How
are you all? Hope everyone’s quitting is going well. I’m sharing some tips and
my quitting experiences with you. I’ve already spent successful 10 years
without smoking. And hope you can do it too.
I’m
Paul Cooper, from Loss Angeles, California. By profession I’m a forex (Foreign
Exchange) trader since 1991. I was a serious chain smoker for 25 years. During
those awful years as a smoker I thought that my life depended on cigarettes,
and I was prepared to die rather than be without them. Today people ask me
whether I ever have the odd pang. The answer is, 'Never, never, never' - just
the reverse. I've had a marvelous life. If I had died through smoking, I
couldn't have complained, I have been a very lucky man, but the most marvelous
thing that has ever happened to me is being freed from that nightmare, that
slavery of having to go through life systematically destroying my own body and
paying through the nose for the privilege.
All
smokers can find it easy to stop smoking - even you! Why not? Let me ask you a
question-
Can
you run a mile under 4-5 minutes?
If
your aim is to run a mile under 5 minutes, that's difficult. You may have to
undergo years of hard training, and even then you may be physically incapable
of doing it. But to stop smoking all you have to do is not smoke any more. No
one forces you to smoke (apart from yourself) and like food or drink, you don't
need it to survive. So if you want to stop doing it, why should it be
difficult? I think there might be a smile on your face. Thinking what he is
saying about? But it is true that you can quit easily.
If
you do consider quitting as a sacrifice and so tough like climbing the mountain
Everest that you have to reach the peak, it will be quite difficult for you to
quit. To be able to quit smoking, you need
to find out why smoking is really addictive, and determine a plan to prevent
SMOKING. Stop the emotional addiction to nicotine along with the unconscious
drive to smoke. Actually the main problem is not addiction to nicotine but your
mental addiction.
Don’t think that you’re going to be a
non-smoker when you quit, consider yourself as a non-smoker from that moment when
you decided to quit.
Stay tuned with different kinds of groups, forums
and share your improvements. If you remain two days smoke free you can share it
there and people will appreciate you which will create a liability to yourself.
No
excuses. Don't let yourself be enticed to locate excuses to ensure that you can
simply have "one-cigarette"
whether it is for social purpose or perhaps a break. You will find no things
like just "one". As far you may already know, you'll be enticed to
choose more.
You
can follow several tools for quitting but DO NOT USE ALL OF THEM ( specially gums,
pills, e-cigs). They make it harder, not easier. If you do get a pang and use a
substitute, it will prolong the pang and make it harder. What you are really
saying is 'I need to smoke or fill the void,' It will be like giving in to a
hijacker or the tantrums of a child. It will just keep the pangs coming and
prolong the torture. In any event the substitutes will not relieve the pangs.
Your craving is for nicotine, not food. All it will do is keep you thinking
about smoking. Remember these points:
1
There is no substitute for nicotine.
2
You do not need nicotine. It is not food; it is poison. When the pangs come
remind yourself that it is smokers who suffer withdrawal pangs, not
non-smokers. See them as another evil of the drug. See them as the death of a
monster.
3
Remember: cigarettes create the void; they do not fill it. The quicker you
teach your brain that you do not need to smoke, or do anything else in its
place, the sooner you will be free.
If
you think it will become hard for you to quit without any close support, then try permaquit cold turkey method . It is useful to deter your mental addiction.
At
the end of everything it’s all up to your own commitment to yourself. I always
used to say myself “WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. YOU HAVE SMOKED YOUR LAST
CIGARETTE”. Keep yourself strong in your commitment. Wish you
all the best.
Paul Cooper.
Email: paulcooper.aff@gmail.com. Coctact on FacebooK 