A Cigarette In My Hand , I Feel Like A Man .. Review on How to Quit Smoking - Tips and Tricks

During my college days, one of the famous phrase that read'Kissing a smoker is like Licking an ashtray', but yet, this has not yet inspired smokers to QUIT!

My Cigarette, My Friend! Yeah that's what they call it.

*How It ALL Begins*

A great many investigators have discussed the reasons for starting to smoke. However, no common agreement has been reached. For the most part, the various explanations fall into the psychological realm. They range from such motivating factors as the desire to appear more grown-up or the wish for adult status, adolescent rebelliousness, striving for proper group status, reduction of tension, novel experience, curiosity, peer orientation, personality inferiority, imitative-sociability element, all the way to the suggestion of a'phallic significance of the cigarette, cigar, and pipe.'

There are a number of complex and inter-relating factors that predispose young people to smoke, and these vary among individuals and among populations. However, years of research have identified certain factors that commonly play a role in smoking initiation. These include high levels of

social acceptability for tobacco products, exposure and vulnerability to tobacco marketing efforts, availability and ease of access, role modelling by parents and other adults, and peer group use

*But Why My Friend, Why? *

Why Do you Smoke? A Question, I have been asking my friends who smoke and most common answers:

'I Smoke Because I Like Smoking!'

'I Smoke Because I'm Self-Destructive'

'I You Smoke Because I am a Smoke-a-holic'

'Smoking helps me to deal with stress'

*Medical Implications of Smoking *

Besides the lungs, other sites where cigarettes exert a carcinogenic effect include- mouth, lip, tongue, larynx, pharynx, and espohagus.  In addition, cigarettes contribute to cancers of the kidney, bladder, pancreas and stomach. While most people associate smoking with cancer, even more people die from circulatory problems caused by cigarette smoking than from cancers caused from cigarettes. The effects on the circulatory system are both immediate and dangerous.

Nicotine is a stimulant which raises the heart rate and blood pressure, constricts the arteries, and, in conjunction with carbon monoxide, causes atherosclerotic conditions within the artery walls. This clogging process affects the heart as well as other sites of the body such as the brain or peripheral circulation in the extremities, sometimes resulting in gangrene and amputations. Over 200, 000 of smoking related deaths are attributed to the combined effect of nicotine and carbon monoxide on the circulatory system.

*Can they give up smoking *

People sitting in at smoking clinics are amazed at how resistant smokers are to giving up cigarettes. Even smokers will sit and listen to horror stories of other participants in sheer disbelief.  Some smokers have had multiple heart attacks, circulatory conditions resulting in amputations, cancers, emphysema and a host of other disabling and deadly diseases.  How in the world could these people have continued smoking after all that?  Some of these smokers are fully aware that smoking is crippling and killing them, but

continue to smoke anyway.

*One Way To Quit*

Quitting by the gradual withdrawal method. This method is quite extensively used by many successful quitters. if there is anyone attending who knows a smoker who they really despise they should actively encourage them to follow the gradual withdrawal'cut down' approach.  They should call them up ever day and tell them to just get rid of one cigarette.  Meaning, if they usually smoke 40 a day, just smoke 39 on the first day of the attempt to quit.  The next day they should be encouraged to smoke only 38 then 37 the next day and so on.  Then the seminar participant should call these people every day to congratulate them and encourage them to continue.

Never Take Another Puff, Stop Now! Stop Now!