What is Smoking
Posted: Sunday, January 03, 2010
by WhiteGyr
I never thought I would be able to break my smoking habit. It seemed like I was always waiting until the stress in my life was at a minimum to begin to quit and of course that just never seemed to happen. I used my smoking as a stress reliever and I just didn't know what to replace it with. I was afraid of gaining weight and it seemed like every time I stopped smoking I replaced eating with my smoking and as soon as I saw a weight gain over five pound I was once again smoking.
It wasn't easy but I started replacing other activities and habits for times when I would usually smoke. When I decided that I had to break the smoking habit I started with a list of pros and cons for my decision to smoke or to quit. In other words what I was getting out of smoking and then the cons to keeping with my smoking habit. Of course the pros far outweighed the cons. The financial and health cost of a smoking habit makes the decision to continue one you can't really justify in any sense except for the fact that as a smoker this is a habit that you enjoy.
After I made my list I hung this list up on my bathroom mirror and also on my refrigerator door. I wanted everyday to see my motivation for changing my behavior this helped quite a bit since quitting smoking is a decision on has to make everyday day by day. When you stop smoking you have to expect some times when you may slip but in times past once I slipped I just accepted failure and started smoking full steam ahead but this time if I slipped and bought a pack of cigarettes or smoked one I begged from a friend I allowed myself forgiveness for not being perfect and started right back up.
When I saw the scales go up I made sure to exercise more and not to replace eating with smoking. I also rewarded myself by pampering myself with something I usually wouldn't do for myself. Maybe by a splurge on shopping or a movie I wanted to see a nice dinner a Starbucks coffee just something I enjoyed to remind myself that smoking wasn't the only enjoyable thing for me. I can't say I still don't think about smoking from time to time and probably always will but I also remind myself that what you save is money your health and generally just feeling better. Your clothes don't smell like smoke your hair doesn't reek of smoke you can taste the food you eat. You can also put the money you would have used for buying cigarettes into a saving account and watch it add up.
Millard Hiner , the owner and operator of WhiteGyr dot com lives
in Pierce, Idaho and has been computer programming for over thirty years now
and has used Fortran, BasicV, C++, RPG II and Prime's CPL. He calls himself a
Web Developer or Web Development Manager (for this work and he does both) but
he answers the emails sent to whitegyr at gmail.com. He is editor and publisher of noxobmp dot com and author of many articles
about behavioral modification products has a collection of these on his new
website Odor Control which includes information and
articles about Smoking.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Great article WhiteGyr. Care to share with us where you got the name , WhiteGyr?Thanks for the read and comment. The name came from the bird, the Gyrfalcon, and a color phase of it. Looking forward to your next article Robert.
I commented already, but will again say, "yes, a terrible addiction". My experiences trying to quit snuff have been difficult.Thanks for the comment Jack and 'Welcome to SearchWarp' and I will be looking for your articles in the future.
nice article. I smoked for 21 years. I tried everything, hypnosis, patches, gum. Nothing worked until one day...I just decided to quit. that was 15 years ago this year. You'll only quit wwhen you're ready to do so.
Habits creep on you one step at a time, but when they are fully formed demand your whole attention and more to be rid of them. Thank you for reinforcing the need to replace one habit with a better one to get rid of bad habits. Great articleThanks for the read and comment Olufemi. I enjoyed your "A Beginner's Guide To Wellness - By An Expert" and look forward to your future articles.
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