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
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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.

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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.