If you ask smokers the question at what point they smoke, almost everyone will answer - during stress or anxiety. It's so easy to take a cigarette and light it. And immediately there is no need for a friend's vest, where you can cry, or the help of a doctor.
Instructions
Step 1
The three main barriers to quitting smoking are anxiety, stress, and anxiety. Many who once gave up this addiction return to it again, having survived a divorce, loss of work, loved ones, etc.
Step 2
Cigarettes give instant relief. But what is it all the same connected with? Nicotine is a very active psychoactive substance. It can be compared to the effect of opiates in drugs, or to the effect of ethanol in any alcoholic beverage. Cigarettes have one attractive and unusual property: on the one hand, they help to relax, on the other hand, they seem to energize.
Step 3
But at the same time, smoking has a downside, harmful side. If you're experiencing stress or anxiety, a cigarette won't ease it. The effects of tobacco smoke are so short that you subconsciously want to prolong it over and over again.
Step 4
Smoking is perhaps the worst thing you can do to relieve stress and tension, as nicotine constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, and makes you even more nervous.
Step 5
So, here are some tips and tricks on how you can get by without this addiction all day long:
1. Do not fill your days with monotonous boring work, every time you take a break, you will want to smoke.
2. Try to plan something interesting for this day, something that you will look forward to.
3. Avoid the society of smokers in all possible ways. They can make you "longing" for cigarettes.
4. Experiment with different ways of avoiding cigarettes that won't stress you out and don't get bored with tobacco smoke. And to cheer up, think that tomorrow you will allegedly be able to smoke.