Quit Smoking Forever Guide

Willpower. I almost regard “willpower” as a dirty word when it comes to stopping smoking. It is the most widely used method to stop smoking and yet is also the least successful.

So what do we mean by willpower? It’s when you use nothing except your will in a battle against your addictive urges to smoke cigarettes. It’s never a clean fight, it’s always messy, and usually the addiction wins.

Barely 1 or 2% of smokers will quit successfully using willpower alone. And even those lucky few (and that is what they are - just lucky and not better than anyone else) will open themselves up to the danger of starting smoking again at some point in the future.

Here’s an example I touched on before - my good friend, his father stopped smoking for many, many years, at least 15 years. My friend had a great upbringing in a smoke free atmosphere.

His father holidayed abroad with the in-laws, and his brother-in-law did what all addicts do - offered him a cigarette. I have no doubt that my friend’s father must have thought “just one cigarette can’t hurt”.

I mean, do you really think that he made a conscious decision to start smoking again, to wilfully worsen his health for years to come and hit his wallet on a daily basis? Of course not.

Needless to say, he was soon hooked again and now inhales the smoke from miniature cigars, over 10 a day! I feel sorry for him and his family but this is what happens to you when you use the willpower method as you probably know all too well which is why you’re reading this book.

Willpower just doesn’t work, with few exceptions. And even if you’re a lucky exception, you’ll never stop your craving for a cigarette. So please, get over willpower right now and chuck that method into the bin right now. You are going to stop smoking with me by understanding your addiction and not fighting it.

The choice is yours? Do you want to try willpower again even though you almost certainly won’t succeed?

Or do you want to try to understand your addiction so that you don’t need any willpower?

If you choose the second way, then let’s take a closer look at “willpower” to truly understand why so many people use this method and get a better insight into the addiction.