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Are You Having Trouble Quitting Smoking?
By TREVOR KUGLER

About six months ago I finally stopped choking down cancer sticks once and for all, after being a smoker for more than fifteen years. I learned a few things in the process of quitting that I know can help other people quit as well. And the best part is that I'm going to give you what I learned for nothing! I am in no way affiliated with any e- book, "program", or newsletter to help you stop smoking. I'm just a guy who quit and would love to help other people do the same thing that I did.

I had tried both patches and gum in the past to quit, and they never worked. They would seem to work for a while, and then the next thing I knew, I was smoking again. During those experiences I realized something…….I was going to have to change the way I thought about quitting smoking. Simply changing the way nicotine got into my body obviously wasn't going to change anything. So that's exactly what I did. I changed the way I thought about both smoking and quitting smoking.

I began telling myself how easy it was going to be to stop smoking. Everyone always tells you how horrible quitting smoking is. I simply started telling myself that it wasn't going to be that bad. When I was smoking, I would hold the cigarette up and say to it, "I've got this. This is going to be no problem." I also stopped listening to all of the people around me that said how hard it would be. I would just extract myself from any of their conversations about smoking or quitting smoking.

Then, one day I opened my pack of cigarettes to take one out and there was only one left. I looked at the cigarette, and said to myself, "Okay, this is it. I'm done." I went outside, smoked that cigarette, and haven't touched one since. If you change the way you think about smoking (even while the act continues), eventually you won't want to smoke any more. For me the process of changing my thinking about smoking took about six months.

Someone once said, "Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change." That's exactly what happened with me and smoking. I changed the way I looked at smoking, and the act of smoking changed. It's truly as simple as that. Were there times that I felt like smoking, after I had quit? Of course. The difference was that I didn't smoke anymore, so I didn't. I also stopped hanging around people who smoked, which helped as well. And it got easier and easier everyday. Then the next thing I knew, I smelled a cigarette while walking in a parking lot and couldn't believe how gross it smelled. Yep, it was over for good. I was a non-smoker once again, just like God intended. Just remember that quitting smoking, like most things in life, is more about how you think about it than anything else.

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