Every smoker from time to time thinks about what harm he does to his body with a bad habit. The modern world is trumpeting with might and main about the consequences of nicotine use. Even children are aware of the harm that smoking brings to the lungs and cardiovascular system. Women's bad habits are even more dangerous, not only for the fair sex herself, but also for her children. Nicotine and tar should not be ingested during pregnancy. This article describes in detail how to quit smoking for a girl at home: a variety of methods and their effectiveness, medical advice and feedback from those who have already quit.
Female and male smoking: differences
Bad habit has the same negative effect on the lungs, blood vessels and causes brain hypoxia in both women and men. However, a proven fact is that girls are more difficult to become addicted to nicotine. But if it has developed, it is more difficult for them to quit. Oftensuch a need arises in preparation for pregnancy and childbirth. Men do not have such an urgent problem, so they quit often, only with 15-25 years of smoking behind them.
Men more often leave a bad habit due to the development of chronic diseases, women take a break due to pregnancy. Some of them smoke again later, and some do not. Doctors recommend quitting smoking about six months before the planned pregnancy for both partners.
Smoking styles are also different for men and women. For the representatives of the stronger sex, nicotine often literally replaces air, and women prefer to savor the smoke, to do it tastefully and beautifully (in their opinion).
The consequences of smoking for a girl's body
A short list of consequences that inevitably overtake a smoker after two years of bad habit experience:
- Nicotine suppresses estrogen production. This fact has long been proven by scientists. As a result, a woman is waiting for hormonal imbalance, early aging and premature menopause.
- The epidermis is rapidly losing collagen due to nicotine and tar. Women who smoke more than five cigarettes daily have more pronounced wrinkles and expression lines.
- Smoking girls are more prone to developing arthritis, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis. Nicotine reduces the concentration of calcium in the body. For the same reason, hair and nails become brittle.
- Cigarette addicts, both women and men, become irritable andanxious. Contrary to the popular myth that nicotine is calming, smokers look tired and miserable. During the inhalation of tar and nicotine, a short-term vasospasm occurs, which disrupts the activity of the nervous system.
Diseases that develop in heavy smokers
The harmful effects of nicotine and tar on he alth can hardly be overestimated. Only the main diseases associated with smoking are listed:
- Breast cancer develops in 40% of women addicted to cigarettes at a young age. Tar, nicotine and other substances from cigarettes have an extremely negative effect on hormonal levels.
- If the experience of smoking is more than fifteen years, there is a high possibility of a stroke, which will lead to complete or partial immobility and loss of speech for several years. Smoking causes persistent vasospasm - this is not in vain, smokers have a higher chance of developing heart attacks and strokes.
- Smoking causes irritation and malfunction of the stomach and intestines. Almost all heavy smokers have gastritis, polyps and peptic ulcers.
- Smokers have reduced immunity, which affects the overall well-being and the incidence of SARS.
How to get a girl to quit smoking?
This is a sore point for many young men and mature alike. No one is pleased to see his companion with a cigarette in his mouth. What will narcologists answer this question (namely, they are engaged inaddiction therapy)?
How to get a girl to quit smoking? It is impossible to do this. Until a person himself feels the strength, readiness and motivation to give up a bad habit, he cannot be influenced in any way. The best thing to do (so as not to provoke the appearance of aggression) is to gently hint that if the girl does not stop smoking, then the quality of the relationship may be spoiled, and they will stop altogether.
Motivation of a girl in order not to give up a bad habit
Smokers find hundreds of excuses for their bad habit. Most of them are completely untenable, and yet the addiction-clouded brain doesn't realize it:
- The myth of weight loss. Allegedly, if you quit smoking, then at least three kilograms will immediately stick to your waist. It is clear to any adequate person that fat is not taken from the air. If you carefully control your diet and do not overeat, then excess weight after quitting smoking simply will not come from anywhere. How can a girl quit smoking if she is afraid of getting fat? Just keep a close eye on your diet, keep a food diary, and this will not happen.
- Smokers claim that it is easier for them to work after receiving a dose of nicotine. Seems to be focused. Indeed, in the first week without cigarettes, it will be a little difficult to concentrate. But after a few months of a he althy lifestyle, performance will increase dramatically.
- A cigarette in a smoking company brings together and makes like-minded people. Many girls worry that if they quit smoking,then they will no longer be called in the company. Any mature person understands that this fear has no basis and speaks of infantilism. How can a girl quit smoking if she is afraid that they will stop talking to her? It is worth understanding: a person cannot be less interesting after he cannot smoke in front of his interlocutors. A smoking room is not the place and not the society of people that you should strive to get into.
- Combating stress - smoking calms, gives peace. This is a clear myth, since nicotine causes vasospasm. This loosens the nervous system, makes a person suspicious, irritable, anxious, aggressive. How can a girl stop smoking on her own, if this is her only method of dealing with stress? Just find yourself more worthy hobbies.
The decisive factor to quit smoking once and for all
How to convince your girlfriend, mother, wife or sister (and sometimes daughter) to give up once and for all a bad habit? The main thing is that a person has motivation, a goal in order to quit. Alas, modern corporations do not want to lose multi-million dollar profits from the sale of cigarettes. Therefore, in the provincial youth companies, there is still an opinion that smoking is "cool".
How to quit smoking for an experienced girl, what motivation to come up with for this? Experienced narcologists advise such an experiment: take a photo of a face without makeup before quitting, and then give up nicotine completely for a couple of months. Take a photo after this period. Even in two months, the girl will visually look five years younger, wrinkles will decrease, complexionfreshen up, the skin will no longer be dry and thin, like parchment. For most women, looking good is the most powerful motivation.
If there is not a single motivation for a girl to quit smoking, some decisive factor should be found. Sometimes it can be shocking. For example, a video of intrauterine fetal death in a smoking mother. Or the death of a person from lung cancer, photos of the smoker's organs after his death. Most girls are touched by this information.
List of effective ways for a girl to quit smoking
If it is too difficult to give up a cigarette right away, you can try to replace it first with a fashionable vape or electronic cigarettes.
Narcologists recommend attending several sessions of psychotherapy in order to understand what exactly replaces the process of smoking a cigarette for a girl. Someone is trying to assert themselves in this way, for someone this is the only way to feel like an adult. Some girls try to annoy their parents or husbands in this way. And for others, it's just a way to "forbidden" fun.
The most popular and effective ways to help a girl quit smoking:
- give her a vape and a fragrant dressing with the taste of her favorite tobacco;
- offer her to switch to e-cigarettes;
- read Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Quit Smoking before bed;
- demonstrate videos about the effects of nicotine on the lungs, stomach, throat, mouth.
Allen Carr andhis books, testimonials from smokers who have read it
Beginners to reading smokers are most often skeptical of the book. Nevertheless, after reading, indeed, many quit smoking. The book was written on the basis of neurolinguistic programming - it inspires a person in the subconscious with the idea of the dangers of smoking. Rejection is smooth and painless. The main thing is that the girl herself wants to quit.
Cases have been recorded that reading a book helped even in the most neglected cases, when, even being in a position, a girl could not quit. How to quit smoking for a pregnant girl? It is worth just reading the book "The Easy Way to Smoke" by Carr thoughtfully and carefully.
Reviews of smokers are positive: in about 80% of cases they were able to give up cigarettes for quite a long time. Some of them returned after a year or more to addiction.
Electronic cigarettes: testimonials
Many smokers have been able to overcome their bad habit by switching to electronic cigarettes. Over time, the cravings for nicotine decreased and then disappeared completely.
But there is a category of people who fundamentally do not like electronic cigarettes. For them, this method of substitution is unacceptable. Not the same aroma, taste and process - and very quickly they return to smoking their usual cigarettes.
Reviews of girls who quit smoking with the help of this innovation indicate that it was a strong desire to overcome the habit that was decisive. And the electronic cigarette was simply a timely assistant on this path.
Vape: reviews of hosts
This is a device that allows you to "soar", that is, to inhale and exhale vapors of a special liquid that must be purchased separately and refilled into the device.
Fashion trend has allowed many smokers to give up cigarettes. After vaping, hands do not stink and there is no smell from the mouth. Berry and fruit solutions for soaring taste good, almost completely safe for he alth. The testimonials of girls who quit cigarettes for vaping confirm that this device helped them start a new life.
He althy lifestyle: advice from narcologists to addicted people
Simple tips to convince a girl to stop smoking:
- take non-smoking girlfriends as an example - he althy competition will give strength to give up a bad habit;
- watch as many themed films about the dangers of smoking as possible;
- start a program on your phone that counts the days of a he althy lifestyle and reports beneficial changes in the body;
- monitor your diet so as not to gain weight and subsequently return to smoking;
- take your photos in good light and without makeup before quitting smoking and after - the difference in appearance will be an additional incentive not to return to a bad habit.
