Reasons to Quit Smoking Cigarettes
Now that you are getting serious about quitting cigarettes, it is time to learn how to use your reasons to quit as an advantage.
Study your current reasons to quit, learn about reasons others have used and figure out which reasons mean the most to you.
The list of reasons why you should quit smoking is endless, and it includes the names of your friends, family, coworkers, as well as your internal and external environments.
It is how you consider your list of reasons that will drive the biggest impact on the success of your quit.
How are your reasons stacking up at the moment? As you reach for that next cigarette, what is the one reason that could get you to quit? Most people say that having their doctor tell them that they will die as a result of that next cigarette is what is required.
If you wait until then, the health effects will most certainly be irreversible.
Consider reversing the effects today, and name those health effects you strongly wish to avoid.
Other people focus on their friends and family, while focusing on the effect that the addiction to cigarettes is having on those relationships.
Understand that smoking is robbing the quantity and quality of the time you have to spend with your loved ones, and the motivation may strengthen.
If you think about it, you already have acknowledged the impact of your addiction when you choose to smoke away from others or not to smoke when in certain social settings.
Would it be possible to exercise that discipline indefinitely? Still others are starting to buckle under the financial cost of smoking cigarettes, and this reason has even the most stubborn smoker considering quitting.
Although the time when you cannot afford smoking may not have passed, consider what other luxuries are evading you as a result of the hundreds or thousands you spend per year.
If you stop to consider the cost from this day forward, what will the financial impact be? Are you missing out on a new house, a new car, your kids' college education? These are not reasons for guilt.
If you use these to drive guilt, the urge to continue smoking will only get stronger.
Use these reasons as examples of the strongest reasons others have used to quit smoking, and make up your own mind if they will work for you.
Each of these reasons is presented as an encouragement, and if you can see and accept the encouragement that is inside each of these reasons, quitting will become that much easier.
Study your current reasons to quit, learn about reasons others have used and figure out which reasons mean the most to you.
The list of reasons why you should quit smoking is endless, and it includes the names of your friends, family, coworkers, as well as your internal and external environments.
It is how you consider your list of reasons that will drive the biggest impact on the success of your quit.
How are your reasons stacking up at the moment? As you reach for that next cigarette, what is the one reason that could get you to quit? Most people say that having their doctor tell them that they will die as a result of that next cigarette is what is required.
If you wait until then, the health effects will most certainly be irreversible.
Consider reversing the effects today, and name those health effects you strongly wish to avoid.
Other people focus on their friends and family, while focusing on the effect that the addiction to cigarettes is having on those relationships.
Understand that smoking is robbing the quantity and quality of the time you have to spend with your loved ones, and the motivation may strengthen.
If you think about it, you already have acknowledged the impact of your addiction when you choose to smoke away from others or not to smoke when in certain social settings.
Would it be possible to exercise that discipline indefinitely? Still others are starting to buckle under the financial cost of smoking cigarettes, and this reason has even the most stubborn smoker considering quitting.
Although the time when you cannot afford smoking may not have passed, consider what other luxuries are evading you as a result of the hundreds or thousands you spend per year.
If you stop to consider the cost from this day forward, what will the financial impact be? Are you missing out on a new house, a new car, your kids' college education? These are not reasons for guilt.
If you use these to drive guilt, the urge to continue smoking will only get stronger.
Use these reasons as examples of the strongest reasons others have used to quit smoking, and make up your own mind if they will work for you.
Each of these reasons is presented as an encouragement, and if you can see and accept the encouragement that is inside each of these reasons, quitting will become that much easier.
