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Quit Smoking For a Healthy You |
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
By Walter Hilliam
 Plenty Of Pleasant Reasons To Quit Smoking
Where ever a smoker goes these days there is someone pointing out to them that it is in there best interest to quit smoking. Additionally, with many states and communities passing laws indicating where a adult can light a cigarette, many have decided that it is worth the sacrifice to quit smoking.
Not too long ago, there were very few governments who cared about smoking. Frequently during that era smokers were seen on television shows and in the movies having their cigarettes. Despite the earliest warnings about the health concerns of cigarettes, there was no real push to get people to quit smoking.
When the facts of second-hand smoke dangers was first presented men that smoked, often in the presence of children and other non-smokers, wanted more scientific proof to back that claim before they would quit smoking around others. Even with daming 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
20s. It is very easy to become addicted on cigarettes but not nearly as easy to quit smoking, as people would like to believe.
Addiction Is Mental And Physical
There is a physical addiction to nicotine, the main addictive drug in cigarettes that can take about a week to work out of the system. The first few days 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 food, which is something they rarely did while they were smoking. Weight build up is a common fact for new non-smokers, but many believe that losing weight will be a breeze than when they quit smoking.
Others believe that just like becoming addicted to cigarettes did not happen in one session, 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 healths sake.
Walter Hilliam is a joyous ex-smoker and an expert on quitting smoking.
His Squidoo Lens on Stop Smoking can be found at http://www.squidoo.com/quit-smoking-incentive/ Smoking Share Your Opinion. (0 posts)
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