Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Setting Quit Smoking Dates

The Lies of setting quit smoking dates

Most of the smokers are taught to make plans and preparations for their quit date.
Most smokers think that smokers who had successfully quit smoking must have put a lot of time into preparations and planning, setting quit dates and following stringent instructions until the magic day arrives.

The Honest truth about quit smoking
When the rubber hits the road, the action plan that I took rarely match those that I mentioned above. Let's face it, in the real world of smoking, smokers are alone by themselves in their uphill quest to become smoke free forever.

Therefore setting up quit dates serves only as a guideline for you to kickstart your quit smoking.
Ultimately no matter how much planning or preparations you have made isn't going to make you quit smoking any easier. If your quit smoking reason is not strong enough to fuel your desire to be smoke free.

Some of the smokers may be researching and planning about quit smoking strategies and techniques for ages before finally decided to take the plunge. Are you one of them?

Three smokers' scenarios

  1. People who wake up one day and were suddenly sick and tired of smoking. They tossed the leeching cigarettes that day and never looked back.

  2. People who get sick. Not smoking sick, meaning some kind of catastrophic smoking induced illness. I was one of those smokers who get a cold or a flu and feel miserable. They feel too sick to smoke, they may feel too sick to eat. They are down with the infection for two or three days, start to get better and then realize that they have a few days down without smoking and decide to try to keep it going. Again, they never look back and stuck with their new commitment.
    ( I belong to this category but I face some minor glitches)

  3. Smokers who leave a doctor's office who have been given an ultimatum. Quit smoking or drop dead--Do or Die, it's your choice. These are smokers who has been identified by their doctors, that their lives is at great risk if they do not quit smoking. You would not want to be in this category, would you?
All these scenarios have one thing in common--smokers simply quit smoking in one day. The quit smoking reasons are varied however the technique used are basically the same.

You will see that the only one real underlying reason behind their decision to quit smoking is
to avoid pain.

If you really want to quit smoking, please find successful role models - long term ex smokers
in the real world, be it your friends, colleagues, relatives seek them out and ask them
why they quit smoking.


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