How do you even begin to quit smoking?
November 11th, 2009
There’s comes a time in every smokers life, that they contemplate quitting smoking. Each of us have many different reasons as to why we want to stop smoking, our health being the main one, as well as that ever persistent and lovely smoker’s cough. Whatever your reason may be, the facts are that we know we need to stop, we know what it does to us, and how it will eventually affect our lives. The hard part is setting the plan in motion to actually begin to quit.
Being that there are so many treatment options availble nowadays, it can seem a difficult task in choosing the right one. What I always suggest is to look at each one for its own merits and downfalls and with this information try to pick the one tha fits best within your lifestyle. By doing your homework first, choosing the method that will work for you becomes far easier.
This was very difficult for me, as I had absolutely no clue as to which product would work best for my situation. The first stop I made was to discuss this with my doctor asking which method had the highest success rate, and the least side effects.
We discussed many of the methods available and their side effects, but we also focused a lot of the conversation on the psychological part of quitting as well, since for most people, including myself, that would be the most difficult part of quitting smoking.
One of the things that we discussed was preparing myself mentally to begin my life as a non-smoker and I had not even thought about that. I just assumed that I would stop smoking: a murderous rampage for about four days and be done with this little demon known as a cigarette. I had not even begun to contemplate that this would require making lifelong changes to my lifestyle.
With the conversation with the doctor behind me and with my method of quitting chosen, I picked a day two weeks out and used those two weeks to prepare myself and my home for the new lifestyle. I went so far as to steam clean my carpet and drapes; dispose of all my ashtrays; wash all my clothes; and lastly, began to smoke outdoors.
As I will tell anybody, quitting smoking is one of the hardest things you will ever do in life, but it is also probably the most self-satisfying tasks you can accomplish. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that will give you a better feeling of self-worth than knowing that you no longer need to worry whether you have enough cigarettes to last the night, nor whether
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