Just when we thought there were enough cancer, heart disease and stroke reasons to stop smoking, comes another research finding that should help convince smokers to dump the habit. A new UK study has discovered that cigarettes can make depression worse in people who smoke. The research has also revealed that long-term nicotine addiction can deplete the brain of natural mood-boosting chemicals. This addiction, which some say is harder to beat than coming off heroin, seems to actually act the opposite way to anti-depression drugs. The study found that all too often, people who suffer from anxiety and other mental disorders mistakenly use smoking as self-medication, when, in fact, it is directly contributing to their bad moods and depression.
Up to 90% of smokers who quit smoking by cold turkey, go back to cigarettes in the first three months of quitting. Many people addicted to nicotine make five or more attempts to quit, before they are successful. A key mistake that many make is to turn to alcohol to replace cigarettes, which is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire because alcohol causes its own well known serious health problems. Others use the excuse that they will gain weight if they give up cigarettes, when research shows that smokers normally will not gain more than 10 pounds when they quit cigarettes.
Regular exercise and a change in your routine will also help reduce your craving for nicotine, by introducing mood-enhancing endorphins to your brain. Exercise will also help offset any weight effects of giving up cigarettes. Some simple ways to develop a non-smoking lifestyle are to throw out ashtrays and any packets of cigarettes you have lying around, because they remain keys to temptation, almost silently asking you to light up again. You should also avoid any usual haunts where you mingled with other smokers, in smoking environments. Make you new environment reflect your new non-smoking life. Smokers become accustomed to having something in their mouths; something for their hands to do, so chewing gum may help, or, better still, keep some healthy carrots or celery around to munch on when you feel the urge for another cigarette. One method, which has demonstrated up to a 60% success rate in helping smokers quit, is hypnotism. People have used professional hypno-therapists, or recordings of professional hypnosis sessions, to ensure that both their conscious and subconscious minds are aligned in their desire to give up nicotine.
By using readily-available recorded stop smoking hypnosis sessions, people seeking to quit can listen to these regularly, in the comfort of their own home, to actually develop a non-smoking habit.
Up to 90% of smokers who quit smoking by cold turkey, go back to cigarettes in the first three months of quitting. Many people addicted to nicotine make five or more attempts to quit, before they are successful. A key mistake that many make is to turn to alcohol to replace cigarettes, which is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire because alcohol causes its own well known serious health problems. Others use the excuse that they will gain weight if they give up cigarettes, when research shows that smokers normally will not gain more than 10 pounds when they quit cigarettes.
Regular exercise and a change in your routine will also help reduce your craving for nicotine, by introducing mood-enhancing endorphins to your brain. Exercise will also help offset any weight effects of giving up cigarettes. Some simple ways to develop a non-smoking lifestyle are to throw out ashtrays and any packets of cigarettes you have lying around, because they remain keys to temptation, almost silently asking you to light up again. You should also avoid any usual haunts where you mingled with other smokers, in smoking environments. Make you new environment reflect your new non-smoking life. Smokers become accustomed to having something in their mouths; something for their hands to do, so chewing gum may help, or, better still, keep some healthy carrots or celery around to munch on when you feel the urge for another cigarette. One method, which has demonstrated up to a 60% success rate in helping smokers quit, is hypnotism. People have used professional hypno-therapists, or recordings of professional hypnosis sessions, to ensure that both their conscious and subconscious minds are aligned in their desire to give up nicotine.
By using readily-available recorded stop smoking hypnosis sessions, people seeking to quit can listen to these regularly, in the comfort of their own home, to actually develop a non-smoking habit.
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