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| How to Quit Smoking? |  Smoking is very harmful for your health. If you want to quit smoking, at first you will need to think about the reasons why you’ve smoked and find the reasons why you’ve to quit. Nicotine, the highly addictive drug found in cigarettes, is at the root of your physical addiction to cigarettes and is responsible for the physical withdrawal symptoms you’ll experience when you quit.
The longer you continue to smoke, the more dependent your body becomes on nicotine. Quitting isn’t easy, but it can be done. It requires effort, determination and commitment.
There are many reasons why you’ve turned to cigarettes in the past. For addicted smoking is a way of coping with stress, depression or anxiety. Smoking may have become a part of your dailylife. It may be an automatic response for you to light a cigarette with your morning coffee, when you take a break from work or school or during your commute home at the end of the day. If friends, family and colleagues smoke and it may become a part of the way you relate with others.
Try to identify places or situations where you smoke most often, when you smoke, with whom and why. Review your diary after four or five days to identify patterns of particular feelings and circumstances that trigger your cravings for a cigarette.
Quiting these habits will be challenging; being able to identify your triggers and reasons why you have smoked is an important step towards reaching your goal. It’s essential that you explore and understand your motives for smoking so that you can create an effective plan that incorporates alternative coping strategies.
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