Quit Smoking Today and Remain a Non-Smoker
You want to quit smoking. You know it is bad for you and you know that smoking costs money, affects your health, damages your body and is one of the most anti-social practises around these days.
You smell constantly of cigarettes and stale tobacco. Your breath is revolting. Your hair has the stench of a week old ashtray. You may not believe me because most people cannot smell themselves but you smell. You smelly very, very bad. You have a cloud around you that is constant and smells badly of stale tobacco and cigarettes.
Why do you smoke? What makes inhaling carcinogenic poisons into your body so appealing?
Does it relax you? Why are you tense? Is it because you want a cigarette?
Does it help you concentrate? Is it easy to focus or is your mind solely fixed on the idea of having another cigarette?
Are you bored? Is your life so empty that only smoking can help you pass the time? Read a book, go for a walk!
How is your bank balance?
How is your sex life?
How many of your friends make you go outside their house when you need to smoke?
Do you think people are being funny when they get into the elevator with you and start coughing or is it because their body cannot cope with the toxic stench you are giving off?
Try blowing smoke into the face of a non-smoker. Notice the recoil. Why would any sane human inhale the poisons of a cigarette? Do you know what poisons there are in cigarettes?
No matter how many former smokers we talk to during investigations a high percentage still have nicotine cravings and a desire to smoke.
When we ask what helped them quit the answers are usually the same:
- For my health
- For my family
- Rising cost
These are all worthwhile reasons to quit but the major factor of wanting to quit smoking is missing
- Because I don't need to smoke
It's true. You don't need to smoke. You do not need nicotine. It does not relax you, it does not remove boredom from your life. It does not help with stress relief. Smoking does nothing except satisfy your nicotine addiction
For a short while, of course. Not long after a cigarette your body is ready and waiting for the next one.
Feeling irritable? It's not because you're pissed. It's because you want a cigarette.
Feeling stressed? How will a cigarette remove that stress? Whatever caused it will still be there afterwards.
Unless it was your nicotine addiction causing that stress in the first place!
Those who quit smoking for the wrong reasons will continue to crave a cigarette and many will succumb and smoke again. Not because they are weak but because they quit for the wrong reasons.