Positive thinking

Quit smoking - positive thinking

If you are a smoker you will probably continue to smoke because you are under the impression that giving up is going to be incredibly hard. Once we have these beliefs which are compounded time and time again by the medical profession, government and the media it becomes a reality.

Example - what the mind perceives the body achieves
Whether this is a positive or negative assumption. If you build up a belief system structured around these thoughts you will become predisposed to them.

This is easy to prove in the following example.
If I lay a builders plank on the ground and ask you to walk along it (sober) you should have no problem. Even if I ask you to run across this plank most people will be able to do this. Now if I suspend the same plank 5 meters in the air and ask you to once again walk across it (with no safety net) I think you would have your reservations. If I asked you to run across this plank you would think I was mad.

Think on the positive side

• Write a list of all the reasons you want to quit
• Image yourself in the near future being a non smoker, see yourself being happy and in control
• Now your mind is stronger think of all the other things you will achieve once you have stopped smoking.
• Think of how your friends and colleagues will think of you when you have stopped smoking
• Say in your mind as often as you can 'I have the power within to become a non smoker'
• You will now longer have to find a place to smoke