Respire Renew: Smoking Addiction Treatment Programs in Patna

 

Smoking addiction is defined when an individual cannot stop smoking even when they want to quit. Smoking leaves the person feeling good by releasing happy hormones.

The chemical nicotine in smoking makes it difficult for people to quit. It pleases the brain and relaxes the soul, making people crave for more cigarettes.

Do you wake up and feel the need to smoke? Are you smoking more than one packet in a day? If yes, then you should visit a de addiction center in Patna, Dr. Vivek Pratap Singh.

What are the effects of smoking? 

Smoking affects a person mentally and physically. Physically, smoking can cause a lot of complications and negative effects. For example, 

• Smoking affects lungs the most resulting in lung cancer and other co morbid conditions associated with lungs such as emphysema and bronchitis. 

• It increases the risk of all cancers including mouth, throat, pharynx, kidney, and bladder. 

• Smoking narrows the blood vessels affecting the blood circulation in the body. This results in hypertension, and vascular heart diseases. This can even increase the risk of dying from heart attacks and stroke. 

• Cigarette smoking increases insulin resistance leading to manifestation of diabetes type 2. With diabetes, it even affects the other organs, most commonly the eye and kidney. 

• Smoking leads to reduced fertility in women, and risk of impotence in men. 

The above mentioned effects are physically harmful and can cause grave complications to a person’s body. 

Other than physical effects, how does smoking affect you emotionally? Smoking can emotionally affect the brain, disrupting its chemistry and making the mental health symptoms worse. 

It is common for people who smoke to develop anxiety and depression issues.

Typically, smokers smoke to reduce their anxiety and stress as the nicotine releases neurotransmitters such as dopamine that activates the pleasure system of the body.

Although this is only for time being, once the smoking effects wears off, the individual is left with more anxiety symptoms and cravings. Smoking has been associated with

• Anxiety

• episode

• Mood changes

• Changes in sleeping habits

• Eating disorders

• Stress

• Increased heart rate

• Difficulty concentrating 

• Fatigue

Smoking is as hazardous to health as is playing with fire. An individual opens his lungs to a bunch of harmful chemical toxins that can wreck the organs slowly and gradually.

Not only that, smoking addiction drains a person’s mental health making him prone to developing conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder. It can even lead to fatal outcomes due to overdose. 

How to stop someone from smoking?

The decision to quit smoking should come from within the individual’s heart. If they are forced into it, the chances are they will relapse.

At times, after a person decides to quit they might want to go cold turkey. The only issue with that is the chances of a person relapsing and giving up are too high. 

First of all, a person should set their mind to quitting, and no matter what they should never back down. Once it’s decided that an individual is quitting they should know what they will have to go through.

The withdrawal symptoms for smoking are quite uncomfortable and depending on the addiction, these symptoms gradually become unbearable.

To relieve these symptoms such as anxiety, fear, depression, or stress they are prescribed nicotine replacement therapies (NRT). These have nicotine for the replacement of smoking. It helps one avoid the withdrawal symptoms as well as keeps you from craving it.

Some other medications such as buprenorphine, and varnicicline are also the one’s used for keeping the withdrawal symptoms in check. 

What are the steps to quitting smoking? 

To quit smoking, there are some tricks and steps one can follow to make the journey easier like

Try avoiding the triggers that make one want to smoke. For example, 

• Avoiding going to parties, or bars, or hanging out with people who are smoking. 

• If one is craving for a cigarette, try to calm down and say to yourself that let’s first wait for 10 mins, and then try to distract yourself during this time. Try doing something productive, or start talking to someone about random things. Once you’re distracted enough, the craving might reduce.

• Keep chewing something like gum, candy, or carrots to resist tobacco craving. 

There will be times when you will be tempted to smoke, and will think one cigarette won’t do any harm. Don’t give into that craving.

That’s like starting a viscious cycle of self-sabotaging all the progress you’ve made so far. The best de addiciton center in Patna, Dr. Vivek Pratap Singh.