| Even if many people are well aware of disadvantages | | | | 2. The pleasure habit you develop smoking. |
| that are caused by smoking the vast majority of them | | | | These traps merged with the physiological increasing |
| aren’t able to give up the habit and quit smoking. | | | | addiction, make your quit smoking trial weaker and |
| Studies show that reason behind this is the myth of | | | | weaker. |
| addictions. Smokers are overestimating the power of | | | | Thus smoking is more a problem of mind than is of |
| addictions, so they aren’t able to quit smoking. | | | | body. It is not an easy habit to get rid of but the good |
| Put another way, smokers think that nicotine is not | | | | news is that studies show that quitting smoking is an |
| allowing them to quit smoking. | | | | easy task with modern therapies. For example |
| This is the trap and adds laziness to your quit smoking | | | | hypnotherapy is an effective mean that can help you |
| trials. This is what gives real power to the physiological | | | | to quit smoking easily. |
| addiction: you think your addiction has more power | | | | To start you have to drop your nicotine addiction belief |
| than you, so you try to resist weakly, so you fail, so | | | | and then drop the habit. |
| you have confirmed that nicotine addiction is powerful, | | | | To drop your nicotine addiction belief, just consider |
| so you can’t do anything against it, so you can | | | | what we have said before and grasp that it’s |
| continue smoking. Then you restart this cycle with | | | | true. |
| more evidence that you are addicted to nicotine and | | | | Quitting habit is much difficult than quitting anything else. |
| you can’t do anything against it. | | | | But you can start organizing your resources and |
| So you continue smoking and develop (what you think | | | | freeing from smoking diseases [ |
| is) a pleasant habit. Soon you’ll need to smoke to | | | | You need to act in a cohesive manner. Behaving in a |
| satisfy your habit. As every other habit, it has its own | | | | new way in a consistent manner will, as you guess, |
| environmental triggers that activate your smoking | | | | develop a new habit. The more you apply it, the more |
| desire (after meal? At the phone? In a coffee break?). | | | | the old habit will weaken. At the start it will be quite |
| So the two psychological traps that prevent you from | | | | hard, as only your effort will sustain you. But in a while |
| quit smoking are: | | | | your new habit will support you. So it will become |
| | | | easier and easier the more you go. |
| 1. Thinking your nicotine addiction can’t be beaten. | | | | So, get all the help you can and start. |