OK, you have finally decided that you want to quit smoking, but there are so many things that you don’t know. You don’t know how the nicotine addiction got you to this point. You don’t know how this could happen to you. You don’t know how to even begin to start the quit smoking process. And make no mistake about it, quitting smoking is a process.
Quitting smoking can be a difficult process. But it isn’t an impossible task and it doesn’t have to be a miserable task unless you make it so. Like any other task or job that one takes on it is easier if you learn as much about the subject that you can in order to do a good job.
Educating one’s self about quitting tobacco use is one of the keys to the secret of a successful quit. Realizing the fact that you don’t smoke because you want to, you smoke because you have to, is one of the first things that you need to learn. Anyone that talks about smoking being a choice does not understand that nicotine addiction is not a choice it really and truly is an addiction. Most smokers choose to try that first cigarette the ones that come after that first one cause an addiction. It is a plain and simple fact (Law of Addiction) that each and every drag on a cigarette introduces more nicotine into one’s system and increases the nicotine addiciton.
Nicotine only stays in one’s system for a period of approximately 72 hours if it is not re-introduced into the system by smoking. Imagine that, in a mere three days that nicotine that is causing those irresistable carvings is gone. You don’t believe me because you think that you still have those cravings. And you do, but…. they are not near as strong as they used to be because you are not continually feeding a fresh supply of nicotine to your system by smoking.
I quit smoking over 29 years ago and I have not had any cravings for nicotine or tobacco use for years. However, recently I had a very vivid dream that I was smoking again and that I believed that I could quit anytime that I wanted to quit. In this dream I had a half a pack of Salems that I had had for months and I actually, in the dream, believed that I was a sometime smoker. The dream was not what I would term a nightmare but I was really relieved when I woke up and realized that it was a dream and that I did not have to go through another quit.
Nicotine is a very strong and demanding drug but even a long period of nicotine addiction caused by years and years of tobacco use can be broken by knowledge and determination. There is a lot of information out there on how to quit smoking. Learn all that you can and apply it. You can do it.
My free story on how I quit tobacco use can be found at www.quitterscanbewinners.com or you can go to www.simply-be-tobacco-free.com to purchase an ebook on How To Quit Smoking.