About Smoking Cessation: Tips for Nicotine Withdrawal and a New Quit Story

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Smoking Cessation Smoking Cessation Health Risks How to Quit After Quitting From Terry Martin, your Guide to Smoking Cessation This week, the ever-popular topic of how to live through nicotine withdrawal is highlighted, along with a great one year milestone message from forum member, Jenn (blakwolf013).  Thanks for sharing, Jenn. Have a great week, everyone. Tears From Heaven at One Year Smoke-Free The road to freedom can be long and winding, but if we stick with it through the ups and downs, release does come. I'd like to introduce you to Jenn (blakwolf013), a member of the support forum here at About.com Smoking Cessation.  Jenn has given her all to the recovery process, and she truly appreciates just how precious this new smoke-free life is. Search Related Topics:  personal quit stories  quit smoking support  benefits of not smoking Will Nicotine Withdrawal Ever End? Question from a reader: "I quit in January and it is now late March. I used nicotine gum which got me through the worst part of it. Just like every other time I've tried to quit smoking though, once I'm into the 3rd or 4th month, feelings of nicotine withdrawal return and are so intense that I start smoking again. Nicotine withdrawal doesn't get better, it seems to intensify! Will it ever end?" Search Related Topics:  nicotine withdrawal  nicotine addiction  healing and the mind Rationalizations for Smoking (and How to Silence Them) When we quit smoking, our minds begin rationalizing almost immediately about why we should have waited to quit....or why we should buy a pack and start again tomorrow....or why we should have just one cigarette. This is called junkie thinking, or rationalizing smoking. Search Related Topics:  avoiding a smoking relapse  nicotine withdrawal  healing and the mind 4 Steps to Defeat Urges to Smoke Early cessation is a mine field of cravings and triggers to smoke. Navigating it successfully is a challenge for every newly quit ex-smoker.  Regardless of how much we may want to quit, those first few weeks are intense. Search Related Topics:  quit smoking tips  nicotine withdrawal  avoiding a smoking relapse Related Searches Quit Smoking Aids Smoking Cessation Help Stop Smoking Hypnosis for Smoking Smoking Facts Featured Articles How Smoking Affects Your Health Teen Smoking - Information for Teens and Their Families The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke Tobacco Related Disease Pictures Tobacco Research and Reform - Information and Resources Cigars, Pipes and Smokeless Tobacco   More from About.com Run Your First 5K Even couch potatoes can be ready for a 5K with just a couple months of training. Read more...> Help! I'm Too Busy Time and stress management tips to help you feel as though you have more time. Read more...> This newsletter is written by: Terry Martin Smoking Cessation Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Smoking Cessation newsletter. If you wish to change your email address, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com   Must Reads Quit Tools Nicotine Withdrawal After the Last Cigarette 10 Tips for Quit Success Smoking Pros and Cons   Follow me on: Advertisement