Smoking Doesn’t Relieve StressIt is a misconception that smoking helps in getting rid from stress. Chemically, cigarette contains nicotine that releases chemicals in your brain called neurotransmitters, and it is thought that it helps in improving your temper and it calms you down; making you feel much better. Although a cigarette may help in a better feeling but it lasts for a very short duration of time. * Chain smokers feel very angry and anxious whenever they try to quit smoking. Smoking is, without doubt, one the main factors of lung cancer.
Anxiety: Smoking can result in higher level of anxieties and sometime fear. Chain smokers require nicotine in order to get relaxed; if not taken, their stress level increases. Although they get some sort of relief after using a cigarette but, as mentioned earlier, it doesn’t last longer. As soon as its effect is over, they require another cigarette to increase the nicotine level which helps them in getting out of the stress. Never believe that smoking can resolve your problems, because in real, it just hides them for sometime. You can’t brush the dust under the carpet. Closing your eyes doesn’t mean that no one can see you. Actually, disadvantages of smoking are far more than its advantages. Smoking, in real, increases your stress rather decreasing it. Whenever a person tries to quit smoking, he/she feels much stressed, disturbed, angry, irritate etc. They think that these are the side effects of smoking. But in real, these are the internal repairing stages against the effects of nicotine.
Alternative of cigarette: Many people think that cigarette is a way of getting rid of the stress; they are wrong. If you have successfully quit smoking then you should find other useful practices to get rid of the stress. Some of them are:
• Stress relief exercises • Reading • Laughter therapy • Breathing exercises
All these alternatives have got no side effects and they help in building a good mood and getting relief from stress. But if you still are having difficulties in getting rid from stress and cigarette then the NHS provides many Stop Smoking Services that can help you in getting rid of both. Most of the local services are free from NHS. Their services are usually in two modes; one-to-one and group sessions. You can choose either of them depending on your problem. First few sessions are merely answers questions like “How to quit smoking” etc. These services are provided by trained advisors. They also provide vital information about special medicines and treatment that helps you in quitting smoking.
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