Are You Smoking for Mental Needs?
About 20 to 50 percent of cigarettes are smoked for an explicit, expressed need. Smokers come to rely on cigarettes to hone their performance.
For example, people like artists, writers, and strategists use cigarettes to isolate themselves in their own world, to come up with creative ideas. Sensitive, fragile, and anxiety-prone smokers use cigarettes as tranquilizers, and they tend to do more compelled and less instinctual smoking than other smokers. Smokers with a sense of insecurity, an inferiority complex, and low self-esteem tend to insulate themselves from the world through this habit. Smokers are frightened of giving up compelled smoking, and if the percentage they smoke due to a compulsion is higher than 50 percent, this fear becomes a severe barrier.
Many smokers from this category smoke more cigarettes after they decide to stop smoking up until the moment they quit. If these individuals are relatively healthy, it is extremely difficult to convince them to give up compelled smoking. These smokers demand advanced assurances that they can survive without cigarettes before their last cigarette.
If you fall into this category, it is important to remind yourself that you must believe in yourself and your innate talents more than in cigarettes. By accomplishing this transformation, you not only become a comfortable nonsmoker but also a stress-free, confident, and delightful individual.