It all started pinky rose – this is going to be your last cigarette! This time you will succeed in quitting smoking! You’ve prepared, you’ve done all the steps you have read on the Facebook groups, like stocking up on anti-depressants, chewing gum, and getting pumped up on motivation.
You’ve done everything by the book, but alas, here you are again. You have tried over and over to quit smoking, maybe 5 times, maybe 10 or even 20 times, you’re sick and tired of failing, and maybe even angry at yourself: why are others able to quit and you are not?
Now you feel depressed, you don’t trust yourself anymore. You feel like the next time will be just like the last time, going great for a few days, and then returning again to the terrible habit. You feel you have control in every other area of your life, except here. You can manage a company, a family, mortgage and parents, you are a mature person making mature decisions, but for some reason, smoking always slips back in.
Maybe you are not meant to quit? and are actually meant to live a stinky life around people who look in disgrace towards you?
But that is not true. The problem is that we think that quitting smoking is easy, when it’s actually one of the toughest thing you will do in you life. Why? Because nicotine is as addictive as heroin! You are quitting a drug as powerful as heroin.
How do normal people think they can quit smoking and why do they actually fail?
How do normal people go about quitting smoking and how do they fail?
Consider this analogy. You are at the beach, the weather is wonderful, people are swimming in the sea, everyone is having fun. You want to take part in having fun, but you do not know how to swim. So what do you do? You just throw yourself into the water and *improvise*. You have no idea what you are doing, the water starts to get into your mouth and nose and you start panicking.
A group of people on the sea shore notice you and what do they do? They start cheering you up: “You got this”, another one is sending you prayers. “you got this, you can do it”, someone else is sending you extra prayers.
Little by little, you become exhausted and start to fail. Heather chimes in with some help: “You got this!!!” three exclamation points, “Stay strong and positive”. You are taking in water through the mouth and nose, you cannot see anything, you cannot breathe, but pleaaase, do consider Heather’s advice to “Stay positive!”. Sharon adds here her swimming expertise: “You are doing fabulous”
The people keep cheering you: “you can do it, you can swim”. But of course, you can’t – in but a few moments, you fail and drown. Did the people help you any way? Did they jump in the water or throw you a lifeline? Of course not.
The people who are *safe*, on the sea shore, just motivated you to death!
The people will motivate you to death!
So what went wrong? Everything went wrong! You went swimming in with zero training, you listened to people on the safe side, on the shore, cheerleading you to exhaustion and drowning.
What would make sense to do, to actually be able to swim and enjoy your life with the other swimmers?
It would make sense to prepare *before* you enter into water, to learn how to swim *before* jumping in the water. Then it is *so much easier* to actually swim and enjoy the new context. And then, you get out of water and relax. And go back in to swim, you learn a bit more, and now you know how to do it even better. You are always learning and always doing it better.
Do you see the difference? You *improvise* and you *suffer*. You train *before* and enjoy *while* succeeding. This is the way smart people quit smoking without suffering, while having actually quite a lot of fun.
Now you know why people fail at quitting smoking, and now you know how logical and easy it is to quit smoking by doing it similarly to learning swimming, in small steps, while enjoying the process.
It is up to you to decide: do you want to go under water again, or this time will you take control of your life and follow the intelligent and fun way of quitting smoking?Do you think you can do this?
Do you think you can learn how to swim in 28 days, *and* enjoy the process at the same time?
I bet you can, so stop you anti-depressants right now, drop your chewing gum, turn off the cheerleading from the people on the benches.
Start now the course, enjoy it, have fun, and become free of smoking!