How to quit smoking correctly - immediately or gradually?Advice on this matter varies dramatically.As soon as we talk about a way to quickly quit smoking, there are immediately people who, based on the opinions of doctors, declare that abruptly giving up cigarettes in a couple of days is harmful and dangerous to health.Although there is no evidence.
“Why can’t you suddenly quit smoking?”- this question is initially incorrect!Often this is just a way for smokers to delay or prolong their quitting.After all, the very thought of suddenly quitting smoking terrifies them, since they will have to deprive themselves of the “pleasure” in which they believe.For them, this is a convenient excuse: “It’s dangerous, there are consequences, so I won’t quit.”But what is the reality like?
Is it harmful or not if you suddenly quit smoking?
Personally, I have never heard the opinion of doctors that abruptly quitting cigarettes is dangerous.Moreover, once during a TV show on the Dozhd channel, I met an authoritative specialist in the field of cardiology.He and I sat in a cafe during breaks between filming and talked.
I asked him a question about whether it is possible to suddenly quit smoking and whether it is dangerous.To this I received this answer.Indeed, it was previously thought that nicotine withdrawal could cause problems, but only for those undergoing complex surgery.But now this idea is considered erroneous.After all, even a few hours of abstinence from nicotine often increases the chances of a successful operation.
I was happy to hear this answer.Although, to be honest, I doubted that it could turn out to be different.Think for yourself, what will happen if you quit smoking right away?Certainly nothing bad.At the very least, the regular intake of over 4,000 chemical compounds into the body (of which 250 are poisonous) will cease.I think the body will breathe a sigh of relief.
Nicotine is considered a “fast” drug.You quickly get used to it, but you also get used to it in a matter of days.Why do people think that it is impossible to give it up right away?Of course you can!And soon you will notice an improvement in your well-being, your dizziness will stop, you will wake up in the morning cheerful and rested, and you will begin to get less tired during the day.
Is it possible for a woman to suddenly quit smoking?
Another statement that I have heard is that pregnant women should not give up cigarettes.It is believed that if you suddenly quit smoking while pregnant, it will cause stress and harm both the expectant mother and her baby.I would like to immediately ask again: isn’t it harmful to poison yourself and your unborn child with tobacco smoke for the entire 9 months?
Show me doctors who give such advice!They probably smoke often themselves.I suspect that most of them will be nutritionists, dentists, that is, specialists who have no idea how nicotine addiction develops.
A similar misconception concerns the question of why you should not take medications when you quit smoking.Quitting nicotine does not affect the effect of most medications.
Why shouldn't you quit smoking during your period?What will be the consequences if you give up nicotine at this time?On the physical level - nothing, or rather, nothing bad.
But in all of these cases, emotional discomfort is possible.This applies to those people who quit smoking by force, that is, by using willpower to restrain themselves from the temptation to smoke.This also includes the use of nicotine substitutes, coding, the use of pills and other methods that do not solve the problem of addiction on a psychological level.
I would like to take a closer look at the nature of this stress that many people are afraid of.This stress is not related to the fact that a person has given up cigarettes and stopped polluting his body with nicotine and thousands of chemical compounds.It is caused by other mental processes.
The complexity of this process is associated with the psychological aspect of nicotine addiction - with the desire to smoke, with the conflict “I want to smoke, but I can’t.”And neither pills, nor needles, nor chamomile infusion will help cope with it.A psychological problem can only be solved at a psychological level.That is, you need to eliminate the very desire to smoke.And then there will be no stress when giving up this “bad habit.”
Is it possible to quit smoking suddenly or is it better to do it gradually?
When a smoker decides to get rid of a “bad habit,” he suffers not from the very fact of giving up nicotine, but from the feeling that he is sacrificing something: a reward or pleasure.He is depressed by the thought of why he can’t now do what everyone can!
Imagine how parents drag a small child away from a display case with sweets.Of course, he is outraged, frustrated, he cries and screams loudly.I think this raises his heart rate and blood pressure.But this is unlikely to be due to the fact that the baby stopped eating sweets.
Adults are not children; you can’t stop them from doing something.But they can prohibit themselves, and the reaction will be similar.After all, fighting with yourself is a difficult and thankless task.
Often, fearing the consequences and wondering whether it is dangerous to quit a “bad habit” right away, many people prefer to do it gradually.On the advice of friends, they reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke and think that it will be easier for them.Practice shows that this is a dead end path.Most return to the previous amount of tobacco and continue to smoke.
I want to sum it up.Are you asking yourself whether it is possible to suddenly quit smoking?I answer yes!And there is nothing complicated about it.Moreover, you can do this with great pleasure.But on one condition: you should have neither the desire nor the temptation to smoke again.
Rely on common sense!Don’t believe horror stories about terrible withdrawal symptoms and health problems.Quit abruptly, one day - you just need to get rid of the desire, and then you can easily eliminate cigarettes from your life.And we will help you with this.