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You don’t need cigarettes to relax

It’s the break in concentration that relaxes you, not the cigarette. When you've been concentrating on some extremely important problem, you may take only a puff or two and then let the cigarette burn itself out while you return to your work.

Often, when I was smoking and writing, I'd find two or three cigarettes burning at the same time. Now look at it another way. Think back to a time when you were deeply worried, tense and jumpy. Perhaps someone was ill. Perhaps there was a personal problem concerning your job. Did you smoke exces­sively? Did that excessive smoking really provide re­laxation, or did it merely result in a "smoked out" feeling—thick tongue and raw throat?

One other element of this theory that "cigarettes relax me" is interesting. Just the conviction that the statement is true is sufficient to give it some validity.

For example, you’ve heard about "placebos." They're pills, usually, that contain no medicine, and they're sometimes given to patients so that the patients will think they're getting medication. Hypochondriacs are given them very frequently; says the doctor as he dis­penses a dozen of these colorful capsules of nothing, "This is a new preparation, Mrs. Smith. I think it will help you."

And do you know what? The "new preparation" does help! By swallowing placebos people lose weight, gain weight, are freed from migraine headaches, hear better, see better, gain relief from aches, are "tranquilized," or abound with new energy. It's wonderful what conviction can do!

Remember those fraternity initiations where they pretended to be heating a branding iron so that the boys could "brand" their victim? The poor initiate would first see the flames; then he'd see the branding iron; then he'd see it placed in the fire; then he'd be blindfolded. And then, to the accompaniment of siz­zling noises, something would be pressed hard against his skin. He'd shriek with pain! He could feel the heat!

But what had been pressed against him was merely an ice cube. A powerful thing, conviction! If for twenty years you had been told dozens of times a day that you could relax simply by shrugging your shoulders several times, the gesture would prob­ably work. It would provide a brief "concentration break" while you shifted your mental focus from present problems to moving your shoulder muscles. And since you'd be convinced that it had always worked, it would of course work again. Are you beginning to see that you don't need ciga­rettes to relax?


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