What is Smoking Symptoms? What are its Main Types?

People who smoke exhibit different symptoms of smoking and nicotine addiction. Some of these symptoms include squat oxygen level in blood, smoke stinker mouth and clothes, nicotine tainted teeth and fingers, low stamina for exercise, cough, frosty hands and feet, hypertension, exhaustion, increased heart rate, succinctness of breath, loss of taste and smell, reduced thinking abilities etc. When a person addicted to smoking attempts smoking cessation they have to face feelings of restlessness that are known as cravings. These symptoms are smoking withdrawal symptoms. Most commonly known smoking cessation symptoms include mood swings, dizziness, constipation, sleep disturbances, insomnia, sore throat, dry mouth, tightness in chest, headache, fatigue, irritability, sweating, anxiety, hunger, tremors, reduced concentration and tobacco cravings. Smoking withdrawal symptoms can be very intense and make it difficult or impossible for smoker in quitting.

I decided to discuss two topics about smoking symptoms and types of smoking symptoms. In the first paragraph I provided names of most common smoking symptoms and now I would like to explain some measures to overcome these symptoms. People who attempt to quit smoking can overcome cravings by following combination of five D’s. These D’s are discussed below:

1.  D: Delay consumption of tobacco again until urge passes. It becomes over usually within3-5 minutes.
2. D: Distract yourself and be busy in some exercise or other activities. You can call your friend or go for a walk to overcome cravings.
3. D: Drink water to get rid of dry mouth and fight off other cravings.
4. D: Deep breaths will be best way to relax. Close your eyes and take slower deep breaths.
5. D: Discuss your feeling with a person who will support you and help you in fighting these cravings.

These were simple and basic ways to overcome smoking withdrawal symptoms individually but there are many other ways to control urge to smoke again which can include proper exercise suggested by smoking cessation resource center, take some rest to relax, take some multivitamins, reward the person trying to quit smoking etc. You can control all smoking symptoms with success if stay motivated and have strong willpower therefore focus on making strong determination to quit before you think to go through any medical program. Wish you and your friends live a smoke free life.

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.

Smoking and Stop Smoking Facts

Smoking is filthy habit that affects health of a person addicted to smoking and imposes lots of other risks on social life of a smoker. If we look back into our past, we will see fewer people were addicted to smoking but it is a dreadful fact that number of people who smoke is increasing day by day. Different research programs have shown that lots of children start smoking every day. Let’s leave “why people smoke” to be discussed on some other day and focus on some facts of habit of smoking and stop smoking. A very painful reality of our society is that around 3000 children smoke their first cigarette every passing day. Few years before, number of people who used to smoke was very low as compared to today. Today I will share interesting smoking facts and some information about quitting smoking:

Social Facts of Smoking

Social life of a person who smokes is badly affected. First of all his confidence starts to lose when he becomes addicted to smoking. His position in society is also affected by this habit. He is prohibited from so many places like gyms, hotels, museums, hospitals etc just because smoking is not allowed on these places. It is the social gathering where a smoker is prohibited on the other hand again it is social gathering that promotes urge for tobacco smoking. There is need to make people known of bad effects of smoking and this teaching should be more common in schools and colleges.  It has been calculated that 2% of high school students are routine smokers and this rate is increasing rapidly. Some research programs show that 3900 students between the ages of 12 to 17 years try their first cigarette each day and 25% of these students become habitual of smoking.

Medical Facts of Smoking

Smoking affects health of smokers and people who are exposed to second hand smoke adversely. Inhalation of cigarette smoke can cause lungs cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, strokes and heart diseases. Complexity of these diseases becomes more and more with continuous consumption of tobacco smoke and become major cause of deaths with heart attacks, high blood pressure and cancer. Cigarette smoke not only destroys health of person who have cigarette in his hands but many deaths are recorded due to illnesses caused by secondhand smoke. Round about 3400 deaths recorded by lungs cancer are caused by secondhand smoke. There is immense need to control this habit of smoking and encourage people for quitting smoking to reduce this increasing number of deaths by smoking.

Facts of Quitting Smoking

Once a person quits smoking habit will give up risks of heart attack within ten years after quitting. People who quit this habit will have only one-half of the risk of dying in next 15 years as compared to routine smokers. Quitting this habit will reduce risk of cancer substantially as compared to continuous smoking. People who don’t smoke should work to promote knowledge of smoking cessation programs and encourage smokers for quitting smoking.

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.

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.

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.