Quitting smoking
5 things you should know
If you use tobacco, quitting smoking is BY FAR the #1 thing you can do to enhance your health and your life!
The main reason why a smoker continues to smoke is because they are addicted to nicotine, which is a compound in tobacco that creates negative emotions when a smoker's brain is deprived of it.
To effectively quit smoking a smoker needs to build and use coping strategies to manage the negative emotions that result from depriving the brain of nicotine.
There are plenty of resources to help a person quit smoking that include self-help guides, telephone helplines and meeting with a health professional here at Concordia or in your community.