It’s easy to say, “it’s all in the mind”. Heck, I’ve said it before, believing that any bad habit or addiction can be overcome if we just put our minds to it. That is, before I started smoking. Then I also started gaining weight, so I smoked more thinking it would keep me from eating. People (well maybe not just any people, mostly my family and friends) would come up to me and tell me I’m on a losing cycle. That I need to just quit my nasty habits. My ready reply has always been, sure, I can quit anytime I want. I just don’t want to yet.
Then the time came when I finally said, I really gotta quit. Great, ya? Well, this is also the time I realized that it isn’t always so simple as just “putting your mind to it”. Any kind of habit or addiction is hard to kick. It has physical effects that you need to deal with, not just the mental effect. It takes a lot of will power to combat, and some people need extra ammunition to help them out. One of those ammunitions is drugs, yeah, it seems like a conflicting suggestion, but some drugs like Generic Acomplia release chemicals that signal your brain it is no longer hungry or that it doesn’t want nicotine anymore. I haven’t gone the way of using drugs yet, but at least I know the option is there if and when I need it.
