My neighbors smoke. They seem to have a lot going on in
their front yard and driveway every day and they do most of it with a cigarette
in their mouth, whether lit or not, doesn’t matter to them. The excitement, it
seems, of smoking “soon” is enough to rile them up into activity, and with the
cigarette, they buzz around, doing a little in the garden, cleaning their car
out, or just playing ball with the dog. This man and woman behave in the same
exact manner with a cigarette, going through lots of ritualistic movements,
getting ready to smoke or getting stuff done before the nicotine stick is fully
smoked. I notice all of this because I want to understand how to help them
quit, if there is a way.
There is a famous saying that goes, “Where there is a will,
there is a way.” I wonder. How many smokers have the will to quit, when it
seems to me that will power is generated by nutrition, and how many smokers in
the world practice a lick of it? Most will tell you that they know “good and
well” that cigarettes are bad for them, and might even kill them early, but
they don’t want to address their eating habits either. So what then? How can
the ritual of smoking be rightfully given up if smokers love it, and it’s what
gets them motivated, or feeling normal enough to function? Certainly their diet
or “lack thereof” isn’t motivating them or driving them to function. Let’s talk
about the rituals and how a smoker can simply replace and replenish in order to
quit cigarettes.
Replace and replenish
– the secret to quitting the smoking ritual
You’ve seen some, you were one, or you are one now – a
smoker playing with a cigarette, packing it, moving it from hand to mouth and
back to hand, tapping the ashes, flicking them, taking long puffs, long holds,
short puffs, short inhales, and blowing tubes of smoke up towards the sky, or in
smoke rings, or even out of their nose. You see smokers packing the pack of
cigarettes against their palm or a table top. You hear smokers talk funny with
lungs full of smoke. You see them think deeply with the smoke in their lungs,
waiting to exhale and feel the nicotine kick. You see smokers with a new, unlit
cigarette hanging from their lips, or lip, somehow sometimes stuck to the
corner of their mouth, like some treat that’s just waiting in the wings for
them to partake. But it’s no treat. This is serious. This is “business” as
usual for a smoker, who loves the ritual and nurtures it – the very ritual that
is crippling their natural motivation, natural will and worst of all, their
organic being.
The beginning of quitting is realizing how deep the ritual
runs, and then addressing every moment of it. Sounds difficult, but it is
rather simple. If you or someone you know smokes a pack a day, that’s about 250
times they repeat their hand to mouth habit, not to mention all the other
rituals. Two packs a day means 500 rituals including a change of breathing
patterns. Think about that. How do you breathe while smoking? Take the smoke
away and start stretching and you might call it yoga.
Now take organic snacks like diced up celery or carrots, raw
nuts, dark organic chocolate, dried organic fruits and some spring water, and
put that to your mouth and nibble, 250 to 500 times a day, then stretch and
breathe and we are NO LONGER DEPENDENT on nicotine to feel good or to feel
motivation. There is no “come down,” no let down, and no running to the store
for nicotine cancer sticks. The habit ends. The ritual is changed forever, and
the negative feelings that come from the 7,000 chemicals in commercial
cigarettes just wither away like weeds you stopped watering! Do it. Release
yourself from the nicotine prison. It’s time to replace and replenish every
little “bad” ritual with a good one, and experience longevity that you
inherently “long for” and have since before you ever picked up your first
cigarette.
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