Cigarettes consist of thousands and thousands of different chemicals. Hardly any, if any at all, are actually good for you.
No wonder so many people get cancer from smoking. Cigarettes are a cesspool of harmful chemicals and you’ve been breathing them in of your own free will.
Or maybe not. The argument could be made that it has been the addiction, the understandable fear of withdrawal speaking.
But these things were not what lead you to smoking in the first place. They certainly won’t be helping you any in your journey to quit smoking, either.
Now is the time for you to walk away from those ridiculously chemically-ridden sticks of tobacco.
Unfortunately, some of the methods of quitting including introducing even more chemicals into your body.
Oh but that’s just how it has to happen, right? You stick the patch (or two or three) on your arm and you wean yourself off the nicotine. Or maybe you were leaning more toward the gum?
No. You have other options. Options that don’t involve putting even more chemicals into your already damaged body.
Here’s just a few off them.
Quit Smoking Programs
Whether in the form of physical books and kits or online, there are a wide range of different programs out there geared toward helping people quit smoking.
All of these different programs have different means of trying to help you quit. Some of them are motivation based while other might include some sort of hypnotism.
Each of them have different rates of success, meaning some work a lot better than others.
One program in particular, Quit Smoking Magic, totes a 98% success rate for their program. It claims that it has helped hundreds of habitual chain smokers quit smoking.
And this program doesn’t deal with any gums or pills or patches. Nor does it rely on therapy or hypnosis.
Quit Smoking Magic is inexpensive but can be incredibly effective. It might even help you quit in a little as a week with no negative side effects.
Quitting Cold Turkey
This approach is tough.
Just up and walking away from an addiction-fueled habit wouldn’t be easy, though, would it?
Withdrawal will be a big hurdle for you to overcome to move forward away from your smoking habit. It will induce shifts in temperament, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and cravings, to name just a few of the side effects.
But it is freeing, in a way. When you quit it will be through the pure strength of will. That isn’t anything to sneeze at. When you get to that point, you should be extremely proud of yourself.
Heck, be proud of yourself for even deciding to quit cold turkey. Just making that decision is a huge step in the right direction.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an art form of sorts crossed with knowledge of the human body.
It might sound a little unnerving, but acupuncture is done by a trained professional. It involves the patient being pricked and stuck with needles at very specific points on the body.
The practice has its origins in China, but it is now pretty well known around the globe.
Acupuncture helps a variety of different ailments. Smoking is just one thing that is can help patients manage and overcome.
Its focus is more on the symptoms of withdrawal and not so much on the actual act of smoking, although it can help battle smoking cues.
Exercise
This is more of a support and weight-managing method that works well in combination with other approaches to quitting.
Take the time that you would have been smoking before and have short 5 minutes bursts of exercise instead of taking a quick smoke break.
Not only will exercise help you keep your mind from wandering to smoking, it can also help you heal your lungs and increase your lung capacity.
Conclusion
Doing anything naturally is becoming harder and harder to do in a world worried more about bottom lines than body lines. Saving money can oftentimes mean turning down natural alternative for chemical replacements.
Countless people die each year from smoking-related complications and diseases.
If you are trying to kick the habit in a natural way, good on you. Using patches or weaning yourself off of cigarettes still means you are introducing nicotine and various chemicals into your body.
Don’t be in that line of smokers lying at the end of the bottom line.
No more smoking.
No more chemicals.
No more unnatural solutions to quitting.
