Advice for Someone To Stop Smoking
I used to be a cigarette smoker. For those that may not know me, I quit smoking about 15 years ago and have never looked back.
When I was a smoker, and I smoked for a long period of my life, I felt that I probably quit mentally in stages over time while I smoked.
What do I mean by that?
There were times, for example, when I had a really bad cold. On one hand, I had the need to smoke. On the other hand, I felt lousy. I was congested.
Any smoker knows when you have a cold, and you try to smoke, and the smoke is going in there and you already can't breathe, you really are pretty much choking yourself.
You are really making yourself more miserable, yet you still have that need to get that nicotine in you. It becomes a really miserable period of time.
I think people start to mentally say to themselves that they need to quit smoking ahead of time, so you kind of have different stages where your mind is starting to tell you that this is just not right anymore.
Let's say you're going to plan a Disney World trip for example. They really only allow smoking in a couple of designated spots while you're there and having fun. Maybe you're having a family reunion your family's planned this for a couple of years.
You go there, and everybody's having fun. But while you're there, you're not in the moment. What you're thinking about is the plan for that next cigarette!
Can I get done with this ride and end up by the smoking area at the right time so I never get to that point where I need nicotine?
Or will I end up on a line with no place near the ride to smoke, and be miserable again?
Let's say you wanted or needed to take an airplane trip. Maybe you had to fly somewhere for a couple of hours and then you had a connecting flight. You saw that you only had a short time in a non-smoking airport between flights.
Now all of a sudden, instead of a two-hour flight where you can't smoke, and then the lead time before and after, now maybe you're pushing it to five or six hours time with no ability to smoke.
This becomes a real problem!
This is a real discomfort and a real problem. You probably wish you were a non-smoker, someone that could make the flight, wait in the airport, and then get aboard the connecting flight, with no addiction and no unsettling feeling!
You know that “I need nicotine” kind of feeling. It stinks. Time to quit!
When you go through these events, and you go through these periods of time in your life, I think these are when you start to mentally stop smoking.
What I mean by that is that you're just starting to say to yourself that you need to make this change. I see this coming. I could see myself becoming a non-smoker.
But then you're probably left with some doubt as well.
How do I get from here, to there? How do I go from being a cigarette smoker to becoming an ex-smoker? It’s like I'm on this side of the bridge, and need to know how I cross the river and get to the side?
Thankfully, it can be easier than you might think.
Let me at least back up that statement.
When I quit smoking cigarettes, I found it to be easier than I had anticipated it would be.
Now I don't have an iron will. I'm sure there are many people who have stronger willpower than I do. However, I anticipated the worst, and the process to stop smoking ended up not being as bad as I thought it would be. There's certainly a process by which a person should follow “in my opinion” which can minimize some of this discomfort.
It is important to consider that the nicotine aspect is basically about one day. Roughly. It could last a little longer but it’s primarily a one-day event.
After about 24 hours, for the most part, the nicotine is out of your system and the need for nicotine is diminishing. That’s the good news!
Then it becomes a mental game. That’s the bad news.
You really need to be able to answer the question - “Am I mentally prepared to become a non-smoker?”
If your answer is Yes, then this is where I suggest to you that anything that you can do ahead of time that can help you get into the right mindset to stop smoking is great!
Being mentally prepared to stop smoking is probably best to help you to become a non-smoker.
When you hear that “little voice in your head” that tells you it’s ok to smoke, or it’s only one cigarette, or you won’t smoke as much, or you won’t smoke in your house, or a thousand other little white lies allowing you to light ip another cigarette, you need to be mentally prepared.
Just Say No! Where have you heard that before?
The greatest advice I can give someone to stop smoking is to go into it at the right time, with the right mindset, and go forward once you've made the commitment. Think like an ex-smoker, stay with it, and don't turn back.
You will get to a point where you will feel much better in your life. You'll feel you made the right choice and daily tasks, work, travel, vacation, home, family and most other life components will be easier for you.
That airplane flight will become much easier. When you're at Disney World, enjoy the rides! The next cold you have you will be less congested. The list of benefits that you will both get, and feel will be substantial. Your health will improve, you will have more available money, and you will see, day to day, just how miserable smoking cigarettes really is!
I quit smoking cigarettes almost 15 years ago after decades as a smoker, and at that time, I detailed the plan that I followed. I have finally made it available to others for less than the price of a carton of cigarettes in many areas. I offer a money-back guarantee too. I truly believe that you can become an ex-smoker with minimal discomfort, and stop puffing smoke in the rain and snow, or in some isolated area away from civilization while paying some of the highest taxes on any products sold!
I know my plan to stop smoking works. I bet my life on it!
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