How To Stop Smoking

Smoking doesn't just damage the inside of your body; it's hard on your outside too. Smoking can be a major factor in prematurely aged skin, dark circles under the eyes and other skin issues. This web site has been written to help you quit smoking -- for good -- in just one week. And to stay tobacco-free for the rest of your life.

If you want to quit, you need to know what to do to fight off that urge to light up. You need to know the reasons for wanting to light up in the first place. And you need to ask yourself, Am I ready to quit smoking?

There are two major factors that will determine your success:

Your desire to give up the habit.
The confidence to know you can do it.

Quitting smoking can be an uncomfortable experience; it's not easy, no matter how determined and confident you are. For most smokers, it will take a few attempts to get it right. But it is possible, all you need is the right attitude and the right help. That's where this site comes in -- it has been written to give you the information you need to give up smoking and to stay that way.

The Risks Of Smoking

According to health care experts, smokers are twelve times more likely to die of lung cancer...but that's not all...

        ... Ten times more likely to die of cancer of the mouth, throat or oesophagus ...
        ... Twelve times more likely to die from lung cancer ...
        ... Ten times more likely to die from cancer of the larynx ...
        ... Six times more likely to die form heart disease ...
        ... Twice as likely to suffer a stroke ...

...and that's just the mortality statistics.

Think about the damage you're doing to your body inside and out. One puff on a cigarette releases trillions of free radicals that trigger an inflammatory response throughout the body.

To quit smoking successfully, you need to be able to answer these two questions:

How can you reduce your desire to smoke when it strikes you?
What will you do until the urge passes?

Before you can answer those questions you need to know your enemy and know why it has such a hold on you.

Know Your Enemy

Nicotine causes a biochemical response in the body that has an immediate effect on your mood, your ability to reason and your metabolism. Even if you only smoke a few cigarettes a day, it can be painfully difficult to give up. Why? The more you smoke, the higher the level of your chemical dependency but there's also the psychological dependency that leaves even light smokers unable to quit.

Nicotine affects your central nervous system, stimulating the pleasure centres in the brain and the areas that allow you to reason. It also affects the levels of hormone produced in your body. The more you smoke, the more dependent on those raised levels you become.

You Can Quit Smoking

So quitting is hard, you're fighting your own body after all. But you can do it. You need that desire and confidence -- and you need a plan of action, a way to beat the cravings until you have your body under your own control again.