Quit Smoking with Nicotine Patches or Hypnotism?

3 Basic Tips to help you Quit Smoking - Cold Turkey, Nicotine Patches, or Hypnotism?

• Quit Smoking Cold Turkey
  
  Quit smoking cold turkey is a good way to give up cigarettes, provided you have an iron willpower to match, although it is not known what a turkey has to do with it. To quit smoking cold turkey means to abruptly quit smoking cigarettes. Once the smoker quits smoking cold turkey, the goal is to never smoke another cigarette again. No drugs or medical aids are used when a person quits smoking cigarettes using this method. Fierce willpower, and maybe someone the smoker can call when the urge gets too strong, is required to do this.



• Nicotine Gums & Nicotine Patches
  
  Some smokers use nicotine gums and / or patches to help them quit smoking. These nicotine patches replace the nicotine the smoker normally gets from the cigarette. The idea is to wean the smoker off the cigarettes by gradually using patches containing less nicotine. This technique to quit smoking sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach, however critics claim that nicotine patches merely prolong the painful nicotine withdrawal period. Each smoker and their doctor will have to decide for themselves whether the nicotine patch is right for them.


• Hypnotism
  
  Hypnotism is a popular method with varied effectiveness. The hypnotist places the smoker into a highly suggestive state, and convinces the smoker that he or she no longer needs cigarettes. The effectiveness of hypnotism in quitting smoking is questionable, however. The results are almost impossible to reproduce in a laboratory setting, and the effectiveness varies with the skill of each hypnotist and the ease with which the patient responds to the hypnotism.