QUITTING SMOKING

Quitting Smoking



Quitting Smoking

The Area of Personal Change Sought

The area that I have chosen for the personal change is quitting to smoke.

Why I Desired This Change?

On weekends, when I poked around in my box of books, I suddenly found a book in my shelf, which was given to me a few years ago by a good friend of mine. The book was "Finally Non smoking" by Allen Carr.

My friend, from whom I received this book, was also a chain smoker and he succeeded, after many failed attempts with the help of this book. Since it has helped him and he knew that I wanted to quit with smoking, he brought me the book over with the words:"Try it a try with this book, it helps!"

Why I have not read it then and quit smoking? I do not remember. Maybe I was too indecisive, or was it the skeptic in me? I cannot say more now. I saw that he has done it successfully, and he asked me again and again.

What Prevented Me from Doing So in the Past?

One of errors I smoked for many years are right, some people have a lifetime of smoking and longevity:

Smoking with disease incubation period, an average of 2 individual smokers, there will be a die of tobacco, now more than one billion smokers worldwide will die from smoking in the future half of the related diseases. National survey of more than 100,000 people in the data, have found that the average life expectancy of smokers than non-smokers were significantly different, a difference of at least 5 years of age (Cunningham, 2006). According to World Health Organization, tobacco is harmful to health. The report based on epidemiological, clinical and experimental medicine research. There are also some sufficient scientific evidences to make the 20 world's most indisputable scientific conclusions.

The second misunderstanding is to make people quit smoking gain weight:

Not all smoking cessation are fat. Some smokers after smoking cessation gain a considerable weight, because people who quit smoking gain weight, average weight gain over time, but 2-5kg, this is because the smoke to stimulate the body disappears, the various organs of the state gradually improved, increased appetite. In fact, the average weight gain of several kilograms compared to the health hazards caused by smoking is almost negligible (Cunningham, 2007).

Misunderstanding number three is to quit smoking will make people sick:

After quitting, dizziness and dry mouth had never been uncomfortable symptoms, then also "find the door". Does quit smoking causes the problem? In fact, this is often because the blood of smokers already contains nicotine, especially in people who smoked longer, once they stop smoking, nicotine levels drop. They will obviously feel uncomfortable, sometimes thirsty, etc. It also known as withdrawal symptoms, but withdrawal symptoms during smoking cessation is just a stage, a time-bound. Sickness after quitting smoking is often the result of many years of regular intake of nicotine (Etter, 2006).

The fourth misunderstanding is to quit smoking with individual will:

Most people had quit smoking by ...