Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr [81]
6. It is the doubt and the waiting for nothing to happen that makes it difficult to quit. So never doubt your decision, you know it’s the correct one. We could go through the pros and cons of smoking and a thousand times out of a thousand we would choose to be a non-smoker. Having made what you know to be the right decision, don’t doubt it. If you do, you will put yourself in a no-win situation. You will be miserable if you crave a cigarette but don’t have one and even more miserable if you do smoke it. So why bother? What would it do for you? Many people believe that the difference between smokers and non-smokers is the cigarette. This is only part of the story. The real difference is that non-smokers have no desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no willpower not to do so. With no desire to smoke, there are no cravings. Why would you crave something you don’t want? This is completely within your power to achieve. As soon as you make the decision, you become a non-smoker. If you are happy about your decision, you will become a happy non-smoker.
So, you need to make the decision once and for all, get 100% behind it, and go with it. Be clear in your mind that you only have two choices: you can go through the rest of your life having to smoke all day, every day, never being able to stop, living a life based on fear, misery, disease, addiction and slavery. Or you can break free, take control of your life back and build a future based on health, happiness and freedom from the slavery of smoking. The choice couldn’t be easier. This isn’t difficult. This is the easiest, and best, decision you’ll ever make. Why not let yourself be happy! You deserve it!
YOU ARE ALREADY A HAPPY NON-SMOKER! And you will remain a happy non-smoker provided:
1. You never doubt your decision.
2. You don’t wait to become a non-smoker. You’ve already won! You are free!
3. You don’t try not to think about smoking. Think about it as much as you want and every time, celebrate that you have broken free. “YIPPEE—I’m a non-smoker!”
4. You don’t use substitutes. Who needs a substitute for the biggest cause of preventable death in the world?
5. You see all other smokers for the drug addicts they are. Don’t envy drug addicts. The truth is that they’ll be envying you!
6. Whether they are good days or bad, you don’t change your life just because you’ve recovered from the disease called nicotine addiction. Having recovered, you can now really start living! As the days go by and your health, both physical and mental improves, the highs will appear higher and the lows less low than when you were a smoker.
7. Whenever you think about smoking during the next few days or the rest of your life, think: YIPPEE, I’M A NON-SMOKER!
CHAPTER41
A FINAL WARNING
No smoker, given the chance of going back in time to before they started smoking, would choose to become one again. Many of the smokers who consult me are convinced that if I could help them to stop, they would never dream of relapsing, yet a small percentage of them do fall for the same trap again.
I trust that this book will help you to find it easy to stop smoking. But be warned: smokers who find it easy to stop can sometimes be prone to relapse, because they think it will be easy to quit again.
DO NOT FALL INTO THIS TRAP?
No matter how long you have been a non-smoker or how confident you are that you could never get hooked; if you smoke again you will instantly become re-addicted.
Make it a rule of life that you don’t smoke tobacco. No exceptions. Ever. Period. This is not a game.