10 Ways To Stop Smoking – Which Would You Choose
There is much confusion around the topic of quitting smoking, so here are 10 ways you can potentially quit smoking, as you will see, some are far more effective than others.
1. Nicotine gum. Designed to replace the nicotine lost when quitting. It’s success is about 10%
2. Nicotine patches. Same theory as with the patches but the dose of nicotine is quite high. In spite of this the success is about 16%. Only 1 in 6 users are free from cigarettes in one year.
3. Zyban. A pharmaceutical product, designed to mange cravings. It’s success rate is about 14% with only 6% still free from smoking after 12 months.
4. Champix another pharmaceutical drug with potentially sever side effects has a reported failure rate of 84%
5. Cold Turkey. This is possibly the hardest way to quite. All of the stress for little reward. Success is approximately 7%
6. Acupuncture. Using needles or Lazor to stimulate specific points which are claimed to overcome desire for cigarettes. Average success 50%
7. Standard Hypnosis. 66% rate is reported. It is one of the best ways to quit but still leaves a few issues unresolved.
8. Group Hypnosis. About 25% success rate. Can only be general in its application.
9. Shick. This is an in clinic shock aversion treatment. Claimed success 50% plus
10. Advanced Hypnosis with Neuro Linguistic Programming. This method covers all the bases, it is very specific to the individual client and has a high success rate of 95% plus. The reason it is so success is that it addresses all the emotional issues which are neglected in most methods.