Stop Smoking Challenge

Stopping smoking is a very concrete and simple goal. However, reaching that goal is not so easy than you would think. In my experience, the problem is not the physical withdrawal symptoms of Nicotine, because they are generally quite mild. The real problem of stopping smoking is beating your psychological addiction to Nicotine. Beating your internal Nicotine addict will be easier as long as you remember following three points:

1. Understand that

Setting a stop smoking date is an essential tool for stopping smoking, and if you fail to keep your promise, there is a good chance that you will wake up every morning and promise to stop smoking tomorrow. Most of the smokers have been in this situation, and I am currently one of them. What has led me into this situation?

I am ashamed to admit that

I was browsing the web yesterday and I found a discussion, where a young woman was asking, why his husband is telling her that he has not started smoking again, when she knows that it is not the truth. She had found empty cigarette packs from the pockets of his husband’s jacket and noticed that his hands are sometimes smelling for cigarettes. When she asked his husband about this, he

As I wrote earlier, I still want to stop smoking. I feel weak, because my earlier attempts have failed. I also feel guilty, because I feel that I have let my friends and family down. To be honest, I am pretty sure that my few readers are laughing to me. Well, none of this really matters, because I cannot change the past. That is why I decided

My only goal for last year was to stop smoking. Unfortunately, I failed to meet that goal. Even though I am no longer smoking on a regular basis, I feel that I have not achieved anything. I am still a slave of Nicotine. However, admitting that gives me at least some kind of hope for a smoke free future. Luckily for me, I have still got time to reach that

As you might remember, my previous blog entry discussed about learning from my mistakes. Unfortunately, I have not followed my own advice. After my slip, I have had problems motivating myself to continue my life as a nonsmoker. Instead, I have continued it as a casual smoker.

The problem is that every time when I drink alcohol, I smoke cigarettes. I cannot understand, why I am behaving

As I wrote in my previous blog entry, my life has not been totally smoke free. However, I have managed to pick up the pieces, and figured out what went wrong. This blog entry is written to remind me, what will most likely happen again, if I forget the lessons, which I have learned from my mistakes. Naturally, I am also hoping that this will prevent someone

Two weeks ago, when I decided to visit a nearby pub, I fell. Naturally, I am speaking metaphorically. After a couple of beers, I decided to smoke a few cigarettes (two to be exact). At the time I did not think about the consequences of my actions. I just simply had an urge to smoke, and I followed it.

Luckily for me, I received my punished in the next morning.

It is a common misconception that after a certain period of time without smoking, the urge to smoke disappears. One would think that after spending almost three months without smoking, or using Nicotine replacement products, one’s urge to smoke would be gone. When I stopped smoking by going cold turkey, I was sure that after the first months, I would not want to smoke anymore. Now I know that

It is often said that an addiction is a personal selection. Even though it is true, that addicts as well as all other persons, are responsible for their actions, I cannot stop wondering, if this is the whole truth. Becoming a Nicotine addict is always a personal choice, because no one becomes addicted to Nicotine by mistake. Never the less, real world is not that simple.

It is in the