Stop smoking today! Unless you've been living on Jupiter for the last 25 years, you know that smoking is bad for you. Even so, thousands of Americans are addicted to cigarettes and need help to stop smoking.
How can you stop smoking? And, after you stop smoking, how can you make sure that you don't start up again? These are the questions on the minds of smokers.
Tobacco smoke is one of the most concentrated sources of free radicals you can find. As such, smoking can contribute to tumors and cancers on any part of your body where the smoke touches, but especially in the lungs, the trachea, the mouth and nose. If you stop smoking, your body can gradually repair much of this damage.
Smoking is bad for people around you. Secondhand smoke can lead to or even complicate asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and emphysema. When you stop smoking, you improve the environment for your loved ones – even your pets!
Smoking is bad for the environment. Not only does all that smoke go into the atmosphere as pollution, many cigarette filters are made from non-biodegradable materials like fiberglass. Cigarette butts litter sidewalks, yards and parks. To stop smoking means to quit becoming a flagrant polluter.
Good for you! Now comes the hard part: tobacco is extremely addictive, making the desire to stop smoking hard to realize sometimes. Cigarettes are about as addictive as heroin but there's no methadone version of smoking.
There are some great herbal formulas that have helped thousands of people stop smoking – Nic-Rx comes strongly recommended by many. The herbs can decrease or even eliminate many of the withdrawal symptoms your body experiences when you stop smoking.
Your body has very likely learned to associate cigarette smoking with taking deep breaths. Sometimes, cravings for a cigarette can be reduced simply by taking a very deep, slow breath, just like when you're dragging on a cigarette. Simply breathing properly can help you stop smoking.
Smoking also combines an oral component – that is, something in your mouth. Many people replace cigarettes with lollipops or chewing gum, all to keep the mouth busy.
Hopefully these tips will help you stop smoking. Live healthy!