How Meditation Can Help You Stop Smoking

If you want to quit smoking, you will have to use every weapon in the armoury, but above all you should decide on a main technique that you have faith will work for you.

This might be cold turkey, acupuncture, hypnotherapy, gradual reduction or meditation. It is rather pointless to attempt acupuncture if you do not have faith in it.

There are two reasons why it is difficult to stop smoking: psychological addiction and physical addiction and you have to fight both of these fronts at the same time if you are to be successful.

The psychological dependence is often related to stress or so lots of smokers claim whilst the physical dependence may be as petty as not knowing what to do with your hands.

One of the most natural ways to deal with stress is meditation. It necessitates no tablets, no oils, nothing; just a blanket. Meditation can be carried out either in combination with exercise like Yoga or on its own. Meditation is one of the best stress-busters and may actually cure some diseases through willpower alone according to ancient Indian scripts.

No doctors have ever laughed at Yoga or meditation like they have acupuncture, aromatherapy and some of the other 'alternative therapies'. It stands to reason that if meditation can relieve stress and stress is a grounds for smoking, that meditation can help you stop smoking too.

In the West, we tend to think of gurus meditating in some contorted posture in the middle of a field, on a beach or on the top of a mountain. Although some people do meditate like this, it is a bit daft of to think that you have to. Most individuals in the West and in the East meditate quietly sitting on a mat in the house or in the backyard.

You will need to buy a book or training video on yoga, meditation techniques and breathing exercises. Perhaps you ought to do some research on Google first to find out whether you are interested in yoga, but you should learn some breathing exercises because they can relax you in seconds.

Before meditating it is traditional to have a shower and brush your teeth et cetera. Then sit on a blanket in an open space where you are not likely to be disturbed. Your book will almost certainly tell you to do some breathing exercises first.

The effects of this meditation session should last nearly all day, so it is a wise idea to do one in the morning and one in the evening. Thirty minutes a session ought to be enough, but you will probably want to go on for longer. While you are in work, you will be able to 'top up' your serenity with a minute of breathing exercises as required.

Meditation is the cheapest and most healthy method of quitting smoking and you will learn techniques that will help you for the rest of your life. If you need to use nicotine patches and gum, there is no reason why you ought not to.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on numerous topics, but is at present concerned with quitting smoking statistics. If you have an interest in quitting smoking, please go over to our web site now at Health Risks To Smoking.