The Quit Smoking Report Ezine

The Quit Smoking Report 12/21/99
Published on the first and third Tuesday of each month

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In this issue:

<> Letter from the Editor
<> Top 10 List
<> Featured Product: E-Z Quit Smokeless Artificial Cigarette
<> Article: Instantly Reduce Your Desire to Smoke
<> Smokers' Stories

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Hello again everyone!

This is a momentous issue for The Quit Smoking Report. It's the
last issue before Christmas and the last issue before the big,
New Year.

I hope you have prepared for the New Year by making your
resolutions to quit smoking. I've written a new report titled
"Smoking is Not Y2K Compatible", which is now available to read
on the web site. Visit:
http://www.quitsmoking.com/info/articles/y2k.htm

The article in this issue is an excerpt from the "Y2K" report,
and will give you a very specific and very powerful method for
instantly reducing your desire to smoke. I encourage you to
study it carefully and follow along, actually practicing the
method it describes. I think you'll be amazed at how quickly it
works.

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Finally, let me say Merry Christmas and happy holidays to
everyone. Thank you for an exciting year at QuitSmoking.com. I
look forward to a great new year, with lots of successful New
Year's Resolutions!

If you are planning to quit on January 1st, you have the best
wishes and support of everyone here! You CAN and WILL QUIT!

Fred Kelley
fredk@quitsmoking.com
The Quit Smoking Company

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SMOKING TOP 10 LIST

I've simply run out of time to judge the entries for the current
Top 10 List, so I'm going to let the deadline for entries go
until the next issue. So, if you would like to display your
humorous talents, now's your chance.

Anyone can send in their entry to the Top 10 list. You may send
as many entries as you want. THEY SHOULD BE FUNNY! For complete
rules and details, visit the web site at
http://www.quitsmoking.com/top10/index.htm

Here's the next Top 10 List topic:
Top 10 lies I told (or tell) my parents about my smoking.

Send your HUMOROUS entries to: [address removed - contest over]
Be sure to send me your name so I can give you credit.

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ARTICLE: Instantly Reduce Your Desire to Smoke

Excerpt from the report "Smoking is Not Y2K Compatible"
which is available at http://www.quitsmoking.com

by Fred H. Kelley

I'm a big fan of Tony Robbins. He's a businessman, author and
motivational speaker who has continually helped me to realize my
higher potential. In his audio cassette program "Live With
Passion", Robbins explains his system of "quality quantifiers."
I know that sounds complicated and difficult, but it's really
quite simple and powerful. Spend five minutes doing this
exercise and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how quickly you
can change your craving for cigarettes.

First, let's talk about your desire. Desire for what? Well,
anything. Something triggers your desire, as we've already
discussed. For example, when you smell popcorn in a movie
theater lobby, you may immediately run to the refreshment line
because you just "gotta have it." Or perhaps you detest the
smell, and your level of desire is already low on the scale of
desire, in which case you'd want to get in the theater away from
the smell right away. The same smell causes two opposite
reactions. Interesting. Why? The trigger, or the smell cause the
two people to search for a change in the qualities of the
sensation and emotion they are experiencing. In other words, one
person absolutely loves popcorn and the smell drives that person
crazy with desire. They're salivating immediately. The popcorn
lover wants to change their current state or sensation from
simply smelling it to the state of consuming it, moving the
quality of the sensation way up on the scale. On the other hand
the popcorn-hater wants nothing to do with popcorn and wants to
get the smell out of their nose immediately, and therefore
leaves the room as quickly as possible.

So we can have a level of desire somewhere in negative or
positive territory, or a neutral, take-it-or-leave rating. So
let's use Robbins' scale and call it plus 10 and minus 10. Plus
10 means you feel like you would do anything to get whatever it
is that we're looking at or thinking about. You absolutely love
it, you couldn't live without it and you want it now. When you
get cravings for cigarettes and you feel like you'll die if you
can't get a smoke, you're probably at plus 10. Minus 10, on the
other hand is when you can't stand something, you wouldn't take
a million dollars to try it or taste it or whatever, and you
don't want anything to do with it.

We all have this scale of desire that we apply to everything in
our lives. The problem is that we don't think about it most of
the time. We just live and let live, as life just blows us from
one port to the next, one cigarette to the next.

The exciting aspect of the scale of desire is that you can
actively control and choose your level of desire. And more
important, you can change your level of desire almost
instantaneously!

Don't believe me? Let's try it.

Get a cigarette out but don't light it. Just place it in front
of you on your desk or somewhere that you can see it.

Now, on a scale of plus 10 to minus 10, where are you regarding
that cigarette? Are you at zero, with a take-it-or-leave-it
feeling, or are you disgusted by it, and don't want to look at
it, perhaps a minus nine or ten. I'm willing to be that you're
somewhere around plus 8. We've been focused on smoking for quite
a while now. If you've been reading for a few minutes without
smoking, you may be ready for your next cigarette break. So I'm
guessing that you are just about ready to pounce on the
cigarette. But don't do it! Just keep reading. This is where it
gets exciting!

I want you to really feel this exercise. Do it, don't just read
it. This is very important! If you don't have a cigarette in
front of you, stop right now and get one. Then we'll continue.

Now, if you're not a plus 8 on the scale (meaning you really
want the cigarette), what would it take for you to raise your
level of desire to plus 8? What do you have to imagine or feel
or see or do to raise your level of desire to plus 8? Perhaps
you need to feel stressed or visualize a stressful situation.
Maybe you need to imagine that this cigarette is the last one in
your pack. Maybe it's the last one left in the world! Imagine
that you haven't smoked in several hours or that you just
finished a meal and you don't want to miss you normal smoke
break. Maybe you need to stare at the cigarette for a minute or
two. Whatever you need to do to get to plus 8, do that now.

Ok, notice what you did to increase your desire. What did you
think, feel, see, visualize, smell, taste and imagine?

Now raise your desire all the way to plus 10, but don't smoke!
This may take you a minute or two, but just be patient. Notice
again what you did to get to plus 10.

Now before you give in and smoke the cigarette, drop your level
of desire to plus 2 (Plus 2 means you "sort of" want the
cigarette, but you aren't dying to have it). What do you have to
do? You may need to break the pattern by looking away from the
cigarette or thinking about your car or the moon or physically
getting up from your desk. What can you think about that will
lower your desire? What emotions are you experiencing? Continue
this until you are down to plus 2.

Now go to zero--neutral. You are following along and doing this
right? If not, stop, go back to the beginning and really do
this!

Now go to minus 2--meaning that you find the cigarette somewhat
repulsive and do not want to smoke it. What did you do? What did
you imagine? What did you focus on? Did you imagine what smoking
would do to you? Did you see yourself in a hospital bed hooked
up to a respirator? If you have children visualize their lungs.
What must your smoking be doing to them?

Keep going down to minus 5 then minus 7. Think about the way you
felt the first time you smoked. You felt sick and green didn't
you? Think about your black lungs. Imagine all the phlegm that
must be oozing around down there. Ok, now are you getting close
to minus 7?

Now, drop your level of desire all the way down to minus 10,
where you are totally disgusted by smoking and never want to
even look at a cigarette again. You may have to visualize some
pretty gruesome images, such as your dead body, or your
children's dead body or your black lungs being cut open. Perhaps
you thought about all the money you've spent on cigarettes.
That's enough to sicken almost anyone! Maybe you thought about
getting cancer and having chemotherapy and losing all your hair.
Whatever it takes to get to minus 10, do that now.

The images are powerful, aren't they? Congratulations! Just a
few minutes ago you had to have a cigarette. Now you don't want
anything to do with it. What changed? Nothing more than your
level of desire, which you now see that you can fully control.
Now that you've done this exercise, you can instantly go to any
level. Now you can gain control over your state of urgency for a
cigarette.

You have learned to break your pattern of you "gotta have it".
Lower urgency by changing your focus (think about something
else), see smoking giving you pain, see gross things or bad,
disgusting things; add things, remove things; study smoking and
think about what it does to you. How will you feel in the end?

Get a clear target (the quality of experience that you want)
then figure out what it will take to make it happen. What is the
quality of an experience you want to have? What has to happen
for you to feel this way? What conditions must exist? Make sure
these are conditions you can control.

Part of urgency and heightened levels of desire for anything is
the sense of scarcity or the feeling of loss. When you just
"gotta have" a cigarette part of the urgency is probably an
unconscious feeling that if you don't get one right now you'll
never be able to get another one. Break this pattern by
visualizing your pack of cigarettes with 10,000 cigarettes
bulging out of the package. Remember that supplies are not
"limited" like most advertisements try to convince you.
Cigarette manufacturers make 6,050,000,000,000 cigarettes every
year, give or take few billion. They won't run out! So relax and
don't worry about scarcity. You can get more.

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SMOKERS' STORIES

If you can help these folks with your suggestions please send
them email.

Henry Grant <fnhwg@aurora.uaf.edu> writes:
Subject: No smoking

I quit on November 18, 1999 after 40 years of smoking and 4-5
times trying to stop. The motivation this time, I suspect, was
learning that two close friends had cancer. I dug around for
butts that night but afterwords it was ok. No craving like
previous quitting sessions. I guess the mind finally made the
decision. I don't cough but I still have nose problems. It has
to be better than smoking for 40 years.

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"A. Lemke" <alemke@wi.net> writes:
Subject: smoking

hi smokers and ex smokers--------well i'm 66 and have been
smoking since i was 16, tried to quit several times but went
right back to it when stress hit me.but the problem was still
there and i was still smoking. there is a saying "one is not to
many, 100is not enough" well that is true, thats how i got back
on it after 3 mo. free of cigs. that will tell you how many
times i have tried. my husband quit 8 yrs ago and never picked
up a smoke again, now i quit again,so far doing o.k. this may
sound strange but the only time i really want one is when i'm
watching t.v. then i have to cross my arms across my chest to
keep my hands locked up and i found it works. good luck to me
and all that wants to quit, most of it is in the mind that you
think you just have to have it but ride it out and it does get
easier. thanks for listening.

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Mark Guerette <crdthlp@bellsouth.net> writes:
Subject: Success Story

To Whom It May Concern

Hi my name is Mark Guerette, I have been smoking for about 18
years. I really do not need to tell you how nasty smoking is. I
know you know that the stinky stench of smoke that sticks to
your cloths must be extremely sickening to your loved ones. You
don't need to be told how all the black tar is sticking to your
lungs with every inhale of smoke you take, and how all the
chemicals are messing up your vital organs and turning them to a
glob of mushy pulp that when it finally gives out, your family
will be left to take care of you. If this is what you want then
by all means continue to smoke.

BUT, if you truly want to quit, then I recommend you first
establish that fact in your mind.

Give your problem to GOD. Ask him to work this miracle through
you. I finally did exactly what I am telling you. God pointed me
to a combination of herbal remedies that helped to combat the
side affects of not smoking, along with some acupuncture to help
control the nerves. Constant prayer and faith in my GOD was a
big key. In 7 days I was smoke free with no cravings. In fact I
cannot not stand the smell of smoke at all. I have thanked God
on several occasions for my family, and the fact that they loved
me enough to put up with all that stink.The bottom line folks.
Regardless if you smoke or not, God can help you over come any
hardship or addiction in your life. If you would like further
help feel free to e-mail me at crdthlp@bellsouth.net.

In my fathers name,
God Bless You all

P.S.
If you want I will put you in contact with my parents. I watched
my Dad lose a lung to cancer over 2 years ago. My mom will be
happy to tell you what hell that put all of us through. But once
again, God intervened and spared my Dads like from lung cancer.

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Trisha Springer <trishspringer@hotmail.com> writes:
Subject: I'm quitting and I need your help

I just recently ordered the quit smoking in 7 days program [Ed.
note: see our sponsor message for Smoke-Away] and as soon as I
get it in the mail I am going for it. I have smoked since I was
13. Being only 19 I haven't smoked for as long as most of the
people in the stories in your newsletter, but the addiction is
still there.

It would be great if some of the readers could send me their
"words of wisdom". I figure, the fuller my inbox is the less
time I will have to think about taking a smoke break. This is
going to be the hardest thing I have ever done, and any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Trisha Springer

Want to read more stories from successful quitters? Order a copy
of "The Last Puff - Ex-Smokers Share the Secrets of Their
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I hope to hear from you!

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Until next year, SMOKING IS NOT Y2K COMPATIBLE,

Fred Kelley

Next Issue: 01/04/00

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© Copyright 1999 Fred H. Kelley
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DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor or professional therapist.
The information included in this email is my opinion and the
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