How I Quit Smoking - After Failing to Quit Smoking at Least a Dozen Times

Yes I did eventually quit smoking - been a nonsmoker for over 25 years now. But just so you know - my will power sucks. I'd tried and failed to quit smoking so many times I was embarrassing myself. At least a dozen times I tried to quit smoking and blew it. Every time. Almost a couple times a year over several year's I'd try to quit smoking (New Years being one of them - of course).

This was back over 25 years ago, from the early 70's to the late 70's. Most of the time I'd last 2 - 3 weeks.

Once I had quit smoking for a couple weeks --- things were tough of course, the urges and cravings, but I was doing ok dealing with them. Naturally, I was a lot more moody than normal, got angry more often and more easily. But I was getting through ok, till one night while I was working, I looked outside the window from the store I was working at to check my car - and it wasn't there. My car had been towed. That was what shoved me over the edge - that time.

Naturally the first thing I did when I found out my car was towed was walk over to a cigarette machine, drop my money in and buy a pack of cigarettes. Like that was going to help right? But there I was smoking again.

There were time's I'd quit and thought "well I'll just smoke one, and that's it" - but of course "one" today, turned into "two" the next. And before I knew it, I was back to a pack and a half a day.

It was always a problem sitting back and drinking a cup of coffee or a beer - I was always so used to having a cigarette in my hand! I'd been smoking a lot longer than I'd been drinking coffee or drinking beer! (Having started smoking in 4th grade.) All I could think about was how uncomfortable it felt!

I was uncomfortable after meals because I was used to settling down into the couch in front of the tv with a cup of coffee and a cigarette! So that was a double whammy! Now I had trouble relaxing after meals - because the cup of coffee was missing something - missing the cigarette in my other hand!

Then there was going to the bar with the guys from the shop. First of all "everybody was smoking"! Then if you're like I was you'd get a beer and play a game of pool! But every time I'd try to quit smoking I was always uncomfortable because I didn't have that cigarette in my hand! My whole life became uncomfortable!

One time I even lasted a full month without a cigarette! I remember that day I blew it like it was yesterday. It was about 7 in the evening, starting to get dark - and I was sitting on a friend's back porch waiting for them to get ready to go out. And I wanted a cigarette.

You can imagine me sitting there arguing with myself - saying (to myself) "I'm an adult - I go to work everyday - I pay my own way - If I want a cigarette I can have a cigarette and nobody can stop me!" It's embarrassing to admit it - but, yes - I talked myself right back into my pack and a half a day smoking habit yet again.

By this time I'd been studying what felt like almost every self-help guru's book, how to succeed, mind mastery book out there - almost every book of this type I could get my hands on - for over 10 years. And 4 mind sets that I knew were important to me about smoking cigarettes started come together in my mind.

I knew it was stupid to smoke cigarettes - I knew the risks, the cancer, emphysema, the damage it does to your skin - making you look older than you are. How it was destroying my lungs - filling my lungs up with tar year after year.

I thought about how I wouldn't have to worry about the cancer, emphysema, and other damage I was doing to myself by continuing to smoke cigarettes if I didn't smoke. And how lousy it was that I even started this habit of smoking cigarettes in the first place.

I spent time thinking about all the good stuff that would happen - all the money I'd save, that my body would start recovering from the 20+ years of being a smoker when I did quit smoking cigarettes. I'd stop smelling like I'd just walked out of a bar. I'd stop putting my family in jeopardy from the 2nd hand smoke.

And finally - what if I could somehow feel like I'd never smoked before, after I did quit. I remembered all the times I'd tried and failed to quit smoking - and I certainly didn't want to go through that again - when I did try again to quit. But what if I could somehow - when I tried again to quit - if I could somehow make myself feel like a person who had never smoked a cigarette before - in their life.

So after spending some time mulling over all this I came up with a plan and followed through with it for 60 days. A plan to bring all these considerations together and - hopefully - instill them in my mind. What happened after that 60 day exercise went way beyond anything I'd ever imagined. And if you can instill these same concepts in your mind you have a chance to have the same thing happen to you.

I had just walked out of a restaurant in Flint, Michigan from lunch. I took what was left of my pack of cigarettes, crushed them in my hand and tossed it into a nearby trash can - it was the prearranged day that I'd decided to quit - again. I didn't know what would happen, I didn't know how long I'd be able to last this time, but I was going to give it a try anyway - one more time.

What happened next is still with me today more than a quarter of a century later.

Right after tossing that pack of cigarettes away I had a thought, "I'd sure like to have a cigarette". Then BAM! Totally out of the blue I got hit with an overwhelming rush of thoughts and emotions that went flying through my head in a flash. It was so intense it actually snapped my head back.

The best description I've been able to come up with, about how it felt, is this...imagine a huge dam, picture the Hoover Dam - exploding into millions of pieces - and imagine all those millions and millions of gallons of water rushing, crashing down the valley below - ripping away everything in its path. That's how powerful it felt. And it was totally unexpected!

Also totally unexpected was this - my smoking habit was completely washed away. Like it had never existed. It wasn't like I'd quit - it was like I had never, ever, smoked a cigarette before in my life!

Since that experience I've never had another thought about smoking another cigarette. No cravings, no urges, nothing. The anger I'd always had to contend with before never occurred. It was just "normal" not to have a cigarette. Since that experience, I've never had any problem sitting down and enjoying drinking a beer or cup of coffee, finishing a meal. And not once have I ever considered smoking another cigarette since that day. It's always just felt "normal" not to have a cigarette.

If someone lit up a cigarette around me it had no affect. People could smoke around me all day long - and often did - and my mind was totally oblivious to it. Like the cigarettes didn't even exist. For all intents and purposes cigarettes actually DIDN'T exist in my world.

Somehow I was able to instill all the concepts described above in such a way that I came out of it feeling just like I had never smoked, like I had never lit up a cigarette before in my life. Just the dream I was reaching for.

So if you've tried and failed to quit smoking before - even if you tried and failed a bunch of times - don't let that stop you from trying again. Remember how many times I'd tried and failed to quit smoking. More than a dozen times! If I can do it with my lousy will power - than you can to! This may be just the time you walk away from cigarettes for good and quit smoking permanently!

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After failing to quit smoking over a dozen times he discovered 4 powerful mind-sets and a unique delivery system, that destroys your smoking habit and makes you feel like you never lit that first cigarette - instantly!

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Self Improvement Is A Key To Quitting Smoking

Often smokers ask how to quit smoking? The answer is quit by quitting. If you are soft, and if you show the slightest latitude, you will continue to sail aimlessly in the rudderless boat. You are unlikely to reach your destination.

Don't complain about lack of assistance. Much of the aids and material are available to you in the market today to help you in the process of quitting! These materials will be of use to you only if you have a strong will power. Any pact is useless unless there is a strong will power to implement it.

The most amazing thing about the quality of you the smoker is that you are aware of the fact that you can't escape punishment for your misdeed. The habit of smoking can turn into a life-time suffering in the form of severe diseases or death itself. And yet many smokers have hesitation to quit smoking!

The main problem before you is how to spend the time that you normally spend in smoking. Those long and short intervals of nicotine pull and push!

Now, you need to fill up these gaps with positive activities. The same needs to be done in a systematic manner. If you do not organize this activity properly, there is every chance of you slipping into the nicotine zone again.

You are caught in the net of nicotine, and it is a complicated weave. If you escape from one end, you are trapped at the other end. The situation is somewhat like that. To begin with, try to be strong at the intellectual level. Read lots of anti-smoking literature.

The actual process of coming out of the nicotine net is time-consuming and complicated. Read lots of case studies, regarding the life stories of the suffering of the smokers.

Visit a cancer ward in a hospital and talk to the patients and the doctors. This will have a telling impact on your mind. Your determination to quit smoking will solidify.

Sometimes, simple substitutes work effectively. Buy common cinnamon sticks. They are comfortable to suck. It has the appearance of the cigar. Cinnamon is healthy from the point of view of the health of heart.

When the urge to smoke becomes too much, just get up from that place and go for a brisk walk that will tire you out.

Have a regular schedule of exercise, meditation and breathing exercises. You have to slowly and steadily enhance your internal strength.

This time you must succeed in your stop smoking effort. You are already late, but better late than never!

The author writes about a number of different topics. For more information on quit smoking visit http://www.stop-smoking-updates.com/quitsmoking/ and also visit the article page: http://www.stop-smoking-updates.com/quitsmoking/blogs/self-improvement.htm

Quit Smoking - Cold Turkey or NRT Which Is Best?

When you quit Smoking should you use cold turkey or Nicotine replacement therapy?

There are merits to both methods when you quit smoking. Let?s see which method is best for you.

Smoking cold turkey

By far the most popular method used by smokers to quit smoking.

Cold turkey means to stop smoking with no gradual reduction i.e. you give your system a short sharp shock as smoking stops and nicotine is withdrawn from your system.

Quitting smoking cold turkey does not have a high success rate, due to the extreme symptoms that nicotine withdrawal causes.

Most people quickly revert back to smoking.

For people with strong willpower it works and its advantages are, its cheap, the withdrawal symptoms are only severe for about a week and nicotine is out the system within a month.

How to double your chances

NRT still gives you a nicotine fix without the smoke. Let?s look at the options including an exciting new product that has hit the market.

It?s also been proven that nicotine is healthy when removed from cigarettes so taking nicotine actually does you good!

We will explain why later but for now let?s look at the best options and why it doubles your success rate.

Withdrawal of nicotine causes the following symptoms:

Irritability, lack of concentration, stress, tiredness, nausea. The feelings are intense, especially and NRT aims to help relieve these symptoms

today it?s not only people giving up smoking trying nicotine replacement therapy.

It's also being used more smokers who are banned from smoking in areas such as the office, restaurants, or many public places

You have various NRT options:

Nicotine gum, patches inhalers and Zyban and all have similar rates of success.

New Products

A New product is also on the market and is aimed at smokers who cant or don?t want to smoke.

This is a quit smoking aid, but simply marketed to help smokers cope when smokers can?t or don?t wish to smoke.

The main advantages of this product are it's easy, healthy and convenient.

You don't need to put on a patch, or like chewing gum and unlike the former there are no additional chemicals in the delivery just water.

You can just take a few sips when you need to and get fresh water for hydration as well.

This product will rise in popularity for the group of smokers who choose not to smoke or can?t smoke.

NRT can be used not just to give up smoking but when you have to cut down for long periods when you are subject to a smoking ban of any kind.

Nicotine is healthy!

It is known to improve mood concentration and memory and is the subject of intense medical research to treat conditions such as depression, Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s disease and many more.

In its pure organic form its healthy and non toxic and is actually part of the natural food chain and is contained for example in vegetables, bell peppers, chilli and tea.

So NRT is a great way to double your chances of success and as nicotine is medically proven to do you good reducing your dependence or using it to combat a smoking ban will help smokers everywhere.

NEW ORGANIC NICOTINE DRINK!

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Quit Smoking with Exercise

There is an overload of available pills and potions to help you Quit Smoking. If you are really determined to do it, exercise may be your answer, and it's free of charge too! A healthy diet, and exercise will have you on the road to recovering from your addiction.

Whenever you feel cravings for cigarettes, you can become irritable, angry, depressed and obsessed with thoughts of smoking. You can turn into someone stuck in a bad mood and unable to see your way clear unless you give in and back step by having a cigarette. You need to get through the tough times and they will become fewer and farther between. Think of yourself like seeds planted by a farmer. He waits impatiently for the seeds to sprout, and then one day just as they are about to poke the tip of their first leaf out for the sun, he gives up and rakes over the patch. Sometime when we think we can't wait any longer or last any longer, and that is exactly the time there is going to be a major breakthrough if you just hang in there.

Exercise is the answer to quitting smoking for so many reasons. It raises endorphins and increases oxygen to the blood, two things smokers are lacking during withdrawals. No matter how bad you are feeling, if you sweat it out for a while or even just go for a brisk walk, you will have a new perspective and fresh lease on life.

Every time you overcome and get through cravings, you will feel a sense of achievement and satisfaction. Don't ever look at smoking as a reward for doing well, as this is just a way the addiction will try to trick you into having another cigarette. Every time you catch yourself thinking about smoking and it is possible for you to exercise, then do it! You will improve fitness, feel much happier than ever before and will also introduce a new and positive habit in place of an old negative one.

When you start a new exercise regime, you automatically feel like a new person. You will be sweating more so you will clear nasty nicotine toxins from your body rapidly. The extra oxygen intake will assist your lungs in cleaning and clearing, and your overall energy levels will increase. Your skin will look healthier and you will feel more outgoing. This will give you the desire and energy to do other things that will also contribute to you creating your new life away from addictions.

You will also start to look different to others. A combination of quitting smoking and starting to exercise will make anyone who knows you notice your new found sparkle. When someone makes a change like quitting smoking, it is obvious to everyone something is going on that is working for you.

Roger Gonzales owns the www.quitsmokingaudio.com website helping normal people quit smoking

Quit Smoking - Try Acupuncture Instead

Over the past few years it has been found that as a good alternative way of helping people who wish to stop smoking. The treatment is carried out by the insertion of needles to various specific points on the patient?s body, including a few points around the outer ear. The way the treatment works is that it is supposed to help reduce the cravings a person feels for a cigarette and to help those who are already on their way to quitting smoking. During the first years when the use of acupuncture was being used for helping people to quit smoking it became quite popular and certainly had a large number of followers who began to recommend it to others.

The main reason for so many people using this method is that is not invasive and is an ideal option for many people who can not or will not take medicines. However, over the last couple of years the use of acupuncture for helping people to quit smoking has significantly been reduced.

There are usually a number of reasons for this occurring and one of the reasons is that the number of people who actually stopped smoking whilst having acupuncture treatment was very minor and it certainly indicated that may be acupuncture is not the best choice for people who really want to quit smoking. Also there have been a number of other solutions that have been introduced such as laser treatment and shot treatment.

However, to conclude it is quite clear that acupuncture has a place as an alternative treatment in stopping smoking and a number of people have reported that they are getting good results using this form of treatment. But if you really want to quit smoking, then there are other alternatives available.

Kerris Samson a work from home mum now residing in Spain and who has spent a vast amount of researching the different ways in which acupuncture can help in place of conventional western medicine when treating various forms of illness and ailments and also for use to relieve pain. Please visit http://www.oneohone.info/acupuncture if you would like to learn more.

Defeat Nicotine And Quit Smoking With A Firm Resolution

Someone who had quit smoking several times, said with anguish, ?No, I don't want to quit smoking. I have done it on several occasions in the past- what I wish to do now is to kick smoking!?

Only when the resolution is that firm, can something tangible be achieved. All half-hearted measures are bound to fail! Ask any of the galaxies of smokers! Millions and millions! They want to give up smoking desperately. It is a reported fact that 70 % of smokers repeatedly think of giving up smoking.

There are several voluntary associations to help the smokers. Every small township generally has a health-care unit. But, the unfortunate part of it is that, for every such unit, there are hundreds of small and big tobacco-products selling shops. The promotion campaign for these products goes on unabated, through newspapers, important periodicals, and TV channels (though it is banned to some extent) and the demand for tobacco products goes on increasing relentlessly.

Is it ever possible to quit smoking? Defeat nicotine?

Before trying to defeat your physical and psychological enemy, try to know its strength and to what extent it has taken hold of you because its destructive capacity is no less than additives such as heroin or cocaine.

Remember, in the blood of a hard smoker, each and every cell is surcharged with nicotine. It has become part of the blood. Therefore, pregnant mothers- beware! Smoking is injurious not only to your health; it is also dangerous for the tender baby within. Your smoking alone is responsible for this double tragedy.

With the failure of the first attempt to quit smoking, one should not get disheartened! Resolute actions must follow these attempts, if you wanna achieve success. The courses run by the health care centers and hospitals may help you by the way of information. But, ultimately remember that, it is you who need to quit smoking, for it is you who started it. You can build yourself or you can break yourself. That depends upon your will power.

Each withdrawal symptom is powerful and difficult to endure. At times, you feel that the only way to get over them is to smoke. If you succumb and slide, then it is doubly difficult to restart the pilgrimage to the smoke-free zone. So, with lots of determination, this dizziness, depression, irritability, anger headache, restlessness and trouble in concentrating will have to be tackled. But, confront nicotine with a challenging poster.

Just think, which is a better situation- your company with wrinkled skin, bad breath, bad smelling hair, black teeth with cavities, with black lips or a glowing skin and a confident sparkling countenance? The choice is for you to make!

Mark Twain said, ?Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it a thousand times.? But please remember, he has not told you to follow him. Your will power could be stronger than his.

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How Falling In Love Can Make You Quit Smoking!

My grandfather told me this story when I was very young and I still remember it to this day for it is such a beautiful story about love and how it can help you get rid of an addiction, specially smoking addiction.

When my grandfather was about 11 or 12 years old, growing up in the Caribbean, he picked up this nasty habit of smoking. He started smoking with friends as it was something that almost everybody did. I don't think there was any law regarding the sale of cigarettes to children. As a matter of fact, the way these boys picked up smoking was from going to the stores to buy cigarettes for their uncles or stepdads.

The store owners would never think twice about asking for ID before they sell cigarettes to minors. As I said before, it was okay to sell cigarettes to kids and consequently these kids started smoking at a very early age.

So my grandfather smoked and his mother smoked and likely the rest of the household smoked too. My grandfather's name was Oscar. By the time Oscar turned 17 he already had been smoking for quite a few years now and also drinking occasionally. I do remember that he said that he never smoked nor drink in front of his mom.

In these days, they used to have social dances on weekends and with those social dances comes good homemade food, homemade cakes and ice cream and of course girls. The girls at that time would not go out alone, they would always be accompanied by their parents or guardians at all social events.

Even though a lots of the kids, boys mostly, smoked, it wasn't proper to smoke at social gatherings, specially if you were a kid. As a matter of fact, it was frown upon as a parent to have a son who was a known smoker. The boys still smoked nonetheless, because it was seen as being macho. After all, the tough actors in the movies smoked, therefore the kids thought that they would look good and handsome to the girls if they smoked.

Oscar at one of these social gatherings have met a young girl who was about 2 years older than he was. Being that the society wasn't as liberal as it is today, meeting a young girl at a dance, rather seeing a young girl at a dance and starting to entertain the thought that she was pleasing to the eye and perhaps the only thing he could do about it was to have a dance together, meaning everybody is involved in the dance. No decadent moves like the kids do nowadays.

Anyway, I was saying, Oscar had seen Marie, the girl at the dance and he felt something for her. The thing that can be described as the beginning of love. Before long, he was writing her letters and telling her how he feels good when he sees her and wanted to know if she felt the same way about him.

Her response was rather vague. She liked to see him as well but there was something about him that she wasn't fond of. She would not tell him what it was. She thought that if a young man smoked, that young man ought to have enough savvy to pick up on subtle little hints from girls. Women can be so complex and sophisticated, Oscar used to say, it takes a long time to begin to know a woman or to know what a woman wants.

Oscar could feel that Marie wasn't head over heel about him, therefore he started to change his habits to see if that would turn things around. First he changed the way he dressed, then the way he walked and the choice of words in his letters. All the while he was still smoking with his friends and see himself as somekind of a cool guy who enjoyed smoking.

The feeling he felt for Marie was getting stronger everytime he saw her. For the life of him, he couldn't see why Marie wasn't falling for him the same way he was for her. That started to drive him crazy and made him smoke even more.

What started as perhaps 5 or 6 cigarettes a day quickly turned into 20 to 25 cigarettes a day. Now all he could think of was Marie and the more he thought about her the more he smoked. What can I do to make her fall crazily in love with me? He thought.

By then, Marie had moved away to go to college and only came back to town every second weekend or so. Oscar was really feeling the agonizing pain of slowly losing his girl. What if she falls in love with another guy at college? All these thoughts would keep him up at night.

Finally one day a letter came from Marie saying that she has decided to move for good to that other city where she would find some work after college. She also told him that she could no longer bear the thought of falling in love with someone who may die from smoke related illness. You see, her mom had died two years earlier from smoke related illness due to her smoking one pack of cigarette a day for the last 25 years.

When Oscar found out that it was smoking that kept her from falling in love with him he instantly developed a deep hatred for cigarettes and anything that looked like cigarette. He later joined a group fighting against the sale of cigarettes to minors and also became an advocate for a smoke free world. He was still involved with the group when he died 16 years ago.

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The Truth About Why You Have Not Been Able To Quit Smoking...Until Now

Have you have tried, and tried, and tried to Quit Smoking only to fail to kick the habit? Rest assured, you are not alone. In fact, chances are you have been lied to by the Tobacco and Drug Companies about your addiction just like the 99% of would be "quitters" out there.

Consider this; did you know that nicotine is NOT what millions of people are addicted to? What smokers ARE addicted to, however, is a very common ingredient that appears on your grocery list every week!

And yet these companies are getting away with the lie that it's nicotine that you're addicted to. Even the pharmaceutical companies that supply the "nicotine patches", gums and other "quit smoking now" hope-pills are taking advantage of your ignorance right now as you're reading this.

And who could blame them? After all, billions of dollars are at stake. It does not matter to them that you're turning your lungs into black sponge. To them, YOU had taken up the decision to smoke and they were simply there to hand you the goods. At the end of the day, business is business and their success depends on keeping you smoking and getting people that don't smoke to start. It's all about the billions.

Here is a shocking fact; The Tobacco Industry kills more people between Monday and Thursday of each week than the terrorists killed on 9/11. Where do we see this mentioned in the media with a FRACTION of the attention?

I am here to tell you that you do not have put up with being a part of it. You do not have to become another hospital statistic. Why? Well... what if I told you by this very night (yes, you heard me right... BY TONIGHT) you will have learned to quit smoking FOR LIFE.

Let me ask you a question; what would it mean if you finally, quit smoking for good?

You see, the benefits are not just physical - you know: no more ashtray breath, no more difficulty breathing or waking up, the return of your taste buds in full gear, and so on - but psychological as well. When I kicked the habit as a result of following the program you're about to find out, I became the fond talk of my friends, family and associates.

People kept complimenting me about admiring me for my "strong will-power" and self-determination (in THEIR minds of course, it takes rare strength to kick the addiction, however big or small. Little do they know how easy it actually was).

You may be thinking at this point: "That is all fine and dandy, but I am beyond any help! I just can't get enough!"

Here's why you should NOT give up yet (sure, after reading this till the end, feel free to try giving up quitting). For now, please read on...

I, like you, was once a heavy smoker, 3-4 packs a day depending on my savings.I craved the taste in my mouth so badly that I just had to have that next puff. I smoked before going to sleep, straight away after waking up and even when wanting to visit the loo! I couldn't function without it.

It was back in late 2003 after breaking up with my girlfriend at the time I decided once and for all to quit smoking. I had had enough. And so started a long and expensive personal journey. I researched and bought everything: pills, patches, gums, self-help books, heck I even tried meditation.

It all added up to nothing! I maxed out on my credit card on junk, paid the bills and down the drain went my morale along with the money.

I felt at the time that I was beyond rehabilitation: that I was hooked for life. I was seriously stressed and really demoralized at the time.
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How To Quit Smoking With NLP and Hypnosis For Motivation

There are two mental states that must be satisfied before a person will voluntarily quit smoking. These elements are called ?Desire,? and ?Decision.?

Desire: A want, crave or a wish for
Decision: Making up of one?s mind / a verdict or judgment

In order to quit smoking, you have to desire to quit. You have to want to quit. You probably want to quit, at least some part of you does, or you wouldn?t be reading this article.

In order to quit smoking, you have to decide to quit. Since you haven?t quit smoking, it simply means that you have not decided to quit . . . yet. So what you need is to feel motivated to make a ?decision? to quit smoking.

Motivation, we all need it. The source of each of our motivations is a belief. Think about it, if you did not believe that you could get hurt if you walked in front of moving traffic, you would not feel motivated to be careful. If you did not believe that the gnawing sensation in your stomach meant that you were hungry, you would not feel motivated to eat.

When it comes to giving up the smoking habit, people need to feel a great deal of motivation to make the decision to quit. Motivation is based on the ideas that we believe. So you will need to figure out what ideas will motivate you (when you start to believe them). Because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will quit smoking.

Thanks to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and hypnosis for motivation, it?s a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think it is. However, you do not believe the ideas that will motivate you to quit smoking at this point, or you would have already broken the smoking addiction.

For the purpose of this discussion, we need to define a few words.

Doubt: Uncertain/distrustful/dubious - ?maybe it?s this way, and maybe it isn?t.?

Belief: Trust/faith/tenet - A state of mind devoid of all doubt. In other words, belief means, ?this is the way that it is.?

Highly valued criteria: What is most important to you, as an individual.

When you totally believe that if you continue to smoke, your highly valued criterion is in jeopardy, you will feel the motivation that you require to stop smoking. We call this is a negative motivator, because it?s a belief that motivates you by giving you bad feelings. Negative motivators are very powerful.

When you believe that if you do quit, your highly valued criteria will become enhanced, you will also feel the motivation that you require to quit smoking. This is a positive motivator, because it motivates you by promising good feelings if you stop smoking.

The first task is for you to figure out what the most important things in your life are? Your most highly valued criteria are usually intangibles. For example: Money would not be highly valued criteria, but the freedom, fun, or security that money can provide would be. Write your list of highly valued criteria down on a piece of paper.

Next you need to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to quit. Here is the good news, sort of: Logic has nothing to do with belief. Things don?t have to be logical for you to believe them. As a matter of fact, they rarely are. So forget logic!

The format for your negative motivator beliefs will be: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, something bad will happen to my most highly valued criteria.?

Make sure that you frame your motivators in the positive. In other words, always state what you want or what will happen. Never state what you don?t want or what won?t happen. Eliminate the ?not? word from the beliefs.

In this example we will say that your children?s welfare is your most highly valued criteria.

Wrong: ?I believe that if I continue to smoke, I won?t be doing my kids health any good.?

Correct: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children?s health.?

Next, create a list of positive motivators. ?I believe that if I quit smoking: (something very important will be enhanced).?

Wrong: ?I believe that if I stop smoking, I won?t harm my kids health.?

Correct: ?I believe that if I quit smoking, my children will be healthier because I?ll eliminate their exposure to the dangers of my second hand smoke.?

The next step is to modify the computer codes in your brain to make yourself actually believe these motivational ideas. Now for a shocker: Belief has nothing to do with logic or reality. But it does have everything to do with your perception of reality. In other words, it has a lot to do with the way that we see things.

Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer. Computers don?t reason. The input controls the output. To demonstrate, I want you to think of anything that you already believe without the slightest bit of doubt. Make it a belief that makes you feel good.

For instance, it?s easy for most people to believe that they love their children. If that is true for you, make a mental image that makes you feel that love.

I?m going to ask some questions, and there aren?t any right or wrong answers. Is your mental image a moving picture, or a still?

Is it in color, or in black and white?
Is it close or far?
Is it focused or fuzzy?
Is it normally bright, overly bright, or dim?
Is there a border on it?
Is it borderless?
Is it a panorama?

Whatever your answers are, write them down. These are the computer codes that your unconscious uses to indicate your feelings of belief. In this case they are the codes for positive belief because you?ve chosen a belief that gives you a good feeling. You have just calibrated your positive belief.

All positive belief pictures are bright and focused. If yours aren't, you probably don?t really have total belief. You probably have an element of doubt. So find another belief from which to calibrate.

If you think of something that you doubt, and you make a mental image of it, one or more of these computer codes will probably be different. Similarly, if you have a belief that gives you a bad feeling, (a negative belief): one or more of those codes will be different.

In NLP we call these particular computer codes visual submodalities.

Now you will need to calibrate a negative belief. So repeat the same exact process, but do so using an idea that you already believe, that makes you feel bad.

Once you have calibrated your positive and your negative beliefs, it?s a simple matter to manipulate what you believe so you can motivate yourself to decide to quit.

So, to summarize, using the above example: "I believe that if I continue to smoke, my secondhand smoke will ruin my children?s health.?

1. Sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking.

2. Make a mental image that illustrated the above belief.

3. Adjust the computer codes (visual submodalities) of the image to match the submodalities from your calibrated negative belief.

4. If you are right handed, move your eyeballs (and your image) up to your left and hold it there for five seconds. If you are left handed, to the opposite. This will help you to quickly memorize the belief.

5. Now sense how motivated you feel to quit smoking. Do you feel more motivated? Less motivated? Or the same?

Using this technique you can make yourself believe almost anything by making a picture in your mind that illustrates your new idea and then adjusting your mental image to match your calibrated belief pictures.

And if you have a belief that is holding you back, you can use the same technique to change that belief to doubt by changing one or two of the submodalities and memorizing it that way.

Now that you can motivate yourself to decide to quit, you will quit smoking. A decision to quit means: I?m quitting no matter how much it hurts. If you are like most people, you won?t want it to ?hurt,? and it doesn?t have to. There are several hypnotic techniques that can greatly reduce, or even completely eliminate the discomforts of withdrawal from the cigarette addiction.

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Two Games Your Mind Plays To Prevent You From Quit Smoking

Even if many people are well aware of disadvantages that are caused by smoking the vast majority of them aren't able to give up the habit and quit smoking.

Studies show that reason behind this is the myth of addictions. Smokers are overestimating the power of addictions, so they aren't able to quit smoking. Put another way, smokers think that nicotine is not allowing them to quit smoking.

This is the trap and adds laziness to your quit smoking trials. This is what gives real power to the physiological addiction: you think your addiction has more power than you, so you try to resist weakly, so you fail, so you have confirmed that nicotine addiction is powerful, so you can't do anything against it, so you can continue smoking. Then you restart this cycle with more evidence that you are addicted to nicotine and you can't do anything against it.

So you continue smoking and develop (what you think is) a pleasant habit. Soon you'll need to smoke to satisfy your habit. As every other habit, it has its own environmental triggers that activate your smoking desire (after meal? At the phone? In a coffee break?).

So the two psychological traps that prevent you from quit smoking are:

1. Thinking your nicotine addiction can't be beaten.
2. The pleasure habit you develop smoking.

These traps merged with the physiological increasing addiction, make your quit smoking trial weaker and weaker.

Thus smoking is more a problem of mind than is of body. It is not an easy habit to get rid of but the good news is that studies show that quitting smoking is an easy task with modern therapies. For example hypnotherapy is an effective mean that can help you to quit smoking easily.

To start you have to drop your nicotine addiction belief and then drop the habit.

To drop your nicotine addiction belief, just consider what we have said before and grasp that it's true.

Quitting habit is much difficult than quitting anything else. But you can start organizing your resources and freeing from smoking diseases (give a look at my website if you need a motivational refresh - link http://quit-smoking.thesolution2.com/Main/Quit-Smoking-Disease-Quit-Smoking-Diseases.php).

You need to act in a cohesive manner. Behaving in a new way in a consistent manner will, as you guess, develop a new habit. The more you apply it, the more the old habit will weaken. At the start it will be quite hard, as only your effort will sustain you. But in a while your new habit will support you. So it will become easier and easier the more you go.

So, get all the help you can and start. My free Quit Smoking Special Report available at my website is going to help you to Leverage your 5 Resources to Quit Smoking.

Mark Tern is the author of the free Quit Smoking Special Report where you can discover How to Leverage Your 5 Resources to Quit Smoking. Check also his quit smoking blog for articles about quit smoking.

Top Ten Reasons To Quit Smoking

Life Expectancy Some of the ingredients in tobacco smoke include Carbon Monoxide, Arsenic, Acetone, and Ammonia. To reduce the intake of these lethal substances by quitting smoking will no doubt increase a persons chances of living longer.

Lung Cancer The most lethal cancer, only one in ten individuals who get diagnosed will live past five years from the point of being diagnosed with this horrible disease. Symptoms include coughing up of blood and shortness of breathe.

Heart Disease Smoking cigarettes can promote the accumulation of plaque within the arterial walls of the heart, which can eventually lead to blockages that can cause sudden death due to heart attack without warning.

Emphysema This is a chronic lung disease caused by inhaling cigarette smoke over a long period of time. The lung tissue losses it's elasticity and capillaries are destroyed, leaving the smoker feeling forever breathless.

Colds Along with eliminating the continual coughing that comes with being a smoker, quitting smoking can increase the strength of the immune system, therefore possibly reducing the number of times a year a person gets sick.

Energy Having more energy after smoking a cigarette is somewhat of an illusion. The effects of nicotine momentarily stimulate the heart to beat faster, therefore increasing many motor functions to the point of feeling energized.

Attitude Many people profess to being calmer because they smoke. This is only because the body is on a continual roller coaster of addiction. The calm feeling is a reaction of the body receiving nicotine into the blood stream.

Smell Along with bad breathe, stinky clothes, stained teeth and fingers, a person can have a better smelling house, vehicle, and any other environment smoked in can be free from the stench that cigarette smoke leaves behind.

Wrinkles Having smoke continually drift over the face is not good for the skin. In addition, the body must continually filter out toxins from the system, thus needing much water better served to maintain moisture in the skin.

Money Regardless of how many cigarettes a person smokes a day, the eventual costs amount to thousands of dollars a year, which in turn can amount to more money spent on treating illness attributed to smoking.

Time Each cigarette takes about seven minutes to smoke. For instance, if a person has to smoke outside at work, they are essentially wasting an hour every eight hours in order to step outside to have that cigarette.

Austin Culley is recreational writer of various articles including health reviews.

Quitting Smoking : Why Women?s Health May Benefit More

There are a lot of reasons to quit smoking. We all know the life threatening reasons, but we don?t necessarily understand the the full impact that smoking has on our bodies and minds, and possibly even on others around us.

Women especially are susceptible to some of the more hidden dangers of smoking, and may actually benefit in different ways than men when it comes to smoking cessation.

For example, many women probably do not even know this, but lung cancer is now killing more women every year than breast cancer. That?s right, lung cancer is actually more deadly to a woman than breast cancer, which is by far more talked about in women?s health than lung cancer.

Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer since nearly 90% of all cases are traced directly to smoking, so it?s important that women really understand the health benefits of quitting smoking.

There are actually a lot more health issues that a woman needs to think about if she is a smoker as well. For example, most contraceptive pills carry warnings on them that the patient should not take the contraceptive birth control pill if she is a smoker.

Her risk of developing heart problems is greatly increased if she is smoking while on the pill, since smoking increases blood pressure, and the pill is known to also increase blood pressure. This creates a double hazard for heart issues.

Another concern may be for a woman?s children. Children many times can develop asthma and other types of breathing problems if the child is exposed to cigarette smoke at a young age. This is also a concern for men, since they are not exempt from this rule either!

There are also a myriad of other health problems, inconveniences and even just ?cosmetic? reasons that a woman may want to consider smoking cessation in order that she may be her ?best self?.

These don?t necessarily fall into the category of life threatening or imminent dangers, but they certainly can affect your quality of life, as well as your appearance, which is held in high regard in today?s aesthetically concerned society. These additional health and well being benefits to smoking cessation are as follows :

1.) Your skin is greatly affected by smoking, and not in a good way as you can probably imagine. As we age, our skin cell turnover tends to slow down. Smoking actually speeds the process of this slower turnover up, making us essentially age faster.

Add to this the fact that smoking essentially robs our body of oxygen and creates more free radicals, which are skin?s number one enemy and aging?s number one comrade, and you have a recipe for accelerated aging, and sagging, colorless skin.

Most women see a marked improvement in the tone, clarity and firmness of their skin just a few weeks after they quit smoking, especially if they were a heavy smoker.

2.) Your teeth and mouth will thank you. Smoking not only gives you bad breath, but it also turns your teeth yellow, or sometimes even brown from nicotine residue and tabacco staining.

3.) Quitting smoking can greatly help with your mental state. What do I mean? I mean that smoking may seem at first like it is a relaxant, since it tends to immediately feel like it is relieving tension and anxiety once the cigarette is in your mouth and you begin to inhale. Contrary to this belief that cigarettes "calm" you, studies have shown that in the long run smoking actually increases anxiety.

We all know that depression and anxiety tend to go hand in hand, so quitting smoking may also greatly benefit a woman?s psyche.

4.) No more coughing, weezing, and possibly even a reduction in allergies. If you quit smoking, chances are you will breathe a lot easier.

It takes a lot less time for your lungs to heal than you think. Studies have shown that even the most blackened smoker?s lungs have made full recoveries within just a few months after they have quit smoking.

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A Simple Trick To Help You Quit Smoking

Most of the times, smokers while in the process of quitting smoking only find themselves breaking their own vow by smoking only one cigarette. Thus, trying to break the habit comes back to square one again. The reason is simple, because you are responsible for yourself, it does not feel wrong to break your rule because you don't have to answer to anybody.

Quitting smoking is not an easy task. You will be very tempted to break your own rule and smoke again. One of the tricks to help you quit smoking is to tell everybody you know about your decision.

When you let others know that you are quitting smoking. You will develop a sense of responsibility. Also people will deem you whether you will accountable for your words or not. It's like they'll be watching and waiting for you to make a mistake and smoke again. Your desire would be then to prove them wrong. You wouldn't want to be somebody who would go back on your own words.

Start telling your friends, family, colleagues, boss, and every single person. Express that you will need their support as well.

Explain to everyone that you've decided to give up your cigarette habit for good, and let them know that you are eager for them to help you. Ask them to keep you honest. That way, if they see you trying to sneak a puff on your lunch break they'll intervene and keep you from lighting up. If they notice a pack of cigarettes lying on your dresser they'll encourage you to throw it away.

Explain to the people you know you've decided to quit smoking for good and ask them to help you out. Don't be afraid to ask for help because people are more than willing to help. You see when you ask help from someone, you'll make them feel important. It is also another great opportunity to improve your relationship with others.

Announcing your decision your other is actually a very good method because you won't want to disappoint others. The peer pressure is extreme so it really makes you think twice about smoking again.

Tony James is an ex-smoker for 15 years and is currently helping smokers to quit smoking with ease without the discomfort of cravings or withdrawal symptoms.

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Why is it Hard to Quit Smoking?

Smoking is emerging to be one of the major causes of death in the modern world. This is attributed to the growing consumers of tobacco. Tobacco is responsible for the death of 1 in 10 adults all over the world, which translates to around 5 million deaths every year. It is because of this fact that cigarette smoking is now a public health priority.

Smoking poses dangers directly and indirectly to the public. An indirect public health concern that cigarettes may pose is accidental fire. As for the health risks in smoking tobacco, the disease mainly strikes the cardiovascular system, resulting to heart attack, respiratory tract diseases, and even cancer.

In spite of these risks, the number of cigarette smokers all other the world has not dropped considerably. Though several smokers claim to have been meaning to quit this habit, they just find it so difficult. The fact is that after smoking for quite sometime, quitting smoking will prove to be very hard, but not impossible.

Why is it hard to quit smoking?

Foremost, this is because the majority of smokers become addicted to the nicotine contained in tobacco products. Nicotine has a deadly addictive power. How? When a person puffs a cigarette, nicotine particles find their way to the lungs through inhalation. From there, nicotine is absorbed into the bloodstream just like the oxygen people breathe. It travels with the blood to the brain where it locks onto certain receptor areas. Dopamine is then released into the brain. This is the chemical that makes the smoker feel a euphoric sensation. Smokers find it difficult to quit because they come to be dependent on this good feeling. And in wanting to experience this repeatedly, this leads to dependence - a sign of addiction.

A person who attempts to quit may experience withdrawal symptoms. Topping the bill of withdrawal symptoms is depression. With the absence of the chemical that produces the relaxing feeling, the brain becomes distressed without it. Other withdrawal symptoms from smoking include:

- Headaches, dizziness, and nausea - Shakes, chills - Cough, dry throat nasal drip - Hunger, fatigue - Constipation, gas or stomach pain - Insomnia, troubled sleep

Not knowing what to do with their hands is another common complaint among ex-smokers while quitting. Once people get hooked, smoking becomes a big part of their lives. They seem to enjoy holding on a stick of cigarette and puffing on them. And after a long period of lighting up, it becomes a routine. As a fact, humans are creatures of habit. By some force of habit, smokers find themselves reaching for a cigarette and lighting it up automatically without thinking about it.

Certain "triggers" in the environment may also hamper a smoker's desire to quit. Things may turn on a smoker's need for a cigarette. These may be feelings, places, and moods. Even the things done routinely may trigger this craving for a smoke.

For those who have been smoking for quite a while already, they may not realize it but they form some emotional attachment to cigarettes. They find the cigarette calming and comforting during those stressful times. Cigarette smoking somehow becomes an extension of their social life, particularly when they are emotionally at the highest or lowest. Giving the smoker a feeling that giving up smoking would seem like giving up a trusted friend.

These are only some of the major reasons why it is hard to quit smoking. But there are also several strategies and quitting techniques that may aid smokers to finally give up on this tenacious habit. Quitting smoking all begins with one's intention to stop. They must have the will power to overcome the craving for smoke. There are also a lot of quit smoking products in the market. These may also be worth trying. Support groups are proved to be very helpful, too.

Smokers must understand that to quit smoking may take more than one attempt. They must also try several methods before they can finally succeed. Smoking is a stubborn habit because it is closely tied to the acts in the course of people's everyday lives. Just pay a serious concern to a few issues. 1. The first thing you must consider is your body; you must take care and keep it healthy. 2. Secondly, decision to kill your enemy who is killing you. 3. Thirdly, cost that smoking has caused for you. You have spent a lot on this poison. 4. Lastly forget the past that will help you in quit smoking. Just remember that nicotine is my enemy and is killing me slowly.

With determination, will power and a strategy, quit smoking is not out of the question.

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Smoking is emerging to be one of the major causes of death in the modern world. Smoking poses dangers directly and indirectly to the public. Several smokers claim to have been meaning to quit this habit; they just find it so difficult. Here are some of the major reasons why it is hard to quit smoking. Nishanth Reddy, is an author and publisher of many health related websites. For more information and tips on how to quit smoking, visit his website: http://www.stop-smoking-tips.com

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When People Quit Smoking, Is Weight Gain Unavoidable?

There are a lot of people who smoke out there who, among other reasons, are afraid to try to quit smoking cigarettes for the fear of what they think is inevitable weight gain. Almost everyone they know who has successfully quit smoking really packed on the pounds and they don't want this to happen to them. So, does the connection between quitting cigarettes and weight gain have to do directly with the cigarettes themselves, or are there other, outside reasons why this happens so often to people who "kick the habit"?

Lets take a look at what all of the factors are that cause such weight gain in people who quit smoking and see if maybe this weight gain may be able to be controlled to where it does not have to be a factor when you decide to put the cigarettes down for good.

The fact is you do not have to gain weight when you quit smoking. There are a lot of people who quit smoking who don't gain any weight at all. On average, people who quit smoking gain only up to 10 pounds. Studies have shown that people who have smoked for 10 to 20 years or more, or who smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day have a higher tendency to gain weight than short time smokers and those who smoked less than one pack a day.

Nicotine, which is a chemical found in cigarettes, does to a small degree keep your body weight down. When you quit and the nicotine begins to leave your body, you may see a marginal amount of short term weight gain, but usually it will be no more than 3 to 5 pounds, mostly due to water retention.

The major reason why so many people will gain a significant amount of weight however, has more to do with replacing the smoking habit with excessive eating habits. Many will substitute sucking on hard candies all day to replace the cigarettes. Others will begin to simply snack on various foods throughout the day as a replacement for the old habit. The cigarette break at work becomes a snack break. The after lunch cigarette becomes the after lunch snack. It is this new habit, which is done almost unconsciously, that is mostly responsible for excessive weight gain when people quit smoking.

When you quit smoking, keeping aware of what you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat along with some physical activity will keep that weight gain to a minimum and may keep you from gaining any weight at all. You also must consider that even if you do gain 5 to 10 pounds from quitting smoking, the risks of smoking cigarettes are far greater than a 5 to 10 pound gain in weight.

Smoking is the cause of more than 400,000 deaths every year in the United States. It would take a weight gain of over 100 pounds to equal the health risks of smoking cigarettes. Smoking causes your heart rate to increase, and you have twice the likeliness to suffer a heart attack than that of a nonsmoker. You inhale around 4000 chemicals from cigarette smoke and 40 of these chemicals are cancer causing. Men are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers, and women are 12 times more likely.

With a little effort on your part to keep your eating habits in check and incorporate some exercise into your daily routine, weight gain can and will be at least kept down to a minimum when you quit smoking. You will be in better health, feel better, and have a more positive outlook on life when you make the decision to put those cigarettes down for once and for all.

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How To Quit Smoking Once And For All

 

It is undisputed that smoking is harmful to your health. It increases chances of a heart attack; is a leading cause of lung and other types of cancers; and is also an expensive habit. But, smokers who try to quit will attest to the fact that quitting is not easy. The nicotine found in cigarettes is highly addictive and most smokers who try to quit attempt to do so several times before being successful.

It is best to prepare yourself for quitting by removing all cigarettes, ashtrays and other signs of smoking from your environment at home, work and in your car. Seeing them is only a reminder and will hamper progress. Decide you want to quit and be determined. Do not smoke during this time even a little. The one cigarette you have may encourage you to have more, impeding your ability to quit altogether.

A support system is very important to quit. Make sure family and friends are aware of your decision to quit and will help support you in your decision. If you have family and friends who smoke, ask them not to do it near you for awhile so you don?t have the urge to smoke with them. There are many support groups available as well. You can find telephone support or group therapy in just about every major city. Most of these are free and can provide a valuable boost to your morale during this difficult time.

Try to reduce the stress levels in your environment. Stay busy and active to promote good health. Taking long walks, indulging in a hot bath, spending some time at a day spa or getting a massage are great ways to reduce stress levels while keeping occupied. Ensuring you are distracted will help curb cravings for cigarettes.

Nicotine replacement is helpful in overcoming the addiction while allowing you to concentrate on the removal of the other harmful effects of smoking. Most entail a gradual reduction of nicotine so your body becomes more used to not having it. There are many types from skin patches to gums and lozenges. Studies indicate one method is no better than the next and is dependent on personal preference. Acupuncture and hypnosis have gained popularity as ways to help quit smoking. Consult a physician for a referral to a reputable hypnotist or acupuncturist before committing to this type of treatment.

Making the decision to quit smoking can be one of the most difficult things to do but will greatly benefit you in the long run. With a little support from friends and family the process will be much smoother. Try to stay active to distract from cravings. If you have intense withdrawals use a nicotine replacement such as a patch or gum to help curb cravings. The advantages of living a smoke-free life are many. Improve your health and the health of those around you by quitting.

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