Mike Mor
Consider this:
Already since 1972, finished 60 million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking!
At one stage over 60% of the adult population was addicted to this drug. Today it is 28% and dropping.
Now, isn't this a fair thought.
If complete these people can do it (60 MILLION OF THEM!) - and they include EVERY TYPE of person thinkable - surely that is PROOF that IT IS viable to successfully quit smoking.
Here's another Fact.
We now know from the current scientific research, that although nicotine is one of the world's fastest temporary drugs --- the actual PHYSICAL withdrawal pangs when you give up ARE SO MILD, YOU WILL HARDLY BE AWARE of THEM WHEN YOU STOP.
YES, you have read that sentence right!
I know you will want to argue with me on this point, but, first, let me first make the following points.
The Desire to Smoke
Yes, when you stop smoking you will feel the desire AGAIN and AGAIN to smoke.
We complete know that feeling -- 'I essential have a cigarette'. But that desire in itself is not bad or painful.
It is just a feeling, a sensation we feel in our body.
However........this is where, for most of us our problems start.
If we start to fear that 'craving' or try to use 'Willpower' to REPRESS it or FORCE it go away, -- "I wish this feeling would go away" we WILL create pain and tension.
This is what as smokers we have complete done in the past.
That 'feeling' of absent to smoke past becomes painful, disagreeable and terribly irritating.
Now this is the woody part to realize.
The pain, the horror does not come from the desire to smoke, but from HOW we deal with this desire, moment-by-moment WHEN we stop.
Can I emphasize this.
You do not have to experience ANY pain or agony when you stop. Yes, when you stop you WILL experience a.
Temporary feeling of loss
A feeling that you are being deprived of something
A feeling of emptiness
A feeling that you will never be competent to enjoy yourself again.
A feeling that you must have a cigarette
These feelings, although precise real in themselves are not inherently bad or painful. What is influential is how you deal with these feelings when you QUIT SMOKING.
The key part of quitting smoky naturally is learning how to deal with these cravings when you stop.
Conflict
Right now, you don't want to give up smoky because you are TERRIFIED of how you will FEEL when you can't smoke.
Let's be honest.
You smoke now because you enjoy it.
Or -- to be more accurate: You smoke now because you have fit yourself to enjoy it.
It is important that we are honourable with ourselves here.
In fact, even the 'THOUGHT', the mere 'thought' of not been able to smoke probably fills you with complete alarming now.
But there is other undeniable fact: This 'pleasure' is humorous you. Again we must be brutally honest here. Everyday, you are systemically destroying your health.
This is the conflict complete smokers face.
On the cardinal hand, smoking is killing you and you desperately want to stop.
..And yet on the other hand, you don't really want to stop because you believe you really enjoy it.
Yet, one other truth cannot be denied and this applies to every smoker.
We are terrified of how we will F-E-E-L when we can't smoke. We are convinced it will be unbearable and impossible.
FEAR
Right now, the ONLY thing -- yes, THE ONLY THING stopping you from quitting smoking is this fear of how YOU WILL FEEL WHEN YOU STOP.
And yet this very fear is the actualised key to quitting smoking naturally.
Quitting smoking is really all active learning HOW to deal with the cravings and feelings you WILL get when you stop.
When you learn how to do that - you will realize that there is nothing to fear when you give up.
What is there to fear?
When you get the craving to smoke, which you will, again and again - - you will now take the OPPORTUNITY to 'change' or 'transform' that craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least permissible to experience.
Imagine.
You have decided to give up smoking. It's dinnertime.
You have polished a day's work.
You finish your meal and ..... subconsciously, you reach for a cigarette. But then, of course you remember you no longer smoke.
Bang! At that moment, certain gut feelings will arise.
Feelings of regret........a feeling that you are absent out on something important and past maybe..... terrible feelings of emptiness..... We all know how it feels.
But the realistic question is: How will you deal with this feeling -- this craving to smoke?
Will you retributory suffer it, try to repress it and hope that it will go away? That is one option. The old willpower method.
Or will you give in to the feeling -- and start to smoke again (promising to start again tomorrow)?
Or will you - - for the first time ever: - - follow our instructions and actually ALLOW yourself to transform the feeling/craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least nice or tolerable sufficient to experience.
You see, when you can do that, you will no longer be AFRAID of these cravings when you stop smoking.
In fact, you will start to WELCOME them because they will give you another opportunity to RESPOND and DEAL with them in this spic-and-span WAY.
This process is the essence of quitting smoking naturally and finding it a pleasant and life-affirming experience.
Weight-loss?
Are you now beginning to see how these principles can also apply to losing weight.
You see a pleasing cake. You want to eat it....when BANG! -- You remember you are on a diet.
Now watch HOW YOU feel when this happens?
Couldn't we describe it as.
'Feelings of regret........a feeling that you are absent out on something important and past maybe..... terrible feelings of emptiness.
Isn't it essentially the same feeling as not being able to smoke?
However, the real question is the same with smoking: How will you DEAL with this feeling - this craving to eat?
Will you GIVE IN to it -- and eat the cake or will you try and FORCE yourself not to eat it- and be miserable?
Why not consider our alternative?
Accept this feeling, this desire to eat. But, instead of generous in to it, learn how to deal and respond to it in a NEW way so that you don't MIND experiencing it?
Transform the craving so that it is actually enjoyable or very pleasant to experience.
The Joy of quitting Smoking?
Remember, when you stop - yes, you WILL feel something but there will be no physiological agony, only a temporary feeling that you are absent OUT on something. A feeling that you are being deprived of something SPECIAL --- but these feelings will ONLY be temporary.
However, to quit smoking successfully and to start to enjoy doing it we essential go deeper than these temporary cravings.
We essential realize that:
You find it difficult or insurmountable to stop smoky now because......... you BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY that you NEED to smoke and equal deeper, you BELIEVE that if you give up smoky now, your life will never be as ENJOYABLE again.
In cardinal sentence: You believe your life will be intolerable.
It is these beliefs that makes quitting smoking ambitious NOT Nicotine addiction.
Right now, you are not only physically hooked to smoking but you are psychologically dependent or hooked to smoking.
If your addiction were purely physiological wouldn't all these nicotine patches have a 100% success record!
Yet, we all know that even if we use a nicotine substitute, we will still continue to feel a terrible desire to smoke.
Again and again, we'll feel we essential have a cigarette. At times, it will even get to the stage where we retributory don't care - even the most dire health warnings will have no affect on us - we retributory WANT to smoke. Where does this desire come from ?
It comes from our conditioning, our beliefs about smoking.
This moment, we believe that smoky is an unexpendable pleasure. In fact, most of us have a alarming resistance to equal thinking about quitting smoking.
Why ?
Because we believe that in order to do anything active our addiction, i.e. give up smoky -- we would have to end our pleasure and ending pleasure is something we have NO DESIRE to do.
YOUR REAL JOB
Your real job in giving up smoking lies in REALLY UNDERSTANDING that you don't NEED to smoke.
You remove the psychological addiction to smoking.
You will never be truly free until you realize that smoking is not a real pleasure and that when you stop, you WILL NOT BE depriving ourselves of a real pleasure....... ......and then you will not single be able to give up smoky for good but you will enjoy doing it!
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