| New Electric Cigarette | | | | don't make them able to quit like they want to. |
| Many people who smoke wish they could quit. But, as | | | | Ways People Try to Quit Smoking |
| they often try in vain to explain to non-smokers, quitting | | | | Quitting cold turkey: One day, just saying "no" to |
| smoking is not nearly as simple for most people as it | | | | tobacco. This usually doesn't work, and even if it does |
| seems it should be to non-smokers. While there are, | | | | it's rarely permanent. New Electric Cigarette |
| those people who somehow can be "social smokers", | | | | One more can't hurt: Buying one or two "final" packs |
| such as people who only smoke when they go out to | | | | of cigarettes and then never smoking them. The idea |
| a tavern or to party and otherwise never smoke, most | | | | is that having the cigarettes around allows one to |
| people who begin smoking cannot stop without a | | | | psychologically control the urge to smoke. This has |
| terrible struggle. | | | | worked for a few people but, again, it won't work for |
| For one thing, the act of smoking is like a ritual, a ritual | | | | most smokers. |
| that actually replaces breathing and is very sensual. | | | | "Building down": This is where the smoker gradually |
| Rituals hold great power over most humans' minds. For | | | | smokes a little less than usual over a period of time |
| another thing, nicotine has some very pleasurable | | | | until he's down to smoking only a couple of cigarettes |
| effects on the human body. Once a person is addicted | | | | a day, at which time he quits. This has worked for |
| to nicotine, she "needs" it to relax, reduce mental and | | | | people but it is very easy to get stressed out by |
| physical stress, stimulate her brain, and perhaps even | | | | something and start smoking heavily again. |
| control her appetite. Take away her regular dose of | | | | Drugs/medication: Chewing nicotine gum or wearing a |
| the narcotic and in only several hours she could be | | | | nicotine patch. These methods do nothing to address |
| climbing the walls and going crazy. | | | | the ritual pleasure of smoking, so they aren't nearly as |
| Quitting is a Matter of Life or Death | | | | effective as they are supposed to be. |
| Obviously, the problem with smoking tobacco is that it | | | | Natural/herbal remedies: Many times this is a last |
| has some absolutely terrible side-effects--debilitating | | | | resort, but it does work. There are many herbal |
| and deadly side-effects. All smokers today know this | | | | solutions that helped people quit for good. The Far |
| and that's why so many of them want to quit. But they | | | | East has been using some of them for years. It's only |
| are addicted to the "good" effects and the ritual of | | | | recently that they've developed acceptance in the |
| smoking. So, people have to try many different | | | | Western World. |
| methods of quitting--and all too often, these methods | | | | |