Give Up Smoking? Tomorrow!

What you need is for you to possess a genuine desire to stop smoking and stay stopped. Now that's quite simple.

Frightend? Is your imagination playing that trick on you again? Trust me, there is nothing for you to fear, and as you continue to read this article it will become clearer. I bet you can think of some really scary pictures in your mind where you feel this fear and yet I also know that you can quickly imagine times when you felt strong and happy in certain situations and you felt confident. What you believe in your mind is powerful and simple to change. And as you change the way you think, you will change the way you feel about smoking. As your behaviours change, you will see smoking in a new light.

Were you honest with yourself when I asked you the first question? Are you actually pleased that you started smoking in the first place? That is a fantastic starting point; you really wish you did not smoke. Imagine how great it would feel if you could go back in time and make a different choice and be smoke free.

It is vital that you continue giving truthful answers to yourself when we consider some of the reasons why you have not tried to stop smoking before or why you have not succeeded in stopping. This is a time for you to discover some new information for yourself about what you really believe.

Many smokers promise: 'I am going to do it tomorrow.' As a smoker I know that 'tomorrow' is a tactic that I employed to get well meaning people off my case. I gave the transparent 'tomorrow' pledge many times. In fact, I said it so often that I actually believed it myself. It's a cliché, but we all know that the tomorrow we talk about so confidently never comes.

The confidence was false and I was only kidding myself. That delusion was in good company, or should I say bad company? It joined a few others in my life. I kidded myself about how many cigarettes I was smoking. I deluded myself that I wasn't harming anyone else. That argument no longer holds when you see how much lung disease is blamed on second hand smoke. I even deluded myself by not believing that smoking was harming me. We can all point to the exception to the rule. There's old Charlie who smoked 30 a day and lived healthily to a grand old age of 85. However, that was old Charlie, or some other ancient smoker, not me. I used the example to kid myself that I might be one of the lucky ones. 'Problems from smoking? It won't happen to me,' I would say.


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Douglass Grahame. Helping smokers quit since 1996. Does the sense of failure stop you from even trying to quit smoking? Let me explain how to beat that fear.