Stop Smoking - Why is it so hard? - Mayo Clinic

For some people it is very hard to stop smoking. In this video experts from the Mayo Clinic explain why. The video illustrates the way in which cigarettes deliver nicotine to the brain causing changes in the brain that lead to addiction. When a person stops smoking they often experience difficult withdrawal symptoms and powerful urges to smoke. The urges and withdrawal symptoms make quitting very hard for many smokers. But hope and help for smokers can be found at the Mayo Clinic website, http://www.mayoclinic.org/ndc-rst/

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[TeachingsofEvil]

that hurt to see the pack thrown away at the beginning

[urgod78]

i quit last sunday....13 years at a pack a day..first 3 days were hard, but i used the gum(nicotine) to take the edge off, by day 5 i wasnt in need of the gum, i feel great on day 7 i have no physical need to smoke, ONLY after i eat a meal do i get a sensation of wanting to go out and smoke, it lasts maybe 2 minutes and it goes away......the first 3 days it was more physical needs then mental then after a few days it was more mental then physical.....atleast for me anyway

[lmm9607]

what am i supposed to do? chew on a carrot after sex?

[elementsw1]

prevention is better than cure

[energydrinkperson06]

trying to quit because i getting close to being caught (im 15) started 6 months ago after just 6 hours with a cigarette or dip or something with nicotine i get anxiety, irritable, shaky and all that its easier said then done trying to substitute it with dip and nicotine gum its just not the same i know now why all the adults that smoke say never start started on 3 cigs a day and didnt think i would get addicted then after a few months i was buying packs its just a stupid thing to do

[sarin82]

It's not the nicotine I miss... but the rituals I got used to.

In the morning: coffee with a cigarette.. after lunchbreak: smoke a cigarette.. waiting on the bus/train: smoke a cigarette etc. etc.

It's not the "reward" from nicotine.... it's the smoking itself that got into my daily routine and the first week it feels very weird if that part of the routine is suddenly left out.

[Hammersmith80]

So many smokers believe that when they quit smoking they will experience horrendous withdrawal symptoms when infact the complete opposite is true.The effects of withdrawal are almost imperceptible, it is the desire to smoke and the feeling of being denied that is the real problem. You have to confront your psychological triggers and remove years of brainwashing and all of the lies that you have been telling your subconscious about smoking. Nicotine creates all of the problems it *cures*.

[g7sumit]

the first week is really tough .......i quit cold turkey a week ago and i m in 2 week now no urges whatsoever..............

[mathsquare]

Stop Smoking is easy but your are so lazy

[Paperclown]

@CharasDub: I don't care. A speech therapist explained people that talk that way are the lower class Britons, much like Hillbillies in the US.

[CharasDub]

@Paperclown

Prepare to be flamed:

1. It's called an accent. A British one. Replacing TH with F is much less ridiculous than many of your stupid, pathetic and irritating American accents.

2. I think that since we invented the language, we have a right to pronounce our words however we want to.

3. At most, we don't mispronounce English, we mispronounce American, which is a mispronunciation and grammatically incorrect version of English itself.

God, America really needs to get educated.

[BusinessEdgeRadio]

If you need "treatment" you dont wanna quit bad enough.