So why do smokers just like you find it so difficult to quit smoking?

Making the decision to quit smoking isn't easy and it is even harder to put it into practice. So, only smokers with great willpower manage to beat the Nicotine habit without any kind of help.

Statistics show that every year about 70% of the smokers want to quit smoking, but, sadly, less than 5% actually quit. In general, it takes 3 or 4 attempts to quit smoking permanently*.

This is because cigarettes create both a physical dependence (on nicotine) and a behavioral (or habit-based) dependence.

Until now, the various methods to quit smoking only contributed towards overcoming the physical dependence by administering anti-depressive treatments, or by replacing the nicotine inputs by patches or chewing gum.

Even a major nicotine gum manufacturer is now recognizing this fact by telling smokers that if they want to quit smoking they should cut down on the number of cigarettes they smoke at the same time as using their product - they suggest that it can take anything up to 9 months to quit smoking completely!

Overcoming this behavioral dependence connected with the physical act of smoking is an important part of quitting the "Habit".

We all know that the "habit" of smoking cigarettes is associated with a whole series of rituals that cannot be easily abandoned overnight, which makes getting help with the willpower to quit smoking cigarettes even more important.

More than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year are smoking related. Smoking cigarettes increases your risk of lung cancer. You know that smoking is bad for your health, yet at the same time you also know how hard it is to quit smoking. You have probably tried to quit smoking several times. Nobody has said that quitting is easy. nicotine exerts a physical and mental hold on you that is a major barrier to quitting smoking.

So a small percentage of smokers have found it easy to quit smoking without some form of help. The cravings for a cigarette when you quit smoking cold turkey can be intolerable. The immediate withdrawal symptoms of quitting like irritability, anxiety, headache, depression, lack of concentration and restlessness can overcome your will power and next thing - you are back to being a smoker.
Some smokers have found nicotine replacement therapies like Nicorette, Nicoderm, Nicotrol or Nicquitin have been a help, but for many who have tried them and failed there has to be another approach to quitting smoking.

NicoBloc simply allows you to continue smoking while you are quitting but control the amount of nicotine you take into your system.

You can quit smoking - millions of people around the world have successfully quit smoking. It doesn't matter how long you have smoked, you can quit!

So why do smokers just like you find it so difficult to quit smoking?