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Prepare To Stop Smoking – Write Down Your Reasons

Posted by Suzanne – December 28, 2010

Preparing to do anything is well worth the effort, and this is just as important for giving up smoking as it is for anything else. And one important aspect of becoming ready to stop smoking is to have motivation to start the quitting process. The first step is to remind yourself of why you want to stop.

It has been found that people are more successful in realizing their goal if they write down their motivation and put it somewhere they can easily see every day. So write down your reasons to quit and put them up on a wall or on your fridge to remind yourself of why you want to stop smoking. Write down about 5-10 reasons, and when you are ready, you will find yourself much more motivated to quit. I have listed below some popular reasons cited by ex-smokers before they quit. Of course, your reasons may be completely different, but these should  give you ideas to get you started.

  • Upon hearing from the doctor that you need to quit, maybe because of lung or heart problems.
  • To be around for your children and hopefully one day grandchildren. Or to be around for your partner, nieces, nephews, or god-child.
  • To set a good examples for impressionable youngsters in your life.
  • To join your partner in becoming a happy non-smoker.
  • To be kissed without that disgusting tobacco taste.
  • To save money. Think how much you will have saved in a year; what would you do with that money, go on holiday, buy something you have always promised yourself, save it for a rainy day?
  • To be fitter and look healthier instead of sprouting extra wrinkles and yellowing skin.
  • To be free from slavery to those cigarettes that dictate to you every day what you have to do.
  • To be free from having to keep going out for a quick cigarette in all those places where you cannot smoke.
  • To be able to taste your food and enjoy it.
  • To be fresher and happier.
  • To be free from that smell on your clothes and in your hair.
  • To live a healthier lifestyle. Some people run marathons at 80 years old, and the average smoker finds it challenging to run up some stairs sometimes.
  • To cut your chances of cancer, emphysema, and other nasty horrible diseases you can get.
  • To live a long and fulfilled life.
  • To gain self respect.
  • Better chance of getting a date who is not a nicotine addict or any kind of addict.
  • If you smoke at home or in your office, to have your home of office smell nice instead of like an ashtray, with yellow curtains and walls that you have to keep washing and painting.
  • To stop that horrible greying skin look after a heavy night out smoking.
  • To get pregnant or conceive. Even for men, the quality of sperm is better if the man has quit for 6 months.
  • To have more energy.
  • To be free without worrying where your next fix will come from.

Now you have the why. Write yours down and put them in a prominent place. When you are ready, you can move on to the how. My favorite method that I recommend is Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT for short. EFT can remove all the reasons why you smoke, leaving you free to stop smoking when you want to. If EFT does not appeal, there is hypnosis, NLP, NRT, and many other ways that help you quit.

Wishing you every success on your stop-smoking journey…

© 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 of the Stop Smoking E-book at http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com and trainer specializing in energy healing. 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

If You Want To Stop Smoking But Smoker Friends Are Against It

Posted by Suzanne – December 28, 2010

There may be someone you considered to be a very good friend that gives you a horrifying reaction to your good news of quitting smoking and tries to re-addict you. Some people on their quest to stop smoking have several of these friends offering pro-smoking opinions as well as cigarettes.

It is often challenging preparing to stop smoking. For example, do you tell friends, colleagues and family of your plans? Maybe you wish to avoid the constant questions about whether you have quit yet, or about how you are getting on, how you are coping, and all the bombardment that simply piles on the stress when you really do not need any extra stress. That can make you feel like you are doing it for everyone else and not for you. The pressure to succeed and fear of failure are simply extra stresses. And we all know a wonderful quick fix for stress, namely a cigarette. So it makes sense that you keep the stress from friends, colleagues and family at a minimum.

However, when you proudly announce that you have quit for a week or so and a friend throws a challenge of why bother at you, that is not nice. They may say that they do not see the point of you quitting, or that we are all going to die anyway, so what is the point of stopping smoking, an activity that you used to enjoy. Of course what the friend omits is that it was an activity that you used to enjoy together. And the friend also omits that they miss sharing their drug of choice with you.

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Some friends feel threatened that if you successfully quit, then eventually they will have to. They may feel pressurised to quit even though you may be totally supportive and understanding of their need to smoke.

To make matters worse, such a friend will wait until you are really stressed (probably by them deliberately getting you to breaking point) and then offer you a cigarette as a caring friend. The odd smoker friend may even threaten to withdraw their friendship or start distancing themselves from you.

It really makes you realize just how deep in denial nicotine addiction can take you. You have to really feel sorry for these people because they are almost how you used to be in their need for that nicotine.

If tempted in this way by a friend or someone who is supposed to care for you, it really is just an issue that you can tap on. Tapping is usually with EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques. It involves stimulating special acupressure points whilst repeating a releasing phrase. And before you know it, all that pressure or threats of rejection from the smokers in your life will fade into the background, and you can carry on with your journey of heath and well-being.

© 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 of the Stop Smoking E-book at http://www.stop-smoking-ebooks.com and trainer specializing in energy healing. 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