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Ayurvedic Doctor•Mangalore
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A lot of smokers now are well aware of the dangers of smoking, but yet they find it hard to quit this habit. In fact, even repeated attempts to quit smoking fail after a few days as they tend to give in to a variety of withdrawal symptoms.

In case you are searching for a permanent solution to de-focus and avoid tobacco intake, yoga is the way to venture out of the smoke and free yourself of the addiction.

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Homeopath•Hyderabad
Avoid drinking coffee or fruit juice (acid) before and while using the gum, as these drinks reduce its effectiveness. Chewing the gum too quickly releases too much nicotine, a tangy taste, a decrease in the effectiveness of the gum, hiccups, or stomach ache.
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Homeopath•Hyderabad
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Use honey for sweetening and avoid use of sugar as much as possible. Stay hydrated during the day to prevent dryness in mouth. Dryness in mouth can make urge to chew Gutka or Pan Masala even more compelling and severe. These steps are effective ways how to quit chewing tobacco Pan Masala and Gutka.
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Psychiatrist•Indore
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Tobacco Cessation or the practice of quitting smoking requires dedication, determination, and planning. Tobacco smoking is a bad habit that one might have got from adolescence but as the person grows up, he/she finds it difficult to maintain good health due to this reason. That is why it is important to adopt some of the ways that can help to quit smoking.

Let us look at some of these ways:

1. Cold Turkey

This is one of the most effective ways to quit tobacco smoking, ...more
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Oncologist•Bangalore
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Cigarette Smoking Causes 15 kinds of Cancer. True or False? Take this quiz to find out.
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Homeopath•Hyderabad
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some foods, including meat, make cigarettes more satisfying. Others, including cheese, fruit and vegetables, make cigarettes taste terrible. So swap your usual steak or burger for a veggie pizza instead.

You may also want to change your routine at or after mealtimes. Getting up and doing the dishes straight away or settling down in a room where you don't eat.
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Psychiatrist•Chennai
Nicotine is the active ingredient in cigarette and chewable tobacco. But there are hundreds of other carcinogens and psycho-active substances and they are highly dangerous to the physical and psychological health a person. People can smoke as unhealthy way of coping stress, part of nicotine withdrawal, to overcome short term depression and anxiety (which it worsens over a longer term). To overcome this the withdrawal needs to be addressed and anti craving medications started and comorbid anxiety...more
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Use of smokeless tobacco is rising. In several trials, nicotine replacement and bupropion have been ineffective for treatment of patients who use smokeless tobacco. Varenicline (Chantix), a partial agonist of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, is effective in helping smokers to quit

48 hours after you quit, you already start to lower your risk for heart-attack. Three days after, the nicotine is gone. And the withdrawal hits its hardest. One to three months after you quit, the withdra...more
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