Tobacco contains nicotine which is a very addictive substance.  <—- Good answer to the title of this post don’t you think?

Usually a lot of people begin smoking through peer pressure, learning from family members who smoke, especially parents or just want to try it out. A lot of guys especially teenagers see it as fashionable and “cool” so to speak to smoke.

Peer pressure is hard to avoid but sometimes its best to just walk away. Parents are supposed to be the main role models for their kids, but when kids grow up in an environment where the parents smoke then its more likely for the kids to start smoking at an early age. In very rare situations do children growing up in such an environment end up being averse to smoking. Stealing a cigarette or two from mum or dads pack, giving it a try, we’ve all had our fair share of being rebellious and of curiosity.

The question that comes to mind is who is paying the price now?

Correct me if I am wrong, most people don’t like smoking the first time they try it, I sure hated it I claimed I would not do it again but fell prey to peer pressure so much for never smoking again, how was your experience?  If you’re like 99% of other smokers you probably were feeling excited, your heart racing you were doing something that you know you weren’t supposed to do, but human nature has that element of curiosity which makes us want to try new things, ever heard the expression curiosity kills the cat? Well in this case curiosity seriously kills the cat!

That first puff, do you remember what it was like? With smoking though, despite the fact you don’t like it, that first puff you took has you either ‘Hooked’ for a long time or just gave you the idea that you will never smoke in your life again. Some successfully never smoke again and other are simply weakened by it and the more the smoke the more irresistible it gets.

If your reading this you probably fall into the first category, where you’re hooked and now you want out.

So you want to quit smoking? Its probably why you’re reading this in the first place.

Let me not waste your time, I had been smoking for almost 13 years, I know how hard it is to break free from the cigarettes, I wont lie to you they are really really addictive. Not only that but they do more damage than good. So why cant you quit.

A few reasons could be:

  • Tobacco companies are making them more addictive
  • You’ve been smoking for so long its become part of your daily life and routine.
  • The people around you don’t help when it comes to quitting
  • Your stressed and smoking helps with coping with this stress
  • And probably a few more thousand other reasons.

Bottom line is YOU WANT TO QUIT PERIOD!

SO how do you go about doing that?

First things first, not many people are the same, what works for you may not work for me, or what works for her will not work for him.

So how do you quit? (I must have said this a million times now)

Im going to help you, this blog is all about helping you to do just that, its going to point out some things that you can do to increase the chances of you quitting smoking for good.

To even begin to think of quitting you got to realize that smoking is a lifestyle. Yup Smoking is a lifestyle

You want to quit smoking, then lose the lifestyle. As an ex smoker this was my life:

Wake up in the morning, first thing before doing anything get a lighter and a smoke and inhale exhale, and WOW those morning cigarettes were always the best, don’t you agree? Always cigarettes on my mind. If there was a few remaining in my box, I had to venture out and get a box, either on the way to college, or if I had a day off I would make sure it was high on my “Mental To-Do-List”:

Get smokes…..Secured my fix…..now come other tasks.

During the day on the way to work have a smoke. At work somehow take a few minutes off to have a “Smoke break” usualy with another colleague that smokes, and then get back to work. After lunch have a smoke, I remember those were a relief, just the thing to seal your apetite 100% after a good meal. Then on the way back home another cigarette maybe squeeze a few before that, at home another smoke “Ahhhhh your finally home what a way to relieve all that stress off a hard days work”.

Ashtrays all over your house, some full some half full, the stench of smoke on your clothes, go out for coffee with friends, if you asked me it was more like who can outsmoke the other whilst downing coffee. And then finally just before you sleep have a cigarette while the rest of the world is slowly lulling away into the darkness of the night.

Can you relate to any of this?

If yes then I hope you understand what I mean by “Smoking is a lifestyle“. Its a way of doing things and if you’re going to live that lifestyle then you’re going to need a box or two everyday just to keep this lifestyle going. Not to mention a new set of lungs to keep up with the lifestyle. (Amazingly enough with todays advanced medicine getting a new set of lungs is possible!!!!)

Now imagine your day without it? What would you do without the smoke breaks at work? How would you react to your colleague inviting you to a smoke break and you say no I quit smoking?

Let me get the main point to you here, you want to quit you got to change the above lifestyle, and if you do things differently then you got to start seeing yourself doing it with cigarettes out of the equation.