Cigarette Addiction - Giving Up is Easy
The worldwide recession has led to millions seriously considering 'kicking the weed' so the cash they save can be put to better use. Smoking is also becoming socially unacceptable. More and more countries now forbid the practice in public places. It would appear to be having a positive effect. Since exclusion zones were set up in the UK an estimated 500,000 people have succeeded in beating the addiction.
A specialist in drug dependency says bluntly: 'It is easier to get someone off heroin than it is to get them off nicotine.' No one claims giving up smoking is easy to do but that makes success something you can be really proud of achieving.
Failing to kick the habit after several attempts I, a forty a day smoker for twenty-five years not only succeeded but I did so quite easily. It was pain-free. I did so by changing tactics. Most people have heard the expression; burning one's bridges. It is what invading armies do to ensure there is no going back. For them, failure is not an option.
Those five simple words are the keys to success so keep them in mind. Write them down; paste those little statements everywhere: 'Failure is not an Option.'
BURN BRIDGES, NOT CIGARETTES
Using the same tactics I succeeded after realizing why I had failed at every previous attempt. As soon as you say to yourself I am going to TRY to give up smoking, or, 'I am going to see how long I can last' you are beaten.
You have already conceded defeat by giving yourself a bridge to help your retreat should you fail. It is a psychological cop-out. Changing tactics worked like a charm for me. It will work for you too.
Another mistake to avoid is to set a day aside as the time you quit. It is far better to ambush yourself at a moment when you are relaxed about life. In my case I awoke one morning, I reached for the packet then taking a coffin nail I lit it. As I stubbed it out I simply said to no one in particular: 'That is it. I have just smoked my last cigarette.' I meant it.
NO SNIFFS OR BUTTS
The reason I failed previously was because mentally I conceded it was a fight I might not win, so I didn't. I had failed before I started.
The success key! Remember those important words: 'Failure is not an Option'; It was my resolve to never ever again smoke a cigarette. Call it self-hypnosis if you like but instead of burning cigarettes I burned my means of escape. There was to be no going back.
There was a bonus that is something I cannot as easily explain. During earlier attempts the craving for a cigarette consumed me; I could think of nothing else and my life was a misery.
Why then were the cravings on this occasion so much less? Each day was a breeze; the absence of cigarettes from my life was no big deal. What could be the difference between the suffering I endured during earlier attempts and this far easier outcome? There is your answer: It is the difference between 'attempt' and 'finality. ' Two more simple words for you to also remember.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'MIGHT' AND 'WILL'
Psychologically I had hyped up the 'finality' of my decision. I had turned the tables on the nicotine demons. It was as though the addictive desires inside me, aware that there was definitely no going back, conceded there was no weakness such as 'possible failure' to be exploited.
Analogy: Imagine you head a small army as it awaits the arrival and disembarkation of an invading force. As soon as the enemy disembarks they carefully ready their boats for a quick escape. A smile creases your face to see them so lacking in confidence. Now imagine instead your expression if on disembarking, before turning their attention to you, they methodically burn their boats. Get the point?
As soon as I convinced my inner self that I had smoked my last cigarette and failure was not an option relief and freedom spread through me. Certainly there was the strange sensation in my chest but this time it gave me pleasure. The disagreeable sensations in my breathing apparatus of earlier attempts I now found delightfully welcome. Why?
INCREDIBLY LIBERATING
Those sensations were not negative; they were positives. It was the experience of feeling fresh air reaching parts of my lungs previously denied by nicotine treacle clinging to the lungs membranes. What I had previously thought of as an unpleasant feeling had now become an exciting and liberating experience.
That was in 1979; a time when I had been smoking heavily for twenty-five years. I have aged of course but I am now far fitter than I was then. I can smell and taste again; I now have more money to burn on good things like wine, which enriches and extends my life. I even look ten years younger. Say to yourself as you mount the ambush and stub the last one out: 'Failure is not an Option. The rest is easy.
All I can add is that those new but unusual pleasant sensations you now feel as fresh air courses through areas of your lungs previously denied to them will disappear. The lungs repair themselves. My cardiologist tells me: 'In there it is as if you have never smoked at all.' Now that is refreshing.
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