You can quit smoking only when you are determined to do it yourself. This article examines the top 10 reasons why it is worth quitting smoking, the smoking stop algorithm, and the stage of recovery after quitting.
- Live a healthy life.
- To live longer.
- Get rid of addiction.
- Improve the health of others.
- Do not waste money.
- Feel better.
- Look better.
- Improve the quality of life.
- Healthy offspring.
- Improve sexual health.
In addition to reducing the risk of developing diseases, quitting gives many additional advantages:
* Increased physical activity,
* Potency is increased or restored,
* Improves the perception of the taste of food and smell,
* Improves complexion,
* Improves sleep,
* Free time, previously expended on smoking cigarettes, is released,
* Saving money.
The only negative result of quitting smoking can be weight gain. But this is fixable.
Smoking Quit Algorithm
Step 1. Make a list of the reasons that prompted you to stop smoking on paper. See it more often.
Step 2. Think about nicotine substitutes: plaster, chewing gum, tablets.
Step 3. Find a friend who also wants to quit smoking.
Step 4. Set the day you stop smoking. On the eve of throw ashtrays and lighters. And on the day of “X” – and cigarettes.
Step 5. You should not smoke at home.
Step 6. Avoid alcohol and caffeine. Try not to be nervous.
Step 7. Drink plenty of water and exercise. It will be enough to walk fast for 30 minutes 4 times a week.
Step 8. Keep from the first cigarette. Just one cigarette is enough and you risk a cigarette again.
How to mitigate the “blow” on the body
Daily eat citrus, dogrose and parsley. Take vitamin C in its pure form.
Diversify the diet with bran, liver. These products contain nicotinic acid.
In the morning on an empty stomach drink sour-milk products with bifidumbacterin.
Feed on vitamin A and beta-carotene (but do not overdo it). Mucous lungs and bronchi are formed from them.
Remove from the body harmful tar. Tea from the three-colored violet and oregano will help.
It is important to know
Tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases, vapors and tiny particles of solid matter. In total in tobacco smoke 4000 chemical compounds and substances. From 30 to 60 components of tobacco smoke – carcinogens, causing malignant tumors (cancer).
Clean the space from cigarette smoke will help plants
Chlorophytum, ivy, chrysanthemum, aloe – purify the air.
Citrus, rosemary and myrtle – destroy pathogenic bacteria and microbes.
Geranium – deodorizes the air.
Asparagus – absorbs particles of heavy metals.
But the best way to get rid of cigarette smoke is to quit smoking, which is what we want!
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