Now I don't. And that was because I won this fight many years ago.
After my moment of truth - when I was forced to accept that I was an addict, not a free man - I knew that this fight was the most important fight of my life. It took me eighteen months to kill the desire to smoke. And that is the key. Smoking is, above all, an emotional problem, a habit, not so much an addiction.The method I used to become a free man again was almost identical to this. I say almost because what took me a year and a half could have taken much less. Weeks or even days.
There is no drama or special supplements in this method. No 'will of iron' is necessary. And above all there is
no fear. (One of the biggest problems for most of us is our fear of change.)
It is a guide to your enemy. I suggest that you look into this.
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Your Decision
You have a very simple choice to make.
You can decide whether you will continue to be an idiot or whether to get your life back.
You can decide to be free or to stay a slave. (Do you respect slaves or slave-owners? Do you not deeply
despise the people who work for tobacco companies? A dirty dirty way to make a living, isn't it?)
You can choose to be happy or not. (Studies at the Peninsular Medical School with over 9,000 people have
shown that 'smokers are less likely to be happy'.)
The decision is that simple.
How do you claim your freedom?
There are many ways, but first of all you must know one more important thing.
The addiction of smoking is nearly all psychological. It's almost all in the mind.
(This is why you will never see offers for nicotine patches, miracle drugs, or 'natural' herbal remedies on this website.)
Yes, nicotine is addictive. But the physical, bodily effects of withdrawal are trivial. A few snuffles for a few days only. Less than you, unhappy smoker, suffer twenty times every winter. It's nothing.
The real battlefield is the mind.
So it doesn't matter what method you use as long as it works.
Cold turkey, hypnotism, watching your father die of cancer, acupuncture, cognitive-behaviour therapy, will
power, nicotine patches,.....
It doesn't matter. Just win this battle.
How do you know when you've won?
When you don't think about it all the time.
When smoking looks pathetic. Which it is.
When you breathe free.
