The Best (Among The Many Ways) To Quit Smoking

What’s the best way to quit smoking?

One word answer: fear.

It may sound a little extreme, and it may even sound absurd, but successful ex smokers are in unison in saying that the best way to stop smoking is a powerful scare tactic. Unfortunately, such scare tactic may actually be actual, and its perils may be nearer than what we’d initially perceive.

A smoker can try many technique to kick out the habit ofsmoking. He may try the psychological approach of classical, or even operant, conditioning by providing a prize for himself after every victory or punishing himself after every manifested inability. Unfortunately, the downfall of this technique is that the reward provider, or the punisher as the situation may be, is also the patient and the rewards or punishments will never be fairly implemented.

A smoker can consider revolutionary techniques like laser acupuncture where highly condensed light of varying frequencies are placed on these acupuncture holes to foster the release of endorphins. Endorphins limit the craving for cigarette, putting a stop to the subject’s desire to smoke. However, no matter how cutting edge this technique may seem, it has yet to pass universally accepted medical standards. Its effects are currently mythical, at best, pending the verification from the medical community.

A smoker can also consider traditional aids like nicotine patches, which are said to put a stop to the system’s need for nicotine too. Unfortunately, even decades after their initial circulation to the market, nicotine patches have not yet garnered recommendation from the medical community.

How about hypnosis, you might wonder? Hypnosis is known as a technique to help the patient quit smoking by forcing his subconscious to forget about the body’s perceived yearning for a stick. Though, a number of people think of this as merely as fictional as the movie Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.

When everything’s been said and done, the best technique to make a smoker abandon smoking is through fear.

It may be a actualized fear, like, when the smoker suffers a heart attack or a stroke or is diagnosed that he has the starting symptoms of lung cancer. Studies reveal that almost 7 out of every 10 smokers who experience their starting brush with a fatal ailment caused by their vile habit actually quit smoking. 82% of these smokers quit for life.

It may also be an a feelings-based type of fear, like the fear of leaving behind one’s family, or the inability to witness one’s children develop into wonderful people. Such is a classic case of loveconquering all – smoking included.

Seriously, no matter how long you think about this, it is the best way to quit smoking. Good luck!