In making our decision to stop smoking, you and I have probably travelled similar routes to break the habit. But for our purposes, it's important to go back over some of the territory we covered independently. First we have to understand why we smoke. What event made us put that first cigarette between our lips and cough as if there were no tomorrow, it tasted so horrible yet we continued to smoke until it became a habit regardless of the health problems we faced. Then why almost every other method of breaking the cigarette habit has within it the elements of failure; and then we'll learn the new approach, and we will succeed at last. There are ample resources and professional schemes and products available to help us in our quest to stop smoking.
So let's grant, then, that for most people smoking is a pleasing part of life. And let's not pretend that either of us would sacrifice this apparently delightful habit for minor reasons. Even when faced with the health warnings on every packet telling us that Smoking Can Kill the craving makes us blind to the facts and convinced it means someone else.
It's true that we don't like to find bits of tobacco in our pockets or purses, and it is annoying and expensive when we occasionally burn a hole in a jacket or dress or upholstered chair, and some of us are truly displeased by "tobacco breath" or "nicotine stains," and quite a few of us are dismayed by the amount of money we "burn up" each year—but we all have other expensive or potentially annoying habits or interests, and we don't show equal concern about them.
No, those of us who have at one time or another made the attempt to give up cigarettes have invariably been impelled by what I used to call "that health propaganda." Sporadically we'd come upon reports blaming the smoking habit for everything from athlete's foot to yellow fever. But other studies, prepared by researchers and physicians whose names were followed by suitably impressive degrees and abbreviations, absolved cigarettes of all guilt. In days gone by smoking was even declared to cure illnesses today tobacco causes cancer.
The layman had trouble deciding who was speaking against what, and why, and to whom and for whom (and for how much). No wonder breaking the habit was such a problem for the average smoker. Who knows, is it perhaps that smokers enjoy the uncertainty of cheating death from a smoke related disease? If you do not believe Smoking Kills why use a filter cigarette to feed the nicotine craving you have?
This is based on an extract of the book "The Painless Way To Stop Smoking " which shows you how you can break the habit for good in 17 days or less, even if you think you have tried everything before.
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