{"id":3009,"date":"2019-03-29T23:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2021-09-12T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T18:25:56","slug":"how-to-quit-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/how-to-quit-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Quit Smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We all know how dangerous smoking is to our health, but\ndespite all the warnings, the nagging from friends and family, some people\ncontinue to regularly light up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy to imagine the smokers among us have their heads\nin the sand, but statistics show at least 82% of them are keen to quit, and\nabout 50% try to quit each year. On average, a smoker will make five to ten\nattempts at quitting before they finally put down the cigarettes for good, but\nthis is different for everyone, some people can give up first try, while others\ntry many times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you try to quit smoking, you are not just fighting one\naddiction, but actually&nbsp;doing battle with three. There are three distinct\nand separate parts to our craving for cigarettes: a nicotine addiction, an\nemotional addiction, and a habitual addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cigarettes are a method for delivering nicotine\ninto our bloodstream. When you decide to&nbsp;give up, you can wean yourself\noff your nicotine addiction with patches or other nicotine delivery systems.<\/li><li>The emotional addiction, however, is much harder\nto break. This is the reason most people continue to smoke, and it can be\nextremely complex. We use cigarettes for many reasons: to reward ourselves, to\nconsole ourselves when things are going badly, to calm ourselves down, to take\ntime out. People trying to quit smoking need to find another way to deal with\nstress, and another way to reward themselves.<\/li><li>The habitual addiction relates to when and where\nyou smoke and points to your habits. Perhaps you always have a cigarette with\nyour morning coffee, or after lunch. Maybe one or two on the way home or when\nyou have a drink. These habits are hard to break.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1024x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1024x204.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-768x153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-1536x306.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/FKSG-Post-20212-2048x408.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The medical profession describes smoking as a chronic\nrelapsing condition, so for many people, the urge never completely goes away.\nTherefore, it can be brutally hard to quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news about quitting is that, while the first two\nweeks can be very difficult, by week three you should have started to rewrite\nyour habits and saying no will steadily become easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more you know about your own smoking habits, the easier\nit will be for you to work out new habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never give up giving up. Each attempt to quit will teach you\nsomething about your habit and the triggers you find hardest to resist. So do\nnot despair if you have tried to kick the habit several times. What you are\ntrying to do is very hard. And remember: the rewards of success will be\namazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health benefits will quickly stack up, and you will also\nbecome a great role model for other smokers, and for your children. The great\nbenefit will be to your self-esteem, knowing you have won the battle against\none of the world\u2019s most addictive adversaries. There are now more former\nsmokers than current smokers, hundreds of thousands of Americans have quit, and\nyou can too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how dangerous smoking is to our health, but despite all the warnings, the nagging from friends and family, some people continue to regularly light up. It is easy to imagine the smokers among us have their heads in the sand, but statistics show at least 82% of them are keen to quit,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/how-to-quit-smoking\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Quit Smoking?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[151,187,209,279,723,724,816],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-addiction","tag-attempt","tag-benefits","tag-cigarettes","tag-quit","tag-quitting","tag-smoking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}