How Bodybuilding Can Help You Quit Smoking

The overall lifestyle that bodybuilding creates can help fuel your desire to quit smoking and also increase your chances of success. Bodybuilding helps you manage cravings. When you are quitting smoking, you'll need to manage your craving for a cigarette and the desire to hold that cigarette in your hand (the act of smoking itself). As a bodybuilder, you know how to manage your cravings. You've been in many situations where people are eating pure junk and you've abstained. You can use the same techniques that help you managing cravings for a burger and fries to manage that craving for a smoke. Bodybuilding will help you manage your withdrawal symptoms. When you quit smoking, you will inevitably feel the symptoms of withdrawal including depression, not being able to sleep; feeling cranky, frustrated, anxious, nervous, restless; lack of focus; hunger or desire to eat (for that hand to mouth action). Bodybuilding makes you feel good. It increases your body's production of feel good endorphins. Plus you feel better about your overall appearance when you are a regular bodybuilder. Can't sleep? Working out regularly will help that. Feeling frustrated, anxious, sensitive or anything else? A hard workout will certainly relax you. Bodybuilding can help you direct those withdrawal symptoms. Bodybuilding gives you perseverance. There is nothing like a challenging sport to construct up your flaming crave to succeed. Sure you may not hit your goal today but a few days from now you'll try again. That capacity to persevere, even in the face of setbacks, is what you need to continually try to leave smoking.