Quitting smoking?For years, the brain chemical dopamine has been thought of as the brain's "pleasure chemical," sending signals between brain cells in a way that rewards for one activity or another. More recently, research has shown that certain drugs like nicotine is the primary reason people cannot quit smoking, "It would be difficult to design a better drug to promote addiction to this horrible habit that takes only a few exposures to create a lasting memory of the rewards of smoking, which are reinforced by each cigarette smoked. Now we find that nicotine also suppresses the brain's efforts to limit that pleasure."
The brain reward areas serve to acknowledge and reinforce beneficial behaviors like, eating when hungry.
The specialized nerve cells encourage the body to repeat pleasing behaviors by releasing dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with pleasant feelings, into these reward areas. "That was good," is the basic message of increased dopamine levels. "Do it again."
"There needs to be something ( food, herb, pill, activity) that will promote dopamine release, increasing levels
and inducing pleasant feelings, as an aid for quitting smoking!"
I found "Mucuna pruriens", commonly known as velvet bean,supplement which contains L-Dopa.
And L-dopa is used to promote dopamine release. Need more resources!!!
doggy_pile11
ok i dont smoke but i know that my dad is trying to quit and i hate it when he does .. its good for him ... but he gets mad at every little thing ... so i gave him a vertigo [[candy && chocolate bar]] and he luvs em` so i have to get him alot and it helps with his addiction and irragance and kinda a better sub than smoking. Kinda a weird way but it helped 4 my dad .. tryin will never help.
♫ Mad Luv ♫
smoke free for 7 months
every time you have a craving do something active to break that cycle of reward reward
and give yourself a real reward (build a new habit)
your subconsious says when you smoke ( okay good this is what keeps me a live) even thought you fooled yourself!
it's hard but you just have to fool yourself to beleive that not smoking is a better habit to have!
i read the book are you up for the challenge it's a motiviation book the sellers at this radio station had to read and do the challenge
www.envisionu.com or something like that
i don't read but this book really grabbed my attention it wasn't about quitting smoking but the do bring it up mabye 3-5 times it's just about how to be the best you and how the subconsious works with habits!
i strongly suggest that read!
also give yourself affermitives to say
like I am now a healthy human
not i am a non smoker <-- the non is making it negitive!!! not good
say i am living a healthy lifestyle <-- use present time not i will you are!
don't say i quit smoking quit is neg... find a positive way to say that!
i breath easier every day!
i feel my lungs feeling up with fresh air
ect..
Good luck
Car Girl
I quit over a year ago cold turkey and I didn't use any patches, pills or gums. Instead, I tried two tricks. The first is to carry those little stir-sticks that are usually at coffee bars and chew on them. The second is to wear a rubber band around your wrist and every time you feel the urge to smoke, snap it until it hurts. That sounds really dumb, but it works and you don't gain a bunch of weight from eating. Good luck and don't get discouraged!
pumped up! whoo hoo!
I know this may sound weird, but Bananas can help people trying to give up smoking. The B-6 and B-12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Potassium is a vital mineral which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be re-balanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
So try eating some bananas :)
sic man
I've quit now for 7 weeks, going cold turkey from the start. I've noticed that 6 weeks is about the mark where the psychological grip is just about gone. As any quitter knows, the first week is very hard physically, depending on how long you've smoked. I've quit several times in the past, once for over 8 years, but resumed from constant peer exposure that eventually wore me down. Damn "friends". So, my conclusion is that the psychological "high" persists as a sociological contact high, as long as the quitter hangs out with smokers. The ideal is to quitting for good is to change environments almost completely. Therefore, you're mind sees different "reward" scenarios, both in yourself and in others that are totally unrelated to smoking. Laughing at jokes, admiring a scene, smelling food or a blossom, or the foul odor of pollution and being outraged. Quitting is a great oportunity to re-focus that angst into something constructive, rather than constantly tamping it down with a smoke everytime you feel energy rising.
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