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Last Updated: 7 years ago • Featured Quiz
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Asked for male, 22 years old from Bareilly
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Distract yourself. Do the dishes, turn on the tv, take a shower, or call a friend. The activity doesn’t matter as long as it gets your mind off smoking.
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money you’re saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what you’re doing may be triggering the craving. If so, ...more
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money you’re saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what you’re doing may be triggering the craving. If so, ...more
Asked for male, 23 years old from Gurgaon
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Distract yourself. Do the dishes, turn on the tv, take a shower, or call a friend. The activity doesnât matter as long as it gets your mind off smoking.
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money youâre saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what youâre doing may be triggering the craving. I...more
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money youâre saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what youâre doing may be triggering the craving. I...more
Last Updated: 8 years ago• Featured Tip
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Every packet of cigarette comes with the warning 'Smoking is injurious to health'. With every national budget plan, the prices of nicotine based additives are hiked. Yet, you cannot quit smoking because you find it extremely difficult to resist the nicotine urge. Ayurveda says that the root cause of addiction is mental stress due to one of the 3 Doshas that are Vata, Pitta, Kapha. People try to terminate them through temporary, addictive methods rather than a bit more natural, holistic methods. ...more
Last Updated: 9 years ago• Featured Tip
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A good percentage of people who smoke want to quit the habit, few who understand the physical and psychological damage it can do to them and many because they feel that the they are losing control over the habit and its going well beyond the levels at which they want to maintain it and some because it eats into their pocket. They even express the wish to quit which only follows their version of inability to do so and a feeling helplessness. A considerable number of people make plans to quit and ...more
Last Updated: 8 years ago• Featured Tip
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You probably do not think much about chewing while eating your food. Chewing is indeed important for your health. Well, this simple behaviour of chewing your food properly helps in proper digestion, absorption of essential nutrients and keeps several diseases at bay. When you chew your food properly, your body gives out digestive enzymes which break the large particles into smaller ones. Smaller particles are easy
for you to digest.
If your food is not properly digested you can suf...more
for you to digest.
If your food is not properly digested you can suf...more
Asked for male, 21 years old from Chennai
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Dear lybrateuser,
- Even smoking a single cigarette is harmful
- try to leave the habit as the cravings go on increasing, have nicotine gum or lozenges to get over the cravings, you can also consult a medical professional to help you quit the habit.
- Even smoking a single cigarette is harmful
- try to leave the habit as the cravings go on increasing, have nicotine gum or lozenges to get over the cravings, you can also consult a medical professional to help you quit the habit.
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Asked for male, 23 years old from Vizianagaram
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Distract yourself. Do the dishes, turn on the tv, take a shower, or call a friend. The activity doesn’t matter as long as it gets your mind off smoking.
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money you’re saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what you’re doing may be triggering the craving. If so, ...more
Remind yourself why you quit. Focus on your reasons for quitting, including the health benefits (lowering your risk for heart disease and lung cancer, for example), improved appearance, money you’re saving, and enhanced self-esteem.
Get out of a tempting situation. Where you are or what you’re doing may be triggering the craving. If so, ...more
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Failure is a feature of this particular addiction but never give up. Everybody has gone through this again and again. It is therefore a wise decision to quit as early as possible and minimize the harm. The urge to discontinue is hampered by many factors but the worst of them is the conditioning. In fact these conditions can exist all through the day unlike other addictions. But your desire to want to stop is the most important factor. But try and try again until you succeed. It is important to f...more
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Your husband has nicotine withdrawal and he needs to drink water whenever he is disturbed, and he can chew nicotine-based gums like Niocotex and engage in mind-stimulating games or activities like playing chess or doing his job-related works, listening to music etc...
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