QUIT SMOKING ADVICE

QUITTING SMOKING ADVICE

There are some quitting smoking advice such as don’t go cold turkey when quitting. But most smokers do better with a plan to keep themselves on track. A good plan addresses both the short–term challenge of quitting smoking and the long–term challenge of preventing relapse. It should also be tailored to your specific needs and smoking habits.

Take the time to think of what kind of smoker you are, which moments of your life call for a cigarette, and why. This will help you to identify which tips, techniques or therapies may be most beneficial for you.

First, set a quit date. Quit completely on that day. Before your quit date, you may begin reducing your cigarette use. But remember, there is no safe level of cigarette smoking.

List the reasons why you want to quit. Include both short- and long-term benefits.

Identify the times you are most likely to smoke. For example, do you tend to smoke when feeling stressed or down? When out at night with friends? While drinking coffee or alcohol? When bored? While driving? Right after a meal or sex? During a work break? While watching TV or playing cards? When you are with other smokers?

Let your friends, family, and co-workers know of your plan to stop smoking. Tell them your quit date. It can be helpful if they know what you are going through, especially when you are grumpy.

Get rid of all your cigarettes just before the quit date. Clean anything that smells like smoke, such as clothes and furniture.

These are the some questions that smokers should ask themselves.:

• Do you feel the need to smoke at every meal?
• Are you more of a social smoker?
• Is it a very bad addiction (more than a pack a day)? Or would a simple nicotine patch do the job?
• Do you reach for cigarettes when you're feeling stressed or down?
• Are there certain activities, places, or people you associate with smoking?
• Is your cigarette smoking linked to other addictions, such as alcohol or gambling?
• Are you open to hypnotherapy and/or acupuncture?
• Are you someone who is open to talking about your addiction with a therapist or counselor?
• Are you interested in getting into a fitness program?

Smoking at Staircase

You will never imagine how smoking can cause harm to you and others.

In recent years, the number of students smoking has been increasing rapidly. No doubt that the amount of students smoking in school is high. Republic Polytechnic (RP) administration sends newsletter to all students stating where are the places students are not allowed to smoke via email regularly. With the constant effort in reminding students, most of the students is aware where are they supposed to smoke. However, it is seen that the number of students who smokes along the staircases of the pod building is increasing. Why is this the case?

When interviewed, some of the smokers said that they are too lazy to go out of school to smoke since the smoking zone is considered outside of the school compound. Most of them also said that it is very troublesome as the buildings that they are in is very far

from the smoking areas.

With all these reasons, most of the students resulted in smoking at the staircase since it is the easiest and the most convenient.

Besides breaching the school rules, smoking at the staircase causes a lot of other problems such as cigarettes butts being littered along the staircases, causing health problems not only to the smokers but also to the non-smokers  who will suffer from it too as they experienced second and third hand smoke.

Research has shown that second hand smokers are more prone to cancer as compared to smokers. Statistics has shown that in US alone, 34 thousand non smoker died of lung cancer and 42 thousand non smoker died due to heart diseases, annually.  

Many wonder what is Third hand smoking. So what exactly is third hand smoking? Third hand smoking refers to the residual nicotine and other chemicals left on a variety of indoor surfaces by tobacco smoke. Most common diseases caused by third hand smoking is - inflammation-induced diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/secondhand-smoke

In order to improve this situation, smokers should smoke at designated location so that they can minimize the spread of second hand smoke.  In addition, to prevent third hand smoking, smokers SHOULD throw away their cigarettes bud away. However, that does not mean that non - smoker do not have a role to play. Non - smoker can play their part by telling their smoking friends to smoke in designated location and not smoke in areas such as RP.

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