Managing Cravings During Quit Smoking Programme

After you quit smoking, your body, till now used to the nicotine reacts to the lack of nicotine in an adverse way.

The reactions can be varied and is also dependent upon the person, his age and the time he had been addicted to smoking. The different types of reactions could be as follows:

All these reactions occur in the initial stages due to the lack of nicotine in your blood streams. As your body adjusts to the lack of nicotine, the symptoms gradually subsides.

The cravings to smoke after the initial few days of the quit smoking programme can of various types. They can be as follows –

Cravings associated with increased level of sugar in the body –
Nicotine releases sugar into your body system.

Hence, sometimes, after quitting smoking, some people have headache and dizziness. Some may even develop higher appetite to compensate for the lack of sugar in the body.

Hence, to compensate for the lack of sugar in the body, it is advisable to drink plenty of juice in the initial few days of your quit smoking programme.

This would help to fight the cravings to smoke that generally occur. Since increased level of sugar is also harmful if you happen to be diabetic, it is better to consult your doctor or nutritionist in this regard.

Cravings related to your meals – Many people indulge in smoking after having a meal. So, after the quit smoking programme, there is bouts cravings to smoke after your meals.

In order to quit smoking, you may eat something like a fruit or a chocolate which would help you to keep away from the cigarettes.

Cravings associated with alcohol – Generally, while drinking people enjoy smoking. Hence, people suffer from the carvings to smoke during drinking alcohol.

To quit smoking successfully, you may go for non-alcoholic drinks. You may even try to eat something like peas or any other nuts to avoid smoking.

Social cravings – You may have a high level of craving to smoke when you are in the groups or parties where there are people who smoke.

Actually association with people who smoke is one of the biggest impediments against a successful quit smoking programme. Hence, it is important to avoid such parties or your friends should be made aware of your decision to quit smoking.

You can even take the help of non-smoker or better still who have successfully quit smoking. Hanging out with such people would serve as an inspiration to you to quit smoking.

Writing a craving dairy – Writing down details of your cravings would help in making as objective assessment of your ability in managing the cravings to smoke.

You can refer back to them when you are overwhelmed with the cravings to smoke. Any successful avoidance of craving, would remind you that it indeed, can be avoided.

Management of the craving is the most important aspect of any quit smoking programme. Hence, be firm and strong about it.

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