Quit smoking despite “nostalgia”?
Hello everyone!
I don't know if this question is a bit "special," but I might be lucky that someone can answer it.
I unfortunately started smoking 8 years ago and have wanted to quit for ages. At home I can easily go without a cigarette (three days at home, for example, means three days without cigarettes for me, without withdrawal symptoms or anything like that), but at work, or outside with friends, or at the bus stop it's really not doable. At the bus stop I use it to bridge the boredom, at work I think it's the feeling of a break and the satisfaction of nicotine. With friends in a bar, for example, it's a kind of "nostalgic feeling" that prevents me from quitting smoking, because my head tells me that these moments without a cigarette just wouldn't be as nice as with one. This feeling you describe is also the biggest obstacle to quitting smoking. I've really developed a "attitude towards life" like in a movie… and I like the taste of cigarettes, which doesn't exactly make it easier.
Does anyone of you know what it's like to smoke because of this attitude? Has anyone experienced it and still managed to quit smoking?
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Hello,
Yeah, I know. The pleasure (search) after tobacco smoke is one thing, but then there is also everything you connect to smoking. For the one, it is a ritual that calms down, for others a beautiful piece for celebration or with friends in a pub, imagination and human diversity there are no limits.
I started smoking when I was a teenager because my father smoked and I found his face cool when he was eating a cigarette. Later I found it pleasant to smoke after a good warm meal, or on a fete in conjunction with alcohol. The cigarette belonged to me for dinner and celebration. I’d book that behavior as a kind of mental dependence.
I think the psychic mechanism is human and normal. There is not only him in connection with psychoactive subsances, but also in another sense. For example, a music can remind me of a person I have heard with him in the past. This music is inextricably connected to man for me. Or a bright place, a city, or an activity. It is our brain that constantly seeks connections and creates new ones.
To defy this type of “connection dependency”, one can try to replace the old connection with another, new one. One that is not or less harmful to health.
This can be a peppermint candy, or a herbal tea that is prepared and delicious. It can be a walk or sport, since you should not slow your creativity in search of a new connection or a new ritual.
I wish you a lot of success in listening.