Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
A.P. Herbert
Do a personal analysis to help you quit smoking
Smoking is not just an addiction to nicotine is also a psychological addiction. You need to learn to control your mind in order to quit smoking.
Take a paper and divide it into two columns. At the top of one column put reasons for smoking. At the top of the other column list all the reasons you want to quit.
Now quickly write down all the reasons for smoking. Whether it be to relieve stress, family pressure, pleasure, keeping your weight under control or whatever reasons you can think of what you smoke.
Next, write down all the reasons why you know you should quit. Write down anything you can think of like to feel better, to quit coughing, smell better, have more energy, or anything you can think of that is a good reason for you to quit smoking.
Just writing down I will be healthier is usually not a good enough motivator for most people. Make it something life-changing. Something extremely important to you. Your reasons need to motivate you to want to quit. If you care about your looks, think about the fact that smoking gives you wrinkles and makes teeth yellow. Do you want to look older than you are? Whatever motivates you the most write it down.
Think about your family. Do you have children? Does it make them sad and worried about you because you smoke? Is quitting for your family a good enough motivator?
Do you smoke in your house? Do you have yellow smoke stains all over your walls, ceiling, furniture and everywhere else. Take a spray bottle and spray the wall and watch the gross yellow smoke stains dripping down the walls. Do you really want that in your body?
Keep writing until you come up with something that makes you so angry and disgusted with yourself for smoking, that you just have no choice but to quit as you cannot bear the thought of being a smoker anymore knowing that this is happening because of it.
