That we really want to stop smoking and we do not get it is a fact. And that tobacco is harmful to health, but that it is very difficult to eliminate it from our life is not something new.
Therefore, the specialists of the Department of Pneumology of the University Clinic of Navarra offer a series of key tips to eliminate tobacco from our lives.
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- Find a reason: think carefully about the reasons why you smoke. We need real reasons, we should not follow an impulse because we can go quickly. In addition, specialists recommend writing them on paper.
- Be positive: you have to eliminate negative thoughts, such as how difficult it will be to get it.
- Begin to perform some gentle physical exercise: it will relax you, help you control your weight and observe benefits that you get when you stop smoking.
- Set a date: choose a specific day to quit smoking. However, sometimes, it is difficult to stop smoking completely, so you can try to decrease the amount of cigarettes little by little.
- Keep a record: for a few days write down all the cigarettes, the circumstances in which you smoke and the degree of need you have. This helps to know the situations associated to the fact of smoking and to foresee the way to face them.
- Calculate the money spent on smoking and plan how to use it (something that has been appealing for some time).
- Chew gum without sugar and have something in your hands: this will help calm the oral and / or manual component.
- Remove from home everything related to tobacco: ashtrays, cigarettes, lighters etc ...
- Small objectives: think only on the specific day; today he will not smoke.
- It is good to seek support from friends or family, can make the work much easier.
- Avoid drinking alcohol and drinks that are associated with the cigar: coffee, beer ...
- Practice simple relaxation exercises , for example, breathe deeply several times.
- Taking large amounts of water or fruit juice, rich in vitamin C, will help eliminate nicotine.
Tobacco, besides causing harm to health, creates addiction. Proof of this is that most smokers want to quit smoking and only one in ten who try without help achieves it. Some smokers experience great difficulty to achieve it and it even seems that certain genes may predispose to nicotine addiction.
These people will need help with drugs and follow-up and often several attempts. In the Clinic there is a Program of Smoking Cessation with ten years of experience, which seeks to facilitate smokers abandonment of tobacco, through medical monitoring and continued professional support.