World Tobacco Day 2018: Effective ways to quit smoking yourself
May 31, World Tobacco Day 2018. It's time to wonder how to quit smoking? After all, about the harm of smoking, so much said and written, even on the very packs of cigarettes, that this fact simply does not call: smoking is harmful!
The second important fact is that quitting smoking is quite difficult and not at all possible, otherwise this issue would not be reduced to such a serious problem, and even less there would be no need to hold a World Day without Tobacco or a day to combat smoking. Without apparent modesty, I can say that I myself had to face a difficult problem, like quitting smoking, and now I'm not smoking for over 6 years.
Although hard-smokers are usually advised to get rid of this disastrous habit, without being bound to certain dates, the editorial office of tochka.net offers you to try to quit smoking on a Day without Tobacco in 2018. Because together, we are power! And let the awareness that you are not alone in your misery, that millions of people around you, like you, who seek to liberate, will help you and strengthen your faith in your own strength.
How to quit smoking? There are many ways, means and methods of combating smoking and even the whole industry as opposed to tobacco. All kinds of nicotine patches, gum, candy, electronic cigarettes. Choose either. But first of all, important and important in combating bad habits is a firm decision that you will smoke.
So, how to quit smoking, if you really want it so much
How to quit smoking at home: a list of pluses and minuses
Split a sheet in half and left write the negative list that you get as a result of smoking, and to the right are the positive moments that your bad habit gives you. Probably the left column will turn out to be longer. Now answer your questions honestly, do you really want to quit smoking? And if you do not feel the true desire, then it's just not necessary to read our article further to you.
How to quit smoking yourself: substitution
Instead of every positive point on your list, write down how you could replace the cigarette. For example, the function "distracts" can be easily replaced by some kind of massager for the fingers, even elementary learning to twist the pencil in your fingers. And "stress relief" to reach outdoors. Now it remains to put this substitution into practice.
How to quit smoking, if there is no will power: curiosity
Remember how you started. The girlfriend pushed: "Well, try it". It worked out the idea: "there will be nothing from one cigarette". There was a keen curiosity: once all smoke, then it has a certain boost, etc. If you started out with curiosity, then you can definitely be able to quit smoking, and the same motivation will help you - it's curiosity and excitement. Look around: how many people are trying to get rid of this habit, how much power and money is thrown on it. And those who succeed are considered almost heroes! Is not it interesting to know what is the problem here, actually? And are you weaker than others? After all, it's just as simple - to take and throw (as it was just to take and start). The same actions, only with the opposite sign. You seem to take your own "weakly".
How to quit smoking yourself: self-esteem
Promise yourself that you will smoke. And, having come to this quite seriously. The main stimulus here is love and respect for oneself. Nobody will respect you if you do not respect yourself! By the way, the author of these lines, this way has helped to get rid of a disastrous habit. Yes, I quit smoking, because she gave herself the word to do it. And now, this same principle of self-respect is applied to a close husband, helping him to get out of the same dependence.
How to quit smoking, if there is no will power: insidious brain
Immediately become accustomed to the idea that you can not go about the occasion of your own inventive brain, starved for nicotine. He, smart and insidious, will invent a lot of blunders, rejections and excuses, why you need to smoke the same moment, and throwing can be delayed for tomorrow, then, in a month, and so on. He is in all truth, but more likely, lies, will seek to get the desired dose of the drug, to which he is so used. Hold your hands!
Denial of smoking: what happens after days
Prepare for the fact that the refusal of smoking on days will bring changes, and not far the happiest. And along with the fascination of recovery and pride for yourself, you will receive extremely unpleasant symptoms: irritation, nervousness, insomnia, interruptions in the work of the heart and other organs, blood pressure drop, increase or decrease in appetite, swelling, weakness, coughing and again irritation. Your body is separated from the nicotine dependence by force.
But you should not take these symptoms as a signal that you need doping with nicotine. This is like a disease that needs to be experienced. But then comes the phase of stable recovery and complete liberation from nicotine evil. Just endure like angina, pregnancy or nausea on take-off / landing.