why do people smoke cigarettes

Contrary to common beliefs people smoke cigarettes because of psychological reasons and not nicotine addition. If you monitored your smoking habits you will find that you smoke when you become stressed, when you are worried, when you are feeling bad, when you lack control and right after eating.

When someone losses control of his emotions or of a situation he will try to use any external object that he can exert control upon (the cigarettes in this case) in order to restore the feeling of being in control.

Why do people fail to quit smoking?

A guy who has a self image problem will usually feel anxious In crowded places. This anxiety will result in fidgeting, clumsy movements and not knowing how to act.

During such a time that person will be in severe need of being in control and since smoking allows him to repeat certain movements that he is used to do it will give him that sense of control he needs.

If this person tried to quit smoking millions of times without fixing his self image issue he will never succeed. People fail to quit bad habits because they always tackle the wrong reasons instead of the root cause.

How to quit bad habits

If you are serious about quitting a bad habit then you must dig behind it to find the underlying psychological cause and once you find it you have to deal with it directly.

Will power, persistence and resilience are great tools but unless you tackle you the real root cause they won’t be able to help you.

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