Quitting Smoking Cold Turkey – Get Ready To Fight!
Quitting smoking cigarettes. It’s something that comes across just about every smoker’s mind at least once in a while and it is something that many smokers struggle with for their entire lives. Among the many ways to go about quitting is the ever popular “cold turkey” method. Cold turkey is a method of quitting which involves deciding to quit on a certain date and then abruptly stopping smoking. Quitting smoking cold turkey can be an effective way to kick the habit but in most cases it is the most difficult way of doing so. Quitting cold turkey is no joke.
Quitting Cold Turkey Is A Battle
The thing about quitting cold turkey is that it is a whole lot harder than most smokers come to realize. While most smokers can appreciate their level of addiction and their need to continue smoking, some fail to realize the severity of quitting cold turkey. Just because you say to yourself, “This cigarette right here is the last cigarette for me and I don’t care, I’m stopping after this one no matter what!”, does not mean that you will follow through. In fact, it probably means just the opposite. Now, I don’t have any statistics to whip out for you but I will say with fair certainty that most smokers who attempt to quit smoking cold turkey fail to do so. The reason I say this is because going the cold turkey route brings one to their knees and then has them suffer to the fullest extent.
You see, when you break an addiction to nicotine all of a sudden you are going to experience nasty and unpleasant physical withdrawal. And amidst that intense physical withdrawal you will experience incredible cravings for another cigarette. Smokers are very familiar with feelings of intense cravings but most smokers have not gone through with the physical withdrawal associated with quitting cold turkey. Some of the physical withdrawal symptoms include headaches, cramps, sweating, and cold symptoms. In addition, smoker’s quitting cold turkey will experience mental withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, trouble sleeping, irritability, and even depression. These physical and mental withdrawal symptoms are just a few of the many potential side effects of quitting. The point is that quitting smoking is already extremely difficult in itself and it is even harder to quit cold turkey meaning that the negative side effects you experience will be more intense.
The mental and physical withdrawal symptoms are your bodies way of saying, “Smoke another cigarette already and give me some more nicotine!”. You’ll already be craving another cigarette at a very intense level when you quit cold turkey and the withdrawal symptoms will make those cravings even worse. In order to pull off quitting cold turkey you need to have an amazing will power to do so. You also need to know what you are getting yourself into because going the cold turkey route isn’t just not smoking another cigarette; it is not smoking a cigarette and dealing with extreme unpleasantness. So, if you’d like to quit cold turkey then realize it is going to be an incredibly difficult battle to win and that in order to win the battle you are going to fully commit. And by committing I mean putting forth all of your energy towards coping with withdrawal because saying that you “aren’t going to smoke another cigarette” isn’t going to do it.
