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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.
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I can honestly say
that if a hundred people, no a million people who
had already quit 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.
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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 to be happy, to be able to enjoy myself.
I could not even
visualize myself, enjoying a night-out without being able to
smoke.
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KEY
IDEA
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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.
Remember again.......
Millions 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
now a stadium packed with over 90 million plus Americans
trying to tell you this now.
Won't you let the
life-experiences of millions of people like myself, even
persuade you to consider this even as a glorious possibility?
Allow yourself to
think the unthinkable in your life now:
You can
FULLY enjoy yourself without NEEDING to
smoke.
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