Numerous pills, patches and sprays from smoking fight physical addiction, and therefore do not always work. In addition to it, there is a psychological craving for a cigarette, which is much more difficult to defeat. Smoking itself is not so important for a person, but the ritual associated with it. Without a cigarette, he cannot concentrate, becomes nervous and unrestrained.

1. Smoking has a calming effect, helps to concentrate, to get rid of problems for a few minutes.
2. While smoking, people communicate. For the man who finds it hard mutual language with others, it's a way not to stand out from the team.
3. For young people, this is a way to show independence.

How to determine the degree of addiction and start fighting?

How longer man smokes, the stronger addictions begin to appear: both psychological and physiological. How strong the pull can be determined by answering the questions:

1. Do you need a specific date or start of the week to break a habit? Are you carefully preparing for this day?
2. Do you know exactly how many cigarettes you need per day?
3. A feast or other event cannot pass without cigarettes?
4. Do you smoke under certain circumstances? For example, at work at five minutes?
5. When problems arise, is it necessary to smoke?
6. Cigarettes are out. Is it necessary to run for the next pack? Its absence is manifested by the appearance of panic?

When answering most questions with “yes”, it is worth considering that psychological dependence is strong.

It will take more effort to fight it.

Symptoms

How does the psychological dependence on smoking manifest itself:

• During any problems: in the family, at work, on the road, in the store, you urgently need to smoke.
• In smokers, the mood changes dramatically from a state of euphoria to tantrums, feelings of panic and depression.
• If it is not possible to smoke, a person falls into a state of apathy, and then depression begins altogether.
• For some, the absence of cigarettes causes unreasonable aggression.
• With prolonged smoking and an attempt to give up the habit, problems with falling asleep appear. If you still managed to fall asleep, then the dreams themselves are disturbing, after waking up, an unpleasant aftertaste remains.

Any symptom indicates the presence of psychological dependence.

How to get rid?

The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that it exists. As soon as the smoker is aware that there is an addiction, there is a greater chance of defeating it.

It’s worth starting with a definition of why smoking is necessary. Then you need to find yourself a useful and entertaining hobby so that you have less free time. If it is difficult to communicate in a team, you need to develop your horizons. It also makes sense to ask loved ones for support or find a person with the same goal.

There is a lot of literature that helps to quit, analyzing in detail all the pros and cons of addiction.

If you can’t quit smoking on your own, you should try other methods.

Psychologist

When choosing, it is important to consider whether the specialist has experience working with ex-smokers who have successfully quit the habit. An experienced and competent psychologist will help establish cause-and-effect relationships, will accompany you throughout the entire time of giving up cigarettes.

The disadvantage of this method is the cost. A session is not cheap, and you will need several of them.

Preparations

It is possible to use nicotine replacement therapy: patches, tablets, sprays. They reduce physical cravings, in order to successfully quit, you will need to set yourself up to give up cigarettes, tell yourself: I don’t need them anymore. Without the connection of willpower, victory will not work.

Only after understanding the reasons that prompted smoking, drugs will help overcome cravings for cigarettes.

Giving up bad habits will:

1. General health and rejuvenation of the whole organism.
2. Less chance of developing cancer. Cigarettes contribute to the development of oncology of most organs: the oral cavity, esophagus, larynx, lungs, stomach, intestines and many others.
3. healthy respiratory, cardiovascular system, when climbing uphill, the heart will not beat furiously, the sense of touch will recover over time, smells will be felt more clearly.
4. Normal clothes smell, healthy and blooming appearance.

It is important to realize in time all the advantages of life without cigarettes. With a long experience, all organs and systems are rebuilt, it becomes more difficult to quit, and the effect may not be so noticeable.

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folk wisdom says smoking is bad for your health! And it's not just philosophical statement but a scientifically proven fact. Inhaled smoke from cigarettes burns the mucous membranes of the mouth, respiratory tract and organs of the digestive tract. It contains a set of toxic compounds for the human body: hydrogen cyanide, isoprene, acetone, N-nitrosodimethylamine, acetaldehyde and a psychoactive substance - nicotine alkaloid, which is considered an addictive stimulant that causes mild euphoria.

The respiratory system takes the strongest blow: the smoker's lungs fill with mucus, darken, and small bronchi are blocked. As a result, cough, shortness of breath, wheezing appear, which are a harbinger of the development of "smoker's bronchitis", pneumonia, and cancer. According to the conclusion of the phthisiatrician of the first category, Gordeev Nikolai Pavlovich, five years of nicotine dependence is enough for partial deformation of the respiratory organs.

Folk remedies will help a smoker get rid of a bad habit if he does not have the strength to cope with it on his own. Remember, to achieve a positive result requires desire, perseverance, patience and time. Recovery internal organs will not happen immediately.

Quitting smoking will improve your health, fill you with vigor, energy and strength.

Where to begin?

Recipe for success - positive attitude and a strong desire to overcome addiction. It is impossible to quit smoking without these aspects. Remember, there is still no universal way to break out of the nicotine web. Half of ex-smokers believe that it is better to try to get rid of a bad habit abruptly at once. Others believe that it is much more effective to gradually reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day until they are completely eliminated. This method does not have such a stressful effect on the human body as the first.

Start fighting with bad habit you need a clear justification for the reason that awakened you to overcome the addiction. This may be the preservation, strengthening of health, the desire to avoid a chronic disease or to save children from a bad example and negative impact tobacco smoke, doctor's advice, the desire to increase efficiency, improve potency, skin condition, request loved one, pregnancy planning.

Two days before giving up a bad habit, it is recommended to smoke twice as many cigarettes as usual. As a result of oversaturation of the body with nicotine, tobacco will lose its taste, and it will be easier to get rid of addiction.

Most difficult period the first two days after quitting smoking. A “nicotine withdrawal” develops, a kind of milestone that determines the outcome of an attempt. Having overcome his chance to part with a cigarette, it increases rapidly, but if you break loose at a turning point, further struggle is considered useless.

First of all, choose the moment when it is more convenient to get rid of nicotine addiction. If you are used to smoking while relaxing in the company, it is optimal to increase the work/study load during the period of abstinence from cigarettes. If a bad habit helps to relieve stress, concentrate, you need to quit it during the holidays, when there are no prerequisites for nervous overexertion. Quitting smoking can be scheduled for a date that is important to you (anniversary, birthday).

To mitigate the negative consequences of quitting nicotine addiction 15-20 days before the start of the fight against addiction, it is recommended to take vitamin-mineral complexes with nutrients A, C, B, E, P.

If you like to stop smoking gradually, first develop intermediate goals, reaching which you can come to a complete rejection of nicotine addiction. For example, daily reduce the number of cigarettes smoked by 3-5 pieces, overcome a bad habit after two weeks, drink three sips of water before each puff, which, ultimately, will relieve the desire to use tobacco. Intermediate goals will help to distribute forces rationally, set the pace of movement on the path to progress.

Then find out under what circumstances there is a desire to smoke. Write them down on a piece of paper. Next, add reasons that motivate you to get rid of a bad habit. Every day, in the morning, at lunchtime and in the evening, look through the list, correct it, supplement it if necessary.

Purposefully make smoking uncomfortable for yourself:

• buy cigarettes in one store, geographically remote from the place of work, residence;
• do not smoke "for the company";
• do not carry cigarettes, matches, lighters with you, give them to colleagues / friends;
• stop buying packs in blocks "in reserve", purchase only after the end of what has been started;
• smoke a cigarette only half or 2/3;
• reduce the tightening depth;
• buy filtered cigarettes only;
• wash your hands, brush your teeth, change clothes after smoking to get rid of the smell of tobacco;
• take the cigarette out of your mouth between puffs;
• if you want to smoke, restrain yourself for at least five minutes, try to distract yourself, forget about the bad habit, overcome the thirst for a dose of nicotine;
• when buying a pack of cigarettes, fix its cost, while by the end of the week sum up the costs and determine how much money you will save by quitting smoking;
• replace the bad habit with a new hobby, physical exercises;
• avoid situations that encourage another puff (do not be nervous);
• get rid of ashtrays, cigarettes in the workplace, in the house, in the car.

In the fight against nicotine addiction, make sure that the number of cigarettes smoked decreases every day. In no case should you stop and keep their number at the same level. This will lead to the resumption of the intensity of smoking and nullify your efforts.

Throughout the entire period of the fight against addiction, it is recommended to use folk remedies, the action of which is aimed at reducing cravings for tobacco products and cleansing the body. In addition, it is recommended to go to healthy eating, saturate the diet with vegetables, fruits, lactic acid products. Avoid pickles, smoked meats, meats, alcoholic beverages that encourage you to take a couple of "extraordinary" puffs.

Consider how to help the body eradicate a bad habit with the help of natural remedies.

The duration of treatment with folk remedies is 30 calendar days.

1. Ginger.
   Every time you have a craving to smoke, put a piece of it in your mouth instead of a cigarette. When chewed, the spicy taste of ginger dulls the desire to take another puff. The result of this technique is superior to the effect of chewing gum, anti-tobacco lozenges. In addition, ginger root has anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, analgesic, antioxidant and sedative effects. It lowers blood pressure, improves immunity, potency, freshens breath. Recipe for making an anti-smoking drink: peel, chop medium-sized ginger root, squeeze the juice of one lemon, combine the components, pour 200 milliliters of boiling water. Then add 15 milligrams of honey, insist for two hours. Divide the finished broth into three equal portions, take it between meals. Pumpkin seeds, calamus root, bird cherry will help overcome the desire to smoke a cigarette. During an attack, when the body requires a dose of nicotine, chew these drugs slowly.
2. Anti-nicotine tea.
   To prepare the drink, you need 5 grams of green leaf tea and 2 grams of chopped common chicory root, nettle leaves, valerian officinalis, fragrant rue, peppermint, pour 400 milliliters of boiling water. Infuse tea for an hour and a half, strain. Take daily 100 - 150 milliliters 2 - 3 times a day. To enhance the effect of anti-nicotine tea, 5 grams of raw beets, juice of one lemon, 5 milliliters of honey are added to its composition. In addition to satisfying the desire to smoke, herbal collection cleanses the body of toxins.
3. Eucalyptus infusion according to the recipe of Professor Filatov.
   The solution relieves the pain that occurs in a smoker after giving up a bad habit. To prepare a decoction, take 15 grams of eucalyptus leaves, pour 150 milliliters of boiling water, leave for one hour. After the specified time, strain the solution, then add 15 milliliters of glycerin and 15 grams of honey. The resulting decoction is taken seven times a day, 40 milliliters.
4. Rinse the mouth with a solution of baking soda, rhizomes of the mountaineer snake, copper sulphate.
   This method reduces the craving for tobacco products. In the first case, to prepare a solution, 15 grams of soda is dissolved in 150 milliliters of warm water. In the second - 15 grams of crushed rhizomes of the snake mountaineer are mixed with 150 milliliters of water, boiled over low heat for three minutes. The resulting broth is covered with a lid, insisted for 50 minutes, filtered. Rinse your mouth before every urge to smoke. This method causes a gag reflex, nausea, which develop an aversion to tobacco products.
5. Smoking a pipe filled with herbs.
   Mix the following dried ingredients in equal parts: club-shaped club moss, European hoof, lingonberry leaves. Grind herbs in a coffee grinder, tamp 15 grams of raw materials into a smoking pipe. It is recommended to use instead of cigarettes. Smoke two "servings" of such a pipe per day. After each "session" you need to immediately drink 500 milliliters mineral water. The course of combating nicotine addiction is nine days. To cleanse the lungs of tar and toxins, doctors advise smoking the following medicinal herbs (instead of cigarettes): azalea, rosemary, ginseng, coltsfoot grass, mullein leaves.
6. Massage.
   This method of eliminating nicotine addiction is used by Chinese experts. Its essence lies in the activation of a point located in front of the throat at the base of the neck in the middle of the fossa, to facilitate weaning from cigarettes. Intensive massaging of this place reduces the craving for tobacco, facilitates the well-being of a person during the period of body restructuring. The minimum number of repetitions is 15 times. You need to massage the point on the throat every time you want to take a few puffs, at least three times a day.

As you can see, there are many folk methods how to help the body quit smoking and improve health. Usage medicinal herbs, plants, useful products and massage can reduce cravings for cigarettes, cleanse the internal organs of toxic substances obtained with tobacco smoke, normalize the activity of the nervous system, and restore emotional balance.

Immediately after quitting a bad habit

Regular smoking of two to several dozen cigarettes a day causes the body to get used to the systematic intake of toxic substances. Refusal of tobacco products leads to a temporary imbalance of metabolic processes. The process of restructuring the body to life without cigarettes takes up to 60 days.

Consequences of the "withdrawal syndrome" or adaptation of the body to a life without tobacco smoke

Clinical picture

What doctors say about alcoholism

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1. Decreased immunity: susceptibility to SARS diseases, disorders of the respiratory, digestive systems.
2. Weight gain.
   The habit of smoking in ex-smokers is replaced by the desire to have a snack. To maintain weight, it is recommended to eat low-calorie foods, lean on vegetables and fruits, limit the intake of bakery products, fatty foods (butter, cheese, smoked meats, lard). The main condition for conservation slim figure- do not eat before bedtime, eat small portions four times a day. Exercise regularly, do not replace a cigarette with sweets. Better eat grapefruit, cucumber, apple.
3. Mood swings.
   In addition to physiological dependence, the smoker develops psychological addiction. Having lost a bad habit, a person experiences emotional discomfort, which is aggravated during an attack to take a puff.
4. Sleep disturbance, insomnia.
5. Sore throat, dry mouth.
6. Feelings of restlessness, anxiety.
7. Cardiopalmus.
8. Cough.
9. Pain in the region of the heart.
10. Decreased concentration.
11. Sweating.

If you experience discomfort immediately after quitting smoking, do not despair, after two weeks they will decrease and go away. Nicotine gum/ patch, sedatives (hawthorn, peony, valerian tinctures), B vitamins, ascorbic acid able to reduce painful consequences and support the body on the path to recovery.

Remember, most relapses happen in the first three months after a person has stopped smoking. Therefore, during this period it is not recommended to announce that you have begun the struggle for health. At the suggestion of friends, colleagues to smoke, it is better to say that you simply do not want to. This will save you from unnecessary answers, explanations and interrogations. Promise yourself daily that you will not take a single cigarette in your mouth. Over time, this "cautious" tactic will bring the desired result.

Let us consider in detail what reactions occur in the body when quitting smoking.

1. The blood is restored, the work of the heart is normalized. This is due to the fact that when inhaling cigarette smoke, the liquid connective tissue undergoes intense clotting. So the human body tries to remove microscopic harmful particles that penetrate the respiratory organs with tobacco. However, this leads to muscle overload and an increased risk of a heart attack. With the rejection of a bad habit, the named danger disappears.
2. When nicotine leaves the body, tremor (trembling) of the hands disappears, nervous system calms down.
3. Two hours after the last puff, the poisonous carbon monoxide leaves the blood, and the rapid heartbeat returns to normal.
4. Normalizes blood circulation in the palms and feet. This occurs as a result of the expansion of blood vessels after the removal of nicotine from the body (two hours after smoking).
5. Three days after giving up tobacco, the process of lung recovery starts: inflammation disappears, mucus, dirt and toxic substances are intensively removed from them.
6. The sense of smell and taste improves.
7. In two weeks, the skin will take on a healthy appearance, "smoker's wrinkles" will disappear.
8. At the expiration of a month after giving up nicotine addiction, the psycho-emotional state of the ex-smoker normalizes. Behavior will become balanced.
9. Physical fitness will improve, shortness of breath will pass.
10. A year after completely quitting smoking, the risk of getting cancer, chronic bronchitis, diabetes. In addition, you will extend your life by three months.
11. Every year, health will improve, health will grow stronger.

Having overcome the critical period in the first three months, having lasted half a year without cigarettes, the probability of overcoming the habit and not returning to it in the future will exceed the chances of resuming smoking.

Conclusion

Smoking is a bad habit that every month strengthens the dependence between the consumer and the cigarette. The consequences of tobacco abuse are deplorable: coronary heart disease, reduced potency, infertility, miscarriages, cancer, chronic bronchitis, hearing loss, emphysema, heart attack, hypertension, stomach ulcers, Buerger's disease.

Quitting smoking, restoring the functioning of internal organs with the help of folk remedies help restore health, overcome addiction and breathe life into full lungs.

Remember, every day you go without a puff, you increase your life expectancy by six hours.

Get on the path of a healthy lifestyle and do not return to a bad habit!

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Tobacco smoking (nicotinism, nicotine addiction) is the most common type of substance abuse among all age groups. Tobacco addiction is detrimental to the physical and mental health of adults, adolescents and children, both male and female.

note: there is not a single organ or system in the body that would not suffer from the toxic effects of tobacco smoke poisons.

Chronic smoking leads to the development of symptoms of addiction, mental and physical dependence, accompanied by withdrawal symptoms.

Most of all, smoking is preferred by the male population, according to WHO, about a third of men are regular consumers of tobacco products.

Historical data

Tobacco leaves were brought to Europe in the 15th century from South America. Gradually, the habit of using tobacco in the form of a chewing mixture, powdered powder for inhalation, and, of course, smoking spread throughout the globe. Some adherents of nicotine smoke assured that tobacco is medicinal plant which helps with many diseases.

IN early XIX century, scientists isolated nicotine from tobacco and described its properties. Tobacco in any form has been found to lead to negative health effects.

But, despite this, smoking has rapidly gained more and more of its fans.

The boom of smoking came in the second half of the 20th century. Nicotine addiction was instilled with the help of developing cinema and television, magazines. Billions of people, sitting in front of the screens of cinema halls and televisions, daily watched their favorite heroes of artistic paintings smoke. Supermen and beauties, politicians and bandits, heroes for every consumer taste smoked. Tobacco factories, manufacturers flourished, brands of cigarettes multiplied, which cannot be said about the health of those who began to depend on this terrible poison ....

Elite products and cigarettes for the middle class, very simple tobacco and cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, each of these types of dope found its buyer.

And although the voices of opponents of tobacco products were periodically heard and continue to be heard, threatening and warning inscriptions were printed on beautiful packs of cigarettes - people continue to smoke.

In Russia, the number of tobacco users is 35% of the total population.

Why do people smoke

It all starts with a desire to imitate your idols, as well as from a passion to know the unknown (what is it, if everyone likes it that way). The first cigarette, the first puff, feels extremely unpleasant. Feeling dizzy, headache, nausea, weakness. These are symptoms of nicotine poisoning. But with repeated attempts, they gradually disappear, and they are replaced by pleasant sensations of pleasure, clarity of thought, euphoria.

The fact is that nicotine, getting into the blood, participates in enzymatic reactions, causing an increased formation of catecholamines with the release of adrenaline and norepinephrine and stimulating the brain pleasure centers. Gradually, the smoker becomes addicted, requiring new doses of nicotine. According to the American Institute of Addiction NIDA, the ability of nicotine to cause addiction exceeds that of heroin and opiates.

Addiction is a complex biopsychosocial problem. The main feature of this disorder is behavior characterized by the compulsive use of a psychoactive substance, in this case nicotine. The diagnosis of addiction is established in accordance with the criteria of the DSM-V Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (valid since 2013) developed by the American Psychiatric Association (American Psychiatric Association). There are 11 criteria in this Guide: if 2 or more criteria are confirmed, which were noted by the patient for 12 months diagnosed with addiction. When 2-3 criteria are confirmed, mild dependence is diagnosed, 4-5 - moderate, 6 or more - severe dependence.

note: despite the fact that in the process of diagnosing nicotine addiction, the presence of tolerance (need for increasing doses of nicotine) and abstinence (withdrawal syndrome) is taken into account, these factors by themselves are not the basis for making a diagnosis of nicotine addiction. Dependence (addiction) belongs to the category of mental and behavioral disorders (classification according to ICD-10), which may be accompanied by tolerance and withdrawal symptoms, or may occur in isolation from them.

In the process of formation of nicotine addiction, several stages can be distinguished:

• episodic nicotine use. The number of cigarettes smoked does not exceed 5 pieces in 10 days. The fact of smoking is provoked, as a rule, by external microsocial factors.
• Regular use of nicotine. The number of cigarettes smoked increases to 2 to 6 per day, a person begins to form not pronounced preferences for specific brands of cigarettes.
• The first stage of addiction. Formed mental addiction from nicotine, while there is no physical dependence. The duration of this stage is from 3 to 5 years. It seems to the smoker that smoking helps to improve his performance and well-being. There is no withdrawal syndrome, nicotine tolerance increases.
• The second stage of addiction. Mental addiction reaches its climax, begins to form physical addiction. The duration of the second stage averages from 5 to 20 years. Smoking is in the nature of an obsessive desire, a person wakes up at night in order to smoke a cigarette, smokes on an empty stomach, switches to stronger cigarettes. The first signs of physical dependence are a morning cough, a feeling of discomfort. Bronchitis may become more frequent, violations are noted heart rate, insomnia, pain in the heart, blood pressure is unstable.
• The third stage of nicotine addiction. There are both mental and physical addictions. The third stage is the stage of complications. At this time, tolerance to nicotine decreases, when smoking several cigarettes in a row, a person feels physical discomfort. Begin serious problems with health, the development of precancerous conditions and cancer is possible.

At the stage of formation mental addiction some tobacco users are wary, after all, smoking is not so harmless, if it is so hard without it. Some smokers quit, another part tries to quit, but cannot, and the third continues to smoke “safely”. As mentioned above, mental dependence is formed on average at 3-5 years of constant smoking. Doses are usually about 5-7 cigarettes per day, sometimes 15.

“Well, many people smoke, and nothing, they live, over there (so-and-so) grandfather generally lived up to 90 and smoked all the time.” This is how a nicotine addict calms down. At the same time, he tries not to think about those who did not live to 50 due to destructive passion, and there are many of them. Much more than "grandfathers who lived to 90 with tobacco."

Having smoked for 5-15-20 years, the addict suddenly began to notice that without cigarettes it was no longer just uncomfortable, but bad. Already smoked a pack, or even more a day. The need for smoking wakes a person up from bed at night. An occasional "respite" (due to illness, or inability to smoke for other reasons) causes trembling in the hands, sweating, dizziness, headache, weakness, cough (paradox) and other individual unpleasant complaints. This is how it is formed physical addiction.

Nicotine "fits" into the normal biochemical reactions of the human body, the incoming dose is already necessary chemical for the normal functioning of many systems.

By depriving themselves of smoking, patients at the stage of physical dependence begin to suffer severely physically and mentally. The very first dose after abstinence returns normal health with surprising speed.

It would seem that smoke yourself, if you want to. But no, it’s just during this period that everyone “creeps out” side effects nicotine addiction.

The harm exerted by nicotine on the physical condition of a smoking person and others is no longer in doubt. The fight against tobacco smoking has been going on for a long time and not without some success.

The WHO Framework Convention on the dangers of smoking and aimed at tobacco control states that, according to the obtained scientific data, tobacco smoke leads to illness, disability and death.

Note:manufacturers of tobacco products modern technologies have developed products containing substances that, in addition to nicotine, form and maintain human addiction.

Among the main causes of death of the world's population, tobacco smoking is in second place, causing a number of pathologies that end in death.

Major diseases caused by smoking

The main target of tobacco smoke is Airways. Regularly passing through the nasopharynx, trachea, bronchi and lungs, smoke has a damaging effect on the mucous membranes of these organs, reduces their protective properties and, over time, can cause atrophy and degeneration of the cells of these organs into tumor cells.

Emerging inflammatory processes lead to severe chronic processes: tonsillitis, pharyngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonia. Often formed emphysema, obstructive processes.

A study by foreign and our scientists clearly shows that in 90% of the European Consensus Statement on Lung Cancer: Risk Factors and Prevention of deaths of men from lung cancer, the cause was smoking. Women's indicators are not too far behind - 80%. Although more recently in women, these figures were much lower.

Malignant lung tumors in smokers are formed more than 10 times more often than in non-smokers.

Smoking several times increases the risk of developing tuberculosis.

- the second main target of nicotine.

In women, one of the unpleasant complications is a violation of bone tissue structures, leading to pathological fractures. Nicotine, when smoked, getting from the lungs into the bloodstream, leads to the transfer of poisons to all organs of the human body. Being a strong carcinogen, nicotine can cause malignant neoplasms almost anywhere in the body.

is changing and appearance smoker - dry and yellowish skin, premature network of wrinkles, constant coughing, gray look facial skin, yellow teeth, and damaged vocal cords. The smoker emits a constant unpleasant odor.

Note:in addition to nicotine, radioactive substances in smoke also affect health.

Despite all the attempts of manufacturing companies in every possible way to reduce the concentration of harmful substances, tobacco remains a potent poison.

Some scientists have written articles showing the "positive" properties of tobacco, but despite their best efforts, they have not succeeded in embellishing the overall negative picture caused by smoking.

Many people, suffering from addiction and complications, are trying to quit addiction and are wondering "How to get rid of nicotine addiction?". Some of them manage to cope without help, others need treatment from a specialist narcologist.

The most successful method is still an independent rejection of addiction. You can quit smoking at any stage. People with a sufficiently developed will and desire do not have any special problems.

"Withdrawal" phenomena after the last smoked cigarette go away within 3-7-14 days. After them, the physical addiction disappears, the mental one can last for a very long time, but it all depends on the former smoker's attitude to healthy lifestyle life. The usual daily routine should change radically. It is necessary to add sports loads, walks, diets to it. It is important not to return to addiction any more, since in the event of a “breakdown”, both mental and physical dependence will return.

Among the therapeutic measures used:

• replacement therapy(temporary introduction of nicotine preparations into the body in different ways, to mitigate withdrawal symptoms) - patches, lozenges, lozenges, nicotine chewing gums, etc .;
• sedative therapy(and tranquilizers). Medications help to eliminate sleep disorders and the nervous state characteristic of the first days after the refusal;
• psychoinfluence- hypnosis, coding according to the Dovzhenko method, rational psychotherapy, auto-training techniques;
• acupuncture, physiotherapy activities.

Quitting smoking is a choice of health and life!

"How to get rid of the psychological dependence of smoking?" This question is being asked more and more more people. And this is not surprising. After all, thousands of people around the world are addicted to cigarettes. And most of them are well aware of the dangers of smoking due to nicotine and harmful substances that settle in the lungs and bronchi, poisoning the body and all its systems, causing serious diseases and affecting the functioning of the heart and stomach. In addition, smoking causes bronchitis, cough, nicotine irritates the gastric mucosa, skin and teeth become yellowish tinge. One of the worst diseases caused by smoking is cancer. Thus, smokers actually traded their health for a cigarette.

But the worst thing is not even the opportunity to earn a terrible disease, but the psychological dependence on smoking, which does not allow many smokers, even with a strong desire to jump off this nicotine needle. That is why many people who smoke do not dare to give up a bad habit, because they are afraid of nicotine withdrawal, they are afraid of not being able to withstand that unbearable craving for a cigarette. To overcome oneself and survive in this fight is the main moment in the life of a person who has decided to give up his addiction. So let's find out how to get rid of the psychological addiction to smoking.

How Psychological Addiction Occurs

Nicotine addiction is not a phantom or something made up. Harmful substances that, together with cigarette smoke, enter the body, significantly affect the functioning of internal organs, and hence the very condition of the smoker.

• Nicotine is considered a poison. Accumulating and settling gradually in the body, nicotine has a toxic effect on it. But there is also an instant effect of nicotine - it causes excitement, high spirits and mood, there is a feeling of some kind of inspiration.
• Currently, for people in whom communication causes discomfort, smoking is a salvation. A cigarette, as it were, is an important matter that allows you not to take part in the conversation.
• The substances contained in tobacco allow people, especially creative people who are engaged in mental work, mental activity, to relax and get distracted. But this satisfaction disappears very quickly, forcing you to plunge into work again, when you so want to reach for a cigarette again, which gives you seconds of peace.
• Some people, one might even say the majority, got into their bad habit virtually involuntarily, almost unconsciously. For example, teenagers who smoke to be like everyone else, to look older, more independent. Or guys in the army who start smoking because of intense physical exertion, fatigue, because of the constant danger that reigns there.

Determining the degree of nicotine addiction

The less experience of smoking a person has, the easier it is to cope with addiction. To understand the extent of your addiction to nicotine, try to answer honestly the following questions:

• When you decide to quit smoking, do you reschedule the day you planned to quit?
• Do you know the exact number of cigarettes you smoke?
• Are there certain "traditions" associated with smoking? Perhaps a specific place or time when you are sure to smoke?
• Do you remember cigarettes in difficult or stressful situations? Or at such moments you can do without smoking?
• Can you decide to quit smoking, hide your cigarettes, imagine that all the cigarette stalls are closed and not feel panic?

If all questions received your affirmative answer, then you have a strong addiction that will not be easy to overcome.

The manifestation of psychological dependence

During quitting smoking, cleansing the body of toxic substances may be accompanied by some uncomfortable conditions:

• distraction, panic;
• irritability or depression;
• restlessness, impatience;
• constant feeling of hunger;
• fatigue, headache, dizziness;
• cough, shortness of breath;
• problems with the gastrointestinal tract.

All these processes are natural, because the body removes all those harmful substances that poisoned it throughout the entire period of smoking. That is, discomfort is a confirmation that the body is fighting for its health, that your condition will soon improve. The main thing is to distract yourself from unpleasant sensations and the desire to take up a cigarette again, then this critical period will pass much faster.

How to get rid of psychological addiction

• Try to do more sports. Any physical exercise significantly improves health, helps to remove harmful substances from the body and defeat addiction.
• Try to find yourself a favorite activity to take your mind off the bad habit.
• Minimize associations with smoking. Be less in the company of people who smoke, avoid situations in which you usually smoked.
• Start leading a healthy lifestyle and strengthen your immune system.
• Avoid, if possible, stressful situations that can push you back to cigarettes.

It is believed that the psychological dependence on smoking is stronger than the physical one, so if you decide to quit smoking, first read the recommendations of psychologists on this matter.

1. Try to prepare mentally. Think about what pushes you to smoke and decide whether you really want to get rid of a bad habit, are you ready to show willpower, or will you save yourself from the first difficulties? Try making a list of the positive aspects of quitting cigarettes.
2. Decide on a day when you will give up the addiction. Try not to let this date be filled with stressful situations and smoking people in your society, so as not to break loose.
3. Consult a doctor, monitor your health and weight, diet.
4. Try to find a like-minded person who also wants to quit smoking. This could be a friend, relative, colleague, or even a pen pal. The main thing is to feel that you are not alone in your difficulties.
5. Tell family and friends that you are quitting smoking. Let them try to support you, help morally. Let them know that you may have mood swings, bouts of irritability. Let them help you figure out how to get rid of the psychological dependence on smoking.
6. Include exercise in your daily routine and make a diet.
7. Try to prevent possible relapses by organizing your time so that you do not encounter situations and people that would make you think about smoking. For example, during a smoke break at work, arrange a snack for yourself.
8. Think in advance what you can do with yourself if there is a sharp desire to smoke.
9. Develop fine motor skills hands It relieves obsessive thoughts about smoking.
10. Never give up, be optimistic. Then you will definitely succeed!

Scientists have found that if you reduce the dose of nicotine entering the body, it will not be easier to quit smoking. So how then to get rid of the psychological dependence on smoking? The answer is simple. You need to quit smoking instantly, abruptly and suddenly. Of course, the first time will be hard, but health is worth it!

Try to get acquainted with the method of Allen Carr, which not only answers the question "How to get rid of the psychological addiction to smoking?", but also brings the advantages of living without a bad habit. You can also try special program Liberation Online, which reveals the secrets of self-control in writing.

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful. And if you think about it, the first days of nicotine withdrawal are not as terrible as the harm that tobacco smoke and all the substances it contains causes the whole body.

How to get rid of psychological addiction to smoking? Just imagine what happiness it is to be free from addictions, have good health and enjoy this wonderful life. Everything is simple. The main thing is to believe in yourself and go to your goal!

Every person who wants to get rid of the addiction to smoking must understand that this is a problem, first of all, not a physiological one, but a psychological one. The psychological addiction to smoking remains, whether you want it or not, regardless of whether you quit smoking or not. There is only one way to get rid of addiction - by understanding yourself and giving up smoking on a psychological level. Sometimes for this it is necessary to turn to a professional psychologist or a drug treatment clinic, but often a person can solve this problem on his own, simply by looking at his life from a new angle.

The nature of psychological dependence is not an easy thing, so we will not claim to describe all the factors and signs that are found in psychologically dependent smokers. Our goal is to map out the milestones and help the smoker realize the true depth of addiction.

Nicotine as a guarantee of a “beautiful” life

It is no secret that nicotine has a stimulating effect on a person. It not only subjugates a person physically, but also psychologically. Think for yourself: cigarettes are the most easy way make your life more “beautiful” and colorful. It is worth smoking a cigarette, and boring work does not seem so boring anymore. It is worth dragging on, and the usual, gray course of life takes on new colors. Roughly speaking, a cigarette makes up for the lack of emotions and experiences that do not exist in real life.

People who are chasing the stimulating effect of nicotine are initially prone to dependence on drugs such as alcohol, psychotropic drugs, drugs, gambling and computer games, and the like. Boredom and uselessness are the main enemies of such people. Dependence on stimulants manifests itself when the smoker is in a state of intoxication. After drinking, he smokes much more.

A similar addiction works together with such an exciting drink as coffee. All smokers love coffee, especially strong coffee. Having hooked on such an “alloy”, they begin to suffer from depression and constipation, which encourages them to smoke and drink even more.

What to do if you want to get rid of nicotine addiction on your own. First, get ready for mood swings: prepare good movies and music, surround yourself with friends and loved ones who will support you. Drink natural stimulants such as ginseng, eleuctherococcus, and the like. If constipation occurs, consult your doctor on how to get rid of them. It's stupid to keep smoking just because of that.

Fill in the gaps in words

It's no secret that many people have certain communication problems: they feel left out, they have nothing to say, they can't hold an intellectual conversation, and so on. Of course, a person cannot but be in society, so he is satisfied with the silent presence of a cigarette in his mouth. In fact, there is a dependence not on tobacco itself, but on cigarettes, as a factor that helps in communication.

How to deal with this problem? If you are not very sociable by nature, if you do not have time to get another higher education or elementary reading of books, then use chewing gum instead of cigarettes. Chewing gum will help you keep silent in the company no worse than a cigarette.

Grow up with a cigarette

Most smokers become slaves to tobacco in adolescence, and this is not surprising: a cigarette is something from the adult world, where not a child, but not yet an adult teenager wants to get by any means. Today it is believed that a person with a cigarette is an adult and independent person, which is why teenagers reach for a cigarette. This behavior is especially characteristic of adolescents who suffer from feelings of inferiority.

How to get rid of such dependence? If you are no longer a teenager, then look at your life from the perspective of an adult. You probably don't have to prove anything to anyone. You are already an adult, for whom a cigarette is by no means an attribute of status or success. Think about it.

Probably it should be

Man is an easily programmable being. From childhood, we absorb the culture and ideals of the environment in which we live. Today, smoking is fashionable, so do not be surprised by the huge number of smokers. Men want to be macho, women want to be fashionable. In fact, they are implementing a program that has been laid down by cigarette manufacturers.

What to do? You just need to change the program, find new ideals and new idols. Of course, getting rid of nicotine addiction is not so easy, but it is important to start with this step.

Compensation for a lack of motherly love

One of the theories why people smoke is that the smoker realizes his need to fall on his mother's breast, to feel safe, to fence himself off from all problems. In fact, for a smoker, a cigarette is a nipple for an adult. Unfortunately, a cigarette is a teat filled with poison. Such an addiction requires serious psychological treatment.

Cigarette have sex

Another theory suggests that smoking is a habit of autoerotic discharge of sexual tension. Roughly speaking, by smoking, a person compensates for the lack of a quality sexual life. The habit of reducing sexual tension with a cigarette appears in adolescence and is quietly broadcast into adulthood.

Conclusion

Cigarette addiction is a big problem for a person. He spends on cigarettes not only time and vitality, but also money that could go to the family or other needs. Smoking does not bring anything good to the body, therefore it is considered an extremely bad habit. To get rid of smoking, you must first overcome nicotine addiction, cleanse the body of tobacco decay products, and only then solve the problem of psychological dependence. If one of these points is not observed, then the person is likely to start smoking again.

If you want to get rid of cigarettes forever, contact the private narcological clinic "GROST". The specialists of the clinic will help to get rid of all components of addiction with the help of qualified psychological and drug treatment. Contact us and stay healthy!