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<\/a>Obviously I knew that smoking wasn\u2019t right for me and I was ashamed that I was doing it or ashamed that I had failed to quit. \u00a0Either way the stress of not quitting or always hiding it kept me smoking for years, and years.<\/p>\nI tried every gimmick on the market to try to quit smoking and many of them worked for a \u00a0period of time and then I\u2019d get derailed and find myself smoking again.<\/p>\n
I believe my first attempt was laser treatment, \u00a0I\u2019m not even sure if they do it anymore. \u00a0But what is was, it was like acupuncture without the needles. \u00a0 So they would use a laser to hit the trigger points, that would somehow tell my brain to forget that I was a smoker, to erase any evidence that I wanted to smoke at all, or something like that. \u00a0All the triggers that would make me want to smoke, like driving, or reading or having coffee, drinking etc, would no longer activate my urge to smoke. \u00a0My car was a big one for me, it\u2019s like my car wouldn\u2019t start until that cigarette was lit.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that seemed to work for a while, I quit for at least 6 months with that way, but I seem to remember that something always seemed to be missing and\u00a0gnawing\u00a0away at me. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t go anywhere without a bag of sunflower seeds to keep my hands and mouth busy, and I drank a lot more beer. \u00a0 So I hadn\u2019t really kicked the habit, just traded one for 2 others.<\/p>\n
So I started again.\u00a0 I always seemed to have \u00a0two different groups of friends, the ones like my softball team, who I would freely smoke around and then the ones, who I was ashamed to smoke around.<\/p>\n For years, some of my closest friends didn\u2019t even know I\u2019d smoke because,\u00a0whenever\u00a0we were at conferences or events, I would always sneak back to my hotel room and smoke out on the balcony hoping nobody would ever see me. \u00a0 Talk about a stressful situation.<\/p>\n I tried nicotine patches, that did nothing for me, I\u2019d take the patch off just to have a cigarette and then put it back on afterwards. \u00a0Dumb!<\/p>\n I tried a new drug called Zyban, which turns out was actually an anti\u00a0depressant\u00a0 \u00a0It worked \u00a0well to for a while. \u00a0 The thing with Zyban is, you start taking these pills and continue to smoke, and the idea is to wean yourself off of the\u00a0cigarettes\u00a0slowly. \u00a0 Again it was something that\u00a0affected\u00a0the brain, I would literally forget to smoke. \u00a0 I\u2019d be at a point where I\u2019d say to myself okay I\u2019m going to go smoke now, then I\u2019d get sidetracked and\u00a0literally\u00a0forget to go and have that cigarette. \u00a0 Wild.<\/p>\n The only thing with Zyban was, it would give me really wild dreams and my sleeping became very\u00a0interrupted\u00a0 \u00a0 I am a very lucid dreamer anyways and can\u00a0nearly\u00a0always remember my dreams upon waking, but this Zyban did something to heighten them even more, so not only were my dreams crazy but I would wake frequently during the night, so I stopped having restful sleeps. \u00a0So obviously the pills had to go.<\/p>\n I started again, feeling even more defeated then before.<\/p>\n Quitting was too hard, so I decided at that point that I am a smoker and I am just going to smoke and stop beating myself up about it.<\/p>\n A few years later, I went to a women\u2019s fun night and event of some kind, most likely a fundraiser. \u00a0I can\u2019t remember the details of the event exactly, but I do remember that was the first time I got hypnotized.<\/p>\n Apparently I am highly\u00a0susceptible\u00a0to suggestion, I found myself on stage, swooning over the hypnotist because I thought he was Ricky Martin (power of suggestion), I was surfing on stage, I cried over a fish that died, I was flying the\u00a0Star ship\u00a0Enterprise, all sorts of\u00a0crazy\u00a0things. \u00a0 I am a great subject for hypnotists, and since then I have been hypnotized in many situations but that\u2019s for another time.<\/p>\n Yep I had sworn off quitting again but when I saw an\u00a0advertisement\u00a0to quit smoking by Again, notice the pattern here? \u00a0It was another method that involves the brain to quit smoking, not drug replacement therapy, not sunflower seeds, not the timer that tells you when you can smoke and slowly decreases the amount of cigarettes you can have, not feeding more nicotine into my system. \u00a0 This was another way to quit that\u00a0focused\u00a0on the brain at a\u00a0subconscious\u00a0level.<\/p>\n That hypnosis session worked!<\/p>\n I walked out of the auditorium, through my cigarettes away and didn\u2019t pick up another one for almost 2 years.<\/p>\n Damn!<\/p>\n When they say don\u2019t even take one puff, they mean it. \u00a0This was when\u00a0flavored\u00a0cigarillos had hit the market. \u00a0 I tried one of my ball team members,\u00a0Raspberry\u00a0flavored Prime Times and that was it.<\/p>\n That was all it took and I was a full time smoker again. \u00a0I tried another Romane session again and it worked, (*or should I say I worked) briefly and I was smoking again.<\/p>\n Now I will tell you, I couldn\u2019t put a regular cigarette to my lips because it just tasted to bad, but my now Strawberry Flavored\u00a0Bullseye\u00a0cigarettes were a joy to smoke.<\/p>\n How do I know it is for good?<\/p>\n A book and a one day workshop was all it took for me to quit smoking for good<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t even remember who told me about this book, perhaps it was Jay because he wanted so much for me to quit, but whoever it was thank you.<\/p>\n The book is called. \u00a0 \u201cThe Easy Way to Stop Smoking\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n As you are reading the book, he\u2019ll tell you to smoke through it constantly, the more you read the less you want to smoke. \u00a0(normally)<\/p>\n He doesn\u2019t use any scare tactics, no statistics about dying young, lung cancer, emphysema\u00a0 none of those things. \u00a0 It\u2019s just a short entertaining read that taps into your brain and makes you realize how utterly, ridiculous it it to smoke.<\/p>\n It helps you empower you and tap\u00a0into\u00a0your inner power to take back control of your life instead of being a slave to the little nicotine monster.<\/p>\n I love being free!\u00a0 This book alone I believe will work for the majority of people who want to quit smoking for good<\/strong>, but I wanted a little more reassurance. \u00a0 Se one of the things that keeps being pointed out in the book is how shitty cigarettes actually taste.<\/p>\n OOPS BIG\u00a0DILEMMA\u00a0FOR ME! I LIKE HOW MY STRAWBERRY SMOKES TASTE.<\/p>\n I could see the logic in the book and everything he wrote sounded right on but I felt like I needed that extra little boost to guarantee my success so I registered for his one day workshop<\/a> he did in Vancouver.<\/p>\n Again, it\u2019s all logic, a little visualization, lot\u2019s of fun and they keep forcing you to go out for scheduled smoke breaks. \u00a0 Normally when I\u2019m attending an event, I can hardly wait for our breaks so I could go and smoke. \u00a0 But not this one, by early afternoon, I was not enjoying my smoke breaks at all.<\/p>\n When I left that night, I left my cigarettes in the room and knew I would never smoke again.<\/p>\n Or so I thought\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026I did the stupid thing a week or so later and bought a pack of Bullseye, and started to smoke them, I don\u2019t even know why. \u00a0Something major had probably happened, so I started smoking again. \u00a0(that was my excuse)<\/p>\n I think I smoked for a day or two but everything from the book<\/a> and the seminar<\/a> kept creeping back in my mind, and the beautiful thing was, \u2026 \u00a0it was stronger then any desire to smoke was, the logic of it over powered any nicotine monster and my brain and my will took over and clearly made me realize that I am a non smoker and I have quit smoking for good!<\/strong><\/p>\n That was five years ago.<\/p>\n People ask me if I miss it, NO.<\/p>\n Will I ever smoke again? \u00a0NO.<\/p>\n Matter of fact many of my close friends in Honduras smoke and I have zero desire to go there again. \u00a0I will admit I had a puff one night and it sucked more than anything.<\/p>\n From a person who has tried everything, this will assist you to quit smoking for good<\/em> if you want to.<\/p>\n To breaking free,<\/p>\n Michelle<\/p>\n P.S. \u00a0Please share this article, if it can help just one person break free from smoking and enjoy their life, then please share. \u00a0Get the Easy Way to Stop Smoking Here<\/a><\/p>\n![\"quit](\"\/michb101\/files\/2012\/11\/smoking.jpg\")
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<\/a> Romane I had to attend the session, knowing how easily I can be put under.<\/p>\nSo how did I finally quit smoking for good?<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>What\u2019s amazing about this book and his 1 day workshop is, it\u2019s just all common sense. \u00a0It truly reprograms your brain so you don\u2019t even want to smoke, you become a non smoker.<\/p>\n![\"quit](\"\/michb101\/files\/2012\/11\/financial_freedom-300x199.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nI know without doubt, with full certainty that I have quit smoking for good.<\/h2>\n