How to stop cravings for people who have just quit smoking

(Baonghean) -Although it only lasts for 2-5 minutes, the craving for cigarettes in the first days of quitting is considered the first difficult step that you need to try your best to overcome. So, what should you do to suppress these feelings and block the way back to cigarettes?

Listening to music is a therapy to overcome cigarette cravings. Photo: Internet

Extreme cravings only last for 2-5 minutes, so in times like these, don't just sit still and endure them, do something: You can put a little salt on the tip of your tongue, drink a glass of milk or a large glass of water and slowly breathe deeply, relax until the craving passes.

The symptoms after those cravings are the feeling of not concentrating, tiredness, stress and irritability due to the lack of nicotine in the blood provided by smoking. You have to get used to the absence of nicotine, try to do it for a few days. At times like that, you should exercise more, when studying or working too stressful, take a break to relax a bit to regain your spirit.

Exercise is one therapy that can help you overcome your cravings.

People who have just quit smoking will also cough. However, rest assured because this is just a self-cleaning reflex of the lungs. When you cough, drink sips of warm water to reduce the cough. After 1 - 2 weeks, this phenomenon will disappear.

If you have trouble sleeping when you first quit smoking, listen to some soft music, read a good story to relax, then drink a glass of milk and go to bed.

After quitting smoking, regaining your sense of taste and smell, you will have a better appetite or many people use food to compensate for their cravings, which will lead to uncontrolled weight gain. During the process of quitting smoking, you should also build yourself a reasonable eating plan so that after the suffering of quitting smoking, you do not have to suffer from losing weight.

If you can overcome the above unpleasant feelings, congratulations because you have gone more than half way to quit smoking. Now, let's quit that bad habit and gradually practice better habits to make your life and health more meaningful.

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