One of the biggest problem any smoker faces when giving up is stopping being a smoker and becoming a non smoker.
It may sound fairly easy to you - you stop smoking and there you are, you're a non smoker.
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Unfortunately, as many smokers will attest to, it's not actually that easy and is much more involved than just putting down your cigarettes.
When you become a smoker you change your identity. For many people smoking becomes a part of their life and so a part of their identity.
When something becomes a part of your identity then it becomes very difficult to stop it, unless you change your identity again. You can stop the behaviour but unless you change your identity, you may find it very hard to resist restarting the behaviour.
Typically, a smoker will quit, then start again, quit, then start again and repeat this process UNTIL they change their identity. As soon as they mentally become a non smoker, they will simply stop smoking and have little or no desire to go back to being a smoker.
You will hear of people who managed to literally quit smoking overnight. They did it because they encountered a situation which caused them so much pain that they instantly changed their identity and became a non smoker.
This is, of course, one way to do it, but avoiding excess pain is always a good thing I say, and there are much easier ways to change your identity so that you become a non smoker.
The simplest way, which takes the longest, is to keep telling yourself you are a non smoker as an affirmation. Just keep saying something like, "I'm a non smoker" and put the force of your belief behind it.
There much quicker ways such as hypnosis, which allows you to make fundamental changes to your identity relatively easily and quickly, much more so than an affirmation like mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Whether you visit a clinical hypnotist for a face to face session or purchase a hypnosis CD such as the Free From Tobacco program, you will be able to change your identity and become a non smoker.
If you are serious about stopping smoking, then you need to look closely at how smoking is tied into your identity and then work on changing your identity so that you are a non smoker. You will then find it very easy to actually stop smoking and stay stopped.
How You Can Become A Non Smoker SMOKER
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