subject: Quit Smoking - Will Smoking Shorten My Life Expectancy [print this page] Quit Smoking - Secret #6 Dealing with the devils! Ambush the cravings, and live with them!
Dealing with the Devils!
As an Australian, this tobacco insider is blunt, ONLY a smoker knows how bloody difficult it is to give up. ONLY a smoker knows the fear of no more cigarettes, ever. ONLY a smoker knows how often they have thought of giving up, have tried to give up, and have failed, leaving them feeling inadequate, and demoralised.
He was a heavy smoker and he worked in Research for the Tobacco Industry and with his system, he believes you can quit smoking.
Hes not looking for superhuman commitment, superhuman willpower, or the superhuman focus needed to go Cold Turkey on one of the nastiest, most dangerous and addictive habits known to humanity. If you had any of these superhuman traits you would have quit by now.
He is offering these secrets to you, the smoker who wants to quit, who has tried to quit many times, tried to cut down many times, who feels somewhat guilty about smoking and knows secretly that they ought to give up, but who probably enjoys the habit and rewards of cigarette smoking.
Secret #6 Dealing with the devils! Ambush the cravings, and live with them!
This is a critical part of any plan to quit smoking.
Cravings for a cigarette can be overwhelming. They can be totally distracting and debilitating. They can destroy anyones resolve to stop smoking. ONLY a smoker (or other type of drug addict) can understand how all powerful and demanding the cravings can, and will be, when you are trying to free yourself from cigarettes.
This secret that will help you confront cravings head on is -
Accept them!
Yes, accept that they are going to happen and any quit plan should allow for smokers to deal with them as easily as possible. Sounds too good to be true, but this approach to cravings works and will not allow them to get in the way of your giving up cigarettes.
You should also remember that cravings usually only last, even though they may be intense, for a few minutes at the most before they subside. So, heres how to deal with them as part of any careful quit system.
One of the basic ideas of the Authors quit system calls for you to begin by picking small periods during your life when you feel you can most easily give up smoking, and then not smoking during just those periods. After each small no-smoking period you are then able to return to smoking as normal if you wish.
In this system, you can always look forward to another cigarette in a short time at the end of the current no-smoking period. Given this, the Brain will accept that it can get satisfaction soon and the cravings will subside.
Simple method, but extremely effective.
So, Secret #6 Dealing with the devils! Means very simply that you choose a quit method that allows you to deal with cravings supportively and creatively rather than simply telling you to ignore them, or use a patch, gum, willpower or whatever, to get over them.
