Quit Smoking
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Maybe you intend to quit smoking, but not today anyway. You keep postponing it for tomorrow. Look at these figures just to make an idea on how much smoking has got a grip on people all around the world! There are 15 billion cigarettes sold every day, or 10 million every minute, and statistics say that 12 times more British people have died because of smoking than from World War II. The highest smoking rate is to be found in the Western Pacific part of the world, where nearly two-thirds of men are smoking. If these facts don’t tell you something about how important it is to quit smoking, maybe something will come up in your life that will change you for good. Not necessarily disease, but a shocking experience that may get you realize your life is worth living at its full value.
The first argument that smokers bring to justify why they don’t quit smoking is that nicotine helps them overcome stressful situations. Negative moods and tension periods are more likely to produce relapses in the case of smokers who have previously managed to quit smoking. Usually it is said that it takes three to four trials to quit smoking. The witty say that it takes a failure to ensure success. Though quitting smoking may be the most self-demanding experience that you have ever gone through, do not despair. Remember there are thousands of people in your situation.
The quit smoking difficulties arise from the withdrawal symptoms that can prove bothering even within two months after stopping smoking. Every time the nicotine level drops in your body you will go through withdrawal. Steadiness and determination are required throughout such periods. If you try to maintain your spirits up by positive way of thinking your chances to quit smoking more easily double. That is the purpose of attending behavior counseling, they make you feel that you are not alone.
The rate percent if you try to quit smoking on your own is 5%, while with intensive treatment you have five times more chances to succeed. Most people ignore the real harm that smoking does to their health. More women would quit smoking if they knew that smoking is one of the factors that cause cervical cancer. Smokers usually apply a simplest philosophy; they consider warnings as simple exaggerations, or they believe in self-invincibility under the false pretext that “Nothing can touch me”. Unfortunately life proves that they are wrong.
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