I Want to Stop Smoking

People may ask themselves, why do I want to stop smoking, and come up with such answers as, to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and premature death. Notwithstanding such risks, a lot of smokers require personal reasons to break the smoking habit; possibly because they mistakenly believe they can escape the serious consequences.

Why I Want To Stop Smoking

 It seems that many smokers require their own set of reasons to persuade them to free themselves of the smoking habit. In this respect you are invited to consider the following.

In the first instance write down on a sheet of paper the three most harmful aspects of how the smoking habit affects you personally. Include physical problems such as breathing difficulties and tiredness. Then consider that you may feel like an outcast at work, having to step outside for a smoke, whilst your friends enjoy a visit to the canteen. Consider the humiliation of knowing that your clothes, and even your body, may smell of stale tobacco that can smother the best perfumes and after-shave lotions. Write down every negative thing you can, because you know that you deserve a better life than one which is being spoilt by the tobacco habit.

Your list may contain lots of other reasons why your assertion, I want to stop smoking, is so important to you. Include such things as the damage second hand smoke can do to others, particularly children. You know you would like to set a good example and that it is well within your means to do so.

Smoking Health Effects

On another piece of paper write down a more detailed explanation of the three most harmful smoking health effects. If 'breathing difficulties' is one of these, write down how progressively detrimental it will be to your health, impairing your ability to work, and to provide for your family. Cover each significant factor of the health hazard, such as whether you might die prematurely, or pass wrong messages to your children that it is permissible to smoke, because of your own addiction. It is important to write as much as you can, to drive home your, I want to stop smoking, assertion.

Continue this process for the other two most harmful smoking health effects you listed. Once you have written as much significant information as you can, about the harmful smoking health effects, take another sheet of paper, and write down the opposite scenario. Describe the benefits that accrue, when your affirmation, I want to stop smoking, succeeds and you achieve your objective. Know that your health will start to improve almost immediately because most smoking diseases are progressively related to the smoking habit.

The Sooner You Stop Smoking The Better

The sooner you stop smoking the better. You will be pleased that your, I want to stop smoking, affirmation has released you from your tobacco habit, and you will be in a unique position to support others who wish to follow your example. That in itself may be reward enough, but the knowledge that you will live a healthier existence with less chance of dieing early, and leaving your loved ones in the lurch, will be a real joy to them as well as to yourself.

Before the day you stop smoking read your lists frequently to impress upon your mind how futile, and dangerous, the smoking habit is. Carry your notes with you and refer to them constantly before and after you quit. They will impress upon you what a dreadful addiction the tobacco habit is, and strengthen your resolve, as well as providing the impetus you require to stop smoking, once and for all.