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What is the best way to quit smoking? Is it using quit smoking pills? Or how about the quit smoking patches? What are there so many different ways to quit smoking - shouldn’t one be enough?
These are some of the questions swimming through the minds of people that want to quit smoking. Its amazing that it has come to this…when restaurants and bowling alleys, you know public places start banning those that smoke.
Quit Smoking Pill
Is this good or bad? Well for one thing it really is a relief for those of us that have asthma or other conditions that are aggravated by cigarette smoke. Not our own but worse yet, someone else’s.
Smoking is a bane to society. This comes after years of enjoying the profits that tobacco has brought to millions of people. But also with the profits it brought death.
Just last year alone, COPD (the smokers disease) is causing an undue burden on the U.S. healthcare system. Emergency room visits stood at 400,000. That number is staggering. The cost is well into the multi billions of dollars.
How To Quit Smokes
So, forking over a few pennies in comparison for a quit smoking patch shouldn’t break the bank.
The patch is just one of many different routes of administering nicotine in a controlled way to the body. You see, when you are trying to quit smoking, your body will crave the drug (nicotine) its been getting on schedule for years. Or as long as you’ve been smoking. This lack of nicotine is enough to make you feel like you are going bonkers. But you won’t.
In fact, the greatest amount of cravings happen within forty eight (48) hours of your quitting. This is good news for you because if you can make it passed that milestone you’ve got it made.
Quit Smoking Support
Be honest, are you one of those people who would love to quit smoking? Of course you would. The ravages of smoking on your health are very well documented in medical literature.
But did you know that you can quit smoking by using certain medical treatments, as easy as applying a band aid bandage over a wound? Well, this can be done with a quit smoking patch.
The patch is one of many modes of giving you the tools to curb your urge to smoke. What it does is gradually release a small amount of nicotine into your body through your skin. This process is technically called transdermal dosing. It simply means that whatever is applied to the skin has a way of getting absorbed into your body via your skin the largest organ on your body.
Even though you are using the patch keep in mind that your determination and will power must be at its peak. Keep motivated and strive to imagine yourself smoke free and healthy. If your urges get the best of you just start over and begin again. There is nothing wrong with that. You may find comfort in other articles we’ve written regarding using more that one quit smoking strategy at a time. Why not? You have absolutely nothing to lose but the cigarettes.
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Many who consider quitting smoking think “the damage is done”. Or, “Why bother, it’s too late”. The scientific data say otherwise. It says the benefits are immediate and long-lasting.
Within the first hour after you stop smoking, blood pressure and pulse decrease and the internal temperature of the hands and feet increase. The compounds produced in the body from smoking constrict blood vessels and raise the heart rate. As they’re flushed out of the body, it returns to a normal state.
A few hours later, carbon monoxide levels in the blood return to normal. Cigarette smoke contains CO, which binds with hemoglobin - the molecule that helps transport oxygen through the blood stream. But that combination reduces the amount of available oxygen. As the CO level decreases, more oxygen is available for its intended purpose: feeding tissues that sustain your life.
After the first 24 hours, the risk of heart attack is already on the downswing. Forty-eight hours after you quit, your nerve endings will change. The stimulation induced by bathing them in nicotine products is radically reduced. You’ll begin to recover normal sensation. At the same time, the senses of taste and smell start to recover. Food will taste fresher and you’ll be able to detect odors better.
After a couple of weeks, the cravings for nicotine will taper off, only to return (if at all) at random over the next few months. The circulatory system is recovering. The ability to exercise without wheezing and shortness of breath is returning gradually. After a few weeks or months, you’ll be able to carry out a normal exercise routine.
Over the next several months, the hack and sinus congestion so common among smokers decreases considerably. Smoke-induced fatigue drops, so the overall energy level increases. The body’s systems are regenerating to function at peak level.
As you keep to that long-term commitment, the risk of stroke drops precipitously. For smokers, the risk is twice that of a non-smoker. Within a year it’s half what it was. Within 5-15 years it is down to that of someone who has never inhaled a cigarette.
At the same time, similar risks of lung or larynx cancer, as well as bladder, pancreas and others, drop to that of a lifelong non-smoker. Official estimates attribute 87% of lung cancer cases to long-term, heavy smoking. Quitting smoking takes you out of that group within a few years.
Stopping smoking is a permanent commitment to long-term health. The alternative is a greatly increased risk of coronary disease, stroke, a dozen different cancers, COPD and other serious medical problems. Don’t let the odds get you. Stop now.
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