Why should I stop smoking?
- Save money.
- Taste and smell more.
- Breathe better.
- Have fewer colds and fewer coughs.
- Feeling more energy.
- Avoid lung cancer and other types of cancer.
- Avoid heart disease.
- Develop a discipline.
- Balancing the mind.
- Have during the day more than 1:30 hs available for other tasks.
- Clean the skin, the skin and improve the breath.
- Have more saliva.
- Get better sleep.
- Detoxify the body.
- Do not make passive smoking to your environment.
Symptoms of smoking cessation or markedly lowering of the dose:
- Dizziness.
- Depression.
- Feelings of frustration and anger.
- Irritability.
- Trouble sleeping.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Restlessness.
- Headaches.
- Tiredness.
- Increased appetite.
Now I share my experience to leave this ADDICTIVE CONDUCT. First of all I will tell you about changing your lives, not just about not smoking.
In my years of experience as a compulsive, stubborn and somewhat cyclothymic smoker I have discovered that the processes that made me smoke were just two:
First: The desire to do so, that is the main.
Second: Do it routinely.
How to quit smoking? Someone once told me something key, do not you think you smoked enough? And then, a great friend, reminded me (after my 2 weeks of effort and abstinence) "You have not left it and you will never leave it, you must leave it every day..." Maybe I could have been angry with him for ruining my mental balance, because I felt that I no longer needed it, but no, instead I thanked him, because to leave the cigarette should not be done by repressing the desire or suffering abstinence.
Therefore, I have discovered that the question is simpler, the effort is only to accept a change. "ACCEPT A CHANGE" seems to be just a string of words, but in experience it is and can last a lifetime if it can not lead to the live application. But this is prior to quitting smoking, because only in that way will be done in the right way and instead of opposing force against the vice, will be banish what is causing it.
To do this, it is enough to understand what has been the motive that has made us smoke. THE ANXIETY.
There is the secret of our compulsive behavior towards the cigarette. Many identify nicotine as the cause of addiction, but in truth this is not so, I do not consider it that way, (and I fully understand what causes nicotine) but actually we have become addicted to a way of life like Smoking rooms. (The question seems to be logical, right?)
The first thing to understand is that ANXIETY is being transformed in calm not by the fact of smoking, but by the mechanism that we have created at the psycho-physical level when we forge in our thinking the behavior of smokers.
So, let's review, our lack of anxiety about smoking is not because of the cigarette we're pumping, but because of our "state of being" (that we have generated in our brain process to send chemicals that produce states of calm and pleasure).
In the moment of taking the cigarette out of our lives (with the acceptance process that we decide to change our way of life, already assimilated) will cause that state of tranquility to take more strength, to establish itself from another place, this will happen because we will have understood that the cigarette is only a symbol of that tranquility, but not the one who provokes it, and by removing it from our routine, that state of tranquility that we have been experiencing for years already belongs to us, and will find in our will to start a new life the power.
In hundreds or thousands of cases of people who quit smoking, including myself, the tranquility and emotional balance that comes after moving away from the cigarette, and within a few hours even, is invaluable both for our mental health and also to strengthen our will.
The preparation is simple. In three stages that are classified as:
- Accept a change of life. (Apply what we already know)
- Modify all the habits associated with the moment of smoking. (Music we listened to, places we used to smoke, sensations we fed with thoughts that are clearly identifiable, behaviors, tasks, attitudes, etc.)
- Create a new mental map with the sensations learned without the cigarette, this process is very important, because with this we will be decoding our mental orders, so that the new I that we have created have other new thoughts. Thinking is behavior, when it is renewed from both places, thought and behavior will feed back to forge a new identity of the state of Being.
