Alleviating The Stress Of Quitting Smoking
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: addiction, advice, coaching, environment, fitness, habits, happiness, health, management, other, self help, smoking, stress management, success, UncategorizedMany smokers say that they smoke because it helps relieve stress in uncomfortable situations. Therefore, part of the job of quitting smoking is learning how to handle your stress degrees, which theoretically should increase if you stop smoking. Learning how to give up smoking is therefore part of a general technique of avoiding and countering the stress in your life.
Learning how to cope with stress goes hand in hand with giving up smoking. So, the first part of this process is to analyze your life and work out what causes you the most stress. Is it work? Is it driving? If you smoke more while drinking, which is the case with the vast majority of smokers, why do you do that? Are you stressed out by the social situation you find yourself in when you are drinking or socializing?
When you comprehend what it is ‘that makes you smoke’, you have to learn how to cope with that stress without smoking. Smoking is very likely to mean that you will have significant health worries when you are older, so ask yourself, is sacrificing your future health a fair price to pay for what you are currently getting out of life?
If your career is getting you down, why not retrain in night school or by correspondence on the weekends and earn the qualifications to be able to do the career that you want to do. If the neighbourhood you live in is violent causing you stress, move into a smaller dwelling in a better district. If driving in traffic gets you down, strive to join, or set up, a car sharing scheme or go to work by bus.
If your main manner of relaxing and socializing is drinking in a bar, you will find it hard to give up smoking, because smokers smoke far more whilst they are drinking. Think about ceasing going to the bar, until you have successfully kicked the habit.
Once you have wiped out your addiction, you can go back, but it is a notorious phenomenon that smokers do not like to see one of their company giving up. If you stick with them, you will here lots of: ‘Go on, one won’t hurt!’. The fact is that it does.
You may not be much of a sports person, but try to do something. You will realize just how short of breath you have become and keeping doing that exercise will remind you how much better you are getting. It does not have to be strenuous. Try hiking, swimming or gardening. Anything that gets fresh air into your lungs.
Lastly, take time out to relax. There are numerous ways of doing this. Read a book or and find a hobby. The hobby could could anything from gardening (two birds with one stone) to Yoga to building model airplanes and flying them. In fact, anything that you have always wished to do, but never found time for before
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