Quit Smoking – Cold Turkey Or Nrt Which is Best?
When you quit Smoking should you use cold turkey or Nicotine replacement therapy?
There are merits to both methods when you quit smoking. Let’s see which method is best for you.
Smoking cold turkey
By far the most popular method used by smokers to quit smoking.
Cold turkey means to stop smoking with no gradual reduction i.e. you give your system a short sharp shock as smoking stops and nicotine is withdrawn from your system.
Quitting smoking cold turkey does not have a high success rate, due to the extreme symptoms that nicotine withdrawal causes.
Most people quickly revert back to smoking.
For people with strong willpower it works and its advantages are, its cheap, the withdrawal symptoms are only severe for about a week and nicotine is out the system within a month.
How to double your chances
NRT still gives you a nicotine fix without the smoke. Let’s look at the options including an exciting new product that has hit the market.
It’s also been proven that nicotine is healthy when removed from cigarettes so taking nicotine actually does you good!
We will explain why later but for now let’s look at the best options and why it doubles your success rate.
Withdrawal of nicotine causes the following symptoms:
Irritability, lack of concentration, stress, tiredness, nausea. The feelings are intense, especially and NRT aims to help relieve these symptoms
today it’s not only people giving up smoking trying nicotine replacement therapy.
It’s also being used more smokers who are banned from smoking in areas such as the office, restaurants, or many public places
You have various NRT options:
Nicotine gum, patches inhalers and Zyban and all have similar rates of success.
New Products
A New product is also on the market and is aimed at smokers who cant or don’t want to smoke.
This is a quit smoking aid, but simply marketed to help smokers cope when smokers can’t or don’t wish to smoke.
The main advantages of this product are it’s easy, healthy and convenient.
You don’t need to put on a patch, or like chewing gum and unlike the former there are no additional chemicals in the delivery just water.
You can just take a few sips when you need to and get fresh water for hydration as well.
This product will rise in popularity for the group of smokers who choose not to smoke or can’t smoke.
NRT can be used not just to give up smoking but when you have to cut down for long periods when you are subject to a smoking ban of any kind.
Nicotine is healthy!
It is known to improve mood concentration and memory and is the subject of intense medical research to treat conditions such as depression, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease and many more.
In its pure organic form its healthy and non toxic and is actually part of the natural food chain and is contained for example in vegetables, bell peppers, chilli and tea.
So NRT is a great way to double your chances of success and as nicotine is medically proven to do you good reducing your dependence or using it to combat a smoking ban will help smokers everywhere.
Sacha Tarkovsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/quit-smoking-cold-turkey-or-nrt-which-is-best-74147.html
what is the best way to quit smoking cold turkey?
is there any special food (other than rx items) to help you quit? I heard cinnamon toothpaste. Is there any truth in that? And when is the best time to start
cinnamon the herb has a tobaco deterant..the toothpaste has no cinnamon in it ..just artificial flavoring use cinnamon sticks as cigs in your hand
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do you know how much a pack costs now? maybe you should think about how much money you could save and what you could buy with that money. i’m not trying to be rude, smoking is really hard to let go…but think of the money! I think it’s all mentally really, you should think about your health as well. Think about a potentially new you-without cigarettes!
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exercise.Walk,run or bike.
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the best way to stop smoking is.
throw the crap away
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I did it cold turkey about 25 years ago. It was hard but I had a plan. I used quilting to keep my hands busy so that I had something to do with them all the time. I made an entire quilt in a week. The first 3 days were the hardest and the 4th morning, when cigarettes were NOT the first thing I thought about, i knew I had it licked. It may have been the 2nd thing I thought of, but it was not the first !LOL I also nibbled on sunflower seeds and did a lot of cleaning and rearranging the house for that first month. Basically anything to keep myself occupied. My husband did it too, but not till about 5 years later. His thing was snacks. I bought him a bunch of small amounts of snacks from the grocery store that had those bins of bulk snacks. i got soy snacks, and different candies, dried fruits, etc. but each was bagged separately so when he needed something to keep his mind of smoking, it took forever to unwrap a snack, check it out, nibble on a few pieces, close it up, select another and do it all over again. It really worked for him. i also took up crocheting but I bet anything to keep your hands busy would do.
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Start dipping.
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I recommend Copenhagen.
Enjoy!
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Cold turkey just isn’t the answer for everyone. If you find ‘cold turkey’ too hard then accept thats ok. Instead the following can work very well. Accept that you want to give up. Next craving.. allow yourself to indulge but just smoke ‘half’ your usual intake. Next craving.. don’t have any. Next craving have ‘half’ the usual intake etc and keep this up for the first day. Next day.. you should be able to follow the same process but ‘half’ the intake again. Over a period of a week you should be well on the way to weaning yourself off.. cravings way less with the body accepting a couple of puffs. You may find over the next few days that ‘yuk’, you don’t even want the stuff anymore and the thought and smell just turns you right off. This actually worked for me many years ago when i wanted to stop smoking that ‘green’ stuff. Within 10 days i didnt even like it anymore. I never achieved this by going cold turkey tho. When i told myself i ‘couldnt’ have.. i wanted it all the more. If you can relate to that then try the other way.
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it is mind over matter i quit April 12Th 2008 cold turkey after 35 years of smoking up to 4 packs a day. i got up one morning started coughing for about 1 hour so i quit have not had a smoke since. i also have lost 20 lbs. i have 1 nerve left ,. so no trick you just have to quit
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I smoked for a very long time. Quit once for four years with accupuncture. Problem is that there are few capable practicioners who are reliable for cessation of nicotine even though they all say they are successful. Evelyn Wright in San Francisco I can recommend. Have Quit now for three years, yes again, with laser accupuncture. Painless. About 45 min treatment. Walked out feeling like I had never been a smoker. That would be Mark Costello in Littleton, CO. Hypnosis can at times work well.
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