What are the dangers of quitting smoking cold turkey?

What are the dangers of quitting smoking cold turkey?

When someone makes a decision to quit smoking, put the cigarettes down, and don't smoke again. Their brain within 24 or 72 hours starts having significant nicotine withdrawal symptoms. One of the major reasons why people relapse back to smoking is they start feeling miserable. So, without medication, which means, quitting on your own cold turkey, means that you aren't really getting any help to handle all the changes going on in your brain chemistry trying to learn to live life without nicotine. One of the other problems with going cold turkey is that you have a tendency to focus on that event as supposed to having a whole program of taking your medications, following up with your doctor. You don't have a process usually that's going to carry you through, especially that first week. The problem is that quitting cold turkey has the lowest quitting rate of all the methods to quit smoking. So I would encourage you to talk to someone who can give you individual council about what's really best for you.