January 18, 2008

Focus the mind to quit smoking

With the with the onset of the Smoking Ban, it is estimated that over 2 million people in England, Wales & Scotland will have tried to quit smoking in the second half of 2007. However, even if all of these people managed to give up and stay off cigarettes, that still leaves an estimated 8 million smokers in Britain today.
To give up smoking is one of the most popular New Year0s resolutions, with hundreds of thousands trying to quit each year. But the sad fact is that a significant proportion of these people will lapse before the year is out and return to their smoking habit. There are withdrawal symptoms that will be experienced when trying to give up smoking 0 many people suffer from mouth ulcers, develop a chesty cough and even suffer from disturbed sleep. However as well as these physical symptoms there are also mental side effects that need to be faced 0 irritability, restlessness and anxiety and it is perhaps these side effects that contribute more to people succumbing to the craving for nicotine more than the physical withdrawal symptoms.
Therefore preparing yourself mentally to quit before you even stub out that last […]

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To Stop Smoking - Wanting To Make A Change

Anytime someone succeeds at making a change in their life, it is the result of something more than just discipline and willpower. Regarding someone who wants to stop smoking who will be dealing with physical withdrawals, it is a little more difficult but it can be done, and in fact, is done - all the time. Perhaps not by you YET, but that doesn’t mean you will never succeed with your attempts to quit smoking.I see it all the time; people trying to loose weight, trying to quit smoking, trying to accomplish something but always falling back to the old way. What frequently happens is that they will succeed for awhile but it doesn’t last and they end up going right back where they were. This usually is the result of trying to succeed by applying discipline and willpower. It starts you moving in the proper direction but then you get tired and fall back.Changing something about yourself is really not about changing. It is about “exchanging”- exchanging one way for another. How is this different? Changing requires you to control your behavior. This is done by the suppressing of your natural tendencies. Over time, this suppression only frustrates you. […]

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