Can you see yourself as a non-smoker?

If you are thinking about quitting smoking, or are currently trying to quit it's really important that you are able to see yourself as a non-smoker.

And I don't mean just thinking 'Yeah, well I'm quitting aren't I?' or 'Well I'm trying, we'll see what happens.'

I mean you must be able to see yourself dealing with every day situations, keeping yourself entertained, drinking, finishing meals, waking up, driving to work, having your lunch and especially enjoyng your life as a non-smoker.

If you cannot see yourself as a non-smoker handling these situations and enjoying life then you need to re-think your attempt to stop smoking.

If you don't really want to stops moking, if you don't want to remove all desires to smoke and all urges and lust for cigarettes you are shooting yourself in the foot and making your job ten times harder.

There are many ex-smokers out there who, after ten years without smoking still want a cigarette - they still ust after them and wish for 'just one.'

This is self-defeating and if you do not plan on how to beat this mindset, you, if you do actually succeed in stopping smoking, will go from being a smoker who thinks he wants to stop to a non-smoker who wants a cigarette.

This creates an unhappy you who does want cigarettes, who believes that his life is actually worse since stopping smoking and who is unhappy with himself for having to 'give up' his pleasure.

There are only two outcomes when you become an ex-smoker who wishes he could smoke.

1. You hate yourself for having to give up your source of stress, relief, satisfaction, pleasure and confidence and therefore being unable to live happily as a non-smoker - which is the very thing you and those wanted for you when you decided to stop smoking.

or

2. You return to smoking.

Neither is a prosperous result.

Whatever you do make sure you plan on how you are going to live your life when you stop smoking.

You need to find something that will take the focus away from smoking, something that will overpower and eliminate the disire to smoke and something that will help you to enjoy your life as a non-smoker.

If you don't take time to plan these things you will surely turn into permanently miserable non-smoker who wishes he could have a cigarette. And what's the point in quitting smoking if you aren't going to be able to enjoy it?

See yourself as a happy non-smoker, want it and plan on how you are going to acheive it.