Stopping Smoking – Dealing With Your Cigarette Addiction
The biggest hurdle when stopping smoking is overcoming your smoking addiction. Smoking is not just a bad habit, it’s a drug addiction. I’m not saying this to make you feel guilty, but to help you deal with the facts. Cigarette addiction, as with all addictions is surrounded and supported by a collection of powerful lies, or delusions. Taking control is the process of identifying those lies and discovering the truth.
Frequently, people in the process of stopping smoking say that there are two opposing voices, like two completely different people, inside their head, arguing. Of course, you are only one, whole person: the other voice is that of the addiction you have created over the years. Some people say it’s the Devil talking. This argument is part of the process of stopping smoking, and this article provides you with the information you need to work through the argument arid resolve this conflict.
You could think of it as a game. When you’re stopping smoking, the game is that the addiction tries to figure out how to get you to go back to smoking. It will be marvelously creative and have you convinced of the most ridiculous things. You will be able to see through some of the deceptions very clearly, and maybe even laugh at them. Others may be more difficult.
The most common, compelling and persistent of all the deceptions is the idea that at some point you will be able to smoke one or two cigarettes without having to return to an uncontrollable daily dependency. If you believe this to be true, it’s probably the most convincing excuse to smoke there is. After all, one cigarette isn’t going to kill you: it’s ‘simply not a problem’.
Of course, there are a few – just a very few – people who only smoke occasionally, which could be what makes you think it is possible. But the odds are against you.
So many people go back to smoking as a direct result of this mistake. Some people even make this mistake over and over again, never learning from their past experience! It looks like such a great solution, the smoker’s dream of only smoking sometimes: just at parties, or just for a day or two to help you through something difficult. Unfortunately a smoking addiction doesn’t work that way.
The ‘something difficult’ can even be withdrawal itself, which is the craziest justification of them all. Yes, smoking will certainly help ease your withdrawal symptoms, but then you will be smoking again.
When your cigarette addiction has convinced you that just one more cigarette is all you will ever want again, then you are being seriously conned and making stopping smoking even harder.
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