When you quit smoking it is almost certain you will encounter nicotine withdrawal urges. When a person quits smoking they deprive the body of the nicotine it has grown accustom too. Nicotine is considered one of the most additive substances on the Earth and it takes time to rid the body of its presence and effects. So if you are in the market to quit smoking, which you should if you are a smoker, you need to be aware that there will be obstacles and one of these obstacles is overcoming nicotine withdrawal urges.

Before you actually quit smoking you should have a plan on how to deal with many of the common nicotine withdrawal urges you will encounter. Some common nicotine withdrawal urges include:

Trouble sleeping Anxiety Difficulty concentrating Depression Irritability Cravings to smoke a cigarette Increase in appetite By knowing common nicotine withdrawal urges you may encounter you can develop a plan on how you are going to deal with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms. If you are concerned about not being able to overcome and cope there is still help. Nicotine cessation products such as; nicotine gum and patch can help you quit smoking by breaking the habit of smoking. Remember, you still will have to quit whichever product you choose and you will still need to overcome the nicotine withdrawal urges. Over time you can begin to wean yourself off the nicotine cessation product. Then you will be free of the drug completely.

If you are concerned about dealing with depression after you quit smoking there are prescription drugs such as Zyban or Wellbutrin that can help. These types of medications have also shown to be effective towards many of the other symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawals. Talk to your doctor for more information.

Nicotine withdrawal urges will come and go throughout the day. The longer you make it without smoking the less intense they will be. When you quit smoking you will begin to encounter urges to smoke as your body rids itself of the nicotine. Wait it out, the urge will pass. Find ways to distract yourself and try to relax. Change your daily routine if you possible and stock up on healthy food to munch on. Inform those close to you that you are quitting smoking so they understand why, at times, you start to act a bit touchy. Keep reminding yourself why it is important to you to quit smoking. You can quit and if you slip quit again.

Jason D is an ex-smoker and publisher of a

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There is a whole raft of quit smoking pills available on the market these days. Most of them are advertised as being a ‘cure-all’ for your woes as a smoker and will alleviate all of your concerns about quitting smoking. They come in two main forms - pharmaceutical types made by the big drug companies or ’snake oil’ types made from ‘magic’ ingredients. However, I have my doubts about the need for pills at all.

Unfortunately, smokers are a pretty desperate bunch when it comes to trying to quit and anyone offering quit smoking pills has got a fair chance of making a sale. Having said that, one of my own edicts for people trying to quit smoking is to just keep trying and try as many methods as you can until you succeed.

Why do I advocate such a stance you may ask? Well, whether it be through sheer willpower, quit smoking pills, hypnosis, acupuncture, laser treatment or my own cognitive behavioural therapy approach, the benefits of quitting smoking are just so extensive, I implore all smokers to keep trying to quit.

I know most smokers are reluctant to spend money on products to help them quit, but from a logical point of view, it makes a lot of sense. Spending money on products may seem tedious but even if it costs $1000 to find ‘the cure’ that works for you, it is still less than half of a years smoking costs. And you get all the benefits of quitting smoking which are worth years of extra life!

However, whilst I think smokers should persist in finding ‘a cure’ that works, I am somewhat reluctant to recommend using medication and ‘herbal’ remedies. Why is this?

Well, smoking is an addiction to nicotine and smokers only smoke cigarettes to get at the nicotine. Despite cigarette smoke being so toxic, smokers are ‘conditioned’ to enjoy smoking because of the nicotine buzz that comes with it. The cigarette is not pleasurable at all, but the nicotine is because of the way it has established itself as a part of a smoker’s brain chemistry.

Quit smoking pills are generally thought to interfere with the brain chemistry in smokers heads. Brain chemistry in smokers is different from that in non-smokers and that is why smokers smoke. Their brain chemistry is different, and it was made different by smoking! It is a chicken and egg, egg and chicken kind of thing!

The pharmaceutical quit smoking pills most commonly known to aid in quitting smoking are Zyban and Chantix. Zyban is also traded as wellbutrin or bupropion and Chantix is also marketed as Champix and varenicline.

Whilst the exact processes that go on to discourage smoking with these products are not known, there is obviously some activity because both Zyban and Chantix are known to improve a smoker’s ability to quit smoking. The downside is that they also have side effects, as is common with many pharmaceutical drugs. Zyban and Chantix should only be considered after consultation with your doctor.

The effectiveness of both of these drugs has been studied extensively although as drug companies fund drug studies, there is a pre-disposition to find in favour of the effectiveness. Despite the pharmacological effects these drugs have, they are always prescribed alongside some form of counselling or advice. If they were capable of achieving great results without the support, I would believe in them - but they do not work without counselling help.

Alternative quit smoking pills are marketed on the internet and elsewhere. These generally make lurid claims about their effectiveness at quitting smoking. They are often described as herbal remedies and may contain ‘proprietary’ substances. This in my opinion, is all snake oil!

Again, like the pharmaceutical quit smoking pills available, snake oil solutions are sold with quit smoking guides to change the way you think about your relationship with cigarettes. This is the crux of quitting smoking though. People think they need a pill or a magic potion to achieve their goal but they don’t. I believe people just need to focus their minds on the problem at hand and they can overcome it.

If you start out trying to quit smoking thinking that you need the support of a drug, you already think that quitting smoking requires ‘outside help’. It doesn’t. If you stop thinking it is going to be difficult to quit smoking, do you realise it just might be a bit easier to quit?

Finally, whichever method you use to quit smoking, my most important piece of advice is that if a ’solution’ fails, try something else. There are over 50 ways of quitting smoking and quit smoking pills is just one of them. Never stop trying to quit.

Why do people try to quit smoking before they know how to quit smoking? Pete Howells is the author of the EasyQuit System available only online at easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com. He also blogs, post articles and videos at easyquitsystem.com/blog/ easyquitsystem.com/blog and at quit-smoking-motivator.blogspot.com quit-smoking-motivator.blogspot.com

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Beating the smoking habit can be one of the most difficult things for someone to do. Some people are able to quit cold turkey, but the majority of people suffering from smoking addiction don’t have it so lucky. I’m going to show you a few stop smoking tips that I’ve learned that may help you in your war against nicotine.

Tip #1- Try to stay busy. Try to do things that will make it almost impossible to smoke. Go to the movies, or go to a restaurant and sit in the non-smoking section. Spend as much free time as you possibly can in places that have banned smoking. Anything you can do to take yourself away from a smoking enviroment can be extremely helpful.

Tip #2. Get rid of any cigarette match’s or ashtray’s that you may have laying around. If you are serious about quitting smoking you must stay as far away from cigarette’s as you possibly can, as everyday is a battle.

Tip #3 Find friends that are fighting the same battle as you are. Many people who don’t smoke can’t understand the power that nicotine has over its victims. Search for quit smoking online forums and message boards online. You will find that there are many other’s that are facing the same obstacles as you. Having someone to help you in the war against nicotine can increase your chances of victory immensely.

Tip #4 Make a goal of what exactly you want to accomplish, and in what time period you want to acomplish it in. Reward yourself for achieving your goals. Maybe you went your first day without smoking. Go buy yourself a gift. Go see your favorite movie, or go buy yourself a cake and celebrate your victory. If you go three days without smoking, go to a movie. Pat yourself on the back and say well done. You deserve it!

Fighting nicotine is a constant struggle, but if you put your mind to it you can defeat it, and you will feel much healthier when you do! Thanks for reading and I hope these tips really help you.

If you suffer from smoking addiction do yourself a favor and visit quit-smokingtip.blogspot.com/ quit-smokingtip.blogspot.com/ for more helpful tips on quitting smoking.

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As Benjamin Franklin put it in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” And when it comes to smoking, he could not have put it any more succinctly.

In the UK, the average packet of cigarettes carries duty and taxation of around £4 (around $7) per pack so if you are a smoker, you can be guaranteed the taxes part of the statement. In real terms that is over £1,460 ($2,500) per year – the equivalent of about 8.5 pence (15 cents) extra in the pound on the basic rate income tax for an average earner!

As for the death part of the statement, we know that death is inevitable but the average smoker’s life is shortened by 8 years according to widely accepted research. But there is a sting in this statistic that most people ignore. Half of all smokers are expected to die prematurely as a result of their smoking. From this key fact we can draw the conclusion that half of all smokers will not die prematurely from smoking. This explains the “my grandmother smoked 40 woodbines a day and lived to 98″ quotes you hear at the pub or in general conversations.

What people overlook when they make these statements is that of the half that die early as a result of smoking, the average demise is brought forward by eight years for the whole smoking population. This actually means that if you get caught up in the half that is going to die prematurely, you are going to die about 16 years earlier than normal.

In the case of the UK, the average life expectancy of a man is 76 years for a man and 81 years for a woman. These statistics include the premature deaths of smokers – so actually, if you don’t smoke, your life expectancy should be a few years more than this. If you do smoke, it may be a few years more than you think but it falls back 16 years from that of a non-smoker if you end up in the ‘wrong half’!

In the case of men, if the average life expectancy is 76 years and you are unfortunate enough to die 16 years early as an ‘average’ smoker, you will be 5 years short of your retirement age. How does that make you feel? All the work, all the pension contributions and then what – die of a heart attack or a lingering painful death as a result of cancer or a dribbling, mumbling wreck from stroke or the worst of all, a static, breathless existence in a chair incapable of doing anything because of emphysema?

If you think this is a little morbid, why not do some research on famous smokers or people in the public eye who have died from smoking related illnesses? You will be amazed at the number of smokers who die in their fifties and sixties. Most smokers are in denial that they will get cancer or heart disease but you could well be dying in your 50s or 60s as a result of smoking. There are well documented cases on the internet of smokers dying in their 20s and 30s as a result of thier habit and it could be you next.

Extensive research has categorically concluded that smoking causes a plethora of diseases. At the last count in my research, I had identified over 60 diseases, both fatal and non-fatal that can be directly linked to the consumption of cigarettes or other tobacco products.

I suggest that whilst there is nothing you can do about the inevitability of taxes, nor the inevitability of death, there is a choice for smokers to pay less tax and get a little more time in before death. Quitting is never easy if you are in denial and you believe you want to smoke, but there are methods available to overcome your emotional attachment to cigarettes. Today is always a good day to start stopping smoking.

Pete Howells owns the website easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com and has devised a simple system that will help any smoker quit by giving them the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit. Please visit easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking.

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