How to quit smoking

‘Cigarette smoking is injurious to health, it causes cancer.’ How many times have you seen the statutory warning on back of cigarette packets? Well, you see it everyday but choose to ignore it. The scariest part of cigarette smoking is, those who smoke are well aware of the consequences but still cannot refrain themselves from smoking. Especially for chain smokers, it is hard to quit smoking.

Quitting smoking isn’t just a breeze, every individual who wants to stop smoking are bound to feel the jitters. But there are a few people who are determined to quit smoking no matter what and want to gather useful tips on how to quit smoking. These tips go out to them:

• Make changes in your daily diet. It involves a deep psychology; some foods lighten up the taste of cigarettes others don’t.DukeUniversityresearchers claim that food items like red meat, coffee and alcohol helps the addicts savor the taste of cigarettes while fruits and vegetables do not. So, increase your intake of fruits & vegetables and cigarettes may not appeal to you.
• Cigarette addiction affects the individual’s health. When you first stop smoking you might feel nauseated. Take ginger roots, they help cease nausea caused by nicotine withdrawal.
• Start your morning with a bowl of oats and milk. Oats helps in lessening nicotine cravings and you will soon find your daily number of cigarette reducing dramatically.
• Exercise! Exercising reduces certain hormones in the body which prevents depression and in turn some percentage of smoking. Even if you cannot devote time for exercise, go for moderate cycling, this will help too.
• Most smokers smoke after their meals to lighten up. To avoid this, finish the meal with a dessert, to again avoid too much intake of saturated fat, go for healthy options like a piece of fruit or a gum.
• If you crave for a hit of nicotine after you take coffee or alcohol, avoid such drinks or better; drink only in places where it is prohibited to smoke!
• Some smokers relapse when in a peer group of smokers. Make friends who are non-smokers and share your coffee breaks with them.
• This one might sound silly, but it does work! While keeping the bikini posters of your favorite celebrities or your favorite actor shirtless intact, put up a picture of diseased lungs on your wall. The logic behind it being that graphic images are the greatest deterrents.
• If you are tech-savvy, download a quit smoking app. Quitter, Livestrong are only to name a few, there are more that 40 such apps just a download away. Through these apps you can record your achievements and link to Facebook, Twitter etc. This is nothing but a motivational tactic to help you to become vocal about your will to quit smoking where all your friends and family members are there to applaud you on your progress.

The bottom line to follow if you want to quit smoking is that, ‘where there is a will, there is a way’. You have to have a strong will to stop smoking and it sure is achievable.