10-10-2010, 08:36 AM
(10-10-2010, 07:19 AM)Shannon Wrote: Smoking/nicotine is a complex addiction, and people keep coming back to it for many reasons after trying to quit. The whole lot of them needs to be dealt with to give you the maximum chance of quitting successfully.
That was my quitting method, after I finished Allan Carr’s little book I knew it was easy to quit. It actually managed to temporarily shift my perspective from a smoker to a non-smoker. And since I thought it was that easy to quit smoking so I started to smoke again thinking I could quit anytime I wanted, too bad that the book didn’t had the same effect after a second read, and this to my utter annoyance. I re-read, and re-read it, then re-read it some more. Read the advanced version of his book (about 500 pages long), and the dvd just to get the message across, to get it to click again. It didn’t work. Every time after I read it I could keep myself away from cigarettes for a week, sometimes two. There was always some stupid reason to start again. There was this one particular sentence in the book that stuck, but I didn’t fully grasp it. But I knew it was important for me to get it.
”The only reason you smoke is to relieve the withdrawal symptoms that the previous cigarette caused”
And I based my personal stop smoking framework/theory around that, and figured out for myself how I could build up on enough solid positive personal reasons for me to stop smoking, and I got more and more insights from my quitting experiences to enforce it. Along with researching it daily. Eventually I had no reasons to start smoking again, I rationalized it. It took me about 6 months to get it right. The last silly reason I had for starting to smoke again was to punish myself for handling a social situation like a dork. In two days that was a year ago
Now onto getting rid of the dorkiness!On a side note; It’s actually quite nice to see that three point summary of how to succeed at things. I never had it put it into perspective, but I can confirm that’s a truism.
