To Quit Smoking It Is Necessary Understanding Smoking Psychology
Posted March 20, 2010 – 6:15 pm in: Quit SmokingIt is common knowledge now that smoking is injurious to health. Thanks to the wide publicity and even printouts on cigarette packs, this is known in all circles. However understanding smoking psychology is necessary to make anyone quit smoking.
For treatment of any disease on doing away with any addiction understanding the psychology of the patient is extremely important. Similarly to make the patient quit smoking it is necessary to understand the psychic conditions that leads to smoking habits. A study by Ivan Pavlov, the noted Russian physiologist in the early 1900 pointed out that the dogs salivate just as they are given food and something associated with delivery of food to them like ringing a bell can also trigger such reactions even if no food is given.
It is what the psychologist calls a conditioned response. That is also the reason for the prolonged smoking habits. Even after smoking many cigarettes the daily routine and acts become associated with regular smoking and that triggers the urge to smoke even if no cigarette is around. In result the smoker will frantically search for cigarettes. Quit smoking in their case would mean that they dispense with the habit and the urge for cigarettes. For instance, if a person is habituated of smoking when he goes to toilet every morning then just the urge to go to toilet will trigger a consequential urge to smoke in your mind.
That is how the psychology of any person addicted to smoking works. If one is associated with smoking in the early morning it becomes imprinted in his subconscious mind that prompts him or her every morning to take to smoking whether there is any actual necessity or not. One important thing is that long after someone quit smoking, a person can still get the triggers for smoking when he gets up in the morning.
Scientists have confirmed after a series of animal experiments how the habits are formed. Any behavior or habit that gives even temporary pleasure is most likely to be repeated and when it gives pain or revulsion it is most likely not to be repeated. People who take to smoking do believe that it is relaxing and soothing in nature. Close company with smokers in the society can also lead them to believe that smoking can reward them with acceptance in the society. Though a misnomer, this is one of the main reason that prevents them quit smoking almost the same way the alcohol addicts are prevented from dispensing with alcohol consumption.
Psychologically, the smoker who tries to quit smoking feels the punishment due to recurrence of bad moods, revulsions, and irresistible crave for smoking. They even lament the lack of the feeling of relaxation and soothing they felt while smoking and it is no wonder that smokers find it difficult to shelve their habits easily.
Fact remains that if you wish to quit smoking or wish to someone close doing the same; it is necessary for the person concerned to realize the wrong notions about the effects of smoking.
And that is all about psychology. Isn’t it?
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