Addictive smoking and how to quit it? dangers of addictive smoking

ADDICTIVE SMOKING

If you are this type of smoker, you are in- variably aware any time you are not smoking. The lack of a cigarette even briefly builds need, desire, and discomfort. You may enjoy a cigarette only very briefly, if at all, but suffer for lack of one. Tapering off may not work. The only solution may be to quit cold.

Once you have gone through the pain of breaking your psychological addiction, you are not likely to go back to smoking again. Some addictive smokers find it helpful to do just the reverse of tapering off during the week before the day, actually doubling their smoking, forcing themselves to smoke until their bodies revolt against the double dose of tar and nicotine. 

That Last Week In the week before Q day, go over your reasons for not smoking: the disease risk, the cost, the cough, the bad breath, the bad taste, etc. Each evening, before falling asleep, concentrate on one dire result of smoking: repeat and repeat that fact and another the next night, etc.

Remind yourself all during the week of some clearly established facts: that if you keep on smoking, you risk losing six and a half years of life; if you smoke heavily, and you have twice the chance of dying between 25 and 65 as a nonsmoker. 

Are the six minutes of pleasure, if such they really be, in a cigarette worth six fewer minutes of life? Consider that 100,000 American doctors have quit cigarette smoking. Q day On Q day, you get up-and' don't smoke. You may find it helpful to drink water often; to nibble fruit, celery, carrots; to suck candy mints or chew gum. You may resort mild good if it helps-to chewing bits of fresh ginger or biting a clove when you start reaching for a cigarette.