How to Quit Smoking – It’s Very Difficult to Quit

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by Corey Roberts

How to quit smoking? This is a difficult answer for most. Quitting smoking is a step by step process and you need to start from the basics. Tobacco contains an addictive substance called nicotine. When you smoke for a long amount of time, your body gets accustomed to a certain amount of nicotine in your bloodstream. Once this level drops below your threshold, your body goes into a “craving mode” and you will want to smoke another cigarette.

Nicotine affects the body in many ways and will fulfill many of your bodies needs. Smoking will calm you down when you feel angry. People can relieve chronic stress from work by smoking. Smoking also can relieve physical and emotional pain.

You may have found that it helps you think clearly and focus. You smoke to reward yourself after you finish a job. Nicotine has helped to fill your time when you are bored, and it is a faithful companion when no one else is there for you. It has been a great stress reliever. It sounds like a miracle drug! No other substance gives you all the effects that you want.

The reason why nicotine works so well is because of how fast it travels to your brain through your blood stream. With one drag of your cigarette, the smoke fills your lungs and is absorbed into your blood stream. The nicotine travels to your brain and will fulfill the feeling that you seek. However, when you smoke your heart start working faster and your arteries constrict.

Nicotine is so powerful that it controls lives. If you doubt that control, think about how you may have gone out in a snowstorm or torrential rain to get cigarettes because you were running out. Or maybe you continued to smoke when you had bronchitis so bad, you thought you would choke. Have you planned activities or travel around smoking? Maybe you chose a gambling vacation over a trip to visit museums and historical sites where smoking is not allowed.

Once you know how powerful nicotine is, your resolve to quit smoking can be just as powerful. If you decide to quit “cold turkey”, you may experience nicotine withdrawal. Research has shown that if you quit smoking completely and do not use nicotine replacement therapy, the nicotine will be excreted from your body within 72 hours. Many people deal with the nicotine withdrawal by keeping themselves busy, taking a drink of water, doing deep breathing – finding healthy alternatives to smoking.

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