Today smoking is considered an anti-social habit all over the world, and millions of people try to follow a healthy lifestyle and quit smoking. No matter what smokers say about the ethereal pleasure of intimate conversations with a cigarette or deep thoughts alone with their smoking friend, deep down inside each of them knows that they are different from non-smokers.

Isn't it ridiculous to pay a lot of money for dried leaves wrapped in paper, then light them on fire and inhale the nicotine and carcinogenic tar into your lungs? Acquire yourself a chronic cough, gastritis and be in perpetual danger of incurable diseases? After all, according to experts, tobacco smoke contains 4 thousand chemicals, among which nicotine is one of the strongest poisons. And also carcinogenic substances - benzapiren, N-nitrosamines, ammonia, polonium, strontium being one of the main reasons of oncological diseases of mouth cavity, pharynx, bronchi and lungs. What a smokeless, filthy environment for years accumulates inside the smoker himself! A person voluntarily turns himself into a smoky creature. Why then the very thought of quitting smoking makes the smoker panic, though from time to time he firmly decides to quit smoking "one day", but this day will come "but not today, maybe since the new year" ..... Yes, because smoking is not just a bad habit, but a firm nicotine addiction. Smoking is no longer fashionable! The 21st century presents us with a cult of a beautiful healthy body, a beautiful appearance, self-care.

What keeps people from quitting smoking? Why do sensible, intelligent people continue to deliberately harm their health?

Smoking is, first of all, a very persistent stereotype and chemical addiction. One of the fundamental properties of our psyche is that when any habit is broken, we have a pronounced discomfort and a desire to regain this habit at any cost and restore the shaken status quo. The addiction to smoking plays a communicative function, as the process of "smoking over" makes it easier for people to establish and maintain contact, provides a psychologically safe form for communication and acquaintance. When trying to give up the habit, a kind of vacuum occurs, since the anti-stress and communicative functions are not replaced by anything in most cases.

Usually, until a person decides to stop smoking, he doesn't want to know anything about the harm that each cigarette brings to the body...

Each time a person inhales carcinogenic tar, which causes cancer, into his or her lungs by inhaling a cigarette. Each time a person smokes a cigarette, they are one step closer to pathological changes in the lung system.

Why is it considered incredibly difficult to quit smoking?

Quitting smoking, in fact, is not very easy. After all, smoking is an addiction consisting of physical and mental components. The fact is that nicotine is quickly incorporated into the metabolic process and when quitting a person may have a withdrawal syndrome: irritability, lethargy, mood swings, light dizziness, pathological cravings for smoking, etc. And so for several days. The sensations are not pleasant. Of course, a person does not really want to endure all this - because these are manifestations of withdrawal syndrome. Thoughts constantly return to cigarettes, dreams where a person smokes begin, anxiety and feeling that something is missing, very much want to feel the taste and smell of cigarettes grows. In most cases, the person who "quits" the bad habit can't stand it and smokes.

After quitting smoking, how long will it take the body to recover?

Nicotine as such is completely eliminated from the organism in a few hours, but tar and soot which got into the lungs remain there for years and are eliminated slowly.

How can you make the weaning period easier? Does it make sense to reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke?

Self-deception is the view that smoking can be given up gradually, instead of strong cigarettes use lighter or reduce the number of cigarettes smoked, some use hookah, smoking mixtures, nasvay, thereby causing irreparable harm to his health. In most cases, such actions do not lead to the desired result. If you take your health seriously you should take a course from the following specialists - psychiatrist-narcologist, doctor-psychotherapist, reflexologist, medical psychologist, who will render professional help, hold diagnostic complex on the tobacco affection, will detect the nicotine addiction degree, motivation to refuse smoking, determine the amount of carbon monoxide in the lungs, prescribe adequate treatment, if indicated, the patient will take a course of reflexotherapy, acupuncture in particular, drug therapy will be appointed, allowing less painful give up smoking, will teach anti-stress techniques to help cope with the psychological discomfort. 

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