How I Quit Smoking

By: The Shamanatrix

There is nothing easy about quitting tobacco. It requires a wholesale shift
in our habitual patterns of thought and emotional response. For as long
as we have been smoking, we have been conditioning ourselves to believe
that tranquility can only come to us from the outside-in. The cigarette
becomes the primary tool used to quiet an anxious mind while we slowly
lose the capacity to alleviate anxiety for ourselves from the inside-out.

In order to quit smoking, one needs to be able to monitor their thoughts
in realtime and recognize the nicotine fit early on as it approaches. One
way to handle a nicotine fit is to examine it as closely as is possible.

How does it change the way you think, how does it change what you
think about, how does it really feel to be having a nicotine fit? What is
the emotional polarity of my state of mind (positive/negative/neautral)?

With our mental states placed under a self-analytical lens
the onset of a nicotine fit becomes easier to detect and defuse.

Another useful technique is to allow oneself to become sexually
aroused by the feelings that accompany a nicotine fit. Once I
actually began to enjoy the sensations of a nicotine fit, they rapidly
and mysteriously disappeared! Transforming the emotional and
physical stress of the nicotine fit into an erotic experience enabled
me to successfully quit smoking on May 21st 2000, my re-birthday.

There are many benefits from paying closer attention to our thoughts
and emotions as they occur. Enhanced degrees of emotional and
intellectual control and maturity benefit every aspect of our lives plus
there are the numerous physical health benefits from quitting tobacco.

When we challenge our fears associated with quitting smoking and
move from the thought of quitting to the actual actions of quitting,
a tremendous amount of self power is created which we can use to
benefit other aspects of our lives just a profoundly and positively.
 

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