Do I need help to quit smoking?

Of course, there is no certain ways to know for sure but with a little quiz you get to understand your needs better in quit smoking.

The reason is because you need to understand your addiction and habit before you get the right treatment for quit smoking.

Where can you take such as test / assessment to know yourself?

At American Cancer Society, there is a quiz specially designed to help smokers understand their dependency on nicotine and their smoking habit. 

There is no pressure in taking the test. However, if you are serious about quit smoking, you really need to take the first step and by answering the questions, you are one step closer to achieving your goal.

When you have learnt about yourself, you can proceed to finding the best treatment for your quit smoking program. 

When you need to find the best treatment or support, you can check out the American Cancer Society support and quitline. 

Other resources:

1. Tips to help you stop smoking

2. The Myth and Fact about quit smoking

3. Why do I quit smoking?

4. Smoking and crime

Good luck in your quit smoking journey!

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I am sure you know that smoking will increase the chances of getting breast cancer and cervix cancer. So, why are you smoking? These are deadly disease that will not just ruin your life but also affect your loved ones. Do you want to leave them earlier and let them struggle every day missing you and regret about how they cannot do anything to help you?

Well, it is time to make a statement and that is “no smoking”. Ladies, apart from cancers, smoking is also harmful especially when you are pregnant. You can either cause birth complications or even cause the baby’s death. Is this what you want? To see your baby struggle for life and die in your womb.

Yes, it is difficult to let go of smoking but you have to for yourself and your family and friends. They care for you so you should care for yourself as well. There is no reason why you should put yourself at the edge of death. If you are pregnant, you should think about your responsibility for bringing the baby to life.

Now, change your lifestyle by saying NO to cigarettes. You can make a difference and only you can change your life. No one else can do it for you unless you have the will to do it yourself. Difficult it may be, but it is worthy.

Regards,

People who care about you.

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1. Myth: It is too late to quit smoking.

Fact: It is never too late to quit smoking although the sooner the better.

2. Myth: I can smoke just one cigarette and continue with my quit smoking regime.

Fact: No, that’s a lie. There is no such thing as “one last cigarette”.

3. Myth: Relapse happens without any warnings.

Fact: The truth is relapse always happens with warnings.

4. Myth: I will miss smoking.

Fact: It is a matter of mind over body. You choose to believe whether you can stop smoking or not.

So, now you get the real fact instead of myth. Learn to differentiate by consulting an expert. This will help greatly in your quit smoking program.

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You can read the whole story here, but let us discuss about why this is a very bad idea.

First of all, giving out free stuff for pregnant women who smoke is seen as a way of encouraging non-smoking women to smoke. This is because they want to get the freebies (especially beauty treatments) because they are free. 

There is no one who doesn’t like free stuff but when you are giving out free stuff to encourage people to quit smoking, it is all so wrong. Not only it is not going to help eliminate the numbers of pregnant women who smoke but this act might increase more people to smoke. 

Of course, we are constantly looking for ways to encourage people to quit smoking but giving out free stuff is not the correct way of approaching people in order to get them quit smoking.

This is sort of a bribery and that is another problem in the society as well. 

The best way to approach pregnant women to quit smoking is perhaps to educate them about the health complications that might happen during labour and what would happen to the baby due to cigarettes smoking.

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The most important is to ask yourself again why you want to quit smoking. The best way to remind yourself is to jot down the reasons and hang it or paste it somewhere you can see it every day. This way you can keep on reminding yourself why it is important for you to quit smoking and how you can achieve it.

It is best if you can write it this way:

I want to quit because…

You can have one reason or many reasons to support your quit smoking spirit. Write it in a piece of paper or if you prefer on a card board big enough for you to see and read. 

Then, hang it somewhere you get to read it such as on the refrigerator or in your work room or simply keep a piece of it in your wallet and take it out to read it again and again when you are feeling not capable to endure the nicotine withdrawal and feel like wanted to smoke another cigarette. 

At least this is one of the ways for you to acknowledge that you are sincere in quit smoking, you want to successfully quit smoking and quit smoking is all you want to do.

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How do you curb this urge especially if you have a friend or family member who is tempting you to smoke since they are smoking and you are trying to stop?

You need to be strong, you need to be persistent. Have a strong determination will help you to curb the urge of another smoke. Those with weak determination will easily be persuaded into taking another puff and end up failing.

It is not easy to be so determined at something but if you have set your mind and goal to quit smoking, you will be able to do so.

In times like this, it is advisable to do the following:

• An afternoon at the movies

• A pedicure and/or a manicure

• Take a long walk in nature, and bring the dog!

• Give yourself an hour to soak in a long hot bath

• Relax with a good book

• Head to the gym for a workout and a swim

• Go on a mini shopping spree

• Take a power nap

• Splurge on a hot fudge sundae with all the fixings

When you have completed each task, you will feel better and you don’t even remember to smoke (maybe).

Try it and see if it works for you. I am sure some of it will work, if not all!

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Of course, in order to quit smoking you will need more than just the help from others. The most important is you have to help yourself as well. God will help those who help themselves so you need to take the first step in quit smoking and you will be able to find the light of success.

Below is a quote I find most encouraging to help you quit smoking:

"Things do not change; we change."

by: Henry David Thoreau

It is very true that things around us will never change. We will have to be the one to change for a better life. In this case, you will need to change, to quit smoking if you want to enjoy a healthier and longer life. 

Surprisingly, to help you get started in quit smoking, you can first write a goodbye letter to your enemy, nicotine. 

This is one of the examples for your reference and you will be able to see just how powerful a letter can motivate you in quit smoking.

Dear Nic,

Go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
Cause you’re not welcome anymore…
I will survive!

*You can do the same so why wait any longer? 

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Of course, in order to quit smoking you will need more than just the help from others. The most important is you have to help yourself as well. God will help those who help themselves so you need to take the first step in quit smoking and you will be able to find the light of success.

Below is a quote I find most encouraging to help you quit smoking:

"Things do not change; we change."

by: Henry David Thoreau

It is very true that things around us will never change. We will have to be the one to change for a better life. In this case, you will need to change, to quit smoking if you want to enjoy a healthier and longer life.

Surprisingly, to help you get started in quit smoking, you can first write a goodbye letter to your enemy, nicotine.

This is one of the examples for your reference and you will be able to see just how powerful a letter can motivate you in quit smoking.

Dear Nic,

I’m writing you a letter that I may never send. You see, I can’t have any contact with you right now. When I said goodbye, I meant it. But there are times when the thought of you is overwhelming. And so I think it will help for me to be completely honest with myself.

I must confess that I became dependent on you. I believed that I could not bear to feel my loneliness. Instead, I always turned to you. And with you around, I never did anything about it. I didn’t bother to reach out to others, to develop more healthy relationships. I got wrapped up in my own little world, just you and me and my fantasies that things would get better some day.

But the truth is, things didn’t get better, because I lost touch with my real feelings. I had nothing to motivate me. You seemed to satisfy all of my desires.

Now I realize that I gave away my power to you. I convinced myself that you held the solution to all of my problems. In fact, I went into denial. My perceptions of reality became distorted. I confused quenching the uncomfortable feelings with actually dealing with the source of them and taking action on my own behalf.

I am taking this power back now. I am learning how to accept my feelings. I am learning how to face reality without you.

And I see you for what you really are. A false friend. One who would take my very life force away from me. One who will abandon me in the end, no matter how long I try to hang on to you. It’s a harsh thing to say, but that is not nearly as harsh as the toll you have taken on my health.

I am glad to finally feel the anger that I used to suppress about our relationship. I’ve been through the terror of losing you and the agonies of withdrawal and I’m stronger for it. I’ve accepted that I might have moments of confusion and self-doubt, and learned that they don’t mean that I have to go back to you.

Now that I’ve finally gotten you out of my system, I have a choice. And I exercise that choice with pride and reverence. I never want to take my freedom for granted. So, like the song says:

Go, walk out the door
Just turn around now
Cause you’re not welcome anymore…
I will survive!

*You can do the same so why wait any longer?

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Why do young girls smoke?

Answer: Lack of self esteem and trying to lose weight (apparently they are not happy with their appearance).

This is a surprising fact from the experts after a research of over 200 school girls and a follow up call four years later. 

What happened was, the experts asked the girls on how important it is being thin between a scale of 1 to 10 and then asked them if they ever smoked before.

Four years later, the experts called the girls again and asked the same questions again.

Shocking revelations as they discovered that most of the girls who concern about their appearances have picked up the habit of smoking. 

Girls who are unhappy with their body images are about 3 to 4 times likely to pick up the smoking happy.

Some claims that they want to lose weight by smoking. However, even though smoking can increase the metabolism of the body, this is a wrong way to lose weight. 

Some of the girls smoke to boost their self esteem, though. It seems that smoking is a way for them to boost their self esteem because they feel fit in when they smoke. 

Still, smoking is not the right way for weight loss and to boost self esteem. So, it is best to prevent rather than cure. Once addicted, it is going to be hard to throw away the habit. 

Even though there are many ways such as NRT and Hypnosis to help quit smoking but there is a lot of determination and strength needed to overcome the addiction. 

To get more information on Quit Smoking, check out the Quit Smoking Methods.

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If you have kids, I would advice you to stop smoking at least before your kids turn 8 years old. There is a reason behind it and a very strong reason as well so pay attention.

Kids after the age of 8 years old are more likely to pick up the smoking habit than those younger. If you are a smoking dad or mum, please quit smoking before they turn 8 or else there will be more future smokers.

This is because they are more likely do what you are doing, of course they tried it out and then when they are hooked on to it, they can never stop. By telling them, “you cannot smoke” simply won’t do any magic in stopping them from smoking because they will just reply, “you smoke too”.

According to the experts,

“If one parent quits before the child is 8 or 9, the child’s odds of being a regular smoker decrease by 25 percent. If both parents quit, the odds go down by 40 percent, according to the study.”

If you can stop smoking earlier even before they were born, then it would the best but in this case for those who haven’t stop smoking should really kick the habit for your child’s own good. 

Children are likely to begin smoking between 8-20 years old. Yes, it begins at a very young and tender age of 8 years old. However, if your kids can stay smoke free until they are 18 years old, chances are they will stay smoke free for the rest of their life.

How can you quit smoking in such a short time? 

You can try out these:

- Acupuncture

- NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy)

- Quit smoking cold turkey

- Hypnosis

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