Quit Smoking - It Is Easy

Although  all the medical evidence behind the fact that smoking is injurious to our health, we can never actually convince ourselves to quit smoking. We all know that smoking leads to lung cancer and there is so much evidence that proves it. Not only by smoking do we put our own selves at risk, but also the lives of others through passive smoking. In fact, some studies say that passive smoking is actually more harmful than normal smoking since the smoke that is exhaled due to passive smoking is more dangerous than that which is inhaled from the cigarette. Moreover, passive smoking or active smoking can be dangerous for fetuses due to its effects on pregnant women. So we very well know that smoking is in the end very dangerous for everyone involved.

So why don't smokers quit? This is because of the psychological effects of smoking. It provides a temporary high that is used to deal with the problems in life. Feelings like depression, hopelessness, and anxiety can all effectively go away with smoking and one can feel at ease. So it enables us to forget our worries. But the catch here is that it is addictive and once we have gone for a certain period of time without smoking, we start suffering from withdrawal symptoms. These include feelings of anxiety, mood swings, hopelessness, and other psychological side effects. An interesting thing to note here is that it is actually these feelings that we want to get rid of in the first place and they come back to haunt us in a much bigger way! That actually explains in a way why it is actually so hard to quit smoking.

Garnering social support is a very important way to quit smoking. People who have been suffering from mental illnesses know that without social or family support, it is actually very difficult to be cured. The connection is made here because quitting smoking is in many ways a social exercise. Depression and anxiety are all psychological effects of this quest and it is very important that the family play a big role. In the context of mood swings, which are an important part of the effort, family support actually becomes more important. People who are trying to quit smoking tend to be moody but families should know that they are actually not themselves right now and practice more tolerance with them. Doing this together we can easily chuck this bad habit forever.