It’s easy to stop smoking

 

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It’s easy to stop smoking

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About Steven Aitchison
I am the creator of Change Your Thoughts (CYT) blog and love writing and speaking about personal development, it truly is my passion. There are over 500 articles on this site from myself and some great guest posters.
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It has been around 18 months since I gave up smoking and every time I meet
a smoker they always ask how I did it. I have to say it took me three
times before I eventually gave up for good.

There were lots of different factors that led me to even start thinking about
giving up; however the main one was my own health. Other reasons included
my children, they kept telling me I was going to die and got quite distressed
about it; the smell in the house; the smell on my clothes; feeling like a leper
when going outside to smoke. There are a million reasons to give up and
only one reason to continue and that is addiction.

I used to tell myself I could give up if I really wanted to but I didn’t
want to. The truth is I did want to but felt it would be too hard
and I didn’t want to fail, so it was easier to say I enjoyed it too much. I
enjoyed the supposed feeling it gave me after dinner, with a cup of tea, whilst
having a drink etc. However when I realised it was me who was creating
this feeling and not the cigarettes things started to change in my way of thinking.

I began telling myself it was easy to give up smoking and after about 2 months
I gave up for good and haven’t looked back since. I worked on my
belief system about giving up smoking and convinced myself it was going to
be easy and when the time came it was easy.

My tips for giving up smoking would be:

• Give yourself compelling reasons to give up, don’t do it for other
  people, and do it for yourself.
• Set a date about 2 months in advance of when you will give up and tell
  yourself every day you are going to give up on that day.
• Don’t try patches or gum with nicotine in it. Once you
  told yourself for two months when you will give up just give up
• Tell yourself every day it is easy to give up smoking; your brain will
  really start to believe it after a month or so.
• Tell your friends and family you will be giving up on ‘that date’,
  this gives you a little pressure and shows your friends and family you are
  committed.
• Break the old patterns of behaviour surrounding your smoking e.g. if you
  smoked after your dinner at night, go for a walk instead or go clean the
  bathroom. Pretty soon your mind will get out of the old habit and start
  forming new habits.

It is easy to give up smoking, however we have been conditioned to believe
the opposite is the case. Our mind will believe whatever we tell it to
believe and adjust our physiology and cravings accordingly. When you
tell yourself it is easy to give up smoking for two months, it will be very
easy on the day to give up, you have to believe it.

 

Second hand smoke dangers: What's a non-smoker to do?

True blue smokers may think the "second hand smoke ill effects" is a myth.

 

Secondhand smoke is better known as passive smoking. It occurs when a non-smoker is consistently inhaling cigarette smoke from a smoker. Smokers didn't believe the testing results found by the scientific community were true. The majority of smokers thought "these results" were just a way to get stronger action so the smoker could be told when and where they could smoke. But through time and continued extensive testing and research, smokers had to admit that passive smoking was a real threat to their own families and friends. The finding stated that regular exposure to second-hand-smoke kills non-smokers just much as active smokers are being killed.

Findings from these researches stated that non-smokers are experiencing 25% risk for lung cancer due solely to second-hand-smoking. Other types of cancers that non-smokers are reporting include brain, bladder, throat, cervical, and many other types of cancers. Even though these findings are accurate. some smokers will not stop for any reason.