Fear: Why Most Smokers Are Afraid To Be An Ex Smoker
completely without having to go out for a smoke. I can cuddle Livia after sex and not think about or stink of tobacco. The moment you stop smoking all this will change. You can and will become a relaxed person. You have wonderful experiences to look forward to and not being interrupted every hour for a nicotine fix. You will be in control and you will be relaxed. Nicotine steals this ability to relax.
Smoking tobacco is just like drinking sea water while your dying of thirst adrift in the middle of the ocean. Eventually the temporary relief the sea water gives only creates a bigger need and the more you drink will theoretically kill you.
5. You will be miserable.
This actually is something that makes me smirk when I hear smokers say this. What is going to make you more miserable? The suffering, the slavery, the poison, the cost, the smell, the potential outcome, the loss, the many other shit things you pay the price for, or freedom from all the above?
You have to be a sadist or a complete idiot to want all of the above. I can’t think of anything better in my life now than to be completely free of that slavery. You will only be miserable if you allow yourself to be miserable. You are free from a prison. Jump for joy. You are going to live longer …jump for joy…You will be in control of your life…jump for joy…You will taste food, have better sex, save money, smell good…jump for joy!!!! If you do all this, it will give you no time to be miserable. Really, believe me, in the back of smokers’ and your mind right now you are already miserable because you smoke and that hounds you all day. Be free, be happy. Like me and millions of other people who stopped smoking.
6. You won’t enjoy social activities or going out anymore
It is true that nowadays more and more cities around the world are making public places smoke free zones. This is fantastic and it is great news not just for the non-smokers of this world, but for the actual smokers who want to become ex-smokers. The reason being is that they have more smoke free places to go to which can help them become ex-smokers quickly if they like to go out socializing with friends. When you stop smoking and you have been used to going out with friends to bars and restaurants where smoking is permitted, and of course you are used to having that glass of wine or bottle of beer in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other, then eliminating smoking from these social activities (which you have become accustomed to over time and now it’s automatic) in the beginning without some formal education and planning, will make you not last five minutes in a social and smoking environment before you want another cigarette.
You need to understand the reasons why you and millions of other smokers who gather socially with friends in bars, nightclubs and discotheques, think it is natural to be drinking and smoking together. This is because socially the majority of smokers have been fooled by the media and the tobacco companies that to enjoy social gatherings it is better or cooler to smoke. Look at movies and videos. They promote smoking extensively like this. When you are with friends on a Friday night in a bar having fun, laughing and joking whilst the alcohol is stimulating your senses in a good way, It’s only natural not to be concerned about how much your smoking. Not just the ones in your hand put also the ones that everybody else is smoking. Now as a smoker, try to imagine the same great night with your friends but without the cigarettes. What differences would there be? I’m sure you can name a few and for sure they will only be “Drug Addiction” related. Will your friends be any less funny or admirable? Will the music in the bar sound different? Will that glass of wine taste differently? Will the conversations be more boring? NO NO NO and NO again! That’s because smokers are sucked into an illusion. A trap that is so powerful that it actually covers up the reality of social enjoyment beautifully. You CAN enjoy your friends’ company, the wine, the music, the fun and everything else that comes with having fun socially without tobacco.
At social gatherings cigarettes have two functions. Firstly they are still the needed drug for the smoker, and secondly they are just a prop, a tool , used by tobacco companies to show that smoking is cool to do when you’re out having fun.
There is nothing cool about smoking. Period! What is cool about killing yourself?
You can go bowling without having to smoke. You can go for a walk in a botanical garden without having to smoke. You can sit in a restaurant without having to smoke. You can drink a glass of wine and talk to friends without having to smoke. This is because all these activities DO NOT require nicotine to enjoy them. When people say they can’t have a glass of wine without having a cigarette,