Since January of this year, all indoor announcement of places to quit smoking, many of the father does not leave his hands become sad face up, which means that both the company or home are fully “blocked”. But the family agreed that this was a great opportunity to help dad quit smoking.
Quitting smoking is a matter of adapting to local conditions
Dads often have a lot of questions about why they are still addicted to smoking, even though they know a lot about how to quit and have been working hard. We remind “smoker” dads that this may have a lot to do with the fact that you haven’t changed the way you quit according to the changes in your place. Try our approach now.
At the office
Research shows that stressful work is one of the main factors in dads’ dependence on nicotine, and natural remedies are the mainstay to get rid of this dependence.
The two-dinner water method. Lowering the level of nicotine in the body can reduce the body’s need for nicotine. Making sure you drink 3 to 4 glasses of water between brunch and lunch will help your body metabolize more nicotine.
Have vitamins for lunch. Vitamin B can stabilize the nerves and speed up the excretion of nicotine. You may want to eat more cabbage, lean meat, green leafy vegetables at lunch time, these vitamin B-rich food, in the enjoyment of chewing to “get rid of” nicotine.
Relax your muscles when you’re tired. Too much stress makes the addiction to smoking, in this case, it may be worth going to the company’s activity area to relax the muscles. For example, the shoulder as the axis of 360 degrees swinging arms, while accompanied by slowly spread. This left and right arm alternating activities for 5 minutes, the whole body muscles will relax, the original strong need to smoke will become lighter, and work efficiency will be higher.
Repeated breath-holding method. When you want to smoke, take a deep breath, then momentarily hold your breath until you can no longer hold it, and then quickly exhale. Repeat this 5 times to increase the amount of turbulent air expelled from your body, and you will find that the desire to smoke has greatly diminished just now.
With friends
With friends, especially those who smoke, Dad will always have the habit of toasting cigarettes and inevitably swallowing a lot of smoke. To resist nicotine, you must divert your attention.
Choose tea drinks. Give up all the wine and carbonated drinks and choose mild tea drinks. It is rich in vitamins and tea polyphenols, which can promote the elimination of body fluids, driving nicotine “run out of the body”. Tea also has a stimulating effect, is a good substitute for nicotine.
Exercise together. Weekend car day trip to the countryside is also good, this aerobic exercise will activate the body’s functions one by one, strengthening the body’s ability to resist nicotine. After a lot of exercise, a lot of sweat is excreted, which is also conducive to the metabolism of nicotine, achieving the purpose of two birds with one stone.
Control the party time. The later the resting time, the greater the demand for nicotine will be, because at night the person’s control will be weakened, resulting in failure to quit smoking. So if you can’t better control yourself from smoking, then don’t party too late and don’t hand out cigarettes too often.
At home
In fact, many dads confess that the reason they can’t quit smoking at home is because they are too relaxed, so they need to find some substitute to achieve balance after a busy day, and cigarettes are their best choice, so they need to be properly “busy”.
Warm water bath. When you are addicted to smoking, the body’s blood circulation rate will drop sharply. At this time, if you can take a 15-minute warm bath, you can let the blood circulation to achieve smooth, body metabolism in a relaxed state, smoking addiction will naturally disappear. It should be noted that the temperature of the bath is best at 38°C.
Meditate for 5 minutes. If you can ensure a calm mood, your body’s need for nicotine will be reduced by half. Take 5 minutes to sit quietly after dinner and listen to some gentle music to empty your mind of all the “images” and relieve your body of fatigue, which will increase the success rate of quitting smoking.
Propolis method. Propolis is the “natural enemy” of smoking, because of its unique taste, can be a long-lasting effect on the oral mucosa and tongue, which makes the taste of cigarettes will become bitter, no longer enjoyable, many smoking cessation products on the market is the use of propolis. In addition, propolis can purify the blood, enhance the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood, and regulate the human autonomic nervous system, weakening men’s desire to smoke stimulated by the conditioned reflex.
Do not be in a hurry to quit smoking need to take your time
Nicotine is not in the body overnight, so please do not rush when quitting, and destroy all traces of cigarettes on the first day you decide to quit, but rather gradually and systematically to be healthy.
Quitting smoking is not just about not smoking yourself, but also about being aware of secondhand smoke. So quitting smoking is not a solitary effort, but getting people around you to join in and create a truly smoke-free and healthy environment for yourself.
After quitting smoking, many people eat a lot more, at this time, it is necessary to pay attention to the high sugar, high calorie, high fat “three high” food to resolutely resist, reduce the chances of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes. The appropriate increase in low-calorie, vitamin-rich cuisine is a healthy, environmentally friendly way to quit smoking.
After quitting smoking for 48 hours, the sense of taste improves and becomes more sensitive; after quitting smoking for 3-9 months, lung function improves by 10%; after quitting smoking for 1 year, reproductive function improves by one-third; after quitting smoking for 5 years, the chance of heart disease is reduced by 50% compared to before quitting. How about it, want to take action now?