Stop Smoking by 6am

Introduction.

Have you ever heard it said that smoking is a form of self-imposed punishment! That you are engaging in some sort of penitence! A penitence generated in your mind by some perceived failure! Using it to satisfy a deep desire to self-punish for not having come up to the mark in some aspect of your life? A process of self-criticism hidden behind another thought that takes the shape of just 'filling-in-time?' Something to do! A break! A rest or any of the other many excuses the mind generates in justification?

Maybe even using it as a self-aware excuse to propagate that failure by design or accident as you seek a method of distancing yourself from that failing, even if only on a temporary basis! Example: Some work on your computer screen is just not hitting the mark of expectation, so you pop outside for a quick smoke to put some distance between yourself and this problem!

Maybe even going outside to distance yourself from someone you dislike because of a failure to see eye-to-eye or failure to adopt a measure of cooperation or compromise between parties, be that in the workplace or at home........ etc, etc!! The reasons are endless and it is this litany of excuses, whatever they are, that make the prospect of giving up smoking so difficult! Notice that I said 'prospect' and not the actual 'task' of giving up! This comes into play in a much more important way later!

Recognising something maybe?

Does that description of smoking as a habit stir something in you? If that description or explanation sounds somewhat familiar, allow me the liberty of attempting to explain part of it and provide a better understanding! By the way, this is not lambasting you from the pulpit of sanctimonious, tobacco bashing morality! Far from it; being an ex smoker, I came to understand what was going on and in doing so wish to share this discovery with you, not from the hypocrisy of a reformed smoker!

The stance I hold is a completely and utterly neutral one! There is no sense of superiority; no sense of disgust; no sense of right or wrong - this is how effective the dismissal of the habit from my own life has been! I have basically returned to a juvenile, pre-smoking, state of mind! No conscious thought or desire to smoke as it was something I had never been involved in! It was as alien to me as consciously walking into the middle of a road straight into the path of an oncoming vehicle!

Even if you can categorically deny that you are 'not' smoking through any sense of self-depreciation or even self-harm which it is), then whatever it is, the desire to smoke comes from exactly the same place and serves the same purpose! The idea that smoking is some form of punishment comes from the exact same place as any of the other myriad of reasons one may use to smoke! Self chastisement is just one trigger that acts in the same way, but is one that a lot of people overlook or simply do not acknowledge!

Again, far from talking with you from some platform of superiority, it must be stated that I was much like yourselves with respect to smoking! I was not aware of smelly clothes or smelly finger nails! I was not aware of bad breath or thinning hair even thinning skin! I was not aware of poor dental hygiene! I was however aware of the dangers of which like most, ignored! Also, like most, suffering the guilt of furtively looking around to throw the stub on the floor when I could not find a bin or outside cigarette receptacle!

Even being similar to yourself whilst outside having a smoke and consistently wondering if I could ever give it up at the same time as being aware that I really was stealing my employers time when sneaking off for a smoke outside of allotted rest periods! Yes, that is one side-reason that the vast majority of us simply will not and do not countenance as something that smoking is responsible for! And no, I am not piling on the guilt element from a non-smokers point of view having given up - it just happens to be true and I was as guilty as the next!

I did however, like most, have an awareness that the perceived reward I got from smoking was undermined by the constant worry that I was doing something dangerous! Not least the anger at the prices I was paying for each packet and the overall annual cost of it! Negative thoughts that were constantly on my mind, in addition to the sense of embarrassment I suffered from standing outside on a pavement being gawked at by all those non-smokers! All of the associated aspects of smoking being totally negative!

Let me tell you now that if you were to quit, then that thought of breaking the habit and staying at your workstation or workplace does not have the terrible tie-down you think it will! A never-ending battle of the mind to stay at your desk or workplace! No, far from it, there will be no pain in not leaving to go outside! In actual fact, the sense of discipline and freedom you derive from it is priceless! Simply, easily and painlessly going about your work without the desire to smoke invading your mind and allow me to tell what an everyday pleasure that is! No, I am not special! I have no additional powers or qualities that you do not already have yourselves! You are closer to quitting than you would, under ordinary circumstances, dare to believe!

Role Models

I used to look at the non-smokers in my workplace with admiration and envy - now I'm in receipt of that admiration myself! You'll have it to! In fact you will be envied by those who continue to smoke and be constantly questioned as to how you managed it! Another thing - if you are successful, you will also find that there is a total absence of the wish or desire to berate others - you will simply want nothing to do with it! You will have a strange but pleasant neutrality and a complete absence from any desire to join others who do smoke!

And amongst the many beneficial aspects of not smoking, those who admire you for doing so will also engage in another form of strange behaviour! They will not, if they are true friends, under any circumstances allow you to smoke again if they have anything to do with it! Why? Simply because you represent their hopes and aspirations that they can do the same to! You will see this if you ask someone, who knew you used to smoke, for a cigarette and then horrifyingly retract the packet on realising what is going on; telling you instantly "No way!"

Firstly this is to save themselves being to blame for agreeing to your request and then suffering the guilt of being party to it but also because for you to fail diminishes their own, inner hopes of one day doing the same thing by seeing that it cannot be done! If anyone were to tempt you to relapse, then that is quite simply a spiteful thing to do! However, your new found rejection will be more powerful than to allow yourself to fall by the wayside! I am quite happy being in the company of smokers myself - it has simply no effect on me whatsoever, save to say that if in an enclosed space for any length of time, it does make me tend to cough! I therefore avoid smoking environments as a result - not through any weakness in my resolve! Bear in mind although I've said it before - I smoked for approximately 30 years! Age, time and any wisdom I may have accrued, has absolutely nothing to do with this method I will get around to showing you!

So, with that, be aware that you also unwittingly adopt a strange social responsibility in being and becoming a non-smoking superstar! I used to have some leg-pulling fun by telling people, that I had splintered or cracked! The sense of disappointment to see on their faces was funny! They saw the funny side of my leg pulling when I told them I was joking! They won't get angry with you for doing so - why? Because their role model remains intact! You are the embodiment of success and one they secretly would like to emulate! They will see in you that it can be done!

Not complex.

This explanation, of the ease with which giving up can be achieved is not philosophically or educationally heavy going or overly complex! Being able to understand the mechanism that generates this desire to smoke is quite easy once you allow yourself the intelligence that you have, to do what it does best - that is to act in your best interests! You, I and everyone who smokes are already quite familiar with this! It's the same intelligence that guides all other forms of behaviour that encompasses our lives!

However, to view smoking as a bad habit from the perspective of it being some form of self-administered punishment is different! That aside for the time being however, the problem with a habit, be it smoking or any other repetitive habit with negative connotations is not so much to do with the physical aspect of the habit itself, it is all to do with the mind! Yes, you've heard that all before, but what you may not have heard is how! You've been given basic explanations but no detail! No explanation of the physiology of what is going on and in consequence, no explanation as to how easy habits are to give up! This is something that is invariably dismissed and in a somewhat understandable way, is mostly to do with reasons of profit! Again, these aspects are all dealt with in time!

Jokers In The Pack!

Once again on the aspect of smoking being a form of self-administered punishment, is it, as I have said, because life has dealt you a joker in the pack on a personal basis and your mind is letting you think and believe that you have some inner right to engage in this dangerous game in the misguided belief that there is something to be gained from doing so? Adopting some (ir)rationale thought, which in turn gives license to smoke!

An irrational thought which becomes in an instant, the glaring, frightening, nonsense your intelligent mind always well knew it was, in the instant a doctor / physician tells you that you have contracted the Big C or some other terminal illness as a result of smoking! Only then, coming to fully realise without inhibition, the horror of our own mortality, the very moment you are told that the gamble was lost! All that we invented in our minds to offset the fear of what in many cases is an inevitable result of our maintaining an ignorance of the dangers and suffering the terror of those few fateful words that one day, we may be told! I personally have dramatically reduced my own chances of hearing those words!

If you are still healthy! If you are still able to go outside and extract another cigarette from that packet or roll your own if that is what you do, then realise that you are lucky! You still have the option open to you to quit this before it is too late! You have the power of intelligent, rational thinking to stop now and to reclaim your one and only life from something that you know full well has placed you on some type of conveyor belt that one day may end in being given that horrendous news! That information being the least terrifying of what will follow! I stand beyond an imaginary line! On my side are non-smokers - on the other are those that do and I think and say to myself, "How and what is it that one can say that will make them understand that it is just so easy to cross that line?" Well, there are no magic words! There is nothing in a simple sentence that can convey that single most important message and as such requires more words than one may care to read! But if they do care to read, may possibly come into possession of something that all those words combined are trying to say!

In a somewhat flowery way, I am saying that these pages could be viewed as that tenuous life-line, leading to the life-raft, on a stormy, rain lashed sea in the pitch black dead of night, which absolutely no one would fail to grasp hold of if they found themselves in that situation! I used to work at sea! I spent sixteen years out there and I'll tell you now, one of my greatest fears was going over the side on a stormy night, into seas with waves as big as houses without anyone noticing! I know just how much I would have grabbed hold of any life-line! If anyone has watched the film Master and Commander! Well, when that crewman was hauled overboard by the breaking mast-head and they debated whether to cut him loose to prevent the ship broaching to - I can relate to that! The size of those waves were quite realistic! That is what it is like! As they say, a drowning man will clutch at a straw!

There is a life after smoking and to get there is nowhere near as exhausting or as painfully frustrating as you think giving up may be and I'll show you how to do it! I'll even show you that you do not need non-smoking aids or any of that steely will-power to do it! What I'll show you is simplicity in itself and something that those companies who make the anti-smoking aids dread you finding out!

Good News - Giving Up!

In the first instance I would like you to ask yourself a question? Are you still smoking, unable in your mind to stop because you think it impossible to give up! That you may have cemented this nonsense in your head because someone else either told you that you couldn't or that you have failed on previous well-meaning attempts to stop but did not achieve it!

Even if you are still smoking because you derive some pleasure from it and not from some form of self punishment, I will tell you now, that giving up is quite simply something that can be done with such ease you would not believe it! How can I say this? I can say this because I did! I stopped in the space of one second after smoking for approximately thirty years! Three and a half years later, not one cigarette has touched my lips! Not one iota of withdrawal symptom, no craving, no panic, no boredom, no desire to smoke again, nothing - absolutely nothing because I came to realise not just what was going on, but also because I realised something else and that something else is where I am going to take you in these articles leaving you with these facts! I can medically prove my claim to have stopped and provide numerous testimonies from those who will vouch this fact!

Please be aware, this has nothing to do with any special qualities, enlightenment with age, acquisition of stupendous powers, rigorous training of some form! No, nothing like that at all! I used something that you yourself already have and have in abundance if only you are shown!

However, as with all things requiring a conclusive outcome, there is a plan of action! This plan of action requires nothing more than a short period of reading which leads to a further stage! It is this further stage where the power of this process is learned!

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Having previously smoked for approximately thirty years! The adoption of a little known but infinately effective technique which required no external assistance in the form of anti-smoking aids or councilling allowed a cessation of smoking in the shortest time imaginable!

Three years later, it is not a case of saying, that I am still on course! There is no case for saying anything! Smoking as a habit is something that does not enter my head, even when taking into consideration that I still sit at my work station daily, without any thought of smoking entering my head!

The freedom of being this side of that dividing line I spoke about is quite simply something that anyone can achieve! It matters not who you are, where you are from, what age, male or female! All you need is to be shown!

Remember what I said in the main article about a plan of attack! I will explain this further if you would like to access the initial Free Report at http://www.stopsmokingby6am.com/

The plan for part 2 is contained at the end of the Free Report for anyone who is either interested or feels a need to adopt it!

I look forward to this journey that we may possibly take together.

Many Regards

Tim Binsted