An easier way to STOP SMOKING.
FOREWORD
To give up smoking is both a difficult and traumatic experience and it is little wonder that a person who tries to stop find it an impossible task and he/she just accepts the fact that he/she will always be a smoker. Why go through the trauma and effort to stop smoking when it so much easier to continue in the present manner. There is no extraneous effort required and it is so much easier to just stay as you are. No will-power effort, no change in lifestyle, no physical or mental pains to endure. Why bother!
This is so sad as it is really possible for anyone to quit. The only key requirement to the whole exercise is firstly and primarily to have:
a genuine desire to want to quit
and secondly to have:
a changed attitude towards the whole process.
At Its most basic it has to do with willpower and desire. The desire to actually ‘wanting to quit’ must be there. One has to put in a mental effort, and a concerted attempt must be made to try and quit.
Various concepts impact on the total process, and your attitude, displayed during the initial period, is of paramount importance, and in the end it hinges on the seriousness of your intentions to want to quit.
Once you have taken the decision to quit, and truly want to give up your smoking habit, you can use some of the concepts and strategies explained in this publication to help you make the procedure a little easier.
Applying these concepts and strategies does not cost you anything nor does it demand physical effort, but it does help to change your mental attitude and will give you hope during periods of desperation which you are going to experience.
Believe me the strongest of wills go through periods of weakness and it sometimes seems so futile to carry on that it will sometimes appear that the natural thing to do is to just to give up on quitting and to go back to your old ways. Don't despair – keep on doing the right things and you will succeed.
This publication was written to help you with your attempt at stopping the smoking habit and has some interesting ideas and concepts to use which will help you with the process.
I would strongly advise you to read the whole book before you start the process as concepts and strategies from various chapters interact with one another and one should understand and apply the whole process as one procedure rather than as separate or individual systems.
Here's hope for you and good wishes to help you in breaking the habit. Apply the system and stick to it!
Index.
1. Introduction.
2. Why do we smoke and why do we have to stop?
3. There must be a strong desire to want to give up and you must be strongly motivated.
4. Decide beforehand when you intend to stop.
5. Change your lifestyle when you attempt to stop.
6. Never stop ‘Forever’.
7. Live one day at a time.
8. Stop regardless of whether you have stock of smoking materials or not.
9. Do not try to reduce your usage - rather just stop at once.
10. Use assistance substances.
11. The first month is easy because the motivation is still high.
Be aware of periods of emotional instability.
13. Never classify yourself as a non-smoker when you have stopped smoking.
14. Quitting is a highly emotional and subjective procedure.
15. Phenomenal taste and smell improvement.
16. Weight gain.
17. Kiss a non-smoker and taste the difference.
1. Introduction
Many articles has been written over the years on the subject of giving up smoking and many an idea on how to do it with varying degrees of ease has been published but despite all the claims to success a large majority of smokers find it most difficult to stop and particularly to stop permanently.
To this end it would be appropriate to relate my own story to you and explain the concepts and strategies that helped achieve the end result of giving up smoking. Just to put it into perspective let me explain that I have used the system herein explained on more than one occasion and it did wonders for me each time I used it. Here’s my story: