Every day we experience a range of emotions, and during these experiences we are also lighting up cigarettes. So over time all of our feelings and all of our emotions end up automatically being linked in the subconscious mind with the act of smoking.

Our Feelings Control Our Behavior

Thus every time you light up a smoke you are creating new links and bonds with whatever emotion you have at that time. So if you happen to be angry, happy or under stress the mind links the action of smoking with these feelings.

This explains why when you are under stress you instantly reach for a smoke. Your mind has previously linked smoking and stress together, so when under stress it tells you to run and light up a smoke.

But these same links are formed with activities, such as having a smoke with a cup of coffee, or after a meal, or when driving a car… In the end the mind cannot do one without the other so it HAS to instruct you to light up a smoke as it has NO OTHER choice.