Recommendations of a quitting cigarette addiction

"Recommendations" of the smoker who writes this post - and not try a cigarette for years – can be summarized as a single fundamentalrecommendation which is to go to a health care professional to guide them on the way out of this disease. There are many prejudices and many false beliefs about how to quit, however, statistically it is clear that the best results are achieved with the help of specialists.

It is true that there are many methods, guides and tips well founded (as that can be found in this article) to quit. But, most of the time, you lose something fundamental view is that smoking is an addiction to a substance, a drug in the broadest sense of the term. This brings some consequences that not always are well understood and valued.

Refuting some myths and prejudices about cigarette addiction

There are also many prejudices, for example, people who believe that if they go to a specialist for help they will be showing that they are weak, and on the other hand if they leave on their own cigarette will demonstrate that they are stronger. What is really proven is that let the cigarette addiction is much more difficult and involves greater suffering if you try to do on their own, and that there is no need of embarrassed...
Many people do not want to go to the doctor to quit smoking by fear, go to a doctor is to assume that it is sick. In addition, there are other myths: usually medicines such as patches or nicotine gum and psychoactive drugs are used to help quit smoking addiction. This of itself generates fear and rejection in some people.
If these people knew that gum or nicotine patches are used as a form of ir supplementing the nicotine which is present in cigarettes (along with another quantity of extremely toxic chemicals), and make the body, the brain in particular, is not visible so affected in the absence of that substance which means go to reducing the amount of cigarettes consumed daily probably change of opinion in this respect.
If knew people who refuse the use of psychoactive drugs as part of treatment to stop smoking the drug that is commonly used is Bupropion (or a similar antidepressant), whose function is to prevent the person feeling the very displeased withdrawal syndrome, probably change of opinion in this respect. In addition, if they knew that this potential does not leave "stunned" the person who takes it, or generates dependency, and, above all, If people knew that taking this type of medication increases dramatically (from 10% to 70%) chances of success when attempting to stop the cigarette, since solved the key factor of unpleasant nicotine withdrawal syndrome , surely change of opinion regarding this.

The power of addiction

Nicotine is a very addictive substance, as you know those (that as the writer) have come to smoke a pack a day, so being a couple of hours without lighting a cigar, we started feeling a "desire" of extremely intense smoking. Although the effects produced are very different, some compared the need to go for the next cigarette with generated by cocaine addiction. For this reason and not because it generates a State consciousness altered is considered tobacco as a drug.
Only smokers who have low nicotine dependence and that have a great self-control (all believe we have them) manage to leave the cigarette without help. The rest, or fails, quit smoking for a while and then drop in the addiction, or manages to stop smoking through great effort and great suffering - that could be avoided.
Many people don't know these things by not going to a professional, it can usually be a pulmonologist in charge of these treatment, who would allow them to access this and much more information in this regard because, simply, it will be there to respond to each specific question that you have.

The perverse mechanism

One of the information that is essential to know is the mechanism of operation of the cigarette: its addictive nature is given because nicotine is a drug that affects the brain, creating a feeling of well-being. The brain gets used to that feeling of well-being that lasts determined time, and then, when the concentration of nicotine in blood falls with the passage of the hours (or when an event produces a psychic slump), brain demand again that feeling of well-being. This demand (of the brain by the feeling of well-being that produces nicotine) is perceived by us (our brain) as "feeling like a cigarette". It is a very perverse mechanism.
To smoke the next cigarette, think that much more that doing what you want to do, will be part of a chemical process which is very difficult to leave unless recourse is had to a specialist.

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