So you can't quit smoking
A lot of smokers struggle and fail to quit, and the reasons behind the failed quit attempt are countless. But usually they boil down to lack of preparation which leads to
* withdrawal symptoms
* weight gain
* stress overload
* constant focus on cigarettes
These are all problems you could face when you quit. So it is important to address your reasons for quitting to ensure that you are able to see yourself through these troublesome times. Are you quitting for yourself or for a friend, for the doctor, for your children and family etc.
By far the best thing to do is quit for yourself and your own personal reasons - and use your family / friedns as support and motication.
However, when you stop smoking for yourself it's a good idea to use your emotions. The best way I can explain this is to tell you how a friend of mine quit smoking some fifteen years ago. My friend told me that when he was in his mid twenties he drank a lot and did plenty of drugs and was partying at every opportunity he got. Of course smoking was an integral part of his social life, it just went hand in had.
But one night he had a bad experience - he took som many drugs, drank so much and smoked so much that he collpased and as he recalled, 'thought I was going to die.' He was in a bad way for the next three days and felt like he had ten hangovers at once.
Anyway, the experience was so bad that he decided to give up the drugs and the drinking and the smoking - in his mind as he recalled 'smoking was the key to it all.' He told me how he was so scared to go through that experience again that he wanted to stop smoking, as it seemed to him to be the connecting factor between the smoking and the drugs.
Every time he had a craving or felt the effects of withdrawal he just saw an image of himself on that night an din the following days and it got him through it.
This is a very good example of how someone has used their emotions to make their reasons for stopping smoking, stonger and completely outweigh the reasons for smoking.
If you really want to quit, the you should learn how to rebalance your smoking scales as I call them in my book - make the things that make you want to quit, completely outweigh, out focus and completely destroy your reasons for smoking.
* withdrawal symptoms
* weight gain
* stress overload
* constant focus on cigarettes
These are all problems you could face when you quit. So it is important to address your reasons for quitting to ensure that you are able to see yourself through these troublesome times. Are you quitting for yourself or for a friend, for the doctor, for your children and family etc.
By far the best thing to do is quit for yourself and your own personal reasons - and use your family / friedns as support and motication.
However, when you stop smoking for yourself it's a good idea to use your emotions. The best way I can explain this is to tell you how a friend of mine quit smoking some fifteen years ago. My friend told me that when he was in his mid twenties he drank a lot and did plenty of drugs and was partying at every opportunity he got. Of course smoking was an integral part of his social life, it just went hand in had.
But one night he had a bad experience - he took som many drugs, drank so much and smoked so much that he collpased and as he recalled, 'thought I was going to die.' He was in a bad way for the next three days and felt like he had ten hangovers at once.
Anyway, the experience was so bad that he decided to give up the drugs and the drinking and the smoking - in his mind as he recalled 'smoking was the key to it all.' He told me how he was so scared to go through that experience again that he wanted to stop smoking, as it seemed to him to be the connecting factor between the smoking and the drugs.
Every time he had a craving or felt the effects of withdrawal he just saw an image of himself on that night an din the following days and it got him through it.
This is a very good example of how someone has used their emotions to make their reasons for stopping smoking, stonger and completely outweigh the reasons for smoking.
If you really want to quit, the you should learn how to rebalance your smoking scales as I call them in my book - make the things that make you want to quit, completely outweigh, out focus and completely destroy your reasons for smoking.
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