You may have heard someone say, "If you really want to quit smoking you just need to put your mind to it, that's all." The reality is that most smokers want to stop and one-third try to stop each year. But at the end of a year only 5 in 100 smokers are still "completely quit.".
Why is smoking recognized as the most addictive behavior?.
Most recovering persons state tobacco is more addicting than heroin, cocaine and alcohol. Part of the answer is in the pleasurable chemical changes in the brain. When a smoker tries to stop using nicotine, the brain goes through a readjustment that is quite uncomfortable (nicotine withdrawal).
Most smokers in America who were smoking before puberty have never learned how to deal with adult emotions (e.g., frustrations, irritability, anger, boredom, anxiety, fear, pleasure) without nicotine floating around in their brains. When smokers try to abruptly stop smoking, they often experience nicotine withdrawal symptoms that are uncomfortable and last for days or weeks. When the smoker misses that cigarette that "artificially" helped calm him down by sending nicotine to the brain for 20 or 40 years, it's no wonder that 95 percent of smokers give up and return to smoking within a year after trying to quit.
What can you, as a smoker, do to improve your chances of staying free of tobacco?.
First, find out how addicted you are to nicotine by taking our Nicotine Dependence Questionnaire. Monitor your nicotine withdrawal symptoms while you try to cut down or stop smoking. When you are prepared for the effects of nicotine withdrawal, they are less overwhelming. And remember -- they are temporary. If you hold on, they eventually disappear.
Second, inform yourself by reading more of our following articles to help you learn the best tips to break the habitual and psychological aspects of tobacco use (use the Next Article button at the top of this page.) Check out our Resources section to learn about professional counseling services that may give you the support you need.
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