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SolveYourProblem
eLearning Series: Smoking
I'd Rather Not Die From Smoking
Learn The Harmful Effects & Quit Smoking
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Let the World Know
Once your mind
is made up, you have a very important thing left to do. You
have to announce your decision to quit smoking to as many
people as possible. Tell all your friends that you have decided
to quit and ask them earnestly to help you as much as they
can. Remember, that bit is not going to be an easy task and
you are going to need all the help in the world so it is
all the more better that a lot of people know about your
decision to quit.
There is one
good thing about letting others know about decision to quit.
It makes you more accountable. It lessens down your chances
of taking a sneak puff. Having people who support you all
around you, keeps you distracted from that great pull. And
believe me it is a lot easier to stick to promises made in
public than to keep promises made in private.
In one word,
it just makes you all the more accountable. Hey you have
a word to live up to, and the fear of being scorned and ridiculed
by others for breaking your promise is a strong force that
can keep you going. Discuss your decision with your family,
tell them about your decision and the difficulties that you
are going to face. Tell them that you are going to need their
support and help ad that it is not going to be easy for you.
An excellent
thing you could do is draft out a contract for your self
about your decision to stop smoking and sign it. It would
be an awfully good decision to hang up this contract for
all to see so that the next time you take a puff and somebody
sees you with the contract above you ganging on the wall;
they would at least raise an eyebrow.
It is best if
you can get one or two others to quit smoking with you. Quitting
smoking is a lot like loosing weight, so it is best if it
can be done in small groups. If your partner also smokes
then it’s a wonderful thing for both of you to take the decision
to together so that you can go on backing and encouraging
each other.
A Formidable Foe
The battle is
not going to be easy, because you will be pitted against
a very formidable foe. Most people tend to under estimate
the intensity of the issue. Again I repeat that quitting
is not an easy task. I would recommend that you do not measure
the size of the enemy by the size of the cigarette. Size
does not matter sometimes. After all a stick of dynamite
is not very big but just consider the amount of damage that
it can bring about.
It is not just
one cigarette that you are going to be fighting against.
Consider that great chunk of humanity that has been removed
from the face of the earth just because of tobacco. You have
the statistics given above to prove it. If so many people
have succumbed to cigarette smoke, then obviously it’s no
ordinary killer.
That is why it
is highly recommended that you approach the issue only after
thorough preparation. I suggest that you compare yourself
to a commando who’s preparing to venture into a thick forest
shrouded with danger to rescue a hapless child from the clutches
of some hardened criminals. Such a commando would be armed
to the teeth. He would have been taught all the survival
skills and would be a force to reckon with.
The commando would be constantly on his guard and even while
resting his eyes and ears would be alert. Success for him is
not a matter of luck but comes as a natural consequence of
his training, his skills and his alertness. He’s brave, he’s
sharp, he has nerves of steel and that is just what you must
try to be. This battle should be fought to be won, because
just like for the commando, for you too this is a matter of
life and death.
A Myth
to Break
First, let us
break a myth. Most smokers honestly believe that they can
quit at any time they want. This is far from reality. The
fact is that most smokers can’t just do that. The decision
to quit is not something that is wholly controlled by the
brain.
This exercise
of control by the brain happens only in the first few days.
After that, the brain or mind takes the back seat. It will
seem as if the whole body is screaming out for more and more,
and the brain has no choice but to comply. As we can see,
every part of our body is connected and the brain too prefers
to toe to line.
So when a smoker
believes that he or she can quit at any time that he or she
wants, then the person is actually fooling himself or herself.
I don’t want to under estimate any body. I agree that some
people do have more will power than others. But what I would
like to point out is that we are talking about a force that
is more than just a physical or mental control. We are talking
about withdrawal symptoms.
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