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Do you know a close friend, a relative, perhaps even your partner who you would like to help quit smoking?

Does it seem like sometimes you are more concerned about their health than they are?

Perhaps even you are someone who is struggling to quit and are too afraid to ask for help!

If you fall into any of the above categories then read in this article it may actually prove interesting….

As Im writing this the TV in the living room is playing a quit smoking hypnosis audio tape! Its a little experiment I began yesterday on my room mate who has been coming home for the past few days extremely worn out from some hard partying! Hey its summer holidays here in the southern hemishpere

My room mate is the type of person who wants to quit but won’t admit it. He keeps denying it everytime I offer to help, yet I know deep down he wants to quit….and BADLY!! The reason I say this is because he always complains about how its eating up his budget. Keeping up with a pack of smokes these days is getting more and more expensive where ever you go. I have a friend in Ireland who was telling me a box of cigarettes there now costs you 10 Euros. Wow a hefty some if you multiply that by 30!

So what is this ethical yet unethical approach to helping my room mate here quit smoking?

Like I mentioned my room mate has been coming back home lately in a state where he cant even make it to his bed, and passes out on the couch as soon as he lands on it. (LOL it is a comfy couch!!)

Having seen this yesterday, I decided hey why not pop this quit smoking hypnosis cd into the DVD player and play it on the big screen, while hes in this deep state of sleep! What could the end result be?….

Im eager to find out myself

Interesting experiment if thats what you want to call it! The question that I pose to you now is this an ethical thing to do? Hypnotizing him without his consent while he is asleep!

As far as Im concerned I think its the right thing to do. In this panic stricken economy I think saving him a $150 -$200 a month would do him greatly instead otherwise having to go on smokes.

I hope he can find it in him to forgive me (Sorry man!), and not for hypnotizing him out of his smoking habit, but for blogging about this whole thing and using him as a social experiment LOL!!!!!!!

To conclude I just hope we all will learn and benfit with something in the end from this little experiment!

By the way this is day two I did two sessions on him yesterday and I think three should be good enough for today. Until then stay tuned and have a great day.

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This service is simply excellent! (Its quite amazing where we have reached with technology today, don’t you agree?)

The ‘main problem’ with people just like you and me who quit smoking is we quickly get depressed when we quit.

This is where these inspirational positive messages/thoughts come in.  When you subscribe to these text messages, everyday you will receive one inspirational/motivational quote or thought for the day.

The best way to utilize this service is to plan a quit date, and preferably do it with someone else you know who wants to also quit, perhaps a spouse, friend, your neighbor etc. Then on that date subscribe to this service.

Everyday you get your message, think about it and let it sink in. Discuss it with your spouse, friend, neighbor or who ever it may be. Live it! This way you will be setting yourself up to really succeed in quitting smoking.

Every time you feel the urge to smoke, remember the inspiration you received for that day, for example if the text message you received quoted this phrase:

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”….Elbert Hubbard

This will push you to fight that urge and could mean you last an extra day longer. This is essentially how you should take it, one day at a time, allowing your confidence to grow every time you turn down a cigarette or release yourself from the urge of wanting to smoke.

This also keeps your mind focused on more positive thoughts. This is essential to beat the depression that sets in when the Nicotine is leaving your system.

Put yourself in this scenario, you quit for a week and you can’t take it anymore so you start smoking again. You never know when you are going to quit again.

But these messages you have been receiving have been plenty to think about. Then one day you get the message that strikes a chord in you it could be something like this:

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time”…..Thomas Edison

Suddenly you have a complete change in heart, and you decide you going to quit again, so you throw away your cigarettes and what do you you’re back on track.

Hey what do you know this little text message saved the day! Just when you thought you were ready to give up.

I suggest you quit for a day, and with the money you would have spent on cigarettes, instead invest it on this and try it out for a whole month and like I said it will cost you about the same price as a box of cigarettes would for one day:

Receive Daily Inspirational Text Messages

You got nothing to lose Your health and well being is on the line!

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“How do you not think of smoking when hanging around smokers and you when you even blog about smoking?”

This was a question that a friend asked me recently who saw how I had struggled at the beginning when I came to quit. He was amazed at the fact that when I finally made up my mind to quit smoking, despite several failed attempts, I have seriously quit even though I hang out with a lot of friends who smoke and tempt me all the time to smoke, and I run a quit smoking blog

So how do I not “Think” about smoking?’

Not such an easy question to answer, I couldn’t really give him a direct answer and have resolved to posting it up on this blog? I hope you like it Michael!

From my experience when I think about why I struggled in my latter days to quit and how I came about to finally quit smoking, it comes down to a few things I did differently and here they are, I just hope they help and encourage you to quit and stay quit or at least motivate you to attempt your next quit.

1. I quit and quit and quit and quit. I hope you get the idea here! I tried over and over again. I failed and failed and failed. My quits ranged from a couple of weeks, to sometimes months and I even had a relapse after a long six months off the cigarettes, but I got back to quitting in no time, sometimes a relapse would be just one cigarette but nevertheless it is considered smoking.

The lesson: to be learned here is never give up, NEVER. If it doesn’t happen today it will happen tomorrow when your body and mind are both ready.

2. As for not thinking about cigarettes I began by keeping myself occupied. When I decided to quit, I took up a new sport, being the extreme person that I am I decided on rock climbing. To say the least it’s one very stressing activity yet very fulfilling and had me coughing up all the toxins within days.

Let me mention this, I hadn’t done ANY sports in four years, so when I went for my first rock climbing session, not only did I come back home short of breath and worn out with stiff muscles, I came back home with a super great sense of well being. A concept that had become lost in my life was soon ignited. I came to realize that by climbing that 25 meter stretch of wall, the same endorphins that were activated by nicotine were active on an even greater intensity in my brain! I could feel it and I just couldn’t stop smiling and actually laughed all the way home. WOW what a high that was!

Lesson here: Take up a sport, it does not have to be something so extreme but something you will enjoy. The trick here is to let this sport activity take over from the cigarettes in it’s role of keeping your endorphins kicking.

3. Finally I have engaged on a personal goal of daily learning. Everyday I have to improve myself in some way or another. Any learning material I can get my hands on I make use of it. Even though I know there is no way I would get back to smoking, I still read every material I can about quitting smoking. The reason being, there is a gold nugget in every learning program that is available. Now don’t get me wrong when I say learning I do not mean just about quitting smoking I mean any subject that gets me going.

This learning and all the new knowledge I have acquired has conditioned my mind in a way to realize what is ultimately useful in my life and what is not and has helped me advance in ways I could never imagine. Oh and you guessed it, for sure I came to realize that smoking was a useless habit. The idea of continuing it just does not appeal to me anymore. I have to mention hypnosis did help me reinforce the idea of staying quit during the early stages, it helped me greatly, and not just for quitting smoking I have used it in other ways to improve my life and change a couple of habits, its an awesome natural remedy for curing yourself.

Lesson here: Preoccupy your thoughts with new and interesting material/knowledge that will engange you and help you develop your brain and mind it could take your life to a whole new level.

Finally to sum up I think I can confidently say, find ways to keep your Mind, Body and Soul occupied with fulfilling activities and whatever it is you want will come to you with ease.

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