Quitting Smoking Can Be So Hard

Watching television last night I was reminded how difficult and daunting it can be to stop smoking even when faced with a life threatening situation. I was watching a reality show about Accident and Emergency departments in hospitals. A patient was admitted with severe chest pains and it was later confirmed he had suffered a heart attack, he was 42 years old......42!. He was overweight and he smoked. When he was inteviewed at home after making a recovery he explained that he had adopted a healthier lifestyle. He had changed his diet and ate much more healthily. He had not, however, stopped smoking.

It is to be applauded that this person made the choice to change his diet, accepting that one of the reasons for his heart attack was what and how much he ate. It amazed me though that he did not apply the same reasoning to his smoking. Smoking had made a hugely greater contribution to his situation than his diet, why couldn't he see this?

Then I remembered what it is like to be a smoker, the fear of being without, the terror of facing a life without cigarettes, terror all caused by the mental conditioning that comes with addiction to nicotine. Even when faced with death from heart disease at 42 this guy could not let go of his smoking. That is very powerful mental conditioning. This is the sort of person I wish I could communicate with directly, to show them there is a way out. All I can hope is that people read this blog and take some sort of inspiration to change their lives.

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4 Months After Quitting Smoking

I have been smoke free for four months now. It is now starting to feel normal to be a non-smoker.I went to a party last night and spent most of the night in the garden (it is Summer after all), this meant being surrounded by people smoking. Just after I stopped smoking this would have made me feel very uncomfortable, very nervous about how I would deal with the situation. I think the uncertainty of how I would behave is more unsettling than actually dealing with being around smokers. Four months on and with the experience to support me I now feel quite comfortable around smokers and safe in the knowledge that I am in no way tempted to smoke.

I also got off my high non-smoker horse last night and didn't try to convert anyone to quitting :). The feeling of normality helps a great deal when faced with smoking situations, it also helps to observe other non-smokers, they aren't affected by people smoking around them so why should I be? If you have recently quit keep at it, life begins to get more normal.

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