancer, liver fibrosis and Hepatitis B and C. Dangerous chemicals present in cigarettes is rated as a most common cause of liver tumors. Smoker’s liver loses its ability to detoxify dangerous substances.