The Real Reason You Can't Quit Smoking

Contrary to what you might believe your nicotine addiction is not the reason that you're finding quitting smoking so difficult

. It may be part of it, but it's not really what's keeping you from quitting. What really keeps you from finally quitting is fear. Not the kind of fear that you'll somehow get hurt but the fear that you won't be able to cope with life without your cigarettes. This where most stop smoking aids will fail you. Addressing your nicotine addiction is the easy part, yet that is where the popular stop smoking aids work. Patches and nicotine gums gradually wean you off the stuff. Pills that are really renamed anti-depressants are meant to keep you calm while you go through withdrawal. Most anti-smoking devices are merely crutches to replace your cigarettes until you're able to stand on your own. And that's where the issues really start. At some point you are going to have to just get back to your normal life, only now do it without cigarettes. This is the point where most people start smoking again. While they were actively trying to quit they were also actively replacing their smokes with some sort of substitute. So what happens when the substitute they have been relying on is gone? All they have left is their cigarettes. You see none of these products have addressed the real issue here: you are more mentally addicted to smoking than you are physically addicted to smoking. If you really want to stop smoking you have to train your brain to stop thinking about smoking. Some people get lucky and manage to rethink their life without cigarettes while they're on the patch, gum or pills, but most go back to smoking again. What they needed to do was to learn how to stop using smoking as a coping mechanism. They need to rethink their daily habits without their cigarettes. They need to learn how to have a beer without lighting up. In essence, how to not be afraid of being smoke free. Patches and pills won't change your thought process. And that's actually how some people are able to quit cold turkey: by forcing themselves through sheer willpower to change the way they think about life and smoking. It's not about willpower to not smoke; it's really about the will to go on with your life without smoking. And that is the real reason that you can't quit smoking.

The Real Reason You Can't Quit Smoking

By: Scott Olewiler

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