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Hi everyone,
Don't get mad at little ol' non-smoker me with that title - it was words from Mark Twain. (You'll have to read the rest of the sentence from the link)
Seriously though, this article on does make good points and I hope it helps anyone trying to give up the ghastly weed. In my experience, all the people I know who have been healed of addiction through this system of spiritual thinking and identification have found that the addiction has left them (rather than the other way around) - often instantaneously, with no withdrawal symptoms either.
It's easy to quit smoking...
I thought of it like graffiti scribbled over the surface of something good and beautiful. Underneath the superimposed ugliness is the natural state. Thinking further on this I understood that my previous unsuccessful attempts to quit stemmed from a belief that my identity included being a smoker. But if you believe you’re a smoker who is trying not to smoke, you set up an awful inner tension between what you believe yourself to be and what you are attempting to be.
Love and peace,
Judy
RE: It's easy to quit smoking...
if you believe you’re a smoker who is trying not to smoke, you set up an awful inner tension between what you believe yourself to be and what you are attempting to be.
In regards to addictions in general (I have no experience of a smoking addiction and therefore can't comment specifically) I couldn't agree more! Being a smoker who is 'trying not to smoke' is almost the same as someone saying 'don't think of a pink elephant'- the first thing you think of, is of course the pink elephant. The same goes for the smoker- in trying not to be a smoker, they are focussed on the very thing they don't want in their life- smoking! I completely agree that not concentrating on the problem will only make the problem expand, so that you create more of what you don't want in your life. Shifting your awareness to good health, and a loving appreciation of your body is much nicer!
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Hi Azalia,
Sorry, I haven’t replied sooner, but I hadn’t subscribed to this thread and don’t manage to get on HP very often these days.
You are so right in what you said about the pink elephant! What always saddens me too, is that addicts are told that addiction is part of them – that "once an addict, always an addict" and that, though you can manage it by avoiding the substance, you’ve got it for life. Self-fulfilling prophesy.
I’ve just been a housemother at a wonderful two-week holiday for young Christian Scientists aged 15 to 30. At our two Wednesday testimony meetings, one participant after another told of complete freedom from addiction through the study of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. One young man had been driven to the point of suicide by the depression caused by his addiction to narcotics. What so many had in common and what this link that I found today on brings out is that, as I said above, the addiction left them, rather than the other way around. The taste of both tobacco and alcohol became like poison and with the drugs, they simply had no desire for them any more. There was no struggle.
This testimony by a young man whose addictions became much worse because of a divorce is just so inspiring as not only was he freed from the addictions as a result of his study of Christian Science, but also of the pain of his divorce and the additional blessing was finding a happy marriage so quickly afterwards.
Freed from addiction to alcohol and tobacco
If you’d like me to tell you about how my mother helped a friend’s husband to find complete freedom, not only from severe asthma, but also his addiction to smoking and alcohol overnight, let me know. (I don’t want to bore people with my long posts!)
Judy
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What always saddens me too, is that addicts are told that addiction is part of them – that "once an addict, always an addict" and that, though you can manage it by avoiding the substance, you’ve got it for life. Self-fulfilling prophesy.
I agree. It is true for mental illness too (although addictions could arguably fall under this category)- I knew someone who had battled with for 10 years with eating disorders and was repeatedly told by health professionals that she could only learn to 'deal with it' and complete recovery was unlikely. She is now completely recovered, and a lot stronger spiritually as a result. Just goes to show!
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Well ive just started again after just 3 days of no ciggs 
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Have you tried EFT Mark?
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Hi Mark
I've got a giving up date for Monday 19th. I feel ready but know from previous attempts how b****y difficult it is!
It is really difficult to think of yourself as a non smoker, I am 34 and have been smoking for 19 years, I have never been into a pub and not sparked up (apart from when pregnant when it was a lot easier to stop). I have friends who smoke and it will be difficult to be with them, total change of routine.
I might have a look at some of the above links and try to approach it differently this time, I'll give anything a try.
Lisa