Smoking is unhealthy and can cause severe negative health consequences for you and everyone around them. It destroys your lungs and throat, damages your heart and wreaks havoc on your mouth. Anyone forced to inhale cigarette fumes in the form of second hand smoke may be put in great danger as well. Therefore, quitting is essential. The article here gives you several tips that could be helpful in successfully quitting smoking.
Write down the reasons why you want to quit smoking. Post the list someplace where you’ll see it every day, to help keep you motivated. Include not only the reasons that directly benefit you, but also the reasons that quitting will benefit your friends and family. Being able to read your list every day will remind you of why you stopped smoking in the first place.
Plan on using exercise as you quit smoking, not just for the added health perks, but to distract yourself from the desire to smoke. Exercising is a great stress reliever as well. If you are new to exercise, start slowly by taking walks every other day. Always go to your physician before you start exercising.
Try to drink a lot of fruit juice as you begin quitting. The fruit juice will help cleanse your body of all the nicotine that is stored in your system. This will help you better resist cravings that you are bound to get if you do not do this sort of cleanse. Continue reading …