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.

See you soon,

Eric Eraly

Author of the Painless Stop Smoking Cure

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Stop Smoking Easy