By Carlos Scarpero
The addiction to the physical act of smoking and the nicotine a smoker gets from a cigarette can not only cause a person's health to deteriorate, but can also take over a person's life. A smoker is constantly thinking about their next cigarette. This is especially true for a smoker that is trying to quit smoking.
Breaking the dependency of nicotine is one of the hardest battles in the stopping smoking process.
Tobacco companies report record profits every quarter because of this addiction. No matter how high the price of a pack of cigarettes get, some smokers will pay it. Most smokers won't be happy about the higher prices, but, nonetheless, some will pay. Some smokers haven't realized that the more they smoke the more their body wants. It is a never ending cycle.
A smoker may have begun smoking with the routine of only a half a pack of cigarettes a day, a couple of years later they find themselves smoking almost 2 packs per day. During stressful moments in their lives they may end up smoking 3 packs |
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By Carlos Scarpero
The thought of actually giving up your cigarettes may be scary. For some smokers, giving up something they were so used to having everyday can be unbearable.
Smokers don't know what to do without a cigarette. They feel their life will change so drastically without smoking. How will they deal with stress? Boredom? Anxieties? Some smokers don't even realize how much of a psychological dependency they have on smoking until they are in the process of quitting.
Knowing that you are as mentally addicted to smoking as you are physically addicted may help you to succeed in your endeavors to quit smoking. Walking into the process of quitting smoking not realizing that you are going to be having psychological withdrawals may decreases your chances of success.
Before you quit smoking you should come up with a plan. This plan should involve on what day you are actually going to quit, the method you will use to actually quit, list your goal dates, what you will do to reward yourself for goals met, what you will do when a craving |
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