How to Stop Smoking

Learning to smoke cigarettes was the hardest and most miserable task you undertook when you were young! Smoking cigarettes was something that you had to learn to do. Learning to smoke took some persistence and putting up with the misery of coughing and hacking after every pull on a cigarette. What were you mastering? You were learning to suppress your body's natural protective responses to hot, polluted smoke going into your clean, pure lungs. Lungs created for clean air only! You were controlling your body's reaction with your mind!

When people think about trying to quit cigarettes, they realize it's in the best interest of their health to quit. They understand the health and fitness hazards of smoking. They know how expensive it is to smoke. They have every smart valid reason to quit cigarettes. Yet, many can not do it! What is the reason for this dilemma? Because smoking the cigarette is the end to a means. That ends to a means is to satisfy a physical craving, calm your nerves, keep you from eating, whatever reason you use to justify the smoking. It is really the mechanism, the suppression of the body's defensives, that the smoker has spent so much time creating that allows for them and now causes the smoker to experience the urge to smoke. If you are able to quit cigarettes but do not remove this body suppression trigger, the best you can hope for is to be an ex-smoker. What exactly is an ex-smoker? An ex-smoker is a person who has smoked in the past and has taken a break from smoking, but will probably resume smoking in the future.

The defense mechanism that you spent years building up remains functioning. It has become your ogre that you've forgotten how to be in charge of! You've erased from your memory why you created the ogre initially, because it was so long ago! You may overcome it and banish it for awhile, but it's constantly pushing to break free. Eventually it will break free and you will resume smoking again. The cigarette is not the ogre. It is the mechanism you've created within your brain that compels you to smoke the cigarette that is the ogre.

Tips To Stop Smoking

There are physical addictions but, in addition there are also the psychological triggers that make giving smoking up difficult. Cigarette smokers become so used to smoking that they maintain regimens where they will smoke cigarettes at certain times of the day and when they do certain activities.

When I smoked I always looked forward to the after eating smoke and the first smoke in the morning. So when you try to break your addition and you are in the situation where you would usually smoke a cigarette, you find yourself craving one just out of habit. The activity has conditioned your brain to associate smoking with the activity. So as well as breaking the physical addiction you also need to break the psychological habits that have been set up.

Below are some tips to stop smoking:

1. You must devote yourself to stop smoking. You must really want to stop smoking. An individual needs to develop a burning drive to give up smoking.
2. Keep busy. When you find yourself in situations where you would normally have a smoke, substitute another activity for the activity of smoking. Brush your teeth, or chew gum until the craving passes. Do not dwell about the craving and on how much you "just got to have a cigarette".
3. Chewing gum can help you since it keeps your mouth busy and gives you with something to do instead of smoking. Chewing the nicotine gum can be extremely helpful with warding off cravings
4. Avoid dwelling on the giving up process. You must positive be about becoming a non smoker and not obsess over how hard it is and how much you need a cigarette.
5. Tips to Help You Quit Smoking Naturally

Add exercise to your new life activities. It occupies you and gets you through those moments when you are experiencing cravings for a cigarette. When you really are craving a cigarette, put on your running shoes or get out your yoga mat and go to it.

Try to eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet to increase the speed of detoxification and to help you preserve energy. These food items circumvent weight gain.

Tell your non-smoking friends and co-workers that you have quit smoking using naturally using natural methods. The idea of ​​your coworkers catching you smoking and the associated embarrassment may be enough to keep you from lighting up a cigarette.

Save your cigarette money in a jar, then reward yourself – a visit to the spa, a good book or a weekend trip away will give you the reward you've earned.

Look for an all-natural remedy for stopping smoking naturally to help reduce the cravings to smoke. There are some excellent stop-smoking formulations to help you quit smoking naturally. Natural products containing the herb echinacea are known to help your body resist cravings. Sarsaparilla helps prevent the weight gain and passion flower aids in reducing tension and anxiety. Burdock root, kelp and hyssop are good for eliminating nicotine deposits from the body. Aromatherapy oil can be used at times when the desire to smoke becomes almost unbearable. Rub the oil under your nose; the action and the aromatherapy vapor together will help you overcome the urge. Flower essence therapy, using Dr. Bach's Emergency Extract can be used in times of intense stress that may cause you to smoke. These flower extracts may be found at health food stores or Whole Foods, and they really work!

Stop smoking hypnotherapy entails the process of giving suggestions to your subconscious mind by a trained hypo-therapist. Every cigarette smoker has their own personal psychological triggers that bring a positive experience from smoking, like the smoke, the smell of cigarettes, operating a car, being stressed out, after eating a meal, or while watching TV. Hypnosis allows you to get free of these types of cravings and create a stronger and improved cigarette free identity. These treatments additionally offer a convenient home system by means of CDs or through other audio recordings. The result of this therapy varies from person to person. It depends entirely upon the susceptibility of the person to hypnosis. Hypnotherapy treatment alleviates the cravings and the need to smoke. Sometimes several hypnosis sessions are required to obtain permanent results.

Some advantages of hypnotherapy treatment to quit smoking are:
1. No side effects
2. Completely drug free treatment
3. The therapy session is not overly lengthy
4. Positive results will be achieved
5. The hypnotherapist can tailor the hypnosis session to suit your needs.

How to Stop Smoking by Anna M. Hartman