Quitting Smoking Facts Change Your Mindset for Smoking Cessation Success
by Matt Neumann
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Want to know how I quit smoking?
I changed my mind!
The quitting smoking facts reveal that many people attempt to quit smoking and fail numerous times. On average it takes about 7 tries before people finally quit smoking for good.
If you want to be successful before your seventh try, you must realize how important it is to have the correct mindset.
You need to be in the right frame of mind, otherwise you'll just relapse over and over.
You can say to yourself repeatedly that "tonight's the night" and "I promise I'll quit tomorrow" or even "I'm not allowed to smoke anymore."
Sound familiar? Have you said those things to yourself before? I know I have, dozens of times.
To my friends, who saw me relapse over and over, it became laughable. To me, I was hurting inside.
The quitting smoking facts show that many quitters say it is one of the most difficult things they have ever done.
If you're a
heavy smoker (pack per day), it can seem like a difficult climb up a steep mountain in the first few days.
That's why having a "quit smoking mindset" is imperative to your long term success. You need to WANT to quit. You need to want to quit more than anything else.
It has to be your #1 priority. If it's #2 or below, there will always be an excuse to smoke.
You have to be willing to take that one last drag, and then let it go and never look back. You can't have any regrets, or second thoughts. Those thoughts will only lead to relapse.
Why?
Because after a few days, you'll forget about the negative smoking facts, and why you quit in the first place. You won't remember how awful it was and how horrible smoking cigarettes made you feel.
Nicotine will make you only remember the good times with cigarettes, and how good they tasted. You remember that very first cigarette you ever had?
Well, once you quit, and stay quit for a few days, that memory will come back to haunt you. The effects of
nicotine on your brain will make sure of that.
So your "quit smoking mindset" needs to be in place first. You have to drop all the
smoking fiction and be ready to quit for the rest of your life.
Once you put out that last cigarette, you are officially a non-smoker. You have to want to be a non-smoker, you have to think like a non-smoker and most importantly you have to believe that you can be one.
If you say you are going to quit smoking cigarettes but your thinking is more along the lines of:
"I'll just quit for right now. Hopefully it sticks this time."
You are doomed because your chances are lighting up again are high.
Once you get it in your head that you've quit, you'll find life without cigarettes much easier to handle.
The
nicotine withdrawal symptoms will eventually go away.
If you take a step back and see the withdrawal for what it really is...a
sign of drug addiction...then you'll have a better chance at long term success.
It's having the correct "quit smoking mindset" in the first place that's the hardest thing to do. Most people aren't ready, even though they say they are. That's why people fail.
They weren't ready.
Once you are truly ready, quit and never look back.
That is how I quit smoking and you can too.
Matt Neumann
www.iQuit-Smoking.com
