Quit Smoking Now

By: Walter Hilliam

Loads of Healthy Incentives To Quit Smoking

Where ever a smoker goes nowadays there is the government telling them that it is in there best interest to quit smoking. Moreover, with many counties and communities passing laws indicating where a person can have a smoke, many have decided that it is worth the effort to quit smoking.

In the not so distant past, there were very few people who were against smoking. Often during that time smokers were watched on television shows and in the movies lighting up their cigarettes. Despite the earliest warnings about the health concerns of cigarettes, there was no real push to get people to quit smoking.

When the facts of second-hand smoke dangers was initially presented men that smoked, often in the presence of children and other non-smokers, wanted more scientific proof to back that claim before they would quit smoking around others. Even with overwhelming evidence of the dangers, many are still finding it hard to quit smoking.

Smoking is an addictive habit that normally begins when a person is in their teen years or early into their 20’s. It is very easy to become addicted on cigarettes but not nearly as easy to quit smoking, as people would like to wish.

Addiction Is Mental And Physical

There is a physical addiction to nicotine, the main addictive drug in cigarettes that can take about a week to work out of the system. The first 72 hours are considered the worst time when people quit smoking but after that the physical craving for nicotine diminishes. The remainder of the addiction is considered mental, although there are physical aspects to it as well.

Those who smoked, especially for most of their lives, find they have nothing to do with their hands, which held onto a cigarette during their smoking years. In order to reduce the mental craving some turn to beer, which is something they rarely did while they were smoking. Weight increase is a common occurrence for new non-smokers, but many believe that losing weight will be quicker than when they quit smoking.

Others think that just like becoming addicted to cigarettes did not happen in one session, breaking the habit will take time as well. They have a slow withdrawal plan with a target date to quit smoking. Others find various means to break the habit, such as hypnosis, laser techniques and substitutes to wean them off the addictive habits. But most agree that they need to do whatever it takes to quit smoking for their health’s sake.

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Walter Hilliam is a thrilled ex-smoker and an expert on quitting smoking. His Squidoo Lens on Stop Smoking can be found at www.squidoo.com/quit-smoking-incentive/

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