Addiction is a specter of modern society. It is easy to become addicted to them and not easy to get rid of, experiencing a real "break".
Many smokers worry about the main question, how to replace cigarettes when you quit smoking, and is it possible to get rid of nicotine addiction altogether with the help of traditional medicine?
It is possible to quit smoking with folk remedies, but subject to strong willpower.
Treatment of smoking with drugs does not always bring the desired results.
The pill still acts like a placebo and helps a person to more easily withstand withdrawal and withdrawal symptoms.
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The first few days passed without a cigarette easily. People are starting to think that quitting the habit is easy. The next stage is the beginning of nicotine production. An important condition is a positive attitude.
Techniques used when there is a desire to smoke:
- Ongoing lung function. Take a deep breath and exhale. As a result, there is freedom of breathing, the desire to light a cigarette disappears.
- Frequent consumption of food and water. This method occupies the oral cavity and allows you to quit smoking. Refers to psychological methods.
- Disgusting. The essence of the method: collect cigarette butts in a glass container, pour water and cover with a lid. The algorithm of action when the desire to smoke appears: open the jar and inhale the smell through the nose. Drugs cause attacks of vomiting.
Recipes to get rid of the habit
The grandfather method includes a sequence of actions:
- Smoking the last pack of cigarettes. Number of copies left - 2 pieces.
- Using one of the cigarettes. The smoke is steaming (not into one's lungs). Smoke hovered in his mouth.
- Cover your mouth with the smoke contained in it. Insert the nostril by hand. Close your eyes and bow your head back.
- Chew smoke figuratively (you must think that this is a meat product). The mouth is always closed throughout the process.
- The duration of the procedure is 15 seconds.
- Open your mouth and inhale the smoke into your lungs.
The number of procedures is 3 units. The last step of the recipe is to puff the cigarettes left earlier. Using methods helps the body get rid of addiction.
A useful tip to quit smoking is to take a spoonful of honey in the morning (before brushing your teeth). After the procedure, a decoction of oats is taken in a volume of 250 ml (1 sided glass). Method of preparation of decoction: the product is poured with boiling water. The solution should be filtered and cooled.
Oats can be replaced with porridge cooked in water (3-4 tbsp).
Step -by -step recipe for making a salad to eliminate the craving for nicotine:
- Boil the potatoes and cut into small pieces.
- Roast the eggplant in a pan with the addition of tomatoes.
- Mixing preparations.
- Add garlic and vegetable oil.
Eating a salad will help you get rid of bad habits.
Folk remedies for nicotine addiction:
- Asleep 200 g of oatmeal that has been washed in an enamel pan.
- Fill the product with cold water in a volume of 4 liters.
- Soak the contents of the pot for 4 hours.
- Bring the product to a boil.
- Cooking process (duration - 60 minutes).
- Cool the resulting gravy.
- Pour into a 3 -liter jar.
Storage is in the refrigerator. Decoction of 100 grams taken 3 times a day. The course of treatment is 1 month. If necessary, the procedure can be repeated.
Banana tincture recipe:
- Collection of banana leaves (morning or evening).
- Wash the workpiece thoroughly.
- Put in a container with a volume of 200-300 ml.
- Fill the product with vodka (can be replaced with medical alcohol with a strength of 70%).
- Infusion for 14 days.
How to give: 4-6 drops with a piece of bread. The duration of treatment is 1. 5 months.
The methods described help eliminate smoking and relieve discomfort.
How hypnosis works
Hypnosis: a hypnotherapist introduces a person into a state of consciousness where his brain is in a dream, but is able to see all the information supplied from the outside and fix it at the subconscious level. After a hypnosis session, someone deep in his or her consciousness has the idea that smoking is evil - it only leads to death. People no longer experience the urge to "smoke".
This method has pros and cons:
- The patient only needs presence - no intervention in the process and no willpower effort;
- No discomfort;
- When choosing a reliable therapist - not completely painful;
- Group sessions are possible, which allows you to reduce the price;
- Risks arising from disturbances of mental processes;
- Some cannot be put into a state of hypnosis; This method is not suitable for everyone;
- The presence of pseudo-hypnotherapists, on the bait is relatively easy to fall.
Preventing Weight Gain in Failure
Why weight gain happens:
- Changes in appetite, as a result, food looks tastier, you want to eat it more often.
- withdrawal syndrome. The body develops the habit of resting a little every time a person "smokes", after rejection it remains. Now there is no such break, and the brain asks to replace tobacco with something else, for example, food.
- A pack of cigarettes smoked burns 200-250 calories per day. Energy loss must somehow be replenished.
- The similarity of nicotine hunger with food. The body just does not understand what is lacking, and hunger must be replenished - with food!
Diet in this situation is not the best option, dietary stress is added to the withdrawal syndrome, nerve damage is only guaranteed.
How to maintain your weight:
- Persistent snacks: seeds, dried fruits, vegetables, fresh fruits are helpers in this matter;
- Daily diet, from which you can not deviate;
- Daily physical activity (running, fitness, yoga);
- Smoking builds a constant smoking habit, so sugar -free lollipops will significantly reduce withdrawal symptoms.
If you keep your weight at the same level for 2 - 3 months, consider that the work is done, then it will be easier to withstand weight gain.
Help patches and vitamins
For those who have decided to quit smoking, experts have highlighted important tips to facilitate this process:
- Rejection for some time from alcohol and coffee - due to lack of nicotine, the brain begins to look for other stimulants for itself, but alcohol weakens self -control, which can affect smoking abstinence;
- Taking vitamins, they weaken the withdrawal syndrome;
- Sleep and rest modes - more movement, normal sleep. This component helps relieve stress from nicotine starvation;
- Avoiding smoking places and communication with smokers will not allow thoughts to arise: "okay, I’ll shoot one, it’s okay";
- There is no escape route - you have to throw away all the empty packs, lighters, reminders of love;
- Refuse to switch to other addictions - don’t be tied to drugs or other foods, for example, that can lead to worse consequences than smoking;
- Chewing gum in the first 2 weeks without smoking is best friend;
- Diaphragmatic breathing (abdominal breathing) with the entry of the desire to smoke;
- Nervous stress intolerance - ex -smokers should try to avoid any annoying situations that help take cigarettes, experts are also advised to drink soothing tea or mild herbal infusions;
- Replacing tobacco nicotine with therapeutic nicotine - chewing gum and using patches with a low nicotine content will reduce the severity of withdrawal syndrome.
By following these tips, you can simplify the process of quitting smoking and reduce the chances of subsequent damage.
Quit smoking - headache
It’s hard to leave a habit, because any change for the body is stressful. When a person stops smoking, he or she begins to experience headaches, tinnitus, dizziness, pain in the abdomen and chest, and a desire to feel pain.
Headaches are accompanied by general weakness in the body, loss of sleep and appetite. The whole vegetative system of the body suffers.
The listed symptoms are combined by experts into broad features such as "withdrawal syndrome", a manifestation that leads to mental disorders. Work capacity decreases, smokers become irritable, aggression appears in his behavior.
At the beginning of the release of nicotine addiction, the main symptoms appear, which are associated with the process of cleaning the cerebral vessels of harmful carcinogenic compounds, oxygen levels increase rapidly, which leads to unpleasant sensations. The condition of the heart and blood vessels changes, leading to an increase in blood pressure and, to pain in the temples and neck.
In addition to physiology, there are also psychological causes of pain when quitting nicotine:
- Smokers are not morally ready to part with cigarettes, the body begins to fall into a depressed state;
- Rejection of any addiction is accompanied by strong feelings;
- If a person calms down only with the help of cigarettes, then, having lost this opportunity, he begins to get angry, panic, from which the pressure increases and the sensation of pain appears in the brain.
Headaches in a smoker who has decided to quit his habit can be accompanied by more serious symptoms: loss of consciousness, shortness of breath and, strangely, cough. If a person has just thought about the fact that it is time for him to quit smoking, then at this stage he may start to show health problems.
With the manifestation of these symptoms, nicotine is a drug, the refusal to use it will be accompanied by a "breakdown" with subsequent consequences.
The pain in the head of a nicotine addict who decides to overcome his addiction will be different in nature: the pain is aching, cutting, throbbing, alternating with attacks, worsening during physical activity. Some patients, in order to get rid of obsessive headaches, need to use analgesics, otherwise they need to persist for several days.
How not to return to smoking if you quit on your own
Most people who are addicted to cigarettes claim that there are no "former" smokers, even when you quit for "a hundred" times. Experts say otherwise.
Quitting smoking once and for all is possible if you always follow the precautions:
- The first and most important rule is to never go back to smoking, even once. It takes you a few steps back from your goal.
- The categorical "no" should always be in mind, then attention will be focused on problem solving, and not on the possibility of overcoming it.
- Find objects that will help distract from obsessive thoughts.
- Years after your victory over nicotine addiction, don’t forget that the smoking habit can return if you indulge yourself at least once.
Methods and ways to clean the lungs
The conditions for clearing the lungs after the last cigarette are individual for everyone - from 3 months to one year. For long -term smokers, this process may be delayed.
Comprehensive steps:
- Make sure the complete exclusion of smoking, which is called passive;
- Take a course of drug therapy;
- Have strong psychological health and a clear goal - complete cleansing of the body;
- It is designed to increase physical activity gradually;
- Observe proper diet, stay awake and sleep;
- Perform breathing exercises that "open up" the lungs;
- Use traditional medicine;
- Clean by suction;
- Visit baths and saunas that have a positive effect on lung cleansing.
Recommended for use in larger quantities than usual: water, milk, apples, pineapple, green tea, garlic, natural dark chocolate.
Among the known traditional cleaning methods from smoking:
- Boil the pine nuts.
- Infusion of violet and oregano. Take 2-3 times a day for a month.
- Garlic syrup. It is made from an onion with added sugar and taken 4 times.
- Collection of mint and St. John's wort. John.
Indicators that the lungs have been cleared are complete cessation of coughing and the absence of shortness of breath.
Expected changes in the body
The reaction of all organisms to smoking cessation is individual, the early days are a little similar to torture, and then everything becomes normal, the situation gradually improves. If everything goes according to a bad scenario, then the smoker will experience small sores on the lips and oral mucosa, which can develop into stomatitis. Immunity is reduced, which makes him vulnerable to viral diseases and various infections.
Ex -smokers are more likely to develop cancer and other serious illnesses. The sooner a person overcomes an addiction, the less likely he or she is to get a serious illness.
Already at the beginning:
- Within 12 hours, respiration began to recover;
- During the day, the work of the cardiovascular system becomes stable and the unpleasant odor gradually disappears;
- After 3-4 days, active detoxification begins;
- By the end of the week, the concentration increased, the sense of smell improved.
After a more significant time, changes occur:
- By the end of the 2nd month, the respiratory capacity of the lungs increases, the blood is renewed, the color and elasticity of the skin returns;
- Six months later, the liver is regenerated, the yellow color of the nails disappears;
- By the end of the 3rd quarter, teeth are whitened, lungs are completely cleaned, return to normal, the work of the reproductive system is restored, which allows you to give birth to a healthier child.
Deciding that smoking should not interfere with life is an important step that needs to be taken as soon as possible. Then it will be easier for the body and all its systems to return to normal and function in such a way that one’s life will last for many happier years. It is only important to survive for the first 3-4 days of withdrawal syndrome, then it will be easier.