How to quit smoking?

Quitting smoking is a process of several steps:

• Precontemplation. Intend to quit in the future.
• Contemplation. Think of quitting in the next six months, but doubt your ability to get it.
• Preparation. It's thought a plan of action to stop the snuff next month. In fact, you are trying to smoke less.
• Action. It has completely stopped smoking in the past six months.
• Maintenance. You no longer have to make much effort to avoid relapse. This period ranges from six months to five years after cessation of use.
• Relapse. Most ex-smokers has fallen ever. Relapse involves not fail! The greatest danger is never try.
• Completion. Urge to smoke disappears and does not fear a relapse.

• Set a quit date in the next 15 days.
• Write a list of reasons to leave the snuff.
• List the cigarettes smoked per day during inertia.
• Get rid of packs, lighters and ashtrays in your home, car and work.
• Practice small writings on abstinence.
• Find allies among family and friends.
• Remember that symptoms (restlessness, anxiety, irritability, sleep disturbances, poor concentration, increased appetite, craving to smoke ...), by intense they may be, are always passengers.
• When the day chosen, snuff suppression must be total. Avoid situations that used to bring implicit a cigarette, eat plenty of fruit, exercise more, please have sugar free candy, surround yourself with people who can help.

How important is the physician's advice to quit smoking?

How severe is then smoking in children and adolescents?

• Social influences.
• Family and friends smoking.
• Favorable attitudes toward consumption.
• Association of snuff and alcohol with pleasure.
• Young people who reach age 15 without trying snuff are very likely to not be smoking in his life.