Some Opinions To Do With Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Every time you inhale smoke from a cigarette, your body is getting bombarded with so many toxic chemicals. Did you know that nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known to man? Addiction to nicotine is what makes it so hard to stop smoking.

Millions of people have tried quitting at some point or another and have failed. Failing is very common so you shouldn’t feel too disappointed. You have probably only tried several ways of quitting but there are others that you haven’t yet tried.

Currently, you might feel as if quitting tobacco smoking seems like an unreachable goal, but I am here to tell you that there is more than one way to kick the habit. Currently, there are already so many ways of quitting being advertised all over the place. Some of these are worth attempting, whilst some are not. Here are the most well-known methods:

Attempting to go cold turkey. Without lowering the dosage of nicotine you get, this method requires you to cut off smoking immediately. If you look at the national statistics, you’ll see that only a small percentage of people are actually successful with this method. I’ve tried doing this and my success only lasted for 24 hours at best. It was very very difficult. The cravings for a cigarette became absolutely unbearable. I have also tried eating snacks to curb the cravings and it has helped a little bit but there’s only so much I could snack on in a day without feeling sick.

This really requires you to have a very strong will-power. I know some people can do it and have stopped smoking overnight after being a smoker of over 20 years, but most people just can’t. It sounds really tough to do because in actual fact, it is.

The second most common way is to use nicotine replacement therapy, or “NRT” for short. It inovlves the use of quit smoking aids such as nicotine flavored chewing gum, and patches. These NRT’s have a much higher rate of success compared to method number one. The truth of the matter is, NRT’s might work for a short period of time. But eventually, the cigarette cravings are too much to bear.

Why is this so? It’s simple. There’s more to the addiction factor than just nicotine intake alone. Behaviors such as putting a cigarette into your mouth, along with the taste and smell has a lot to do with it. These are what a lot of smokers miss when they try to quit.

Name it and I’ve tried it. I have used just about every known quit smoking technique and aid available. I have tried hypnosis, NLP, gum, patches, subliminal messaging, Asian herbal medicines, the list goes on. I’ve purchased lots of books and none of them have helped.

Things are looking up though. 6 weeks ago, I’ve managed to quit smoking without any withdrawal symptoms. I did this with the help of electronic cigarettes which do not produce all the harmful chemicals unlike an analogue cigarette. You see, when you light up a cigarette, the smoke that is produced contains all the deadly chemcials and one of the worst is carbon monoxide, which causes lung cancer and emphysema. Giving up smoking tobacco cigarettes was a piece of cake for me, and many others alike. You have got to try it to believe it.

I’d like to share my story with you about how I started with electronic cigarettes, but unfortunately there is just not enough room here for me to give you my full story.

Please drop by my E-cig Addict website to see the list of extensive articles about e-cigarettes which I have written up. I’m sure you’ll like what you see. Have a great day and all the best in your attempts to quit smoking!