What are the strategies to quit smoking?

Hello,

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I understand your concern.

You will find numerous suggestions and advice. The internet has loads of information. You will find long lists of dos and don'ts, but questions arise about how pragmatic they are. None of the medical therapies is effective, and few available have certain harmful effects. So what is the way out? The treatment is psychological, then medication.

1. Find if there is any specific time, situation, condition, or area where your urge for nicotine flares up.

2. Do not quit smoking suddenly; you will certainly revert rather than take a gradual approach. Let us say you smoke 10 times a day, for the initial seven days, continue for 10 times, but cut your cigarette stick in half and throw the remaining. For the next seven days, eight times, and continue further.

3. Try to spend time in areas banned for smoking. More at specific times, conditions when you feel smoking is inevitable.

4. If possible, join a gym or exercise; studies have proven that it can lower the urge to nicotine once an adrenaline surge makes way.

5. Think of your loved ones. Consider how they would feel if you were not there. How would they cope without you? As an active smoker, you are risking cancer, premature death, and other complications, but you are also affecting your family and loved ones through passive smoking.

6. Visit hospitals and places where terminally ill patients, smokers are kept. Doing social service at these places lets one know the real scenario and real-time life experiences.

7. Read about the harmful effects of smoking, and read what "Buerger's Disease" is- A specific smoker's disease.

Today is the day to quit.

I hope this helps you.

Thank you.