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smoking...forever Keep calm and stop smoking.
Everybody knows that smoking damages your health. Nothing new here. Cigarette smoking affects the immune system, causes many different cancers, damages the cardiovascular system, increases osteoporosis risk, causes low fertility, accelerates the aging process, etc... If you want to do something good for your health, quitting smoking is essential. The comments of others about your smoking, smelly clothes and rooms, as well as the financial aspect should additionally motivate you to quit. But still many smokers fail in changing this habit and cannot stop smoking.
Advertisements offer “easy” ways to become a non-smoker and special pills, sticking plasters or even sprays are in the market. Or, more fashionable recently, electronic cigarettes can be used and instead of inhaling cigarette smoke, other chemicals bother the health and body. These attempts to stop smoking may work for a while but unfortunately they have very high relapse rates.
That’s the reason why our strategy to help you becoming a non-smoker is completely different. We do not focus on the physical part of the addiction, our centre of attention is the mental part. With training and practise the smoker learns about his/ her needs, the thoughts he/ she has in the moment of lighting a cigarette and how to question and overcome them. Learning to make this moment more conscious brings back control to the person and a new power is achieved over one’s habits. Also, typical relapse situations lose their fear, because with this new coping strategy a sustainable non-smoking attitude is built up. That is the way to obtain a long lasting, non- smoking life. Much better health, no more smoking outside the restaurant, no more smelly clothes and curtains and a great deal of money saved....
In the CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ATENCION PSICOLOGICA we also treat other kinds of psychological topics: Anxiety, panic attacks, depression etc. Do not hesitate to ask for professional advice in your language!
Mirko Bruns, Graduated Psychologist. Centro Internacional De Atencion Psicologica. Follow us on Facebook!
Tel : 630 341 888, San Luís / Torrevieja,
mirko.bruns@
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www.psicologo-torrevieja.com.
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