It’s a multi-faceted addiction and it involves one or for most smokers a combination of the following: a physical addiction, emotional as well as habitual," says Kanani Kilbey, Castle Wellness Center.
That’s why it takes a multi-dimensional approach to break the smoking habit.
Another issue –
"When someone takes a drag off a cigarette, fifty percent of that smoke the smoker absorbs and the other fifty percent is exhaled in the environment and that’s called ETS or environmental tobacco smoke. That is consumed by people breathing the air so that in itself can be very dangerous and toxic," says Kilbey.
Castle Medical Center offers a stop smoking clinic called live well, tobacco free.
"It’s virtually free and it includes coaching with a tobacco treatment specialist as well as medications and they’re free of charge. We have nicotine patches, lozenges and gum," says Kilbey.
Kanani told us the clinic offers important elements.
An environment where everyone either knows about tobacco or encourages others or initiates their own quit. So we have a support group as well as individualized coaching," says Kilbey.
What’s the first step in starting to stop?
"To start off with you really have to take that first step for yourself and want to quit for your own reasons and not for anyone else or not for your doctor. I think that’s the biggest step," says Kilbey.
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