How long will insomnia last after quitting smoking?

Many people suffer from insomnia after quitting smoking. Insomnia is painful for both body and mind. Smoking is harmful to the human body. Many people will actively quit smoking after realizing this. Now people's living standards are constantly improving, and they pay more attention to the maintenance of their bodies. Quitting smoking is a good thing, but insomnia will appear after quitting smoking. How long will insomnia last after quitting smoking? Let's take a look.

1. How long will insomnia last after quitting smoking?

Tobacco smoke contains at least three dangerous chemicals that can easily cause sleep disorders such as insomnia. However, if you quit smoking too drastically, you may suffer from smoking cessation syndrome, which is also bad for your health. The so-called withdrawal syndrome, medically known as nicotine withdrawal syndrome, refers to a series of uncomfortable symptoms when smokers suddenly quit smoking, such as irritability, dizziness and headache, insomnia and anxiety, coughing and sweating, decreased heart rate, appetite or weight gain, etc.

In addition, long-term smoking can cause physical and mental dependence. This dependence is mainly caused by the nicotine contained in tobacco. Once smokers stop smoking, they may experience nicotine withdrawal symptoms, that is, they will start to want to smoke tens of minutes to hours after stopping smoking, and feel restless, irritable, restless, anxious, dizzy, headache, insomnia, inattention, and helplessness. This is because the accumulation of antimorphin increases when the brain's biological clock reaches the required time. If nicotine from tobacco is not supplemented to balance it, the addict will experience the above-mentioned discomfort symptoms.

2. How to quit smoking to solve insomnia

1 It is normal to suffer from insomnia after forced smoking cessation. You can buy some medicine to control temporary insomnia, but don’t rely on it too much. You can increase exercise, adding half an hour of exercise every day can increase physical fatigue and meaningfully increase sleep.

2. Mental relaxation method: let go of the subjective problems of smoking and insomnia, divert your thoughts, and cultivate your other interests and hobbies. This can psychologically reduce the differentiation of the demand for cigarettes and is also conducive to cultivating sleep mood. Drinking a glass of light vinegar water before falling asleep will help you fall asleep as soon as possible.

3. Barefoot exercise: Before going to bed, you can exercise barefoot indoors or on a slightly uneven ground (of course, don't hurt your feet). Through the stimulation of the soles of the feet, you can increase blood circulation, which is beneficial to the body's conditioning and excretion. Soak your feet after exercise, and you will soon feel sleepy.

3. How to quit smoking?

1. Eliminate your own nervous mood

Is the stress of work the reason why you smoke? If so, friends who want to quit smoking must take away everything related to smoking and keep them away from you. Instead, place some sugar-free chewing gum, fruit, juice and mineral water at your work place, and do more exercise during breaks to distract yourself from smoking.

2. Worry about weight

The first problem smokers encounter after quitting is a significant increase in weight. The average person gains about 7 pounds. After quitting smoking, smokers will reduce their metabolic rate and replace their usual smoking behavior with eating more food. Therefore, people who quit smoking will gain weight in a short period of time. However, smokers can cope with the weight gain by exercising.

3. Strengthen the awareness of quitting smoking

Clarify the purpose of quitting smoking: Smoking is only related to the work environment. Quitting smoking is for the sake of your own body and the health of your family. In this way, the awareness of quitting smoking will gradually become stronger.

4. Find alternatives to smoking

The main problem after quitting smoking is that being tempted by the surroundings and becoming addicted to smoking again can easily lead to failure in your efforts to quit smoking. At this time, we should seek some alternatives to smoking. If you are used to smoking a cigarette after meals every day, you can replace it with drinking tea. If you persist for a period of time, you will not be so dependent on smoking.

5. Bet to quit smoking

Former smokers have had good experiences with quitting smoking by making bets, one of the effects of which is to quit smoking publicly and gain the support of friends and colleagues.

6. Try to avoid attending parties

When you start quitting smoking, avoid the temptation of your friends to smoke. If a friend invites you to a party, but most of the people at the party are smokers, you should politely decline until you successfully quit smoking.

7. Play more football and basketball

Regular exercise can improve your mood and reduce your craving for cigarettes.

8. Throw away smoking utensils immediately

Ashtrays, lighters and cigarettes can all be irritating to smokers who are quitting smoking and should be thrown away.

9. Distract Your Attention

Especially in the early stages of quitting smoking, do more things to divert your attention from smoking. Don't spend the evening in front of the TV, because that will make you unable to resist and smoke again.

10. Withstand the test of returning to smoking

Xiaoxiao, a smoking cessation teacher, kindly reminds you: Smoking again after quitting does not mean you have failed to quit smoking. It is not "too late" after taking a puff or a cigarette, but you should carefully analyze the reasons for smoking again to avoid repeating the same mistake in the future.