By Steven L Jones
Many, many people smoke. That's kind of a stupid statement, but bear with me here. While many people smoke, very few understand the underlying causes of why, in addition to smoking, they find it so hard to quit.
If you don't want to quit, here's where you should go read something else. If you do want to quit, however, you've probably realized that it's not exactly the easiest thing to do. More than that, nobody seems to be able to offer you any actually credible ways to go about it. Instead, you get a bunch of ideas that sound great in theory but are obviously ridiculously hard and won't ever actually get put into action.
Why is that? Because far too many people believe that they can treat the symptoms of nicotine addiction with patches and pills without dealing with its root causes. The causes are why you smoke, and they're entirely in your mind.
If you've ever tried quitting before, you remember that great feeling you had when you told yourself that you weren't going to smoke any more. You probably felt great for a day or two before the cravings started kicking in, and then the whole quitting thing didn't sound all too great any more.
In order to properly quit smoking, you need to understand that your subconscious controls your desires to smoke. It's what causes your mental state to change from the happy cigarette free you to the depressed smoker who can't break free from their habits.
When you want to smoke, it isn't because your body is telling you that it's running low on nicotine. Your body is quite happy, in fact, to be rid of nicotine. Your mind, on the other hand, has associated cigarettes with pleasure so deeply that it believes that you will somehow feel better by having a cigarette.
Granted, that's not actually the case. When you're feeling down, having a cigarette doesn't bring you up. Smoking a cigarette when you're happy doesn't make you feel happier. You're just convinced that is the case, and understanding that is the first step to freeing your mind from its addiction. When I say understanding, I don't mean that you need to stop relying on those triggers, just that you need to know that they are present.
When people quit smoking cold turkey (and there are those who have successfully done it) you've slowly and painfully broken those ties and realized that cigarettes won't make you feel better. Instead of spending weeks being a pain in the butt and wishing you could smoke a cigarette, there's a better way of going about it. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to, over the course of a few mere hours, break away from your mental prison and be able to go about life without constantly thinking about having a cigarette?
You're far too smart to need to waste your time thinking about smoking. You need a way to just stop the whole thing in its tracks so you can move on, once and for all!
To broaden your understanding of how your addiction affects you, read over these articles on how smoking addictions work and the first week after quitting and you'll discover just how easy it is to stop the habit!
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