Quitting smoking can be one of the most difficult things one can experience. The way that everybody makes it out to be impossible, combined with horrific-sounding nicotine withdrawal, makes it not sound like something anybody would want to do. Luckily, these smoking cessation tips can help take the edge off!
First, you should know that almost every nicotine withdrawal symptom will drive you to want to smoke, without you really knowing it:
- Irritability. Nicotine withdrawal will make you irritable, and you will lash out at other people. Generally, immediately afterward you'll want a cigarette to calm down. Don't give in!
- Depression. Two or three days after quitting, you'll feel depressed and regretful. You won't quite be able to pin it on something in particular. I felt like my life was completely pointless. If you're thinking that this will drive you back towards smoking, you're right!
You'll also feel a number of fun physical symptoms, which will in general make you feel like crap for a few days. The important part, though, is that it all goes away after the first week! Once you've gone through that week, you never have to deal with those horrid symptoms again, and you'll have your life back.
Depending on how you've quit smoking, that first week can be the only difficult part of quitting that you will need to deal with. The first few times I quit, I ended up relapsing during those few days (and once or twice after the first week) because, despite living through the physical symptoms, my mind still wanted me to smoke.
You don't have to deal with both the mental addiction of smoking and the physical one at the same time, though. The way that I finally quit was with the EasyQuit System which unraveled the connections in my mind between various events and smoking. After reading through it, all I had to deal with were the physical symptoms, which comparatively are a walk in the park!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com
No comments:
Post a Comment