Serves "Smoker Personality" Resist Stop prevalent approaches to life without smoke?
If you are a smoker and people around you know, you're probably inundated with requests to stop. Some are caring and kind. Other abrasive, even disgusted. What the people you Like cite facts and figures on frightening you? Does it make you want to stop? No? Thought so.
Or perhaps you want to stop smoking. You may even be told that you desperately want to quit. Uh-oh. Desperation May make it more difficult to stop.
It is not hopeless? Nothing you can do? There is something. And it is surprisingly simple. Here it is: Let the cessation desire for you. Some thing you want and choose to do.
Even if your doctor, your spouse and your best friends say: "You must stop smoking!" do what you want to stop smoking. It is a desire. Desires are more compelling than orders, are not they? That's because the orders you to angry and you want to ignore.
Give an adult, an order and he or she returns quickly to a voluntary five years. "I will not!" Voice May getting deeper, but the attitude remains the same.
What if you were ordered to eat your favorite pie? Maybe you want to eat. Maybe not. But he certainly would not be as fun as the choice of eating your favorite cake.
Desires, rather that orders, threats, or commands, are attractive. Desirable. Attractive.
They invite you to do something, and let you know it what you wanted to do all along. Then invite you not to smoke, how you want to invite someone special with a delightful dinner. How that?
First, think about what it would be like being a non-smoker. Could your hair smell fresher? What is your breath and clothing? Could your teeth look whiter without nicotine stains yellow and eventually brown? Would you prefer to keep your teeth for as you age, instead of succumbing to gum disease and tooth loss, as many smokers do eventually?
How about fewer trips to the tree dry cleaners to keep your garments smell? What would you do with the savings? After a few years they could be substantial. And how about yourself to have fewer lines of age, and skin fresher and clearer as you age? Does improved breathing sound good to you? It appropriate because it may look younger, walking and running easily, and have more energy for most activities, including sex.
Here Another advantage, you can benefit from reduced insurance costs. The extra money to put toward a vacation or your next brilliant new car. Why lower insurance costs? Because many insurance companies penalize smokers, because they are statistically likely to run up higher health care bills. And if we talk about life insurance, nonsmokers tend to live longer and healthier.
But if you plan to lie to be a non-smoker, beware. Yes, beware. Because if your insurance company were to discover that your illness was caused or aggravated by your smoking, and information, you claimed to be a non-smoker they could choose to fight against the reimbursement of costs of health care. Is it really worth all that just put a white stick between your lips and tar breathing and other poisons?
But this white cane seemed to do something for you that we have not considered yet. Fair is fair, So we make a list.
It gave you something to do.
It made you look like you did something so you do not air alone.
It helped you to avoid snacking, do you keep your weight down.
It let you disconnect from others when you like it.
He helped you connect with others. Other smokers. You've spent time together outside once
No-smoking laws, you smoke inside.
Fair enough.
The important question is: do you prefer to avoid aging Early, smelly hair, yellow, brown or missing teeth, not to mention serious diseases caused or aggravated by smoking
or do you prefer smoking?
Another good question is: Can you get something going, look like something you do, choose healthy snacks to the low calories to stay thin, and find other ways to connect and disconnect from others as you choose? If you can, you simply do not need smoking.
But smokers like to smoke because when they were young, they have learned to connect it to independence. The Marlboro Man seemed very independent, is not it? Perhaps, but not as much when he was hooked to oxygen so it can breathe.
So if you like the independence and do what you want to do instead of being told, the answer is simple. You can choose independence Cigarette companies, restaurants that ban smoking friends who invite you to smoke with them and friends Nag you to stop smoking. You can simply choose to quit. Just because you and nobody else-said. And that's all. Feels pretty strong, independent, and freeing-it doesn't? Copyright 2007 by Wendy Lapidus-Saltz. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Wendy Lapidus-Saltz is a mind coach who helps people break unproductive habits and create new, productive habits. Based in Chicago, she specializes in smoking cessation and women's issues. For more info, call 312-640-1484 or visit
http://www.nonsmoker4life.com
and
http://www.hypno-attraction.com
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