Quit Smoking Timeline: When Did Your Smoking Addiction Start?

Quit Smoking Timeline: When Did Your Smoking Addiction Start?

When you go back to the time you started smoking, what are the first thoughts that come to your mind? Are these positive or negative thoughts? Maybe both? Let me share with you how I see it and how I’ve experienced it throughout my life.

I believe you are confronted with at least two groups: overall society and smoking society. In overall society, you have been confronted since childhood, with advertising about smoking telling you how cool it is. Adults told you how smoking helped them to relax and concentrate better. On other occasions, you heard people say that smoking helped them to lose weight. When you went to the movies, you saw all your heroes smoking cigarettes and looking cool. They smoked a cigarette when something exciting was about to happen or after they did a heroic act.

If you were to believe the tobacco advertisements, smoking would make you more assertive and glamorous, would help you to control your weight, add excitement to your life, give you more sex appeal, more romance and would even make you sportier. Can you imagine!

When you watch a movie where somebody is executed, what is his or her last wish? A cigarette! The heavily wounded gets a cigarette as relief in a war movie. All this information penetrates unconsciously into our brains. This is one category of hetero-suggestion society tells us about smoking. A hetero-suggestion is simply a suggestion coming from someone other than oneself.

Another category of society, which grows every day, tells you that smoking is bad. It’s bad for your health, dangerous for pregnant women and you can get cancer from it. You hear about absurd trials where cigarette companies are sued for billions of dollars. You see more and more places where smoking is forbidden; public places, airplanes, trains, bars, cities.

The message is clear; smoking is very bad and dangerous for your health. Smoking is antisocial. It will diminish your chances of getting a job, it’s forbidden in so many places, etc. That’s the second category of hetero-suggestions you hear and experience about smoking.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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