In order to really quit smoking it is necessary to break the chains that smoking creates in your life. If you are addicted to smoking purely due to the nicotine addiction you are certainly not alone. This is one of the biggest reasons why smokers continue to smoke.

It is also one of the reasons why the tobacco company sits around confidently while the economy struggles and people are cutting back. If you are addicted to their product, you are not going to cut back. In fact, if you are addicted you may find that you are using the product even more.

This creates huge profits for the tobacco companies, and leaves you with a huge problem as you are struggling to get your addiction under control.

What is really surprising is the fact that people will have sympathy for someone who is addicted to drugs, alcohol, gambling and a plethora of other addictions. However, the sympathy tends to stop at the idea of being addicted to cigarettes.

This is a stigma that has affected society in a way that people are often laughed at for saying that they are addicted to cigarettes. Yet, the fact remains that people are in fact addicted. Learning how to control the addiction is critical to success, after all those who are addicted to drugs rarely ever just quit cold turkey successfully.

You need to realize that you are addicted to smoking, and that the reason is typically due to nicotine. The exact manner that you get the nicotine is not important. What is important is avoiding the harmful effects on your body that smoking has.

If you need to slowly cut back your nicotine consumption you are not alone, and to prove it there are dozens of stop smoking aids on the market. Several even offer small dosages of nicotine to help smokers deal with their nicotine addiction while still working to quit smoking. Looking towards products such as nicotine gum or even the patches may be your only help in quitting.

While there are plenty of tricks such as breathing exercises, magnets, and other stop smoking aids that you can use, many are not designed for people actually addicted to the nicotine. What you may not realize is that the bulk majority of smokers have become dependent on the nicotine to one extent or another. While some smokers rely much more on the nicotine than others, they are still addicted to an extent. It is important to break this dependence in order to actually be successful at quitting smoking. This is not an easy process, and it must be done carefully.

If you are not careful in the process of breaking your nicotine addiction, you could actually make things worse. For example, the nicotine gum and the patches come in different dosage levels. These levels coincide to the amount that you smoke. The intended purpose is to start at the level that you typically smoke at and slowly decrease the amount of nicotine that you consume each day. Slowly over time your addiction would be gone, however to crush this instantly you would just need to use a stronger gum or patch than you need for your smoking habit. A one pack a day smoker could create far more problems for themselves if they used the gum or patch intended for those who smoke two packs a day for example.

Being sure that you are using the proper dosages is critical. Ensuring that you are taking your time and carefully dealing with your nicotine addiction is very important as well. If you have the support of your friends, family and co-workers, you will have a much greater success rate.

Just as those recovering drug addicts take things a single day at a time, you need to do the same for your nicotine addiction. Simply rushing out and attempting to quit could create a huge self-esteem problem and you fail to control the addiction to nicotine. Going slow and accepting your problem will set you up for a much higher success rate and improve your overall health much faster.

	The Addicted Brain: Why We Abuse Drugs, Alcohol, and Nicotine (FT Press Science) List Price: $29.99 Sale Price: $15.95
	Addiction destroys lives. In The Addicted Brain, leading neuroscientist Michael Kuhar, Ph.D., explains how and why this happens–and presents advances in drug addiction treatment and prevention. Using breathtaking brain imagery and other research, Kuhar shows the powerful, long-term brain changes that drugs can cause, revealing why it can be so difficult for addicts to escape their grip...

	Romancing The Smoke: Reflections of a Nicotine Addict (Volume 1) Sale Price: $16.99
	This darkly humorous memoir, both written and illustrated by John Aaron, shares his experience as he battled and overcame a 40 year nicotine addiction while surrounded by a family of smokers. John revisits the astonishing rise of tobacco, the insidious marketing, the personal pain-and what we can do now to change that...

	My FINAL Quit: How I quit smoking and broke a 40-year addiction List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $9.73
	REAL FEELING EXPRESSED IN A CONVERSATIONAL MANNER AND VERY INFORMATIVE TO THIS NON- SMOKER! I'VE LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AS WELL AS REFLECTED ON A NUMBER OF THINGS YOU WROTE ABOUT! ~Judy, TX Overview: My FINAL Quit is the companion who understands how hard it is to quit...

	One Step at a Time Nicotine Addiction Withdrawal System 4 ea Sale Price: $23.57
	Stop Smoking Without DrugsUnderstanding the ProblemThe U.S. Surgeon General has declared nicotine a drug and nicotine addiction as tough to beat as heroin or cocaine. For a smoker, the first step toward breaking this addiction is to recognize the problem and decided to do something about it...

	One Step At A Time Nicotine Addiction Withdrawal System (Pack of 4) List Price: $24.95 Sale Price: $19.95
	Gums and patches don't reduce your dependency on nicotine. They just allow your body to get it from another source. One Step at a Time lowers your nicotine dependency in gradual increments. it offers a proven way to conquer your addiction...