“Watch your cigarette cravings in a curious, mindful way. Read CURIOSITY KILLED THE CRAVING.”
“Success is a product of focus. Focus comes from having a purpose. Having a purpose comes from being needed. Being needed comes from serving others.”
Source: Smokebreaker: A 90 day guide to free you from cigarettes forever
“Nicotine, like a sneaky puppeteer, knows how to keep its puppets on a string when you believe in its supposed benefits that only manifest themselves to those who are still addicted.”
Source: Santa Was Real: Becoming Nicotine Free: The Art of Time Shifting, Ex-Pressing and Perceiving
“Smoking must be harder than not smoking. For the latter does not require any action.”
“I had not been at all fair to myself, or to anyone or anything near me, by keeping my cigarettes right there next to me or in my shirt pocket throughout the years.”
Source: Maybe You Should Move Those Away From You
“When you first start chanting or repeating your positive affirmations, they don’t make much sense. You don’t feel great about them because they strongly oppose your current reality. That’s the point. The affirmations should oppose your current reality. That’s how change happens. Everyone feels strange about using affirmations to begin with. But if you stick to the program, the power of positive affirmations will take effect.”
Source: Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.”
Source: The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
“Positive affirmations are powerful, but they can be overrun by complaining and negativity if you allow your mind to focus in that direction. As soon as you start complaining about how difficult this process is, you have begun using negative affirmations, and that will in turn give power to your prior longing to smoke (as if that needs empowerment).”
Source: Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life
“You may have known for many, many years that smoking isn’t good for you, but you’re still smoking. You have become a master of deluding yourself. Direct experience is the only thing that can crush your delusion. If you really want to quit and be free, this is the most important step you can take in that direction.”
Source: Quit Smoking and Be Free: 7 Steps to a Smoke Free Life
“The need for nicotine is stronger than the rules of a men.”
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