Why smoking makes you feel good

That's of course if it still does!

Smoking is a coping strategy. Every time you feel stressed or bored, or hungry, or any negative feeling the unconscious will try to make you feel better. That's it's job.... cast your mind back to the first ciggie that you ever had... Was it because all of your peers were smoking and you felt left out? Cos if it was, that is why you smoke. Feeling left out is the worst thing in the world, especially during your formative years. Fitting in is the best feeling in the world at that time. The cigarette then gets linked via the process of anchoring, ( chaining certain feelings to certain things), to that best feeling. Fatal... from that moment on your unconscious has an easy root to a good feeling. You have been conditioned essentially like sheep! Now it might not have been your peers, it might have been your parents who smoked, or an elder brother or a sexual partner, whatever, the mechanism is the same. Something about the actual act of smoking linked you to a pleasurable experience. IT WAS NOT THE NICOTINE. Nicotine addiction is a myth A persons first cigarette always make them feel physically unwell, a human does not need nicotine at all. In fact every time you have nicotine in your body your unconscious is doing it's damnedest to get rid of it, even if you 'Want to smoke and have no intention of quitting!!

If you want to quit then all you have to do is find some other convenient healthy activity that makes you feel really good, chain some type of harmless action to that activity, then every time you feel bad, fire off that action, or every time you would 'normally' smoke fire off that action. this really does work. Some smoking cessation specialists utilise this in their clients to brilliant effect.

Quitting smoking therefor is for all intents and purposes much easier that the drug companies and health organisations would have you believe.