What Does it Take to Quit Smoking

What will it take to change attitudes and habits around and of smoking?

In this battle with cigarettes it is not over until it is really over and a thing of the past.

It sounds overly simplistic and too easy, we know! But do not underestimate the power of suggestion and positive thinking, statements and your sub-conscious.

An awful lot can happen for the better if you allow yourself to think it through and claim it for your very own! You envision that is step one. Now you are into the phase where you decide and act on it!

You are replacing new habits for old and bad ones in the process.

You are redirecting your energies and attention, your focus, thoughts and actions accordingly. You are overcoming and addressing temptation in its worst and most intense form, resisting powerful urges and cravings in the moment!

They were part of your past life and not a part of your foreseeable future. You are readjusting the scales and priorities of and for your life. Remember, smoking is no longer any part of it!

It might take longer than you expect it to, but always remember that breaking with bad habits are not easy. Behavior modification and adjustments do take time. Plan for it, get ready for it, execute for success  - that is the recipe.

If that means you postpone getting started until you have the right frame of mind, energy and time, that is better than just starting for the sake of saying that you have started the quitting process. If you are not committed to the change, do not even bother. You will fail.

Friends might be fiends in and throughout this process. Before they might have been enablers of the process and your habits, now you are expecting them to support you in a decision that will destroy some of that.

Be ready for it. They might not embrace or even discourage you from even trying, not respect your efforts. It will be hard for them to NOT see you smoking again, succeeding and them wondering it they could do it, should try it, fail again etc.

Temptation and give-ins will always be with us in our society and daily living. You do not need cigarettes to live a happy life! Quitting is possible and can be yours for the taking if you want it!

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