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How to quit smoking?

In order to part with cigarettes forever, there must be a strong enough incentive, as strong as the one that encourages a person to smoke regularly.

What exactly prompts a person to smoke? If you return to the beginning of the path of a smoker, then you can remember that initiation to smoking takes place both voluntarily and compulsorily. Voluntarily - this means that a person, being young, always strives to learn something from others, and seeing what his older friends or female friends look like when smoking a cigarette, confidently, independently, in an adult way, tries to imitate them, enthusiastically learning how to smoke. Forced - this means that the person was not going to start smoking, but being in the company of smoking people, forcing him to do the same, he, in order not to seem like a black sheep, stepping over his principles, starts smoking too.

The human body gradually regards any repetitive action as vital and fixes it in the form of a habit. So, methodically repeating the same rules of behavior, a person at the initial stages of his life acquires the habit of maintaining the hygiene of his body, maintaining the cleanliness of the surrounding space, certain manners to behave in society, and so on. This is how the personality is formed. Over time, people get tired of learning and, having acquired a certain set of vital skills, stop imitating others, adopting both good and bad habits.

In difficult life situations, not finding a way out of a difficult situation, a person, observing what others find this way out, draws appropriate conclusions for himself and moves on to the same ways of experiencing problems, avoiding problems or solving them. And such a "reliable" way to deal with stressful situations, like smoking, always comes first among all other methods. Of course, the substance nicotine does not cure stress, but receiving positive emotions with each dose of nicotine in the form of relaxation of the nervous system, the human body remembers where the “healing source” is and begins to force a person to resort to it again and again, at any opportunity. And, given that rest and a relaxed nervous system is the most comfortable state for the body, then unconsciously a person will always strive for this very state.

From the above, it follows that the most reliable way to quit smoking is to come to this desire voluntarily, without coercion and without stressing the nervous system. Usually, getting rid of any habits is associated with remarkable efforts of the nervous system, the use of willpower, which can fail at the most inopportune moment. Therefore, the most effective ways to part with a cigarette lie in the area of replacing one pleasant method of avoiding nervous overstrain with another equally pleasant method. The list of activities that are pleasant and restful for the nervous system can be limitless, just as the interests of each individual are limitless. The most universal ways of recreation are watching an exciting movie, reading an entertaining book or an interesting magazine, watching sports, playing computer games or communicating on social networks, doing crosswords, sports games in a company (volleyball, basketball, football), gardening or greenhouse work, drawing, hobbies for cooking, various types of handicrafts (wood carving, minor repairs, knitting, embroidery, sewing and much more).

By switching your attention from the intolerable desire to smoke to something that will absorb your attention even for a short time, you can gradually accustom the body to use other methods of relaxing the nervous system and the desire to smoke will gradually disappear by itself. But if you think too often about how to quit smoking, then you will never "quit" with smoking. There is no need to regularly remind the body of what you are going to part with.