How to quit smoking?

Getting used to a cigarette causes nicotine - substance contained in cigarette smoke. In addition, in cigarette smoke, there are also approximately three thousand elements (!), About 16 of which are capable of provoking the development of a cancerous tumor.

A person can naively believe that fromCouple-other smoked cigarettes will not harm. But this impression is deceptive: after a few weeks of smoking you can see signs of a beginning addiction. If a person does not receive the next dose of nicotine, he becomes sluggish and irritable, but thanks to the next cigarette begins to feel better.

As a rule, no one starts smoking tointentionally addicted to cigarettes. Usually teenagers smoke the first cigarette for the company to appear more mature, steeper. Also, the cigarette is promoted as a means of relieving stress, calming.

The decision to quit smoking should be conscious. Rarely, but still there are cases wheneven smokers with experience involuntarily quit smoking, if in one way or another was provoked an aversion to cigarettes. Illustrative case - because of the strong intoxication of the body with cigarette smoke, the body rejects even the smallest dose.

However, using such a reaction as a method of getting rid of this bad habit is extremely dangerous - you can cause irreparable harm to your health.

There is also a category of people - with strong strengthwill and sufficient persistence - which is able to give up smoking voluntarily, without resorting to special techniques or doctors' help. Unfortunately, there are not very many such people.

All the variety of ways to quit smoking medicine divides into several groups.

Psychological and psychotherapeutic techniques in the basis of their work with a psychologicalstate of man. Psychologists distinguish two states from those who want to quit smoking. The first is the desire to "want to quit," and the second is the desire to quit.

Very often, attempts to quit smoking do not havechances of success precisely because the smoker is only in the first state. He is not yet ready to give up, but this wish is brewing in it. Specialists help the smoker to identify the desire to quit and realize it.

Hypnotic impact as part of psychotherapy is often usedto quitting smoking. With the help of hypnosis the expert can influence the patient in two ways. When the first person in a hypnotic state is inspired by aversion to cigarettes. After the session, a person no longer feels a craving for smoking. However, the effectiveness of this method is not high: only 10-30% of patients it really helps.

The second way is to work with the subconsciousman in order to find out, so to speak, the roots of the problem. Eliminating the psychological impact that may have caused smoking, a specialist can help a person prepare for getting rid of addiction to cigarettes.

Procedures for the replacement of nicotine based on the substitution of cigarettes foreffects on the body similar to nicotine. For example, lobelin and cytisine are nicotine substitutes. When they are used, the smoker gradually loses the "taste" of cigarettes.

Using this technique, the bodya person who quits smoking may lack some of the beneficial substances that were previously absorbed through cigarette smoke. It is necessary to fill this deficiency by using products with high content of necessary substances or special complexes of vitamins and minerals.

The procedure for the use of nicotine-filling substitutes in general is similar to the previous one, but it is notis able to fully relieve a person from dependence. Nicotine-filling substitutes, such as nicotine patch or nicotine gum, simply replace the cigarette with a less dangerous nicotine-containing substance. Such a technique is applied to those on whom other techniques do not have the proper impact.

She also has a group of techniques associated with reflexology. This is acupuncture, massage, various physical and breathing exercises. Such methods are aimed at removing harmful substances from the body of a smoker, because reducing the content of nicotine and other components of cigarette smoke in the body tissues, a person restores the work of his body.

All these methods are most effective in the complex, and their individual "proportions" must necessarily make up a doctor.

A few practical tips for those who want to quit smoking.

It is not necessary to postpone. Promises, like "everything, tomorrow I throw" or "here problems at work will end, then I'll throw", only provoke each time to smoke a new and new cigarette.

Doctors unanimously recommend abandoningsmoking immediately, without stretching. In the first weeks, it is possible to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked, but it is highly undesirable to delay this period. Only three days of complete rejection of cigarettes are removed from physical dependence.

No need to invent "excuses". The most common of these, especially among women, is the potential weight gain after quitting. In fact, it is not the cessation of smoking itself that leads to an increase in body weight, but a return of the lost sensitivity of the taste buds. With the return of this sensitivity, an appetite can develop.

Psychological desire to smoke can be suppressed, for example, after drinking a sip of water or eating lollipop.

Even if, failing to resist, the thrower smoked one cigarette - this is not an excuse to stop fighting with a bad habit. You need to cheer yourself up and try to keep from temptation next time.

Psychologists advise those who wish to quit smoking as little as possible to tell others about their intention. Friends and relatives can incite a cigarette thrower to smoke, checking his willpower.