Breaking the nicotine habit. Smoking, what is to be said to be the hardest habit to break is a large problem for many people. Recently named a larger addiction than heroine and cocaine has been blown out of proportion. I have heard people say that they are addicted and that they can’t stop. I have heard people say that it is just a stupid habit that they picked up when they were young. I say that the addiction is broken in three to seven days, but it takes twenty-one days to break the habit. The worst part is trying to keep your hands busy so that you don’t reach for that cigarette.
My first suggestion is that everything that has to do with smoking goes away, or thrown out. If you are that serious about quitting there should be no problem with throwing all that stuff out. With all the stuff around that will just remind you about the cravings and the fact that you’re bored, that a cigarette would be nice and that you would feel better.
Secondly, try to find something to do with both of your hands, women can sew, knit, or crotchet to get their hands busy. Men should try to find some woodworking, or model building something that can take their minds off of it and make their hands busy. If you stop, doing what has been working to keep your hands busy go on and try to find something else that should work. Don’t do the fake pen cigarette, that will just remind you about the habit.
From what I have experienced, the addiction is actually a lot easier to break than the habit. The habit is what keeps us doing the same thing over and over. Mainly because that is what we know and that we are comfortable with doing. If you wear the patch for twenty-one days and you have broken the habit then I suggest that you work on the addiction. As with the patch you still get nicotine in your system you haven’t broken both.
Once you are past a week of breaking the addiction you’ll still have cravings but you’ll be able to say that you haven’t smoked in a month and that is a great feeling. For anyone that wants to quit and hasn’t tried before, or for the people that have tried and tried and tried over and over again not to be able to quit. Even those who had quit and started to smoke again years later. You will have a sense of pride and people around you will congratulate you on breaking the habit.
