32010732_05bfe8eba7_mThe part of you that insists on smoking  or using nicotine does not respond to intelligence. You can read, study and talk about the ins and outs of the habit but it will laugh at your learning.

Meet it where it is. The best thing you can use your mind for is to make it up that you will not smoke. Period.

But get ready because once you make that proclamation, the tricks come tumbling out of you like a bad horror movie. You might feel an undertow giving you signals that it’s time to smoke.

Don’t do it.

Take a walk instead. Walking is not intelligent, it’ s just walking. That meets the habit where it is. You might feel a huge need to have a hand to mouth experience. Eat a lollipop. You might feel anxious and irritable. Go to sleep. Go to bed as early as you need to but do not smoke.

You might feel a strong urge to have that catch in your throat and lungs that inhaling smoke gives you. Breathe deep.

This one is a bit odd but— you might feel too clean, too fresh. Smoking makes you dirty and oily feeling and after awhile that feeling becomes your normal state of being. Feeling the drag that nicotine addiction puts on you.

Learn to be aware of all these things. Meet each feeling where it is by acting at the level the impulse is coming from.

Do not meet them with intelligence. Meet them with action and a witness of the feelings.

That’ s using your intelligence to outsmart itself. Your mind will use all kinds of logic to coax you back to the old familiar way of feeling. Catch it in the act and ease away from it.

Never assume you’ ve got it under control.

How can you tell when your mind is playing tricks? Simple -It leads you closer to smoking. Do not smoke.
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You are literally creating a new reality for yourself by becoming smoke free. That’s not just exciting in an Up With People way.

It’s astounding in an almost science fiction way. You are changing reality, going from one that is less adequate to one that is more adequate. You do it by making the choice moment by moment and holding to it despite inclinations to go back to the old comfort zone. Those inclinations mean you are making it toward the new way!

The new will become the most comfortable zone and you will be healthier for it. But, you’ve always got a choice.

A Parallel Universe is one that has optional realities going on. This one is best lived smoke free. Choose it and you will bend your life back into its sharpest, most potential.

There is an option right now and it will always be there. You can be smoke free now and think about the road not chosen.

Imagine yourself with both options.

1. How it would be as a smoker–temporary comfort that ends in coughing and hacking, addiction and lower esteem.

2. And free from smoke. Better health, a more natural eco system in your body, that addiction no more, and higher self esteem.

The ticket to your Parallel Universe is in your hands regardless of how much you would like to think of yourself as a victim. Take charge of your actions. It is a big responsibility to stop nicotine and the smoking habit. You can handle it.Quitsmart — Everything You Need to Break Free from Cigarettes

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