23. Be wary of reducing smoking

If you do not dispel the illusion that you like the taste of certain cigarettes before extinguish the latter, you have no chance to prove it in practice without becoming addicted again. So, lit (unless you do not smoke) right now.

Make six deep puffs, gaining a lungful of smoke this magnificent tobacco, and ask yourself: "What, actually, this really magnificent contained in this vein? "Did you think that good taste is only in certain cigarettes, for example, a cigarette after dinner.

If so, why then do you smoke all the others? Because accustomed to smoke? Why do people acquire the habit of smoking cigarettes, the taste of which they find unpleasant? And how can it be that the same cigarette from the same pack took on a different taste depending on the time of day?

It does not change the taste of food after a cigarette, so why the taste becomes another cigarette after a meal? Do not trust me blindly, check yourself: consciously to smoke a cigarette after a meal, to make sure that its taste is not unusual.

The reason that smokers believe that cigarettes taste gets better after lunch or at a party with alcohol is that it is in these moments, and smokers and non-smokers are really happy. However, a drug addict, dependent on tobacco, can never be satisfied, if a little nicotine monster will remain unsatisfied.

Not so much smokers and enjoy the taste of a cigarette after dinner, we do not eat tobacco, where does it taste?

The point is just that smokers are not happy unless they are allowed to relieve the symptoms of withdrawal from nicotine. Therefore, the difference between smoking and not smoking - is the difference between feeling happy and unhappy. That is why it seems that the taste of the cigarette in some points better. Smokers who light up immediately in the morning, unhappy whether they smoke at the moment or not.

Reducing the number of cigarettes smoked not only works, but is most severe torture.

It does not act as a smoker hopes that getting used to smoke fewer and fewer cigarette, he will be able to reduce your desire to smoke. But it is not a habit. This is - dependency, and the nature of any addiction is to want more and more and not less.

Therefore, to reduce smoking, the smoker will have to show willpower and discipline rest of his life. Chemical addiction to nicotine is not the main problem in quitting smoking. Since it is easy to handle.

The main problem - a mistaken belief that cigarettes bring you pleasure. This erroneous belief was originally created "brainwashing" that occurs even before we begin to smoke, and then amplified by a real addiction.

The only thing that really makes the reduction of smoking, - reinforces this confusion, bringing it to such an extent that smoking begins to completely rule over the life of the smoker, forcing him to believe that the most valuable thing on earth is the next cigarette.

As I said, the reduction of smoking would never work because you have to show willpower and discipline the rest of his life. If you have enough willpower to quit, the more it is not enough to reduce smoking.

Quitting smoking is much easier and less painful. I have heard literally thousands of cases where the reduction in smoking fails.

Several successful attempts, which I know has been achieved abrupt cessation of smoking after a fairly short period, during which a smoker reduced the number of cigarettes smoked. In fact, they stopped smoking despite the reduction of smoking, not because of it.

All that gave it to them, - the extension of agony. A failed attempt to reduce smoking leads to the complete shattering nerves smoker, which further convinces himself that his addiction to nicotine - for life.

This is usually enough to force him to continue smoking for the next five years before it will take yet another attempt to quit. However, the reduction in smoking helps to see the complete futility of smoking as illustrates that cigarette pleasure only after a period of abstinence.

You need to stop banging your head against the wall to feel how wonderful to do this.

So, before you the following choices:

1. Reduce smoking for life, which would be a voluntary self-torture, and in addition, virtually impossible.

2. Continue to stifle himself during the remainder of life. What's the point?

3. treat yourself with love and stop smoking.

Reducing smoking and reveals another important thing: no such thing as the "casual cigarette" does not exist.

Smoking - a chain reaction that will last a lifetime, as long as you do not take self effort to break this chain.

REMEMBER: reducing smoking will destroy you!

22. The method of willpower

The reason can serve as health care, money, stigmatization, or contact can happen especially severe asthma attack, after which, we understand, that do not get any pleasure from smoking.

Whatever the reason, we pokes his head out of the sand and begin to weigh the "pros" and "cons" of smoking. Then we come to what knew life: on the basis of a logical evaluation can only be one conclusion - it is necessary to quit smoking!

If you sat down and a score from one to ten all the benefits of the decision to quit, and then did the same thing with the advantages of smoking, the total amount of points given for that to quit smoking is far outweighed the disadvantages of this solution.

However, although a smoker and knows that it is much better to be a non-smoker, he sincerely believes that quitting smoking brings incredible sacrifice. Although this is just a delusion, but it is - a very strong delusion. Smoker, without knowing why, he believes that cigarettes help him in sorrow and in joy.

Before he attempts to quit smoking, it has to be like "wash out brains" society, then it will strengthen this idea, "washing" their brains myself, so self-dependence. Added to this is even more convincing procedure: reasoning on the theme "How hard is it to quit smoking."

He heard many tales about smokers that many months ago quit smoking, but still desperately want to smoke a cigarette. He met and those smokers who managed to quit smoking, but has since remained in a bad mood (those who quit smoking, and spend the rest of life, lamenting the fact).

He told about the smoker, not smoked for many years, which led a happy life, and then smoked a whole cigarette, again became dependent. Perhaps he even knows himself a few smokers who are in the later stages of the disease when a cigarette slowly, but clearly killing them, and they do not get them absolutely no satisfaction - and still continue to smoke.

To top it all, he may have himself experienced the one or more of these experiences. So instead of throwing to start with feeling; "Cool! Have you heard the news? I do not smoke, "he begins with a sense of sadness and inevitability of fate, as if about to climb Mount Everest.

He firmly believed that once the little monster plunges his claws in you, you fall into a relationship for life. Many smokers even begin to try to quit apologizing to friends and family:

"You know, I try to stop smoking. Perhaps in the next few weeks I will be irritable. Try me to endure. "

Most of these attempts are doomed to fail initially. Let's assume that the smoker manages to survive a few days without a cigarette. His lungs are cleared quickly. He did not buy cigarettes and, consequently, remains in its purse more money.

Therefore, the reasons for which it is, first of all, I decided to stop smoking, fast fading from his mind.

It's like a car crash seen passing by in a car. Seen makes you some time to go more slowly, but then you remember that you are late for an appointment, which completely flew out of your head, leg and she presses the gas pedal.

On the other side of the rope - that little monster, entrenched in your belly, do not get their dose. This feeling does not cause physical pain: if it was similar to the discomfort caused by the common cold, you do not cease to work, and certainly would not fall into depression. Would you try to wrap everything into a joke.

Smoker knows one thing: he wants a cigarette. He did not understand why for him it is so important. Then the little monster in the belly of a great monster launches directly into your brain, and the man who a few hours or days ago, listed many reasons for which he stops smoking, throws in a desperate search for any excuse to start smoking again.

He says this:

1. Life is too short. At any moment it could explode the bomb. Tomorrow I get hit by a bus. I quit smoking too late. A cancer is said in our time is everything.

2. I chose the wrong time. I should have to wait until Christmas (end of the vacation or even any important event in my life).

3. I can not concentrate. I become irritable and gets a bad temper. I can not work as it should. My friends and family will cease to love me. We'll have to be honest: for the sake of their loved ones should I start smoking again. I - a dedicated smoker, so it is simply impossible that I could be happy without cigarettes. (It is for this reason that I myself continued to smoke for thirty three years.)

Usually at this stage the smoker gives up. He lights a cigarette, and schizophrenia increases. On the one hand, when the little monster, finally gets its dose, comes a huge relief caused by the end of the passionate thrust smoking.

On the other hand, if he was able to hold out for a long time, the taste of cigarettes seems to him disgusting, and the smoker can not understand why he smokes.

That is why he believes that he did not have enough willpower. In fact, it's not a lack of willpower; All that he needs to do - change the consciousness and take absolutely reasonable decision in the light of the latest information. Does it make sense to be healthy if you are unhappy at the same time? What's the point of being rich if you are with the suffering?

Absolutely no sense! Much better to live a short life full of fun than a long but unhappy. Fortunately, the situation is exactly the opposite: life is infinitely more pleasant non-smoker. But I was led to the misconception that I smoked for thirty-three years, and must admit that if it were true, I would have continued to smoke (or rather, I would have been here was not).

The suffering experienced by a smoker, have nothing to do with physical suffering, which usually expect from the period of withdrawal from nicotine.

However, they may provide the impetus for him, but in reality these tortures taking place in the mind, they are in doubt and uncertainty. As a smoker starts to quit smoking with the idea of ​​sacrifice, he feels deprived, and this - a unique form of stress.

When the brain tells him: "cigarette" - this is a moment of stress. So as soon as he finishes smoking, he again wants a cigarette. But now he can not smoke because he threw. That is what makes him feel so depressed that again activates the entire system.