HOW TO QUIT SMOKING OR HOW TO TAKE A BREAK FOR 9,254 DAYS
It is said that a single cigarette steals 5 minutes from a person's life, assuming all other conditions remain the same.
Since September 7, 2000—that is, for exactly 9,254 days—I have added almost 2 years to my life by not smoking. In a world full of things that shorten or even end human life prematurely, if you believe in positive science and not to dismiss the value of adding 2 years in 22 years, I wrote "How to Quit Smoking" for you.
First, you must accept that smoking is a physical addiction. There is no difference between cigarette addiction and drug addiction. The nicotine receptors in your lung alveoli, which crave cigarettes, are like a constantly thirsty mouth waiting to be soothed by cigarette smoke.
Defining smoking as a physical addiction is the first and most important step. Everyone who smokes to soothe their mood—when angry, happy, pleased, excited, or anxious—should know that they are actually pleasing the nicotine receptor cilia in their lung alveoli.
Since we cannot surgically remove these cilia from our lungs, how do we give up smoking? These cilia are tiny living forms. All they know is to deliver maximum pleasure to the body from the cigarette smoke they are accustomed to.
Then we can move to the second and most important step of quitting smoking. The second step is to know that it is impossible to quit smoking physically. Trying to do so means fighting with your own body—or rather, a part of your body. Understanding that the physical need for cigarettes will never end is essential.
The third and most important step in quitting smoking is wanting to give it up. It would be more accurate to call this "wanting not to smoke." If you do not want not to smoke, you will continue smoking. Wanting not to smoke is the third and hardest step in breaking away from cigarettes.If you want not to smoke, you reach the fourth step of not smoking.
The fourth step is the step of not smoking. The only thing you need to do in this step is not to smoke.
The fourth step is not actually a single step. However, if you have passed the third step, these repeating steps will definitely lead you to success. The important thing is to pass the third step. For a person who wants not to smoke, the not-smoking step can last from 1 hour (for me so far) up to 26 years.
Periods like 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year will appear as repeating cycles of the fourth step. What matters here is not giving up and starting again after every failure.
Along with the fourth step comes the fifth step. This is the counting step. In the fifth step, you count how long you have stayed in the fourth step. The fifth step simply consists of counting the days you have not smoked. As of today, the number of days I have not smoked is 9,254. If I smoke even one cigarette, this count will reset to zero.
The 6th step is the things we will do instead of smoking. There is nothing in this step. There is no extra thing we will do when we do not smoke. We explained this in the 2nd step. Since smoking is a physical need, quitting cannot be achieved by replacing it with a physical substitute.
Quitting smoking with nicotine gum, nicotine patches, or nuts is like cheating on Angelina Jolie with Whoopie or on Brad Pitt with Mr Bean. You will run back to Angie or Brad as soon as possible. However, drinking water and chewing sugar-free gum do not count as replacements. Also, if you like tea and have been drinking it sweetened until now, there is no better time than smoke-free days to quit sugar in your tea. (Turkish black tea which is somethinh worth to try)
The 7th step is fighting crises. There will be daily, weekly, monthly, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 26-year crises of not smoking. Physical withdrawal will lead to physical crises. There is no doubt that the physical effect will decrease as time passes. But in the early stages, the unhappy nicotine receptor alveoli will make you pay a heavy price. In this case, it is important to show resistance and not return to the end of the 2nd step. Above all, you need to realize at this stage what the cigarette—that is ruining your life—is doing to you. You are actually holding a monster in your hand.
A smoking crisis is the physical withdrawal symptoms of true addicts. It varies from person to person, but you may experience strange feelings like your lungs no longer belonging to you or a huge furry beast filling your cheeks. Fighting these and not smoking will actually show you how much you do not want cigarettes.
The 8th and final step of quitting smoking is not lighting that one cigarette when the day comes. On that day, you may feel very happy, very unhappy, very anxious, very emotional, very melancholic, very strange, very secure, or very insecure. You are convinced that pulling a puff from a cigarette at the moment when rakı, beer, or wine makes you happiest is the ultimate pleasure. But if you do not smoke on that day and continue not smoking afterward, you will be able to continue with the 5th step—that is, counting.
Remember, the day you smoke, the counter resets to the beginning.
Smoking is a pleasurable thing. There is no doubt about that. But there are far more pleasurable things in life than smoking.
First, you must accept that smoking is a physical addiction. There is no difference between cigarette addiction and drug addiction. The nicotine receptors in your lung alveoli, which crave cigarettes, are like a constantly thirsty mouth waiting to be soothed by cigarette smoke.
Defining smoking as a physical addiction is the first and most important step. Everyone who smokes to soothe their mood—when angry, happy, pleased, excited, or anxious—should know that they are actually pleasing the nicotine receptor cilia in their lung alveoli.
Since we cannot surgically remove these cilia from our lungs, how do we give up smoking? These cilia are tiny living forms. All they know is to deliver maximum pleasure to the body from the cigarette smoke they are accustomed to.
Then we can move to the second and most important step of quitting smoking. The second step is to know that it is impossible to quit smoking physically. Trying to do so means fighting with your own body—or rather, a part of your body. Understanding that the physical need for cigarettes will never end is essential.
The third and most important step in quitting smoking is wanting to give it up. It would be more accurate to call this "wanting not to smoke." If you do not want not to smoke, you will continue smoking. Wanting not to smoke is the third and hardest step in breaking away from cigarettes.If you want not to smoke, you reach the fourth step of not smoking.
The fourth step is the step of not smoking. The only thing you need to do in this step is not to smoke.
The fourth step is not actually a single step. However, if you have passed the third step, these repeating steps will definitely lead you to success. The important thing is to pass the third step. For a person who wants not to smoke, the not-smoking step can last from 1 hour (for me so far) up to 26 years.
Periods like 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year will appear as repeating cycles of the fourth step. What matters here is not giving up and starting again after every failure.
Along with the fourth step comes the fifth step. This is the counting step. In the fifth step, you count how long you have stayed in the fourth step. The fifth step simply consists of counting the days you have not smoked. As of today, the number of days I have not smoked is 9,254. If I smoke even one cigarette, this count will reset to zero.
The 6th step is the things we will do instead of smoking. There is nothing in this step. There is no extra thing we will do when we do not smoke. We explained this in the 2nd step. Since smoking is a physical need, quitting cannot be achieved by replacing it with a physical substitute.
Quitting smoking with nicotine gum, nicotine patches, or nuts is like cheating on Angelina Jolie with Whoopie or on Brad Pitt with Mr Bean. You will run back to Angie or Brad as soon as possible. However, drinking water and chewing sugar-free gum do not count as replacements. Also, if you like tea and have been drinking it sweetened until now, there is no better time than smoke-free days to quit sugar in your tea. (Turkish black tea which is somethinh worth to try)
The 7th step is fighting crises. There will be daily, weekly, monthly, 1-year, 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 26-year crises of not smoking. Physical withdrawal will lead to physical crises. There is no doubt that the physical effect will decrease as time passes. But in the early stages, the unhappy nicotine receptor alveoli will make you pay a heavy price. In this case, it is important to show resistance and not return to the end of the 2nd step. Above all, you need to realize at this stage what the cigarette—that is ruining your life—is doing to you. You are actually holding a monster in your hand.
A smoking crisis is the physical withdrawal symptoms of true addicts. It varies from person to person, but you may experience strange feelings like your lungs no longer belonging to you or a huge furry beast filling your cheeks. Fighting these and not smoking will actually show you how much you do not want cigarettes.
The 8th and final step of quitting smoking is not lighting that one cigarette when the day comes. On that day, you may feel very happy, very unhappy, very anxious, very emotional, very melancholic, very strange, very secure, or very insecure. You are convinced that pulling a puff from a cigarette at the moment when rakı, beer, or wine makes you happiest is the ultimate pleasure. But if you do not smoke on that day and continue not smoking afterward, you will be able to continue with the 5th step—that is, counting.
Remember, the day you smoke, the counter resets to the beginning.
Smoking is a pleasurable thing. There is no doubt about that. But there are far more pleasurable things in life than smoking.
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