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Cutting down doesn't work.

Shitty things happen if you try to cut down. First the nicotine demon stays alive in your body but its hunger for more nicotine pulses more and more. As you continue to watch clocks and set timers for your next spare cigarette, you waste your life away waiting for your next fix of nicotine when all that time can be better spent doing anything else that brings you true joy.

Two worse things happen though when you cut down on cigarettes.

1. When you indulge yourself, cigarette after cigarette, you are only partially 'relieving' your nicotine addiction and causing yourself to feel more insecure, more nervous and more shitty.

2. You make each spare cigarette appear to give you more of an illusionary pleasure. By spacing cigarettes apart more and more, you now rely on these sole cigarette for your 'crutch' and 'pleasure'.

Why on earth would any smoker want to put themselves through this?

There are many times all smokers have done this especially myself. A factor is money, As prices go up on tobacco excise, we limit ourselves due to our budgets and choose to space cigarettes over our pay cycles. But these periods of abstinence just fool us into believing that we somehow really do get a 'pleasure' from cigarettes while simultaneously ignoring that these are the pangs of nicotine addiction. Another factor is health, some smokers simply cannot smoke cigarette after cigarette, some may have issues with asthma, lung cancer or have to hide their habits from their boss or loved ones. Yet they receive all the negative benefits and pangs of addiction like heavy smokers.

One temptation of failed quitters is to cut down on smoking instead of giving up on cigarettes altogether. It's another vicious cycle and relies on willpower to continue to cut down on cigarettes.

Willpower doesn't work when quitting cigarettes and it does not work when attempting to cut down. If you have tried cutting down like millions of other smokers and like me, you'll know from first hand experience that it is problematic and just cannot be sustainable. Smoking is an addiction not a habit.

All smokers have a permanent tug of war in their brains and a permanent itch inside their bodies to smoke because of the nicotine demon and the brainwashing demon. Yet when we light up, we only cure the itch until we finish that cigarette, however with each cigarette we create a new itch, spreading our nicotine dependency like wildfire.

Willpower doesn't help you to quit successfully and permanently so willpower therefore will not help you cut down more and more, you'll always come back to a higher amount of cigarettes than you were smoking before. This is akin to yo-yo dieting where you regain more weight than you previously lost. Eventually your willpower will always run out and when it does, you will be left exhausted, frustrated and give up on any further attempts to quit again.

Cutting down is associated with another group of smokers who we tend to believe are the 'perfect' models for decreasing our tobacco addiction. The happy casual smokers. We envy them, but they're nothing but liars. In the next episode, we explore why there is no such thing as a happy casual smoker.

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