In the year of the Coronavirus, news stories highlight the importance of our health, particularly lung health. Our top tips to quit smoking will help you protect yourself and your loved ones.
Our lungs are the organ that COVID-19 seems to attack first. Since the beginning of this year, any trip outside could end up with un-functioning lungs. However, since the first medical report on the subject in 1964, we’ve known the dangers that smoking poses to breathing processes.
With COVID-19 knocking about, there has never been a better time to stop smoking! You may be working from home and around your family more. You may be feeling the financial strain or stress. You may also be wanting to protect your health so that your immune system is strong enough to fight the virus, or any virus.
People sometimes find it difficult to unwind the crossed pathways that lead us to associate smoking with pleasure, and pleasure with smoking. With this in mind, we’ve put together some tips on how to take control of your health and quit smoking for good.
Here’s some ways to get started and stop smoking
1. Ask for Help and Quit Smoking
Pretty much all health authorities agree that you are far more likely to quit smoking for good with professional help. There are approaches on the market, such as nicotine patches and gum which some people have found helpful. All of our clients that come to us have tried these first but have been unsuccessful.
However, for those who feel their problem is emotional, it might well be better to seek inter-personal remedies. Consider hypnotherapy as a safe and effective technique to give up smoking. At the Hypnosis and Therapy Centre, our therapists are professionals that communicate with the subconscious to eliminate the addiction, so that the desire to smoke just isn’t there!
Most of our clients stop smoking in one or two sessions, but with ongoing support provided, we ensure that results are permanent and life-changing!
2. Find an Alternative to Smoking
In saying this, we are not recommending taking up vaping, or chain-eating shortbread. Rather, it might help you to pick up an action to fill in the gap where you would have been smoking. Lots of ex-smokers don’t know what to do with their hands and find it useful to chew a cocktail stick, or gum.
The smoking ban in Ireland came into play in 2004 and so a cigarette break involves going out of the building or outdoors. There is nothing stopping you from still going outside, getting away from a potentially stressful environment inside. Just without the bad bit, the bit that is killing you inside and taking years off your life!
Read more about using vaping as a technique to quit smoking. Being blunt, it’s a terrible idea.
A lot of people find that they eat more and put on weight when giving up smoking. Our program ensures that your addiction is not compensated with another addiction. This is why the ongoing support we offer with our program is so important.
3. Keep Track of the Benefits of Quitting Smoking
‘Giving up smoking’ is a quite misleading phrase. The act of smoking is not something universally pleasurable, like alcohol or food. The feeling of pleasure or relief when lighting up comes from the replenishment of nicotine in your system. Nicotine is a substance that you don’t inherently need to feel good.
So, you’re not giving cigarettes, so to speak. It’s a process that will bring you back to yourself, no longer bound to a cigarette, but ready to face the world in control. A way to emphasize this might be to list the benefits that each non-smoking day, hour, or second brings.
- More money in your pocket for enjoyable things
- Lower amounts of carbon monoxide in your blood
- Lower chance of developing lung cancer – 9/10 cases of lung cancer are caused directly by smoking
- Your immune system will become stronger and you will be less at risk against COVID-19, but also general illnesses like colds, coughs, sinus issues and chest infections
4. Be Kind to Yourself
Smoking is a famously tough habit to kick. But remember, by quitting smoking you are undertaking one of the greatest acts of self-love possible. Caitríona and Fiachra are experts in their areas, but are also people-people!
You will see in our reviews that one of the most common things people say is how relaxed and amazed they are at how kind and passionate Caitríona and Fiachra are. We genuinely want to help our clients, the aftercare, kindness and ongoing support being the most important difference in our practice. If you fall back into bad habits, you can call us and we will do another session free of charge as part of the package.
Giving up the smokes is one of the most important and best decisions you will make in your life. It may be difficult, so you may fall back and have a sneaky drag. This is okay, be kind to yourself.
This is Urgent
At the Hypnosis and Therapy Centre, we can help you quit smoking permanently. These tips for quitting smoking are here to highlight the importance and the urgency to stop smoking.
This will benefit you in more ways than just financially. It will improve your health incrementally, and the health of those around you – particularly young kids.
Feel free to fill out our Complimentary Breakthrough Session form. In 22 minutes, or less, we will find out what is standing between you and your issue being resolved. That being said, we will only work with people who are truly ready to quit, not those that will try half-heartedly.
You do not want to wait to quit smoking until you have lung cancer, or an extremely bad chest infection. You should quit smoking ASAP for your own health, but also for those that you love.
We only help those who ask. What have you to lose/gain?
Feel free to read more details about our Stop Smoking Program. Hopefully these tips to quit smoking will help you understand the urgency involved.
If you’re ready to book or are tired of putting it off, call us directly on 01 450 8923.
We treat a wide range of other issues too: smoking, weight loss, anxiety, stress, sleeping issues, phobias, pain, sports performance and more! See a full list of issues treated.