Tips on How to Quit Smoking - Time to Quit
You'll find loads of tips on how to quit smoking all over the internet but to be honest half of them are just depressing.
Hearing stuff like try and avoid smokers or situations where you might feel tempted to smoke is just going to give people another reason to not give up.
If lots of your friends smoke and you have to avoid them then you are being told to give up your friends as well as cigarettes! This is precisely the reason why so many people struggle to quit and it really doesn't have to be like this.
Look we all know cigarettes aren't good for us blah, blah, blah but all the negativity directed at smokers doesn't actually help.
Believe it or not giving up smoking can be simple, almost enjoyable and you certainly don't need to give anything else up - not your friends, places you like to go, nothing at all.
What you have to do is see smoking and the things you like about smoking for what they really are, forget all the rest of the stuff you don't need it.
Smokers associate cigarettes with feeling good, enjoying a drink with their friends, walking to work on a cold day having a smoke.
Everything and anything can be perceived as being made better with a cigarette.
This is because when a smoker is not smoking they are suffering from nicotine withdrawal symptoms which having a cigarette will cure briefly.
Imagine you're sitting in bar and you've run out of smokes and have no way of getting them.
You can't really enjoy your drink because you're thinking about smoking, your body is craving nicotine and the whole experience of sitting in the bar is made worse because you are not smoking.
So what you think is that you have a really rubbish time in a bar without cigarettes.
This is what I thought That to have fun in a bar I needed to smoke - I needed cigarettes, and that is completely true but only if you are a smoker.
If you don't smoke, you're not suffering from the withdrawal of nicotine from your body so having a cigarette is ..
..
..
well basically like sticking a piece of burning paper and leaves in your mouth.
Please Believe me - when I say Absolutely every single benefit you think that smoking gives you (and I used to think) is completely false.
Every high, every pick-me-up, every relaxing moment that you get from a cigarette is because you're feeling bad/stressed/sad because the nicotine levels in your body are running low.
That's it, nothing else there is no other benefit other than reducing your craving.
Hearing stuff like try and avoid smokers or situations where you might feel tempted to smoke is just going to give people another reason to not give up.
If lots of your friends smoke and you have to avoid them then you are being told to give up your friends as well as cigarettes! This is precisely the reason why so many people struggle to quit and it really doesn't have to be like this.
Look we all know cigarettes aren't good for us blah, blah, blah but all the negativity directed at smokers doesn't actually help.
Believe it or not giving up smoking can be simple, almost enjoyable and you certainly don't need to give anything else up - not your friends, places you like to go, nothing at all.
What you have to do is see smoking and the things you like about smoking for what they really are, forget all the rest of the stuff you don't need it.
- When you give up don't avoid your friends that smoke - it will just feel like another reason to start smoking again
- Similarly don't stop going to places you like where you used to feel like smoking
- Try to keep your quit in proportion - all nicotine has left your body after a few days.
- Learn all you can about smoking before you quit.
Try and analyse what you actually enjoy about smoking - Get some fresh air and exercise, you'll feel better
- Drink plenty of water and eat healthily - I promise you will not lose anything pleasurable at all when you give up smoking and here's why.
Smokers associate cigarettes with feeling good, enjoying a drink with their friends, walking to work on a cold day having a smoke.
Everything and anything can be perceived as being made better with a cigarette.
This is because when a smoker is not smoking they are suffering from nicotine withdrawal symptoms which having a cigarette will cure briefly.
Imagine you're sitting in bar and you've run out of smokes and have no way of getting them.
You can't really enjoy your drink because you're thinking about smoking, your body is craving nicotine and the whole experience of sitting in the bar is made worse because you are not smoking.
So what you think is that you have a really rubbish time in a bar without cigarettes.
This is what I thought That to have fun in a bar I needed to smoke - I needed cigarettes, and that is completely true but only if you are a smoker.
If you don't smoke, you're not suffering from the withdrawal of nicotine from your body so having a cigarette is ..
..
..
well basically like sticking a piece of burning paper and leaves in your mouth.
Please Believe me - when I say Absolutely every single benefit you think that smoking gives you (and I used to think) is completely false.
Every high, every pick-me-up, every relaxing moment that you get from a cigarette is because you're feeling bad/stressed/sad because the nicotine levels in your body are running low.
That's it, nothing else there is no other benefit other than reducing your craving.
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