Cut Down Smoking

In theory, the method of cutting down makes sense. “I will work myself off cigarettes gradually by having less and less each day, until I stop completely”.

Looks great on paper, doesn’t it?

The fact is, cutting down has to be one of the worst methods of quitting smoking.

As humans, we generally don’t like being told what to do. As teenagers we are told “clean up your room, don’t hang out with those idiots, don’t drink or smoke.” So what do we invariably do? We go out drinking and smoking, hanging out with idiots. It is part of human nature, a part we sometimes find hard to control.

When we are told we can’t have something, boy do we want it and unfortunately, age does not rid us of this invariably human trait.

When you cut down, you basically tell yourself, “I can’t have a cigarette now. You would normally have one at this time, but because you are cutting down, you will wait another hour.”

What will you be thinking about for that next hour?

“I WANT A CIGARETTE! GIMME GIMME GIMME!”

As time goes by it plays on your mind so much that you can’t focus on anything else. Whatever you may be doing at the time suffers, whether it be work or recreation. Physically and emotionally you become more tense and stressed out. Those around you may feel the brunt of these emotions.

An hour has painfully ticked by, and now you can finally light up. The cigarette you are now smoking is no normal cigarette, oh no. This is one of the best cigarettes you have ever had. The stress and tension of desperately wanting nicotine for an hour, has been flushed away in one beautiful elongated drag. Your mind clears and you have been satisfied. That feeling of ‘wanting it because you can’t have it’ has gone.

Now it is time to start the whole process again. You tell yourself, “Only two more hours until I can have another precious, wonderful cigarette.”

The very last thing you want to do is think of cigarettes as a positive. In fact you want to be thinking the exact opposite. Cigarettes are your enemy, not your friend. In order to quit successfully you need to think of smoking as an absolute negative.

All cutting down succeeds in doing is heighten the supposed positives effects of smoking.

If you truly want to quit smoking for good you need relearn everything you have ever thought about smoking. Smoking has no positives, only negatives. The nicotine addiction can blind you of this fact. When you think of smoking as a negative and quitting as a positive the quit smoking process becomes a whole lot easier.

Don’t give yourself the opportunity to want what you can’t have. If you change the way you think about smoking, then this situation will never arise. Change your thoughts, and you can change your life.

Our Comments: We feel this method of quitting has to be one of the worst, thought up by some crazy sadist and unleashed on poor unsuspecting smokers just for kicks. All cutting down does is give nicotine the power, and not the other way around. The last thing you want to do when quitting is make cigarettes into any sort of reward.

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Our Rating: Not Recommended