Tuesday, June 17, 2014

QUITTING STORY (2)

Bliss and Enlightenment

Dave's LIST of quitting reasons was full of undeveloped generalities like: I quit for health, I quit for my wife, without the necessary application of the general to his particular condition. There was a lot to work to get a useful quitting LIST to lead him to successful quitting t&n for ever…I let him continue reading in loud voice.
In the end he came to the only particular, well extended motive he had included in his LIST; the more he was reading, the paler he was becoming, the more red spots were appearing on his skin and the more fury was growing into his voice : I want to quit because I’ve failed too many times before, I’m a strong man and when I decide something, I do. Besides, I hate to fail and I can not accept that I have to smoke if I don’t want to.
Of course, it’s unacceptable to be obliged to smoke if you don’t want to, I said. We’ll change that. We’ll use your strength to beat your very strong enemy. Are you aware of this foe? ’f course, tobacco, Dave answered. The real foe is the nicotine addiction, a drug addiction we’ll beat following the 2014 Quitting Plan. By the way, do you agree with the target from the first step?
Yesterday I did not understand why nicotine and tobacco were mentioned apart, now I do because I’ve read that and I totally agree. Could we continue with step 7, cause I’m much worried about cravings.
There are literally tens of things that can be done efficiently against cravings and what’s given as example in the New,   2014 TOP TEN STEPS TO FAST QUIT t&n, at step 7 gathers only some less mentioned and less used solutions that are at hand to everyone in almost any place and any moment.
I’m sure those are good, I’ll use them, but I need also something to make my cravings disappear even before appearing, something to make me sure that this time I’m not going to fail.
While working together at step 7 of the 2014 Quitting Plan – Dave seemed impressed to have discovered and accepted 24 new, different solutions against cravings – I noticed a Bible among books of Mechanics, toolboxes, newspapers and magazines. Dave followed my eyes and explained : The Bible is the only one that calms me down when I’m nervous and I hardly control myself. I open and read till the storm goes away.
I could not help myself: Eureka! For you the miracle solutions that makes you far stronger than the t&n addiction is The Bible. Whenever a craving comes around, just open It and read loudly. Now let’s start the other steps and let’s use also the Bible for each of them, to speed up your successful quitting. The Bible Itself is a wonderful reason to quit and a great friend to help you get that fast and forever.
Bliss and enlightenment on Dave’s face.
This was the most convincing proof about nicotine’s strength and its interference with his awareness and his judgment. It was very intriguing for him that he had never thought to use the Bible for giving up the unwanted habit and that he wasn’t able to see the obvious and make a logical, easy connection in order to find a handy, good solution. All this paragraph - of course, with verbs on the first person - was included among his reasons to quit, at step 5, in his quitting LIST.
From that day, smoking, tobacco, nicotine, cravings and failures belong to the past.
Dave is again a free, strong man.


Tuesday, April 29, 2014

QUITTING STORY (1)

In the beginning of April I was asked to help Dave to quit smoking. His wife asked me, knowing that Dave had tried so many times and his last attempt made him smoke again after 2 weeks, even more than before. He was too proud to ask for help and besides he considered his duty to make it alone, as far as nobody had helped him start, 30 years ago – his wife said.
Typical, I thought.
I met Dave in his garage. He was skeptical about the help he could get and considered himself doomed. In spite of the new, severe chest pain, in spite of the doc’s advice, in spite of his own will, he was trembling so badly and he was so irritable without smoking that he was unable to stay free of cigarettes longer and behave like a normal person. E-cig, medical advice, medication, NRTs, drops, pills, sprays, lozenges, teas and what not, all of them failed to help.
I asked him about his first cigarette. Alone, in the toilet, coughing and spitting. He wanted to be like and with the tough guys in school.
Therefore he was not at all the only responsible for starting to smoke, I needed to say in loud voice.
The NEW,2014 fast quitting plan rose Dave’s interest. He needed only few clues about motivation and he started working diligently to his personal reasons to stop smoking and stay away of the habit for the rest of his life.
Too good, too easy to be true.
In deed. The next day - Dave’s quitting day - he was already anxious, anticipating wild, impossible cravings, tremblings to make him unable to work and quarrels with everyone. I told him that it would be different, totally different this time. He had already started to find out and use things he had not Known before, about the manipulative addiction, about the brain only partly able to fight and win against nicotine, about the strong reasons to empower the fighting brain…I continued some good minutes till he calmed down. I noticed his LIST and I asked him to read it, supposing that his own quitting motivation would comfort and put him at ease. In my dreams.



to be continued

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

QUIT SMOKING WITHOUT CRAVINGS

It is perfectly possible to quit smoking tobacco and nicotine without any cravings. Most patients who report zero cravings when giving up smoking conect to the fact that their extrasolid motivation to quit melts down any attempt of nicotine to bring to their attention such cravings.
The next - in dimension - grup of successful quitters have detected lots of ways to meet and face cravings, postponing and replacing them with many other options. For instance when the temptation to smoke apears, the quitter starts doing something different - from what he was doing when the nicotinic addiction rose in its head - and captivating.
 He may stand up , head to the shelf and grab the newest best selling adventures book he had intended to read for some time. He reads for a while, till the craving has passed - in 2-5 minutes - or he can dive into reading more time, if there isn't anything else urgent to be done. Then he resumes the previous activity, if needed.
Reading is able to catch efficiently all quitters' attention and when it is to read about quitting itself and more information about beating cravings, as the next site is, nicotine cravings lose any power upon their former slaves comitted to stop smoking for ever. 

Thursday, March 28, 2013

TOP BEST REASONS TO QUIT SMOKING


THAT is what YOU need to give up smoking

IN SECONDS  and forget about tobacco for ever,

for your present and future,







for theirs, 

  


for ours.