Smoking a Bad Habit or Drug Addiction?

Smoking a Bad Habit or Drug Addiction?

There is some good logic in understanding why smokers and non-smokers want to believe that smoking is just a bad habit. First, we have many habits in our lives, good habits and bad ones. If smoking were just a bad habit, it would be so easy to quit! I wouldn’t have to write this book. You could quit just like that! We break good and bad habits every single day. The main reason we believe smoking is a bad habit is that we are brainwashed by society telling us so.

Because we believe that smoking is a bad habit and because we believe that it’s difficult to break bad habits, we find it difficult to quit. Do you follow this?  Why is it then so difficult to stop smoking? Well, first of all, it’s very easy to quit, that’s the purpose of this whole book. But the reason is because smoking is an addiction to one of the most refined drugs we know, nicotine!

As long as you believe that smoking is just a bad habit, you’ll continue to find it difficult to quit. Once you understand it’s an addiction, it becomes easy. Of course, nobody likes to admit to being an addict. It sounds pretty lousy and weak to admit to your friends and family that you are an addict, a drug addict. It sounds much better to say, “Well, everybody has their bad habits, mine is smoking.” Or you brush off the idea that you are addicted by claiming you are fully in control of your smoking habit.

Telling your wife that you are an addict is not easy. It’s even more difficult to admit it to yourself! I remember how I pretended for years and years that I wasn’t an addict. I really did! Smoking over 100 cigarettes a day, I was still claiming that I was smoking because I wanted to and that I was fully in control. I proudly told my friends I could smoke three packs in one night and then refrain from smoking for six hours the next day because I visited my parents, where of course I couldn’t smoke.

So, if I really wanted, I could quit in a split second. I was in control, and at that moment in my life I wanted to smoke. The worst thing was that I was not only telling these stupid lies my friends and family, but also to myself! As long as I was telling these lies to myself, how could I ever quit? I had to be honest with myself. I had to tell myself the truth. Why did I smoke? How did it happen?

That brings me to a point around which I believe a lot of brainwashing and mistakes are associated. When did you take the decision to become a smoker? When was it? Do you remember the place, the specific moment? Silly question? Just think about it, did you ever consciously choose to become a smoker?

Unbelievable isn’t it? Personally, I can’t believe that there is one smoker in the world who consciously wanted to become a smoker. It’s something you grow into, because of all the traps that are set for you. The nicotine trap, the society trap, the habit trap. Before you know it, your body is addicted to the nicotine and you become an addict. You didn’t choose to become a smoker. It just happens in the process.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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