Natural Ways to Quit and Stop Smoking

If conventional ways of smoking cessation are not for your, maybe you will like the holistic, or more natural ways of stopping smoking.

Rx-Hale Tablets:

Stops cravings before they begin. St. John's Wort, Scuttelaria Laterifolia, and Chromium Picolinate work together to cope with depression and mood swings associated with smoking cessation. This product is used up to one month before quitting, to ward off the depression and mood swings.

Crave-Rx Drops:

Helps to control the craving for nicotine. Crave-Rx is available in tincture form and contains Avena Sativa, Garcinia Cambogia, and Gotu Cola (Centella Asiatica) which aids in balancing chemical activity in the brain related to addiction. This herbal compund also stops the sugar cravings.

Triple Complex NicoTonic:

Enhances the nutrients, hormones and bio-chemicals that are reduced due to the stress of withdrawal. NicoTonic contains Natrium Phosphate, Kalium Phosphate and Natrium Muriaticum to prevent mood swings and helps reduce the anxiety associated with withdrawal from nicotine or other addictive drugs.

Smoking and Asthma:

Cigarette smoke is a common factor in inducing asthma attacks. The person inflicted with asthma does not need to be a smoker, but just being exposed to the toxins contained in cigarette smoke can trigger an attack. Child asthmatics are particularly affected by second-hand smoke, which has more of an impact on them than it does adults. Second-hand smoke is a lung irritant that produces excessive mucous in the lungs. Parents who smoke around their children cause the child to be more susceptible to upper respiratory infections even without asthma, which can prove to be harder to manage.

Physical Activity: Keeping active can not only help you to quit smoking, it has other health benefits as well. Being physically active helps to lower blood pressure and lose weight. Gaining weight can be a drawback in quitting, but increasing activity burns calories to keep the extra weight off.

Reduce your stress: Stressful lifestyles are factors of smoking. Avoiding situations that cause stress is not always possible, but unnecessary stress can be avoided by taking another pathway that isn't so stressful. Sometimes just by changing how we deal with certain events can make all the difference in the world.

Most all smokers like a cigarette after eating. Try to delay smoking after a meal or snack by replacing it with some other activity, such as going for a walk. Practice makes perfect.

There are smokers who don't like smoking around others who don't. The more you are in the company of those who don't smoke, you will find yourself lighting a cigarette less and less.

Of course, there is always doing it cold turkey. Certainly, this takes a strong constitution to accomplish. It takes great strength and will power to just make up your mind to kick the habit. After a few days you will feel experience a great difference in how you feel, and will enjoy the extra money in your pocket.

by Barb Hicks, RN/LMT