When You Stop Smoking.....Ask Yourself These Questions!

When You Stop Smoking…..Ask Yourself These Questions!

When you stop smoking, ask yourself this: Do I need a cigarette to relax, to concentrate, or out of boredom?

You should understand the balloon effect of a cigarette by now and you won’t find it too hard to understand that this belief is also an illusion we have to get rid of. Have you ever wondered how it is that a cigarette can help you in two opposite situations? When you are completely stressed and then when you are totally relaxed? How in the world can the same product, a cigarette, help you in both situations? Doesn’t it sound a bit strange to you?

As we already saw in the chapter on the balloon effect, the moment you smoked your first cigarette, the nicotine created this balloon in your body. When you extinguish a cigarette, the balloon deflates and you get that empty, hungry feeling. It’s like when a mosquito bites you, you get this itching feeling and you have a tendency to scratch it all the time.

When you are in a stressed situation, you’ll have the same hungry, itchy feeling. If you now light a cigarette, this hungry feeling will disappear and you’ll think and believe that you are less stressed. This happens because you are temporarily saved from this hungry, empty feeling. The reality is that you actually become even more stressed by lighting the cigarette. Due to the nicotine, your heart starts beating faster, your lungs are filled with poison and your natural defense mechanisms are set in motion. This causes your body to be more alert and stressed than before you smoked the cigarette.

I could smoke one cigarette after another when I was in a stressed situation. I often didn’t even finish the first cigarette before lighting a new one. I had the impression that it was helping me but in fact I remained stressed until the actual cause of the stress disappeared. You could tell by the number of cigarettes on the floor how long the situation lasted and how stressed I was.

Now I understand why I did it and why I had the illusion that the cigarette was actually helping me to relax. For you, a smoker, your best friend, yes, your very best friend, is your cigarette! In a stressful situation or when you need some support or help, you want to count on your best friend, the cigarette. So the more support you get, the more you call for your buddy, Mr. Cigarette. The situation is exactly the same when you feel bored and you have the illusion that the cigarette helps you to fight your boredom. You feel bored for many different reasons, so you appeal to your best friend. It’s always near; you just take it out of your pocket or purse. You light the cigarette and what happens? The hungry, empty feeling disappears. The itching disappears and you feel a lot better than a few minutes ago, so you then create the illusion that you are less bored.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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When You Stop Smoking.....Ask Yourself These Questions!