I'd like to think everyone can learn how to quit smoking cold turkey style. In fact I know anyone can quit like this, the thought of giving up smoking to your average smoker is a terrible battle filled with anger , depression and a huge void in their lives. I often thought about quitting smoking but never quite managed it, I smoked for nearly twenty years right through my youth and into middle age.

This is one of the problems smokers have, it is difficult to picture a life without cigarettes - they've always been there for us relaxing us, helping us enjoy a night out with our friends, even being like a companion on boring journeys. Every experience, every part of our lives is touched by cigarettes and we think it will be awful to try and cope without them.

The mindset of a smoker is without doubt the biggest challenge a smoker has to face, it's not the physical withdrawal symptom - they are simply not that bad. The real hold the cigarette has over the smoker is in their mind, if you can understand cigarettes and what they do for you then you can escape. You can escape easily I'd say you can quit smoking cold turkey but that makes it sound difficult which it simply isn't.
So called smoking experts will tell you how addictive nicotine is yet millions of smokers manage to sleep quite happily without wanting to smoke, in fact how many people do you know who can occasionally have a few cigarettes and then not smoke for weeks. Does this sound like a super addictive drug - of course it isn't. You don't need chemicals, patches, hypnosis or stupid tricks to give up smoking, you just need to decide to quit and understand the 'smoking mind tricks'

Most smokers will think that they'll miss smoking a lot when they manage to give up and if you use one of the methods above then you probably will. However what you need to try and understand is that smoking a cigarette does one thing that makes you feel better!

The One Reason why smoking a cigarette makes you feel better

Well that one reason that makes it seem hard to quit smoking is that every single minute of a smokers life they are suffering nicotine withdrawal symptoms. That's right every moment of the day, the only time these symptoms go away is when you are actually smoking a cigarette.

• That is why a smoker can't have a fun night out without cigarettes - they will suffer withdrawal symptoms
• That is why a smoker can't relax without cigarettes, those withdrawal symptoms will keep a smoker on edge
• This is why a smoker doesn't actual feel like they are enjoying a cigarette, they aren't all they are doing is stopping the withdrawal effects

That's right every minute of every day a smoker is suffering from nicotine withdrawal, the only relief is by smoking a ciggie, but this relief finishes as soon as you stop smoking.

This is why a smoker thinks life will be much worse when they have to give up and it would be if the withdrawal symptoms carried on. But I promise you they won't , just put up with the mild discomfort of withdrawal for a few days and you'll be free. It is only mild discomfort and it is something a smoker suffers every day anyway, when they run out, when they sit on a plane, when they sit for hours dying for a smoke in a theatre!
If you win the battle of the mind you can easily quit smoking cold turkey I promise you. There is no reason that you shouldn't stop smoking today.

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