You know you need to quit smoking so I don't need to bore you with the details that you have heard time and time again, as well as the reports from various studies that talk about your personal health and the negative effects of smoking. You already know those things, at least from a conscious perspective and you know you need to quit smoking. The problem is that you have not been able to bring yourself to the point where it is real for you. Yes, admit it, you get colds more often that last longer than a normal cold, especially with a cough, but it goes away. You are not yet willing to attribute smoking to that, justifying it to yourself that everybody gets a cold now and then and that you are no different, and that the detrimental effects of smoking are over hyped. But even at that, you know you should quit, perhaps "just in case" the mountains of medical studies are right. You know you would feel better and it would be healthier for you. You do not want to wait until your doctor tells you that you MUST quit smoking since at that point, it will be too late. The problem is that you don't WANT to quit smoking, and all the reports you've read say that you will never be successful in a stop smoking campaign if you do not develop the internal and mental commitment to yourself to stop smoking. So what do you do? The first thing to realize is that as far as quitting smoking, there is no single method that works for all people. Just because your buddy Fred quit cold turkey and your other buddy Bob had success with the patch does not mean that either of those methods will be successful for you. Everybody is different, so what you need to do is find the method that WILL work for you. Your addiction to smoking is probably a combination of psychological and chemical. For the psychological part, you should try to keep yourself out of situations where you would normally smoke. If that is talking on your cell phone on the street corner, then just do not put yourself in that situation, but talk on your cell phone from somewhere else where smoking is not permitted. The chemical addiction is where most people have a problem. This is why the patch is successful with many people, because the patch provides small amounts of the nicotine that your body is craving, but provides it without smoking. While the effect of withdrawal is greatly over emphasized, to an extent it is real and the patch can help avoid those withdrawal symptoms by providing what your body is craving until you reach the point where those cravings do not exist anymore. Find the method that works for you to allow you to quit smoking. One of the things you can do to strengthen your internal resolve to create that mental commitment to stopping smoking is to read the reports about the negative health aspects of it, over and over. For more insights and additional information about How To Quit Smoking please visit our web site at http://www.stop-smoking-techniques.com
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