Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Smoking Cold Turkey - Or Nicotine Replacement Therapy Which Is Best For You
By Sacha Tarkovsky

Smoking cold turkey is the most popular way to stop smoking but how effective is it, and how can you improve your chances of success?

Here we will look at smoking cold turkey from two perspectives. From those who want to give up and those smokers who are forced to stop for long periods in our increasingly smokeless society. Smoking cold turkey.

Simply means to stop smoking with no gradual reduction i.e. you give your system a short sharp shock as smoking ceases and nicotine is withdrawn from your body.

Quitting smoking cold turkey means to stop smoking without using any nicotine replacement therapy NRT like puffers, inhalers, gums or patches.

Quitting smoking cold turkey is not as successful as using NRT, this is due to the extreme symptoms that receiving no nicotine causes.

Most people can t take it and quickly revert back to smoking, i.e the nicotine withdrawal symptoms are too much.

Let’s look first at how to improve your chances of quitting if you try this method. Withdrawal of nicotine causes the following problems that include:

Irritability, difficulty in concentrating, stress, fatigue, nausea and the feelings are intense, especially for the first 72 hours, although the feelings of cold turkey can last for a few weeks.

One of the main advantages if cold turkey is the time is not that long to get nicotine out the system (although it doesn’t feel that way at the time)

If you can grin and bare it, it’s the best way to go and you can take some simple steps to cope with your nicotine cravings which include: