How To Quit Smoking Without Going Crazy!
Look in the mirror and ask yourself whether you really want to stop smoking. It’s a well known fact that most individuals who smoke will answer “YES” if you ask them if they would like to break the smoking habit course sum of those people will devise a way of achieving their target.
Some people will grab the bull by the horns and answer with “heck I am just going cold turkey and give up smoking right now!”, these individuals will usually be able to stay away from cigarettes for one or two days (sometimes only one or two hours!) before they fall victim to the powerful craving that nicotine addiction produces.
It may even be an option to try one of those adverts you see everywhere for those 1 day hypnosis treatments? These seem to be advertised all over the place so it would seem they either work very well or the hypnotists are making a fortune out of it!
I personally started smoking whilst i was still at school, simply because most of my friends did it and found I was instantly “hooked”. over the intervening years I have managed to kick the habit a couple of times but only for short periods of time and very soon I as back and smoking a pack or more of cigarettes every day.
You recognise when you are whats termed as a full time smoker when the 1st thing you think of when you wake up is lighting up a cigarette and the last thing you do before going to bed is putting a cigarette out! Once you reach this level of nicotine addiction you start to experience levels of near panic at the very idea of being without a cigarette which means that even though you acknowledge your need to quit smoking you find yourself continually putting off the act for another day!
Almost any smoker your ask will quite happily recount a list of reasons why he should not be smoking such as loss of energy, a car that smells like an ashtray, a smelly home, smelly clothes and so on. Yet even though they know all the reason they still lack the magic ingredient which provides the willpower and incentive to actually pack up smoking.
A year or so ago a colleague email me to recommend a book called The Easy way to Quit Smoking by Allen Carr and even though i was a bit sceptical I decided to order it after reading all the positive reviews the book had received. A few days later the book arrived and after a brief skim through the contents the book ended up on my bookshelf gathering dust.
After ignoring the book for some time I finally picked it up and started seriously reading it from the start. I read through a couple of chapters each evening and even continued to smoke as i read (strangely this is actually advised in Allen Carr’s book). I followed the method and routine outlined in the book for the next few weeks and was quite frankly amazed when I realised I had actually stopped smoking!
I don’t really know why this book works as well as it does but it is really very effective and I’m thrilled to be able to say that I have never touched a single cigarette since (and it’s been over 18 months now!). In fact I can say that I have never even been remotely tempted to smoke since, in fact not only have I never touched a cigarette since but i actually have the smell of tobacco smoke now and avoid it at all costs.