Quitting Smoking - A Personal Analysis
It is a fact that smoking is more of psychological addiction
than physical addiction. The Nicotine addiction in your body can
be controlled, but mind addiction is tough to control.
One thing that helps you in quitting smoking is a complete
personal analysis. Take a paper and make two columns in it. In
one column put heading, the cause for quitting. In another
column, write down the cause for taking up smoking.
Firstly, write down the causes for taking up smoking. It may be
some kind of pressure, or family trouble or financial trouble or
any other reason. Now, find out whether these troubles still
exist or not. If they do not, then there is no need to smoke.
Now, write down the causes for quitting smoking. It may due to
the scare of deadly disease you may get, or your fear of passing
them to your family members. Thus, health is one of the causes
for quitting smoking.
However, it is quite possible that health reasons will not
convince you in quitting smoking. They all have the
possibilities. It is not sure that these things can happen. Lung
cancer might happen or you may die early.
There are certain genuine causes that you are experiencing while
smoking. Write down those causes in the second column. For
instance, you experience breathlessness while coming upstairs.
Your feet are cold due to high blood pressure. You are always
suffering from cough and it makes you feel uncomfortable.
Apart from health reasons, there are certain other reasons also.
Such as, premature aging and drying of skin are due to smoking.
Your fingernails, teeth are of yellow color and gives bad
impression. When you smoke at public places, people make faces
at you. You are spending a lot on cigarettes along with the
mouth fresheners. You can save a huge amount by quitting
smoking. You can use that amount for a good purpose. You can go
for a holiday.
Think about your family. They would feel more secure, after your
quitting smoking. Your house would be clean, no dirtier walls,
or stinking cars. Several genuine reasons are there for quitting
smoking.
Thus, you can divert your mind easily by thinking these genuine
effects of smoking. However, your hands are still free. Try to
make your hands busy by indulging it in some activities, for
Instance knitting, cooking etc.
So, do not waste time and go ahead.