All very good reasons and very similar to mine. It is hard to imagine life without ciggies but that is the drug talking! (Try reading the Allen Carr book - it does make sense some of it). I am starting to realise there is life after ciggies and its much better than life with ciggies!
The reasons to quit list outnumbered the reasons not to quit, so from a purely logical prospective deep down in your brain , the quiting process is starting to sprout.
Good stuff
Now for the cons, I'm a newcomer to this site, so bear with my posting style ( lack off ).
Its part of me - smoking is a habit I picked up , I wasn't born smoking, it's not an evolutionary aspect of being a human, its just a habit, the people I know don't call me baly the smoker, they call me baly. Only I saw it as being part of my makeup. Once I got a handle on this half the battle is won.
Weight - my opinion it may vary, no offense to anyone who has found this to be an issue. I read about the effects on the metabolism when you stop smoking ie it slows down and also how you may snack as means to get over cravings/ something to do . So I stocked up on raw carrots, high fibre cereals, pumpkin seeds, so if I needed to snack I could and all these items are healthy and give a jaw/mouth something to do.
I like it / drinking - omg its what I used to think, how on earth can I have a drink without a Ciggy, how can I enjoy food without a Ciggy afterwards, how will I be able to go for my weekend or daily drives without Ciggy, Friday won't be Friday's without Ciggy, you get the picture lol.
Its all in the mind, its just a Pavlovian association which can be broken and conquered.
Honestly you can quit, you have the right reasons, which counts for a lot.
And yes you are so right - we condition ourselves to be smokers and i, for one, justify being a smoker 24/7. not any more....
Bizarely, just "making the decision" to quit has already made me cut down drastically without even trying. just waiting for my proper e cig to arrive and i have a feeling that i will truly be knocking it on the head. As the guy at the E Cig company said to me, this is the perfect option for those looking for an "alternative" to smoking.
thanks for all the encouragement - raring to go now...
going into it with an open mind. for me its about habit more than addiction (i think) so if i end up with the e cig forever well I'm ok with that but i suspect my use will decrease to socially in any event.
i know some would argue thats not a way to look at quitting but i believe in doing whatever it takes to get off the evil weed and even if that means staying on nictotine in the longer term, its still a major step in the right direction.
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