The Secret To How To Quit Smoking

If you want to understand what I mean, just consider how people really want to touch and get the wet paint on their hands in spite of a big sign that says 'wet paint'.

There are many laws which we can't break for fear of ending up in a cell, but there is no such law against smoking and so it's just one big, “it's my life” kind of attitude that makes most youth pick up the habit.

We are all intelligent enough to understand the message on the side of a pack of cigarettes. When we read the statutory warning that says, “Cigarette smoking is hazardous to your health” we know what it means. Even a kid knows what it means. It is not like a bolt from the blue.

Ignorance is the last thing that we can connect to the habit of cigarette smoking, very much like when we see a sign that says “wet paint.” The message is loud and clear that the paint is wet, yet for some reason we have to touch and make sure.

Cigarette smoking may be dangerous our health, but just how dangerous is something of which we must convince ourselves. The harsh truth is that, unlike wet paint, we just can't wash of the effects of smoking away with water or turpentine. Nor do the effects fade over time, they just worsen.

Smoking is not something that we can experiment with. You just can't take a risk like smoking for a couple of years and say, “look guys, I survived.” It is a matter of life and death.

Why then, if every body knows it’s such a dangerous habit, do so many people still become, and continue to remain, smokers?

Well, the reason is because of a paradox that is involved in the habit of smoking. If all those who smoked kicked the bucket at the end of the month, nobody would even think of smoking.

But the paradox is that not everyone who smokes hits the grave that fast. Smoking is a slow killer. It does not paint all smokers with the same brush of death. It is more like a florist, picking a few blossoms here and there to adorn the house but always leaving some flowers on the plant so that the garden does not remain bare.

The problem is that, because cigarette smoke as a killer is so random, most smokers just keep on hoping that he or she will remain on the plant in the garden forever. In this modern age when we are all so educated and well informed, it’s silly to leave ourselves in the hands of fate and just keep hoping that we won't be next, because we do have a choice.

So when you're examining different methods of how to quit smoking, look inside to see what really drives you to smoke. And start your journey to a non-smoking lifestyle from there.