Fact or Fiction:

1. To Quit Smoking Now takes will power.

2. Focusing on the reasons you shouldn't smoke will make it easier to quit.

What do you say to yourself ? I'm not strong enough, poor health, less money or even broke, being a slave to a disgusting habit? Does thinking of these things really help to convince you to quit smoking now? Each one appears reasonable, yet you continue to smoke.

Next, you will think , smoking relaxes me, it helps me to concentrate, it relieves stress, I feel like I'm doing something,. Wow, and you suddenly feel better about smoking. Do you really feel better or is your decision to continue to smoke one of fear? Fear of the thought that you can not quit, you are too weak.

What if the opposite was true? What if it was the smoking that made you feel anxious to begin with, now you need that cigarette to counter act it?

What if the cigarette was really a disraction from what you needed to be focused on?

What if you felt stress from the result of smoking and you only think your not when your distracted with a cigarette in your mouth.

Have you ever seen a dog chase his tail? Don't you wonder what's the payoff? What is the reward of the dog actually catching his tail? I saw a dog catch his tail once but he didn't stop going in circle, instead he seem to be so pleased with himself it appeared he put even more energy into going in circles.

Well if these thoughts don't make you think something's up, think of this.....

It’s like we are on a marry-go-round, we want to quit smoking now so we buy another “latest” product off the shelf. Time goes by, enduring the awful side effects week after week with little results and less confidence then we began with we give in to the almighty butt and suck away. We either KEEP smoking or KEEP quitting, am I right?

What just happened…. Seriously, what just happened? We built our self up to the point of taking on another chance, the ole, please God take these cigarettes from me, cure me, heal me, I want to quit smoking NOW, to sitting on the sidelines joining our many friends who give us a pat on the back as they all light up at on lunch break at the same time consoling you, “You did a good job Joe/Susie, Nice Try, that’s ok take a break, You’ll Do Better Next Time. Deep inside your friends saying to themselves, I can;t quit, I'll never do that good. But deep inside ourself we are thinking there is no next time, I’m a failure, I’m a no-body.

Really? Is that true, you’re a failure, a no-body? But surely you do some things right in life, Surely you’re not a failure in all things, right?

But wait, how do you know it was you that failed? Did you not try so many products and they seem to give you the same results?

Sure, most of us want a magic button, click, snap, poof…. We’re cured, we’ll never want to smoke again. Ha Ha…. In this life time… it will never happen. Why, because if it did, then everyone who truly wanted to quit would quit and then the tobacco companies and pharmaceutical companies would go out of business. You see, as long as we are made to believe we are the ones that failed then we will do one of two things. We will either go back to smoking, which most of us do, or we simply pull out that credit card and buy the next best latest and greatest magic product on the shelf. I’m right, yes? There are maybe a few exceptions to that but certainly not many. If you’re reading this because you want to find the answer to quit smoking now once and for all, I think you know what I mean.

We the consumer, well, we are the just that, the consumer of either cigarettes or the products to help us quit, right? With that said who is really the ones benefiting here? In most cases its not us, the consumer. But more like the Big Business, namely Tobacco and Pharmaceutical companies that prey on us like wolves to the kill.

We really wanted to believe that new product was going to be our saving grace and free us from the clutches of eminent struggle through life fighting for our every breath. But maybe it was the product that failed us. What, you think it’s strange I say that? Of course, when most people don’t stop smoking after using a product they just spent $10’s, $100’s even $1000's of dollars on you will most likely hear them say that product was no good. But the truth lies inside, deep inside. What many people really think even if they don’t say it to themselves is, “I’m no good, I’ll never quit, I’ll never be happy, I’ll never be free, I can’t do it” until they muster up enough energy to go through that torture again later down the road.

My personal thought on the subject is, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. Let me say it again, the main reason people fail to quit (and why it took almost 40 years of smoking for me to learn this) is that from the time we were little children we have been lied to and literally programmed by the power of the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries as well as the media to believe that we are heavily addicted and cannot quit. Between having you keep smoking, and, keep quitting, they have a vested interest in keeping you as a dying, sorry I mean paying, customer. Not a laughing matter at all but you see my point?

Is this starting to make sense now? Well, it took me a while to figure it out and then one day it was clear as a blue sky. You want to know the amazing thing that happened to me? It changed my life and you’d never guess it in a million years, but you can try.... did I have enough will power? Did I make a mantra out of all the reasons I should quit? I'll give you a hint, I didn't buy into the deception that big industry intended for me to. You want the answer for you? I'm pretty sure if you follow me here you'll find what your looking for to Quit Smoking Now!