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<blockquote data-quote="John19841" data-source="post: 528522" data-attributes="member: 10939"><p>The addiction is 99% mental. Despite what you may of heard or read, or what many people believe, the actual physical addiction to nicotine is very small. Nicotine starts leaving the body the minute you stop smoking and is at its greatest effect roughly an hour after your last cigarette. After the 1st day, the physical "need" for a cigarette is basically gone. 5-10 days after your last cigarette the nicotine is gone from your system. </p><p></p><p>What does not go away nearly as easy is the mental addiction. Understand, smoking is a lifestyle. When you smoke, everything you do revolves around it. When you stop, you don't know what to do with yourself. It's fine when you keep busy and keep your mind off it, but as soon as you have down time, it's there. You don't know what to do when you get a break at work. Your so used to walking outside to have one, you don't know what to do for that 10-15 minutes. It's a way of life that you've been living for years. It's what you know, and what you know is hard to break. I liked to think of it like eating (don't start any arguments about how you need to eat to survive or whatever, this is not about that <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" />). You just do it, it's a regular thing. Every so often you just need to fill that craving for food. You've been doing it forever (Smokers rarely can remember a time without cigarettes.) Now imagine if I told you that you had to stop eating. It really <strong><em>is </em></strong>a lot like that.</p><p></p><p>Just remember one thing: No one starts smoking saying "I'm going to get addicted and be hooked for life" They're tricky like that, you have absolutely no knowledge of being addicted until long after you are. Ask anyone who has only been smoking a year or two "I can quit whenever I want" They really do think that. And they really are wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John19841, post: 528522, member: 10939"] The addiction is 99% mental. Despite what you may of heard or read, or what many people believe, the actual physical addiction to nicotine is very small. Nicotine starts leaving the body the minute you stop smoking and is at its greatest effect roughly an hour after your last cigarette. After the 1st day, the physical "need" for a cigarette is basically gone. 5-10 days after your last cigarette the nicotine is gone from your system. What does not go away nearly as easy is the mental addiction. Understand, smoking is a lifestyle. When you smoke, everything you do revolves around it. When you stop, you don't know what to do with yourself. It's fine when you keep busy and keep your mind off it, but as soon as you have down time, it's there. You don't know what to do when you get a break at work. Your so used to walking outside to have one, you don't know what to do for that 10-15 minutes. It's a way of life that you've been living for years. It's what you know, and what you know is hard to break. I liked to think of it like eating (don't start any arguments about how you need to eat to survive or whatever, this is not about that :wink2:). You just do it, it's a regular thing. Every so often you just need to fill that craving for food. You've been doing it forever (Smokers rarely can remember a time without cigarettes.) Now imagine if I told you that you had to stop eating. It really [B][I]is [/I][/B]a lot like that. Just remember one thing: No one starts smoking saying "I'm going to get addicted and be hooked for life" They're tricky like that, you have absolutely no knowledge of being addicted until long after you are. Ask anyone who has only been smoking a year or two "I can quit whenever I want" They really do think that. And they really are wrong. [/QUOTE]
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