My Own Story of Stopping for Good
Have you ever had the experience of being stuck with a problem and even found yourself feeling as if you were going around in circles?
So have I -, and at the same time having the feeling that there is something more - some other way: that a new kind of thinking is needed to solve a long standing issue or problem.
I have experienced being a smoker, and I remember at the same time deluding myself about being in control.
I stopped for periods of up to 5 years, not just once but many times.
Like a fish on a hook I could feel myself being pulled back to smoking again - although I knew it was a bad idea and would adversely affect my health and fitness.
Like you I told myself I could stop whenever I wanted, and all I needed was the motivation.
Trouble was the "motivation" did not come till I was suffering quite badly with my health and fitness.
A familiar story?
How do you find yourself thinking when your health is poor?
Clearly?
With good energy?
With determination and decision?
I don't think so!
Your senses are working at their best when you are in good health.
Possibly a state of poor health may act as a spur to make a decision, but then... how do you carry it through?
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Of course all the other hundreds of people who are now happily permanent non smokers felt exactly the same kinds of Fears or apprehension.
- They felt they might be giving up a pleasure or crutch.
- They felt they wouldn’t be able to handle stress.
- They feared they might gain weight.
- They feared they might have to break through an awful trauma to get free.
- They feared that they might never get free of the cravings.
All these feelings are perfectly natural.
The reason you didn’t stop before is that you simply accepted it was going to be painful and difficult.
So you continued smoking– hoping that the problem was just going to go away!
And now you know it doesn’t!
Maybe you can begin to see that when a problem area reveals itself you have to take control, and do something about it!
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When you stop smoking at last you may find that you are now experiencing a lower level of background stress.
It’s also possible that you may find your short term memory more reliable, your powers of analysis and concentration may be higher, and your recovery from setbacks may seem quicker.
You may experience all manner of changes both physical, mental and emotional.
One thing’s for sure – we are all different, and we all have different experiences.
The thing all my clients report back to me in common is how very easy it is for them to make the transition from smoker to non smoker.
To my mind this is no surprise.
I have seen so many people gladly and gratefully take their step into the future trusting they will be fine – and they - only by increasing the number of hours that they are not smoking.
Lets look at it like this :-
- You don’t smoke when you are in bed asleep,
- You don’t smoke on a flight or on a train journey,
- You don’t smoke at work, school or where other people object; or in a hospital waiting room or ward .
So the smoking behaviour has less and less chance to creep in, and it’s more and more common to Not smoke for longer and longer periods of time.
You are naturally more of a non-smoker than a smoker, and it is a simple and natural process to increase the hours of not smoking to the point where you simply do not smoke!