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Most people can readily agree that the idea to quit smoking
is rather terrifying. Giving up the
comfort that smoking can provide is not easy, nor can it be done
instantly. Struggling to quit requires a
lot of honest talks, not only with yourself but also with your family. There are three major struggles that you will
encounter as you are working to quit smoking.
Being fully aware of these struggles will help you to create a plan to
quit smoking for good that can help you to overcome these difficulties and
emerge in better health as a non-smoker.
Struggle number one is going to find you looking temptation
right in the eye. There is simply no
other way to put it. Everywhere you look
cigarettes and more cigarettes. The
number of people who smoke is astonishing, and when you are trying to stop
smoking it seems like the number is quadrupling around you. While it is nothing more than your mind
playing tricks on you, it can still be rather difficult to overlook all of the
temptation and still stick to your plan to quit smoking.
Anytime you find yourself overwhelmed by temptation you need
to walk away. If you are at your job and
cannot simply walk away, you need to develop a stress relieving strategy to
fall back on which can help you to ignore the cigarettes that you see. To really help you avoid temptation you need
to work at finding a place where you can eat your lunch away from the smokers
and other temptations. Always be on the
lookout because they are around, and if you slip up they will be there to lure
you back into smoking rather quickly.
Your second struggle will be all of the questions that you
are asked. Your friends and family of
course are happy for you that you are quitting smoking. However, everyone is going to ask you
why. This simple question starts to look
like a huge issue after the third time you are asked why. Rather than allowing this tiny question to
start eating at your resolve you need to ensure you are dedicated to
quitting. If you start second guessing
your reason to quit each time someone asks you why you are quitting then you
really need to sit down and have a long conversation with yourself. Unless you are personally 100% behind your efforts,
you will not succeed. You have to believe
in the reason you are quitting smoking.
Your family will be there for you no matter what reason you
choose. It is yourself that you have to
convince, and this means that you need a good argument and reason. Nobody will ever argue with you as much as
you will argue with yourself. When you
are attempting something like quitting smoking the nagging side of yourself
comes out strong as well.
A final consideration is looking at all of the products on
the market to help you quit smoking.
This might seem strange but this huge selection can be a big
problem. You need to determine why you
smoke in order to select the best product for your desire to quit. If you are a smoker because of stress, you
need to resolve the stress. If you smoke
due to nicotine addiction then you should look into slowly pulling off of the
nicotine using either a patch, or possibly the gum.
Regardless of the reason you smoke, there is a product that
is designed to help you. Finding the
best product for your specific needs is not impossible, but it will force you
to be brutally honest with yourself. If
you are just completely unable to find the exact reason why you smoke try to
start finding something else to do with your hands and mouth anytime you have
the urge to smoke. For example, a stress
ball and a piece of gum could be all you need.
If you are smoking because you are bored, giving yourself something to
do, even just squeezing a stress ball might be the release that you need to walk
away a successful non-smoker.
- Mohammed Zahran -
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