The Quit Smoking Guidebook

Kevin Robert Baker

Description

A no-nonsense, straight to the point guide to quitting smoking, based on the actual author's experience of quitting smoking. A realist's guide to stopping smoking for good, where you can learn:
How to prepare for and counter cravings, the right mindset, tricks to help make quitting more bearable, things to avoid and things to gravitate to, friends and foes you will encounter on your journey and most important of all - how it actually will feel and what will be needed to go up against nicotine and win back your freedom.

Sujets

• Substance Abuse
• Self-help
• Tobacco
• Addictions

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 septembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456627416
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Quit Smoking Guidebook

 
Author: Kevin Baker
Editing: Jayne Baker
Copyright 2016 Kevin Baker
 
All rights reserved.
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2741-6
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
Introduction
It took me seven attempts to stop smoking and was undoubtedly the hardest thing I have ever done in my lifetime. My last cigarette was smoked four years ago and the benefits to my health and wallet have been enormous.
I never did buy into the “It's easy, just use willpower” general mindset and still think that this is generally just BS, apart from a few lucky individuals who do in fact find it easy. The obvious truth still remains for most people that stopping smoking is hard, extremely hard, but it is also doable . . . it is possible; although it will take more than just the vague term “willpower” to go up against nicotine. It will take an overhauled mindset, as well as thinking outside of the box and pop culture's hackneyed viewpoints about smoking.
In this book I want to present concise tips and methods to help you stop smoking for good. This book will present you with many new viewpoints and ways to help you stop. Some methods you will have heard about already, but there will be many tips that will be new to you. Everyone is different and people stop smoking every day in various ways, so I hope that you will find many helpful tips in this book to go to war against your addiction to nicotine and dominate this cruel oppressor.
My hat goes off to you as you are taking the first step toward eradicating nicotine dependency from your life to gain freedom. I wish you all the success in the world in eliminating nicotine from your life and really hope that these tips will help you, as well as being a valuable weapon in fighting off addiction.
Never Give Up Trying to Give Up

Make a promise to yourself and your loved ones right now to never give up trying to give up. It may take you 3 attempts, 7 attempts as it took for me or even 20 attempts, but please do not stop trying to stop. You will find your way, you just have to be tenacious, like a dog which will not let go of a bone no matter how many times the bone is pulled away from it. As long as you are fighting against nicotine, it does not own you. It is only when nicotine has destroyed your will to fight back by trying to stop that it owns you. Never bow down to nicotine and become its slave, its gimp, and eventually its victim. Put in the hard work needed in fighting against nicotine and you will dominate and overcome smoking for life.
Nicotine is the Most Dangerous Drug in the World

Wait a minute, you might think, nicotine cannot be the most dangerous drug in the world? There are other drugs that are far more potent, surely . . .
Well, statistics wise, smoking kills more people per year around the globe than all illegal drugs put together, plus alcohol related deaths, plus road deaths and HIV deaths. So if you added all the above types of death together, it still would not even begin to catch up with the staggering 6 million deaths worldwide, caused by smoking and second-hand smoke inhalation.
Needless to say, because it is legal in most countries, we tend to downplay this drug and call it a habit instead of an addiction. Realizing that nicotine is an actual drug, even if media and friends label it as just a habit , can help to fuel the desire to be rid of nicotine's clutches.
Caffeine is Not Your Friend

Some things will help you along the way and some things will hinder your progress and chances of success. Caffeine is not your friend when it comes to stopping smoking and here's why:
Nicotine for some reason doubles the rate at which the liver is able to deplete caffeine from your system, which is the reason why most people who smoke are able to knock back quite a few coffees. Not every person who smokes drinks coffee of course, but if you do you will want to cut down on coffee consumption by 50% or switch to decaffeinated coffee instead. So what happens if you don't cut down on coffee?