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Have you been a smoker for years but now you want to stop? But the trouble with quitting is that it's SO HARD to do. Are cigarettes really addictive or is there another reason why you can't stop smoking? Most smokers (and non-smokers) wrongly believe that cigarettes are addictive because they contain nicotine. This belief is further re-enforced by the manufacturers who have jumped straight onto this misconception and produced countless quit-smoking products that contain nicotine (patches, gum, etc). But these manufacturers aren't unscrupulous. They truly believe that their products can help you to stop smoking by giving you the nicotine "fix" you crave whenever you try and quit smoking. Sadly, what they (and you) don't understand is that it's not the nicotine that you're craving. It's the cigarette. Let's face it; if nicotine was re-classed as an illegal substance and all cigarettes became nicotine-free, would you still smoke them? Darn right you would. You might not enjoy them as much as the old nicotine-stuffed cigarettes but you wouldn't give them up. Why is that? When you want to smoke a cigarette and you light one up, are you thinking "mmm…nicotine"? Of course not. What you are thinking, is how much you're going to enjoy smoking the cigarette. Every time you light up you're looking forward to inhaling the smoke and feeling it pass through your mouth and down your throat. Then you get the double enjoyment of feeling the smoke come back up your throat so that you can have the pleasure of blowing it out of your mouth. And that is what you really enjoy about smoking. It's not the nicotine. It's the physical pleasure of actually smoking the cigarette. So you can see that smoking is more like a habit than an addiction. The real problem though is that it's a habit that you enjoy and so you don't really want to give it up, even though you know you should. But what if you want to quit smoking for good? Is there an easy way to stop smoking? There is only one true way to give up smoking and that is to stop smoking naturally. Giving up this way requires only two steps. The first step is understanding your reasons for wanting to stop smoking. And the only reason that you need is that you simply and truly have to want to stop smoking. Don't give yourself false reasons like "I'm doing it for my health" or "I want to save money". The only reason you need is that you're just plain sick and tired of smoking and you want to stop. In other words, your motivation to stop smoking has to be that you want to be a non-smoker. And the thought of becoming a non-smoker must make you feel happy and excited. Once you're sure you want to stop smoking for good, the next step is to begin the slow and natural process of cutting cigarettes out of your life gradually. Smoking is a habit that you've built up over many years. You didn't become a smoker by suddenly smoking a pack a day and likewise, you can't become a non-smoker by suddenly not smoking. You must reduce your dependency on cigarettes bit by bit, month by month, until eventually, you no longer want to smoke at all. So if you want to quit smoking for good, do it the slow, steady and natural way, and look forward to becoming cigarette-free for the rest of your life. ------------------------------------- Start your path to quit smoking by downloading your free copy of "How to Quit Smoking Right Now" at http://goodbye-smoking.com. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click the link.
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