Tips on Stopping Smoking

 1. Be Sure You Really Want to Stop 

Want to know how to quit smoking cigarettes and have long term success (i.e. to stop and stay stopped)?There is only one price to pay:You have to want to do it! Really want to! Stop, stay stopped - QUIT - completely.Why? Well, just for the moment, forget about willpower, products, aids and programs. If you attempt to do anything half heartedly, the most likely outcome is failure...

2. Find Real Reasons to Give Up

Don't underestimate the value of this important step.
If you can find real reasons to give up smoking that mean something to you and you will be well on your way.
This is so important, because knowing why you are quitting will serve as motivation to help you through withdrawal symptoms and help you develop practical solutions to the issues you will face while quitting such as coping with stress and withdrawal symptoms.

3. Prepare by Planning

Understanding why and when you smoke will help you to identify practical ways to combat many of the issues you will face while quitting such as coping with stress and withdrawal symptoms, social situations and peer pressure.
Following the steps outlined in planning to quit smoking will help you gather an arsenal of tools and information to develop an effective and highly personalised quit smoking action plan.

4. Stress Relief

Many smokers find that as well as through habit, they tend to want to smoke when faced with stressful situations.
Effective stress relief strategies can help you avoid relapse so finding alternatives is a real NEED to do activity and another one really of those really important quit smoking tips.

5. Avoiding Weight Gain

Quit smoking is challenge enough but some smokers dread the idea of gaining weight. If you fall into the latter camp quitting smoking and weight gain will allay some fears and put the situation firmly into perspective.
For example, a little known fact is that many smokers are in fact underweight, due to prolonged appetite suppression and of those who do put on weight, about half increase their weight by less than two kilos.

6. Beating Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms

The first few days and weeks after you quit can be the hardest.
Cravings tend to be the most problematic nicotine withdrawal symptoms although not every smoker is affected to the same degree.
That said, few smokers seem to be able to stop without getting them. It is the way your body reacts when it stops getting nicotine and all the other chemicals in tobacco smoke.
If you want to succeed you must decide how you plan to get through them. This is probably one our most sought after quit smoking tips.
See: Quitting Smoking Tips for Cravings.

7. Develop Your Action Plan

If you have followed the tips above to this point you are ready to put together your quit smoking action plan.
You should now have five statements, numbered 1 to 5, which form the backbone of the personal action plan you will follow to quit.
You did make notes, didn't you? If not, see the summaries and links above.

After You Quit Smoking

Some ex-smokers find quitting smoking relatively easy but many will find that staying stopped is the greater challenge.
Once you have quit, it is likely that over time you will think about cigarettes less and less and the urge to smoke will dwindle away. It doesn’t pay to be complacent though as the 'urge' can and often does return when you least expect it.
If you have relapsed, you already have most of the answers after quitting smoking successfully once before. You probably need to rethink some of your strategies but when you are ready to try again it’s simply more of the same.
If you find yourself struggling, relax and don’t stress about it. Try to focus in on what kept you from smoking when you felt the urge while trying to quit initially. What did you do or think about?
Our tips on stopping smoking cover many ways to deal with cravings and withdrawal symptoms, suggestions for stress relief and weight gain. You might find that revisiting them is well worth your while.
The quit smoking action plan in particular, helps you to identify potential obstacles and planning for how you will deal with the urge, if and when it returns. So, should you need direction, refer to it, amend it if necessary and plug on.

After Quitting Smoking Tips

1. Do try and think of yourself as a non-smoker from day one and remember there is always a better solution than a cigarette.
2. As a non smoker you have found new ways to deal with all the situations that you previously associated with smoking.
3. Remember that having just one cigarette will only make you feel better momentarily but staying stopped will make you healthier and wealthier in the long term.
4. If you find that your problems are peer or social pressure related, tell those that are making staying stopped difficult that you are serious.
5. Explain how they could make life easier for you.
6. Try and socialise with those that are supportive of your efforts.
7. Refuse all offers of cigarettes. The temptation to have 'just one' will lead to others and straight back to regular smoking. 

        EFFECTS OF SMOKING!!!

 

 

     Harmful Health Effects of Smoking

• Every year hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from diseases caused by smoking cigarettes - Smoking KILLS.
• One in two lifetime smokers will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age.
• Tobacco smoke also contributes to a number of cancers.
• The mixture of nicotine and carbon monoxide in each cigarette you smoke temporarily increases your heart rate and blood pressure, straining your heart and blood vessels.
• This can cause heart attacks and stroke. It slows your blood flow, cutting off oxygen to your feet and hands. Some smokers end up having their limbs
  amputated.
• Tar coats your lungs like soot in a chimney and causes cancer. A 20-a-day smoker breathes in up to a full cup (210 g) of tar in a year.
• Changing to low-tar cigarettes does not help because smokers usually take deeper puffs and hold the smoke in for longer, dragging the tar deeper into their lungs.
• Carbon monoxide robs your muscles, brain and body tissue of oxygen, making your whole body and especially your heart work harder. Over time, your airways swell up and let less air into your lungs.
• Smoking causes disease and is a slow way to die. The strain of smoking effects on the body often causes years of suffering.
• Emphysema for example is an illness that slowly rots your lungs. People with emphysema often get bronchitis again and again, and suffer lung and heart failure.
• Lung cancer from smoking is caused by the tar in tobacco smoke.
• Men who smoke are ten times more likely to die from lung cancer than non-smokers.
• Heart disease and strokes are also more common among smokers than non-smokers.
• Smoking causes fat deposits to narrow and block blood vessels which leads to heart attack.
• Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease.
• In younger people, three out of four deaths from heart disease are due to smoking
• Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome.

 

Be frank..!!!

Expecting your answers to this survey in comment box......

Help us to build a tobacco free World.......

1. How long you started smoking ?
   [ ] less than 6 months                      [ ] less than 1 year
   [ ] less than 2 year                           [ ] more than 2 year
2. How many cigertte you smoke/day on an average ?
   [ ] 1-2                                               [ ] below 5
   [ ] above 5                                        [ ] rarely smoke
3. How did you start smoking ?
   [ ] inspired from elders/parents       [ ] peer pressure
   [ ] due to stress                                 [ ] other reason (if specify)
4. Are you aware about ill effects of smoking ?
   [ ] yes [ ] no
5. What do you think about quit smoking ?
   [ ] i cann't                                        [ ] plan to quit smoking
   [ ] i have quit
6. From your personal experience , what are the merits of smoking ?
   
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Why smoking...?

	Nowadays it would be unheard of for people not to smoke. Smoking is a part of everyday life, although, believe it or not, it has only recently become so. There are over one thousand million smokers throughout the world, which is an astonishing number, considering the harm smoking does to your body, which we are all well aware of. With this in mind, the question "why do people smoke?" is a really complicated one, that is now being explored much more in depth by many of the world's doctors and scientists.
It has only recently been proved that smoking causes lung cancer amongst other serious diseases and that passive smoking is also harmful for those that do not smoke. Thus, more and more governments are trying to make people aware of the health risks and consequences of smoking. Some governments have even banned smoking in all indoor public places. Cigarettes are widely available and in many countries fairly inexpensive to buy. For this reason, buying cigarettes is no longer a luxury only for those who can afford to buy them, but a product that is widely attainable by most people.