Quit Smoking For Your Health

Lots Of Healthy Reasons To Quit Smoking

No matter where a smoker goes today there is the government pointing out to them that it is in there best interest to quit smoking. Moreover, with many towns and communities passing laws telling where a woman can have a cigarette, many have decided that it is worth the effort to quit smoking.

During our parents' time, there were very few organizations who were against smoking. Frequently during that period smokers were witnessed on television shows and in the movies lighting up their cigarettes. Albeit the earliest warnings about the health hazards of cigarettes, there was no real rush to get people to quit smoking.

When the facts of second-hand smoke dangers was first presented women that smoked, often in the presence of children and other non-smokers, wanted more scientific facts to back that claim before they would quit smoking around others. Even with powerful evidence of the dangers, many are still finding it hard to quit smoking.

Smoking is an addictive obsession that normally begins when a person is in their teen years or early into their 20’s. It is very easy to become hooked on cigarettes but not nearly as easy to quit smoking, as people would like to wish.

Addiction Is Mental And Physical

There is a physical addiction to nicotine, the primary addictive drug in cigarettes that can take about a week to work out of the body. The first 72 hours are considered the worst time when people quit smoking but after that the physical craving for nicotine diminishes. The remainder of the addiction is considered mental, although there are physical aspects to it as well.

Those who smoked, especially for many years, find they have nothing to do with their hands, which held onto a cigarette during their smoking years. In order to reduce the mental craving some turn to eating, which is something they rarely did while they were smoking. Weight gain is a common fact for new non-smokers, but masses believe that losing weight will be a breeze than when they quit smoking.

Some people believe that just like becoming addicted to cigarettes did not happen overnight, breaking the habit will take time as well. They have a slow withdrawal plan with a target date to quit smoking. Others find various means to break the habit, such as hypnosis, laser techniques and substitutes to wean them off the addictive habits. But most agree that they need to do whatever it takes to quit smoking for their health’s sake.

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Walter Hilliam is a thrilled ex-smoker and an expert on quitting smoking. His Squidoo Lens on Stop Smoking can be found at www.squidoo.com/quit-smoking-incentive/

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