Smoking Withdrawal Symptoms and Readiness to Quit
What are nicotine withdrawal symptoms? I have done a survey of the records of the last one hundred patients I treated for smoking cessation in face-to-face sessions. These records contain near-verbatim accounts of what patients say in reply to open-ended questions, since I have found this is the best way to gain an understanding of […]
Continue readingWhy it’s a Bad Idea to Set a Smoking Quit Date
Nearly all stop smoking methods will tell you to pick a date in the near future when you intend to quit. This is a bad idea. Here’s why: First, it reinforces the widely held but mistaken notion that stopping smoking is terribly difficult: you have to prepare yourself for it and work up your will-power […]
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