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How To Quit Smoking Cigarettes

By Rutchell Laquihon

Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 26Nov2009 Word count: 484 Viewed: 135 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site

Many people smoke cigarettes or use tobacco products and do not even realize why. The nicotine in tobacco is a highly addictive drug, and many people cannot stay away from it, even if they try. This article is intended to help those who want to break free from their addiction to nicotine.

When a person smokes a cigarette, nicotine is drawn in with the smoke. It reaches the brain in three seconds. In thirty seconds, it causes the brain to start releasing stress reducing chemicals. These chemicals remain in the brain for a short time after the cigarette is finished. As they dissipate, the body starts to want another cigarette. And so the cycle continues. The danger comes not from the addictive nicotine itself, but from the byproducts of cigarette smoke, which includes lead and various other toxins that damage the throat, stomach lining, and lungs. I will help you learn how to quit smoking cigarettes.

The easiest way to release yourself from the necessity of cigarettes is to obtain your nicotine from other products. Nicotine gum is the easiest and most common product on the market to help smokers kick the habit. When it is chewed, it releases nicotine, which then proceeds to take the place of nicotine from cigarettes. Apart from gum, there are also other nicotine products meant to help. The nicotine patch is another one that used to be common, but is now used less and less because of health risks and side effects discovered in recent years. Injections are also used, and deliver nicotine to the bloodstream quickly. Nicotine products do not have a very high rate of success because of two reasons. First, the nicotine released by the products is usually not as strong and takes longer to get to the brain than the nicotine released from cigarettes. Also, nicotine products have to be weaned off to ever fully get over it's effects. The products do not do this, leaving that part up to the user.

When you want to give up nicotine completely, it helps to replace it with a healthier product. Usually people replace the nicotine with sugar. However, the sugar has unwanted side effects, such as hyperactivity and gradual weight gain. A person also becomes in danger of becoming dependent on the sugar, which can lead to obesity and other health problems.

Sugar isn't the only natural replacement. Some people replace the nicotine cravings with certain chemicals found in carrots. However, after consuming a large amount of carrots, their chemicals may cause a person's skin to take on an orange tint.

Smokeless tobacco is not a viable option for replacing cigarettes, as they have a whole new set of health problems, including lip and mouth cancer.

No one can really tell a person how to quit smoking cigarettes. They have to figure out what works best for them. Perhaps their path lies in nicotine replacement.

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