Open Your Mind To New Possibilities
Before I post anything else, I want you to please keep an open mind.
Your first response to something that I might say is "heck, that can't be right". But what I would like you to understand is that I've been there myself. I used to be a 25 a day smoker of high tar cigarettes. I've been there and I know how you feel and I've come out the other side.
You have the mind of a smoker, and more so the mind of an addict. All addicts are close minded when it comes to feeding their own addiction, as you will find out more and more about soon enough. If you don't keep an open mind, then you may as well surrender now to the game of life. If you do keep an open mind, your life will be enriched.
So please, if you can just keep an open mind and prepare to be shocked, you need to think about exercising your logic over your emotions. We are emotional beings, us humans, and often our emotions are wrong. They were made for flight or fight in the wild and they serve the animals well. But in today's complex world, we have the power to think for ourselves.
One more thing, don't blame your genetics, your parents, your upbringing, your circumstances, society or anyone else for where you are now. Look forward and understand that you are in control of your destiny. You can change things for the future and if you put your heart to it, you WILL be an ex-smoker or, more correctly, a non-smoker, just as you were before you ever started.
The Situation Today with Stopping Smoking
So what is the situation today with the whole idea of "stopping smoking?" You may know it quite well, but it's worth talking about again because we'll come back to this time and time again.
These days, many people give up using willpower. Almost immediately after stopping, they are "dieing" for a cigarette. You know the deal - it can't be done at any old time, you need to prepare for the inevitable struggle that is coming up so you set a date and psyche yourself up. Then you stop and celebrate and hope you can get through the bad days ahead. Everyone tells you it will get better but it seems a mystery to you.
Maybe you even use some "medicine" to help you. It must be good, right? Because the doctor recommends it then it must be good for you? Especially patches, they really help. You just slap a patch on and no cravings. Wow, this is really great! Imagine stopping smoking and with the help of the great drug companies and the medical profession, you can do it without wanting another cigarette, well at least until you take off those dreaded patches anyway!
Or if it's not this method, it's one of the many other ways such as using an inhaler, throwing out all the ashtrays, keeping a picture of a diseased lung, remembering your friend that died from lung cancer, remembering your kids and their future. Whatever it is, you've probably tried or thought of trying them all.
So what happens if you follow all the steps above? Were you successful? If you're still smoking today then you weren't. Stopping smoking successfully is not measured in how long you have stopped for. You don't want to stop for just a year or 5 years do you? You want to stop permanently.
What if there were other ways to stop smoking?
