Smoking kills. These days we all know that, and where we can maybe forgive earlier generations for thinking smoking to a pretty reasonable lifestyle choice, we have no such excuses. The evidence is incontrovertible that smoking is a killer. But so too are lots of other things. The question is, therefore, how to stop smoking naturally?
My first point will sound a little facetious, but I promise it's the truthful answer given to me by a very committed smoker when I asked him if he wanted to stop smoking naturally. His reply was that his smoking habit would come to a pretty natural end when he died!
I'm sure the vast majority of smoker would like to give up before this most final of eventualities, but it's certainly important to remember the above as a cautionary tales. Give up or else!
The most natural of ways to stop smoking naturally is just to quit. To go cold turkey and never smoke anymore. We, let me just get to the end of this pack then, I hear you say! And that's really the point of it. Research has shown that only two percent of smokers that attempt to quit in this way are actually successful.
To be honest though, even the figures for smokers that use nicotine replacement therapies to help fight the fight are far from astounding. The reason for this comparative failure is that smoking works on so many different levels, and we originally started and now keep smoking for many different reasons.
Probably the very first craving we all had on our journey as smokers, or maybe just human beings, is the need to belong. The pressure to do what our friends, or the people we aspire to be friends with, are doing.
The psychology then get deeper still with Freud's suggestion that some people are Orally Fixated, and if they weren't putting cigarettes in their mouths, it would be food. Perhaps this explains why so many recovering smokers complain of piling on the pounds.
The final, and perhaps the easiest to deal with, is the chemical addiction that smoking feeds. To address this, treatments are much the same as for any other chemical dependency, such as for alcohol, and for heroin and such like.
When it comes down to it, the best advice to stop smoking naturally is, indeed, just to go for it. Throw them away. But before doing this, make sure you have addressed all of the other varied reasons why you started in he first place. Most people never bother to take this crucial step, and that is ultimately why they fail.
My first point will sound a little facetious, but I promise it's the truthful answer given to me by a very committed smoker when I asked him if he wanted to stop smoking naturally. His reply was that his smoking habit would come to a pretty natural end when he died!
I'm sure the vast majority of smoker would like to give up before this most final of eventualities, but it's certainly important to remember the above as a cautionary tales. Give up or else!
The most natural of ways to stop smoking naturally is just to quit. To go cold turkey and never smoke anymore. We, let me just get to the end of this pack then, I hear you say! And that's really the point of it. Research has shown that only two percent of smokers that attempt to quit in this way are actually successful.
To be honest though, even the figures for smokers that use nicotine replacement therapies to help fight the fight are far from astounding. The reason for this comparative failure is that smoking works on so many different levels, and we originally started and now keep smoking for many different reasons.
Probably the very first craving we all had on our journey as smokers, or maybe just human beings, is the need to belong. The pressure to do what our friends, or the people we aspire to be friends with, are doing.
The psychology then get deeper still with Freud's suggestion that some people are Orally Fixated, and if they weren't putting cigarettes in their mouths, it would be food. Perhaps this explains why so many recovering smokers complain of piling on the pounds.
The final, and perhaps the easiest to deal with, is the chemical addiction that smoking feeds. To address this, treatments are much the same as for any other chemical dependency, such as for alcohol, and for heroin and such like.
When it comes down to it, the best advice to stop smoking naturally is, indeed, just to go for it. Throw them away. But before doing this, make sure you have addressed all of the other varied reasons why you started in he first place. Most people never bother to take this crucial step, and that is ultimately why they fail.
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