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    Cold Turkey – More Than Just Sandwiches

    To many, cold turkey conjures up visions of torturous pain, suffering and normal drudgery. In fact, it's easier to stop smoking using the cold turkey procedure than by using any other technique. Cold turkey induces less suffering and creates a shorter period of withdrawal. Most important, cold turkey is the approach by which the smoker has the best chance of success.
    Smokers must recognize that they are drug addicts. Nicotine is a powerfully addictive drug. Once the smoker has smoked for a reasonably long time, the body requires maintenance of a certain level of nicotine in the bloodstream.
    If this level is not maintained, the smoker will experience varying degrees of drug withdrawal: the lower the level, the greater the intensity. As long as any nicotine remains in the bloodstream the body will keep craving its full complement.
    Once the smoker quits, the nicotine level will ultimately drop to zero and all physical withdrawal will cease. Cravings for an occasional cigarette may continue, but this is due to an old custom not to a physical dependence.
    Cutting down on cigarettes or use of nicotine replace strategies throws the smoker into a incessant state of drug withdrawal. As soon as the smoker fails to reach the minimum requirement of nicotine, the body starts demanding it.
    As long as there is any nicotine in the bloodstream, the body will demand its old requirement. Smoking just one or two a day or wearing a patch which is gradually lowering the amount of nicotine being delivered will result in the smoker not attaining the minimum needed level, creating a incessant state of peak drug withdrawal.
    This state will continue throughout the rest of the smoker's life unless one of two steps is taken to rectify it. First, the smoker can stop delivering nicotine altogether. Nicotine would be metabolized or perfectly excreted from the body and the withdrawal will stop forever. Or, the smoker can return to the old level of consumptions accomplishing nothing.
    Therefore, cold turkey is the procedure of choice. Once the smoker stops, withdrawal will end within two weeks. The rest of the way involves changing the technique you think and staying away from cigarettes and the temptation that they provide.
    Many people are also afraid of gaining weight when they don’t have the oral fixation that a cigarette provides – calorie free! Weight gain isn’t a reality of quitting smoking. You can take steps to prevent it.

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