I find it fascinating that of all the people who have used this sub and reported back, Patti, you are the only one who comes to mind for having this difficulty letting go of smoking. Everyone else who uses the sub properly just simply forgets to smoke and in fact it is difficult to get them to see why they should continue to use the program after that. They shift into being a nonsmoker without effort, and their biggest risk is that they will quit using the program before they're finished with it because they don't see the point. (I don't intend this to sound snide or condescending, I really do find it fascinating.)
But the program is designed to work for everyone, including those who fall into the extremes of difficulty. We have gotten you to choose not to smoke. Now let's see what the program does about shifting to the identity of a non-smoker. It may be that all of this, at this point, is residual response to resistance which won't even exist when you finish the program and the input stops.
Jimbobday, as I have said before, earlier in this very thread (or maybe the one before it from Patti), if the majority of people who use this program to quit do so effortlessly, then smoking is a psychological issue vastly more than a physical addiction issue, and the issue is based on what amounts to negative brainwashing. You hear everyone say how hard it is to quit... and you see "experts" saying how hard it is to quit... and you experience friends and other smokers having a hard time... well if you take all of this as being "how it is", then you've basically allowed yourself to be brainwashed into believing that "it's hard to quit smoking, and I should expect to fail and have to suffer and try again and again and fail anyway".
In other words, you create a subconscious program that leads to the very things everyone says is true, which makes it true for you, because you're running that program... and that only makes it stronger when you act it out. It's self hypnosis on top of brainwashing at that point. Then others see your result, and they do the same thing, and it becomes a self perpetuating thing based on accepted belief, not reality.
Once again, compare it to cutting a loaf of bread. If you tried to cut a loaf of bread into slices but used a hammer, would it work? Of course not, and it would seem impossible to boot. Same for a screwdriver, or a bubble level, or a nail gun. But pull out a sharp serrated knife, and suddenly it's easy. It's all about using the right tool for the job, or in this case, the right approach for the person. Sure, it seems preposterous to try to cut a loaf of bread with a hammer, because you know a hammer isn't designed to cut bread. And guess what? It's just as preposterous to try to quit smoking by doing almost everything people try to do to quit smoking these days. Nicotine replacement therapy? Come on. Nobody ever quit using a drug because they got more of it. You can't wean off nicotine because every dose completely re-sets the physical addiction. Which only takes about 14 days to break, by the way, and after that you see the psychological impact. So really the difficulty in quitting smoking is in overcoming the belief that it must be difficult to quit. And whether I am a smoker or not has nothing to do with these truths.
If smoking was so hard to quit as everyone seems to think, my program would not work at all, for anyone. But as it turns out, the vast majority of people quit so easily that they think they did it themselves, and don't give the program any credit. Why would they report their success? They don't think the subliminal did it. And then one person who struggles posts, and the point of view seems to be that "it doesn't work, it's hard to quit, smoking cessation is a real struggle". When the truth is, for about 97% of the people who have used the program properly and reported back to me about their experience have quit so easily they didn't think the program did it. The other 3% of people are - you ready for this? - Patti. Patti is the exception to the rule, not the rule as it appears to be.
The issue, as far as I can tell, stems entirely from a deep terror that Patti (and doubtless others like her) seems to hold that being a non-smoker is somehow be worth being terrified over. This also seems to be the issue with the only other person I know who might be as resistant as Patti is, who so far has not succeeded in using the program properly past Stage 1.
It's not hard to quit smoking. That's obviously debunked by all the people who succeed so easily. You just never hear from them because for them quitting is so easy they take it for granted, and don't even always credit the program for their success when I ask them privately what happened, never mind having them keep a journal. As if smokers typically "just forget to smoke".
What's hard to do for a very small percent of the population, it seems, is let go of the unreasonable fear that acts as the root for the outward manifestation that is smoking.
Patti, if by the end of the time you use this program you are still struggling, we will find a new approach that will include fear destruction. But we can't know if this one will work until we finish it.
But the program is designed to work for everyone, including those who fall into the extremes of difficulty. We have gotten you to choose not to smoke. Now let's see what the program does about shifting to the identity of a non-smoker. It may be that all of this, at this point, is residual response to resistance which won't even exist when you finish the program and the input stops.
Jimbobday, as I have said before, earlier in this very thread (or maybe the one before it from Patti), if the majority of people who use this program to quit do so effortlessly, then smoking is a psychological issue vastly more than a physical addiction issue, and the issue is based on what amounts to negative brainwashing. You hear everyone say how hard it is to quit... and you see "experts" saying how hard it is to quit... and you experience friends and other smokers having a hard time... well if you take all of this as being "how it is", then you've basically allowed yourself to be brainwashed into believing that "it's hard to quit smoking, and I should expect to fail and have to suffer and try again and again and fail anyway".
In other words, you create a subconscious program that leads to the very things everyone says is true, which makes it true for you, because you're running that program... and that only makes it stronger when you act it out. It's self hypnosis on top of brainwashing at that point. Then others see your result, and they do the same thing, and it becomes a self perpetuating thing based on accepted belief, not reality.
Once again, compare it to cutting a loaf of bread. If you tried to cut a loaf of bread into slices but used a hammer, would it work? Of course not, and it would seem impossible to boot. Same for a screwdriver, or a bubble level, or a nail gun. But pull out a sharp serrated knife, and suddenly it's easy. It's all about using the right tool for the job, or in this case, the right approach for the person. Sure, it seems preposterous to try to cut a loaf of bread with a hammer, because you know a hammer isn't designed to cut bread. And guess what? It's just as preposterous to try to quit smoking by doing almost everything people try to do to quit smoking these days. Nicotine replacement therapy? Come on. Nobody ever quit using a drug because they got more of it. You can't wean off nicotine because every dose completely re-sets the physical addiction. Which only takes about 14 days to break, by the way, and after that you see the psychological impact. So really the difficulty in quitting smoking is in overcoming the belief that it must be difficult to quit. And whether I am a smoker or not has nothing to do with these truths.
If smoking was so hard to quit as everyone seems to think, my program would not work at all, for anyone. But as it turns out, the vast majority of people quit so easily that they think they did it themselves, and don't give the program any credit. Why would they report their success? They don't think the subliminal did it. And then one person who struggles posts, and the point of view seems to be that "it doesn't work, it's hard to quit, smoking cessation is a real struggle". When the truth is, for about 97% of the people who have used the program properly and reported back to me about their experience have quit so easily they didn't think the program did it. The other 3% of people are - you ready for this? - Patti. Patti is the exception to the rule, not the rule as it appears to be.
The issue, as far as I can tell, stems entirely from a deep terror that Patti (and doubtless others like her) seems to hold that being a non-smoker is somehow be worth being terrified over. This also seems to be the issue with the only other person I know who might be as resistant as Patti is, who so far has not succeeded in using the program properly past Stage 1.
It's not hard to quit smoking. That's obviously debunked by all the people who succeed so easily. You just never hear from them because for them quitting is so easy they take it for granted, and don't even always credit the program for their success when I ask them privately what happened, never mind having them keep a journal. As if smokers typically "just forget to smoke".
What's hard to do for a very small percent of the population, it seems, is let go of the unreasonable fear that acts as the root for the outward manifestation that is smoking.
Patti, if by the end of the time you use this program you are still struggling, we will find a new approach that will include fear destruction. But we can't know if this one will work until we finish it.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!