Quick To Stop Smoking

Use SMART Recovery to quit your nicotine addiction.

Nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs as well as the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. ⁽¹⁾

The tar in cigarettes increases a smoker's risk of lung cancer, emphysema, and bronchial disorders. The carbon monoxide in smoke increases the chance of cardiovascular diseases. ⁽²⁾

What happens when I quit smoking?

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), for up to 6 weeks after smokers quit, their brain cells have more nicotine-binding receptors than nonsmokers' cells do. Scientists speculate that the brain develops extra receptors to accommodate the large doses of nicotine from tobacco and that the resulting expanded receptor pool helps to contribute to craving and other discomforts of smoking withdrawal. ⁽³⁾

A Participant's Greeting and Experience

Welcome. I guess you are here because you have just quit smoking, or you are thinking of quitting. Maybe you are not sure whether you should quit. If you aren't here because of smoking, use this link to return to the SMART home page. Otherwise, get comfortable, look around, and hopefully you will decide to dig a bit deeper into SMART.

· CBA – complete a Cost Benefit Analysis worksheet. This is a SMART tool that helps you determine what you like about smoking, and dislike about it, why you want to quit, and why you don’t. Write it down because that makes it real. It is possible that you determine, based on you CBA, that you shouldn’t quit, although, you will probably have written a lot more reasons to quit than not. Once completed, refer to it often to reinforce that you are quitting for good reasons.