| Smoking is emerging to be one of the major causes | | | | routine. As a fact, humans are creatures of habit. By |
| of death in the modern world. This is attributed to the | | | | some force of habit, smokers find themselves |
| growing consumers of tobacco. Tobacco is | | | | reaching for a cigarette and lighting it up automatically |
| responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults all over the | | | | without thinking about it. Certain "triggers" in the |
| world, which translates to around 5 million deaths | | | | environment may also hamper a smoker's desire to |
| every year. It is because of this fact that cigarette | | | | quit. Things may turn on a smoker's need for a |
| smoking is now a public health priority. Smoking poses | | | | cigarette. These may be feelings, places, and moods. |
| dangers directly and indirectly to the public. An indirect | | | | Even the things done routinely may trigger this craving |
| public health concern that cigarettes may pose is | | | | for a smoke. For those who have been smoking for |
| accidental fire. As for the health risks in smoking | | | | quite a while already, they may not realize it but they |
| tobacco, the disease mainly strikes the cardiovascular | | | | form some emotional attachment to cigarettes. They |
| system, resulting to heart attack, respiratory tract | | | | find the cigarette calming and comforting during those |
| diseases, and even cancer. In spite of these risks, the | | | | stressful times. Cigarette smoking somehow becomes |
| number of cigarette smokers all other the world has | | | | an extension of their social life, particularly when they |
| not dropped considerably. Though several smokers | | | | are emotionally at the highest or lowest. Giving the |
| claim to have been meaning to quit this habit, they just | | | | smoker a feeling that giving up smoking would seem |
| find it so difficult. The fact is that after smoking for | | | | like giving up a trusted friend. These are only some of |
| quite sometime, quitting smoking will prove to be very | | | | the major reasons why it is hard to quit smoking. But |
| hard, but not impossible. Why is it hard to quit smoking? | | | | there are also several strategies and quitting |
| Foremost, this is because the majority of smokers | | | | techniques that may aid smokers to finally give up on |
| become addicted to the nicotine contained in tobacco | | | | this tenacious habit. Quitting smoking all begins with |
| products. Nicotine has a deadly addictive power. How? | | | | one's intention to stop. They must have the will power |
| When a person puffs a cigarette, nicotine particles find | | | | to overcome the craving for smoke. There are also a |
| their way to the lungs through inhalation. From there, | | | | lot of quit smoking products in the market. These may |
| nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream just like the | | | | also be worth trying. Support groups are proved to be |
| oxygen people breathe. It travels with the blood to the | | | | very helpful, too. Smokers must understand that to quit |
| brain where it locks onto certain receptor areas. | | | | smoking may take more than one attempt. They must |
| Dopamine is then released into the brain. This is the | | | | also try several methods before they can finally |
| chemical that makes the smoker feel a euphoric | | | | succeed. Smoking is a stubborn habit because it is |
| sensation. Smokers find it difficult to quit because they | | | | closely tied to the acts in the course of people's |
| come to be dependent on this good feeling. And in | | | | everyday lives. Just pay a serious concern to a few |
| wanting to experience this repeatedly, this leads to | | | | issues. 1. The first thing you must consider is your body; |
| dependence - a sign of addiction. A person who | | | | you must take care and keep it healthy. 2. Secondly, |
| attempts to quit may experience withdrawal | | | | decision to kill your enemy who is killing you. 3. Thirdly, |
| symptoms. Topping the bill of withdrawal symptoms is | | | | cost that smoking has caused for you. You have |
| depression. With the absence of the chemical that | | | | spent a lot on this poison. 4. Lastly forget the past that |
| produces the relaxing feeling, the brain becomes | | | | will help you in quit smoking. Just remember that |
| distressed without it. Other withdrawal symptoms from | | | | nicotine is my enemy and is killing me slowly. With |
| smoking include: - Headaches, dizziness, and nausea - | | | | determination, will power and a strategy, quit smoking is |
| Shakes, chills - Cough, dry throat nasal drip - Hunger, | | | | not out of the question. Summary: Smoking is emerging |
| fatigue - Constipation, gas or stomach pain - Insomnia, | | | | to be one of the major causes of death in the modern |
| troubled sleep Not knowing what to do with their hands | | | | world. Smoking poses dangers directly and indirectly to |
| is another common complaint among ex-smokers | | | | the public. Several smokers claim to have been |
| while quitting. Once people get hooked, smoking | | | | meaning to quit this habit; they just find it so difficult. |
| becomes a big part of their lives. They seem to enjoy | | | | Here are some of the major reasons why it is hard to |
| holding on a stick of cigarette and puffing on them. | | | | quit smoking. |
| And after a long period of lighting up, it becomes a | | | | |