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This research paper shall outline the problem of how to quit smoking as it has been a habit that am contemplating to abandon. Smoking is usually defined by scholars as a practice which involves burning of tobacco and then the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is usually viewed as a recreational activity which is assumed to relax the nerves and sometime just done for fun as exemplified by Eysenck (1995). I started at a tender age just smoking for fun and also just to feel all grown up. From this activity I have indulged into smoking using many smoking tools such as pipes, cigars, bongs and bidis. However, recently I started developing distaste for this habit. This is after learning that my distance relative recently passed away from lung cancer at a very tender age.

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How To Quit Smoking

How To Quit Smoking

Name:

Grade Course:

Tutor’s Name:

(21 August, 2010)

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How to quit smoking

Introduction

This research paper shall outline the problem of how to quit smoking as it has been a

habit that am contemplating to abandon. Smoking is usually defined by scholars as a practice

which involves burning of tobacco and then the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is usually

viewed as a recreational activity which is assumed to relax the nerves and sometime just done

for fun as exemplified by Eysenck (1995). I started at a tender age just smoking for fun and

also just to feel all grown up. From this activity I have indulged into smoking using many

smoking tools such as pipes, cigars, bongs and bidis. However, recently I started developing

distaste for this habit. This is after learning that my distance relative recently passed away

from lung cancer at a very tender age.

Information gathered to help quit smoking

The information which I gathered to assist me from quitting smoking after

acknowledging the fatality caused by nicotine a substance found in the tobacco. Majority of

the information which I intend to procure will be about the fatality and the illness which are

concerned with smoking. This will also overlook the benefit of being able to live without

smoking. This information would rage from how cigarette smoking harms my health. This

will mostly emphasize on how the compound chemical found in cigarettes which are

documented to be over 4000 and another 400 toxin substances which are produced when a

cigarettes burn as it is being smoked as echoed by Doll and Bradford (1990). This process

produces the most damaging substances which are the number one cause of lung cancer and

other smoking affiliated diseases, this substances includes tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and

gas component which causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (Iverson,

2001).

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The information gathered would also highlight the influence which also causes

damage of smoking. This shall mostly centralize on the number of cigarettes smoked per day.

If the cigarette smoked had a filter or not and the formula which the tobacco was prepared.

This will also highlight how smoking affects and reduces life expectancy. This from the

information I gathered noted that smoking usually reduces life expectancy by seven to eight

years. This also revealed that smoking claims about 1 million lives per year. According to

Bradford (1984) the number one disease which claims more lives than road accidents, AIDS

and drug addiction is smoking complication which results to cardiovascular diseases.

Sources of the information

My research will allow for location of literature from variety of information sources.

This will be drawn from books and internet articles written in various approaches and which

site differing opinions in the hope that I can produce an unbiased view, whilst remaining true

to my own beliefs. Although this is a new intervention am aware that it could be easy to veer

away from the initial point of inquiry as the subject material is very broad, complex, and

interesting. These will help to clarify, strengthen and accordingly direct each stage of quitting

smoking from the formulation of gathered information to the dissemination and utilization of

research finding.

How to implement this information into practice

The information that I intend to acquire are in the methods which I acquired from

some drug rehabilitation centers which centralizes on helping people to fight their smoking

addiction as noted by West and Shiffman (2007). The first would be Prescription smoking

cessation aids; this are the most advocated prescribed smoking cessation aids which includes

Nicotrol Inhaler, bupropion hydrochloride, varenicline (Chantix) and Nicotrol NS. These are

the main drugs which are usually prescribed to assist the person to fight of tobacco addiction

as exemplified by Eysenck (1995).

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Another implementation which I intend to follow through to the later would be

behavior adjustment and own monitoring to stop this addiction. This I have accessed that

because of the nature of the addiction of nicotine there is dire need for change in behavior

this usually is associated with natural cessation method which include counseling and

educational programs.

Another is Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) which usually outlays the substitution of

nicotine with another source but discontinuing smoking (Bradford, 1984). The therapy further

eliminates the carving of smoking through arrays of replacement therapy which attempt to

dissolve withdrawal symptoms which if not monitored resolves to smoking again.

Conclusion

Smoking is considered a number one killer in the world and has diverse complication

which affects the well being of a well able human being reducing them to a near vegetable

stage due to cardiovascular illness (Doll & Bradford, 1990). From these facts which I

procured from the gathered information about negative consequences of smoking, in my

quest of quitting smoking, I have now gathered courage to know that this vice is deadly as the

literary material articulates that smoking reduces life expectancy and also claims more lives

than any other epidemic documented by man. The literary material will help me to structure a

proper plan which would ensure that I kick this habit which has blossomed into an addiction

and has dire consequences. The methods and programs which I have devised would ensure

that I undergo through this problem without having to relent or later subdue to this madness.

From the information encompassed through this initiative then I has elucidated that this

addiction is unhealthy and dangerous thus am empowered that I will fight of this addiction

once and for all.

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References

Bradford, H. (1984). The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits. A

preliminary report. British Medical Journal. 328, 77. 1451-55.

Doll, R. & Bradford, H. (1990). Smoking and carcinoma of the lung. Preliminary report.

British Medical Journal. 29, 46. 739–48.

Eysenck, H. (1995). Smoking, Health and Personality. New York: Basic Books.

Iverson, L. (2001). Why do We Smoke: The Physiology of Smoking. New York: W. W.

Norton & Company.

West, R. & Shiffman, S. (2007). Fast Facts: Smoking Cessation. New York: Health Press

Ltd.