The cigarette is a small amount of dried and shredded tobacco, rolled in paper thin. In some cigarettes, the filter system is usually sponge or paper. Manufactured from 1840, this became a more of consumer products sold worldwide.
The manufacture of cigarettes can be composed of up to seven hundred chemicals. The smoke is full of harmful substances such as acetone, arsenic, butane, carbon monoxide and cyanide. The nicotine, a component of tobacco, is responsible for addiction.
The physical and psychological symptoms of tobacco dependence are responsible for: clarity of thought, attention and ability to concentrate, increase memory, besides the reduction of appetite, irritability and aggressiveness.
The cigarette was considered a very long time, as a symbol of status. Today we know that is one of the worst enemies of health and has become the largest public health problem worldwide. The smoke can cause ischemic heart disease, cerebral ischemia or hemorrhage, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancers of the lung, mouth, larynx, esophagus and bladder.
People who live with smokers are known as “passive smokers”. Children exposed to smoke are prone to acute respiratory problems. Some of the treatments used to stop the addiction, we can mention the support groups and psychotherapy.
In an attempt to quit smoking, may be required from the doctor and his team, and the use of medications. However, the role of the patient is key to the success of this contract.
Thus, it is useful to draw up a plan to help the patient to quit smoking. Then expose some tips that will be useful in this situation:
1 – Preparing to stop smoking
2 – The action to stop smoking
3 – The maintenance without the cigarette
A) Grounds
Find out what are the reasons that cause you to continue smoking:
- “Smoking gives me energy, makes me more excited,” the cigar really has a stimulating effect, but do physical activities, have a healthy diet, have a good night’s sleep are measures which provide better performance in their activities of daily .
- “Have a cigarette in my hands gives me pleasure,” the rituals surrounding the act of smoking, and light a cigarette, take it to the mouth or simply holding it becomes automatic for the smoker. Measures to replace them, as they hold a pen, sucking candy or practice a manual activity (painting, carpentry, sewing) can be useful.
- “I smoke because” if you think this way know what are the benefits to stop smoking. (See Treatment of Tobacco Use)
- “Smoking reduces my stress,” remember that there are other more healthy ways to reduce stress, and practice regular physical activities, music, a good bath, or read a travel book.
- “I’m addicted, the addiction to nicotine can be treated with medicines, do not hesitate to seek medical attention. (look in the Treatment of Tobacco Use)
Write down on a sheet of paper the reasons which led him to stop smoking and make it a view.
B) Check the date to stop smoking
- The date should be marked with a certain time (two weeks).
- Prefer more quiet days.
- Tell your family and friends about the decision.
C) Days before the date
- Try to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked.
- Discover what are the situations where the desire to smoke is higher (eg after the coffee, to drink alcoholic beverages when it is on the phone, etc.) and try to avoid them.
- Remove the box of tobacco related products such as ashtrays and lighters.
- Pass to smoke outside the home, car and workplace. Thus, it reduces the smell of smoke in these places and therefore the temptation to smoke.
- Ask family members and friends who do not smoke around you and not inside.
- If there is any room that you share in the domestic environment, convince him to stop smoking, if you can not ask him not to smoke indoors.
- Remember the benefits that will have to stop smoking.
2 – The action to stop smoking
- The day marked, stop with the cigarette suddenly.
- Avoid situations that increase the desire to smoke.
- Use the medication prescribed by your doctor.
- Escape the routine and stress.
- To combat the anxiety perform physical activity, suck a bullet.
- In times when the desire for cigarette is intense, the lip breathing may be useful: chest fill the air and deeply, close your eyes and exudes the air slowly through the lips semicerrados during exhalation is relaxed look and feel all parts of the body, repeat the process when needed.
- Avoid places that may be closed on people smoking.
- Drink plenty of water and try eating lighter foods.
- Remember the benefits that will have to stop smoking.
- Do not hesitate to seek your doctor.
3 – The maintenance without the cigarette
- Remember: you are dependent on nicotine, one cigarette can lead to failure of treatment of smoking.
- Maintain a healthy life, keep practicing physical activities and are feeding correctly, thus you reduce the weight gain.
- Avoid alcohol.
- The symptoms of abstinence tend to disappear after 4 weeks, but if the desire to hold your breath smoking arise lip.
- Remember the harm of smoking and the good of cigarest.
- Look your doctor whenever necessary.
These clips are from the BBC: Horizon documentary series entitled “We Love Cigarettes”. The advice Allen Carr gives is pretty damn good, it convinced me (a 5 year smoker) to quit cold turkey. It has been a couple months now and I’m still going strong.
Update:
It has been over one year since my last cigarette and I have never been tempted to look back. I really hope this simple advice has helped someone else.
Asked on: 2009-01-22 02:04:12
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Emotional Freedom Technique is a simple acupressure technique for releasing negative feelings.
You feel negative feelings in the body, so you have to go to the body to work on them.
You can release a negative feeling right now with this video. Tapping is a great way to reduce the cravings you feel for cigarettes.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: How hard should I tap?
A: Tap lightly, just so that you feel it. The purpose of the tapping is to bring your attention to different parts of your body, it actually works if you just imagine tapping – as long as your attention is drawn to the right points.
Q: How can I be sure I am finding the right points?
A: Use two fingers to make sure you cover the points. Sometimes the point will ‘feel’ right, as if there is a slight indent in the skin or the point is particularly sensitive. It’s all connected so you don’t have to be 100% accurate.
Q: You have missed out points that Gary Craig teaches!
A: Yes. Feel free to tap those too, I left them out to keep the video simple and it seems to work fine without them. If you find the video doesn’t work for you, try tapping the additional points – around the top-middle of the head, and just under the armpit.
Q: Is the sequence important?
A: No. You can tap the points in any order. In fact you only need to tap one or two of the points for each particular feeling. It’s just you have no easy way to know which point so you might as well tap them all.
Q: I am a skeptic! / You are a charlatan!
A: Thanks. Tapping is perfectly explainable scientifically but it does go beyond most people’s understanding. It really does work though, and the best way to prove that to yourself is to try it and watch your negative feelings disappear.
For more info see the Introductory video which gives a bit more explanation:
Also this video shows use of an electro-acupuncture pen to show that the points have a different electrical resistence to other parts of the body:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GCYkdK0Uol0
Sorry, I hadda do it… It’s gorey, but it’s one of those things you say will never happen to you. Don’t expect anyone to quit smoking. Believe me, we KNOW how hard that is!!!! We LOVED our cigs!!
WARNING GRAPHIC!!!!!! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!!! (Bet this gets pulled…..)