A Personal Story. 

Let me tell you a story.

I was a smoker for fifteen years. I really used to look forward (or so I believed ) to a cigarette..... 

• After work
  
   
• After a meal 
  
  
• .....And, of course in the pub.

In fact I really, really believed that there was no way -- NO WAY --  I would  EVER be able to enjoy myself in the pub if I couldn't smoke.

Even the thought horrified me.

For me, this is my most vivid memory. 

I can honestly say that if a hundred people, no a million people who had already given up smoking had told me that I REALLY could enjoy myself without smoking  - in fact that I would enjoy myself infinitely better, I would not have believed a word. 

Not a word.

It is amazing how much we genuinely believe all the illusions about smoking. 

We all genuinely believe that they do something for us - that they are a help, a joy, a comfort, a friend....... And that if they go, we'll  miss them terribly.

We should never underestimate the power these beliefs can have on us.

In my case, I accepted WITHOUT QUESTION  the assumption that I NEEDED to smoke. 

I could not even visualize myself, enjoying a night-out without being able to smoke. 

KEY IDEA

To-day thousands of people who genuinely and totally believed that they NEEDED to smoke to enjoy certain parts of the day have realized it is a TOTAL ILLUSION.  

And yet to-day it is true. I CAN enjoy myself totally without needing to smoke.

 And I don't tell you this out of pride but hope. Hope that you might consider it possible also for yourself.

Remember again.......

	Thousands of people who genuinely and totally believed that they NEEDED cigarettes to enjoy certain parts of the day have realized that it really is an illusion
Imagine a stadium packed with over 40 million people

Won't you let the life-experiences of thousands of people like myself, even persuade you to consider this even as a glorious possibility?

Allow yourself to think the unthinkable:  

You can FULLY enjoy yourself  without NEEDING to smoke.

To-day, I genuinely look forward to going out and the thought of wanting to smoke does not even enter my mind, even if EVERYBODY  around me is smoking.

However.....

	....let me add to all our readers that we fully understand all your fears and doubts. And I know that, at this stage you will find it hard, if not impossible  to believe all the above claims.
I know that you are still not looking forward to the day when you will finally give up for good. There are still many doubts and worries in your mind.

The main thing is to be patient. 

Take your time. 

Let all this new information about the psychology of non-smoking sink into your mind so that everyday you grasp a deeper and deeper understanding of the principles involved.

As you do this, you will find all the illusions which you so dearly believed in falling away of their own accord.