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Many experts believe smoking is only about 10% physical addiction and 90% psychological. Your body will recover fairly quickly from nicotine withdrawals with the worst symptoms usually subsiding in about three days or less. But your psychological dependency on cigarettes can be much more difficult to overcome.

One way to combat this is to do a bit of self-analysis before giving up cigarettes.

Make a list with two columns. Label column one “Why I Started Smoking” and label column two “Why I Want To Quit Smoking.”

In column one, list all the reasons you can remember as to why you started smoking. Was it peer pressure? Rebellion? Did you think it made you look cool? Did it make you feel like a grown-up? Really try to remember the exact reasons why you started smoking and write them all down.

Now look over that list. Do any of those reasons still apply in your life today?

If you’re like most people, you will see that your reasons for becoming a smoker are no longer valid, and are easily outweighed by the risks to your health and your family’s well-being.

So let’s move on to column two…

Why do you want to quit smoking?

This one may seem obvious, but it can be a bit complicated. You really need to take some time and think about this. Don’t just list the obvious health reasons. You’ve been reading the Surgeon General’s warnings for years with little effect, so you need to come up with reasons that truly have meaning for you.

The things most people write down will NOT help you quit smoking…
– I don’t want to get lung cancer. – I don’t want to have a heart attack or a stroke. – I’d like to live long enough to see my grandchildren grow up.

Those are all good reasons to quit smoking… but they deal in “possibilities” rather than in specifics.

Sure you MIGHT get lung cancer, you MIGHT have a heart attack or a stroke, you MIGHT die young and miss out on seeing your grandchildren grow up.

Or, you MIGHT NOT! You’re not likely to break a strong psychological addiction based on what MIGHT happen. Your mind will work hard to convince you that it won’t happen to you! Instead, list health problems that you are already experiencing.

Your list should point out things in your life that you are unhappy about and are STRONGLY MOTIVATED to change. In order to break your psychological addiction, you need an arsenal of new thoughts and desires that are stronger than your desire to smoke.

Here are the types of things you want to put in column two…

Why Do I Want To Quit Smoking?

1. Health Reasons
– I get so out of breath when I exert myself even a little bit. Just vacuuming the house makes me pant and gasp.
– My feet are always cold. This could be due to high blood pressure and poor circulation associated with smoking.
– I have a nasty wet cough and I have to blow my nose way too often. Mucus build-up is the body’s reaction to all the toxins and chemicals in cigarette smoke and could be a precursor to serious respiratory disease. Even if I don’t get cancer, I don’t want to be one of those people who has to tote oxygen bottles around everywhere.
– I’m always tired. Could it be that my body is using up all its energy trying to eliminate the toxins and chemicals from cigarettes?

2. Vanity Reasons
– Smoking causes premature aging and drying of the skin. I don’t want to look like a wrinkled up old prune!
– My fingers, fingernails and teeth are all tobacco stained. Disgusting! How embarrassing.
– When I get on the elevator after a smoke break at work, everyone wrinkles their nose and tries to edge away from me because I reek of cigarette smoke. I feel like a pariah. It’s embarrassing to always be the big “stinker” on the elevator. I feel like I have no self-control.
– My breath is awful. Kissing me must be like kissing an ashtray. I spend a fortune on breath mints.

3. Financial Reasons
– If I save all the money I used to spend on cigarettes, I’ll have enough to take a vacation in Cancun every winter!
– I could use the money to pay off my credit cards!
– I could donate money to my favorite charity or sponsor a child. My cigarette money could make the world a better place!

4. Family Reasons
– My family can stop worrying about me.
– My spouse will have to find something new to nag me about.
– My children will be proud of me and hopefully they’ll never start smoking themselves, having seen first hand what a nasty destructive habit it is.

5. Cleanliness Reasons
– The walls used to be white. Now they’re a nasty dirty-looking brown.
– I stink, my car stinks, my house stinks, everything I own reeks of cigarette smoke. I can’t even lend a book to a non-smoking friend because they can’t stand the smell of smoke permeating the pages.

Do you see yourself in any of the items listed? You may have many more reasons of your own. Find as many compelling and emotional reasons to quit smoking as you can think of and write them all down.

If you can re-train your mind to think of smoking as a silly and self-destructive thing to do, then you’re almost sure to succeed.

Paul Wolbers
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-beat-cigarettes-with-psychology-51531.html

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Many people hate the smell of cigarettes!  It can drive some people crazy.  As most smokers know, the government has passed many laws to accommodate these sensitive types by  “banning” cigarettes from restaurants, public areas and airports. I guess you can’t blame them, but, don’t wmokers have rights too?  Now smokers can smoke where they want with the ICIG electronic cigarette.

If you want to keep smoking and get your nicotine fix where ever you want, try the ICIG electronic cigarette.  You can beat all government bands with the ICIG.  There are several articles like the one by Jude Law’s ex-wife who have beat smoking bans with the ICIG electronic cigarette. Movie stars are not always the best endorsement but we figured we might as well name drop.   

England started using electronic cigarettes far earlier than here in America.  Many of their most famous pubs and nightclubs (such as the popular celebrity haunt China White) have been promoting electronic cigarettes so as to allow their patrons to smoke inside without flouting the smoking ban.  Nicole Cammack took their advise and now smokes in restaurants without violating the law.  Nicole Cammack says she likes them because “they are elegant and don’t make your hands smell.” That’s a good thing, right!!!

Many of the health oriented Internet sites say that smoking cessation devices,  help people who want to stop smoking. The ICIG is not promoted as a smoking cessation device but many of our clients have successfuly used it that way. Another great thing about the ICIG electronic cigarette is that it reduces the causes of secondhand smoke for our families and workplace. We never want to intentionally harm our children so the ICIG is a great solution to keep everyone happy and our families safe. We know that the Surgeon General’s report has many statistics to show the damage that second hand smoke can cause, so feel confident that you are doing your best to help the environment clean with the premier ICIG electronic cigarettes.

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David Cragg
http://www.articlesbase.com/quit-smoking-articles/beat-the-smoking-bans-with-the-icig-electronic-cigarette-751434.html

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