You Will Quit

Cessation Quit Smoking If You're A Smoker

If you're a smoker, no doubt you've thought at times you'd like to quit smoking, but total smoking cessation can seem difficult when you get such satisfaction from lighting up or you start to feel stressed, drowsy, or even ill in between your cigarette breaks. It can be hard to believe you need to quit smoking when you seem to be doing all right. In the back of your mind, you know that there are the risks of heart disease, lung disease, cancer, stroke, and cataracts, to name a few.

You may even know a few smokers who could never quite achieve smoking cessation and who died from smoke-related diseases. You may have heard the constant coughing or gravely voices, seen the yellow-toned skin and teeth of the seasoned smokers-you may even exhibit such symptoms yourself.

But saying that you know smoking is bad for you and that you'll try for total smoking cessation is so much easier when you tell yourself you'll quit smoking later because you're fine right now.

Stop making excuses-you know you need to quit smoking! You'll save yourself enough money that any costs involved in committing yourself to smoking cessation-such as nicotine patches, gums, nasal sprays, lozenges, or inhalers; laser smoking cessation treatment; and quit-smoking hypnotism-will easily be defrayed by the money you would have spent on as little as half a pack a day.

As more and more cities and states have a no-smoking ordinance imposed on public places and employers likewise confine smoking to quarantined smoke rooms and the outdoors, you will stop having to leave work or your friends and family to stand outside in inclement weather every time you feel the need to light up.

It is never too late to strive for total smoking cessation. Every day you quit smoking is another day for your body to heal itself from the poisons of nicotine and other additives, like those found in rat poison and which you are inhaling each time you smoke.

Every day you quit smoking is another day you'll save your loved ones from the dangers and discomforts of second-hand smoke. Every day you quit smoking is another chance for you or your loved one to have a healthy pregnancy and for a child to be born free of birth defects.

You need to develop a total smoking cessation plan that works for you. Some people can quit smoking cold turkey, but others need the help of smoking cessation aids and/or support groups, and that's okay.

If you have people supporting you, reminding you to keep your mouth and hands busy by chewing gum or doing a crossword puzzle, to avoid places that "trigger" your nicotine cravings such as restaurants with smoking sections or bars, it will be easier for you to achieve total smoking cessation.

Check out the Smoking Cessation Web site at smoking-cessation.org for more tips on how to quit smoking. No one claims that total cessation will be easy, but when you start living a healthier, longer, happier life after you quit smoking, smoking cessation will definitely be worthwhile!