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Re: Quitting smoking
« Reply #45 on: September 03, 2011, 12:01:53 AM »
I'm a hypnotherapist so may be able to help here.  If you're not going to go the hypnosis route make sure you write down every trigger for smoking and start to build belief that you can enjoy all of these things without dangerous, stinky fags. It'll still take willpower but it's important to change the associations that your mind has with smoking to avoid replacement behaviours that are almost always orally-based - eating and drinking tend to be favourite.

I offer you two thoughts:

1. Almost everyone had to teach themselves to enjoy smoking as at first try it's usually really unpleasant - tastes bad, makes you cough etc.  Therefore there's a part of you way back on your timeline that doesn't like smoking.

2. Most people who quit just go cold turkey and don't go back in the long term.  It's not as big a deal as your body is telling you.  If you truly want to do it, just do it and put up with the short-term discomfort.  Remember - very many GI's who came back from Vietnam came back addicted to heroin and morphine.  The US military monitored them and found to their surprise that 95% had quit within 10 months with no relapse.  How did they do it?  Big change of circumstances, renewed optimism about the future.  You can model this. Just stay focused on what you'd rather have.

If all else fails, wank compulsively.

Hope this helps.

Mike.

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Re: Quitting smoking
« Reply #46 on: September 03, 2011, 12:09:51 AM »
If all else fails, wank compulsively.

Hope this helps.

Mike.


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Re: Quitting smoking
« Reply #47 on: September 11, 2011, 10:35:02 AM »
Hmmm........ That Walter Raleigh has a lot to answer for.... :D

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Re: Quitting smoking
« Reply #48 on: September 11, 2011, 01:22:25 PM »
If all else fails, wank compulsively.

Hope this helps.

Mike.


"real handy advice".

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