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Nov 12 04 5:21 AM
This article touches on the topic of not quitting just because others tell you not to smoke. But there is "somebody" who often gently tells you to please not smoke who you should give full attention. That "somebody is "your body."
Smokers are generally warned by their bodies that smoking is harming it. They are warned from the day that they took their first painful puffs, to the day that they took their last dangerous drags too. Coughs, wheezes, aches and pains, lethargy, headaches, stomach aches, tingling extremities, chest pains, and a host of other symptoms often permeate a smoker's life--all little signals that often go unheeded until the body stops warning of dangers and just lets an x-ray or a cardiogram give you one big warning or worse, stops giving you little warnings and just sets it up for a coroner to have to explain to your loved ones how cigarettes just ended your life.
It is important that you listen to your little signals when you are a smoker. It is also important to listen to your body when you quit, although at times, you are going to have to use your mind to override some little messages your body is sending you now. This is especially important in the earlier days of a quit, when your body is still in physical withdrawal and telling your mind that to stop it is as simple as taking a puff. Taking a puff does not stop withdrawal; it just staves it off for a few moments and starts a whole new extended withdrawal cycle over again.
To bring this cycle to its natural conclusion and then to its permanent end is no more complicated that just listening to your mind now reminding you to never take another puff!
Joel
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