If you are in a journey of quitting smoking . You should know that you have done a great job of prevailing the chain of your slavery to nicotine which is one the most addictive and poisonous material known to men. Have you ever thought of why it is so hard for people to quit smoking? I try my best to explain it, I hope it helps you find the reasons of desire for smoking being called CRAVING.
Pavlov was a Russian psychologist and preformed some experiment on animal behavior regarding some circumstantial events. One of the experiments he did was a dog eating food and listening to a bell at the same time. After a while he started ringing the bell without providing food for the dog. He noticed that the saliva of the dog started performing the way that the dog was expecting food because of the bell ring. This is known as Pavlov’s dog story.
What is happening to the smokers is the same way. Because of different situations that smokers smoke. The habit of expecting nicotine after those circumstances called trigger points. Most smokers have similar trigger points like after food, drinks, driving, at the time of happiness and sorrow. The more you smoke the more trigger points you have. Some times you may have thousands of trigger points without knowing it. Your body knows these trigger points and asks for nicotine. The more Trigger Points you have the more obstacles you have to jump and more difficult is being smoke free.
It takes a long time for your body to forget all the trigger points and adapt to the new lifestyle of being smoke free. Remember the beginning of starting smoking, your body reacted abnormally to the smell of smoke, e.g. coughing after the first cigarettes you had or getting dizzy after smoking. After a while you have to increase the dose of nicotine by smoking more and more to have that dizzy sensation and eventually you get to the point to that smoking does not provide any sense of dizziness because you body got used to the nicotine and there is no pleasure for smoking. It is only craving to smoke to feel normal. Some smokers get the other drugs like weeds … to have those sensations and the fall deeper into addiction problems. Some of them end up at the corner of streets after losing everything to purchase drugs and lose everything and die in poverty and loneliness. You must be happy to be here and your problem is only smoking not the more difficult addictions.
Most smokers smoke the rest of their lives and try many times to quit but they are not successful because they cannot keep up with the craving and give up. You should know that the longer you stay smoke free, the less become your trigger points and eventually you illuminate them totally. You may ask how long it takes to have no cravings, the answer is that how long your body and mind needs to cope with the healthy lifestyle without smoking.
The great news is that the longer you stay smoke free the less trigger points you will have and eventually you illuminate them all and start a healthy life.
Keep it smoke free and you prevail for sure, it is a war between a nasty habit and a healthy life. You are the commander of the healthy lifestyle and Nicotine is the commander of the nasty habit. Be informed and ready for the war.
Good luck
