| When initially giving up smoking, a lot of people return | | | | and systems. Given that oxygen levels increase, |
| to their old ways because they gain weight. This | | | | tension builds up, and that there's a boost in the |
| symptom is quite common, especially since your | | | | once-halted mucous production due to damaged cilia, it |
| appetite is re-established and nicotine cravings can be | | | | doesn't come as a surprise that adjustment is |
| easily confused for hunger pangs. Food soon replaces | | | | overwhelming.It takes a lot of effort, inspiration and |
| cigarettes because the mouth has gotten used to | | | | motivation to get over these withdrawal symptoms. |
| continually having something in it and it's hard to forget | | | | Giving up smoking will only be successful if enough will |
| the habit. Gas and constipation may also follow as the | | | | power, restraint and self-control are put into practice. |
| digestive system tries to stabilize itself. | | | | Stopping smoking is a highly challenging and difficult |
| Urges and cravings for cigarettes will be incessant at | | | | task for a lot of people. It really isn't a surprise as to |
| first, but it is important to avoid giving in and finding a | | | | how many people have given up on quitting smoking |
| distraction for it. Those urges and cravings will die | | | | before they have even started. Besides being an |
| down, though it can often take longer for your body to | | | | extremely hard habit to break, smoking addiction also |
| forget the actual habit of putting a cigarette in your | | | | has a scientific basis. Nicotine found in tobacco creates |
| mouth than it does the nicotine addiction. | | | | this chemical dependency where levels have to be |
| The first two weeks after giving up smoking will be | | | | maintained at all times. That, in effect, nurtures the |
| excessively taxing and demanding but it is the most | | | | constant urge to light up a cigarette. Not being able to |
| crucial period in smoking cessation. Quitters are | | | | do so generates a fair share of nicotine withdrawal |
| known to be extremely irritable, frustrated and | | | | symptoms. However, this should not be reason enough |
| experience a lot of mood swings at this stage. This is | | | | to dissuade you from the quitting process. |
| caused by tension brought from the inability to maintain | | | | Really wanting to stop and perseverance is the only |
| the body's nicotine levels. Smokers may also undergo | | | | way to do it and you don't have to go cold turkey |
| a series of anxiety and depression attacks, | | | | unless you want to. There are a lot of stop smoking |
| restlessness, insomnia, lack of concentration and | | | | aids available nowadays that work providing that you |
| boredom since the body is still adjusting to the lack of | | | | have the right mindset. Sometimes we try to stop |
| constant stimulation that nicotine brings. | | | | because we know that it's the right thing to do, or that |
| Quitters may also suffer from headaches, fatigue, | | | | those around us tell us that we should. When we finally |
| nausea, coughs, dry throats and colds for a while. It | | | | quit it must be because we want to stop, for |
| isn't so much that health is declining but that the body is | | | | ourselves and for those that we love. Giving up |
| in the process of adjusting to sudden changes while it | | | | smoking becomes easier then. |
| restores the normal functions of the various organs | | | | |