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

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 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

Smokers seem to be one of the most haunted group of “normal” people in the western world. Laws are written to ban smoking in public places. Taxes are raised, and smokers are forced to pay more from their little pleasure. Some argue that the governments are going too far. Smokers claim that their human rights are violated. I am not sure, who is right, and who is wrong. All I

For some reason, I have been lately having strong urges to smoke that legendary one cigarette. At first, I was feeling a bit confused, because I could not understand, why my urge to smoke has returned from its grave. However, after my initial shock was passed, I was soon able to realize, what was really going on. I had become too proud and careless. In a way, I had forgotten

I stopped smoking about a month ago, and even though it has brought so many positive things in my life, I feel that my body is still suffering from physical symptoms caused by stopping smoking. Luckily, I am aware that these symptoms are a sign that my body is recovering from Nicotine addiction. It gives me some strength to deal with these symptoms even though I am feeling physically beaten

I have noticed that one of the main weapons, which is used to motivate smokers to quit smoking, is health education. Cigarette packs contains warnings, which announces that smoking is harmful to one’s health. In some countries they even print shocking images illustrating smoking related illnesses to cigarette packs. And if one tries to search information about smoking, one should be prepared to find a lot of information about the