Quitting smoking is often easier said than done. However, committing to kicking the habit can help enhance your travel experiences — and even your beauty. If you’re wondering how so, it’s because it has become increasingly more difficult to smoke in various destinations around the world.
Smoking bans started as early as in the 1980s when WHO’s member states were required to introduce legislation to protect populations from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. This included restaurants, pubs, bistros, and bars that could have a direct link to the smoking culture.
Today, more and more countries are adopting smoke-free laws and regulations to protect public health and the environment.
As such, more travel enthusiasts who smoke can benefit by reducing or quitting smoking to help make traveling more enjoyable.
Below, we’ll look at how smoking cessation — much like smoking bans around the world — has become more prominent and how quitting smoking can enhance travel experiences as well as your beauty:
Smoking cessation
Today, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies are constantly innovating in the smoking cessation department.
For travelers worried about smoking bans in their chosen destinations, the rise of smoke-free alternatives has helped make quitting smoking less worrisome and more accessible while on the go.
Nicotine pouches offer a discreet, tobacco-free experience and can easily be bought online. On! pouches make their nicotine pouches in ultra-compact mini-dry format, making them invisible under the lip and not prone to causing excessive drip.
This makes the pouches easy to use while traveling without breaking local smoking rules. Other popular smoke-free alternatives include nicotine gum, which is one of the earliest forms of smoking cessation aid.
Today, there are many brands of nicotine gum available. Newer brands like Lucy gums provide microdoses of nicotine for tobacco consumers to prevent or manage nicotine cravings.
If you’re wondering how effective these products are, decades of studies have looked at various NRT and nicotine alternatives.
Many purchasers of nicotine gum reported it helped manage stress and maintain focus, which formerly required some form of tobacco consumption.
Likewise, an older study found that subjects who chewed more than the median amount of gum in the first weeks were more than twice as likely to reach 28-day continuous smoking abstinence.
How Quitting Improves Travel
Now that you’ve taken the time to understand modern smoking cessation methods and how traveler-friendly they have become, you may wonder how it impacts travel.
There are many health-related benefits to quitting smoking, many of which can enhance your travel experience. Having more energy and better lung function, to begin with, can make it easier and more enjoyable for you to explore and navigate your travel destination.
As mentioned above, you’ll also enjoy not being limited by local smoking restrictions in tourist spots, public places, and public transportation options.
How Quitting Improves Beauty
Finally, an often overlooked benefit of quitting smoking is its impact on your beauty. This is important for travel enthusiasts, as the added confidence will encourage you to capture more photographs for memories and social media.
In our “Beauty Travel Habits To Take On Your Next Getaway” post, we highlighted how our skin condition and health can be sensitive to various external factors. This includes weather conditions, as well as things in your environment, like seawater and chlorine.
Likewise, an Advances in Dermatology and Allergology study found that smoking and overexposure to smoke can be a risk factor for various skin conditions such as wrinkling and premature aging.
Worse, smoking may also aggravate clinical symptoms of psoriasis, which causes rashes and itchy skin.
At the end of the day, quitting smoking doesn’t only make traveling easier and more enjoyable; you’re also benefiting from your skin healing and looking healthy.
It’s always a great feeling not being restricted or limited in your travels, and the same applies to being able to carelessly snap photos and memories of yourself in dream destinations without having to worry about how your skin looks.
