Contents:
- Medical Video: Stoner Tips - How To Pass Any Drug Test (Get THC Out of Your System)
- Beware of various reasons that are made up of your own mind
- How to fight the feeling of wanting to smoke
- 1. Avoid people and places that make you want to smoke
- 2. Change the routine that you usually do while smoking
- 3. Look for a replacement for your mouth
- 4. Make your hands busy
- 5. Deep breathing
- 6. Delay 10 minutes
- 7. Give a gift for yourself
Medical Video: Stoner Tips - How To Pass Any Drug Test (Get THC Out of Your System)
When you start quitting smoking, the temptation will come from two sides: physical and mental. Physical symptoms of "smoking" are indeed harmless, even if you are not ready, this can make you return to smoking. But the biggest temptation comes from the mental, namely the emergence of a sense of wanting to smoke.
If you have been a smoker for a long time, smoking is usually a habit to do with other activities, such as coffee in the morning, break after lunch, or even during defecation. Even though your body doesn't need it, your mind screams for cigarettes every time you drink coffee, after lunch, or when on the toilet. This feeling of wanting to smoke comes from the mental, and will not disappear even though you have overcome it physically by using nicotine replacement therapy.
Beware of various reasons that are made up of your own mind
One important key to conquering the desire to smoke that comes from this mental, is to recognize common reasons that you often make yourself to justify the desire to smoke. This is usually called rationalization.
This rationalization can be called wrong thinking but it seems right at that time, just to satisfy your desires. In fact, this thought is not based on reality, and if you follow it, this will actually plunge you back as a smoker.
Some of the most commonly used reasons and rationalizations are:
- "Just a problem, okay."
- "Stop it, don't be today, bear it. Starting tomorrow. "
- "I eat healthy, diligently exercise, if occasionally smoking is okay."
- "Om Hary is also a heavy smoker but has a long life, now he is 80."
- "Pollution in Jakarta may be more dangerous than cigarette smoke."
- "Smoking doesn't smoke, everyone will eventually die too."
- "If you don't smoke, you can't bonding with friends."
You might have your own rationalization that you often use to smoke. Now, when you decide to quit smoking, record all the rationalizations that appear every time you feel like smoking. The next time, when the rationalization reappears, you can already recognize it as an unbelievable reason.
How to fight the feeling of wanting to smoke
1. Avoid people and places that make you want to smoke
You always smoke when hang out with the A? Or, do you always feel like you smoke every coffee in cafe B? In the first weeks when you stop smoking, avoid coming to these places first. Choose a coffee place without smoking area.
What about people who make you want to smoke? If it's inevitable, tell them that you are trying to quit smoking, and ask their help not to "tease" you or not even smoke in front of you.
2. Change the routine that you usually do while smoking
If you always enjoy coffee or alcohol while smoking, avoid drinking these two drinks in the first few weeks when you stop smoking. Choose healthier water or juice. If you often feel "sour mouth" after eating certain foods, and make you want to smoke, avoid eating these foods first. And after break lunch, instead of continuing to smoke, just try to walk around, calm your mind. Healthier, right?
3. Look for a replacement for your mouth
If you can't stand the vacuum of mouth, keep your mouth busy with things other than cigarettes. You can chew sugar-free gum, snack on sweets, snack on vegetables, snack on fruits, even some people banish the feeling of wanting to smoke by biting straws.
4. Make your hands busy
Sometimes when you are stressed out, silence will make you even more depressed. Smoking is usually your escape to calm down. Now, when you feel like smoking because you are stressed, try to find other activities to keep your hands busy, and make your mind focus on other things. Tinkering with a motorbike or car engine, for example. Or try composing Lego or coloring in a color book for adults.
5. Deep breathing
It seems like a cliche, but the cause of smoking can calm you is because you have to breathe deeply when you smoke cigarettes. So when you feel the urge to smoke, close your eyes, then take a deep and slow breath. Feel the clean air without nicotine entering your lungs and spread throughout your body. While doing that, remember again the reason you stopped smoking.
6. Delay 10 minutes
If you can't stand it anymore and really want to smoke, even a cigarette and lighter are in hand, use this trick: stop, and delay 10 minutes! Often, after waiting 10 minutes, the desire to smoke is gone, or your mind becomes clear again and you realize that you really don't need cigarettes.
7. Give a gift for yourself
Quitting smoking is not an easy matter. Anyone who has succeeded should be given a thumbs up. If you have the budget specifically to buy cigarettes every day, keep it the budget this is when you start smoking. However, instead of being used to buy cigarettes, put this money every day in a special jar. After a week or a month, open the jar and use the money to eat at a favorite restaurant, or buy the items you want.
Good luck!
