Quit Smoking - Discover 2 Facts To Help You Quit For Good

If you want to quit smoking you need to understand the two facts in this article and you will be on your way to quitting for good.

Smokers are both psychologically and physically dependent on smoking and you need to understand both to be able to quit smoking.

Let?s look at the relationship in greater detail.

1. Understanding Physical Dependence

The key to stopping smoking is to understand that while your conscious mind knows it?s bad for you, it also makes you more relaxed, improves mood, memory and makes you feel more alert.

The fact is smoking makes you feel better.

Smoking improves mood, memory and attention and that?s a proven fact.

Nicotine is responsible for this, as well as the addictive nature of smoking.

Nicotine affects the neuro transmitters in the brain and helps realise dopamine a chemical that gives feelings of pleasure.

While cigarette smoking is bad for you, nicotine in organic form outside of smoking is good for you.

It does not cause death or disease (that?s some of the other 4,000 chemicals consumed in cigarette smoking). Nicotine is part of the natural food chain and is present in many common foods and vegetables such as:

Potatoes, tomatoes, tea, chillis and peppers to name a few.

Consider this!

The physical addiction to cigarette smoking is provided by nicotine.

Therefore, if nicotine is good for you and you can get it outside of smoking, then you can cope with nicotine withdrawal symptoms and stop being physically dependent.

Nicotine can be obtained outside of cigarettes in a number of ways, from gum, patches, inhalers and puffers.

If you use these products your chances of giving up are doubled over simply trying to quit without getting nicotine.

As nicotine is not bad for you in organic form then there is no reason not to take it.

Today, many companies are not just looking at nicotine supplements to help people give up smoking; they are looking at marketing them to help people with various conditions such as:

Depression, Altzeimer?s and Parkinsons disease.

The first product is already out ? nicotine water, which simply provides organic nicotine in water.

Originally targeted at smokers when they couldn?t, or didn?t want to smoke, it is now being taken by many non smokers for its potential health benefits.

2. Psychological dependence

Smokers have a relationship with smoking which is like a relationship with a friend.

The most crucial thing to keep in mind is that you will only stop smoking if you overcome this relationship and this is purely psychological.

You will only stop smoking if you really want to.

To stop smoking you must say goodbye to your perceived "friend" for good and want to do it.

Smoking is something you have learnt and is not part of your natural being.

You lived without it before and you can again.

Sure, you can cope with nicotine withdrawal but the psychological dependence is just as hard to break.

You can do this by visualization.

Think how much healthier you will be, how much money you will save and how the risk of death and disease will drop etc and simply be strong.

Understanding the above

The fact is physical dependence is only half the battle and as we have seen, that?s easy, once you understand that nicotine does you no harm and has health benefits you can keep taking it.

The real problem is in the mind.

If you really want to stop, that comes from within and breaking the relationship with your perceived ?friend? and the fact is only you can do that.