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If you want to quit smoking, it is also important
that you put aside all the old stereotypes
about people quitting smoking.
We all know them......
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People going mad for a cigarette.
Pulling their hair
out.
Feeling miserable and empty. Going through their
life totally obsessed with only one thing - finding a cigarette.
Please, please suspend all these horror stories.
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the myth of going
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They may have been true in the past WHEN the majority of people,
either consciously or unconsciously used the old WILLPOWER METHOD
ALONE to stop.
A new era of
understanding
Today, however, thanks to the
new developments in applied psychology, giving up smoking can be easy and
permanent.
And.......it need NOT involve any of the above traumas.
In fact, if you APPROACH it in the
right way, you may even find it enjoyable!
This is important.
When you stop - yes,
you WILL feel something but there will be no physical agony, only a
temporary feeling that you are MISSING OUT on something.
A feeling
that you are being deprived of something SPECIAL --- but
these feelings will ONLY be temporary.
However, to give up
smoking successfully and go beyond the old willpower method,
we must go deeper than these temporary feelings.
We must realize that :
You find it difficult or impossible
to stop smoking now because......... you BELIEVE that you NEED to smoke and
even
deeper, you BELIEVE that if you give up smoking now, your life will
never
be as ENJOYABLE again.
In one sentence: You believe your
life will be intolerable.
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KEY
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It is these
beliefs that makes giving
up smoking difficult NOT Nicotine addiction.
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Right now you are not only
physically addicted to smoking but you are psychologically dependent
or addicted to
smoking.
If your addiction were purely physical
wouldn't all these nicotine patches have a 100% success record ?
Yet, we all know that even if we use a
nicotine substitute, we will still continue to feel a terrible desire to
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Psychological addiction. |
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Again and again, we'll 'feel' we must have a cigarette.
At
times, it will even get to the stage where we just don't care - even the
most dire health warnings will have no affect on us - we just WANT to
smoke.
Where does this desire come from
?
It comes from our
conditioning.
This moment, we
believe that smoking is an essential pleasure.
In fact, most
of us have a terrible resistance to EVEN thinking about giving up smoking.
Why ?
Because we believe that in order to do
anything about our addiction, i.e. quit smoking -- we would have to end our pleasure and
ending
pleasure is something we have NO DESIRE to do.
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