How To Remove The Psychological Addiction To Smoking – And Start To Enjoy Giving Up Smoking!

Consider this:

Already since 1972, over 60 million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking!

At one stage over 60% of the adult population was addicted to this drug Today it is 28% and dropping

Now, isn’t this a fair thought

If all these people can do it (60 MILLION OF THEM!) – and they include EVERY TYPE of person imaginable – surely that is PROOF that IT IS POSSIBLE to successfully give up smoking

Here’s another Fact

We now know from the latest scientific research, that although nicotine is one of the world’s fastest acting drugs — the actual PHYSICAL withdrawal pangs when you give up ARE SO MILD, YOU WILL HARDLY NOTICE THEM WHEN YOU STOP

YES, you have read that sentence right!

I know you will want to argue with me on this point, but, first, let me first make the following points

The Desire to Smoke

Yes, when you stop smoking you will feel the desire AGAIN and AGAIN to smoke

We all know that feeling — ‘I must have a cigarette’ But that desire in itself is not bad or painful

It is just a feeling, a sensation we feel in our body

Howeverthis is where, for most of us our problems start

If we start to fear that ‘craving’ or try to use ‘Willpower’ to REPRESS it or FORCE it go away, — “I wish this feeling would go away” we WILL create pain and tension

This is what as smokers we have all done in the past

That ‘feeling’ of wanting to smoke then becomes painful, annoying and terribly irritating

Now this is the hard part to realize

The pain, the horror does not come from the desire to smoke, but from HOW we deal with this desire, moment-by-moment WHEN we stop

Can I emphasize this:

You do not have to experience ANY pain or agony when you stop Yes, when you stop you WILL experience a

Temporary feeling of loss

A feeling that you are being deprived of something

A feeling of emptiness

A feeling that you will never be able to enjoy yourself again

A feeling that you must have a cigarette

These feelings, although very real in themselves are not inherently bad or painful What is important is how you deal with these feelings when you stop

The key part of giving up smoking naturally is learning how to deal with these cravings when you stop

Conflict

Right now, you don’t want to give up smoking because you are TERRIFIED of how you will FEEL when you can’t smoke

Let’s be honest

You smoke now because you enjoy it

Or — to be more accurate: You smoke now because you have conditioned yourself to enjoy it

It is important that we are honest with ourselves here

In fact, even the ‘THOUGHT’, the mere ‘thought’ of not been able to smoke probably fills you with utter dread now

But there is another undeniable fact: This ‘pleasure’ is killing you
Again we must be brutally honest here Everyday, you are systemically destroying your health

This is the conflict all smokers face

On the one hand, smoking is killing you and you desperately want to stop

And yet on the other hand, you don’t really want to stop because you believe you really enjoy it

Yet, one other truth cannot be denied and this applies to every smoker

We are terrified of how we will F-E-E-L when we can’t smoke We are convinced it will be unbearable and impossible

FEAR

Right now, the ONLY thing — yes, THE ONLY THING stopping you from giving up smoking is this fear of how YOU WILL FEEL WHEN YOU STOP

And yet this very fear is the actual key to giving up smoking naturally

Giving up smoking is really all about learning HOW to deal with the cravings and feelings you WILL get when you stop

When you learn how to do that – you will realize that there is nothing to fear when you give up

What is there to fear ?

When you get the craving to smoke, which you will, again and again – - you will now take the OPPORTUNITY to ‘change’ or ‘transform’ that craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least tolerable to experience

Imagine

You have decided to give up smoking It’s dinnertime

You have finished a day’s work

You finish your meal and subconsciously, you reach for a cigarette
But then, of course you remember you no longer smoke

Bang! At that moment, certain gut feelings will arise

Feelings of regreta feeling that you are missing out on something important and then maybe terrible feelings of emptiness
We all know how it feels

But the real question is: How will you deal with this feeling — this craving to smoke?

Will you just suffer it, try to repress it and hope that it will go away?
That is one option The old willpower method

Or will you give in to the feeling — and start to smoke again (promising to start again tomorrow)?

Or will you – - for the first time ever: – - follow our instructions and actually ALLOW yourself to transform the feeling/craving so that it is actually enjoyable or at least pleasant or tolerable enough to experience

You see, when you can do that, you will no longer be AFRAID of these cravings when you stop smoking

In fact, you will start to WELCOME them because they will give you another opportunity to RESPOND and DEAL with them in this NEW WAY

This process is the essence of giving up smoking naturally and finding it a pleasant and life-affirming experience

Weight-loss?

Are you now beginning to see how these principles can also apply to losing weight

You see a beautiful cake You want to eat itwhen BANG! — You remember you are on a diet

Now watch HOW YOU feel when this happens?

Couldn’t we describe it as

‘Feelings of regreta feeling that you are missing out on something important and then maybe terrible feelings of emptiness

Isn’t it essentially the same feeling as not being able to smoke?

However, the real question is the same with smoking: How will you DEAL with this feeling — this craving to eat?

Will you GIVE IN to it — and eat the cake or will you try and FORCE yourself not to eat it- and be miserable?

Why not consider our alternative?

Accept this feeling, this desire to eat But, instead of giving in to it, learn how to deal and respond to it in a NEW way so that you don’t MIND experiencing it?

Transform the craving so that it is actually enjoyable or very pleasant to experience

The Joy of Giving up Smoking?

Remember, when you stop – yes, you WILL feel something but there will be no physical agony, only a temporary feeling that you are MISSING OUT on something
A feeling that you are being deprived of something SPECIAL — but these feelings will ONLY be temporary

However, to quit smoking successfully and to start to enjoy doing it we must go deeper than these temporary cravings

We must realize that :

You find it difficult or impossible to stop smoking now because you BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY that you NEED to smoke and even deeper, you BELIEVE that if you give up smoking now, your life will never be as ENJOYABLE again

In one sentence: You believe your life will be intolerable

It is these beliefs that makes giving up smoking difficult NOT Nicotine addiction

Right now, you are not only physically addicted to smoking but you are psychologically dependent or addicted to smoking

If your addiction were purely physical wouldn’t all these nicotine patches have a 100% success record ?

Yet, we all know that even if we use a nicotine substitute, we will still continue to feel a terrible desire to smoke

Again and again, we’ll feel we must have a cigarette At times, it will even get to the stage where we just don’t care – even the most dire health warnings will have no affect on us – we just WANT to smoke
Where does this desire come from ?

It comes from our conditioning, our beliefs about smoking

This moment, we believe that smoking is an essential pleasure
In fact, most of us have a terrible resistance to EVEN thinking about giving up smoking

Why ?

Because we believe that in order to do anything about our addiction, ie give up smoking — we would have to end our pleasure and ending pleasure is something we have NO DESIRE to do

YOUR REAL JOB

Your real job in giving up smoking lies in REALLY UNDERSTANDING that you don’t NEED to smoke

You remove the psychological addiction to smoking

You will never be truly free until you realize that smoking is not a real pleasure and that when you stop, you WILL NOT BE depriving ourselves of a real pleasure and then you will not only be able to give up smoking for good but you will enjoy doing it!

Is it possible to enjoy, yes ENJOY quitting smoking – and not gain ANY weight?
Follow the famous 10-day Free online Quit SmokingCourse by Sean O’Riain at http://wwwquitsmokingonlinecom and prove it for yourself

Sean O ‘Riain is also the author of the Bliss of meditation

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