Quitting is difficult – everyday each one of us either watch ads which indicates smoking is injurious to health or see a boards that indicates smoking kills. Even the packed of a cigarette warns smoker that is dangerous for health. Many of smokers had tried several time to quite smoking but its not easy for them to do so. Still some of them want to quite, for them here are seven best tips to quite smoking, suggested by anti smoking organization and doctors.
Smoking is not only injurious to health which effects blood circulation, heart, brain, skin, mouth, throat and lungs of a human body and causes lung cancer, other cancers and many illnesses like tiredness and headaches, bad breath, asthma and high blood pressure but also wastage of money, pollution, harmful to family, friends and environment.
1. Set a Quit Smoking Date
Select a date when to quite smoking. Any date which you feel like, stick to that particular date and make a promise to yourself that on date selected by you will be a quite smoking day for you and try to keep your promise. You can also sign a quite date contract including your signature with your supportive witness or dear-one’s. Try to choose date when you feel stress free as because stress is roadblock to most habitual change.
2. Eat Dark Chocolates
Stress is the most important and generally claimed reason by the smokers to smoke. Dark chocolate safely and naturally raises monoamine neurotransmitter levels which improves mood and allay stress. Thus, a small bit of dark chocolate gives a sensation similar to smoking. It is a great and most useful substitute for smoking.
3. Collect Money
Every next day you dream to buy a car or some product which is a very crucial in your life but you fail to do so because you lack few bucks. This tip will be beneficial for both your health as well as your economical condition. Smokers never think how much the spend each day on smoking. Thus, now they need to think and collect all the money in a large glass jar which you spend on smoking. Finally and gradually, you will see and realize how much many you waste in buying a cigarette.
4. Short Exercises
Exercises are not only beneficial for good health but also it helps to quite smoking. A smoker just need to practice a small shot exercise which takes off his or her mind from smoking. When you urge to smoke, go for a walk or run, try to do some jacks and jumps if there is a shortage of time to increase you heart rate which will divert you mind of smoking
5. Alcohol and Non – Smoke Zone
Alcoholic beverages usually trigger the urge to smoke. Try to create a non smoking atmosphere, you should avoid going to the places or parties were people smoke. In this your need to be supported by your friends, family and co – workers
6. Three Deep Breath
Yes, it may sound funny and odd that while taking three deep and long breathe you can quite smoking but it is true. When ever you urge to smoke, simply take three deep breathe in and out as it is a phenomenon to resist smoking.
7. Drink Milk
For milk lover, milk helps to quite smoking, when to urge to smoke just take a sip of milk or consume milk products like yogurt and cheese. Milk leaves an eccentric aftertaste which compelled to extinguish the cigarettes halfway as the taste of milk is horrendous.
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