How to Help Someone Quit Smoking Effectively
It is always sad and helpless to see your loved ones puffing away, sinking in the depth of cigarettes.
Telling them to quit over seems to be futile and useless effort.
They never quit and you will never give up either, so the next question is how to help someone quit smoking, especially your loved ones.
Always remember for a smoker cigarettes are their next best friend which they cannot live without.
The decision to quit must be within and the motivating factor can either be the pain or the pleasure that drives them to part with their "best friends".
What you can do is to identify the motivating factor, encouraging them during the withdrawal symptoms and breaking the habit of smoking.
All human are driven by the power of avoiding pain or enjoying the pleasure.
Smokers for example, they smoke to acquire the sense of satisfaction from the nicotine sending to their brain.
Look in depth and you will be able to find the motivating factor based on these rules.
Lead them to the reason to quit rather provide to them with one, in this way they will be able to accept the reason as their own motivating factor.
This is a common mistake people made while trying to help their loved ones to quit smoking.
The smoker will experience some side effects of quitting smoking and most will give up during this phase.
There will be waves of discomfort caused by withdrawal symptoms every time the need for cigarette kicks in.
This is more severe for the first eight hours and a week to settle down the side effects.
This varies from people depending on the dependency for nicotine.
By understanding how they feel at different phase and sharing with them is a form of encouragement.
The other thing to assist the smoker is to break their habit of smoking.
Take note of when they smoke, under which condition do they smoke and how much they smoke and break it with some other form of activity.
Some smokers feel sense of lost, some part of them missing even after a month after they quit.
The reason behind this is that the habit build up over the years associated with smoking has suddenly disappeared.
By introducing new activity during those times can help to increase the rate of success.
Telling them to quit over seems to be futile and useless effort.
They never quit and you will never give up either, so the next question is how to help someone quit smoking, especially your loved ones.
Always remember for a smoker cigarettes are their next best friend which they cannot live without.
The decision to quit must be within and the motivating factor can either be the pain or the pleasure that drives them to part with their "best friends".
What you can do is to identify the motivating factor, encouraging them during the withdrawal symptoms and breaking the habit of smoking.
All human are driven by the power of avoiding pain or enjoying the pleasure.
Smokers for example, they smoke to acquire the sense of satisfaction from the nicotine sending to their brain.
Look in depth and you will be able to find the motivating factor based on these rules.
Lead them to the reason to quit rather provide to them with one, in this way they will be able to accept the reason as their own motivating factor.
This is a common mistake people made while trying to help their loved ones to quit smoking.
The smoker will experience some side effects of quitting smoking and most will give up during this phase.
There will be waves of discomfort caused by withdrawal symptoms every time the need for cigarette kicks in.
This is more severe for the first eight hours and a week to settle down the side effects.
This varies from people depending on the dependency for nicotine.
By understanding how they feel at different phase and sharing with them is a form of encouragement.
The other thing to assist the smoker is to break their habit of smoking.
Take note of when they smoke, under which condition do they smoke and how much they smoke and break it with some other form of activity.
Some smokers feel sense of lost, some part of them missing even after a month after they quit.
The reason behind this is that the habit build up over the years associated with smoking has suddenly disappeared.
By introducing new activity during those times can help to increase the rate of success.