7 thoughts that can make quitting smoking tough
When you quit cigarettes, you might experience some physical changes in your body which will make the task tough. However, most people give in and break not due to these physical changes, but due to the many thoughts that pop up in their mind while they are attempting to quit. These thoughts are often irrational and need to be silenced through logic and patience.
1. If I have just one cigarette a day, it won’t cause much harm
While smoking one cigarette may not cause as much harm as smoking ten, it is still a mighty blow to your quit smoking regimen. You might allow yourself one today, but you will need two tomorrow. Do you want to live the rest of your life restraining yourself or do you want to be free? Starve yourself from cigarettes come what may, and after a few days you will be able to quit smoking. The few days might feel like a few years, but you can make yourself happy by telling yourself that you have chosen good health over bad.
2. My work requires me to use my brain. How will I be able to do that if I continue smoking?
While you may think that a cigarette will help you concentrate on your work, it is doing exactly the opposite. You are not able to concentrate because of your nicotine addiction and it is important that you understand that and suppress your cravings. Read about Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Quit Smoking.
3. So many people smoke. I don’t know how I’ll resist after seeing them enjoy it
Most people who want to smoke wish that they had never started. It usually doesn’t give them any pleasure and they do it to satisfy their craving which makes them feel sane and normal. Non-smokers feel normal all the time, and if you manage to quit your addiction, you can be a non-smoker too!
4. I am young. I can always quit at a later date and still prevent damage to my body
Why do you want to delay the process? Your youth gives you all the more reason to quit, because the number of years that you’ve been smoking for is less and much of the damage done to your body can be reversed.
5. Smoking is a part of me, and it’s difficult to envision a future without it
Media and society has ingrained in us certain notions of smoking that makes it seem cool to smoke. You might want to sit atop a beautiful mountain, in a cozy European cafe or just a nostalgic college place sometime in your life. When you’ll try to quit, these dreams may seem more fun than they will actually be.
6. A cigarette now will taste so much better than the thousands I have had before
The taste and the pleasure that you will experience when you smoke a cigarette while you are trying to quit is illusionary. Your body is just feeling momentary freedom from the withdrawal pangs that happen due to your addiction to nicotine.
7. My life is in shambles. I can’t handle this without cigarettes
You’ve quit cigarettes and something bad has happened to you. For example, your train may be delayed, your car may break down or you may have picked a fight with your partner. As it is, quitting cigarettes will leave you disoriented for a few days and a bad day can further aggravate your desire to escape your problems by having a cigarette. However, it is important that you don’t give in and instead seek happiness from telling yourself that even though life is bad, you are at least free from the chains of tobacco addiction.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/quick-gains-after-a-ban/?hpw&rref=health
