How to quit smoking
Fear is the only and real reason to quit smoking; time-blocking is one of the proper tool to start.
I admit I have been an unconventional smoker.
When I was a little girl I used to hide my fathers’ packs of cigarettes.
I started smoking late according to common standards: at 23 years old.
Rousseau’s “Freedom is the power to choose our own chains” was my philosophic foundation to explain people why I keep going smoking along years.
Once I said I’d quit smoking only when pregnant and so I did. No trauma.
I started again smoking for anger, when my daughter was 3 years old.
I keep going smoking for seven years until I meet fear. Until I stumble in the fear of dying, because whatever image they will put on a pack of cigarettes, no matter how fearful they are, you will keep going until you really will be scared of dying.
Before slipping into it, I have to say I started with no intention of quitting by using time blocking method: meaning while writing for four hours I was stuck to my chair. So I delayed naturally my first cigarette of the day.
As a result, total number of cigarettes per day: two.
But what strikes and pushes me to completely pull the plug has been fear.
One day I woke up with a strange lymph node swelling.
Eventually, I found out it was not dangerous. But alone those days before the virdict, I was really convinced to dye.
I simply have ripened fear, so I have quitted.
I did not need nay self-help book.
Deep inside, everybody knows how to get away with an addiction.
This is a process and you need a method to afford it and a possible motivaion, hanging above you.
This is a process on the path of self-esteem to become a better person.
To be better aware of the self.
