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 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

My previous blog entry described actions, which I took to find my motivation to continue my life as a nonsmoker. One of the actions was to write down both advantages and disadvantages of stopping smoking. This blog entry describes that list without leaving anything out. I present you the advantages and disadvantages of stopping smoking:

Advantages:

• Freedom. I am no longer a slave of the cigarette. Smoking does not control my life

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

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

Three weeks have passed and I have not smoked a single cigarette. I think that I am now ready to try describing my reasons for stopping smoking. One reason for waiting so long before addressing this important issue was that I have not yet been reasonable sure about my reasons for quitting. I guess no one can never be absolutely sure, but I feel that the time has come to

This is my fourth day without smoking, and smoking cessation becomes easier every day. There are still moments, which makes me miss smoking, but they are getting easier and easier to deal with as long as I remind myself that I have stopped smoking. Some of the symptoms are however quite hard to deal with, and it seems that there is no easy way out. The symptoms will disappear eventually,

Since I am going through this phase myself, I decided to write down some tips, which can help you to get through your first days as a nonsmoker. These tips are not given in any particular order, and you might not have experienced every situation I am talking about. Nevertheless, I am hoping that you find some of my tips useful.

• Don’t listen to your internal addict. As I wrote