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Stopping smoking effects

If you've read my page on stopping smoking using hypnotherapy, you'll know that what people commonly refer to a 'withdrawal symptoms', are actually produced by explainable psychological phenomena that hypnotherapy can very effectively help with.

However, when people smoke, it does do some really bad things to their body, and once they stop smoking, the body will start to recover almost immediately.  This might produce some side effects. 

Here, I am presenting a list of the most common side effects...

Concentration

Some smokers report that they have difficulty concentrating after they stop smoking.  This is due to a psychological phenomena known as cognitive dissonance, and is actually nothing to do with nicotine..

Constipation

For a short while after stopping smoking, you may find that your bowel movements lessen, as the nicotine is no longer stimulating the intestines.  Good old-fashioned fibre should help, as will drinking plenty of water, and getting some exercise.

Coughing and clearing of the throat

Inevitably, despite the bodies best efforts, most of the toxins, including the tar present in the cigarette smoke still reach the lungs while you are smoking, and begin to build up.  Over time, the tar in the lungs block the alveoli, and the function of the lung is damaged. 

But, after you've given up the habit, the lungs seem to seize their new opportunity to clear themselves of as much of this dirt and material, as they can, and in the first few days after you stop smoking, your ‘smokers cough’ may even increase.  This will soon pass.

Cravings after stopping smoking

Many of the cravings that new ex-smokers experience, are due to the change of habit that stopping smoking inevitably entails, and not just to the addictive nature of the nicotine present in the cigarette. 

For many people, smoking will have been a habit for years, maybe even for a large majority of their life.  If someone was to stop doing ANYTHING that they have been doing as many as 20 to 40 times a day, every day, for most of their lives, they would find it difficult, no matter what it was, and there’s certainly no reason to think that smoking is any different.

The phenomena is called ‘cognitive dissonance’, and it basically means that your brain thinks that it should be doing something that it isn’t… purely through habit.  This will peak after about two to three days, and will tail off from there.

Stick with it in the knowledge that this is a passing phase.  After a couple of weeks, this will probably only reoccur on rare occasions. 

Be aware though, that if you give in to your craving, you will have to start the whole process over again from the start!

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