So, let me repeat, for
the first few days as a non-smoker allow these empty, insecure
feelings.
Accept that for a while,
you will feel empty and fed up.
You will also temporarily
feel as if you are been deprived of something that is vital
for your pleasure.
Fine.
Allow them all.
Also, allow the slight
physical aggravation that your body will undergo during this
period.
It is simply helping
itself to get rid of..... the poison that has been destroying
it.
When the feelings come,
instead of bemoaning the fact that you can't smoke why not say
to yourself:
'Isn't this great - this
'smoking bug' inside my body is dying and everyday
it is getting weaker and weaker'. In that way even if you
feel a little insecure or uptight you will still be in a
happy state of mind.
Enjoy starving this 'smoking bug' - nicotine - inside your
body.
Luxuriate
in it's death
throes.
There is no need to feel
guilty about gloating over it.
After all, it has been
gloating over you for enough years and the only way it can
ever gloat over you again is if you light another cigarette.
A
HAPPY NON-SMOKER
You are now about to
become a happy non-smoker.
Remember, don't get
anxious or uptight about this.
It
is not a final examination where failure equals eternal doom.
It is an adventure of
discovery and success.
Soon you will smoke your
last cigarette.
Remember, from that
moment on - you are a non-smoker.
Yes,
that very moment.
Do not say to people:
'Oh, I'm trying to give up smoking - Say: I am a
non-smoker.
You are NOW the same as
all the people in the world who don't smoke whether they
stopped ten years ago or never smoked at all.
This is important. There
is no waiting involved.
As we have said, the
difficulty in giving up smoking is not the physical
aggravation caused by nicotine withdrawal -- but the doubt,
the uncertainty, the waiting to become a non-smoker.
The 'waiting'
for the terrible withdrawal PANGS and PAINS that we
were promised or warned would come. The fear that we are too
weak and that the desire for a cigarette will prove too
overpowering for us.
So if you are waiting for
this great pain and suffering..... you will be waiting for the
whole of your life.
They won't come, because
they don't exist.
So
there is nothing to wait for.
The
slight physical aggravation and the temporary, empty, lonely
feelings that you will experience for the first few weeks when
you give up ARE IT.
There is nothing else to
face or tolerate.
Simply face these
temporary, slight feelings you will get when you stop.
Throw into the dustbin
all the old folktales that these feelings are horrible
monsters that you have to fight continuously.
These are only disguises
that these feelings wear so that they can scarce you out of
facing them and discovering their true puny
nature. Like little children at Halloween with their monster
masks.
So face the feelings.
Put them in context
and then just feel them as they really are. That is all you
have to do.
You are NOW a non-smoker.
What else is there to wait for?
You do not have to wait
till tomorrow, next week, or next month.
Simply remember two
golden rules..........
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