Your Smoking Start

If you have started young as a smoker, chances are you smoked for 20 years or more before you realized that you really have made a mistake to start smoking.  It is usually very difficult for young minds to adopt the decision that a new way of thinking needs to be embraced before the practice of smoking ends.  The younger you start, the more you usually smoke, as the smoking brain is very much apart of your lifestyle, and your very identity.

You think how to manage a problem with cigarettes, how to work with them, play with them, and they become ingrained in your life.  You see them as much a part of you as water, food and sleep.  Until this fixed tool position is released, you  will forever be a smoker.

Realizing that your smoking began as a young person, and you really can not remember how you ever lived without them, takes time.  The transformation from smoker, to non-smoker, in this case, is a very long drawn out process.  How will you live without them?  There are so many instances where you use cigarettes, cigars or other tobacco as your crutch.  Your lifestyle move forward tool.

A journal for a few days, where you write down each and every instance of your smoking, the place, the time, and your emotional feelings at that moment, can be very enlightening.  It is a difficult process, as it forces you to document the many emotions that drive you to smoke.  When you have completed a few days, read your musings, and see if there is a correlation.  Maybe, take this journal through the weekend, to see what you do on your free time.  It will become a way to actually observe your smoking.