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SMOKING MYTHS.The truth is you are a nicotine addict. You need your little dose. You smoke cigarettes to get your little dose of nicotine. Fortunately, and this is the good news, despite popular misconception, nicotine IS an easy drug to kick as the physical withdrawal symptoms are so mild. HOW MANY SMOKERS REALLY KNOW THIS ? Let me repeat it and I intend to repeat it again and again, without any apologies, throughout this course : One of the great myths of smoking is that you will suffer terrible physical withdrawal symptoms when you stop.
The physical craving for nicotine is so mild you will hardly it.
In fact, giving up smoking is 99% mental and only 1% physical. And what is that 1% - merely an empty, restless incomplete feeling....the temporary feeling that something is missing. That is all. That is all. That is all you will physically experience when you stop smoking. In fact, the majority of smokers will not be aware of any physical withdrawal symptoms at all when they give up. Let me emphasize this again: The only thing you will experience when you stop smoking is a slight physical discomfort that is little more than an empty, restless, hungry feeling that will feel quite uncomfortable for the first three days and then will gradually decline into nothingness. May I ask you this ? If you had a light head cold would you stop everything and wait in fear for the symptoms of a light head cold to emerge ? Of course not. It would be an inconvenience but you would ignore it and get on with your business - knowing that it would be gone in a few days. You would not make a big fuss out of it. This is exactly the sort of attitude you must take when you finally stop smoking - because the actual physical discomfort you will experience will be less than that of a head cold.
This is such an important point. You do not realize how angry people like myself and all the people who have successfully given up smoking get when we see people and especially TV shows and films perpetuate this old myth.
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