To Quit Smoking You Need The Secret Ingredient!
I am an expert in giving up smoking. I have often stated in my
articles and ebooks that I do really loathe the term 'Expert'.
But I have to claim the title, as I have succeeded over on
hundred times.
Even worse so is the term 'Guru'. In my opinion, in the Internet
world today, there are FAR to many of these, mainly
self-proclaimed, 'Supermen/women' to help you achieve or point
you in the direction of every type of success you can imagine.
Apart from the business success that they generally claim to be
able to bestow, they also claim to be able to MAKE you quit
smoking, lose weight or even (believe it or not) cure cancer and
other frightful conditions.
I believe that there are 'gifted' people who can draw on unknown
powers that exist and are able - sometimes - to effect a
stunning cure or help in a manner that would appear to be
nothing short of miraculous. However, we're not talking about
these people or these types of incidences. I'm talking about the
ones that can ONLY work their miracles if you BUY their product
or their service.
As far as the 'quit smoking' claim in concerned, there are in
fact, a number of bonafide and medically proven prescription and
herbal or natural compounds that can and do often help people to
achieve their goal to be 'smoke free'. So, a promise or
guarantee that a product WILL achieve this for you is only a
'half lie' as it is possible and has been known to work time and
again. The fact about the guarantee that makes it questionable
is that there MAY be one ingredient missing, which is essential
in order for these products to work.
I'm not a heavy smoker, but not a light smoker either (about 20
a day, which I classify as average or normal, among smokers, at
least). I would love not to have to calculate if I have enough
cigarettes to do me until 'whenever'. I'd love to be able to
avoid spending in the order of $50 a week on tobacco (that's
$2,600 a year). I'd like to not be considered a social outcast
in most public indoor places and most people's homes, being
banished to the cold and the rain or stinking heat outside to
have a cigarette (although I perfectly understand their need and
their right for clean, safe air and a pleasant smelling home).
I'd like not to have to take a quick trip to the shop at 2 am,
in the cold and rain because I've run out smokes. In the nut
shell, I'd really like to be able to quit smoking - for good!
Did you here what I just said?: "I'd really like to be ABLE to
quit smoking - FOR GOOD!
So, with all the reasons I've given above, plus a myriad of
others, there is plenty of motivation for me to quit WITHOUT
even considering the health and medical reasons, which are as
compelling, if not more so. Smoking is physically harmful and it
is a KNOWN cause of many deadly conditions, which I have no need
go through here.
Why do I continue to smoke or why do I go back to smoking a very
short time after each of my very lame attempts to quit smoking?
Simple. I ENJOY IT. I like to smoke. I have smoked for 30 years
and I can't imagine life without smoking. I'd love to have a
crack at it, but I am still up against the conscious (and
subconscious) knowledge that this is something that I am going
to miss very much. I am also, as has probably been gleaned from
this article, so far, that I am not blessed with a great deal of
will power (or whatever other name you want to give it).
For 15 months I helplessly watched my wife, for whom I would
have gladly given my own life, die of lung cancer nine years ago
(at the age of 43). Even after that, at the age of 46 (I was a
few years younger than Kathy), I still smoke. A bit crazy, what
do you think?
As I said earlier, there are many good products that work well
in making the challenge to quit smoking much easier. Both those
approved and condoned by mainstream medicine and many others of
a herbal or natural nature all work well. But they will only
work if the one, single, important ingredient exists - The WILL
to quit smoking. Not the need, the want or the sensible
arguments. THE WILL. In fact, I've heard so many who have
succeeded, that it wasn't really all that difficult because they
REALLY wanted to quit smoking.
I hope that one day soon, I will WANT to quit smoking. If you
smoke, I hope that you will want to quit smoking soon, too. Good
Luck!