Giving Up

June 15th, 2009  |  Published in How I Kicked The Habit

“Giving up” smoking is what a lot of people call it. People talk about giving up almost as much as they talk about quitting. It’s important to dispel this myth because I want you to know that you can look forward to a bright and free future, and you won’t be losing anything.

Have you ever thought about that statement though? It comes out naturally but, what are you really “giving up”?

Giving something up implies that you will be lacking something later. But what could that be?

Think back to when you were a non-smoker. To the days before you had ever touched a cigarette. I know it might be a long time ago but do this anyway.

When you had no desire for a cigarette, when you just thought that they were stinky sticks, did you ever, for one moment, think that your life was incomplete without smoking? You might have been curious, you might have thought that smoking might be cool, but did you ever truly feel like your life was an incomplete jigsaw, and smoking was the last piece of the puzzle that you needed to redeem yourself?

I didn’t and I’m pretty sure that you didn’t either? I don’t know anyone who did, do you?

When you’re a smoker, your addiction to smoking fools you into thinking that life will never be complete again without a smoke. If you had the ability to design the “ultimate addiction”, wouldn’t you make it so that people believed that life would never be the same again without it? It sounds like the perfect backup plan doesn’t it?

Even if someone stops the action, they will still want to start it again, maybe for the rest of their life they will never stop wanting it. And they will feel that life is incomplete without it, that they will truly be giving something up.

This is your addict mind deceiving you. Don’t believe it. Don’t give into your twisted emotions, you’re better than that. Use your logic and remember the days before you ever smoked. Did you ever crave a cigarette then? Did you ever truly believe that life was incomplete unless you were a smoker? Use your logic and understand that smoking and nicotine fools the brain into thinking that you and your body needs it and that you will be giving up something if you stop smoking.

If you do this, then you can look forward to truly being free, and you will never look back on cigarettes.

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