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eLearning Series: Smoking
I'd Rather Not Die From Smoking
Learn The Harmful Effects & Quit Smoking
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27 pages )
The
Quitting Process: Counseling & Rewards
Water Flows Down
It’s strange
isn’t it how every thing in this world always keeps coming
down. Sir Isaac Newton explained this phenomenon using the
laws of gravity. But I must admit that I am still amazed
how everything in this world tries to reach the lowest possible
point.
If you have ever
watched water flow you will understand what I am talking
about. A water fall, never thunders upwards, a stream always
flows down wards (remember the nursery rhyme, “Row, row,
row your boat gently down the stream”) even a tiny pool of
water spilt on the table tries to find the easiest way downwards.
So what about it? You must be wondering what the connection
is between quitting smoking and flowing water. There is a very
deep connection as you will see for yourself. There is an unwritten
rule in this world that everything must try and find the easiest
route downwards. When you take something to a higher state,
it becomes unstable and tries to find the easiest route downwards.
Over here we
are trying to precisely the same thing. We are trying to
take you from a lower state (the state of being a smoker)
to a higher state, (the state of being a non-smoker). So
you must bear in mind that it is the easiest thing in the
world for you to relapse and again pick up that packet of
cigarettes. It is going to take a lot of effort and will
power on your part to refrain from smoking. That’s why I
keep saying that you will need all the support and encouragement
while you are still working at it.
But then you
might wonder if you have to keep up that will power and constantly
have to keep battling against the urge to smoke for the rest
of your life. The answer is no. Once you have given up the
habit once and for all, once you have over come all these
withdrawal symptoms, then you have arrived. You will automatically
pick up a new life style and there will be no room for cigarettes
in that new life.
You will start
to realize how much better your life has become with out
cigarettes. You will feel the power in your hands, you will
be in absolute control of your life and at that stage there
is absolutely n coming back. Once you have tasted the sweetness
of success, there is no coming back. Than you are safe and
there is no fear of relapsing after that.
The whole thing
is like a threshold. When you are controlling yourself for
the first time, you are at the very middle of the threshold.
You can fall upwards or downwards and it is much easier to
fall downwards. This is where you need the support, help
and encouragement of others. But gradually as you over come
the urge, you advance further and further upward and once
you are beyond a certain point, then you have reached the
point of no return and then there is no coming back.
Low Tar and Low Nicotine Cigarettes
Many people switch
to low tar and low nicotine cigarettes thinking that there
will be lesser harm done. This is again a myth. The point
that such people are missing out is that they continue to
smoke because the body or the brain has started demanding
its daily doze of nicotine. Nicotine is what the body wants
and nicotine is what harms the body most.
So no matter
what you smoke you will try to give you body the nicotine
that it has become used to. You cannot reason with the body.
You accustomed it to a particular dosage of nicotine and
when it doesn’t get that, its starts to complain. At such
a tie even if you switch to a low nicotine cigarette it is
not going to be of much use.
The end result
will be that you will start taking stronger pulls on these
cigarettes, may increase the number of cigarettes that you
smoke, or you might take more puffs per cigarette. Nicotine
is a venomously addictive substance and once you get used
to it, there is no bringing it down, there is only stopping
it once and for all.
The message here
is loud and clear. Smoking any kind of cigarette is bad so
don’t even consider other possibilities.
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