With some changes in the everyday food habit also, a person can stop smoking to a great extent. For instance, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, as opposed to dairy, meat, and sweet food products will aid in stopping to smoke. A study at Duke University has shown that eating fruits and vegetables help flush nicotine from the body faster. They also make cigarettes taste much worse than normal. So in order to quit smoking, one has to develop the habit of snacking on carrots, celery, and apples. Smokers have to incorporate more fresh fruits and vegetables into their diet, especially at the end of a meal and during key craving periods.

In concurrence with the intake of fruits and vegetables, one needs to concentrate on the physical activity of the people. Raising the heart rate, breathing rate and energy consumption through exercise and physical activity is a biological helper to curb nicotine cravings. Not only will the body be busy jogging, walking, rollerblading, or just picking weeds in the yard as a hobby to stay away from smoking cigarettes, but the endorphins, as well as the myriad of other hormones and chemicals exercise releases help to directly curb nicotine cravings and lower the body’s dependence on chemicals.

Physical activity and exercise is a great way to keep the mind and body busy and not to smoke during key craving times of the day as well as lower the nicotine dependence in general through an innumerable of extra endorphins and hormones. Physical exercise can also minimize the sudden weight gain typical with people who quit smoking.

After resorting to these kinds of mind and body change, one also has to ensure that he or she is not reminded again about cigarettes in the future to avoid temptations to smoke. To achieve this, a person has to take out anything in the surroundings and life that reminds of smoking. Only when a person takes smoking out of their mind, can he or she flush out the nicotine out of the body. It is better to wash, dry clean, vacuum, and scrub anything that might smell like cigarettes. One also has to be wary of the TV shows with cigarettes in them.

Like the famous saying, ‘Out of sight, out of mind’, one has to eradicate smoking out of their life as much as possible. As soon as the person see a cigarette, hear the sound of a lighter, smell tobacco smoke, taste something similar to smoking, the numerous subconscious trained physical responses will kick in inside the brain and body. Any reminders of smoking trigger nicotine cravings from the way the body has been heavily trained and conditioned from many years of nicotine addiction. Thus to eliminate cigarette from one’s life style, one has to remove over half of the cravings that would have triggered responses to references in the brain.