(02-27-2014, 03:10 PM)Shannon Wrote: How often are you consciously monitoring your progress with the program?

1. Use it according to the directions. Don't stop or use something else.
   
2. Let go of your fears and just live your life. You don't have to be consciously aware of the program, or how much you smoke. Just live your life and let the program do what it's designed to do.
   

(03-01-2014, 10:09 AM)Shannon Wrote: The issue you are having is this. You smoke out of fear. That's pretty common, and it means that what you're doing is attempting to defeat the subliminal by paying close conscious attention, instead of letting it do it's thing and forgetting about it.

You see results happening, lowered cigarette consumption, and then you consciously smoke more to override the instructions the sub is giving you, and your subconscious is trying to follow. You're doing this because something about quitting scares you, so you can't just let go and let the program do it's thing; you have to constantly interfere so it's a battle instead.

Listening during the day "makes smoking even worse" because your conscious mind is responding to your fears. When the subconscious seeks to follow the directions, the conscious reacts to this fear and overrides the instructions, making the response one of running away from what the program is instructing you to do. In other words, you're smoking more out of fear when you use it during the day because when your subconscious attempts to follow the directions, it scares you.

I think you have both conscious and subconscious fears about quitting, and you're resisting the program for those reasons. Based on how you're resisting, I would say your fears are based in a need for control which you believe will be lost if you stop smoking.

Furthermore, you're now talking yourself into stopping the program to use something else. This is also a form of resistance. It leads to no more instructions from the subliminal. Did you read the instructions? I did. And I don't recall anywhere in the instructions that it tells you to stop using the program in favor of something else.

So, to make the program work for you, you need to do the following.

1. Use it according to the directions. Don't stop or use something else.
   
2. Let go of your fears and just live your life. You don't have to be consciously aware of the program, or how much you smoke. Just live your life and let the program do what it's designed to do.
   

Anyone can consciously override a subliminal's influence if they want to badly enough. I could intentionally stay in bed all day every day instead of working on my business, for instance, if I wanted to defeat BAMM. Ben could refuse to exercise, and gorge himself if he wanted to defeat Weight Loss. One could force themselves to ask permission for everything they want to do to defeat AM6.

If you want the results, you have to stop fighting the program and let it do what it's trying to do. It will still work if you don't, but it may take 4-5 times longer, as Patti found out the hard way.

Set it and forget it. Live your life. Smoking does not give you control, it takes away your control. It makes you a slave to the monkey on your back, and that's not control. I, as a non-smoker, am free of the slavery you subject yourself to by smoking. If we were to sit next to each other, I could relax, but you would always have it on your mind to be thinking about your next cigarette. Where is it? When will I smoke it? Do I have enough to last me for the rest of the day? And yet all you're doing with each cigarette is trying to get back to that state that you had naturally before you started smoking. The same state every non-smoker has 100% of the time!

Let me ask you this. How often do you wake up at night because you need to smoke? Smokers can go 8+ hours without a cigarette while they sleep, no sweat, without waking up, cravings, withdrawal, or anything else. Why is that? And yet once you wake up, boom, gotta have that cigarette! Why?

Smoking is perpetuated by misunderstandings, false beliefs and the fear they generate vastly more than the actual nicotine. If it was actually the nicotine causing the cravings, you'd stop wanting a cigarette after the nicotine was out of your system. From the last dose of nicotine, it takes about 14 days for your body to use up and flush out all the nicotine. Yet smokers often have cravings months and years later. It's not the nicotine causing that! It's your subconscious programming.

SSF 7.0 has programming to get you to let go of your fears. This takes time, which is part of why the program is a six month program, and part of why it used to be a six stage set. But if you keep using it, eventually even that will be overcome.

Why are you so vigilant to make sure you smoke enough cigarettes every day to stay a smoker? Why are you trying to sneak off and use other programs? Because your subconscious knows that if you keep feeding it these instructions, eventually, it will succumb to them and carry them out. It will do what you told it to do, once enough repetitions have been accumulated. And that is triggering the fear, which as I said, appears in your case to be a fear of losing some sort of control. But the truth is, by quitting, you don't lose any control - you actually gain it! Slaves don't have control. Smokers are to some degree slaves to their addiction, but moreso, they are slaves to their faulty thinking and beliefs that create the fears that cause them to keep smoking.

The thing that every person who has used this program to quit smoking, who has done so without effort, has in common is that they:

1. Followed the directions, and
2. They set it and forget it.

Why do you want to smoke so much? Just what exactly are you afraid of? Why can't you just set it and forget it?