| Ways to quit smoking | | | | without fugging up every area around them and |
| There are probably no less that a hundred ways to | | | | creating a load of disgruntled non-smokers who would |
| quit smoking, and all have various levels of success | | | | prefer not to inhale the second-hand smoke. |
| depending mainly on the sheer will-power and desire of | | | | Hypnosis is another method with varying degrees of |
| the tobacco smoker to actually quit once and for all. | | | | success. This method treats not only the physical |
| Most smokers start off by going the old tried, and | | | | addiction but the psychological addiction many |
| rarely successful, 'cold turkey' method of quitting their | | | | smokers have. It is this psychological addiction that |
| habit. Problem with this method is unless the smoker | | | | keeps a vast majority of smokers from ever quitting. |
| can usually take off about an month or so from work | | | | The act of smoking and drawing the smoke into the |
| and hermit-ize himself, or herself, from the world at | | | | lungs is associated with comforting ones-self. This is |
| large then the world at large is in for a rather bumpy | | | | very like the way people use food as a comfort tool |
| ride with the smoker trying this method. Friends and | | | | when things get stressful. |
| co-workers will find themselves either avoiding the | | | | Finding an alternative to tobacco is another way that |
| smoker in an effort to not get their heads bitten off or | | | | many have quit smoking tobacco while still keeping that |
| ganging up and shoving the jonesing smoker in a room | | | | psychological comfort. There are many alternative |
| with a pack of cigarettes and locking the door in hope | | | | smoking blends on the market today. All of them are |
| that the person gets a clue. | | | | tobacco free and generally consist of a blend of legal |
| Another method that seems to have had better | | | | psychoactive herbs that calm the body and mind to |
| results for many nicotine junkies is to use the nicotine | | | | help the person break the physical nicotine addiction if |
| patches or gum to get the nicotine to satisfy the | | | | not the psychological addiction. |
| addiction until they can wean themselves from it | | | | |