Stories & experiences

It is a shame. Quit groups like this are the game changer. It is not about abstaining from smoking, which takes tremendous will power, but thinking about smoking in a different way. When you realize that you do not particularly enjoy smoking except to avoid cravings if you do not, when you realize that you do have the power to say no to nicotine, then you desire change and believe that you can make this change.

Thankfully, Allan Carr's books, The Easy Way and How to Stop Smoking Permanently are available to buy online on get at your library. They are adeptly titled.

It is not surprising that hypnosis works for some people. However , I have always hear that they cannot make you do something that you do not want to do, so there must be the actual desire without reservation for this to work. (in my opinion) Perhaps listening to tapes while sleeping can get to our subconscious minds and let us see smoking in a new light and have us desire this change. Who knows? Not a lot apparently.

The first step of course is to desire. And here you are. Half the battle is already won if you came of your own volition, and not under duress. If you take any steps.

Happiness is right. You have to really have the strong desire to stop smoking, and reach the end of your desire to smoke. We only "think" that we want to smoke. I am Cuba as it is a reference to the island, as well as to their cigars. I have never smoked them but I was a very serious smoker. Now as quitters we have more balanced levels of Dopamine in our brains, which is a good thing. Nicotine also does not last very long in the brain and body but its effects on them are very damaging. Plus all the carbon monoxide, tar and many many other chemicals in cigarettes etc, and all of their combinati