Help to Stop Smoking
Let me tell you a story.
I was a smoker for fifteen years.
I really used to look forward (or so I believed ) to a cigarette…..
- After work
- After a meal
- …..And, of course in the pub.
In fact, I really, really believed that there was no way — NO WAY
-I would EVER be able to enjoy myself in the pub if I couldn't smoke.
Even the thought horrified me.
For me, this is my most vivid memory.
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I can honestly say that if a hundred people, no a million people who had already quit smoking had told me that I REALLY could enjoy myself without smoking – in fact that I would enjoy myself infinitely better, I would not have believed a word. |
Not a word.
It is amazing how much we genuinely believe all the
illusions about smoking.
We all genuinely believe that they do something for us –
that they are a help, a joy, a comfort, a friend…….
And that if they go, we'll miss them terribly.
We should never underestimate the power these
beliefs can have on us.
In my case, I accepted WITHOUT QUESTION the assumption that
I NEEDED to smoke to be happy, to be able to enjoy myself.
I could not even visualize myself, enjoying a night-out without
being able to smoke.
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KEY IDEA |
To-day thousands of people who genuinely and totally believed that they NEEDED to smoke to enjoy certain parts of the day have realized
it is a TOTAL ILLUSION.
And yet to-day it is true.
I CAN enjoy myself totally without needing to smoke.
Remember again…….
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Millions of people who genuinely and totally believed that they NEEDED
cigarettes to enjoy certain parts of the day have realized that it really
is an illusion.
Imagine now a stadium packed with over 120 million plus Americans
trying to tell you this now.
Won't you let the life-experiences of millions of people like myself,
even persuade you to consider this even as a glorious possibility?
Allow yourself to think the unthinkable in your life now:
……You can FULLY enjoy yourself without
NEEDING to smoke.
