How To Quit Smoking Easily

There is a good chance that “how to quit smoking easily” is the probably the most pertinent question to mankind. I realize that might sound like an astonishing claim but the statistics would suggest it is a reasonable thing to suggest.

According to the World Health Organisation, at least 4.2 million people die every year as a result of smoking now, possibly 5 million. The number is expected to increase to around 10 million per by 2025-2030.

To put this death roll into terms that will put you in awe, 4.2 million deaths a year is the same as a 9/11 attack every 6 hours or so! Now that is a pretty awesome figure!

But I’m not satisfied with offending you with that comparison so here are a few more; a full jumbo jet crashing every 49 minutes, an Hiroshima bomb every 6 days or a holocaust every 18 months. Pretty nasty huh?

So, given that most smokers fail on average at least 7 times before they finally manage to quit smoking, answering the question of how to quit smoking easily is pretty pertinent.

You need to examine the reasons why you smoke to understand what makes it so difficult for you to quit. Most smokers realize that they are addicted to nicotine but most don’t realize that they are conditioned in all sorts of other ways to continue smoking.

If you want to quit smoking easily, you must examine the reasons why you continue to smoke so that you can adjust them to suit your soon to be new life as a non-smoker. This includes assessing your emotions every time you light up and analyzing them to understand why you want to smoke.

What most smokers don’t realize is that many, maybe 90% of the cigarettes they smoke are smoked on autopilot with no reference or analysis as to why they light up. If you want to quit smoking easily you need to understand that you frequently light up as a result of an emotion - a craving, hunger, anger or something else. You rarely chose to control (or even practice controlling) the emotion with your mind - rather you just react to it and that reaction is to light up another cigarette.

Another reason that you make it difficult to quit smoking for yourself is that you worry about what life will be like as a non-smoker. What you must understand is that your personal opinions are what really govern how difficult quitting smoking will be.

If you set out to quit smoking thinking it will be a battle, guess what, it will be! If you have a positive frame of mind when you start on your quit attempt, there is a better chance you can maintain a positive attitude to quitting.

Finally, when you chose to quit, don’t doubt your decision. It is absolutely the right decision, no doubt, no question! When you face a craving, make sure you ask yourself how having a cigarette will help you feel better. Then realize that it will only address your emotional state - your craving.

Your long term goal is to be a non-smoker, your short term emotion is in defiance of that ambition; just breath deep, ignore the craving and be a non-smoker.

If you are tired of trying to quit smoking using patches, pills and potions AND getting nowhere, maybe you need to try Tom Dainty’s Quit Smoking Bible