For years I have tried to quit smoking and have tried almost all the ways to quit smoking but in the end it was the shock of my father dying from cancer (no it wasn’t lung cancer but cancer in the bladder – that according to the urologist is caused by smoking) that made me quit at last forever.
I then thought about it long and hard and realized that the reason that I never could quit in the past was because I did not really WANT to quit. Other people told me to quit and that was the reason that I “wanted” to quit – to stop the nagging!
So if you want to quit smoking there are different ways to do so, but please don’t embark on any of them unless YOU WANT to quit.
- Hypnosis – will only work if you believe in hypnosis and if you can be hypnotized
- Meditation – me personally have never been able to understand the “meditation” way, but there are people who are adamant that is works
- Acupuncture – This seems to have worked for a lot of people as well. I am afraid of needles so I did not even attempt this one.
- Subliminal – This method is according to me very important to quit smoking. It may not be effective on its own but it is very important to re-enforce your mind the whole time as smoking is a bad habit and the only way to break bad habits is to have the necessary willpower to do so.
- Medication – I have never been good at taking medication (am a little forgetful) so I decided not to try this method. There are a lot of people who will tell you that it is not advisable to take these “drugs” to get rid of your addiction as there is side effects, but in the end you need to decide if the side effects is worse than what the smoking is doing to your health
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy – now this one I did use and it worked for me, that was until I was at a party and decided that I will just smoke one cigarette (well we all know that it never ends there – in fact I ended up smoking more than before). You get patches, spray, Lozenges, gum, inhalers. And they now come in different flavors to boot.
- Laser Therapy – Well laser seems to work for everything nowadays so why not for smoking.
- Natural – this ranges from vitamins, herbal remedies and homeopathic remedies and also include exercising (to get rid of the bulge when you overeat because of the cravings)
- False cigarettes or smoking vaporizers
- There is also the all popular way of slowly cutting down on a daily basis until you can put the cigarette down.
The most important thing to remember is that there is other people that is also trying to quit and there is people who was successful in quitting so just find yourself a support group as it is always easier when your “burden” is shared.