It is now almost exactly a year ago that I quit smoking and maybe time to take stock and share experiences. Especially for myself - even if it helps others, the better.
First of all, quit smoking is possible and far less difficult than you think. And this is precisely the case: I'm addicted and will remain there the rest of my life. Although the physical withdrawal symptoms have virtually disappeared after 2 weeks, insidious psychological mechanisms appear even after decades. I've already written in previous reports from my experience that the fool on smoking as the reversal of the cigarette tobacco is out of funds to suppress withdrawal symptoms. In other words, while the cigarette is a great drug - to me it still tastes good, I like the gesture and the smell, I light, volatile high like the first cigarette in the morning, the taste in the mouth and the immediate relaxation of the drug - the drug leads to the fact that you smoke 20 cigarettes, and only 2 of them enjoy.
I bring you an example. I was in this year's Oktoberfest , all have smoked, drank all, everyone had fun. Of course, I also smoked, I was far away from it all and wanted to just let go a few days. I think everyone knows ex-smokers das. first I've considered and weighed, then bummed I did (thanks, Lanne) and then I bought a pack. Downside was that the cigarettes tasted again, reinforced the effects of alcohol so beautiful and you generally had to do something with your hands.
From time to time a cigarette is not an automatic trigger for relapse into old habits, addiction, and the claim that you have to smoke a cigarette only to immediately and without resistance to decay back into the old pattern of addiction is nonsense. Humbug. Nonsense. A cigarette is a cigarette and on every single one has free will, to light it himself or not. If I submit, the cigarette would be fundamentally stronger than me, I do not quit first. So I could actually smoke a cigarette now and then. Actually. Because the addiction sneaks a much more subtle and dangerous: The moment in which I allow myself a cigarette, the limit is exceeded and it is very difficult to explain to his body, why he should not allow for another. One only. Why do I need for me to fail? One is not the same but now cause lung cancer.
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This is exactly where I remembered that is the reasons for which I stopped at the time of smoking: the first taste in the morning great and has the desired effect, any more I only smoke out of habit and because it in fact does not care whether I was 3 or 4 smokes a day. Or 5 Or 6 You see, my point: in a few days, sets the effect that makes smoking so deceitful ... "A small cigarette harms but nothing would give me but soooooo good to do right now" ... "Am I supposed to really every day these give little enjoyment? For the rest of my life, "And just at the point it was possible to nicotine, I re-program: From the health and mental hassle enjoy one or the other cigarette on special occasions (against the purely object to nothing) is in a few days of combat withdrawal symptoms.
From the positive thoughts "that I allow myself now because I like the taste and the effect of" the negative "and I have to forgo the rest of my life?" So it's suddenly no longer about the effect of a cigarette (positive or negative ), but the body and psyche of the addict is only kaprizieren to live without cigarettes, the defect. And even when these phases are much longer than heavy smokers with cigarette phases - it expects to! And here speaks of addiction, the addiction alone. It is the addict is not possible, to smoke a cigarette or other without feeling that you are denied by not smoking anything. And exactly that is nonsense! Not smoking has all going for it: I feel better, smell acceptable, more money in my pocket, am fitter, sleep better, have no heartburn more frequently exaggerate and sport for almost a year. I do not feel like giving everything up for a single 2-minute fix in the morning. Continually stressed that the rich cigarettes. Train ride? Quick smoke another one! 5 minutes to the bus? Cigarette out. 50 euro note? There remain (after deduction of the Chesterfield bar) for 15 € for me. And on and on ...
Nope, I did not want on it. No more cigarettes, and in fact I repudiate me anything to the contrary. I am now Non smoking, even though I at the peak of the celebration, if it is really good to me and I really stand on it was determined sometime infect one. So I am and I can live with it. But smoking? Never again.
