Knowing The Causes Of Smoking
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If you want to stop smoking, you have to understand what reasons you started for. In my case, the causes of smoking were pretty typical of an American teenager: I wanted to be cool. My friends and I would go out, shoot pool, and have a few cigarettes together. It was relaxing, and it made us feel like we were rebelling. It was a great social bonding experience, and I came to associate cigarettes with good times. This is why it was so hard for me to give up smoking: I had so many positive associations with it.
When I finally decided to quit smoking, I learned about habit, one of the worst causes of smoking. Physically I was fine. I felt a little bit anxious, but I didn’t have the intense nicotine cravings that some smokers describe. What made it difficult, however, was the force of habit. There are so many times during the day when I used to light up. I would have a smoke first thing in the morning before work, at lunch time, in the evening over a cup of wine – you get the idea. It was habit more than anything else that was the cause of smoking in my case. I didn’t have to break a physical addiction, but I did have to break something almost as difficult – the force of habit..
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