Category: Stop Smoking Help and Hints for You

How to Prepare to Stop Smoking with EFT

Posted by Suzanne – July 27, 2010

You can be as positive as you like in your goal to stop smoking for good. But a positive can-do attitude alone will not give you the success that you seek. And we all know people who were totally determined to stop smoking and soon fell off the wagon again. So you may well ask what else it takes to quit.

Stopping smoking is not as simple as deciding to change your habits. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to mankind. Some would say that it is more addictive than heroin. There are very good reasons for this. Nicotine is a drug that you can take and still function. As a matter of fact, until you figure out a good strategy of quitting, you can probably function even better on cigarettes. Whilst smoking, you can more easily concentrate on your work or study, you can be calm when you need calming and stimulated when you need stimulating, you can control your eating, you can relax and be sociable on social occasions, you can enjoy an alcoholic drink and remain in control, you can sleep more easily and awaken more cheerfully; no wonder so many people smoke! Smoking works, that is why you do it. However, now you have reached the stage where smoking is no longer a solution for you. Smoking has now become a problem.

So how do you prepare to stop smoking? With an open mind and a willing heart. Let me illustrate. An open mind does not mean saying that you want to quit smoking. An open mind involves acceptance that there are emotional reasons why a smoker smokes. A willing heart means the willingness to let go of these negative emotions that are holding you back.

There is a new technique called EFT which has the power to completely free you from these negative emotions. EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Techniques and involves acupressure points and some very clever wording designed to together release blocks in your path. Once these are totally released from your system, you will have no desire to smoke whatsoever. But this presents some smokers with a challenge. When doing EFT, we sometimes, and only fleetingly, briefly feel an emotion as it finds its way out of our body. We may temporarily get tears or sadness, for example. And smoking is an addiction. And an addiction is a way of avoiding feeling uncomfortable emotions. So the first thing you need to prepare for is facing up to some discomfort. If you do choose to use EFT for quitting, this discomfort is very minimal.

As you may already know, if you want to accomplish something, you need to think it first. Our thoughts become our reality. So to prepare for quitting smoking, you need to stop thinking like an addict and start thinking like a non-addict. When you start thinking like a non-addict, you will start behaving like a non-addict and naturally become a non-addict. A non-addict will admit to negative emotions and find a way to get rid of them. Choose to be ready to let go. That is all the preparation you need. Really want it from the bottom of your heart. You can be pleasantly surprised how good you can feel as a true non-smoker.

More more people are becoming free from addiction each day with EFT. You can learn EFT free online and do the tapping yourself. You can purchase your Stop Smoking E-Book for more specific guidance. Or you can engage the services of an experienced EFT practitioner.

So now you know how you can quit and how to prepare for quitting. The next step is to choose which EFT option is best for you. Enjoy becoming a non-smoker!

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010. Complementary and alternative health education and empowerment is my passion. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to empowering people to take control of their health and wellness. A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is beyond a decade that I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis. I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer. My big passion is to to help others stop smoking, as in my http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com

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I hope this article helps. Please let me have your feedback – it is always appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Suzanne Zacharia

Stop Smoking Expert and Author

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Do You Smoke by Habit? Stop These 7 Habits And Stop Smoking

Posted by Suzanne – January 21, 2010

Stop Smoking EFT and Hypnosis Practitioner

It is often said that smoking is a habit. In a sense, I kind of agree with that.

People that see me in Cape Town for hypnosis to stop smoking often expect to be brain-washed to no longer have the habit. However, what if the act of smoking in itself is not the habit? What if there were underlying habits that need to be addressed? And what are those underlying habits?

Let us examine the act of smoking first. If that in itself was merely a habit, then all you would need to do to stop smoking is to stop the act of lighting up. For example, if I had a habit of wearing black all the time, to stop this habit, I would start each morning by wearing different colors. And if I wanted to change into evening wear for a night out, I would simply select different colors from my wardrobe. If need be, I would buy a few items that are not black. And it is as simple as that.

Take another example. A friend of mine had the habit of leaving all the lights on at home while relaxing in the evening. Then she found out how much electricity she could save by stopping this habit, and she stopped straightaway. The next electricity bill was a lot less, and she was pleased to be doing her bit for the environment. It was very easy.

But what about smoking? If you smoke and the act of smoking in itself was a habit, then all you need to do in order to stop is just to stop. You will be saving a lot of money and will be healthier, and it will be easy.

Not so convincing, is it?

There are 7 reasons why.

  1. The smoker has a habit of considering smoking as a mere habit, and so is totally powerless to solve the real reasons why they smoke.
  2. One habit is the abdication of responsibility.  “I smoke because it’s a habit” or “I smoke because there is a monkey on my back telling me to smoke” and various other excuses.
  3. The third habit is to tell yourself that if you stop smoking, this in itself will cause withdrawals. You will be irritable, nervous, lose sleep, or become ravenously hungry. Whereas in my experience, the cigarettes are there to help drug away irritability, nervousness, insomnia, or hunger. If the drug is simply stopped, naturally, the symptoms return. But it is easier to have the habit of blaming cigarette withdrawal for one’s emotions. After all, who wants to admit to being emotional?
  4. Another habit is to take a drug instead of dealing with problems. As this becomes more and more of a habit, more and more negative emotions are swept under the carpet. It becomes instant conditioning to smoke in order not to feel angry or sad, or to smoke in order not to show nervousness, or to smoke in order to feel satisfied after a meal or whilst having a drink.
  5. The fifth habit is not to consider cigarettes a drug like any other. How many times have you read this phrase “smoking and drugs”? As if there is any real difference. What I find particularly poignant is seeing someone smoke one cigarette after another whilst saying passionately how they would never take drugs.
  6. The sixth habit is the need to be perfect. Many smokers are exceptionally calm when handling conflict, because they are drugged. Many women smokers are exceptionally fashionably thin, because they are drugged.  But neither state of being is normal or sustainable. And neither state of being is perfect either.
  7. The seventh habit is to hold onto denial, the “smoking is just a habit” belief, holding on tightly, till (literally) death.

So if you are a smoker who wants to quit, change these 7 habits, and you will find quitting an easy process. Hypnotists and other practitioners that use tapping techniques, such as EFT, TFT or MTT, can help you to be totally free from the underlying reasons. Change is easy when you know how.

© Suzanne Zacharia 2010.  My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age.  In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis by many years now.

I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specializing in energy healing.  I help ex-smokers-to-be and practitioners that help ex-smokers-to-be to achieve complete freedom from smoking with my Stop Smoking E-Book. Want to use this article?  You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE book “EFT How-To For You” at http://www.EFT-Scripts.com and my popular FREE online course “5 Days to Change Your Life” at http://www.NewAgeInternationalTraining.com