Why do you think that you are still smoking after all these years?
The thing that normally stops most people from making a decision to quit cigarettes is that they make reasons & excuses.
One reason that many smokers use is that they smoke because of stress. Stress used to be Jim's excuse. He
had a job that was really stressful and he used to smoke because he
said he was stressed. And that is when I simply pointed out to him
whether he smokes on the weekends? Jim said yes, I still smoke on the
weekend. I asked him if he still smokes when on vacation and he said yes
he still smoked on vacation. Then I said him, if you still smoke on the
weekends, and when you’re on vacation how can you say that you smoke
because of stress? Isn’t the stress of your job gone when you’re on
vacation and on the weekends?
He
smoked the same amount day in and day out. It is not like on a really
stressful day he had 40 cigarettes and the following non-stressful day
he had five cigarettes. On the weekends, during stress or not stressed
he smoked the same amount of cigarettes. So where is the stress? It is a great excuse but that is all it is - an excuse.
Article from The newspaper stating that research has shown that smokers stress levels are lower when they have quit
A lot of smokers say that smoking relaxes them. Now it's interesting because nicotine is actually a stimulant.
When
you inhale nicotine it goes into your bloodstream and goes everywhere
including your heart. Your heart sees nicotine as a poison and it
increases your heart rate by about 12 beats per minute trying to get rid
of the poison. This is why even when you haven’t smoked a cigarette in a
while you may notice heart palpitations or light-headedness or
dizziness, because the nicotine is a stimulant causing your heart and
your body to react and try to get rid of it. Your stomach produces extra
stomach acid every time you smoke cigarettes, about ½ a cup of extra
acid for every 2 packs of cigarettes.
You
have a powerful stimulant like nicotine and you also have other
carcinogens that are stimulants. And if you add additional stimulants
like caffeine or tea or coffee, you have at least three extremely
powerful stimulants causing the body to be hyper excited.
Is
that person relaxed? Not even close. In fact, your body is working
overtime trying to get rid of all the poisons and toxins, you just put
into it. So it is absolutely impossible to smoke and physically relax.
Why it can seem like it is relaxing is because of mental relaxation.
When
you are stressed and you go to have a cigarette to relax you are doing
three other particular things. Firstly you are removing yourself from
the stressful situation. You have to 'go somewhere' to smoke. Secondly
you are distracting yourself by doing another activity. Thirdly you are
taking deep breaths. These three aspects are the basis of relaxation.
You can do these three things just as easily without smoking.
If
you didn’t have any willpower, you wouldn’t ever get out of bed, you
wouldn’t go to work, you wouldn’t make payments on a house, if you
didn’t have any willpower you wouldn’t do anything. Willpower is what
allows you to do the dozens of things that you do every day of your
life, especially even if you don’t want to do them. And you do that
because you have to, that’s what willpower is!
So actually, you do have lots of willpower. The only question is are you going to use it to quit cigarettes?
Pleasure
How many of the cigarettes that you smoke each day, do you actually enjoy? Most say 3, 4 or 5.
Well, it takes about 4 minutes to smoke a cigarette, so that’s 4 x 4, or 16 minutes of enjoyment. Now
of course, it’s decreasing your health, but what is your health when
you get 16 minutes of pleasure or enjoyment from smoking a cigarette.
And you’re suffering with coughing and shortness of breath, hacking up
mucus each morning and not being able to do all the things you want to
do. And it smells and you’re spending thousands of dollars and studies
show that it takes an average of 14 years (or more) off your life. So is
all of that worth 16 minutes of some kind of pleasure?
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