Can You Help Someone Quit Smoking

Can You Help Someone Quit Smoking by Nathalie Fiset

Why not help someone save himself from the grueling task of smoking. Smoking is, in fact, far from beneficial and it is really a great wonder how so many people could allow too much toxins entering their bodies without really taking some good actions to control them. Smoking is anything but a fire, and it is not a good company during your downtimes and boring hours. And for those people who can see the evil from a viewer's perspective, it is much easier to make better judgment on what to do and how to exactly do it. But of course, the smoker and someone helping him will work on two different approaches and would see the addiction from the various aspects of it. So how can you help someone quit smoking? Just like him, begin with trying.

Try and fail. Try and fail. And try harder. Like him he would have to make a lot of trials before he can actually master the effective means by which he could achieve something that is beneficial. And in your case, you cannot expect someone you want to quit smoking to succeed on his first trial. You must be standing right at his shoes and understand how the whole thing works.

You can't simply throw judgment and expect that the person you are trying to help would receive them with as much understanding as you are. Understand that smokers, no matter how much they want to break off the habit are somehow blinded to many possibilities and reasons. And the pressure of mental wants for the nicotine and the cigarette themselves are some how pressing them to make hopeless decisions. But still try until both of you finds the best way to give the addiction up.

Extend your understanding. As you might have guessed, smoking cessation is not smoothing that can be practically conceived on the initial trial. It takes a lot of effort before the smoker can really manage to turn away from the addiction. Sadly, not all people could really quit. Some have already abandoned this option long ago when they begun telling themselves that they couldn't quit simply because they could not. Yes, some people are as pessimistic as the person that could immortalize that motto but there are much more hopeless cases. Nonetheless, if you really want to help someone quit the smoking habit you must learn that there are no last resorts to this program but there are always the ways to rise from the addiction again.

Don't limit your understanding on what you can personally perceive. Understand that the smoker has his own problems to take. Your standpoint is a lot easier than his own. Besides, you cannot become an antagonist who uses force just to get your point. You must always be standing by his side, even if this means that you will endure so much of the pressure of the cigarette withdrawal. You must always pose as a helping hand even if this means that you'll be with him on his lowest times. There are extremely challenging phases of the quitting process and this is where you would least like to abandon the smoker. In fact, once you begin helping you can no longer turn away from the commitment you have first done. It is pointless to assume the responsibility when you are not totally committed to it. So unless he succeeded enough as to really quit for quite sometime, you must never consider quitting from helping him yourself.

Exhaust your own resources. Help comes with great sacrifice. This connotes the fact that you have to use your own resources when you want to achieve with somebody. Besides, you would not be helping if you are not concerned enough as to elicit the willingness to help. Maybe the smoker is your parent or your best friend or one of your peers. If this is the case, then you have a very high source of motivation to help. Be aware though that no matter how your motivation is, it could still be exhausted. The cigarette smoking cessation process is a very taxing process, not only on medications, therapies and products but also on the mental and emotional aspects. But no matter what, don't let down that someone you are helping.
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