Psychological Effects of Smoking - Are You Making Excuses to not
Quit Smoking?
Are you
scared to quit smoking? Do you make excuses to not quit or to
push out your quit smoking date? I know I was and did. As bad
as I wanted to quit smoking I was fearful of the whole idea and
when the day came to quit something would usually happen that
convinced me to push my quit smoking date out a week, then
another week, and another. Before I knew it I had pushed my
quit smoking date out 8 weeks. I realized that I would not get
those 8 weeks back and that I really had a problem. Yes, I did
want to quit smoking. I knew it was a nasty habit and it was
not good for my health. So why was I so scared to quit smoking?
Consider
this; fear prevents us from doing certain things that would
result in harm to our mental and/or physical well-being. Would
you jump out of a plane without a parachute? Of course not, it
would definitely end up with you being dead. Maybe that is too
drastic of an example. Lets take the frog and the boiling water
story. If you were to put a frog in a pot of boiling water it
would instantly jump out. However, if you were to put the frog
in a pot of cool water and gradually increase the heat the frog
would remain in the pot till it was too late. Well that is how
smoking is. A smoker gradually smokes more and more while
succumbing to the psychological effects of smoking till one day
it is to late. Each cigarette you have is potentially killing
you a little bit at a time. We all know this too well, so why
is it so hard to quit smoking?
The
psychological effects of smoking are by far the major obstacles
to overcome when quitting smoking. For some reason the fear of
not being able to smoke is more than the fear of sickness or
death from smoking. I know this sounds ridiculous but for many
smokers it is true. In many instances it takes many years
before feeling the negative effects smoking has on a person’s
health. The reality of developing the various types of cancer
is hard to accept until it is too late.
Smoking has
been a crutch and over time you have become dependent on its
effects to get through every day life. You have been convinced,
falsely, that you need to smoke and if you quit you will not be
able to handle life as it comes. I have mentioned in many other
articles Peter Howell’s book, “EasyQuit System” and how it
benefited me in my efforts to quit smoking. The book brings out
into the open the psychological effects of smoking while
providing an easy to follow method to quit smoking. For what it
cost me for cigarettes in a weeks period of time I was able to
learn how to deal with the psychological effects of smoking and
quit for good. To learn how you too can quit smoking without fear and any regrets I would recommend the “EasyQuit System”.
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Additional
Information on the Psychological Effects of Smoking:
Psychological Effects of Smoking - Nicotine
Psychological Effects of Smoking - How can I Quit Smoking?
Psychological Effects of Smoking - Overcoming the Fear to Quit
Smoking
Psychological Effects of Smoking - Breaking the Emotional
Attachment
Psychological Effects of Smoking - Smoking to Relieve Boredom
Psychological Effects of
Smoking - Are You Brainwashed to Enjoy Smoking?
Psychological Effects
of Smoking - Preparing Your Mind to Quit Smoking?
Psychological Effects of
Smoking - Is Quitting Smoking Really that Hard?
Psychological
Effects of Smoking - Believe You can Quit Smoking
Psychological Effects of Smoking
- Why People Fail to Quit Smoking |
