We all move away from pain and towards pleasure.
You may have reached a point in a relationship or a job where you said enough's enough and you decided to make a change.
It became too painful to remain in this situation and although a change would initially be tough, the long term rewards would be fantastic.
In order to make a change and stop smoking you have to associate huge emotional pain to remaining a smoker and amazing emotional pleasure to stopping.
By creating this emotional pain and pleasure it will allow you to make this change.
Pain v Pleasure Grab a piece of paper and draw two columns, one for pain and one for pleasure.
In the column for pain, write down all the negatives that continuing to stop would bring you, now or in the future.
Things like lung cancer, heart disease, slow painful death, no energy, wrinkly skin, look terrible etc.
Now in the column for pleasure write down all the positives that becoming a non smoking would bring you, now and in the future.
Things like increased energy, vitality, health, look great, feel great etc.
Write these two columns down every day for the next three weeks, without fail! By doing this you're starting to re-program your mind which allows you to see smoking in a different light.
It takes around three weeks to successfully break a habit.
Therefore by writing these down every day for three weeks along with visualising you'll find it a lot easier to stop smoking for good.
Visualising Every day for the next three weeks, find 15 minutes where you can spend visualising.
Find a nice quite place where you can close your eyes and start to relax.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and out your mouth as you slow your breathing down and begin to relax deeply.
Now imagine you're in a blockbuster movie; see yourself in this movie as a happy non smoker.
Notice the way you look, the smile on your face and the sparkle in your eyes.
See yourself with all this amazing energy and vitality as a happy non smoker.
Now step inside yourself in that movie and see everything through your own eyes as a happy, healthy non smoker.
Notice what you see through your own eyes and make the pictures bigger, brighter and more colourful while you notice all the sounds around you and the internal voice in your head.
What does your internal voice say to you when you're a happy, health non smoker? Make the sounds louder and richer and now feel all those amazing feelings of energy and vitality spread throughout your body now as a happy healthy non smoker.
Allow yourself to intensify those amazing feelings of energy and vitality in your body as you feel fantastic as a non smoker.
Visualise like this for at least 15 minutes a day and let your mind wonder.
Your mind can't tell the difference between what's real and what you vividly imagine, therefore by focusing on what you want; your mind will find a way to make it happen.
By practising and conditioning these two techniques daily for the next three weeks, you'll find smoking has a different meaning and it becomes easy to stop.
You'll break the smoking habit and begin to focus on what you really want.
You may have reached a point in a relationship or a job where you said enough's enough and you decided to make a change.
It became too painful to remain in this situation and although a change would initially be tough, the long term rewards would be fantastic.
In order to make a change and stop smoking you have to associate huge emotional pain to remaining a smoker and amazing emotional pleasure to stopping.
By creating this emotional pain and pleasure it will allow you to make this change.
Pain v Pleasure Grab a piece of paper and draw two columns, one for pain and one for pleasure.
In the column for pain, write down all the negatives that continuing to stop would bring you, now or in the future.
Things like lung cancer, heart disease, slow painful death, no energy, wrinkly skin, look terrible etc.
Now in the column for pleasure write down all the positives that becoming a non smoking would bring you, now and in the future.
Things like increased energy, vitality, health, look great, feel great etc.
Write these two columns down every day for the next three weeks, without fail! By doing this you're starting to re-program your mind which allows you to see smoking in a different light.
It takes around three weeks to successfully break a habit.
Therefore by writing these down every day for three weeks along with visualising you'll find it a lot easier to stop smoking for good.
Visualising Every day for the next three weeks, find 15 minutes where you can spend visualising.
Find a nice quite place where you can close your eyes and start to relax.
Take a deep breath in through your nose and out your mouth as you slow your breathing down and begin to relax deeply.
Now imagine you're in a blockbuster movie; see yourself in this movie as a happy non smoker.
Notice the way you look, the smile on your face and the sparkle in your eyes.
See yourself with all this amazing energy and vitality as a happy non smoker.
Now step inside yourself in that movie and see everything through your own eyes as a happy, healthy non smoker.
Notice what you see through your own eyes and make the pictures bigger, brighter and more colourful while you notice all the sounds around you and the internal voice in your head.
What does your internal voice say to you when you're a happy, health non smoker? Make the sounds louder and richer and now feel all those amazing feelings of energy and vitality spread throughout your body now as a happy healthy non smoker.
Allow yourself to intensify those amazing feelings of energy and vitality in your body as you feel fantastic as a non smoker.
Visualise like this for at least 15 minutes a day and let your mind wonder.
Your mind can't tell the difference between what's real and what you vividly imagine, therefore by focusing on what you want; your mind will find a way to make it happen.
By practising and conditioning these two techniques daily for the next three weeks, you'll find smoking has a different meaning and it becomes easy to stop.
You'll break the smoking habit and begin to focus on what you really want.
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