Smoking Cessation - Kick The Habit Today

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Smoking Cessation

• Kick the Habit Today

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Stop Smoking

• It's never too late to stop smoking. Experts
  have
• found that even quitting after the age of 60 can
  
• help add some years to your life. Its true that
• quitting smoking is tough but not impossible.
• Quitting can be done easily, if you will focus on
  your
• goal and try to give your best. These days people
  
• are finding new creative ways to kick this bad
• habit.

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Know Your Reason Why Do You Smoke?

• Most people never think about it, why are they
• smoking? They just smoke. But knowing the reason
• why you smoke can help you choose a better
• quitting strategy which is most likely to work.
• Perhaps you smoke
• For stimulation - To focus, improve your
  concentration, or boost your energy.
• To control your weight- peoples are afraid of
  gaining weight after quitting.
• To relieve tension - During stressful times,
  depression or when you feel angry.
• To be part of the group or to look mature.

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Think About Quitting?

• When you're carving for nicotine, it becomes
• much harder to focus on quitting. Prepare
  yourself
• before you quit, it will help you.
• Think about anything that can motivate you to
  quit smoking. Having your own reasons will give
  you much strength for quitting.
• Getting a healthy life is a very common reason
  for which people want to quit smoking. You should
  want to feel more control over your life, instead
  of feeling controlled by cigarette/tobacco.
• You can talk to your friends and family about
  quitting. Their support may make your mind up to
  quit it.

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Effects of Smoking
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Do you know the risks of smoking?

• Make a list of what fears you about smoking?
• Talk to your doctor about it. You may be worry
  for
• First and for most thing is health problems. Have
  your asthma symptoms are getting worse and you
  have started to cough a lot.
• Are you afraid of getting cancer, heart attack,
  lung diseases or other long term diseases?
• Dont you worry about your family members to get
  any chronic disease through second hand smoking?
  Are you concerned that your children may get
  infection or asthma or your children might start
  smoking because of you?

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Benefits of Quitting

• Less coughing and better asthma.
• Have a healthier body younger looking skin.
• No longer embarrass felling about being a smoker.
• Money saving
• Set a good example for your children's and other
  family members.

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Some Facts About Smokers

• Scientists from the
• German Cancer Research
• Center reviewed info from
• 25 different studies
• involving 503,905 people
• from Europe and the U.S.
• age 60 and over. Out of
• these people, 37,952 died
• from heart disease.

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Smoking Quitting Can Give You a Kick Back at
Start

• No doubt quitting smoking can save our life.
• But it brings temporary physical removal symptoms
  such as irritation and headache etc.
• "The physical removal, for most of the people,
  lasts from a few days to perhaps a week. After
  that, its the psychological removal that people
  have to face most difficulties.

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Simple Ways To Quit Smoking

• Nicotine Replacement Therapy
• Going cold turkey
• E-cigarettes
• Hypnotherapy or acupuncture
• Exercising
• Smart phone apps
• Psychotherapy
• Medication

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Can E Cigarette Help Smokers To Quit?

• An powerful U.S panel of experts says that there
  is not enough data so we can decide whether or
  not e-cigarettes can help in quitting smoking.
• Use of Electric shisha is continuously being
  popular across the United States, and some
  proponents of the "vaping" device say it provides
  a safer substitute to cigarettes to quitting.
• Use of E cigarette can be a one way to quit
  smoking but excepting the pregnant women. For
  them, the task force recommends behavioral
  therapy alone.

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