DAY 9 

FREEDOM 

This is going to be one of the most important decisions of your life. 

Not only is it going to change your financial life........ ....imagine how excited you would be if you found out that you had just won over $50,000 in a grand raffle! Well, you have in a way!!

But it will also be the most important health decision you will ever make.

The decision you make, in the next few days will also, probably save you years of pain and unnecessary suffering. 

This decision is so important for you and your family. 

It is also important for all the smokers  who have not yet had the courage to face their addiction.

There is, however one terrible, terrible irony of smoking.......

People find it so hard to believe that it is easy to give up.

And that is the central truth about smoking: it is easy to give up.

KEY IDEA

People find it so hard to accept that giving up smoking can be EASY.

And yet, most of us believe the opposite.

In this course we have, hopefully opened your mind to a new possibility.

You have begun to allow yourself to forget the myths and lies - and to begin to believe that maybe.....just maybe....it is possible to give up smoking and to give up for good.

Yes, I know it is still hard for you to believe - but that is because you have not yet experienced it.

Soon, you are going to give up smoking for good. 

As this time approaches, you will begin to experience a variety of emotions - from initial delight to fear and panic. Fine.

There is nothing to worry about. 

You are not doing an examination here where everybody is looking at you  and where if you fail initially, you are doomed forever.

You are starting on a process where you are going to prove to yourself that giving up smoking can be easy and even downright enjoyable. 

Why not take this adventurous,  playful attitude ?

Relax and begin to play around with all the new ideas you have gathered from this course. 

Do not force yourself to believe any of them.

But start to consider them as possibilities.

Open your mind to the possibility that maybe, after all..........

'I could genuinely give up smoking for good ..... 

Oh, wouldn't that be marvelous ........... 

But no, hold on, I tried before and failed and found it terrible ......... Yes! .............. but ....... wasn't that because I tried to give up through WILLPOWER alone ? ....... 

Could this new approach, this psychology of non-smoking really work ?

Maybe....... Just maybe. I don't know.'

And maybe your thoughts will continue as 
follows :

"Do I really NEED to smoke? Really NEED to. 

Could I ever get through the day HAPPILY without smoking? 

Could I ever ENJOY my morning coffee without a cigarette or after a meal .............

I have ALWAYS believed (like the world once believed the earth was flat.) that it would be impossible. 

Surely it is. ................... but wait a minute, I got by happily before I ever became a smoker in the first place - didn't I ? 

I was able to enjoy watching TV, talking to all my friends on the phone, enjoy all my meals .....WITHOUT SMOKING!

Yes, I did and even when people around me - my mother and father were smoking - it never bothered me at all. 

I wonder........ I wonder. ..................

And what about the majority of people in the world! 

They don't smoke and they seem to get through all these occasions comfortably .......... They seem to be ABLE to enjoy their coffee and meals without the slightest NEED or desire to smoke.

It doesn't effect their enjoyment one iota...... ............

My God, could it be true? ........... 

Maybe even after all these years, I do not really NEED the cigarette ....... Sure I would like to have it.... ........... but do I really NEED it ?

Could I possibly enjoy myself without it........? 

I must admit ........ I never really thought about it like this before ....... 

I just believed giving up smoking was all about losing a nice pleasure ...... 

And never actually considering the possibility I could be just as HAPPY without it ........'