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!

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