What is Willpower?

Hi to all… I am again here to discuss same stop smoking issue. You got information about bad effects of smoking and need to quit this habit in my previous writing but I decided to change our topic of discussion from today. Today I will discuss how smoking habit can be stopped. I will provide you information about different factors that are necessary to give up this habit so read about willpower and its role in giving up smoking habit. I will cover this topic in different sections like what is willpower, how it works in process of stop smoking:

What is Willpower?

Willpower is one’s ability to beat his indolence and procrastination or you can consider willpower as strength to act or refrain for acting a specific activity. I would like to define willpower with smoking perspective as an ability to control or reject needless or harmful impulses. If I use more clear words to define willpower then it is strength to make a decision then keep following the decision with strong determination to draw desired outcomes.

Role of Willpower

I will discuss role of willpower with reference to the stop smoking process. Willpower is your inner strength that will enable you to overcome your unproductive activities such as laziness, temptation, unhealthy habits like addiction and develop healthy habits. Willingness to give up smoking is key element necessary for success of stop smoking process. Here willpower means your willingness to stop smoking.

How this strength can refrain you from smoking anymore?

Willpower is one of the most effective factors that can help you in quitting smoking and lessen need of going through expensive smoking cessation therapies. Willpower of a person will also reduce need of using expensive nicotine patches, gums, pills etc. I personally have seen many people who made their minds to stop smoking and eventually they stopped within few weeks without consuming any medication.

Time required to give up smoking if no medication is used may vary according to your willpower. Person with strong determination can quit smoking in just 15 days but some of you may take more time to give up completely. Have strong faith and get desired results free of cost that in case of poor willpower can go too expensive.

What do mean by smoking cessation stories?

I have always come to listen that smoking is not good for health. Smoking is dangerous for one’s life who smokes and even people who don’t smoke but live around smokers. I am sure you will have also listened the same. When I studied different research results that lots of deaths occur every year due to dangers caused by second hand smoke right from that moment I made my mind to work for benefit of people who smoke and who don’t smoke. I do research on web in my spare time to know more about smoking habit and quitting this habit and meet people who smoke, who have stopped this habit and who want to stop this habit then I analyze their experiences to share my knowledge with you friends.

I have seen lots of websites that have very useful information in this regard. Therapies and medications is not the only way to motivate and help addicted people in quitting smoking but words of ex-smokers can also convince smokers that smoking is adverse not only for their health but for their friends and family members. I don’t talk about my last experiences but want to share my search of last night when I encountered with a very impressive website. Someone has worked great on smoking habit covering its different aspects. The section I liked the most which I think can inspire even a chain smoker to avail benefits of living smoke free is of smoking cessation stories posted by people who were addicted to smoking but now have given up this habit. They shared their routine and experiences when they smoked and the blessed life after giving up smoking. How they gone through smoking cessation process and what results they got is shared in this section of that website. I believe that many people have this in their nature that they don’t change their minds until they make it sure that someone has experienced a thing and got best results. This post will be of greater help for such matured people.

I thought why don’t to be shared this link with you so that you may don’t need to do so much research and get this quality information for you and your friends. I found this information so beneficial that I think people who are not smokers should also read these stories to tell others and prevent smoking. So I dedicated this post to bring this site in eyes of my friends who come to my blog in routine.

Stop Smoking Hypnosis

Quitting smoking can be difficult but not impossible so stay motivated if you are addicted to smoking or help your friend in sticking to his quitting decision. There are different techniques used by health professionals to help people in quitting smoking. I will share some information about stop smoking hypnosis today. Well effectiveness of stop smoking hypnosis is not universal but it is reported to have very high success rate.

Basically there are two types of stop smoking hypnosis used by health professionals including self-directed hypnosis or hypnosis CDs, tapes or other aids and the other is attending trained hypnotists or hypnotherapists. Both of these types of stop smoking hypnosis can be beneficial to give up cravings. Success of hypnosis will also depend on your motivation and discipline. Follow the instructions of your hypnotist on regular basis.

Now read some "facts" about smoking hypnosis……..

Most popular beliefs about smoking hypnosis show that hypnosis means staying in a zombie like state in which the subjects lose their control over them and become slave of hypnotist. You can have idea about this situation by recalling Hollywood movies but it’s not fully realistic. True fact about state of hypnosis is that you can’t do anything against your will. You will just achieve a state of relaxation when your mind will become open to receive instructions directly into the plane of subconscious but your mind will not accept these suggestions if these are contrary to your personal beliefs.

I am sure you would be thinking about relation between smoking and hypnosis that I talked to share. Read rest of the post about link between smoking and hypnosis.

It is always hard to quit any habit either smoking or some else. Usually people addicted to smoking smoke while driving car or during tea time, after a meal or in case of stressful situations. Smoking has become a common trend now-a-days which is adopted by people as an essential element of daily routine. When a person develops strong smoking habit, it becomes difficult for him to keep him away from smoking. If a routine smoker tries to quit smoking, he may have to face both psychological and physical discomfort that is termed as cravings.

Hypnotherapy has proved to have potential to resolve many life problems and offers an improved lifestyle. Different research programs have shown that a combination of both pharmacological and hypnosis treatment helps people in quitting habit of smoking and overcoming cravings.  Basically mind of a smoker associates smoking with pleasure or state of relaxation. Pharmacological treatment works at the outer level of conscious mind of smoker which usually doesn’t like to change but subconscious mind of a person is always ready to accept suggestions but it is hard to access it in normal consciousness. Hypnosis helps the person addicted to smoking in altering the condition of subconscious mind and reprograms it to quit smoking or change any habit. However need of willpower and motivation is still needed to succeed in quitting smoking. While receiving positive suggestions in state of hypnosis, you will be able to get desired results.

Smoking Cessation Programs

My today’s discussion will explore information about different smoking cessation programs that can obviously help a smoker in quitting smoking. One thing I would like to focus is that all these programs will work if you really want to quit smoking. Read information about best stop smoking programs:

Cold Turkey

Giving up Cold Turkey or discontinuing entirely is a commonly used smoking cessation program. Using this program, you will be required to make several attempts but you can use this program effectively by main attentive preparation.

Smoking Cessation Medicines

There are different stop smoking medicines that have shown successful results. Most commonly known medicines are chantix/champix and ZYBAN. Have some information about these medicines:

·         Chantix/Champix: This medicine is available in form of pills used to treat practice of smoking. This medicine decreases pleasing effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products which is best to assist a smoker in quitting smoking.

·         ZYBAN: Bupropion hydrochloride sustained-release tablets or bupropion hcl sr is a medication that is also available in pills form. Different reports show that smokers who use this tablet quit smoking within one month. This medicine reduces withdrawal symptoms and smokers urge to smoke anymore. This pill must be taken if prescribed by a doctor.

Cutting Down Gradually

Many smokers have left smoking with this smoking cessation program. Using this program a smoker will make his mind to cut down number of cigarettes consumed per day and will continue to cut down this number until this number goes to zero which will result in no smoking at the end. If you also want to use this inexpensive smoking cessation program then your final quit date is not so far from you. You can use this plan in combination to Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).

Hypnosis

Hypnosis is mainly a condition of rest when both body and mind are stress-free. Both conscious and unconscious parts of mind start working according to same concept at same time and your mind will become open to cleverly worded influences. You can go to healthcare professional or self-induce to achieve a hypnotic state.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is a type of well-known smoking cessation program that uses special products to give tiny doses of nicotine to help stop thirst of smoking and relieve a smoker from conditions that occur when smoker tries to quit smoking. Most commonly used products include nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine nasal spray, nicotine lozenges and nicotine patches etc.

Alternative Therapies

Some other therapies are also available that can be used as smoking cessation programs. Most commonly used therapies include acupuncture, laser therapy or quit smoking injections.

You can select any of the smoking cessation programs discussed above that you feel would be comfortable for you.

What is Smoking Cessation?

Smoking cessation is a term that is used to describe a whole process in single word. A process through which a person goes to quit smoking is smoking cessation. Most common forms of processes used for quitting smoking include cold turkey, nicotine replacement therapy, individual and group counseling, nicotine patches and antidepressant or stimulant medication. Smoking cessation is a process that can occur without taking support from healthcare professionals or use of medications. Sudden quitting smoking can result in some side effects like gaining weight. What is smoking cessation can be better understood by having some information about different methods of smoking cessation. Here I have provided information about most common types of smoking cessation methods that are being used in common:

Cold Turkey is a commonly used method of smoking cessation that requires the person to stop smoking immediately without taking any additional nicotine. It means that a person addicted to smoking doesn’t gradually wean himself off of nicotine but shocks his body into withdrawal. Most common side effects reported by people who have experienced this method of smoking cessation include headaches, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, insomnia, stomach pain and nausea. Majority of these symptoms happen due to reaction of dopamine reactions in brain and can last for several days until all nicotine from individual’s body is discharged. Once all nicotine is gone, a person can successfully overcome habit of smoking.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy is another very commonly used method of smoking cessation. This method is also known as simply NRT. This therapy works by delivering nicotine to the body through some different means other than cigarettes because cigarettes contain harmful chemicals that develop habit of addicting nicotine. Nicotine Replacement Therapy is preferred because it works better than method discussed earlier and helps a person in quitting smoking altogether. Some most commonly used options for NRT are lozegens, gum, nasal spray and inhalers. All these options are used as measured doses of nicotine that can gradually be reduced. Side effects or after symptoms of this method are not so severe.

Nicotine Patches are form of smoking cessation that is similar to nicotine replacement therapy. Each patch of nicotine has specific amount of nicotine. These patches can be bought with different amounts of nicotine so people willing to quit smoking can start from higher dose and move to lower dose patch until the smoker feels able to stop smoking.