Sick of quitting smoking all the time? I said it was the last one, until i have the last, last one.
Probably sounds familiar if you ever tried to quit smoking. I found that starting smoking put me onto the most important life learning lesson ever which lead me to quit smoking in a heart beat and using the same strategy i will be teaching you here, to improve my life, my bank balance, and my health and work life.
I hope this will be the day, that one article that you needed that gives you the final puzzle piece that you've been looking for to quit smoking or quit whatever else you're trying to quit. Also, using this strategy can set you up to achieve your financial goals also.
Try it out, and if it doesn't work i'll pay for your time spent reading this post!
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Setting the scene: It's that time of day again where i always would crave a smoke, it could be driving to work, being at home bored, about to go to sleep, after eating, before eating, i had a lot of times where i would love a smoke. But i'm quitting, and i have been for, shit, seems to me like i've been quitting for almosta year or more now! I ask myself the questing, what's that magical moment i'm waiting for to actually quit? My boss still a jerk, partner still stressesme out, all these things just' don't want to line up for me to finally quit.
Then it hit me, the more i 'try to quit smoking' and keep putting it off, i was killing my self, not just my body (my body still pretty healthy) but i was killing my ambitions, my goals, my ability to do WHAT I SAY I"M GOING TO DO.
The constant failure to quit, was sub-contiously making it more tolerable to not do what i said i was planning to do. Each time i didn't quit, it re-inforced in me that what ever excuse i gave myself to "just have one last one" was making it okay keep delaying important life movements and decisions which went beyond quitting smoking.
I hope you can relate, because if you're reading this far, you have that something in you also, and there is so much potential and energy waiting to be utilised that can open up all the desiers we seem to be waiting for "something" before we can start.
I got that secret something, we must stop letting out brains steal life moments away from us.
To know a thief, you must know the thief.
We all know why we shouldn't smoke, there's so many reasons we know and that media shows us why we shouldn't do something. All those things are somewhere inthe future. The bad things and the good things, there's lots of good reasons not to smoke, but like the bad ones, they are also in the future. So when i crave a smoke i don't think of the good things or the bad things if i have this smoke.
The secret mind trick! All you need is a box of paper clips, yup paper clips
Try this, if you haven't had a smoke today you can do this right now, if you had, do this tomorrow morning.
Find a spot somewhere you walk past/into every morning, for me it was my bedroom door.
Take a pin, place it at eye level into the door. Or you can use a hook if you have one, as long as you won't cover it up.
Now take your first paper clip, and place it onto the sleeve of the shirt you are wearing, preferably the hand that you use most to smoke.
Your objective is to spend the whole day with the paper clip on your sleeve, and at the end of the day you may take it off and place it onto the pin or hook of the door or whereever your spot will be.
Our goal is to grow a chain that will touch the floor.
That's it.
If you change shirts during the day for exercise or any other reasons, take the paper clip off, remind yourself that you are building a chain to touch the floor, and place it onto the new shirt you are wearing.
Only at the end of each day, after you have gone the whole day without smoking, you will take the paper clip off and add it to the last days paper clip, and the chain grows.
If you want to stop smoking, or quit whatever it is you can't figure out what it is you're waiting for to finally quit. Get yourself a boxof paper clips and start!
Remember, your only objective is to GROW A CHAIN TO TOUCH THE FLOOR, not to stop smoking so you can run 10 miles, not to stop smoking so you can possibly not get cancer, not quit smoking so you can save all that money and in 5 years you will have enough for a new car, ALL YOU"RE DOING IS BUILDING A CHAIN TO TOUCH THE FLOOR!
I wish you a life of clean air, a life without the stress and a life without our minds yelling desperately at each other and getting used to a constant track of failing to do something we keep telling ourselves to do.
If you're the type that needs to know how this works, i'll briefly explain it and if you like this and want more, give it a thumbs up, to help others and to help me put more content and info into there so we can help anyone struggling to quit smoking.
By having a paper clip on your clothes, on the hand you would normally smoke with, it acts as a CONSTANT reminder to what you set your mind to achieve. Which is nothing that we have emotional historical feelings about. We're just building a chain to touch the floor, simple.
Where as if we're quitting to please a certain person for example, anytime that relationship goes through it's up's and down's, we might pick up a smoke and justify an argument for the smoke. Or this could be something else that we have fluctuating feelings about. By keeping it simple, we take away any emotions we have towards the goal.
By placing the chain in a location we see every day, we SEE our progress, which REINFORCES the chain, reinforcing our strength in ourselves to keep going. Often when we're working on something, we don't see any progress so it could be quite easy to have a smoke after a couple of week, especially becase now we're feeling healthier, more enrgetic and think that just having one to reward myself for all that won't hurt, but we don't realise that we are breaking a invisible chain, by visualising this chain. THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL WANT TO BREAK THE CHAIN ONCE YOU SEE EVERY DAY HOW LONG IT HAS BECOME. You know how rewarding it felt to take off that paper clip at the end of the day and to add it to the chain. You will have this visual image in your brain if you are ever put into a spot where you would be considering a smoke.
There's no previous failures, you don't have to get anxious over past reasons why you didn't quit smoking, we set ourselves really emotional goals like "i'm going to quit smoking for my partner" then we get into an argument and i smoke a whole block in a sitting. Now that's not good for anyone, it takes longer to resolve the argument and i got as much nicotein in my as lab rats and won't sleep all night now.
If you are interested in more information about this, give it a thumbs up and help it reach others who are looking to break the chain of smoking, and build a chain of mental power! Have a great life.
Great post! Hope this helps to inspire people
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