When You Decide to Quit Smoking
It is difficult to quit anything that has become a habit. To quit smoking is no different. There are many approaches to take in order to overcome this life threatening habit. There are clinical, medicated, mental and even support group approaches for quitting smoking. The most important thing is to decide that you want to quit smoking.
People search for ways to quit smoking. It won’t matter which program or method that you use, if you don’t really want to quit, you won’t. Study after study shows that if a person of integrity will make a true decision to to do something, whether it’s goal setting, weight loss, alcohol drinking issues or quitting smoking, they will succeed.
It is never easy to quit smoking unless you change your mind about it. Once you’ve made the decision to quit, you must believe that you can.
Don’t go around continually saying that it’s hard or that you’re not sure you’re going to make it. Goal setting 101, you have to change how you think and how you talk about a particular issue to get success. If you constantly believe the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve, you will fail.
Case and point, a beloved family member had smoked most of her adult life. Her generation had no idea what smoking did to their bodies and it was the accepted social norm that everyone smoked. So well into her forties at the time, she had some difficulties. She tried a lot of things, and then one day, she made a decision. A new grandchild was on the way and she decided that she was going to be done smoking by the time the baby was born. She not only made a decision but discovered a reason to keep her going. She always say to herself everyday, “I will quit smoking by the time the baby is here”. She ate carrots and chewed gum and sucked on hard candies and all the while, she would say, “by the time the baby is here, I will be done with smoking”.
After about nine months of setting her goal, eating carrot sticks and gum chewing, she had overcome her habit. She hadn’t touched a cigarette in that entire time.Quitting smoking can be done, but you will have to make a decision, you will have to set your mind to task and focus with and “I can” mentality and talk about that positive confession everyday.