{"id":845,"date":"2024-01-31T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.myhealthvectors.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T06:18:56","slug":"5-methods-to-quit-smoking-that-are-actually-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/5-methods-to-quit-smoking-that-are-actually-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Methods to Quit Smoking that are Actually Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"
Smoking, as we all know is a bad habit which is so enormously damaging to our health that it is a habit which is best totally avoided than to get addicted to and later quit. The ill effects of smoking are many and no matter how you smoke, whether it is through a cigarette or a cigar or through a hookah it affects every major organ in the body. There is absolutely no safe way in which one can smoke or counter these effects without totally kicking the habit. Smoking is one of the major causes of preventable deaths.<\/p>\n
Some of the ways by which smoking detrimentally damages the human body are listed below:<\/p>\n
Lung Cancer<\/strong>- Smoking is the leading cause of this disease worldwide. In the United States, three times more deaths occur in people who smoke than non-smokers. Cigarettes contain around 600 ingredients and upon burning they produce more than 7000 chemicals most of which are highly toxic and according to doctors, about 69 of these chemicals can lead to lung cancer. Cigars and hookahs are even more harmful than cigarettes as they contain higher levels of carcinogens, tar etc and exposes the smoker to higher levels of the poisonous carbon monoxide gas than cigarettes.<\/p>\n Mood Stimulant<\/strong>- One of the main components of tobacco is a stimulant drug known as nicotine which stimulates the central nervous system and initially brings a feeling of high energy but as its effects subsides, the smoker becomes more fatigued than before and needs more tobacco which leads to the formation of a habit which proves dangerous to his overall health.<\/p>\n Respiratory Problems<\/strong>- Smoking reduces the efficiency of the lungs to filter harmful chemicals and causes toxic substances to accumulate in the lungs and also exposes the smokers to higher risk of respiratory infections, colds, flu\u2019s etc. It can lead to a medical condition termed emphysema which leads to the destruction of the air sacs in the lungs which leads to chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).<\/p>\n Heart Problems<\/strong>- Smoking also causes serious cardiovascular diseases like recurrent coronary heart disease, strokes heart attacks and blood cancer.<\/p>\n Problems of the Integumentary System<\/strong>- Smoking also damages the skin hair and nails of the smokers causing discoloration of the skin, premature ageing, wrinkles, stains on the nails and smelly hair.<\/p>\n Oral and digestive disorders<\/strong>- Tobacco leads to tooth decay, loss of the teeth, foul breath and cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx and the esophagus and also increase the risk of type 2 diabetes. In addition causes loss of appetite, leading to malnutrition.<\/p>\n Problems in pregnancy and the reproductive system<\/strong>- Smoking can adversely affect women smokers during pregnancies and even passive smokers and also causes serious conditions like erectile dysfunctions in men. All these detrimental side effects should make us think a thousand times before getting addicted to smoking but for people who are already in the throes of this dangerous habit quitting as early as possible is a must before things go beyond their control. But the all important question is \u2013 How? Once you are addicted it becomes extremely difficult to quit as the effects of nicotine often make the temptation too hard to resist for many. Advice from people to quit begins to sound cagey and hollow and no method or way actually seems to work. That is why proper guidance, rehabilitation and treatment is extremely necessary for survival and so are the knowledge of the correct methods to get rid of this habit once and for all.<\/p>\n Here are a few useful tips which, unlike most others, can actually help us to quit smoking:<\/p>\n Moreover, financial benefits due to quitting smoking especially when you are bound by financial constraints and are at a risk of losing your hard-earned money because of this habit has been found to be the biggest motivator in successfully quitting smoking. Moreover counseling sessions and expert advice from trained professionals have also been found to be of significant help. It is universally acknowledged that smoking is one of the most difficult bad habits to get rid of. No easy or simple method of doing the same is known as of yet. Quit smoking programs have been known to have quite low success rates but this does not mean that they are not worth giving a shot at. But if you are successful in quitting it can save you from a plethora of health problems in addition to improving your social and family life and overall health and well-being. Thus, to conclude, persistent and genuine efforts and the belief that you can quit can definitely deliver you from this scourge and take your life in a better direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smoking, as we all know is a bad habit which is so enormously damaging to our health that it is a habit which is best totally avoided than to get addicted to and later quit. The ill effects of smoking are many and no matter how you smoke, whether it is through a cigarette or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[14,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/4466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthvectors.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n