| Want to stop smoking but can't seem to get your | | | | the telephone at work move the phone to the other |
| brain to join in? Then this insightful article with a wide | | | | side of the desk. Throw away ashtrays, old lighters |
| array of tips from many psychological fields all aimed | | | | and anything that you used to associate with smoking. |
| at easing that process of becoming a non-smoker for | | | | Make your environment conducive to stopping |
| the rest of your life is definitely for you! This article is all | | | | smoking. |
| about using your brain to stop smoking and how to get | | | | Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 6 |
| it working for you. | | | | Smokers sometimes use their habit to give themselves |
| Powerful Hints to Stop Smoking | | | | little breaks during the day. Taking a break is good for |
| Whether you are using Nicotine Replacement Therapy, | | | | you, so carry on taking that time off - but do |
| Hypnosis or just Cold Turkey, these strategies and | | | | something different. Walk round the block, have a cup |
| hints are for aiding you to stop smoking and are sure | | | | of tea or drink of water, or do some of the techniques |
| to assist you in helping your neurology change and | | | | on this programme. In fact, if possible drink a lot of fruit |
| thus enable you to stop smoking with ease. It is up to | | | | juice. When you stop smoking the body goes through |
| you to ensure that you do these things to really | | | | a big change. The blood sugar levels tend to fall, the |
| enhance what you are doing, the more effort you put | | | | digestion is slowed down and your body starts to |
| into these exercises, the easier it is to stop smoking | | | | eject the tar and poisons that have accumulated. |
| for good. | | | | Fresh fruit juice contains fructose which restores your |
| Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 1. | | | | blood sugar levels, vitamin C which helps clear out |
| Being a smoker is like cycling with stabilisers attached | | | | impurities and high levels of water and fibre to keep |
| to the wheels, you can find it hard to be balanced | | | | your digestion going. Also try to eat fruit every day for |
| without smoking. Now, when you cycle freely again, | | | | at least two weeks after you have stopped. |
| the natural balance returns. | | | | Also when you stop, cut your caffeine intake by half. |
| When people smoke, more than half of what they | | | | Nicotine breaks down caffeine so without nicotine a |
| breathe is fresh air - pulled through the cigarette right | | | | little coffee will have a big effect. Drink 8-10 glasses of |
| down into the lungs. So if you feel any cravings you | | | | water (ideally bottled) to help wash out your system. |
| can instantly overcome them by taking three deeper | | | | Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 7 |
| breaths. Imagine breathing from that space just below | | | | You were used to using cigarettes to signal to your |
| your belly button. Whenever you do this you put more | | | | body to release happy chemicals, so next we are |
| oxygen into your bloodstream. This means you can | | | | going to programme some good feelings into your |
| use deep breaths to change the way you feel instantly | | | | future. Allow yourself to fully remember now a time |
| and give you power over the way you feel and help | | | | when you felt very deep ecstasy, pleasure or bliss, |
| you let go of those old cravings and thus making it | | | | right now. Take a moment to recall it as vividly as |
| easier to stop smoking. | | | | possible. Remember that time - see what you saw, |
| Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 2 | | | | hear what you heard and feel how good you felt. |
| Next, think now of all the reasons you don't like | | | | Where abouts in your body were those feelings, |
| smoking, the reasons that it's bad and the reasons you | | | | imagine turning them up and spreading them through |
| want to stop smoking. Write down the key words on | | | | your body to make them more intense. |
| a piece of paper. For example, you experience | | | | Keep going through the memory, as soon as it finishes, |
| breathlessness, it's dirty, filthy and your clothes smell, | | | | go through it again and again, all the time squeezing |
| your friends and family are concerned and it's | | | | your thumb and finger together. In your mind, make |
| expensive, unsociable and so on. Then, on the other | | | | those images big and bright, sounds loud and |
| side of the paper, write down all the reasons why you'll | | | | harmonious and feelings strong and intensified. We are |
| feel good when you've succeeded in stopping. You'll | | | | making an associational link between the squeeze of |
| feel healthier, youll feel in control of your self, your | | | | your fingers and that good feeling. |
| senses are enhanced, your hair and clothes will smell | | | | Okay, stop and relax. Now if you have done that |
| fresher and so on. Whenever you need to, look at that | | | | correctly when you squeeze your thumb and finger |
| piece of paper. | | | | together you should feel that good feeling again. Go |
| Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 3 | | | | ahead do that now, squeeze thumb and finger and |
| Next, we are going to programme your mind to feel | | | | remember that good feeling. |
| disgusted by cigarettes. I want you recall 4 times when | | | | Now we're going to programme good feelings to |
| you thought to yourself "I've gotta quit", or that you felt | | | | happen automatically whenever you are in a situation |
| disgusted about smoking. Maybe you just felt really | | | | where you used to smoke but now you stop smoking. |
| unhealthy, or your doctor told you in a particular tone | | | | So, next I'd like you to squeeze your thumb and finger |
| of voice 'You've got to quit' or somebody you know | | | | together, get that good feeling going and now imagine |
| was badly affected by smoking. Take a moment now | | | | being in several situations where you would have |
| to come up with 4 different times that you felt that | | | | smoked, but being there feeling great without a |
| you have to quit or were disgusted by smoking. | | | | cigarette. See what you'll see hear and take that good |
| Remember each of those times, one after another, as | | | | feeling into those situations without a need for a |
| though they are happening now. I want you to keep | | | | cigarette. |
| going through those memories and make them as vivid | | | | Imagine being in a situation where someone offers you |
| as possible. The more vivid you make those memories, | | | | a cigarette and you confidently say 'No thanks, I don't |
| the easier it will be to stop smoking. See what you | | | | smoke'. And feel fantastic about it! |
| saw, hear what you heard and feel how you felt. I | | | | Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 8 |
| want you to take a few minutes now to keep going | | | | Get social support. Your commitment to stopping |
| through those memories again and again, overlap each | | | | smoking for the rest of your life can be made much |
| memory with the next until you are totally and utterly | | | | easier by talking about it to friends and family and |
| disgusted by cigarettes. | | | | letting them support you. They will congratulate you on |
| Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 4 | | | | doing so well too! You really did stop smoking. |
| Have a think to yourself about the consequences of | | | | Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 9 |
| you not stopping smoking now, if you just carry on and | | | | Be aware of making excuses for yourself. Some |
| on. Imagine it, what will happen if you carry on smoking. | | | | people talk themselves into smoking, especially if they |
| What are the consequences? Imagine yourself in 6 | | | | encounter a stressful situation and in the past they |
| months time, a years time, even 5 years time if you do | | | | used to deal with it by smoking. If those old thoughts |
| not stop smoking now. Think of all the detrimental | | | | pop into your head, shout the word STOP in your |
| effects of not stopping right now and how a simple | | | | head, to stop the thoughts from progressing. Nicotine |
| decision you make today can make such an impact on | | | | just stresses your body more and is like that itch that |
| your future. | | | | can never be properly scratched; the more you |
| Next, imagine how much better is your life going to be | | | | smoke, the more you have to. So say STOP and |
| when you stop smoking. Really imagine it's months | | | | steer clear of old slippery slopes. |
| from now and you successfully stopped. Smoking is a | | | | Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 10 |
| thing of the past, something you used to do. Keep that | | | | Reward yourself. Congratulate yourself. Feel how |
| feeling with you and imagine having it tomorrow, and | | | | good it feels to stop smoking and be a non-smoker. |
| for the rest of next week. In your mind, imagine | | | | Treat yourself each time you get past a certain |
| stepping in to that non-smoking version of you and feel | | | | milestone; the first week or first month, the six month |
| how it feels to be a non-smoker. | | | | target. Let yourself know that you did something really |
| Powerful Stop Smoking Hint 5 | | | | special here. |
| Also, your mind is very sensitive to associations, so it's | | | | Keep on using your brain, stretching it and helping your |
| very important that you have a clear out and remove | | | | self, by running through these exercises time after time; |
| all tobacco products from your environment. Move | | | | you are sure to be able to make it easier and easier |
| some of the furniture in your house and at work. | | | | and successfully stop smoking for good. |
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| situations. So, for example, if you used to smoke on | | | | smoking, delivered to you by email. |