Built up a strong belief in you blended
with stronger will power to quit smoking.
Consider giving up smoking as one of the
very difficult things you have done in
your life. It’s all up to you.
Develop your plan and take a decision
right away for doing things accordingly.
Make short note why you want to stop
smoking live longer far better, for your
family, some money, smell better to find a
mate easily etc. You know very well what
is bad about smoking and what you will
achieve when you stop smoking. Put the
same on a paper and read it daily once.
Seek an all out stop smoking support from
your family and friends for your decision
to stop smoking. Tell them in the very
near future you may become irritable, even
irrational as a cause of quitting smoking
habit.
Get on with a set date to stop smoking and
also decide on what day you intend to say
a final good-bye to cigarette. You may
hold a small ceremony when you smoke your
last cigarette. It’s up to your
liking.
Marvin.
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Marvin123
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Tampa
Smoking – the Actual Reasons For Starting Posted: 11-25-06 06:26am
As the saying goes, "hindsight is 20/20
vision." most people who smoke wish they
had never started. If you were able to go
back in time to when you first tried a
cigarette, what would you do? Chances are
good that you wouldn't even take one
single puff.
While you can't physically go back in
time, you can go back mentally and try to
remember why you started to smoke. Do you
remember your very first cigarette? Who
were you with? Was it with a group of
friends or perhaps an older brother or
sister? Most people who smoke got their
first few cigarettes from an older sibling
or from friends.
What did it feel like to smoke that first
cigarette? Aside from feeling nauseated,
you probably felt pretty cool. How did
you like to inhale your cigarette? Did
you practice holding it in front of a
mirror until you got it right? Were you
conjuring up an image as you smoked?
Where did that image come from?
And why did you continue to smoke if it
made you feel so ill? You wouldn't
continue to eat a type of food if it made
you feel the same way. What motivated you
to keep on smoking?
If you are like the vast majority of
people who smoke, the reasons were peer
pressure and image. But where exactly did
you get the idea that smoking was such a
cool thing to do? Let's take a look at
the most likely culprit.
