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this book will set you free.
an employee who smokes will cost their employer in excess of £2,000 a year ($3,000) in lost productivity
Smokers’ lives automatically become more stressful because tobacco does not relax you or relieve stress, as society tries to make you believe. Just the reverse: it actually causes you to become more nervous and stressed.
The actual pangs of withdrawal from nicotine are so subtle that most smokers have lived and died without even realizing they are drug addicts.
the enjoyment that the smoker gets from a cigarette is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.
The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created.
Smokers are almost pleased for someone or something to force them to stop smoking.
It may be of consolation to lifelong and heavy smokers to know that it is just as easy for them to stop as casual smokers. In a peculiar way, it is easier. The further you go along with the ‘habit’, the more it drags you down and the greater the gain when you stop.
If you stop now, your body will recover within a matter of a few weeks, almost as if you had never been a smoker.
Smokers aren’t relaxed. They’ve forgotten what it feels like to be completely relaxed. That’s one of the many joys you have to come.
these cigarettes simply provide relief from withdrawal pangs, and at certain times we have greater need to relieve them than at others.
Let us make it quite clear. It is not the cigarette that is special; it is the occasion.
CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE IT!
So he allows a safe period to pass. It might be hours, days, even weeks. The ex-smoker can now say, ‘Well, I didn’t get hooked, so I can safely have another.’ He has fallen into the same trap as he did in the first place and is already on the slippery slope.
As I keep saying, enjoyment doesn’t come into it. It never did! If we smoked because we enjoyed it, nobody would ever smoke more than one cigarette.
Smokers will go all night without a cigarette; the craving doesn’t even wake them up. Many smokers will actually leave the bedroom before they light up. Many will actually have breakfast. Some will even wait until they arrive at work.
They will go ten hours without a cigarette and it doesn’t bother them. If they went ten hours during the day without one, they would be tearing their hair out.
It is not a habit. It is an addiction, and the nature of any addiction is to want more and more, not less and less.
Whenever you think about smoking, see a whole filthy lifetime of spending a small fortune just for the privilege of destroying yourself mentally and physically, a lifetime of slavery, a lifetime of bad breath.
There is nothing different about you. Any smoker can find it easy to stop.
if you believe that you are dependent on nicotine, you will be, even after the little nicotine monster inside your body is dead.
If he enjoys smoking, why does he stop for six months? If he does not enjoy it, why does he start again? The truth is he is still hooked. Although he gets rid of the physical addiction, he is left with the main problem – the brainwashing. He
As the drug begins to destroy you physically and mentally, as it gradually breaks down your nervous system, your courage and confidence, so you are increasingly unable to resist reducing the interval between each cigarette.
While you are smoking that last cigarette, be conscious of the bad smell and taste and think how marvellous it will be when you allow yourself to stop doing it.
Once that little monster leaves your body, the awful feeling of insecurity ends. Your confidence returns, together with a marvellous feeling of self-respect.
Make the decision that you are never going to smoke again. Don’t mope about it.
He is pining for an illusion that exists only in his mind and is needlessly torturing himself.
you don’t need the cigarette, and you are only torturing yourself by continuing to regard it as some sort of prop or boost.
Do not worry about withdrawal. The feeling itself isn’t bad. It is the association with wanting a cigarette and then feeling denied that is the problem.
Even if you are thinking about it a thousand times a day, SAVOUR EACH MOMENT. REMIND YOURSELF HOW MARVELLOUS IT IS TO BE FREE AGAIN. REMIND YOURSELF OF THE SHEER JOY OF NOT HAVING TO CHOKE YOURSELF ANY MORE.
Remember that the smoker envies you, and feel sorry for him. Believe me, he needs your pity.
Remind yourself that you had bad days when you smoked (otherwise you wouldn’t have decided to stop).
you are simply punishing yourself by moping for an illusory crutch. You are creating an impossible situation.
You know that you have made the correct decision by stopping smoking, so don’t punish yourself by ever doubting the decision.
When the pangs come remind yourself that it is smokers who suffer withdrawal pangs, not non-smokers.
Some say: ‘I wouldn’t even take the break if I didn’t smoke.’ That proves the point, often the break is taken, not because the smoker needs it or even wants it, but because the smoker desperately needs to scratch the itch.
That panic is just psychological. It is the fear that you are dependent. The beautiful truth is that you are not, even when you are still addicted to nicotine. Do not panic. Just trust me and launch yourself.
If ever I am feeling low and need a boost nowadays, I just think how lovely it is not to be hooked on that awful weed.
About five days after stopping is when the ex-smoker ceases to have smoking as the main occupation of his mind.
The body doesn’t crave nicotine.
You are doing not only what you’d like to do but what every smoker on the planet would like to do.
