THE ILLUSION OF WILLPOWER & QUIT SMOKING!   This is an extremely important point. We all know people who try to give up smoking through WILLPOWER ALONE. They believe that if they force themselves NOT to smoke and if they TRY desperately to keep their minds OFF it - then someday......hopefully, the terrible desire will go and they will be cured. However, everyday 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 feel deprived, empty and in some way incomplete. They genuinely believe that they will NEVER be able to enjoy themselves without smoking.  (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.)  Let's go back to our Willpower smokers..... As they look around, wanting to smoke --one obvious FACT always seems to escape them.   The majority of people around them, even in a pub are NOT SMOKING and yet this 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 MUST get that ' cancerous smoke into our lungs' before we can even think of enjoying ourselves!   Forcing deadly smoke into our lungs. Why?   Non-smokers do not seem to have the BELIEF that to enjoy themselves they HAVE TO FORCE DEADLY SMOKE INTO THEIR LUNGS. This point is so important as we start off on this course. Do not use willpower alone to give up smoking.   If you have failed before to give up smoking and found the whole experience miserable and horrible, this was probably the cause of your failure.   If you will take the time to find out WHY you smoke and the TRUTH (not the myths or stereotypes ) about what happens when you stop smoking you will find giving up smoking for good no big deal !  I mean that....it will be no big deal

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