This is a record of a person quitting smoking
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2016-08-03
11, 2013 On March 2, there was a severe smog in Beijing.
Today I have to write down my feelings about quitting smoking, because I have already paid a hundred yuan for it.
The thing is like this, I have a good friend named Ma Zhankai, the guy who invented the Sogou Pinyin input method. He is currently studying how to quickly learn new skills and develop new habits. He believes that the most effective way to establish new habits is to impose punishment. Yesterday he told me that I must write down my feelings about quitting smoking, otherwise the feelings will not be so strong after a while and the writing will be out of shape; at that time, I still had I have other things to do, so I agreed casually after hearing this.
As a result, when I met him today, he asked if he had written about his feelings about quitting smoking. I was stunned for a moment and said, no. He stretched out his hand and said, one hundred dollars. I took out one hundred yuan in cash and gave it to him; then he said, if he hasn’t written it yet, it will be one hundred yuan every day. Again I casually agreed. Then the result is that I am now sitting in front of the computer and starting to write a smoking cessation journal.
Quitting smoking is one of my series of wishes when I turn 30. Exactly five days have passed since October 28, 2013. Many people know that the five days of quitting smoking are the most difficult, but this time I passed the five days of quitting smoking easily. I am now continuing to enjoy a life without the constraints of tobacco. During this process of quitting smoking, I have many thoughts, which I will record down one after another.
When it comes to smoking, if those who smoked and pretended to be mature when they were young are not counted, it should be counted from the time when they were in college. Seriously, they have been smoking every day for exactly ten years, and they can be considered old smokers. So, when I announced that I was quitting smoking, many people around me were shocked. Today, taking advantage of five days of quitting smoking, I would like to talk about the three points that I feel the most strongly about now.
1. Understand what smoking is all about
I dare say that most people who smoke will never understand what smoking is all their lives. This part of the inspiration is due to the various materials about smoking published on the Internet. If you find a serious article on tobacco research and read it carefully, you will get one point: the essence of smoking is nicotine addiction. Many smokers actually know this, but few people know the reasoning from this point.
From this point, the most important inspiration we can get is: the act of smoking is not actually enjoyment, but only relieves your pain.
Every time you want to smoke, it is the nicotine addiction mechanism that is torturing you. The pain is so overwhelming that you light up a cigarette to relieve it. The so-called uncomfortable reactions of not smoking are exactly the same as the withdrawal reactions of quitting smoking. It can even be said that a smoker will suffer from the pain of the first few days of quitting smoking throughout his life.
Smoking is actually a drug; nicotine addiction is no different from cocaine or heroin addiction. The only good news for smokers is that nicotine is not as hard to quit as cocaine or heroin.
This is the fundamental reason why I quit smoking this time: to pursue freedom and escape from the imprisonment of nicotine.
2. Publicly announce that I will quit smoking
I have silently wanted to quit smoking twice in the past. At that time, I thought that I would tell others after I had completely quit smoking, but by then Later, without exception, all failed. I'm afraid to tell others that I'm trying to quit smoking; I'm afraid that my failure to quit smoking will be known to others; I'm afraid that others will laugh at me because I'm afraid of life and death and even dare not smoke; I'm afraid that friends who smoke will look at me strangely, etc. wait.
In the final analysis, this is a sign of lack of confidence in oneself. As a friend of mine named Daqiu said: "Extreme self-confidence comes from extreme self-discipline." If I can't even manage my own smoking, what else can I do to manage myself?
So this time, I publicly announced my quitting smoking on Weibo, WeChat and in my circle of friends, and I specifically told my parents, relatives and friends: I quit smoking.
3. Punishment conditions
Based on the first and second points, it is not painful at all for me to quit smoking this time, and I don’t need to endure it as hard as usual. But Ma Zhankai told me that you still have to set a punishment condition. So, starting from sunset on October 28, 2013, whoever finds out that I smoke a cigarette can immediately get one hundred yuan.
This penalty condition is valid for life and supervision is welcome.