Smoking Cessation

1. When you smoke, nicotine is sent to your brain where it attaches to nicotine receptors. 2. a chemical called dopamine is released, making you feel good. 3. Then, your dopamine levels drop. This makes you want another cigarette.

The probability that a long-term smoker will eventually be killed by tobacco is 1 in 2. The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated: "A cigarette is . . . a cleverly crafted product that delivers just the right amount of nicotine to keep its user addicted for life before killing the person."

In the United States, tobacco use is to blame for 1 out of every 5 deaths. In that country, it kills more people each year than "alcohol, illegal drug use, homicide, suicide, car accidents, and AIDS combined," states a report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Those poisonous chemicals especially harm the health of children. It makes the user a slave to the damaging habit. In fact, researchers believe that addiction to nicotine, a key chemical in tobacco, is one of the most difficult addictions to break. Please see Awake article on jw.org

Most people have realized what tobacco DOES to the human body. Tobacco can affect nearly every organ in your body-your heart, lungs, mouth, brain, liver, stomach, limbs etc.

Also people know what tobacco CONTAINS. Cigarettes contain over 4000 chemicals and at least 69 of them are known to cause cancer. Such chemicals as nail polish remover, tar (used to pave roads), pesticides, bleach and carbon monoxide are just a few of these.

Finally, the public's MOOD against smoking is becoming more and more fierce. Anti-smoking ads have been particularly gruesome, especially in Australia.

People know what smoking does, they know what it contains, and the public is starting to agree to ban smoking in more places.

You can't really get anybody to quit smoking.

But you can let your best friend know that you really care about him and his health and that it hurts you to see him harming it with tobacco. He is harming it. And you can tell him that there are lots of kinds of help available for someone who wants to quit, including methods available through doctors.

You just can't do the wanting for him.

You desire to eat after quitting because one of the effects of smoking/nicotine is appetite suppression. Eating is important more so of vegetables, fruits and other nutritious foods to help your body recover. What most people dislike is the weight gain associated with quitting smoking.

There are natural herbs that you can use to cleanse your system. These will also help with your eating control. Some people keep bags of fresh fruit supplies. This is better than eating fast foods etc. Fruits always does something positive to your body without giving you any/much weight.

- I smoked for twenty-three years at one to three packs a day. I quit five years ago. I am just now getting my wind and stamina back. I do not believe that nicotine itself stays in your system for more than two months after you completely quit. Your body will purge the poisons out of itself rather quickly, but the effects of long term smoking will take longer. The less time you smoke the less damage you do to yourself. Extreme exercise (soldiers in Iraq, or basic training type exercise) will help offset or delay, the harmful effects. I am not a doctor and my opinion should not be taken as fact.

- My husband and I are setting ourselves up to quit smoking and the Internist my husband goes too suggested a good book by Allen Carr called, "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking" and comes with 2 CDs. When I went to purchase this book I was shocked to see that there was a book for women by the same author! I was elated and bought the book. It's excellent and my husband loves the book he's reading. Smoking is addictive, but also we have many habits along with the smoking so they need to be broken in order to stay away from cigarettes. Women go through so many hormonal changes (women's smoking is increasing while men quitting smoking has gone down, and teen smoking has gone up in the U.S. and Canada.) There have been many books, TV ads with that magic pill to quit smoking, but the best way my husband and I find to tackle this is to read this book, break some bad habits, started going to the gym and to keep busy and quit smoking. There is just no easy way! We know we are in the battle for our lives and it's not going to be easy, but like anything else in life if you want it bad enough you can do it.

- In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal. In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal. In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.

- In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase. In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks. In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%. In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half. In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker. In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker. In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.

- I recently took part in medical trials using a drug called Champix. Whilst it does not make you give up smoking, what it does do is help relieve the cravings that go with it. The habits and routines of smoking are still down to will power. During the trials I attended regular clinics where carbon-monoxide levels were monitored. After approximately 72 hours your carbo-monoxide levels will have returned to that of a non-smoker of between 2 and 6. My regular reading now is 2. There will always be a trace of carbon-monoxide in the body but this is simply picked up in the atmosphere in day to day life.

The first guy who answered probably just sat on the couch after quitting smoking. It's only been 5 days for me and I've been exercising and running everyday. I've already gotten most of my stamina back.

- I believe the drug you are talking about is Chantix. It also makes you have ridiculous nightmares and suicidal thoughts. I have quit without assistance of any kind and am just fine. I have already started walking and bike riding again without difficulty. If you have problems getting your "wind" back it is most likely because you are not only a smoker but probably severely over weight as well.

In relation to Chantix (aka Champix) talk to your doctor. There have been links made to suicidal thoughts, depression and a range of other side effects, but importantly there is no clear data that rules out other significant contributing factors, mainly a predisposition or indeed preexisting condition, including depression and mania.

It is also accepted that quitting cigarettes can cause some of these symptoms in people with a predisposition or preexisting condition.

I have been taking Chantix for 5 weeks. To avoid insomnia, on my pharmacist's advice, I take my doses at 8am and 8pm, and so far have had no lost sleep. Equally, I have had no nightmares.

The tablets do lead to some naseau, but it's manageable if I take the pills after food and with lots of water.

I am off cigarette's since my quit date in week 2 of the treatment, I have not smoked any since. Most positively for me, these pills do not contain nicotine, so I am beating the addiction rather than supplementing it in another way.

Like all prescription medication, Chantix will suit some more than others, but I'd advise everyone to speak to their doctor in relation to it and see if it's something that might be suitable for you.

Yes it's medication and it contains chemicals, but far fewer and less destructive chemicals than found in cigarettes.

I am not a doctor.

Generally, men tend to use all tobacco products at higher rates than women. In 2015, a study shown 16.7 percent of adult males and 13.6 percent of adult females smoked cigarettes.

44%

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nearly 80% relapse within a year

Probably a urine test looking for nicotine. Hair test can show long term usage but are expensive. Blood tests can't usually show past 2 days so they generally aren't used either. Urine tests are cheap and can still show a decent timeframe for usage. Nicotine stays around for awhile depending on how often you smoke. If you are still a daily smoker, it could take up to 20 days (or more). If you only smoke every now and then, 3-4 days. Again, this depends on your nicotine consumption. Drinking water can aide in the removal of it in your body. There are products on the market that can fool urine tests either by using fake urine or by adding something to yours. These things can be found depending on how indepth the test is run. If your doctor wants you to quit smoking but the nicotine withdraw is too much, smokeless tobacco such as dip or snus (or using patches/gum to break the nicotine addiction) can help although quitting entirely would be the best for your health. Your doctor may test your lung capacity which is something that can only get better over time, there isn't a way to fool him on that. He may test you with a machine or with a simple, plastic hand held device that you would blow into at a certain pressure for as long as possible.

Your doctor does have the best intentions for you so listen to them when they tell you to quit something.

YES!!

have your wife children or any other relative set up a calender for you. For each day, In the day's box you put an x or a check-mark. The x means you are doing it more and the check means your doing it less.

First you have to work out why you smoke and why you want to stop. The big thing is you can't stop for anyone else, it has to be because you want/need to. A recovering smoker is just the same as a recovering gambler or a recovering alcoholic. You have to analyse what makes you smoke. If it happens, say, when you go for a drink, stay out of the bar. You have to break the association. Don't hang around the smokers area at work. If stress is the trigger use strategies to reduce the amount of stress; analyse the situations when stress occurs and work to minimise it. Use patches/ false cigarettes etc., whatever helps. Never smoke immediately before bed, after sex or first thing in the morning. If you smoke after a meal, have a piece of fruit instead. There will be a tendency to comfort eat. Take more exercise; reclaim those stairs that 3 packs a day prevented you from scaling. Exercise releases endorphins in the brain which have a similar effect on your mood as nicotine does. If you are offered a cigarette say, "No thank you, I don't want to smoke just now." This is a strategy you can use even when you think you have quit, just keep saying, "I don't want a cigarette yet." Be prepared to feel nauseous when your nose starts working properly again and you smell stale smokers. Put the money you save in a high interest account. The biggest problem you will then face is what to spend it on. That, and apologizing to your loved ones for the years you made them and their environment smell bad.

Smoking can cause loss of appetite. When you stop smoking your appetite will return and you will eat more often, causing weight gain.

Some suggestions is to watch your diet more after you stop smoking. Exercising more after you quit can help prevent your body getting lazy.

The concluding paragraph.

i dont think he did

When I thought of quitting smoking, I was crying. Then I smoked more sticks than usual. My will power worked and I quit smoking. I was happy that day. Then next day, I smoked again. Same thing happened for so many years. One day quitting, another day smoking. Two days quitting, smoking more sticks in following two days. Then after 50 years of smoking, I have not smoked for 5 years now. But I don't know whether I have totally quit smoking. I may smoke any time again.

I remember the joke, "To quit smoking is very easy, I have done it many times."

yes

No

It might be because smoking has chemicals in it and it's called nicotine and it keeps you addicted to smoking but the chemicals inside the cigaretes have something to do with your not singing a note. == It is not unusual at all that your voice will change after quitting. This should be a temporary situation. Give it time for your body to adjust to not having the smoke.

Onoinarily, no. Disability insurance, like other types, is intended to provide benefits for only fortuitous events--those that cannot be planned and which are not intended or foreseeable. Although alcoholism may not have been the intention of the alcohol user, it was a foreseeable consequence of overuse.

That said, there may be limited benefits available for rehabilitation under a health insurance policy, as well as for medical care needed due to physical problems resulting from alcoholism.

I'm pretty sure he did.