I wouldn't think it effective, because it keeps reminding the smoker that he wants a cigarette.
I quit a couple of times, once for two years, but the problem was that I had quit, and was fighting to stay quit.
An ex-smoker is always looking for an excuse to restart, it can be a dating breakup, or a lost job, or his wife and children killed in an auto accident.
I haven't smoked in twenty years, because the last time I quit, I didn't quit, I simply became a non-smoker.
It made a huge difference, I wasn't resisting something, because it no longer had any significance to me, since I wasn't a smoker it didn't bother me when other people smoked, when people offered me a cigarette, I didn't say "no thanks I quit", instead it was simply "no thanks I don't smoke".
My advice is don't play mental games, the next time the impulse comes over you to become a non smoker, then run with it, and make it real, and keep it to yourself.
Good ideas, and I can see the point in what you are saying. Rather than obsessing over not smoking and constantly thinking about it, people should just stop smoking and forget it. I do like to check and see how much money I've saved from time to time.
Exactly, I'm shedding pounds and losing the cigarette habit... That epilepic seizure has done be some good guess? sheesh...
Since my last siezure about 4 months ago or so, I have lost about 30 pounds and now i only smoke about 6 cigarettes a day, before I was smoking over a pack a day.. hmmmm
flopping around on futon(couch) like a fish must have shook/fixed(or broken) something in my little pea brain... ;)
Thanks for this post.
I 'quit' Feb. 7th.
I became a non-smoker after reading your post. It really does take the temptation away.
When an urge would come, I say, "Why would I do that, I'm not a smoker". I don't even use the word 'anymore' as 'not a smoker ANYMORE'. That reminds of when I use to be one.