Quit Smoking and Be Free Quotes

“Positive affirmations are powerful, but they can be overrun by complaining and negativity if you allow your mind to focus in that direction. As soon as you start complaining about how difficult this process is, you have begun using negative affirmations, and that will in turn give power to your prior longing to smoke (as if that needs empowerment).”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“When you first start chanting or repeating your positive affirmations, they don’t make much sense. You don’t feel great about them because they strongly oppose your current reality. That’s the point. The affirmations should oppose your current reality. That’s how change happens. Everyone feels strange about using affirmations to begin with. But if you stick to the program, the power of positive affirmations will take effect.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Restlessness is the number one enemy of people who have just quit smoking.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Contrary to popular belief, positive affirmations cannot change everything and they are not likely to attract wealth and prosperity to you without considerable talent or action; but positive affirmations will help you to change your underlying beliefs and longings - they will help you to quit smoking.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it’s just there, like an open hand.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“I also urge you not to wash your hands, face or mouth in between cigarettes. Let the taste and smell stay with you, in your hair, your clothes, hands and face.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Here is my theory: If smoking is really good, you should be able to smoke and do nothing else at the same time, really focusing all your attention on smoking and how it makes you feel.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Nicotine is a fast acting drug with short lived effects, which you can assume by the fact that you need to smoke often.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“The worst part is when cells feel so threatened by their chemically marinated surroundings, that they decide to mutate as a defensive mechanism, and start to reproduce without taking their immediate surroundings into account. This mutation is called cancer.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Would you ever buy chocolate with DDT? How about Cheerios with arsenic? Not very likely!”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“If knowing about the dangers of smoking were enough, almost no one would smoke.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“I don’t know why tobacco producers are exempt when it comes to listing ingredients, but that’s just the way it is (it’s all covered within the one word – tar).”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don’t want to do.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life

“You may have known for many, many years that smoking isn’t good for you, but you’re still smoking. You have become a master of deluding yourself. Direct experience is the only thing that can crush your delusion. If you really want to quit and be free, this is the most important step you can take in that direction.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life