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Why Is It So Hard To Quit Smoking?
What is your smoking-trigger?? What force on Earth compels you to grab a pack of smokes, procure 1 of them “deadly sticks”, light it up and pollute your next inhale of oxygen with poisonous tobacco, nicotine and tar…? Is it because you’re Angry? Bored? Stressed?? Dead tired? Or maybe just unaware of… what a health-damaging habit this is?
For instance, when in a stressful situation - you might feel like a cigarette will appease your worries… But it’s not what’s inside the cigarette, it’s not the ingredients that produce the famous nerve-soothing effect - it’s the ritual nature of smoking that delusions you… As a matter of fact ‘cigarette entrails’ will create more stress than dispel…
Think about it!! It’s all about task-switching and focus-drawing… you get your mouth and hands busy with a cigarette and chase the negativity out of your body - 1 expiration at a time… However, it’s a totally false impression that your unconscious mind builds up to gradually entrap you as a “regular smoker”. And the worst part is… the longer you smoke - the deeper the habit enroots and the easier it gets for your unconscious mind to fool your conscious mind into believing that a cigarette is really really really indispensable in order to push you through that stress.
Probably the most arduous and strenuous daring is to learn to withstand the usually persistent and insistent stress without a cigarette stuck in between your fingers.
The enormous number of smokers desperately willing to quit smoking testifies it as an extremely difficult and hardly surmountable undertaking…
But there are no hopeless situations, no ‘doomed to failure’ smokers! With a few practical tools and tips in stock you’ll soon discover it’s not at all THAT challenging… and you have surely accomplished more complex and sophisticated tasks in the past!
Banish Nicotine! Win your lungs back!
The process of recovery from nicotine addiction comprises 2 main parallelly-going stages:
- Physical withdrawal from nicotine;
- Mental withdrawal from the habit of smoking.
When we force our body into withdrawal from nicotine and other cigarette-ingredient-chemicals – our body protests! manifesting it through irritability, headaches, sleeping trouble, difficulty in concentrating, increased appetite and as a result – weight gain. As you’ve probably already guessed… this recovery phase is somewhat stressful in itself. Therefore, every future non-smoker is strongly advised to take this information seriously in order to get ready both, physically and mentally, to stress-coping.
Having an idea of the inconveniences you might have to go through is extremely important… For it will allow you to regard stress as a temporary, initial-stage by-product of recovery process from nicotine addiction. I.e., chances of you going back on your word and abandoning the anti-smoking battlefield will considerably drop.
Know your enemy before you wage a war!
Expected mind reactions
Apparently, the most weighty nicotine withdrawal complication is not so much on the physical side as on the psychological side. Dealing with body-related discomfort seems to be easier than combating the mind-related urge or habit to smoke. Did it ever happen to you to light a cigarette and have a drag on it ‘on autopilot’?? Without even realizing you are actually smoking?? If your answer is ‘Yes’ than it’s big time and it’s alert time – Quit Smoking Immediately!
With the help of a few stress-managing tips and tools you can slowly but confidently release yourself of this counter-healthy dependency. All you’ll need to do is gradually replace old associations and habits with newer and healthier ones. Moreover, you’ll soon discover that managing a stressful situation is a hundred times easier being a non-smoker than a smoker.
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