Ways to quit smoking

Smokers should learn about a new innovation that they may wish to try to improve their health and quit smoking – smokeless electronic cigarettes.

An electronic cigarette doesn’t really burn tobacco, but when you inhale you activate a flow censor that discharges a water vapour which contains nicotine, propylene glycol and a smell which mimics the essence of tobacco. Basically, this means you are getting your nicotine from the e-cigarette without getting all the carcinogens found in regular cigarettes such as glue, tar, hydrocarbons and the hundreds of additives.

When you inhale with an smokeless cigarette, the battery turns on a small LED light, which then heats up the smoking mixture to create an odourless vapour that you consume.

This vapour contains only three ingredients: propylene glycol (commonly used in food colouring), water vapour, and nicotine.

The refill cartridges come in a multitude of flavours as well as nicotine strengths. You can get regular, menthol, even apple and strawberry flavoured cartridges and nicotine strengths come in full, medium, light, and none.

The smokeless  cigarette has been in existence in some form for many years. However, increasing anti-smoking regulation and advances in technology have made the smokeless cigarette more popular recently.

In order to quit smoking you would be required to make a few personal changes, be committed and dedicated to your efforts to beat your habit. You need to devise a positive regime that is suitable to your needs and attainable goals that are within you’re the scope of achievement.

Anti-smoking medications can be effective and alleviate the stresses and strains of quitting however it must be borne in mind that an individual needs to realize that the process of stop smoking also requires a certain degree of ‘mind over matter’.

Effective anti-smoking medication offers some help to smokers.

Nicotine Nasal Spray

All-natural, homeopathic, sublingual spray that helps relieve your symptoms as you kick the smoking habit. The nicotine nasal spray reaches the bloodstream more quickly than the other stop smoking medications. The nicotine nasal spray is sprayed through your nostrils. The recommended dose is a spray into each nostril one to five times an hour.

Nicotine Inhaler

The nicotine inhaler is a medication that allows you to get low doses of nicotine using the same hand to mouth motions of smoking. Puffing gently on this device releases a small dose of nicotine from a cartridge in the device. Hold the vapor in your mouth for a few seconds and then blow it out. The nicotine is absorbed thru the tissues of the mouth and throat.

Nicotine Gum

Nicotine gum keeps your mouth busy, and it also satisfies your smoking cravings quickly. The gum is made from a special material called polacrilex.

To release the nicotine from the gum, chew until you feel a tingling sensation in your mouth. Now, to absorb the nicotine, hold the chewed gum between the cheek and gums until the taste or tingling sensation disappears. If you want more nicotine, just chew and hold it for several times. You can buy it over the counter in 2-4 ml doses and chew it as often as needed. A person can use up to 24 pieces of gum a day.

Nicotine Patch

The nicotine patch is a small, adhesive patch that slowly releases nicotine into the bloodstream through the outer layer of the skin. It can be applied anywhere between the waist and neck and is easy to use. It is also available without a doctor’s prescription and in various doses.

This flexibility allows a person to manage one’s withdrawal symptoms and cravings and also helps taper the amount of nicotine you will receive as you slowly become comfortable with not smoking.

Some stop other stop smoking medications need prescription. So you’d better to have advice of doctor.

Basic research studies mapped the actions of nicotine in the brain and showed that nicotine could produce powerful changes in brain function.

Similar to cocaine and morphine, nicotine contained in tobacco produces the entire range of physical and behavioral effects characteristic of addicting drugs.

These effects include activation of brain reward systems that create behavioral effects and physiological cravings that lead to chronic drug use, tolerance and physical dependence, and withdrawal upon discontinuation. Research on nicotine showed that it was possible to become addicted to pure nicotine.

The risk of addiction, however, varies across tobacco products. Oral smokeless tobacco products such as snuff and chewing tobacco do not produce as rapid an effect on the brain as cigarette smoke inhalation. In similar fashion, although many cigar and pipe smokers become addicted, these tobacco products are generally taken up later in life, are less likely to be inhaled, and lead to somewhat muted effects.

The overall risk of addiction from these tobacco products is lower when compared to cigarettes. Speed of delivery is most remarkable with cigarettes, which both require and reinforce smoke delivery to the lung with nicotine “hits” to the brain within seven seconds.

The understanding that nicotine addiction drives the process of tobacco use has been met by safer ways of satisfying and treating the addiction.

For example, some people can be counseled to gradually reduce their dependence on nicotine and thus break the addiction over time, that is, typically a few months. Others can be treated with nicotine-delivering medicines (chewing gum, skin patch, and inhaler).

Most people who quit smoking using this method usually discontinue the medicine within two to three months of use of the medicines and totally unload from tobacco addiction.