How To Stop Smoking - Once and For All!

University of Louisville Pharmacology and Toxicology Associate Professor Steven Myers shares that view, and adds that education on both regular and second-hand smoking remains the main approach to encourage an individual to quit.

The government also cites other reasons for quitting on its Smokefree.gov site, including an improved sense of taste and smell, personal savings, fresher breath and easier breathing. Other providers of both telephone and internet-based assistance include the American Lung Association, the National Network of Tobacco Cessation, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Ex-smokers now surpass the number of current smokers in the US, as bans on public smoking offer individuals more incentive to quit. In addition, smokers have also been influenced to quit permanently or cut down amid greater focus among legislators and policymakers to implement more measures to shield nonsmokers from the risks of smoking.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has included in its September 28 edition findings of a Denmark-based study that simply cutting down on cigarette use also helps lower the risk of lung cancer even for heavy smokers. Copenhagen University Hospital's Dr. Nina S. Godtfredsen and her team's 31-year research into the link between lung cancer and reduced smoking found that bringing down daily cigarette consumption from about 20 sticks to below ten helped effect a 27% drop in cancer risk compared to a group that maintained the habit.

For long-term and consistent ex-smokers, risk of the disease was 83% below that of their heavy smoking counterparts, while non-smokers exhibited even less risk of contracting lung cancer. Light smokers, or those consuming 9 sticks a day on average, reduced their risk by 56%. However, those who permanently quit saw their risk fall 50% compared to heavy smokers.


HOW TO QUIT SMOKING – METHOD 3

People who smoke at a rate of at least one (1) and a half pack per day are already considered as addicted to smoking.

Addiction to cigarettes poses great risks not only for the smoker, but also to the people surrounding him or her who inhales the smoke he puffs out. This is most commonly known as "second hand" smoke (also believed to be more fatal than the actual process of smoking).

Health risks involved in smoking are the following:

1. Bad breath
2. Development of lung cancer over long periods of addiction
3. Pigmentation of the lips
4. Body smell (the smell of smoke from cigarettes tend to linger on the body, if not ones clothes)

There are a number of ways (even hundreds) on how to quit smoking. It all boils down to the point that in every smoker, there is a unique method that would apply solely to him to enable him to stop puffing. Listed below are some of the most common, if not widely used, methods of quitting smoking.

1. Chewing Gum
Perhaps the best known method is that of the "Chewing Gum", wherein the smoker is intended to chew a gum whenever there is an urge to smoke. This would keep the smoker busy for the duration of the time that he would want to puff a cigarette.

2. Acupuncture
Acupuncture may be the least known method in aiding smokers to quit. This usually costs around $50-$100 depending on the frequency of the assigned visitation or consultations. Most people declare that they feel little or no pain at all during the process. The idea or goal of acupuncture is to reduce the craving for nicotine in cigarettes through proper blood circulation.

3. Nicotine Patches
Nicotine from cigarettes is the addicting agent that brings out the cravings to smoke. For some people, nicotine patches are perhaps the easiest method to use since the smoker would only be required to wear the patch for a period of time to reduce the cravings to smoke, until such time that he can do without said patch. The patch would release nicotine into the bloodstream of the person that would replace his or her craving to smoke.

4. Fake cigarette
Most often than not, people tend to smoke out of habit, not need. To quit smoking, some people use a real cigarette, go through all the regular motion of taking one out of the pack, getting the lighter, but, the clinch here is NOT to light the cigarette. One may pretend to inhale or blow smoke, but the idea is to not loose the regular movements associated with smoking (which makes it harder to quit), but reducing nicotine intake.

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