Steps to Quit Smoking

Be realistic in your expectations about quitting smoking. It's not easy but it's not impossible. Millions of people quit smoking every year. Smoking may be common, but it can be broken, it may be addictive, but it can be cured.
• Symptoms of withdrawal of nicotine "temporary", a health symptom that indicates the passage of the body in the stage of repair and recovery after a long period of exposure to nicotine and smoke toxins.
• Avoid negative emotions and thoughts about how difficult it is to quit smoking. Do not always remind yourself that you will quit smoking throughout your life, but treat each day separately.
• Be careful to quit smoking, and always remember that one cigarette may ignite your desire even after you quit smoking for several years.
Most of the relapses and relapse to smoking occur during the first weeks of quitting smoking, so it is necessary to prepare psychologically and physically to overcome this critical period.
2 - Prepare for the final cessation of smoking ..
• List the reasons for quitting smoking such as lost time and money, health and obligations towards others, and keep this list in many places such as kitchen, office, bathroom, bedroom or car, and be careful to review the moments of desire to smoke.
• If you are asked for a cigarette, say "I am a non-smoker" and say "I am quitting smoking" and do not try to worry that you will quit smoking, because it may feel you have lost something.
• Get rid of cigarette packs, extinguishers, sulfur and the glue and make it difficult to get.
• Put the cigarette residues that you have smoked in a large glass container, as this will remind you of the extent of the damage it caused to your body, as well as its unpleasant smell.
• Clean all clothes to get rid of the smell of cigarettes stuck in them, and be sure to surround yourself with a clean climate and beautiful smell at home and workplace.
• Visit your dentist to clean your teeth and remove yellow stains from smoking.
• Be sure to postpone the first morning cigarette for an hour per day and gradually increase this period before determining the day of leaving the cigarette altogether.
• Avoid smoking and reading daily newspapers to enter the toilet.
• Avoid smoking during driving and replace it by listening to quiet music or using non-smoking buses.
• Make sure to use the brush and walk on foot after eating instead of smoking a cigarette.
• Use the toothpick whenever you feel the need to catch the cigar.
Test for will
First, Dr. Heba Esawi, Professor of Psychiatry at Ain Shams University, explains that Ramadan is a real test of the smoker's will. He is forced to smoke for at least 14 hours, about six hours of sleep and about two hours for prayer times. The smoker can resist this harmful habit for him and his family. The general atmosphere of Ramadan makes it easy to take advantage of all these factors and make the decision from the beginning of the month to completely stop smoking and get rid of its intolerable smell.
And stresses that fasting works to liberate the nervous system gradually from the addiction of any element, including nicotine and therefore there is a physical willingness to get rid of addiction to that habit, explaining that fasting makes the body automatically rid toxins from various organs of the body which means rid of the body of nicotine deposited in the body and damage Before smoking gradually, and that all customs change in the month of Ramadan, so it is easier for a person to make the decision and implementation faster.
a professor of neurosurgery at Ain Shams University, explained that quitting smoking may affect the mood of some in the early days of Ramadan, a symptom felt by the smoker such as insomnia, tension and dispersion of the concentration. The effect varies from person to person depending on the amount of nicotine used, Smoking may lead to changes in thinking, concentration and interests.