Quitting Smoking for Good: It’s difficult but not impossible
Do not waste your life in taking puffs of a cigarette, it affects your life, your body, environment, and your loved ones too, instead switch to healthy habits.
Are you an occasional smoker? Do you smoke a pack of cigarettes in a day? Is it the anxiety that pulls you to smoke? Do you smoke to manage your stress level? Every reason for smoking leads to a harmful reality that is deteriorating your health and playing with your mind for “temporary satisfaction”.
If you are planning to kick smoking out of your life, you need a proper plan, a lot of dedication, willpower, and the right game plan to cope up with your nicotine withdrawal and enter into a fresh and smoke-free body that is free to choose a breakthrough healthy life ahead.
Psychological Impact of Smoking
The human brain is the most complex machine that mankind has ever received. We like being in our comfort zone and absolutely refrain from embracing any change in our lives even if it is altering the color of your curtains. We may not understand it, but as the brain works we are skeptical about what is ours. In such a scenario where a little shift in our daily chores disturbs us, do you think quitting to smoke is anywhere easy? When you smoke a cigarette, the temporary release of nicotine in your mind creates a “feel good” situation, affecting your psychology to react in the situation such as stress, depression anxiety etc. the nicotine relaxes the mind by altering the dopamine and making you feel good even at add situations. Accordingly, when the effect of nicotine no longer remains in our head, the craving for cigarette begins making you go weak and addictive.
The Power of Meditation
Since ages, meditation has been the sole power of channelizing your energy into a thoughtful activity. While you try to quit smoking, meditation can be of great support as it will increase the concentration power of your mind and cling upon your mind satisfaction without the consumption of nicotine.
Although developing concentration in medication is not a one-day thing but with constant practice and rigorous effort you can master the art of meditation and get rid of body-ripping habit-smoking.
Keep yourself busy
What is your hobby? Do you like painting? Or do you want to try your hands into crafting? To avoid your fingers from clutching the cigarettes, try using your hands for a better purpose. You need to plan out a schedule that involves your concentration and time. Plan trips spend some time doing your favorite activity, value your hobbies and eventually train your mind to “not think” about your nicotine craving
Accordingly, when you too busy completing your day with your favorites, it eventually helps in eliminating the thought about having a smoke. After all, we don’t crave to smoke in the middle of the assignment at the office.
Drink plenty of Water
Most of the smokers start their day with a puff of a cigarette and a lot of smoke to satisfy their nicotine craving. Are you one of them? Don’t worry even if you have developed an unhealthy habit of smoking, right after you wake up; the important part is to be determined to quit smoking. You can take slow and gradual steps to obtain the desired results because it is not easy to end a craving in a day.
We suggest you drink plenty of water, replace your morning smoking habit with a glass of water and drench your throat with water every time you crave to smoke. This will ensure a better digestion and an enhanced habit of ‘not smoking’.
Find alternatives to quit smoking
Smoking is not just a habit, it’s an addiction; therefore, getting rid of it in a day doesn’t stand a chance. You need to make up your mind, keep your mind strong and refrain from your nicotine cravings. How many times have you thought of quitting your smoking habit? It’s ok if you have tried and failed because on an average it takes seven to ten attempts for a person to finally stick to his decision of quitting to smoke.
In your journey of getting out of your unhealthy habit, it can get difficult and even worse. You will have to find out alternatives that can help you to quit smoking or you will eventually keep repeating your attempts. You can consume chewing gums that helps your mind in neglecting the nicotine craving, consume prescribed tablet or switch to E-cigarettes that are comparatively less harmful, and it is not addictive.
Set Goals and Reward Yourself
Do you like treats and rewards? It’s not children but adult too can admire the concept of rewards for achieving a set goal. Remember the time when your mother rewarded you with a chocolate after successful completion of a chapter? Do you need to follow the same strategy in your dedication to quit smoking? How dedicated are you? Map your dedication with the self-rewards and feel good about your new, smoke-free body even if it is a day without smoking.
Enjoy your freedom
It is not easy to surpass all the above-mentioned ways and reach a level where ‘no smoke’ feels like a freedom to your soul and mind.
In most of the cases, smokers switch back to smoking after this phase saying, “it’s my last cigarette”. The moment you decide to quit smoking that when your last cigarette is counted; eventually there is no going back. You need to train your mind to enjoy the freedom of smoke-free body and ask yourself a question “ Do I want to get back to my own self”? Answer wisely, because this is the deciding answer to choose a path either full of freedom or choke your dreams in the air full of smoke.
Impact of Smoking
Now, that you have finally decided to give up on your smoking habit, it is important for you to know the impact of smoking on your body, mind, and environment to further support you in your decision. As we know, nicotine is a highly addictive drug in tobacco that makes the smokers crave for it. The prolonged consumption of the nicotine has an adverse effect on your health leading to serious diseases, in fact, it’s not just the cigarette, the smokers inhale 7000 more chemicals along with the nicotine in a single cigarette.
Do you want to know about the harmful chemicals that you inhale through each puff of your cigarette? Its tar, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, oxidizing chemicals, and metals. These chemicals are referred to as a pollution-causing chemical, imagine the impact it can on your body? With uncontrolled smoking, you might ruin your immunity system, circulatory system, sexual organs, and the respiratory system. On the contrary, your body starts repairing itself after 24 hrs of quitting to smoke; either choose to live or choose your smoke, the decision is yours.
Increase in the Smoking Rate
Smoking has been the biggest reason for disease-related deaths in Australia. With the average of 70 % of the crowd consuming 5 cigarettes a day, the death rate has scaled up like never before. According to the sources, every 28th minute a person dies in Australia due to smoking. Nearly 3.2 million people in Australia alone is exposed to the risk of developing chronological disease impairing their life chain. Would you still smoke to risk your life on every puff that you inhale?
Your Life is Way More than a Cigarette
Quitting smoke can be difficult but it isn’t impossible- at least you can give yourself a chance to get your life back on the track. It’s not just you but your friends and family too who might get affected due to the passive smoking. There are a number of alternatives that can be used to get rid of the habit, but you need to make a decision first; you are just a step behind, take the right decision.
