Plan to Stop Smoking

It requires a lot of effort to quit smoking. There are many stop smoking aids and methods available for us and for addicts like it is very important to take time to use these methods. There are forums, patches, pills, hypnotism, meditation, NLP and many more methods which we can use to stop smoking successfully. Stopping smoking cold turkey is not actually cold turkey method because you need to keep motivating yourself and get enough continuous inspiration by reading about the ills of this addiction and participating in forums.

If you are so busy that you have no time to take help of any of these methods, it is hard to stop smoking. It is for this reason, I have started a blog and participated in the forum to keep myself busy not only in my daily activities but also in the activities which will keep my motivation strong. I have found that it is very easy to quit smoking if the motivation is strong enough. But unfortunately, the emotional status of a strong motivation is not long lasting if you are not continuously feeding it with thoughts which can trigger and sustain that state.

To do this, you need to consider quitting smoking as a long-term project and plan accordingly. I know that I cannot just visit the forum just once or twice and write just a couple of blog posts and quit smoking. I also know it is okay to relapse but need to get up dust me off and try again. But it is important to bear in my mind that relapse and try again method should not become a habit in itself. For this reason, I took the decision to reinvest my time to read more about stopping smoking and plan well.

After my first relapse, I started planning in a different way. Now along with blogging about my progress in quitting smoking and participating in the forum. I decided to make exercise, yoga, and meditation a habit. Smoking as a habit leaves little space to other good habits to enter. I think replacing it with good habits enables you keep yourself aware of your aim and remain motivated. You have to spread all the activities you plan to replace the addiction of smoking throughout the day. For example, I started with yoga and meditation right after getting up in the morning, writing for the blog and visiting the forum after breakfast, avoiding junk food throughout the day, forum and reading in the evening and meditation at night.
This is how I planned my project of stopping smoking. I am sure of success this time.

Side Effects Of Quitting Smoking:

There are many products available in the market which claim to help you dealing with the side effects of quitting smoking, especially cold turkey. Most of these people list indigestion, flatulence, gas, diarrhea, constipation, sinus congestion, voice hoarseness, phlegm production as some of the side effects of quitting smoking cold turkey.

There is a great list of side effects of quitting smoking listed in many websites which I do not want to repeat here. There are times when I quit smoking up to two weeks in the past. Apart for strong urge to smoke, there were no side effects of quitting on my body.

Most of the side effects which are quoted by these internet markets are actually the side effects of smoking not quitting smoking. For example voice hoarseness and sinus congestion. The strong side effect of smoking which affects you negatively is only the strong uneasiness which your body feels which makes you desperate to smoke. Other than this I don't think there are any major side effects. Few side effects like headache and numbness and tingling in the fingers are actually psychosomatic where you try to fool yourself to smoke.

I also belief that it is the availability of the smoke which plays all the tricks on your mind and body to convince yourself to smoke. Once I spent about fifteen days in an ashram where there is no chance of smoking or coming out of the ashram. I had no side effects as my mind clearly knows that smoke is available only fifty miles away and almost impossible.

Do try cold turkey keeping in mind that all the tricks your mind plays on body is because of the fact that smoke is available in the vicinity. See if you get any of the so called side effects of quitting smoking.

The Easy and Best Way To Quit Smoking

I always wanted to know some miracle method, the best way to quit smoking which will help me quit smoking with little effort and without craving. Obviously, I could find none. But there are methods which can make to stop smoking with a lessor degree of pain and frustration.

I have not tried hypnosis or NLP, but I know two people who are close to me who stopped smoking relatively easily. The first person is my brother who could successfully quit smoking habit of 25 years. I can tell you that he could do this without any pain, guilt of relapsing, planning or even a quit date.

He smoked one, two or three cigarettes per day for a week instead of his regular twenty cigarettes and stopped taking stopped smoking altogether within week. He is smoke free for ten years now and is sure of not becoming a smoker again. Yes he smoked twice in these ten years, but never relapsed.

The other person who could quit smoking easily is one of my friends. He also things this method as the best way I tried to quit smoking. He stopped smoking after smoking continuously twenty cigarettes per day for five years. He followed the same pattern, smoked one or two cigarettes for few days and then quit completely.

Can You Stop Smoking Easily:
There is a reason for them to quit smoking so easily. The first one is even though they are smoking addicts (smoking was the first thing in the morning and last thing before bed ) they were not chain smokers. The second and most important reason is quitting smoking was just a part of complete lifestyle changes they underwent.

My brother converted to Born Again Christianity and became a seriously religiously Christian. Along with smoking he also stopped drinking. He changed the way he used to dress. He started attending church every Sunday. Most of the free time he spent reading bible. This helped him quit smoking so effortless. Complete change of personal image and personality. It is difficult to quit smoking being the same person because smoking so strongly adheres to your life it is big task to remove it from your life being a same person.

The second person, my friend could stop for similar reasons but not religious. At 29 years of age and smoking for five years and working is small jobs, suddenly to get a big job in a different country. His entirely lifestyle changed big house, bigger cars, own gym different society everything changed. He as a person underwent a lot of change. He stopped eating junk, started golf (social influence), got married and stopped smoking.

I think you understand that quitting smoking is easy when there is complete lifestyle change and change in personal image. But the secret is changing your personal image is not so easy. You cannot leave your society and daily life so easily. You cannot become religious suddenly without any major event happening to you. But if you are fed up with your life and want yourself to be different person, then as a part of this most difficult transformation, quitting smoking is easy.

For me the best way to quit smoking is to have a lifestyle change and change of personal image. This helps in a overall developement of you as a person and makes quitting smoking easy.