Is Quitting Cigarettes the Absolute First Step to Better Lung Health?
It is likely that nearly all attempts to quit smoking cigarettes, whether they are successful or not, start with a negative emotion.
Mental statements such as "What the heck am I doing to myself?", "Oh lord, I nearly coughed up a lung that time!", "Damn it was hard walking up those stairs.
I can barely breathe...
I gotta quit smoking," or similar are all good examples.
Be it an angry vow to yourself, a revelation of lung damage, or a significant other's ultimatum, nearly all decisions to quit and clean up your health focus on the negative aspects of nicotine dependence and how the delivery method (smoking) is doing you damage.
Just look at the ads in the media; they are designed to scare you into quitting smoking.
They cannot be taken any other way.
Now don't misunderstand; a critical impetus is a necessary evil to get you to quit and clean up your health.
It is just a fact of the human thought process that we react more strongly in avoidance than we do to the draw of things that are good for us.
However, if that negative, avoidance imperative is your only motivation to quit then you are likely to be doomed to failure.
Why? Let us take a look.
Fuelling Your Motivation When you work to motivate yourself to improve your health you are trying to bring about a positive change.
If you fuel an attempted positive change with negativity - such as the fear of Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, or Cancer, it is like putting the wrong sort of fuel in your car.
It will go for a little while, but then it will break down and be unlikely to work again.
That's what happens when you run out of motivation and go back to smoking.
Your Motivation Engine chokes and dies.
You need the right 'motivation fuel' to keep you going, and that's where Positive Forward Projection and Positive Mental Conditioning come in to play to help you stop smoking cigarettes.
THIS is the first step to better lung health not just quitting.
It is all about being in the right frame of mind before you even try to quit smoking!
Mental statements such as "What the heck am I doing to myself?", "Oh lord, I nearly coughed up a lung that time!", "Damn it was hard walking up those stairs.
I can barely breathe...
I gotta quit smoking," or similar are all good examples.
Be it an angry vow to yourself, a revelation of lung damage, or a significant other's ultimatum, nearly all decisions to quit and clean up your health focus on the negative aspects of nicotine dependence and how the delivery method (smoking) is doing you damage.
Just look at the ads in the media; they are designed to scare you into quitting smoking.
They cannot be taken any other way.
Now don't misunderstand; a critical impetus is a necessary evil to get you to quit and clean up your health.
It is just a fact of the human thought process that we react more strongly in avoidance than we do to the draw of things that are good for us.
However, if that negative, avoidance imperative is your only motivation to quit then you are likely to be doomed to failure.
Why? Let us take a look.
Fuelling Your Motivation When you work to motivate yourself to improve your health you are trying to bring about a positive change.
If you fuel an attempted positive change with negativity - such as the fear of Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, or Cancer, it is like putting the wrong sort of fuel in your car.
It will go for a little while, but then it will break down and be unlikely to work again.
That's what happens when you run out of motivation and go back to smoking.
Your Motivation Engine chokes and dies.
You need the right 'motivation fuel' to keep you going, and that's where Positive Forward Projection and Positive Mental Conditioning come in to play to help you stop smoking cigarettes.
THIS is the first step to better lung health not just quitting.
It is all about being in the right frame of mind before you even try to quit smoking!
