Sunday June 1, 2008
The Star
Create the will to quit
By JULIAN A. LEICESTER
This is the
first in a series of seven articles on creating the will to stop smoking.
FOR the last
seven years, it has been my quest to discover how you can eliminate the smoking
habit. I would like to introduce my seven-step “Cigarette Slayer” method as
another way to help smokers quit. I hope you will learn some of these
techniques as a step forward to beat this revolting habit.
I have
conducted many clinical and public stop-smoking seminars over the years and the
steps are kept simple with the only sole objective of positioning a smoker to a
free will for change.
So if you are
ready and committed to decide to quit, then let’s first start with
understanding how to achieve clarity and get started.
The first step
is to be clear and understand your smoking habit. - AP photo
Step one: Get
clarity – understand the smoking habit
Consider this
fact: To quit smoking, you need to address the mechanics of the mental addiction
in this revolting habit.
Please note
that the cigarette is not your focus at all to quit! The cigarette is only
dried leaves wrapped in paper! How can it be so sophisticated to control and
keep you in the habit?
Using
anti-smoking products may help, but it not necessarily means that your smoking
habit will disappear forever. Smoking is a product of the mind. Get clarity
about this fact now.
The centre of
your smoking habit is the interdependency of how your mind creates meaning and
value to your cigarettes. It is an intricate interplay of your conscious and
subconscious mind in enforcement and constant reinforcement of your habit.
How do those
dried leaves wrapped in paper come be your remote control and can get you to
puff even when you know the health risks? Don’t you feel strange about that
fact? How could we be so derailed into believing that pleasure can come from
puffing dried leaves?
It is quite
hilarious when we consider it in the light of such thinking.
What you must
do now
Focus is like
the light of an electric torch in your hand. Point it at your cigarette habit
and it will stay illuminated. Point the torch elsewhere and your cigarette
habit remains in the dark.
Focus is that
beam in your mindset that forms your inner torch.
This focus is
the conditioned thought, your wish to hold. It is only where you focus most
that your mind and actions will expand the most. It’s time to shift your
internal torch compass and focus elsewhere.
Focus on your
commitment for health. Be crystal clear about this. Everyone can make a
decision about something, but not everyone can make a powerful committed
decision fuelled with incisive action.
Design your
health destiny. Decide and commit now! You must focus on your quit results. You
know that results never lie. Get clarity that it’s your lungs that is being
contaminated by burning dried leaves wrapped in paper. Take charge and be the
cigarette slayer now.
The above steps have been kept simple. The steps are the
original patented work values of stop-smoking specialist, Julian A. Leicester.
Julian’s life goals are to help every smoker in this planet learn the will to
quit smoking. His seminars and one-to-one sessions empower smokers to quit
without a drug or product. For further information, e-mail starhealth@thestar.com.my. The information
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