When a smoker reaches for their last cigarette when they can't get more in a timely manner, it creates anxiety Some people think this is due to nicotine withdrawal but it's not

As I have discussed in other articles, the driving force behind smoking is not the cigarette/nicotine The thing that keeps a person smoking is the Psychological Smoking Mechanism

As has been said in these articles, it is very, very hard to simply quit smoking This is because the smoker has built a psychological smoking mechanism from an early age and reinforces it with every cigarette

In the first three parts of this article series, we have discussed how the reasons a person started smoking at an early age helped to build the psychological smoking mechanism This mechanism begins to operate beyond conscious control because the smoker has long since forgotten why they started smoking

In part 1 of this article, we discussed real chemical addiction and how stopping cold-turkey can be life threatening We also pointed out that although a smoker claims, "I'm dying for a cigarette," no one has actually died because they didn't get a smoke