Tips to Stop Smoking Cold Turkey
Health and Wellness Tips for Going Cold Turkey

These tips to stop smoking cold turkey will help you through nicotine detox and withdrawal symptoms of quitting smoking. Good for promoting general health and welllness, these tips will improve your wellbeing so you can stop smoking cigarettes successfully.

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When you quit smoking, the withdrawal symptoms will start as soon as the dopamine, serotonin, and epinephrine levels in your brain start to decline. This may cause nicotine cravings and the desire to smoke again.

Improved nutrition, proper hydration, and physical exercise are among the best health and wellness tips to be offered if you choose to quit by going cold turkey, or any other way!

Health and Wellness Tips

When you stop smoking cold turkey your body will go into a whole body detox in order to eliminate toxins that have been deposited in the tissue over the years of smoking cigarettes.

There are over 4000 chemicals in cigarettes so you have to expect that some of them will now be eliminated as your body tries to cleanse itself. If you are a heavy smoker there may be more toxicity so the whole body detox may be more challenging.

Additionally your brain will be rebalancing its levels of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, and epinephrine.

The action of nicotine on your brain has been artificially elevating these chemicals and now they will drop until your body gets used to lower more natural levels and re-learns how to regulate these chemicals on its own.

The key here is to be able to provide your body with the tools it needs to do this.

4 Tips to Stop Smoking Cold Turkey

TIP #1 Stop artificially elevating neurotransmitters in your brain

Substances such as caffeine, alcohol, and sugar will artificially raise your blood sugar, dopamine and other neurotransmitters. This will make you feel better, but only temporarily.

Once the effect wears off and those levels drop suddenly, you will experience withdrawal symptoms of quitting smoking again.

If you use these substances when you stop smoking cold turkey you are simply substituting one drug for another.

TIP #2 Hydrate Yourself

Drinking plenty of good quality water will provide your body with the fluids needed to flush out the toxins from your system as you enter into the whole body detox.

DO NOT use any type of sugared liquids or even artificially sweetened drinks for hydration. They will raise your blood sugar artificially and when it falls you will want to reach for a cigarette again.

Minimum hydration with water should be at least one liter per day. This includes only the good water not any other liquids that you might consume as part of a meal.

Adding a bit of lemon juice or even sipping on orange juice (natural and unsweetened) will help to keep your blood sugar from dropping too low.

TIP #3 Exercise - a lot!

Vigorous exercise will stimulate the release of neurotransmitters in your brain that will improve your mood.

Vigorous exercise will improve your blood circulation and lymphatic drainage and assist with the whole process of detoxification.

If fatigue is a problem at first take short brisk walks several times per day. As your energy level builds you will find that you can endure longer exercise periods.

How much exercise is enough? Unless you are in the fitness industry or in tip top athletic shape I can tell you that the amount of exercise you need is probably way more than you get and probably way more than you want to do. Take it easy and go gradually.

When you stop smoking cold turkey you want to become healthier overall but if you come out of the gate too hard and too fast with the exercise you are asking for a repetitive strain injury and then you might stop exercising altogether.

TIP #4 Eat Well - but not a lot!

Eat only good quality whole foods with plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and high quality protein. They will stabilize your blood sugar levels and add many nutrients to your diet that are needed to produce those essential neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. (Go to How to Increase Dopamine.)

This is not the time to be eating any kind of processed foods as that will only make matters worse. See Health and Wellness tip#1.

Snack on high quality protein foods like nuts (unsweetened) and cheese (real not processed) to keep blood sugar levels even and provide the raw ingredients necessary to rebalance dopamine levels.

These really are just common sense health and wellness tips to stop smoking cold turkey. You have read these tips before.

But if you quit cold turkey you will need these tips if you want to lessen the withdrawal symptoms of quitting smoking and be successful at going cold turkey.

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