Stop Smoking Now

Smoking is not only adverse for health of person addicted to smoking but it also destroys health of people who are exposed to second hand smoke. An interesting fact I have seen in people addicted to smoking is that they feel smoking helps them in relaxing them from stress, anxiety, restlessness, loneliness and boredom and they feel their life as boredom and aggravation without cigarette. Some people also think that they will gain weight after they stop smoking. Some people smoke to celebrate special occasions.

People who smoke may feel comfort while smoking but in fact they expose their health to open threats for their health and life. I have never seen a person who smokes and lives healthier but lost of research programs show that more than 33,000,000 people addicted to smoking have given up their habit of smoking and are leading healthy lives. Well I would like to say that a non-smoker can never imagine benefits of quitting smoking but ex-smokers have lots of stories regarding benefits of quitting smoking. Although ex-smokers have gone through painful withdrawal of smoking but now they live healthier lives. Quitting smoking is not so easy but I want to share some tips to give up this habit. You will find these tips helpful enough in stop smoking now or helping your smoker friend to quit this habit:

• First of all make your mind ready to quit smoking and set a quitting date. Highlight the date on your calendar and stick to it. Remember you will become an ex-smoker on this day.
• Quitting this habit is not so easy so ask your friends and family members for your moral support. Ask them to keep an eye on you and stop you from sneaking out to buy cigarettes.
• Smokers want to have cigarette in their free time so you are advised to plan to keep you busy all time. Look for some exercise to keep your mind and head busy.
• Remove cigarettes from your pocket, home, office and car.
• Make your mind that you are saving money by quitting this habit that will be used in beneficial activities. Collect money for purchasing what you have always wanted to.
• Change your way because the shop from where you buy cigarette will create an urge in you to buy again and it will become difficult for you to overcome cravings.

Remember that no other person will quit for you and bear cravings. It is only you who can do something for you and your family but support of people around you can help you to stick to your quitting decision. Keep your desire and determination to become ex-smoker and move towards success with confidence. If you are trying to help your smoker friend, then follow these stop smoking tips to help your friend.

What is smoking hypnosis? And how it works?

You may have been hit by thousands and thousands anti-smoking stimuli in your life. All these stimuli start from making mind of a smoker clear about bad effects of smoking but rare of these stimuli succeed in their motive but most of these stimuli have same result that all smokers continue their smoking habit with a thinking that they will quit smoking tomorrow or next tomorrow and the time goes on but instead of leaving this habit they become more habitual of smoking. You may have seem many smokers following stop smoking tips but they don’t get any positive results. Quitting smoking is really tough job. Health professionals have introduced smoking hypnosis theory into the market. Today we will discuss how much this treatment is effective but before this discussion let me introduce smoking hypnosis in brief.

Hypnosis is concentrated relaxation. In other words you can say, hypnotism makes a person feel some relaxed and keep focusing on an issue or desired results. Hypnosis doesn’t mean falling asleep or stay just relaxed. While hypnotism is practiced, hypnotized person relaxes his mind and body and he stays well aware of what happens in his surroundings. He is suggested to quit smoking in this state of relaxation.

Here it comes more important to know the relationship between hypnotism and quit smoking. Basically smoking cessation works on two principles; alter the thinking of person who feels pleasure in smoking, alter conditioned response of smoker that he has developed with a particular habit and smoking. How a person started smoking is somewhat helpful in uprooting this habit from a person. I think when all other quit smoking methods fail to bring changes in smoker’s behavior, smoking hypnosis will be a best choice in this regard.

How Does Smoking Hypnosis Work?

You will feel your mind more clear about concept of smoking hypnosis after reading this portion of my posting. Here I will describe working of smoking hypnosis in simple words:

A health professional (hypnotherapist) keeps his focus on psychological aspects other than treating physical problems caused by smoking. Subconscious mind of a person that stores all memories takes over when hypnotized and suggestions are made to this part of mind. This state is achieved through different techniques like breathing. Hypnotherapist gives the person positive suggestions about why smoking is adverse for his health and focuses on benefits that he can achieve only if he quits smoking. Healthcare professional will try to bring the smoker into state where he will discard cigarettes and make him feel that this all is not affecting him and he is not feeling any withdrawal symptoms. Successful hypnotism will urge an smoker to say no to cigarette and save his life. Similarly other suggestions will be given to smoker in same state. Hypnotism will directly make a mark on subconscious mind therefore chances of successful quit smoking are more with this therapy.

One can go to professional hypnotherapist for taking his assistance in quitting smoking but he can also take help from a friend in this regard. Self-hypnotism will also work same for betterment of person habitual of smoking.

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.