subject: The Situation Today With Stopping Smoking [print this page] The Situation Today With Stopping Smoking
So what is the situation today with stopping smoking? You may know it quite well but it's worth recapping because we'll come back to this time and time again.
These days, many people give up using willpower. Almost immediately after stopping, they are "dieing" for a cigarette. You know the deal - it can't be done at any old time, you need to prepare for the inevitable struggle that is coming up so you set a date and psyche yourself up. Then you stop and celebrate and hope you can get through the bad days ahead. Everyone tells you it will get better but it seems a mystery to you.
Maybe you even use some "medicine" to help you. It must be good, right? Because the doctor recommends it then it must be good for you? Especially patches, they really help. You just slap a patch on and no cravings. Wow, this is really great! Imagine stopping smoking and with the help of the great drug companies and the medical profession, you can do it without wanting another cigarette, well at least until you take off those dreaded patches anyway!
Or if it's not this method, it's one of the many other ways such as using an inhaler, throwing out all the ashtrays, keeping a picture of a diseased lung, remembering your friend that died from lung cancer, remembering your kids and their future. Whatever it is, you've probably tried or thought of trying them all.
So what happens if you follow all the steps above? Were you successful? If you're still smoking today then you weren't. Stopping smoking successfully is not measured in how long you have stopped for. You don't want to stop for just a year or 5 years do you? You want to stop permanently.
