Stop Smoking

If you are a smoker then you already know the reasons why you should quit ~ Smokers already know the good reasons to stop smoking ~ Smokers already know why they should quit smoking and may have already tried in the past but failed ~ it’s likely they’ve already tried without success. In addition to the many numerous health hazards risks issues involved, being a smoker in today’s society is just plain hard ~ smokers these days have a difficult time. Most smokers know full well how many non-smokers in our society treat smokers like criminals and make them feel worthless without realizing the fact that most smokers are truly addicted and would gladly quit if only they could.

The first thing that a smoker must realize is that smoking is neither pleasurable nor natural in the beginning. If you think back to the time when you first tried smoking, you will remember that your body rejected smoking with symptoms such as coughing, dizziness, and nausea. Obviously these types of feelings are not pleasurable but many people continue to keep smoking because of peer pressure or to be cool and the bad symptoms fade away. The problem is that these symptoms fade because the smoker has developed an addiction and their body begins to need what it originally rejected. Essentially, the smokers mind had convinced the smokers body to smoke until the body became addicted.

Because the smokers mind is what originally got the person to smoke in the first place, it is important that the mind be used to convince the body of a smoker to quit smoking. When a smoker quits cold turkey they are essentially doing this very thing, with their mind telling the body to quit. Regrettably, most smokers dont have the willpower to quit cold turkey because they are already truly addicted to tobacco and their body wins over their mind no matter how bad they want to quit.

Many quit smoking programs operate on the assumption that treating the nicotine withdrawal symptoms is what it takes to help a smoker quit. Nicotine addiction is not the factor that really makes it difficult for a smoker to quit and this is the reason that programs that rely on treating the symptoms of nicotine addiction often fail. As you may or may not be aware, there are thousands of chemicals other then nicotine and tar in tobacco. Did you know that some of these chemicals are so hazardous that they are not even allowed to be deposited into landfills. It would seem that if quitting was this simple then this chemical would be well known, but it appears that there are good reasons why most people don’t know about it.

Almost everybody including non-smokers realize why the tobacco companies don’t want smokers to quit. With each smoker that quits, they lose money in their best interest financially for a person to start smoking at an early age and continue to smoke until the day they die. But did you realize that companies and pharmacy’s that make nicotine patches and gums and anti-smoking drugs also have an interest in smokers not quitting. If all smokers quit, who would they sell their products to. As you may now realize, there are a great many people and organizations that do benefit from the fact that many smokers don’t ever quit.

With the amount of money most smokers spend on tobacco products as well as putting their lives on the line every day due to ill health from cigarettes, making a commitment to quit smoking for good today would be the best thing they could do.

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