Whether you want to quit smoking cigarette or quit smoking weed, there are ways to help you quit successfully and safely. All you have to do is take things one step at a time in a continuous path, and in only one direction. Here are some of the natural ways that can help you complete the journey to successful quitting using natural methods:
Increase your awareness on how smoking affects your body
Most people start smoking because of these main reasons: curiosity, peer pressure and social status. Smokers usually start their habits in their teens, when all they know is that smoking makes them look cool and makes them feel closer to their smoker friends. They never looked into the negative effects before they lit up their first joints. So they ended up keeping a habit that is unknowingly damaging their health.
If you are serious in quitting, you have to do what you never did before—research. Though people have been constantly warned against smoking, many still don’t heed the warnings because they simply don’t understand how a simple habit could cause such complicated conditions. To make a person believe that something is bad, they have to understand it from inside out. You should study how a cigarette or joint is made, what they are really made of, and how those components work. You must understand how the body takes them and the processes involved in its absorption. From there, you’ll start understanding why you get very little of the good benefits and more of the ill effects, like how smoking aggravates bacterial vaginosis or causes anal fissures to be resistant to treatment. And more importantly, smoking kills your lungs and plants cancer cells into them.
Develop fear from that awareness
Once you understand how badly smoking weed affects your body, you have to believe in it. If the truth really strikes you, you will feel bad about the habit and fear what problems it might cause to your health. If it doesn’t strike you, you would just shake it off and feel nothing—and that’s what you must set straight.
Act on that fear
What do you do when you are afraid of something deadly? You run away from it, of course. You stay away and keep a good distance from it. That’s exactly what you should do, stay away from smoking. Start by deciding to abstain from it or lower your usual cut for a day and then doing it again the next day, and then the next until you’ve managed to eliminate it altogether.
Help yourself act on your chosen actions
You have decided to start quitting, so help yourself. You can do that by doing things that will reinforce your goals. If you stock up on your regular supply of cigarettes or joints, it’s time for you to stop and throw away whatever is left with you. Fight the urge to resupply and make sure that you don’t hide any spare in your drawers or your car.
Slowly but surely is the best way to go
Stopping a long-term habit suddenly can cause your body to malfunction due to substance-dependency. Be patient with yourself and don’t force a one-time-big-time approach if your body can’t handle it. Working with your doctor will help. It will also benefit your health better and prevent the chances of relapsing back to the habit.
Quitting smoking is a doable series of tasks. You just have to take and complete one task at a time, until you finally complete every task on your quitting success list.
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