How to quit smoking? Tips for every day
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If you smoke and finally decide to get rid of this bad habit, then you should know 10 things that should and should not be done if you do not want to get into dependence again.
To not give up
Most people who are trying to get rid of nicotine addiction did it more than once, but they broke up and again took up the old. Avoid phrases like: "I will never give up smoking, it's stronger than me." Uncertainty only confuses the right path. Believe that everything will turn out.
All or nothing
Sometimes the appointment of a date to quit smoking can be an effective way to quit smoking. But usually it only works when the smoker himself makes the decision. If a smoking person is put in certain limits against his will, it is unlikely to work. Many people want to quit because of anxiety of their relatives, but the main thing in this case is to give the person the opportunity to tune in and make a decision on their own.
[Control your anger
According to a study by scientists at their University of California, nicotine helps cope with aggression, however, "thanking" for the quick temper is also necessary nicotine. According to experts, smokers who will be able to curb their emotions, will be easier to pass through the pangs of weaning from a cigarette.
Fear
A good motivator for quitting smoking is fear. It is thanks to this feeling that many smokers chose health and abandoned nicotine. The fear that smoking will provoke a number of diseases, up to lung cancer, causes the smoker to think better and understand that his life is in his own hands.
What does not affect the smoker
For sure, many people who smoked more than once heard from friends and relatives about the dangers of smoking, the unpleasant smell of tobacco smoke and the huge costs of buying cigarettes. But if you want to help a person get rid of a bad habit, these arguments will not help. Every smoker knows about the dangers of smoking, but it does not stop it, that a lot of people worry about cigarettes to spend on cigarettes, but the smoker smells badly when he becomes non-smoker, before that he inhales it and does not find its smell terrible. It is better to support a person and help not with instructions, but with useful advice.
Use of guilt
Passive smoking annually takes 50,000 lives only in the United States. From the mortal habit of loved ones, millions of people suffer. Many smokers feel guilty that people inhale carcinogens, but they do not even try to fight it anyway. Therefore, the sense of guilt in this case will not be superfluous.
Home furnishings
Grumbling, quibbles and quarrels will not benefit the one who quits smoking. A person is already under stress and is tormented by the throes of weaning, and if still close contribute to the increase of tension and irritation, the probability that the addiction will return again increases by a factor of 100.
Positive attitude
Everyone can stop smoking, because before they started, somehow did it? Do not let yourself think about how bad you are without a cigarette, better realize how much easier and healthier your life will be.