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Seek Further Help to Quit Smoking

Previous studies illustrate that you have a better chance to quit smoking if you seek encouragement and help from others.

Getting further help to quit smoking will mean some of the following:

- Make your family, friends, and work colleagues aware of the fact that you are planning to quit and you need their support and encouragement. Discourage them from smoking in your presence and ask them not to leave cigarettes or tobacco lying around where you can see them. Also ask them not to offer you cigarettes at any account, whether you're out socialising in the pub or at your usual smoking times at work.

- Ask your closer friends and family to call you to remind you that you have quit smoking.

- Book an appointment with your GP or talk to a quit smoking help line. An appointment with your doctor will be essential, as it will help you monitor the positive changes that will be noticed immediately after quitting smoking. For example, if you're Diabetic or suffer from blood pressure, you will need to consult your doctor to ensure that you are prescribed the correct medication dosage as your body experiences changes as a result of giving up.

- If you are pregnant or lactating then you will also need to seek your doctor's advice if you're quitting.

- Obtain counseling and advice from a local help group or call a help line. Taking advice and help will considerably increase your chances of succeeding.

The more support you seek, the bigger the chances of you giving up. There are many help schemes available at your local health centres. Call your GP or your local health department and they should be able to advise on the availability of help schemes in your area.

You motivation should be to stop at all cost regardless of the discomfort you may face. While some discomfort may be involved in giving up cigarettes, it is insignificant compared to the pain and suffering which continuing the habit can cause.

Physical withdrawal from quitting will normally peak within three days, and totally subside within two weeks. Diseases such as emphysema, heart disease, other circulatory conditions and cancers involve months or even years of long term suffering. These pains are much more severe than anything encountered while quitting. The biggest difference, though, is that these diseases have the full potential of permanently crippling or killing their victims .

Smokers are not only prone to have these major catastrophic illnesses. Due to the weakening of the body's defense mechanisms, smokers are more frequently plagued by infectious diseases, such as colds, flu, and pneumonias. While most of these infections rarely result in permanent crippling or death, they do result in great inconveniences and discomfort. Not only does the smoker have a greater risk of these diseases, but also when he does get one of them, it is more severe, and painful than it would have been if he didn't smoke. No non-smoker would consider inhaling dry hot smoke into an already burning irritated throat. But no matter how intense the pain, the smoker will else he suffers withdrawal besides the cold.

Getting help and combining such help with ActiQuit and your strong determination to give up cigarettes will ensure that you start a new healthy tobacco free life.