It is shown that in strongly magnetized neutron stars, there exist upper limits of magnetic field strength, beyond which the self energies for both neutron and proton components of neutron star matter become complex in nature. As a consequence they decay within the strong interaction time scale. However, in the ultra-strong magnetic field case, when the zeroth Landau level is only occupied by protons, the system again becomes stable against strong decay.Keywords Magnetar · Magnetic field · Neutron stars · Landau levels PACS 97.60.Jd · 97.60.-s · 75.25.+zThe study of the effect of strong quantizing magnetic fields on dense neutron star matter has become extremely interesting and also important after the recent discovery of a few strongly magnetized neutron stars, known as magnetars (Duncan and These strange stellar objects are supposed to be relatively young (age ∼10 4 yrs) neutron stars and are also believed to be the possible sources of anomalous X-ray pulses and soft gamma ray emissions (AXP and SGR). If the magnetic fields are strong enough, particularly at the central region, then most of the physical properties of these strange stellar objects and also various physical processes taking place