Quit Smoking Cold Turkey :
The Illusion of Willpower !
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Before we start, can I make one very important point. Do not try to quit smoking through willpower alone. Forget the old concepts of Quit smoking cold turkey.
We all know people who try to do this.
They believe that if they can force themselves NOT to smoke and if they can somehow keep their minds off smoking – then– someday,hopefully…… the terrible desire to smoke will go and they will be cured. Quitting smoking cold turkey is pure punishment.
However, with this approach nearly every day tends to be a test and a NIGHTMARE.
Despite all their best efforts, all they can think about is…….
………SMOKING.
When they are out socializing, you can easily pick them out.
They are all sitting there – usually all tense and tight, watching everyone else smoking and thinking how unfair it all is: "Why can they smoke and I can’t ?"
They sit there feeling deprived, empty and in some way incomplete.
They genuinely believe that they will NEVER be able to enjoy themselves again without smoking.
(In fact, this is my strongest memory. I remember being in a party — thinking I'll never be able to enjoy these occasions again- now that I can't smoke. I was totally convinced of this.)
And so it is with all smokers who use the quit smoking cold turkey method alone to quit.
And yet, if they would look around at all the people at the party, or in the pub –one obvious FACT would hit them bang in the face!
The majority of people in the party or the pub are NOT SMOKING. And yet this fact does not seem to be affecting their enjoyment one iota!
They seem to be enjoying themselves fully — without needing to inhale cancerous smoke into their lungs!
Yet, as smokers we ARE TOTALLY, ONE BILLION PER CENT CONVINCED that we MUST get that ' cancerous smoke', that cigarette into our lungs' or else we won't be able to even think of enjoying ourselves!
Isn't it AMAZING??
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Forcing deadly smoke into our lungs. Why? |
Non-smokers are simply people who do not believe that to enjoy themselves they HAVE TO FORCE DEADLY SMOKE INTO THEIR LUNGS.
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This point is so important as we start off on this course. Do not use willpower alone to give up smoking. Forget the old method of Quit smoking cold turkey. If you have failed before to quit smoking and found the whole experience miserable and horrible, this was probably the cause of your failure. |