Fear: Why Most Smokers Are Afraid To Be An Ex Smoker
Fear: Why Most Smokers Are Afraid To Be An Ex Smoker
As human beings we experience many different kinds of emotions. Every day, we can and do experience emotions like happiness, pride, disappointment, disgust, anticipation etc. etc. The few that I have mentioned are in technical terms called “secondary emotions” (there are many others but I don’t want to go into them all as they are not relevant to the point here and they stem from primary emotions.) The primary emotions are as follows: Love, Joy, Anger, Surprise, Sadness, and FEAR.
OK, apparently a good explanation of “Fear” I found was this…. Fear is a response to threats and danger. Fear should be distinguished from anxiety, which typically occurs without any external threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is the result of threats that are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable.
Look at that again …check the part about “Escape and avoidance” What does that mean to you? To me as a smoker “Escape and avoidance” were exactly related to the main cause of why I failed to stop smoking so many times in the past. As a smoker who wanted desperately to stop, I was using fear as my primary emotion and excuse to escape from going through the transition of smoker to non-smoker. That fear is created by a powerful force and source that I will mention later. The “avoidance” element is pretty straightforward.
I used the fear of what would happen when I stopped smoking as an excuse. So this created the avoidance of being an ex-smoker. That fear and avoidance is so prolific because something so powerful and remarkable that convinces millions of smokers not to give up, but to continue, was actually convincing me too.
What was it? What was and is that “Powerful Something”? I will tell you what it is. It is the lies and deceit distributed or endorsed by your Government, the Media and other smokers who believe it. These comical lies are the reasons we have the fear to stop smoking and they are as follows…
You will suffer terrible withdrawal pains when you stop smoking.
You won’t be able to cope with stress.
You won’t be able to think straight.
You won’t be able to relax.
You will be miserable.
You won’t enjoy social activities or going out anymore.
You won’t find new friends. (Unbelievable)
You will be bored out of your mind.
There are others it’s true but they are more related to the false reasons for smoking smokers give that makes them pathetically attempt to fortify the excuses as to why they smoke.
So let us look at all of the above listed so called “fears” individually and have a better understanding of each lie and as I would like to call “Myths” and hopefully eliminate possibly your own reasons why in truth you have this “Fear” to stop smoking …or as I would also like to put it in this way…”Why smokers are afraid of Killing the evil drug monster that is slowly but surely killing them and finally escaping from the slavery of nicotine addiction and becoming an ex smoker”
1. You will suffer terrible withdrawal pains when you stop smoking.
This is probably the most common fear that smokers wishing to stop first think about. I did. I remember saying to myself. “Oh Shit what if I can’t deal with the cold turkey?” However as I now know and the majority of ex-smokers also know that in reality you won’t suffer any actual withdrawal pains.
You as a smoker may have this huge misconception because of other smokers who have tried and failed in the past to stop smoking. Or it might be because the T.V. commercials for nicotine replacement products always show a person that has stopped smoking, getting through the difficult and somewhat painful or stressful period when they first stop smoking with the help of their product. (Click HERE for more info about replacement therapy)
Please remember that stopping nicotine addiction or any other drug addiction will make y
our body go through a noticeable change in state or condition in relation to having drugs put inside it and then not having drugs put inside it. It is extremely important that you get this into your head when you finally stop, that something your body has become accustomed to be is no longer that condition so therefore there will be a feeling of change, of emptiness, or even a feeling of being a little restless. Addictive as nicotine is, it is also very easy to abstain from. For me it was like a hunger feeling. But the good news is that it is merely mental because the smoker thinks that they are being stripped of an actual pleasure. What pleasure? So therefore making it out the initial period of stopping smoking to be bigger than what it actually is.
Some smokers think that the cigarette is actually a normal day to day activity in their lives. They have smoked for so long