Treatment For Smoking Options

Here are some quit smoking hints for those of you who are looking for stop smoking treatments - which i presume you are if you have landed on this page! Many thousands of people across the globe are looking to do the same as you every year and the answer to stopping smoking is not always as easy as you might think. First of all, one of the most important things you need to think about before any treatment has a chance of success is how much you are motivated and committed to the program because without this in place anything you try could be doomed to failure from the start.

Begin by asking yourself why you really want to stop and fully explore this for yourself. Go beyond the first, almost automatic answers that come straight from the head, such as 'for the sake of my health' or 'it is becoming too expensive to smoke'. Keep asking yourself this question 'why?' and it would be a good idea to keep a record of the answers you come up with in a written record or journal.

You'll be surprised at some of the things that turn up and it will bring you nearer to the answer of why you started smoking in the first place and why you continue doing so now even though you say yu want to stop.

Once you are clearer about why you want to stop, your commitment and motivation will become more highly reinforced and your chances of success will increase.

The next thing you need to do is decide which teatment is most suited to you from all of the available options, and there are many to choose fro to suit both your pocket and your taste. Cigarette smoking is an addiction. Many people think of it as a purely physical addiction but it is also an emotional addiction - the two go together. As ou stimulate the cells in your body with this smoke, this chemical substance at the same time you attach a meaning to the act of smoking, such as a feeling of relaxation, relief, comfort, or satisfaction. Your body becomes conditioned and learns to associate the toxic chemical with a positive feeling. So it is no wonder that it becomes so hard to stop! Who wants to give up on a positive feeling? The trick is to do something to break the conditioned link which, may prove be enough on its own, or you can also in addition, substitute something else in the place of cigarettes or smoking that can do the same job of satisfying you but without the toxicity.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) is often used as a short-term measure to ease the transition from being a smoker to a 'non-smoker'. This is because, when you immediately withold from the body what is has become used to receiving, you may have a response something like a 'survival' response at first. By this I mean that the body will try to keep you at the same level of good feeling you had when you were smoking and will automatically fight to keep you there because it is an automatic 'conditioned' response to do so. If you didn't have the power of choice this could be viewed as almost tyrannical, but fortunately you do and you can see the bigger picture which your body can't. I fact you have other better ways, options and choices you can make to continue feeling good without damaging your body. At tyhis point some of you may be saying, 'I don't feel good when I smoke' but the truth is, there is some advantage for you in smoking otherwise you just wouldn't do it. You may need to spend some time exploring what the hidden benefits might be.

Other approaches to smoking cessation include Hypnotherapy, Acupuncture and EFT. EFT or Emotional freedom Technique is like acupuncture but without the needles and works on the premise that some kind of trauma in the past, big or small, has caused a disruption in the energy system in the body and that once this 'energy blockage' is unblocked and allowed to flow naturally again the presenting problem, in this case the addiction to smoking, will stop. Eft has had some amazing success with nicotine addiction and is very easy and quick to do. Hypnosis works by deeply relaxing you in a way that your body becomes open to new and better 'programming' for a healthier non-smoking you. Acupuncture works by stimulating certain acupuncture points on different parts of the body with needles which affect the physiology of the body. It has been reported to help with cravings and gives some relief for withdrawal symptoms which can support your commitment to quit.

Behavioural treatments such as cognitive therapy and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) take at both the physical and psychological aspects into account. with these therapies you might focus on times when you are at a higher risk of smoking and develop some coping strategies to deal with those times and occasions when you are apt to be moe stressed and likely to take out a cigarette to calm yourself down. With the NLP technique you are invited to study and 'model' the behaviour of a non-smoker or someone who has successfully quit.

There are many other products on the market and various ways of delivering them too. For example you might decide to attend a support group or go to individual sessions. You may try self help or telephone support. Each person who wants to engage with treatments for smoking needs to decide what is best suited to him or her but remember that the most important decision of all is the decision and the commitment to stop.