If you don't want to quit, and I mean REALLY want to, then it would be a waste of your time and effort to even try. To have any chance of quitting, you have to want to quit way more than you want to smoke. It's a prerequisite, without which you will be just like a dumb bitch that diets, loses weight, falls off the diet, gains it all back, finds another diet, loses it, cheats, gains it all back....think Oprah, or Kirstie Alley. I could give you a method to stop that is fairly painless (compared to anything else around), but even with it, there comes a point, months after the nicotine urge has been flushed out, that willpower is all that stands between you starting up again. Cig addiction is both physical and mental.....your will is the only thing that can thwart the latter. Now to answer the actual question you actually asked "Why should I quit smoking?". Money. Figure out how much you smoke, then how much it costs to keep you in smokes for a month, then a year, then ten years. That's how much money's going up in smoke. Inconvenience. How many times do you run out, and have to go get some, when you really really don't want to?
You make a good point. However I don't think there have been many times I've not wanted to go get smokes. Like it could be 20 below and I'm still just fine to run to the store and grab a pack.
Are you sure you're okay with making a special trip to the store, or is that insistent tugging on your shorthairs just convincing you it's okay? I used to run out of cigs, have to go catch two buses (about 90 minutes) to the shop, late night in rain, then another 90 minutes back, just so I could chainsmoke 6 cigarettes before bed....and yes, I'd talk myself into 'thinking' it was okay, but after 10+ years free, I know that was a bunch of self-delusional BS. When the master cracks the whip, its easy to convince oneself the demands are perfectly reasonable, especially considering the alternative. I sat down once, and added up all the time I wasted like that, and all the money it took to appease the addiction. That was the beginning of the end. I loved clove cigs, but the price was too high.
holy shit 90 minute?!? Thats a long ass time just for a pack of smokes. I can walk to the store in 10 minutes if I want to and drive in about 5. If it took that long I would plan accordingly and stock up.
I know people that would plan their day around the possibility that they would run out. They were fun to hang out with as they always knew where the convenience stores were.
t's a prerequisite, without which you will be just like a dumb bitch that diets, loses weight, falls off the diet, gains it all back, finds another diet, loses it, cheats, gains it all back....think Oprah, or Kirstie Alley.
Yes, but those dumb bitches are using the verb definition and not the noun definition. All diets (verb) fail, but changing your diet (noun) works. And that ties into the rest of your post about willpower.
I suspect most diets actually work, if you work them....as opposed to pretending to. And that's the catch. Playing 'let's pretend' that chocolate cake, that box of fried chicken, that pizza, etc., was actually on the diet is where most diets fail....wonder why? Duh!
No, because the concept of going on a diet implies it has an end date. That's why I say you shouldn't go on a diet, but change your diet. I've eliminated things like soda, fast food and lots of processed foods from my life. I've changed my diet and found it to be more effective than trying all the various diets that are out there.
The implication that there's an end date are part of the reason why so many people fail at dieting and then gain the weight back and add more weight. It's why Oprah would balloon after dieting, she'd hit her goal and then go back to how she ate before, gain it all back and put on more.
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