I don’t care if this is your first time to quit. Or....... if you have tried hundreds of times before and failed. 

You really can quit smoking. 

How can I be so sure? 

Well, for a start ...consider these two simple facts. 

Already since 1972 over 90 million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking. 

90 million!

At one stage, over 60% of the adult population was addicted to this drug. 

Today it is 23% and dropping.....

Now, if all these people can do it - and they include  every type of person, young and old, male and female  - surely that is PROOF that IT IS POSSIBLE to successfully quit smoking.

Or, at least, you can start to think more positively about quiting, can't you?

Fact two: 

We now know from the latest scientific research, that although nicotine is one of the world’s fastest acting drugs  --- the actual PHYSICAL withdrawal pangs when you quit ARE SO MILD, YOU WILL HARDLY NOTICE THEM WHEN YOU STOP.

YES, you have read that sentence right! 

When you quit smoking, the actual PHYSICAL withdrawal pangs will be so mild that you will hardly notice them. 

Most people believe that the biggest problem in quiting smoking  will be:

" How will I  handle those horrible physical withdrawal symptoms, when I stop. My life will be a misery." 

They don’t exist.

I know, right now  you will want to argue with me on this point, but let me first make the following points.......

A New Realization

Yes, when you stop smoking you will feel the desire, AGAIN and AGAIN to smoke. 

We all know that feeling --' I must have a cigarette’. 

But that 'desire' to smoke in itself is not bad or painful.

It is just a feeling, a sensation we feel in our body.

However........if we start to fear that ' craving'.......

Or try to fight it or use willpower to REPRESS it, -- "I wish this feeling would go away" , yes we WILL  create and experience pain and tension.

KEY IDEA

This is what we have always done 
in the past.

That feeling of wanting to smoke then becomes painful, annoying and terribly irritating.

Now this is the hard part for most of us to accept :

The pain, the horror we experience does not come from the desire to smoke.

It comes from HOW we decide to deal with this desire to smoke moment-by-moment WHEN we stop smoking.  

Can I emphasize this:

You do not have to experience ANY terrible pain or agony when you quit smoking.

Yes, when you stop you WILL experience for the first three weeks a ...........

• Temporary feeling that you have lost something special. A great friend. A comrade.
  
  

• A feeling that you are being deprived of something
  
  

• A feeling of emptiness
  
  

• A feeling that you will never be able to enjoy yourself again. 
  
  

• A feeling that you must have a cigarette if you want to be happy again
  

These feelings, although very real in themselves are not bad or painful in themselves. 

What is important is how you deal with these feelings when you quit smoking.