Quit Smoking - Is There More To It Than Just Physical Addiction?
Have you tried to quit smoking?A lot of people every year attempt to quit smoking and many find it very hard if not impossible.
Most smokers make numerous attempts to give up only to give up on the giving up.
Surely it doesn't have to be so hard to give up.
There must be an easier way.
If you are going to quit smoking you need to address two main areas: 1/ The physical- this is the physical addiction to Nicotine.
2/ The psychological- this area includes our beliefs, mind sets and attitudes towards smoking.
believe it or not, this is the harder of the two areas to deal with.
When you started smoking your body would have tried telling you how horrible it was by coughing and in my case I went green and felt extremely sick.
However because I was telling myself that it was 'cool' and I 'wanted' to do it I battled through it and finally got over my body fighting it.
This is an excellent example of the physical vs the psychological and indeed how powerful the mind is when it is focused.
We need to focus our mind in the same way when we quit.
We may be able to go with out the smokes physically but we have told ourselves constantly for many years that we enjoy smoking and we 'need' it.
After you stop smoking it takes roughly 3 days for your body to be rid of nicotine and yet people go on suffering long after 3 days due to psychological triggers etc.
So much emphasis is placed on the physical addiction and not enough on how to get our brain to quit smoking.
There is no doubt that there is a very real physical addiction to cigarettes, I just want to expose the other side of the quitting process that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
If we can get our minds focussed correctly, the whole process of quitting will be much easier.
Too often in my attempts to quit I had a negative focus and attitude towards the whole thing.
I knew I had to quit but I focussed on how much I needed a smoke and how hard quitting was.
Due to this focus it is not surprising that I failed to quit.
Until I discovered that it doesn't have to be hard to quit.
There is an easy way.
Most smokers make numerous attempts to give up only to give up on the giving up.
Surely it doesn't have to be so hard to give up.
There must be an easier way.
If you are going to quit smoking you need to address two main areas: 1/ The physical- this is the physical addiction to Nicotine.
2/ The psychological- this area includes our beliefs, mind sets and attitudes towards smoking.
believe it or not, this is the harder of the two areas to deal with.
When you started smoking your body would have tried telling you how horrible it was by coughing and in my case I went green and felt extremely sick.
However because I was telling myself that it was 'cool' and I 'wanted' to do it I battled through it and finally got over my body fighting it.
This is an excellent example of the physical vs the psychological and indeed how powerful the mind is when it is focused.
We need to focus our mind in the same way when we quit.
We may be able to go with out the smokes physically but we have told ourselves constantly for many years that we enjoy smoking and we 'need' it.
After you stop smoking it takes roughly 3 days for your body to be rid of nicotine and yet people go on suffering long after 3 days due to psychological triggers etc.
So much emphasis is placed on the physical addiction and not enough on how to get our brain to quit smoking.
There is no doubt that there is a very real physical addiction to cigarettes, I just want to expose the other side of the quitting process that doesn't get the attention it deserves.
If we can get our minds focussed correctly, the whole process of quitting will be much easier.
Too often in my attempts to quit I had a negative focus and attitude towards the whole thing.
I knew I had to quit but I focussed on how much I needed a smoke and how hard quitting was.
Due to this focus it is not surprising that I failed to quit.
Until I discovered that it doesn't have to be hard to quit.
There is an easy way.
