How I Stopped Smoking - for ever!

Congratulations. By finding your way here you have taken the first positive step in becoming a no-smoker. By that I mean that you have taken a conscious decision to stop smoking.

Maybe you have not decided to stop smoking today, or even tomorrow, but your better judgement is starting to gain the upper hand over your smoking addiction. Soon you'll be able to take the first step on the road to being a non-smoker for the rest of your life.

First of all stop thinking that you have to give up smoking. There is nothing about smoking that you have to give up. You'll find it easier to actually stop smoking if you think of stopping smoking, rather than giving up smoking.

Ask yourself why people talk of giving up. You're not actually giving up anything. Unless that is if you regard getting lung cancer, or emphysema, or some other nasty disease as a good thing. I don't, and never have, and this is the main reason I refer to it as stopping rather than anything else.

Once you start talking of stopping you start to accept the finality of the statement; as in "I've stopped smoking", or "I'm going to stop smoking".

Secondly, you are about to embark on the easiest thing you've ever done in your entire life.

I can almost hear people think that I don't know what I'm talking about. If you're anything like me you will have tried stopping already. Heck if you're a normal person who's been smoking for a while you definitely have tried stopping already, and you've failed - like I have. Not once, not twice, but every single time you've tried. I know I did too. So, how can I say that stopping is the easiest thing you're ever going to do? I must be crazy. Stopping is hard! Right?

NO! Stopping is really, really easy, the reason it feels hard is because you're listening, (like I used to), to people with a vested interest in you continuing to smoke, telling you that you must give it up.

People like government agencies, telling you to stop smoking when every year they pocket billions of dollars or pounds in tax income from cigarette sales. The fact is that it is not in any government's interest to stop you smoking. You provide a very good income for them by paying taxes on every single pack of cigarettes you buy.

Also, when you die an early death from smoking they can add insult to injury by charging your kids a healthy lump of inheritance tax.

If you can tell me of any government in the world that does not levy taxes on cigarette sales, or a government that has outlawed cigarette sales completely please do so.

I bet you don't know of one.

The fact of the matter is that cigarettes and tobacco sales, and taxes, are big, big money.

Stopping is easy because cigarette smoking is something you were programmed to do, and all you have to do is de-program yourself. Please note that I do not say you have to RE-program yourself, you only have to De-program yourself.

We were all programmed to think that smoking is a cool, sophisticated thing to do. When I was a child all the cigarette advertisements always showed beautiful people having a good time doing cool stuff like skiing, water-skiing, picking up women in clubs and so on. Everyone always looked glamorous, beautiful and healthy. No one ever looked ill, grey faced, haggard, or worse - dying of lung cancer. I can still remember magazine advertisements where doctors would sing the praises of this or that type of cigarette. Unbelievable, but true. Just ask your Granddad.

Okay, great so how do I deprogram myself I hear you ask.

Well, you're halfway there already, you've taken the decision to stop smoking.

Think of smoking as a high wall.

Let's imagine a wall that is forty feet high. Now, in the past whenever you tried to stop using any other method rather than deprogramming yourself, it's like you're trying to jump over that wall by standing two feet away from it and hopping up and down in front of it. I suppose it is possible to hop over that wall if you try long enough and hard enough, and people have actually succeeded in stopping that way.

My dad stopped smoking after 35 years using what is referred to as The Willpower Method - hopping in front of the wall long enough and hard enough - but it was really, really hard and he still misses it sometimes.

That's crazy! "Missing what exactly?" I always ask him.

The morning cough, the tight feeling in your lungs, wheezing for breath all the time? Smelling like an ashtray? There is nothing to miss about smoking once you've stopped. In fact, once you've stopped you'll realise exactly what you have been missing.

Now, take another good look at that wall - forty feet high. Too high to jump over, no use even trying.

Now, how about if that wall was two feet high? Do you think you can hop over that?

Easily, right?

Exactly right. The wall that you see in front of you is an illusion created by your own mind through all the propaganda and lies that's been pushed at it. All the advertisements you've seen, all the people that convinced you that by stopping you'll be giving up something of value. Lies, lies, lies, all lies. Smoking has no value to you or me, it will not, and has not enriched your life by one iota. The whole wall you see in front of you is an illusion, and it is probably not even two feet high.

Easiest thing in the world to hop over, stop smoking and start living again.

If you want proof of how well you, and I, and all of us smokers were manipulated then ask yourself if you as a smoker have ever said that: "..you like smoking, you enjoy it, it relaxes you, and you can stop whenever you want to".

I bet you have. More than once too. I know, I used to say those things myself all the time, and whenever I ask a smoker what he enjoys about smoking then those are generally the reasons people come up with.

Isn't it strange that in a world with about 5 billion or so people, most people who smoke have such similar responses to this question?

When I finally decided to stop smoking I looked into ever possible method.

First I tried weaning myself off it. You know, every day you smoke one cigarette less until you have stopped completely. I cut down from twenty per day, to nineteen, to eighteen etc. all the way down to one per day. By the time I got to one cigarette per day I would cherish that little cigarette all day long, dreaming of when I light it up. By the time I light it I would be so smoke crazed that I would smoke it right down into the filter. Then I would immediately start fondling tomorrow's little friend. I finally realised that, instead of weaning me off cigarettes, all that this method was doing was make my whole world revolve around cigarettes. It was turning cigarettes into the most improtant thing in my life. I was never going to be able to stop that way.

Next I tried Nicotine patches - a stupid idea if ever there was one. Let's get off the drug we're addicted to by taking the drug we're addicted to. Whoever came up with that idea? Cost me tons more than cigarettes and at the end I was just as addicted to nicotine as before.

I tried the willpower method - jumping up and down in front of that wall - I lasted a whole two weeks before I finally (and spectacularly cracked).

I've tried hypnosis, eating apples, drinking water, smoking lighter cigarettes (I just ended up smoking more of the light than the regular kind).

In short I tried everything. If there was anyone who said something worked I tried it.

I still smoked. Worse than that, I still wanted to smoke!

I was ready to give up, accept that I was going to be a confirmed smoker for the rest of my life (however short that was going to be!), until I ran across the best way to stop smoking I have ever found.

Are you ready for this?

This method promised to have me smoke free after I'd read a book, it even promised that I could smoke while I was reading it!

It promised:

No withdrawal symptoms

No cravings

No weight gain

It would stop me smoking forever

Easily and without doing anything that required any conscious effort. More importantly it would keep me stopped.

I remember thinking:"What do I have to lose?", I bought the book and read through it in one sitting of about eight hours, happily smoking away. I turned the last page, put the book away in the bookcase and looked at the cigarettes next to me. I didn't want to smoke right then but figured I would probably feel like having a smoke soon enough. By the time I went to sleep that night I hadn't had one yet. My wife was looking at me warily - she knew how hooked I was. I would normally wake up and smoke in the middle of the night. Next morning she was amazed to find that I had slept through the entire night without smoking.

She was not half as amazed as I was though! I did not have the slightest craving for a cigarette. Usually I have about five cigarettes between waking up, coffee and getting on the train. I never used to eat breakfast; I used to smoke breakfast. The look on my wife's face when she came downstairs to see me actually eating breakfast was priceless.

I got to the office and worked all the way through to lunch without even thinking of having a cigarette - I don't mean that I forgot about smoking, I just didn't want to smoke.

By the time I got home that evening I realised that I had finally stopped smoking. The feeling was indescribable. After twenty-one years of slavery I was finally free.

That was the beginning. I kept that half pack of cigarettes in my briefcase for about a week to see whether or not I was going to be tempted back into smoking, before I threw it away.

That was almost ten years ago now.

I have never smoked since, I don't plan to smoke ever again and I don't miss smoking in the least. I still think of it, usually when I see someone standing outside the office having a cigarette in the cold, but all I think is "Thank Heaven I don't smoke"

The book I read, or if you want, the method I used, demystified the whole smoking experience. It explained smoking in such a way that I could understand the myths about smoking.

Once I understood why I smoked, and what caused me to want to smoke, I found I no longer needed to smoke.

All of a sudden I could put the cigarettes away without worrying that I would have enough to last me the rest of the day. I no longer cared whether or not I had cigarettes on me when I went anywhere.

Air travel did not become easy all of a sudden: the long queus are still there, the seats on the aeroplane are still too cramped, the security precautions are still a pain in the rear end and the food still sucks, but at least I don't have the extra stress of trying to live through a smokeless ordeal until I can run to the smoker's corner at the destination airport.

The bad news is that the book I read might not work for you, however the good news is that the Method will work for you - I guarantee it.

The book I read was written by a someone who had the same problem as you and me - he was also hooked on nicotine - what makes him different from us is that he found the Holy Grail - the secret to stop smoking easily and quickly. The man I'm talking about is of course, Allen Carr. Never mind the fact that he died of lung cancer, he smoked for years before discovering the secret and afterwards spent thousands of hours breathing in second-hand smoke from people that he was trying to help.

Allen's book saved my life. It took me eight hours to read through it and by the end of that time I was already a non-smoker. He convinced me that whatever method you use to stop smoking is fine - as long as it works for you.

His method is just a lot easier than anything else I've ever tried. It makes you wonder why the government is spending millions of pounds on providing Nicotine Replacement Therapy on the NHS. Don't they understand that NRT does not, and cannot work?

Have a look at his book on Amazon.com, and ask yourself: "How serious am I about stopping?". Are you serious enough to spend the equivalent of what your next pack of cigarettes will cost you, so that you never have that evil monkey on your back again? Imagine how much money you can save if you don't spend £5 per day on cigarettes...

This is the book that worked for me: The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently (Penguin health care & fitness)

I've done some research and found a few other books based on the same principles. Every person is different and the exact same book I bought might not work for you. You have to decide which book will work best for you. I can guarantee you that the method is not only sound, it is absolutely fantastic.

It will work for you, you will stop smoking and you will never want to smoke again.

After trying so many different methods and failing dismally with all of them I am so glad to finally be free of that awful slavery. I know now how easy it is to stop smoking forever, and my only regret is that it took me twenty years to do so. I hope you will not waste another day before deciding to stop.

I sincerely wish you the best, I know how great it is to be finally free of that evil weed forever and you deserve to have the same freedom.

I hope you will take this golden opportunity to change your life for the better. I'm not even going to say good luck because you don't need it, you will succeed.

Have a look at these books, you need just one of them to change your life for the better and stop smoking forever.

The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently (Penguin health care & fitness)

Rob Mellor's Quit Smoking Today Course!

The World's Best Lung Detox Programme!

Pete Howell's EasyQuit System!

Stop Smoking in One Hour!

Quit Smoking Right Now!

A Fresh Start to Stop Smoking and Lose Weight!

The Stop Smoking Successfully System!

Quit Smoking by Smoking!