| How many times have you tried to quit smoking and | | | | a victim to the habit. |
| given up trying? Did you think you were lacking the will | | | | Nicotine is the most addictive and lethal substances |
| power or the motivation to give up the habit | | | | ever known to mankind. In fact, a small dose of highly |
| altogether? Or had the nicotine finally grabbed you by | | | | concentrated nicotine in liquid form is lethal enough to |
| the collar and put you in your place? | | | | cause an instant death within a just matter of seconds. |
| At one time or the other someone told you that | | | | So it should really come as no surprise that first hand |
| Cigarettes carry some benefits that you quite couldn't | | | | smoking kills an average of 2.5 million people along with |
| do without and somehow you bought into all that. | | | | well over 50,000 second hand smokers every year. |
| Otherwise you wouldn't be smoking right now. But you | | | | Smokers also have the highest degree of insomnia |
| also know otherwise, which is why you are looking for | | | | mainly due to its high caffeine content and due to them |
| a way out. | | | | not being able to keep the nicotine bug happy and |
| So let's see why you started smoking in the first place. | | | | content without consistently smoking throughout the |
| Was it the sense of coolness? Or was it just | | | | night. This is why smokers are often agitated and |
| curiosity? Or were you finding it difficult to cope with | | | | restless, if their 'fix' is delayed significantly, as it would |
| stress? Were you perhaps going through a rebellious | | | | be the case with any drug addict. |
| phase in your life and just couldn't leave a few of | | | | Many have tried to oust the Nicotine bug through |
| those nasty habits behind? Or did you perhaps see it | | | | some of the common most remedies available on the |
| as just another social tool to get around with? | | | | market today. Such solutions may include nicotine |
| Many actually believe that cigarettes bring a sense of | | | | patches, gums or inhalers, which are all well intended, |
| calmness and well being and some even say it | | | | but overlook the simple principle of its final objective, |
| improves their concentration. But a closer examination | | | | which is to get rid of the nicotine bug altogether. And |
| proves that all of the above are mere speculation. | | | | this can't be achieved by feeding it small snack doses |
| Let's start with 'coolness' factor. Many, who see | | | | of the very poison that we are trying to eradicate. |
| smokers as somewhat 'cool', actually don't appreciate | | | | So the simplest answer to this somewhat |
| how their hair and clothes smell. And contrary to what | | | | overwhelming dilemma is to go cold turkey altogether. |
| some people believe cigarettes do not improve | | | | Many have already tried doing this and have failed |
| concentration, but rather it impedes it. Cigarettes are | | | | miserably due to not being able to cope with the |
| also becoming more and more unsociable to the point | | | | withdrawal symptoms. But if you were to merely see |
| that many are inconvenienced by a smoker's urge to | | | | these withdrawal symptoms as the nicotine bug's last |
| light up once more. In fact, according to a leading News | | | | few outcries before it is completely vanquished from |
| magazine, it was determined that a majority of those | | | | your life, you might have the determination to hold on |
| who had ever kissed a non-smoker is highly unlikely to | | | | just a little while longer. And when the nicotine bug is |
| kiss a smoker a second time around. | | | | deprived of its nicotine habitat, it will very simply wither |
| It all starts off as soon as a few puffs off the first | | | | away and never come back. |
| cigarette are consumed. The smoker already knows | | | | And as with all habits, ill-habits must always be |
| that this it is toxic at some conscious level, but | | | | replaced with healthier ones, in order to regain |
| proceeds to gulp down a few puffs anyway. To him, | | | | equilibrium. It is often the case that many will turn to |
| it's a new adventure waiting to be embarked upon. But | | | | binge eating in order to fulfill the awkwardness or |
| as soon as he starts choking on the fumes and finds | | | | emptiness that they may feel for a short while as |
| no pleasing taste in his new found evil companion, he | | | | soon as they quit smoking. But this can easily be used |
| decides to give it up altogether. But what he doesn't | | | | in a constructive manner. By making it a habit to snack |
| realize is that the first few puffs he forced on himself | | | | on healthy foods, such as all natural fruits, salads, nuts, |
| was enough to have let in an uninvited inhabitant into | | | | unflavored low fat yogurts and vegetables, as this will |
| his life from that point on. We call this inhabitant, the | | | | cause you to lose weight in a healthy manner, rather |
| nicotine bug. Its job is to ensure that the body receives | | | | than gaining it. A 30-minute daily brisk walk will also give |
| a steady flux of nicotine on a consistent basis and | | | | you an enormous boost in self-confidence and stress |
| never letting him go dry of this poisonous supply. | | | | relief in such a way that you would've never thought |
| And it does this so very intelligently by making him | | | | possible. |
| believe that every single cigarette he smokes brings | | | | So, the only question that remains is, do you love |
| him a sense of calm and self control, when it is the | | | | yourself and the people next to you enough to rid |
| nicotine bug itself that created the stress elevation in | | | | yourself of the cigarettes that have enslaved you for |
| the body as a direct result of nicotine depletion. So in | | | | this long? And, would you prefer to die a natural and |
| reality all you are doing is feeding the nicotine bug as | | | | peaceful death at a decent age or are you willing to |
| and when it gets hungry and nothing more. But the sad | | | | risk yourself or your loved ones by being exposed to |
| fact is that with every cigarette he smokes to regain | | | | some of the most torturous and self-inflicted diseases |
| control, he loses a fraction of his overall self-control | | | | ever known to man and live those last few days |
| and self-esteem never to return, as long as he remains | | | | barely gasping for air? |