Quit Smoking Timeline

Quit Smoking Timeline

Back in school, the news about our group spread like wildfire. We were the kids from the gang that dared to break the rules. We were famous! Unbelievable, we were famous and admired by our colleagues. Some of them joined our club, others were afraid but the majority thought what we did was cool. The feeling of being famous, belonging to the group and doing the forbidden things gave me such a kick that I kept on escaping and smoking with the other guys.

Every Friday afternoon a big school bus brought us back home. It was a one and a half hour drive from school to my parent’s house. Marc was also on my bus, as he lived a few villages further on. The bus had hardly left the grounds of school and we started smoking. Another stimulating factor was that there were girls on our bus. They came from a neighboring boarding school for girls who had an agreement with our school concerning traveling from and to school on Sundays and Fridays.

Smoking and doing other forbidden things was the right thing to do in order to impress the girls. The girls didn’t say so but we just knew, we could read their minds! We were the cowboys of their dreams! I’m not familiar with your story but I would really like to know how nicotine trapped you. You can always send me your story by mail or email. No matter what the details of your story are, chances are that you can find some similarities with my story.

Maybe you started smoking at quite a young age because you wanted to belong to a group, to be with the big boys in your school. Maybe you did it because you wanted to impress the girls. Maybe you started smoking because you had a big brother or sister that smoked and you thought it looked cool to have a cigarette in your mouth. Maybe you started to impress your boyfriend.

On the other hand, you started because you wanted to keep your stress or your weight under control. Others started smoking because their best friends convinced them. Advertisements on television or sports events depictured our heroes with cigarettes in their mouths. Movies showed our favorite actors or actresses relaxing with a delicious cigarette. These are some of the many things that might have pushed you to smoke that very first cigarette.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Quit Smoking Timeline

How To Quit Smoking Naturally

How To Quit Smoking Naturally

Anyway, at eleven years old, I had another nicotine stick in my mouth and I was about to experience the “great sensation” and taste of it. Well, it was even worse than that cigar I smoked when I was five! After the first puff, I immediately started coughing and it seemed that my whole head started to spin around. From time to time, I felt as if I was going to faint. I was dizzy and I saw my colleagues floating and turning around as I collapsed on the sand under the bushes.

Some of the guys started to laugh at me, “Aha, you can’t stand the smoke, whoa, you pussy.” “You’re not a real guy.” “You’re so soft.” I didn’t want to admit I was failing and tried to show them the real me by taking another large puff. The result wasn’t any better and the taste was absolutely awful. It felt as though the smoke was slowly penetrating my throat, my lungs and stomach. I felt sick. My legs and arms felt heavy, my knees couldn’t keep my body up, and so I stayed lying on the ground, just turning my head. My eyes were wide open so I could see what was happening. This was the only sure thing that I experienced; I could still see what was going on around me. It was small consolation to notice that I wasn’t the only person suffering from this experience.

As we were in a group of “grown-up” kids, nobody wanted to show their weakness, just the contrary. Besides, everybody wanted to belong to the group, be one of those big guys who dared to escape to the woods and smoke without permission.

We all survived our first nicotine experience, as well as our trip back to the schoolyard. Such a trip was not without danger. The school kept us under close surveillance and if the instructors had caught us, it would have cost us our school careers. Not to mention how our parents would have reacted once they found out about it.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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How To Quit Smoking Naturally

Preventing Smoking Addiction - Is There Such A Thing?

Preventing Smoking Addiction – Is There Such A Thing?

My first contact with cigarettes was at the age of five. I opened the big antique closet that my parents had in the living room and took out a big cigar. I ran up back to my room, opened the window and “enjoyed” my first cigar. It was an awful experience and I coughed up my lungs.

I spent the next two days walking from my bed to the bathroom and back. It was the most awful, disgusting experience ever! So, after that experience I “quit” for a couple of years. The reasons were obvious. First, I had a very bad first experience, my body suffered for quite a while. Secondly, I didn’t get my parents’ permission to smoke, obvious since I was only five. Thirdly, they started hiding the key to the closet a lot better than before.

By the time I was eleven years old I fell for the temptation of “becoming a real man.” I wanted to be cool and belong to the in gang. It happened when I was at boarding school. It was a school run by Jesuits, who, as you’ll later see, played quite a considerable role in my smoking education. Spending the first night with three other pupils all around 11 years old, and sharing a room was quite a lot of fun. It was a new experience for all of us as we got to know each other and found out who already smoked. Marc was one of those guys who didn’t just talk about having done it, he actually smoked and he showed us his cigarettes, Blue Belga with a filter.

The next morning, after introductions to the class and teacher, a few of us escaped into the woods. There we would meet and smoke. The trip was an experience in itself; we felt like we were in a movie, it was a little bit scary. There was always a potential risk of being caught, but what a challenge! I guess we were in a group of six or seven kids, hiding behind some big bushes while Marc and Rob were distributing the cigarettes and then lighting them. It didn’t take much to convince me to go along with them because I wanted to be a part of it; I wanted to belong to the group. Just that sensation was a big adventure that I didn’t want to miss.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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Preventing Smoking Addiction - Is There Such A Thing?

A Way To Quit Smoking Fast

A Way To Quit Smoking Fast

So when the balloon is inflated we believe that we feel better than a non-smoker does. Well, my parents were also admiring the view and the nature of Monument Valley and they felt at least as great as I did. They weren’t smoking! I could see my sister was enjoying the view and she wasn’t smoking. At that time I didn’t think about this, it took a lot of reflection, and thinking before I finally realized how I, as the smoker, was fooling myself.

I started to realize that I was actually smoking to gain back the feelings and condition I had before I started smoking. Once you become a nicotine addict and you start smoking a pack a day, the balloon soon gets worn out. This means that no matter how much you smoke, you are never able to regain exactly the same level of comfort as when you were a non-smoker.

So no matter what you smoke, when you smoke, you’ll always be left with a slightly uncomfortable feeling, those butterflies never go away completely. This is one of the reasons that eats at the self-esteem of a smoker.

You’ll get the feeling that you’re constantly missing something, no matter how much you smoke. The moment you stop smoking, this feeling becomes bigger and therefore you’ll light a cigarette even more quickly than before.

As we have seen earlier, this is what we imagine! The reality is that there was nothing missing before we started to smoke. The missing feeling, the hungry feeling, the butterflies, the balloon effect is created by smoking that first cigarette! Before you smoked that first cigarette, you were missing nothing. We didn’t have this hungry feeling or anything like it. So this balloon effect describes how the nicotine is working in our body. In addition, it does this very, very slowly so that we are not aware of the fact that we have become addicted to it.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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A Way To Quit Smoking Fast

Best Way to Stop Smoking

Best Way to Stop Smoking

When you smoke a cigarette, you take yourself back to the same condition you were in before you started smoking! What are the effects of this? How do we understand this? What are the causes? First, do you agree with what I’ve said above? Maybe you don’t and I politely ask you to reread what is written.

Most smokers believe they gain something when they smoke. They believe that by smoking they get something extra that non-smokers don’t have. As a smoker, you have the feeling of certainty when you smoke, a feeling of power in a difficult situation, a friend in a difficult moment, a relief when stressed. All feelings we believe that we have and non-smokers don’t have.

I can still vividly remember making a trip through the USA with my parents. I was 21 that summer and in those days it was a big deal for a family from Belgium to go on vacation to the USA. The whole family was looking forward to it; I would finally visit my dream country! We were going to the areas I wanted to see the most. We were going to go to the West Coast. California, Arizona, Nevada, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park and Marlboro Country–Monument Valley.

My room at home was already filled with every possible poster about Marlboro Country, so I could imagine how the countryside looked. When I looked at the pictures of the cowboys and the horses, I could feel the breeze and the sound of the birds in the sky.

Then I was actually standing in Monument Valley! So I lit a cigarette with my Zippo and took a deep pull. What a feeling. I felt I was in control of the whole world. I was calm, relaxed and enjoying the wonderful view over Monument Valley. And I was thankful that I could share this moment with a cigarette in my mouth. Without this cigarette, the experience wouldn’t have been as nice, at least that’s what I thought then and there.

It’s the balloon feeling that gives us this impression. When the balloon is inflated, we feel great, when the balloon is empty, we feel like we are missing something, we feel hungry and we feel the same as when we are in love. We have butterflies in our stomach. Remember this feeling for later on because we will come back to this when we speak about withdrawal pains.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Best Way to Stop Smoking

Start of Smoking Addiction - Quit Smoking Now

Start of Smoking Addiction – Quit Smoking Now

Imagine that your body has a small balloon inside it. Let’s say that we have a balloon for each addiction that exists. The balloon is just lying there. It doesn’t cause any harm since it’s not inflated. For the same reason, we don’t feel anything because it’s not inflated.

When you smoke your first cigarette, what happens? Nicotine is a very fast drug. It goes through your veins and blood and in no time, the nicotine has found its way to the nicotine balloon and starts to inflate the balloon for the first time. By inflating the balloon, the balloon is pushing aside some of your intestines and fighting to claim his spot in your body. Because the balloon is inflating gradually, you are not aware of this change in your body.

From the moment you extinguish your cigarette the balloon starts to deflate again leaving behind an open space. Every time you light another cigarette, the balloon inflates again, and becomes a support for your intestines. When your cigarette is finished, the balloon starts to deflate again and starts creating an empty feeling in your stomach.

This empty feeling is caused by the deflated balloon now is no longer supporting your intestines. The balloon has created a vacuum in your body and your body wants to fill up this vacuum again. This is a way to describe the empty feeling you feel when you haven’t smoked for a while.

Your body starts creating a need for a cigarette and nicotine. Without nicotine, without the inflated balloon inside, you start feeling uncomfortable because of this vacuum, this hungry feeling you have inside. From the moment you light a cigarette, the balloon inflates and you feel comfortable again. You feel sure and supported because of the inflated balloon.

Actually, when you smoke, you feel the same as the moment before you started smoking. This is important to understand. When you smoke a cigarette, you take yourself and your body back to the condition it was in before you ever started smoking! If it’s not clear or if you are still confused about this sentence, read it again and think about it for a while. Let it really sink into your mind and make sure you fully understand what we mean here.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Start of Smoking Addiction - Quit Smoking Now

How to Quit Smoking - Tips to Kick the Habit for Good

How to Quit Smoking – Tips to Kick the Habit for Good

Let’s now have a look at who has provided you with suggestions about cigarettes and how you are brainwashed by the smoker’s society. Most of us started smoking under some kind of social pressure. This social pressure came from a group of people, friends or family who were smoking at the moment when you reached for your first cigarette. When you are a young smoker you probably started smoking in order to belong to a group, feel cool, feel like one of your heroes, feel more charming or lose weight.

If you were older, you probably started due to a stressful situation, a relationship that ended, a difficult exam or a new job, even a baby in the family. Perhaps you wanted to do something exciting, you wanted to feel more alive, or you needed to concentrate on something and then you were offered a cigarette.

Just in this variety of reasons, you can find contradictions. Smoking to concentrate and smoking to alleviate boredom, smoking in stress situations and smoking when relaxed. You hear them tell you how tasty a cigarette is after dinner. How they light a cigarette first thing in the morning and how they enjoy it. How they have a puff when they have to think and concentrate, how a cigarette helps them to get fantastic ideas, how they have seduced a partner by blowing smoke in their face!

Unbelievable isn’t it?

You hear all the good things about smoking from those people who know it, smokers.

Moreover, and this makes the cigarette trap complete, you also hear many warnings from smokers, which are meant to discourage you from starting smoking. They tell you about the downside of smoking. It will destroy your health, cost a lot of money, limit your social freedom, and make you hooked for life, and so on.

When it comes to quitting smoking, the stories you hear are clear. Quitting is very difficult and you suffer doing it. It’s impossible to quit. It’s the hardest thing to do if you smoke more than a pack a day. Without medical help, you can never quit. Even if you quit, you’ll restart one day. Your body will shake because it needs nicotine. You’ll become angry with friends and family. You’ll have problems concentrating and you’ll finally start smoking again. You’ll hear from people who have tried a number of times and failed every time. Others have used all the pills and patches available and still smoke a pack a day.

These are the kind of hetero-suggestions we get from the smoking world.

All these suggestions are stored somewhere in your mind. These suggestions then become the pillars for certain beliefs in your mind. Beliefs are very powerful and they work in our subconscious mind. This means that we don’t notice that they have an influence on our daily behavior. They do, however, and in a very convincing way.

Just as an example:

It was accepted for thousands of years that no human being could run a mile under four minutes. So, for ages and ages, nobody did. Until there was an athlete called Roger Bannister who ran the mile in 3:59! Amazing!

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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How to Quit Smoking - Tips to Kick the Habit for Good

Quit Smoking with Nicotine Patches - Does That Work?

Quit Smoking with Nicotine Patches – Does That Work?

When you enter the school building, you see a big sign telling you smoking is not allowed and you see giant posters informing you that smoking kills. You have biology this morning and the teacher begins a lesson on smoking, the causes of lung cancer and its consequences.

All this information is penetrating your mind on a continuous basis. This is very confusing, even for the brightest minds. Even if you are older, man or woman, the information is contradictory and penetrates your mind from the day you are born. The tobacco industry makes sure they have appropriate commercials for all age groups and sexes. They make clear differences between, for example, male and female commercials.

Over the last couple of years, there have been visible changes in advertising trends, which focus more on the female audience. The reason for this is quite simple. They noticed that more and more men are quitting and they want to keep their market share. So, they are looking for new markets and women seem to be a very attractive and successful target.

It’s a pity that they play on the weak points of their future customers to seduce them. Many advertisements clearly imply that smoking keeps your weight under control or even makes you lose weight! That way it’s easier to attract more clients. Once these messages have penetrated into the minds of hundred of thousands of women, it becomes much more difficult for them to quit. More on this particular topic will be discussed later.

Let’s now continue with the contradictory messages or suggestions you receive from our society on a daily basis. It’s important to realize that these suggestions are a part of your daily life. This means that you don’t actually hear them in a conscious way. These contradictory suggestions have become a part of your general belief system. This makes this society brainwashing even stronger and more powerful.

These contradicting suggestions are a danger and one of the main reasons why it’s so difficult to stop smoking. It’s also the main reason why you actually started smoking in the beginning. I’ll explain why later.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Quit Smoking with Nicotine Patches - Does That Work?

Quit Smoking in Split Second

Quit Smoking in Split Second

So, if I really wanted, I could quit in a split second. I was in control, and at that moment in my life I wanted to smoke. The worst thing was that I was not only telling these stupid lies my friends and family, but also to myself! As long as I was telling these lies to myself, how could I ever quit? I had to be honest with myself. I had to tell myself the truth. Why did I smoke? How did it happen?

That brings me to a point around which I believe a lot of brainwashing and mistakes are associated. When did you take the decision to become a smoker? When was it? Do you remember the place, the specific moment? Silly question? Just think about it, did you ever consciously choose to become a smoker?

Unbelievable isn’t it? Personally, I can’t believe that there is one smoker in the world who consciously wanted to become a smoker. It’s something you grow into, because of all the traps that are set for you. The nicotine trap, the society trap, the habit trap. Before you know it, your body is addicted to the nicotine and you become an addict. You didn’t choose to become a smoker. It just happens in the process.

Of course, you shouldn’t use that argument to feel sorry for or excuse yourself. On the contrary, it should give you even more reasons to free yourself from a situation and condition you never wanted to be in. You didn’t choose to become a smoker but you can and will choose to become a non-smoker!

The fact that you have admitted to yourself and others in your close circle that you have a drug addiction is a very important step forwards. From now on, you know where you stand. This is important because without knowing it you can never be sure if you have made any progress.

The other major advantage is the fact that you can start looking for the proper tools to fix the situation. As long as you believe it‘s just a bad habit or something you choose to do yourself, you’re likely to look for solutions in that specific field. As you saw earlier, the fact that you believe smoking is just a bad habit makes quitting smoking much more difficult. That is because you know that it’s difficult to break bad habits.

The fact that you believe this makes smoking your top bad habit example. Unless you admit what you honestly know, namely that you are a drug addict, a NICOTINE addict, it’s a vicious circle, which you won’t escape.

The beautiful thing in admitting this is that now you can choose to set yourself free and become a free person again. You can now take the necessary steps to go back to that moment before you became a smoker.

By the time you know what the best moment is to set yourself free, you’ll already be in a completely different state, in which you’ll no longer desire a cigarette. Before you achieve this wonderful moment it’s important that you understand how you are brainwashed into smoking and how you can control it.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Quit Smoking in Split Second

Stop Smoking Easy Way

Stop Smoking Easy Way

Are you still with me? Good. This is something you must realize and agree with. You have to recognize that you have a drug addiction. As long as you don’t admit it to yourself, there is no solution for you. It was a real eye opener I had to accept. I’m not saying that you ARE a drug addict; I only say that you have a drug addiction. The difference is that in the first phrase you would have to deal with a done situation. In the second phrase, you are in a situation that you want to change. You suffer from this addiction and you want to get rid of it.

There is some good logic in understanding why smokers and non-smokers want to believe that smoking is just a bad habit. First, we have many habits in our lives, good habits and bad ones. If smoking were just a bad habit, it would be so easy to quit! I wouldn’t have to write this book. You could quit just like that! We break good and bad habits every single day. The main reason we believe smoking is a bad habit is that we are brainwashed by society telling us so.

Because we believe that smoking is a bad habit and because we believe that it’s difficult to break bad habits, we find it difficult to quit. Do you follow this?  Why is it then so difficult to stop smoking? Well, first of all, it’s very easy to quit, that’s the purpose of this whole book. But the reason is because smoking is an addiction to one of the most refined drugs we know, nicotine!

As long as you believe that smoking is just a bad habit, you’ll continue to find it difficult to quit. Once you understand it’s an addiction, it becomes easy. Of course, nobody likes to admit to being an addict. It sounds pretty lousy and weak to admit to your friends and family that you are an addict, a drug addict. It sounds much better to say, “Well, everybody has their bad habits, mine is smoking.” Or you brush off the idea that you are addicted by claiming you are fully in control of your smoking habit.

Telling your wife that you are an addict is not easy. It’s even more difficult to admit it to yourself! I remember how I pretended for years and years that I wasn’t an addict. I really did! Smoking over 100 cigarettes a day, I was still claiming that I was smoking because I wanted to and that I was fully in control. I proudly told my friends I could smoke three packs in one night and then refrain from smoking for six hours the next day because I visited my parents, where of course I couldn’t smoke.

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Am I Addicted to Smoking? Or is it just a Bad Habit?

Am I Addicted to Smoking? Or is it just a Bad Habit?

When you want to improve a situation, no matter what kind of situation you are dealing with, it’s very important to understand precisely what kind of situation you are in. What type of smoker are you?

There are many types of smokers. Maybe you are a chain smoker? Or are you a party smoker? Or maybe a control freak smoker? I don’t know and frankly, I’m not really  interested in knowing what type of a smoker you are. What is more important is that YOU KNOW what type of smoker you are. Do you smoke first thing in the morning when you wake up? Do you smoke every time you get into your car? Do you smoke your first cigarette only after 5:00 P.M. in the evening?

Have you figured it out? Now you might be wondering what this is all about. Will information about what type of a smoker you are determine whether you can quit easily or not? Or maybe you won’t quit at all? What is going through your mind at the moment? What are you really thinking of at this very instant while reading these words?

Have you captured your thoughts? Fine. Now, please let these thoughts go and promise yourself that you’ll never have these thoughts again. Why? Because these thoughts are limiting you on your way to freedom. As I told you earlier, it’s not important for me to know what you are thinking when you try to put yourself into one of the smoker categories. It’s only important to you.

Whatever the thought might be, it’s a limiting one. I’ll give you just a few possibilities. When you are a chain smoker puffing more than 100 cigarettes a day you might be thinking that you’ll never be able to quit and certainly not without suffering. When you are an occasional smoker who only smokes at parties, you might be telling yourself that your way of smoking is not so bad. After all, you smoke very little and you are fully in control of your smoking habit. At least, that’s what you think. In both cases, these are limiting thoughts that stop you from going further in the process to Final Liberation.

What is it important to consider? What do you have to understand about your situation in order to keep moving forward? Whether you are a heavy smoker or a light smoker, whether you believe it’s a bad habit or a habit you are in control of, it’s vital to understand and realize that smoking is not a bad habit! It’s not a “habit.” It’s an ADDICTION! Clear and simple. This might sound rude to you but that’s the way it is. Smoking is an addiction and yes, you have a drug addiction!

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Am I Addicted to Smoking? Or is it just a Bad Habit?

Fear To Stop Smoking

Fear To Stop Smoking

Fear is a belief. It’s a sense of certainty about something. It’s a belief that something or someone will cause us pain.

You’ll see in another article the different beliefs we have about smoking. For now, it’s enough that you understand where your fear is coming from and how it’s created.

As you saw earlier, there are quite a lot of fears we have about smoking. So, where do they come from? Why do you associate so much pain with these things that they become your fears? Why are you so afraid of quitting? What holds you back from quitting smoking now? Why are you afraid of withdrawal symptoms? Why do you fear you won’t succeed?

Unless you have tried to quit before, it’s not possible that those beliefs of fear have been created through your own experience, right? Moreover, even if you had tried to quit and it didn’t work out, did all those fears appear at once?

Alternatively, do you think there might be something else that has formed those beliefs in your mind? You’ll find out that most of your fears, most of your beliefs and illusions are created by brainwashing about smoking, created by society, other smokers and also non-smokers.

Once you understand where your beliefs come from, you can start to analyze them. You can start evaluating them from an objective point of view. Notice that you are the only person who can do this!

A book like this can only guide you through these beliefs. The person who actually evaluates these beliefs and feels certainty about them is you! That is exactly what you are going to do throughout this book. You are going to find out what beliefs about smoking you have. You are going to discover whether these beliefs are true beliefs or whether they are just illusions.

Once you have done this analysis, you are going to analyze the reasons you smoke. You and I are not going to waste our time looking for the reasons why you should stop smoking. You know these and they are not going to help you. You and I are going to remove all the reasons you smoke.

You are going to free yourself from all the obligations you feel towards smoking. You are going to free yourself from the desire to smoke a cigarette. By accomplishing this, you are going to reach a tremendous state of freedom and joy. Lust for life will become your new motto! You are going to understand that there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of when it comes to quitting smoking. You are going to discover that all the fears you have are just illusions. The moment you’ll be a non-smoker you’ll fully agree with this. For now, I leave you with a thought to open your mind.

“Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

Everybody can stop smoking – including you! Stop today with the free web clinic on this site.

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Reasons Smoking Addiction - How does it all start?

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Imagine that your body has a small balloon inside it. Let’s say that we have a balloon for each addiction that exists. The balloon is just lying there. It doesn’t cause any harm since it’s not inflated. For the same reason, we don’t feel anything because it’s not inflated.

When you smoke your first cigarette, what happens? Nicotine is a very fast drug. It goes through your veins and blood and in no time, the nicotine has found its way to the nicotine balloon and starts to inflate the balloon for the first time. By inflating the balloon, the balloon is pushing aside some of your intestines and fighting to claim his spot in your body. Because the balloon is inflating gradually, you are not aware of this change in your body.

From the moment you extinguish your cigarette the balloon starts to deflate again leaving behind an open space. Every time you light another cigarette, the balloon inflates again, and becomes a support for your intestines. When your cigarette is finished, the balloon starts to deflate again and starts creating an empty feeling in your stomach.

This empty feeling is caused by the deflated balloon now is no longer supporting your intestines. The balloon has created a vacuum in your body and your body wants to fill up this vacuum again. This is a way to describe the empty feeling you feel when you haven’t smoked for a while.

Your body starts creating a need for a cigarette and nicotine. Without nicotine, without the inflated balloon inside, you start feeling uncomfortable because of this vacuum, this hungry feeling you have inside. From the moment you light a cigarette, the balloon inflates and you feel comfortable again. You feel sure and supported because of the inflated balloon.

Actually, when you smoke, you feel the same as the moment before you started smoking. This is important to understand. When you smoke a cigarette, you take yourself and your body back to the condition it was in before you ever started smoking! If it’s not clear or if you are still confused about this sentence, read it again and think about it for a while. Let it really sink into your mind and make sure you fully understand what we mean here.

When you smoke a cigarette, you take yourself back to the same condition you were in before you started smoking! What are the effects of this? How do we understand this? What are the causes? First, do you agree with what I’ve said above? Maybe you don’t and I politely ask you to reread what is written.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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My Time To Quit Smoking: How Do You Do It?

My Time To Quit – How Do You Do It?

All these suggestions are stored somewhere in your mind; “My time to quit smoking”. These suggestions then become the pillars for certain beliefs in your mind. Beliefs are very powerful and they work in our subconscious mind. This means that we don’t notice that they have an influence on our daily behavior. They do, however, and in a very convincing way.

Just as an example:

It was accepted for thousands of years that no human being could run a mile under four minutes. So, for ages and ages, nobody did. Until there was an athlete called Roger Bannister who ran the mile in 3:59! Amazing!

What is more amazing is the fact that within the year, Bannister changed the limiting belief of the four-minute mile; several other athletes broke that so-called impossible barrier. Shows you just how powerful a belief can be. Notice that this was also a belief, created by suggestions and brainwashing of society and peer groups.

Human behavior is guided by the beliefs you have. Your brain is constantly asking two questions: When I do this, will it give me pleasure or pain?

What should I do to avoid pain and gain pleasure?

Your brain is looking for answers and these answers are given by the beliefs you have developed through the years. These are generalizations, things you have accepted to be true. You have given a certain meaning to things and events and these are going to determine your behavior. You could say a belief is a kind of feeling of certainty about the meaning of something, for example, fire is hot. This is a general belief most people share.

How have you arrived at this belief? By having enough references and experiences to support it? You can compare a belief to a tabletop with legs under it. It’s the legs that support the tabletop. These legs are the references and experiences you have in your life.

When we now go back to smoking, you have formed beliefs based on suggestions you get from our society, both smoking and non-smoking society. Apart from these suggestions, what else makes you believe your belief? Is there something else that enforces the beliefs or illusions you already have?

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Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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My Time To Quit Smoking: How Do You Do It?

Quit Smoking Techniques -You're Brainwashed!

Quit Smoking Techniques -You’re Brainwashed!

Let’s now have a look at who has provided you with suggestions about cigarettes and how you are brainwashed by the smoker’s society. Most of us started smoking under some kind of social pressure. This social pressure came from a group of people, friends or family who were smoking at the moment when you reached for your first cigarette. When you are a young smoker you probably started smoking in order to belong to a group, feel cool, feel like one of your heroes, feel more charming or lose weight.

If you were older, you probably started due to a stressful situation, a relationship that ended, a difficult exam or a new job, even a baby in the family. Perhaps you wanted to do something exciting, you wanted to feel more alive, or you needed to concentrate on something and then you were offered a cigarette.

Just in this variety of reasons, you can find contradictions. Smoking to concentrate and smoking to alleviate boredom, smoking in stress situations and smoking when relaxed. You hear them tell you how tasty a cigarette is after dinner. How they light a cigarette first thing in the morning and how they enjoy it. How they have a puff when they have to think and concentrate, how a cigarette helps them to get fantastic ideas, how they have seduced a partner by blowing smoke in their face!

Unbelievable isn’t it?

You hear all the good things about smoking from those people who know it, smokers.

Moreover, and this makes the cigarette trap complete, you also hear many warnings from smokers, which are meant to discourage you from starting smoking. They tell you about the downside of smoking. It will destroy your health, cost a lot of money, limit your social freedom, and make you hooked for life, and so on.

When it comes to quitting smoking, the stories you hear are clear. Quitting is very difficult and you suffer doing it. It’s impossible to quit. It’s the hardest thing to do if you smoke more than a pack a day. Without medical help, you can never quit. Even if you quit, you’ll restart one day. Your body will shake because it needs nicotine. You’ll become angry with friends and family. You’ll have problems concentrating and you’ll finally start smoking again. You’ll hear from people who have tried a number of times and failed every time. Others have used all the pills and patches available and still smoke a pack a day.

These are the kind of hetero-suggestions we get from the smoking world.

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Eric Eraly

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Information about Smoking

Information about Smoking

That’s a lot contradictory information, isn’t it? Imagine you are 12 years old and your parents smoke. In the morning, you see your father having breakfast. After breakfast, he drinks his cup of coffee, lights a cigarette, and says, “Hmmm, this tastes so good. It will be a great day today, son. Good luck at school.” Then you arrive at school where you see some of your friends hiding in the bathroom smoking.

When you enter the school building, you see a big sign telling you smoking is not allowed and you see giant posters informing you that smoking kills. You have biology this morning and the teacher begins a lesson on smoking, the causes of lung cancer and its consequences.

All this information is penetrating your mind on a continuous basis. This is very confusing, even for the brightest minds. Even if you are older, man or woman, the information is contradictory and penetrates your mind from the day you are born. The tobacco industry makes sure they have appropriate commercials for all age groups and sexes. They make clear differences between, for example, male and female commercials.

Over the last couple of years, there have been visible changes in advertising trends, which focus more on the female audience. The reason for this is quite simple. They noticed that more and more men are quitting and they want to keep their market share. So, they are looking for new markets and women seem to be a very attractive and successful target.

It’s a pity that they play on the weak points of their future customers to seduce them. Many advertisements clearly imply that smoking keeps your weight under control or even makes you lose weight! That way it’s easier to attract more clients. Once these messages have penetrated into the minds of hundred of thousands of women, it becomes much more difficult for them to quit. More on this particular topic will be discussed later.

Let’s now continue with the contradictory messages or suggestions you receive from our society on a daily basis. It’s important to realize that these suggestions are a part of your daily life. This means that you don’t actually hear them in a conscious way. These contradictory suggestions have become a part of your general belief system. This makes this society brainwashing even stronger and more powerful.

These contradicting suggestions are a danger and one of the main reasons why it’s so difficult to stop smoking. It’s also the main reason why you actually started smoking in the beginning. I’ll explain why later.

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Information about Smoking

Quit Smoking Timeline: When Did Your Smoking Addiction Start?

Quit Smoking Timeline: When Did Your Smoking Addiction Start?

When you go back to the time you started smoking, what are the first thoughts that come to your mind? Are these positive or negative thoughts? Maybe both? Let me share with you how I see it and how I’ve experienced it throughout my life.

I believe you are confronted with at least two groups: overall society and smoking society. In overall society, you have been confronted since childhood, with advertising about smoking telling you how cool it is. Adults told you how smoking helped them to relax and concentrate better. On other occasions, you heard people say that smoking helped them to lose weight. When you went to the movies, you saw all your heroes smoking cigarettes and looking cool. They smoked a cigarette when something exciting was about to happen or after they did a heroic act.

If you were to believe the tobacco advertisements, smoking would make you more assertive and glamorous, would help you to control your weight, add excitement to your life, give you more sex appeal, more romance and would even make you sportier. Can you imagine!

When you watch a movie where somebody is executed, what is his or her last wish? A cigarette! The heavily wounded gets a cigarette as relief in a war movie. All this information penetrates unconsciously into our brains. This is one category of hetero-suggestion society tells us about smoking. A hetero-suggestion is simply a suggestion coming from someone other than oneself.

Another category of society, which grows every day, tells you that smoking is bad. It’s bad for your health, dangerous for pregnant women and you can get cancer from it. You hear about absurd trials where cigarette companies are sued for billions of dollars. You see more and more places where smoking is forbidden; public places, airplanes, trains, bars, cities.

The message is clear; smoking is very bad and dangerous for your health. Smoking is antisocial. It will diminish your chances of getting a job, it’s forbidden in so many places, etc. That’s the second category of hetero-suggestions you hear and experience about smoking.

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Quit Smoking Without Pain

Quit Smoking Without Pain

Unbelievable isn’t it? Personally, I can’t believe that there is one smoker in the world who consciously wanted to become a smoker. It’s something you grow into, because of all the traps that are set for you. The nicotine trap, the society trap, the habit trap. Before you know it, your body is addicted to the nicotine and you become an addict. You didn’t choose to become a smoker. It just happens in the process.

Of course, you shouldn’t use that argument to feel sorry for or excuse yourself. On the contrary, it should give you even more reasons to free yourself from a situation and condition you never wanted to be in. You didn’t choose to become a smoker but you can and will choose to become a non-smoker!

The fact that you have admitted to yourself and others in your close circle that you have a drug addiction is a very important step forwards. From now on, you know where you stand. This is important because without knowing it you can never be sure if you have made any progress.

The other major advantage is the fact that you can start looking for the proper tools to fix the situation. As long as you believe it‘s just a bad habit or something you choose to do yourself, you’re likely to look for solutions in that specific field. As you saw earlier, the fact that you believe smoking is just a bad habit makes quitting smoking much more difficult. That is because you know that it’s difficult to break bad habits.

The fact that you believe this makes smoking your top bad habit example. Unless you admit what you honestly know, namely that you are a drug addict, a NICOTINE addict, it’s a vicious circle, which you won’t escape.

The beautiful thing in admitting this is that now you can choose to set yourself free and become a free person again. You can now take the necessary steps to go back to that moment before you became a smoker.

By the time you know what the best moment is to set yourself free, you’ll already be in a completely different state, in which you’ll no longer desire a cigarette. Before you achieve this wonderful moment it’s important that you understand how you are brainwashed into smoking and how you can control it.

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Eric Eraly

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Smoking a Bad Habit or Drug Addiction?

Smoking a Bad Habit or Drug Addiction?

There is some good logic in understanding why smokers and non-smokers want to believe that smoking is just a bad habit. First, we have many habits in our lives, good habits and bad ones. If smoking were just a bad habit, it would be so easy to quit! I wouldn’t have to write this book. You could quit just like that! We break good and bad habits every single day. The main reason we believe smoking is a bad habit is that we are brainwashed by society telling us so.

Because we believe that smoking is a bad habit and because we believe that it’s difficult to break bad habits, we find it difficult to quit. Do you follow this?  Why is it then so difficult to stop smoking? Well, first of all, it’s very easy to quit, that’s the purpose of this whole book. But the reason is because smoking is an addiction to one of the most refined drugs we know, nicotine!

As long as you believe that smoking is just a bad habit, you’ll continue to find it difficult to quit. Once you understand it’s an addiction, it becomes easy. Of course, nobody likes to admit to being an addict. It sounds pretty lousy and weak to admit to your friends and family that you are an addict, a drug addict. It sounds much better to say, “Well, everybody has their bad habits, mine is smoking.” Or you brush off the idea that you are addicted by claiming you are fully in control of your smoking habit.

Telling your wife that you are an addict is not easy. It’s even more difficult to admit it to yourself! I remember how I pretended for years and years that I wasn’t an addict. I really did! Smoking over 100 cigarettes a day, I was still claiming that I was smoking because I wanted to and that I was fully in control. I proudly told my friends I could smoke three packs in one night and then refrain from smoking for six hours the next day because I visited my parents, where of course I couldn’t smoke.

So, if I really wanted, I could quit in a split second. I was in control, and at that moment in my life I wanted to smoke. The worst thing was that I was not only telling these stupid lies my friends and family, but also to myself! As long as I was telling these lies to myself, how could I ever quit? I had to be honest with myself. I had to tell myself the truth. Why did I smoke? How did it happen?

That brings me to a point around which I believe a lot of brainwashing and mistakes are associated. When did you take the decision to become a smoker? When was it? Do you remember the place, the specific moment? Silly question? Just think about it, did you ever consciously choose to become a smoker?

Unbelievable isn’t it? Personally, I can’t believe that there is one smoker in the world who consciously wanted to become a smoker. It’s something you grow into, because of all the traps that are set for you. The nicotine trap, the society trap, the habit trap. Before you know it, your body is addicted to the nicotine and you become an addict. You didn’t choose to become a smoker. It just happens in the process.

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Eric Eraly

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Smoking a Bad Habit or Drug Addiction?

Beating Drug Addiction - What Type of Smoker are You?

Beating Drug Addiction – What Type of Smoker are You?

When you want to improve a situation, no matter what kind of situation you are dealing with, it’s very important to understand precisely what kind of situation you are in. What type of smoker are you?

There are many types of smokers. Maybe you are a chain smoker? Or are you a party smoker? Or maybe a control freak smoker? I don’t know and frankly, I’m not really interested in knowing what type of a smoker you are. What is more important is that YOU KNOW what type of smoker you are. Do you smoke first thing in the morning when you wake up? Do you smoke every time you get into your car? Do you smoke your first cigarette only after 5:00 P.M. in the evening?

Have you figured it out? Now you might be wondering what this is all about. Will information about what type of a smoker you are determine whether you can quit easily or not? Or maybe you won’t quit at all? What is going through your mind at the moment? What are you really thinking of at this very instant while reading these words?

Have you captured your thoughts? Fine. Now, please let these thoughts go and promise yourself that you’ll never have these thoughts again. Why? Because these thoughts are limiting you on your way to freedom. As I told you earlier, it’s not important for me to know what you are thinking when you try to put yourself into one of the smoker categories. It’s only important to you.

Whatever the thought might be, it’s a limiting one. I’ll give you just a few possibilities. When you are a chain smoker puffing more than 100 cigarettes a day you might be thinking that you’ll never be able to quit and certainly not without suffering. When you are an occasional smoker who only smokes at parties, you might be telling yourself that your way of smoking is not so bad. After all, you smoke very little and you are fully in control of your smoking habit. At least, that’s what you think. In both cases, these are limiting thoughts that stop you from going further in the process to Final Liberation.

What is it important to consider? What do you have to understand about your situation in order to keep moving forward? Whether you are a heavy smoker or a light smoker, whether you believe it’s a bad habit or a habit you are in control of, it’s vital to understand and realize that smoking is not a bad habit! It’s not a “habit.” It’s an ADDICTION! Clear and simple. This might sound rude to you but that’s the way it is. Smoking is an addiction and yes, you have a drug addiction!

Are you still with me? Good. This is something you must realize and agree with. You have to recognize that you have a drug addiction. As long as you don’t admit it to yourself, there is no solution for you. It was a real eye opener I had to accept. I’m not saying that you ARE a drug addict; I only say that you have a drug addiction. The difference is that in the first phrase you would have to deal with a done situation. In the second phrase, you are in a situation that you want to change. You suffer from this addiction and you want to get rid of it.

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Eric Eraly

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Guide to Quitting Smoking

Guide to Quitting Smoking

You are going to free yourself from all the obligations you feel towards smoking. You are going to free yourself from the desire to smoke a cigarette. By accomplishing this, you are going to reach a tremendous state of freedom and joy. Lust for life will become your new motto! You are going to understand that there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of when it comes to quitting smoking. You are going to discover that all the fears you have are just illusions. The moment you’ll be a non-smoker you’ll fully agree with this. For now, I leave you with a thought to open your mind.

“Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s also important that you are a critical reader of this guide to quitting smoking. I want to ask you to be critical not only of the words you read but also the thoughts you have and the new thoughts you are going to create. The fact that you are reading this book means that there is something in you, no matter how small, that wants to stop smoking. Your success will mainly depend on your approach towards this book. If you are willing to deeply analyze and understand what you are going to read, your success is guaranteed.

If you have the intention of going quickly through it and retaining your own thoughts, I would advise you not to buy the book. It won’t work. It won’t be able to help you. On top of this, you won’t be able to help yourself, because that’s what it’s all about. If you have already bought the book, or received it, don’t read it if this is your state of mind; it will be a waste of time. Therefore, if you want to continue reading this book, having an open and critical mind is essential. Otherwise, you’d better stop right now. Allow me to give you some general suggestions to keep in mind while you are going through this book.

• Accept the thought that there is nothing to fear after you stop smoking.


• Be a critical reader. Be critical of the words you read and to the thoughts you have
  
  right now.


• Feel free to smoke as you please. When your Final Liberation comes, you’ll feel it and you’ll become a non-smoker, even before extinguishing your last cigarette. Don’t force your behavior. Let yourself be guided by your thoughts. You’ll know when the moment has come. We will show you how and when to smoke your last cigarette. Yes, exciting, isn’t it?

While reading this book and applying the Painless Stop Smoking Cure, feel relaxed and enjoy the moment. You’ll discover that there is absolutely nothing to feel stressed about. There is nothing to be afraid of. In a short while you are about to become a free and happy non-smoker and this will be one of the best moments you’ll ever experience in your entire life. Guaranteed!

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Eric Eraly

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Guide to Quitting Smoking

Easy Way To Quit Smoking

Easy Way To Quit Smoking

As you saw at the beginning of this chapter, there are quite a lot of fears we have about smoking. So, where do they come from? Why do you associate so much pain with these things that they become your fears? Why are you so afraid of quitting? What holds you back from quitting smoking now? Why are you afraid of withdrawal symptoms? Why do you fear you won’t succeed?

Unless you have tried to quit before, it’s not possible that those beliefs of fear have been created through your own experience, right? Moreover, even if you had tried to quit and it didn’t work out, did all those fears appear at once?

Alternatively, do you think there might be something else that has formed those beliefs in your mind? You’ll find out that most of your fears, most of your beliefs and illusions are created by brainwashing about smoking, created by society, other smokers and also non-smokers.

Once you understand where your beliefs come from, you can start to analyze them. You can start evaluating them from an objective point of view. Notice that you are the only person who can do this!

A book like this can only guide you through these beliefs. The person who actually evaluates these beliefs and feels certainty about them is you! That is exactly what you are going to do throughout this book. You are going to find out what beliefs about smoking you have. You are going to discover whether these beliefs are true beliefs or whether they are just illusions.

Once you have done this analysis, you are going to analyze the reasons you smoke. You and I are not going to waste our time looking for the reasons why you should stop smoking. You know these and they are not going to help you. You and I are going to remove all the reasons you smoke.

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Easy Way To Quit Smoking

Stop Smoking Easy

Stop Smoking Easy

If everything you do, you do either to avoid pain or to gain pleasure, then why do you still smoke? Everybody knows the painful side effects of smoking. You know that you are killing yourself. You know that by smoking you increase your chances of getting cancer, etc. So, if this principle makes sense, you should quit immediately, right? Well, there is also the other side. This side contains all the illusions, all the beliefs that you have created in your mind about the pleasures of smoking. The basic reason why you still smoke is that you actually link more pain to quitting today than putting it off for a while. You feel more attracted to the pleasures of smoking than to the pain you might feel in twenty years.

On the other hand, you know deep down that you want to quit, you know that you want to free yourself from this nicotine addiction. You feel frustrated, you feel overwhelmed from time to time, and you feel angry with yourself because you know you should take action. However, you don’t do anything. You don’t try to change your behavior because of a deeper underlying cause. Once you understand the cause and therefore the reason why you smoke, you’ll be able to remove the cause and thus stop smoking.

The first step in changing anything is to understand the true power of the pain-pleasure principle. Think back about some decisions you have taken recently. Why did you make those decisions? Why did you do certain things and why didn’t you do the other ones? When you look closely, you’ll realize that it happened because you thought that doing or deciding on a particular thing would give you more pleasure and less pain.

Most of our decisions are short-term. Will it mean pleasure in the short-term? However, often things that mean pleasure in the short-term mean pain in the long-term. Just think about the phenomenon of procrastination. At a certain moment, it’s much more pleasurable not to take any action. Later on, when it’s almost too late, you find yourself in the middle of a painful situation, which forces you to take action at once.

It’s the same with smoking. Most smokers think in the short-term and are afraid to look at things in the long-term. Why are they afraid to look further? Deep down they know the long-term results of their actions. That is why they focus on the short-term, the present. That means pleasure.

To stop smoking means pain when compared to smoking a cigarette. That is at least the idea that a smoker has. So where does this idea come from? It’s not the actual pain that drives us, but the fear that something will cause pain. In addition, it’s not actual pleasure that drives us, but our belief, our sense of certainty that taking a certain action will lead to pleasure. This is how we arrive at fear and beliefs.

Fear is a belief. It’s a sense of certainty about something. It’s a belief that something or someone will cause us pain. You’ll see in another chapter the different beliefs we have about smoking. For now, it’s enough that you understand where your fear is coming from and how it’s created.

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Afraid to Quit Smoking

Afraid to Quit Smoking

One of the major reasons people keep smoking is because they are afraid to quit. It is usually an underlying reason most people are not consciously aware of. Just think about the following statement. If I were to tell you right now, that it’s over, that you would never ever be allowed to smoke another cigarette, how would you feel? Are you afraid? Do you feel frightened? Do you have butterflies in your stomach?

How can I know how you feel? Simple, most smokers feel this way. There are several common fears for smokers. I think one of the biggest fears is the fear of not succeeding. You are afraid to fail. Another fear is the fear of going through misery and sacrifice. You are also afraid of not being able to enjoy life fully, once you have quit. You are afraid of having to cope at social events without cigarettes.

Finally, you are afraid that you’ll miss many joyful things, once you have stop smoking. Because smokers have all these fears, it’s difficult to connect with them on the subject of quitting. They are so afraid of this event that they exclude everything that could even remind them of it. They even deny it.

As a smoker, you smoke a lot of cigarettes when you feel fear. When you are afraid of deadlines, when you are afraid of losing your job, when you are afraid of a rejection, etc. So, when I tell you that smoking is bad, that you can get cancer from it, that they might have to cut off your legs, that you are killing yourself, most likely, you’ll become afraid and you’ll want a cigarette. In such a condition, your mind is not open to listening, not open to ways to stop smoking.

Why is it that you are so afraid of just the thought of quitting?

Why are you so afraid?

What are your feelings based upon?

To answer these questions we should look at the basis of fear or the basis of our behavior in general. There is one single driving force for everything we do. Everything human beings do, they do for a reason. This reason or driving force is called The Pleasure-Pain Principle. It states that everything we do, we do either because we want to avoid pain or because we have a strong desire to gain pleasure. It’s important that you understand the principle and its consequences.

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Afraid to Quit Smoking

Help Quit Smoking Now

Help Quit Smoking Now

These contradicting suggestions are a danger and one of the main reasons why it’s so difficult to stop help quit smoking now. It’s also the main reason why you actually started smoking in the beginning. I’ll explain why later.

Let’s now have a look at who has provided you with suggestions about cigarettes and how you are brainwashed by the smoker’s society. Most of us started smoking under some kind of social pressure. This social pressure came from a group of people, friends or family who were smoking at the moment when you reached for your first cigarette. When you are a young smoker you probably started smoking in order to belong to a group, feel cool, feel like one of your heroes, feel more charming or lose weight.

If you were older, you probably started due to a stressful situation, a relationship that ended, a difficult exam or a new job, even a baby in the family. Perhaps you wanted to do something exciting, you wanted to feel more alive, or you needed to concentrate on something and then you were offered a cigarette.

Just in this variety of reasons, you can find contradictions. Smoking to concentrate and smoking to alleviate boredom, smoking in stress situations and smoking when relaxed. You hear them tell you how tasty a cigarette is after dinner. How they light a cigarette first thing in the morning and how they enjoy it. How they have a puff when they have to think and concentrate, how a cigarette helps them to get fantastic ideas, how they have seduced a partner by blowing smoke in their face!

Unbelievable isn’t it?

You hear all the good things about smoking from those people who know it, smokers.

Moreover, and this makes the cigarette trap complete, you also hear many warnings from smokers, which are meant to discourage you from starting smoking. They tell you about the downside of smoking. It will destroy your health, cost a lot of money, limit your social freedom, and make you hooked for life, and so on.

When it comes to quitting smoking, the stories you hear are clear. Quitting is very difficult and you suffer doing it. It’s impossible to quit. It’s the hardest thing to do if you smoke more than a pack a day. Without medical help, you can never quit. Even if you quit, you’ll restart one day. Your body will shake because it needs nicotine. You’ll become angry with friends and family. You’ll have problems concentrating and you’ll finally start smoking again. You’ll hear from people who have tried a number of times and failed every time. Others have used all the pills and patches available and still smoke a pack a day.

These are the kind of hetero-suggestions we get from the smoking world.

All these suggestions are stored somewhere in your mind. These suggestions then become the pillars for certain beliefs in your mind. Beliefs are very powerful and they work in our subconscious mind. This means that we don’t notice that they have an influence on our daily behavior. They do, however, and in a very convincing way.

Just as an example:

It was accepted for thousands of years that no human being could run a mile under four minutes. So, for ages and ages, nobody did. Until there was an athlete called Roger Bannister who ran the mile in 3:59! Amazing!

What is more amazing is the fact that within the year, Bannister changed the limiting belief of the four-minute mile; several other athletes broke that so-called impossible barrier. Shows you just how powerful a belief can be. Notice that this was also a belief, created by suggestions and brainwashing of society and peer groups.

Human behavior is guided by the beliefs you have. Your brain is constantly asking two questions: When I do this, will it give me pleasure or pain?

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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When You Stop Smoking.....Ask Yourself These Questions!

When You Stop Smoking…..Ask Yourself These Questions!

When you stop smoking, ask yourself this: Do I need a cigarette to relax, to concentrate, or out of boredom?

You should understand the balloon effect of a cigarette by now and you won’t find it too hard to understand that this belief is also an illusion we have to get rid of. Have you ever wondered how it is that a cigarette can help you in two opposite situations? When you are completely stressed and then when you are totally relaxed? How in the world can the same product, a cigarette, help you in both situations? Doesn’t it sound a bit strange to you?

As we already saw in the chapter on the balloon effect, the moment you smoked your first cigarette, the nicotine created this balloon in your body. When you extinguish a cigarette, the balloon deflates and you get that empty, hungry feeling. It’s like when a mosquito bites you, you get this itching feeling and you have a tendency to scratch it all the time.

When you are in a stressed situation, you’ll have the same hungry, itchy feeling. If you now light a cigarette, this hungry feeling will disappear and you’ll think and believe that you are less stressed. This happens because you are temporarily saved from this hungry, empty feeling. The reality is that you actually become even more stressed by lighting the cigarette. Due to the nicotine, your heart starts beating faster, your lungs are filled with poison and your natural defense mechanisms are set in motion. This causes your body to be more alert and stressed than before you smoked the cigarette.

I could smoke one cigarette after another when I was in a stressed situation. I often didn’t even finish the first cigarette before lighting a new one. I had the impression that it was helping me but in fact I remained stressed until the actual cause of the stress disappeared. You could tell by the number of cigarettes on the floor how long the situation lasted and how stressed I was.

Now I understand why I did it and why I had the illusion that the cigarette was actually helping me to relax. For you, a smoker, your best friend, yes, your very best friend, is your cigarette! In a stressful situation or when you need some support or help, you want to count on your best friend, the cigarette. So the more support you get, the more you call for your buddy, Mr. Cigarette. The situation is exactly the same when you feel bored and you have the illusion that the cigarette helps you to fight your boredom. You feel bored for many different reasons, so you appeal to your best friend. It’s always near; you just take it out of your pocket or purse. You light the cigarette and what happens? The hungry, empty feeling disappears. The itching disappears and you feel a lot better than a few minutes ago, so you then create the illusion that you are less bored.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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Stop Smoking Free – It takes a lot of willpower to quit

Another strong belief is the belief that it takes a lot of willpower to quit. You believe it because of what you hear around you. You hear it from people who have quit, you hear it from doctors, you hear it from the cancer foundations that are helping smokers through the most difficult moments of their lives, and you hear it from all the companies that produce nicotine patches and pills. It takes a lot of willpower and discipline to quit. It’s a very strong belief you have and it can be even stronger if you have already tried to quit but failed. Then you are absolutely convinced that it takes a lot of willpower.

Let me ask you, why is it so difficult to quit? Nobody forces you to smoke. So if you decide to quit, that’s it. It’s over. Is this so difficult? I wish it was this easy. Then you wouldn’t need to read this book. The main thing is that when somebody wants to stop smoking, he associates quitting with missing something. But if you analyze it more closely, what is the difference between you and a non-smoker? The non-smoker does not want a cigarette; he has no desire for a cigarette.

I remember how afraid I was when I thought about quitting. I felt embarrassed about myself. I was ashamed of my own personality. I was convinced that I didn’t have any willpower; I didn’t have any character because I was a smoker. These were thoughts I never spoke aloud. They just crossed my mind from time to time. Usually when I least expected them. I didn’t think about quitting all the time although thoughts about it were always at the back of my mind. Every time I had a chest pain, these underlying thoughts would come up.

The problem with these thoughts was not only that I continued to smoke but that I was also scared to undertake any other action or adventure. I didn’t have any willpower, so no matter what I did I would fail because I lacked the character and discipline to succeed. Fortunately, I got rid of these feelings and now I have 100% confidence in my actions, my character, discipline and myself. I also learned that it had nothing to do with willpower; it’s only a matter of desire. And that’s exactly what you are going to discover.

What you are going to accomplish throughout this book is similar to the thoughts of the non-smoker. You’ll remove the desire to smoke. We will guide you and help you achieve it. Once you have reached this point, you’ll see that it does not take any willpower to smoke your last cigarette; on the contrary, you’ll enjoy quitting, being free at last. There will be no difficulty at all because there won’t be any desire to smoke left. Does this sound great? You bet! It’s fantastic and you are about to experience it. You’ll free yourself from one of the biggest illusions you’ve had for most of your life!

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

P.S. By now you know when you feel ready to become Smoke-Free now.

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