Cold Turkey for Stopping Smoking: A good or a bad idea?

Research suggests that most ex-smokers have quit smoking without nicotine replacement or any other type of medical help (eg Lee and Kahende, Am J Public Health 97: 1503–1509, 2007).
Does this surprise you?
This article aims to examine cold turkey in combination with positive thinking as a method of smoking cessation.

First attempts to stop smoking are frequently unsuccessful

Although the first attempts to stop smoking are often unsuccessful, this doesn’t mean that you will be unsuccessful on your first attempt. It has been suggested that one reason that first attempts to quit tobacco may be unsuccessful are because they are not serious or committed attempts (Chapman et al.. PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science) 7, 2010).

As such, you need to be committed to enhance your effort to stop smoking.

What exactly does “Cold turkey” mean?

In the context of quitting nicotine,"Cold turkey" means suddenly quitting of the use of nicotine in any form.
Estimates if people whi have successfully quit smoking have used this method are as high as 80-90% (Doran et al. Addict Behav. May;31:758-66, 2006).

What are the advantages of Cold Turkey to Quit Smoking?

There are 2 main advantages of using cold turkey to quit smoking.
1. It is completely free!
2. The actual process of stopping your consumption of nicotine takes seconds. In fact, you have quit using nicotine the second you stub out your last cigarette.

How Positive Thinking may augment your chances to successfully Stop Smoking?

I stopped smoking using cold turkey. I used to smoke 30 cigarettes every day. I did this for over 30 years. My first attempts to stop smoking were not successful.

However, I eventually succeeded in stopping smoking with the help of positive thinking. Furthermore, quitting smoking was relatively stress-free for me.
Before my successful quit smoking attempt, I trained myself to believe that stopping smoking was not difficult and that I would be successful.

Believing that you will succeed appears to be an important factor in any challenge including quitting smoking.

There are statistics available on smokers who had successfully stopped smoking using cold turkey (Chapman et al, PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science) 7. 2010.

53% found that stopping was “not at all difficult”
27% found it “fairly difficult”
20% found it very difficult

This emphasises the significance of positive thinking. People who quit smoking who are positive thinkers often believe that they will be successful.

The Happy Ex-Smoker

I have written an ebook called “The Happy Ex-Smoker”. This ebook gives instructions that provide you with the tools to increase your ability to become a positive thinker with the ain of stopping smoking.
I suggest you read the book from cover to cover prior to stop smoking. The tools that you gain from the Happy Ex-Smoker ebook are psychological. This should improve your chances of stopping smoking while feeling relatively stress-free.
Your stop smoking program starts as soon as you start to read the ebook. On completion of the ebook, you may set a date to stop smoking.

The Happy Ex-Smoker program should enable successful ex-smokers to think positively. This, in turn, should augment their chance of staying an ex-smoker.
It is noteworthy that, when I was subsequently faced with other short-term challenges,, I was able to emply the same principles that I used to quit smoking. I can now face life’s challenges with more confidence and strength.
Interestingly, my positive thoughts have improved my social life. The consequence of this is that I now have more opportunities in life.
You can download the first 2 chapters of the ebook free of charge from my website

www.positive-thinking-stop-smoking.com