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  Stopping smoking is a process and not a single ‘event’; it is vital to understand this concept to successfully quit smoking. As a smoker you need to change the way you think. The process of giving up smoking begins even before the actual physical act of stopping and continues way past you putting that last cigarette out.
  
  
• Why You Smoke
  Why do you Smoke? Why Smoke? Including yourself there are plenty of people in the world who smoke, so you must be getting something out of it, right? Think back to the time when you first started smoking, can you remember how it felt? Most people when asked, say that they didn’t actually enjoy their first cigarettes, reporting feeling dizzy, wanting to vomit or coughing their lungs up but yet they still came back for more! Why keep trying when our body is so obviously trying to tell us not to?
  
  
  • Nicotine Addiction
    Nicotine is mainly responsible for your addiction to cigarettes because, unfortunately, it is one of the most highly addictive substances known to man. It is thought that smoking just 4 cigarettes is enough to get you hooked. Its effect on your mind and body is similar to caffeine, cocaine or amphetamine because it is a stimulant that increases brain activity.
    
    
  • Nicotine Withdrawal
    Nicotine Withdrawal - As we have seen, nicotine is a powerful drug. When your try to withdraw from it by stopping smoking, you’re going to experience some pretty unpleasant side effects. They symptoms usually begin within a few hours of the last cigarette you smoked, reaching their peak after about 3 days and then gradually reducing over the next few weeks.
    
    
  • The Smoking Habit
    Looking at Smoking as a Habit, When we refer to smoking as a habit, we are talking about the behavioral patterns that come with it. To define your area of habit first think about the way in which you smoke, the little rituals that are now well-worn patterns etched onto your brain - such as the way you hold the cigarette, light it, inhale and flick the ash off the end. The fact that these actions are repeated by yourself many times a day means they are ingrained into your brain and feel comfortable to you. They give you a sense of security, which is pleasurable and feels necessary.
    
    
  • Peer Pressure
    Peer pressure can be hard for anyone to resist; this is particularly true for, but not restricted to, young people. Smoking sometimes plays an important role in friendships; if you stop smoking you may lose a bond with friends who also smoke. If your friends smoke, deciding to quit may be difficult because they take it as a criticism of their own habit.
    
    
  • Reasons People Smoke
    Various Reasons Why People Smoke are explained.
    
    
• Why Stop Smoking
  Why Stop Smoking? The last thing smokers need is another ‘lecture’ on why smoking is bad for them. Most smokers are usually aware of some of the risks but if you are serious about quitting smoking it is worth knowing and understanding the risks you are taking if you continue to smoke.
  
  
  • Whats in Cigarettes
    Cigarettes look deceptively simple - they consist of paper tubes that contain chopped up tobacco leaf and usually have a filter at the mouth end, right? In reality cigarettes are a highly engineered product designed to give you a steady dose of nicotine. In addition to the tobacco leaf blend, cigarettes contain . . .
    
    
  • Harmful Effects Of Smoking
    All tobacco smoke is bad for your health, and there are two types of smoke. The smoke that a smoker inhales is known as mainstream smoke and the smoke that comes from the tip of the cigarette between puffs is known as side stream smoke. Mainstream and side stream smoke are made up of different chemical compositions and it is side stream smoke that contains higher concentrations of harmful substances.
    
    
  • Cancers and Other Risks
    Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers, with the main cancers affecting smokers being lung, throat and mouth cancers. These types of cancer rarely affect non-smokers. The link between smoking and lung cancer is obvious.
    
    
  • More Reasons to Stop Smoking
    Smoking affects your looks, with smokers having paler skin and more wrinkles. This happens because smoking reduces the blood supply to the skin and lowers levels of vitamins A and C in the body. Tobacco smoking affects your body’s internal organs, especially the heart and lungs, but it also affects your appearance by altering the skin and body weight.
    
    
• Whats Good About Stopping Smoking?
  As well as reducing the risk of getting a smoking-related illness, there are plenty of other benefits to giving up, including: Your overall health will improve. Your sense of smell and taste will improve. Your heart will work more efficiently and be under less strain. There is no doubt about it - stopping smoking is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health.
  
  
  • How Time Helps You Regain Health
    How Your Health Will Immediately Improve When You Quit Smoking, And . . . How Time Helps You Regain Your Health
    
    
• Preparing To Quit Smoking
  Most smokers try to quit several times before they eventually succeed. One of the most important things you can do before giving up is to learn more about your habit and the areas of weakness that are exposed at each attempt you make.
  
  
  • Confronting Your Smoking Addiction
    There are two parts to your smoking addiction: Psychological addiction: This occurs because smoking becomes a part of your everyday routine. This means if you want to cut down or quit, you will need to change your habits. Physical addiction: This occurs because your body has become addicted to the nicotine in the cigarette. This addiction causes real withdrawal symptoms when you cut down or quit smoking
    
    
  • Nicotine Replacement Therapies
    Nicotine replacement therapies, or NRT’s, are stop-smoking medications that release nicotine into your bloodstream to help ease your cravings and withdrawal symptoms. These products don't give you the same sort of ‘buzz’ you get from cigarettes but they do help to reduce cravings. NRT’s aren't meant to replace smoking but function to gradually wean you off nicotine.
    
    
  • NRT Side Effects And Tips
    As with all medicines nicotine products can cause side effects. Common side effects with all of the above-mentioned products include: Headache, Nausea, and Dizziness
    
    
  • Alternative Quitting Mehods
    Alternative quitting smoking methods explained. So you've made the decision to quit and the big day is drawing nearer. You're absolutely determined to stop smoking - but how are you going to do it? For most people the choice is between going cold turkey or using NRT products. There is no 'right' way to quit smoking so you’ll need to find the best way for you,
    
    
  • Success Rates
    Low. Why are success rates so low? If you've tried to quit smoking and failed before you will already know the physical withdrawal symptoms, cravings and irritability, etc., are often not the hardest part of quitting.
    
    
• Time To Quit Smoking
  So the big day has arrived - the day you have decided is going to be your quit day. So how are you going to get through the first few weeks and optimize your chances to successfully quit? Remember, you want to plan on how you are going to handle any chalenges that will surface during this critical time. You must concentrate and manage your focus to achieve your goal of becoming a non smoker.
  
  
  • Dealing With Smoking Cravings
    The desire for a cigarette will get less after just a few days and for some people, it may completely vanish after just two to four weeks. The strength and frequency of cravings varies from person to person, and even from quit to quit, but it will take some time before you start to feel comfortable without cigarettes.
    
    
  • 7 Day Quit Smoking Plan
    How About A Plan - A Typical first week preparing to quit Smoking - The first thing to do is set a date when you are going to quit smoking. Let’s start one week from today. That will give you plenty of time to practice with the weapons in your arsenal. Eight days from today, it will be the beginning of the end of your smoking habit.
    
    
• Staying A Non Smoker
  You have to remember that once a smoker always a smoker. Even many years after giving up, 90% of ex-smokers who are tempted to have just one puff on a cigarette return to their previous levels of smoking. If You Suffer any Setbacks, Try not to be discouraged if you slip up and smoke 1 or 2 cigarettes. It doesn’t mean you are a lost cause.
  
  
  • Prevent Weight Gains
    Preventing Weight Gains When Quitting Smoking. Keeping Weight Down - Many smokers are worried that they will put on weight when they stop smoking, however in reality only a small number of quitters put on more than just a few pounds.
    
    
• Smoke Free Forever
  Overcoming your addiction to nicotine and cigarettes takes a lot of determination. If you make it this far you have a lot to be proud of and should not underestimate just what you have achieved. It is important to now focus on staying stopped forever. Here are 4 reminders for encouraging you to remain a non-smoker:
  
  
• Quit Smoking FAQs
  Quit smoking FAQs. Here are some commonly asked questions about how to stop smoking and the answers to them. Questions that do get right to the heart of the stop smoking dilemma for many people.
  
  
• Stop Smoking Articles
  Articles about stopping smoking and information supporting people who want to quit smoking.
  
  
  • U.S. Smoking Stats
    If you stop smoking you are reducing the numbers by one of the leading preventable cause of U.S. deaths. In fact, 438,000 U.S. residents die each year because they didn't stop smoking or because someone else did not. Smoking related deaths in the United States account for nearly one of every five deaths in the nation.
    
    
  • Smoking Affects Your Family
    If you don't want to stop smoking for your own health, you might have an incentive to stop smoking if you learn just how your smoking affects those around your smoke such as your family and other loved ones. What's really worse about second hand smoke than the damage smokers bring on themselves is that so many of the second hand smoke victims are children