Popular Quit Smoking Products

There are hundreds of different quit smoking methods that smokers can choose from when they quit. Three of the most popular methods are Cold turkey, N.R.T’s and Hypnosis. I am going to talk about the pros and cons of each to see if popularity equates to effectiveness.

Cold Turkey:

Cold Turkey is the simplest method of quitting smoking you can try. This makes it a very popular option for those who want to quit. Basically you just stop smoking without any planning or consideration. People usually throw away any items that remind them of smoking eg lighter, ashtrays at the same time. Out of sight, out of mind. All that a person uses to quit smoking is their will power.

Pros:

• Inexpensive because there is nothing to buy.

Cons:

• Mind and Body are not sufficiently prepared to stop smoking
• Gives Nicotine more power because constant thought is on smoking
• Requires superhuman will power to successfully quit.
• Doesn’t deal with the psychological reasons why a person smokes

Cold turkey has the biggest failure rate of all the quit smoking methods. When you take a look at the cons you can see the reasons why. I can understand why people would try it, unfortunatley it is not as easy as just putting the cigarettes down.

N.R.T’s

N.R.T’s (Nicotine Replacement Therapies) come in different forms e.g gums, patches. The idea of a N.R.T is to help the smoker wean of cigarettes by placing a little bit of nicotine into their system. This is said to help ease cravings and withdrawal symptoms. A smoker uses a N.R.T until they feel ready to quit on their own

Pros:

• Helps to ease cravings and withdrawal symptoms
• Prepares the smoker for quitting physically. Smoker quits when they are ready

Cons:

• Expensive
• Not appropriate in many situations
• Smokers have become addicted to the N.R.T’s due to it’s nicotine content
• Only deals with physical cravings, not psychological ones
• They have many known side effects
• Uses nicotine to cure an addiction to………nicotine?????

Using nicotine to cure nicotine really confuses me. N.R.T’s have a high failure rate. Many people will quit for a while but end up going back to smoking in the long run. This will usually occur once N.R.T’s are no longer in use and the nicotine supply has been cut off. The main reason smoking will start again is because N.R.T’s only deals with the physical nicotine craving. Smoking is at least 50% psychological.

Hypnosis:

Hypnosis is more than waving a watch back and forth and getting people to do silly things. It is a way to deliver messages to our subconscious in order to change our way of thinking. Through hypnosis you can turn negative thoughts into positive ones for the betterment of someone’s life. Hypnosis helps a smoker by changing the way they think about smoking. eg. smoking is not pleasurable, smoking is not relaxing. A smoker can either go see a licensed hypnotherapist or buy self hypnosis C.D’s/D.V.D’s.

Pros:

• Helps deal with some of the psychological aspects of smoking
• Smokers can choose between self hypnosis or hypnosis sessions with a hypnotherapist.

Cons:

• Hypnosis sessions can expensive and time consuming
• Not everyone can be hypnotised.

I have no doubt that hypnosis can potentially help people to quit by changing the way they think about smoking. But is hypnosis really necessary? I do not believe it is. People can change the way they think about smoking without hypnosis of any kind. There are other methods and techniques that smokers can use on themselves to change their way of thinking.

When it comes down to it I do not believe that popularity equates to effectiveness. We can see from the three of the most popular methods available. Two of them are basically ineffective and one is completely unnecessary. Smoking is largely a psychological addcition that can be fixed by the smoker and the smoker alone. All they need is a little guidance on how this can be done. Once the psychological addiction has been dealt with, no other quit smoking method will be required again.

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