What Does Smoking Do For You?
If I ask you the question "What does smoking do for you?" your answer, and everybody else's answers, will be totally different. Whether you have smoked before or not, I think you may still believe that smoking does have some positives to it. If it didn't, why would so many people get hooked in the first place? OK, so it is the nicotine that is addictive, but that must be because it is doing something good.
This is exactly what I used to believe. I knew that I was addicted to nicotine and I knew that the negatives about smoking far outweighed the positives, but I still believed there were some positives. I thought it helped me relax, others thought it helped them focus, I also thought it helped me handle stress (except most of my stress came from not being able to smoke in some situations) and still others said they just enjoyed it. I even thought I enjoyed the taste and the process of smoking.
Think about what I just said for a second. Smoking raises your heartbeat and blood pressure, we all know that, so how can it relax you? Some people smoke when they are bored, others smoke to unwind or to focus, how can a cigarette offer all those things? Most of them contradict one another. I'm not sure how I thought I enjoyed it, if I could only get hold of a brand that I despised, I would still smoke, and who enjoys feeling smoke go down their lungs? It's called suffocation.
It is all in the mind. When you feel stressed, you are also craving a cigarette, but the craving is so small you aren't aware, so you smoke a cigarette and feel a bit better, your mind then associates smoking with stress relief.
Fortunately, I learned that it is a common misconception that withdrawal pangs from cigarettes are unbearable and cause a lot of pain and irritability. Again, this is all in the mind. If you can sleep for 8 hours without even being woken up by withdrawal, why can't you face the thought of going 8 hours without a cigarette while you are awake? You start experiencing shakes, stress, anxiety etc, and this is all caused by the perception that you are missing out on something.
Smoking does nothing for you except enslave you to the idea that you can't live without it. The only things you can't live without are food and water, and maybe the Internet. If you can learn to accept these facts, and work on the psychological aspect of the smoking trap, you can quit very easily.
This is exactly what I used to believe. I knew that I was addicted to nicotine and I knew that the negatives about smoking far outweighed the positives, but I still believed there were some positives. I thought it helped me relax, others thought it helped them focus, I also thought it helped me handle stress (except most of my stress came from not being able to smoke in some situations) and still others said they just enjoyed it. I even thought I enjoyed the taste and the process of smoking.
Think about what I just said for a second. Smoking raises your heartbeat and blood pressure, we all know that, so how can it relax you? Some people smoke when they are bored, others smoke to unwind or to focus, how can a cigarette offer all those things? Most of them contradict one another. I'm not sure how I thought I enjoyed it, if I could only get hold of a brand that I despised, I would still smoke, and who enjoys feeling smoke go down their lungs? It's called suffocation.
It is all in the mind. When you feel stressed, you are also craving a cigarette, but the craving is so small you aren't aware, so you smoke a cigarette and feel a bit better, your mind then associates smoking with stress relief.
Fortunately, I learned that it is a common misconception that withdrawal pangs from cigarettes are unbearable and cause a lot of pain and irritability. Again, this is all in the mind. If you can sleep for 8 hours without even being woken up by withdrawal, why can't you face the thought of going 8 hours without a cigarette while you are awake? You start experiencing shakes, stress, anxiety etc, and this is all caused by the perception that you are missing out on something.
Smoking does nothing for you except enslave you to the idea that you can't live without it. The only things you can't live without are food and water, and maybe the Internet. If you can learn to accept these facts, and work on the psychological aspect of the smoking trap, you can quit very easily.
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