After stopping smoking many times I decided to look back at the excuses I and those around me gave for not stopping smoking, or beginning once more after quitting. When I say excuses they are typically given as reasons when actually they are excuses, what do you feel?
>> Stopping smoking makes me put on weight
Absolute BS. Nobody has ever put on weight merely simply because they have stopped smoking. How do I know that? Simply because I’ve been there. Occasionally I have put weight on, occasionally I haven’t but every time has been different.
What happens is that you automatically try to substitute the craving for nicotine with something tasty like chocolate or boiled sweets and that is what puts weight on you.
If you want substitutes try low fat, low calorie substitutes like grapes, oranges, Tic Tacs or carrots. If you truly can’t manage with out chocolate or boiled sweets use the money that you are saving on cigarettes to pay for membership at a gym and work the calories off. Or get your self a Wii Fit like I have! Whatever you do exercise will help to maintain the weight off and to make you healthier.
The bottom line is that tobacco items are far more likely to kill you than a few pounds weight gain so forget vanity correct now.
>> My husband/wife/partner smokes
OK it’s a tough 1 when somebody that you live with continues to smoke when you are trying to quit. It’s far less complicated if they don’t smoke or if they determine to stop with you, but if they care about you they should be happy to help you.
One way that they can help is to go outside to smoke and keep your residence smoke free of charge. Apart from keeping temptation out of your way, if you have youngsters they shouldn’t be smoking in the property anyway for the sake of the children’s health.
Smoking outside also keeps your residence cleaner, much less smelly, doesn’t need decorating as often and your partner will find that he or she smokes much less and saves some cash too since they haven’t got the convenience of just being able to light up where ever they are.
In fact banning smoking from the house, or just having one room where you can smoke can help you to cut back on smoking and lead up to stopping.
>> My grandparents smoked and they lived until they had been in their 90s
Your grandparents aren’t you and statistically they had been darned lucky to live so long as smokers. Truth be told I employed to say the same about one of my grandmas, conveniently forgetting that this shriveled up relative of mine who constantly seemed to have a Capstain full strength dangling from her lips could rarely get a sentence out with out coughing. In fact that image of her in my head is my only memory of her and that’s sad.
>> I’m going to stop smoking on Monday not these days
Monday comes and goes and you have either forgotten your promise or you decide that you will wait until the following Monday. Or you might even manage an hour or two without a cig before you change your mind. It might be far better to begin with out delay and then you will have the same mindset as you had when you made your decision.
>> I can stop anytime
Thats what some smokers say but when challenged they will say that they don’t want to yet, or that they will stop after Christmas, the new year, their holiday, sometime never. Truth is the desire to quit needs to be stronger than your addiction and that is when you will stop.
>> I’m waiting until after the summer since everybody is obtaining duty frees for me and I’m saving cash
You would save even far more if you quit altogether!
>> I smoke roll ups/ a pipe and they are not as bad for you
They are still killers no matter how you smoke tobacco.
>> I get too stressed and that’s bad for me
That isn’t anxiety it’s the nicotine addiction and craving. There are lots of goods on the market nowadays to help decrease the craving and withdrawal symptoms: nicotine gum, nicotine patches, inhalators, books, hypnotism, subconcious learning cds, tablets, fake cigarettes and even a Wii game to assist you to stop smoking.
I’m certain there are many more excuses for not stopping smoking, but there are far far more good factors for giving up smoking and the principal one is your health and the health of everybody around you.