We're just a few days into 2013. Thousands of smokers, just a few days
ago made a new years' resolution to quit smoking. Many have already
forgotten and some will have
failed.
The two important questions are why is it so hard keep our
resolutions and secondly how can you make it happen
for you. For many people they get very excited about
their resolution, so excited in fact that just thinking about
it makes them feel good, for a while at least.
Then their resistance kicks in, the problems, the past
failures, the fear the lack of self belief and sometimes the
perceived benefits of smoking will override the need to
quit.
There are a few things you can do to help yourself.
1. Revisit your resolution, and decide that it is really
something that you want to do, at a conscious level.
2. Make a list of all the logical reasons for quitting, such
as health and finance.
3. Make another list of all the reasons you want to keep
smoking, and for each make a note of what it is it for you.
e.g I enjoy smoking, because it relaxes me. OK so
understand that if you can find another way to relax then
smoking won't be of use to me anymore. Or I smoke
when I'm stressed. So if you could create ways to
manage stress then again you wouldn't need to smoke.
I encourage you to spend some time doing this as it will
give you some clarity on why you are still smoking, plus
you will realise that there are healthy ways to meet these
same needs.
4. Decide to want more for yourself. Become absolutely
dissatisfied with yourself as a smoker. Decide you
deserve better than filling your body with toxic smoke.
5. Find someone to help you on this journey. Rapid
change hypnosis is the fastest most effective way to let
go of all your resistance, and to easily and simply
embrace the new healthy alternatives which will give you
all the emotional benefits which you thought that smoking
was giving you.
The key to the above statement is the benefits which you
thought smoking was giving you. Smoking and nicotine is
just a great big con job. Smoking doesn't help you to
relax or reduce stress or boredom or anything else.
Your brain has just been conned into thinking that you
are benefiting, in fact the only thing that smoking does is
destroy your health and burn your money. So take action
and choose to make your resolutions work for you with
the rapid change method.