Are you one of those people that finds yourself thinking, “I want to quit smoking, but I don’t really want to. A part of me still wants to smoke because I like it”? If, yes, then read to the end, and I’m going to give you practical tips, tricks, and hacks that you can use.

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How do you quit smoking even if you really don’t want to? We’ve got a 6-point action plan.

Before we get into the 6 points we really have to parse this statement down.

“How to quit smoking even if I really don’t want to.”

What do we mean by this? What does this statement even mean? There should be something in this statement that rings somewhat not true to you. It’s kind of a weird thing to say.

“How do I quit smoking even if I really don’t want to?” If you really don’t want to then don’t quit smoking. That’s the obvious answer, but this is actually more complex than that. The truth is this is a serious question people that want to quit smoking ask themselves.

It’s authentic and real. It’s not inauthentic or fake. It’s a real thing for people. So, we really need to parse into this. What do we mean by this? What we’re really saying is we are incongruent. We’re conflicted. Our mind is conflicted and incongruent.

Our conscious mind says, “I don’t want to smoke. I don’t want to smoke.”

Your unconscious mind says, “Give me another,” and we just light up.

This is an internal conflict in our mind. It’s real. We’re incongruent. Most people that want to quit smoking also have this aspect of not really wanting to.

As a former smoker myself this was a personal battle. Not wanting to quit was right. In fact, if smoking wasn’t going to cost me 14 years of my life, wasn’t so bad for my health, and was good for me I’d probably still be smoking today.

I didn’t really want to quit, but I wanted something more for my life.

So what’s driving this conflict inside of us? We know what it is from psychiatry and from neuroscience. What’s really driving this internal conflict is fear.

I could make a list for you of all the people I’ve talked to over the years. I’ve helped over 9,000 people quit smoking for life, and I’ve talked to all of them. The list of fears is massive.

• Will I be bored if I quit smoking?
• What will I do when I quit smoking?
• Am I going to become depressed?
• Am I going to become irritable angry?
• Is everyone around me going to hate me?

The fears about quitting smoking are real, but there’s good news. We know how to get around this without having to directly deal or confront the fear. That’s what I’m going to give you.

I have 6 tips that you can use practically to get around this fear and actually be successful at quitting smoking. So let’s get right into them.

Tip #1. Find your motivation or your inception point. What you’re doing here is starting with the end goal in mind. Your goal is to actually quit smoking no matter what method you’re using. It’s basically all cold-turkey at some point. You have to just quit. That actual quit moment I call the “inception point”.

To be successful when you get to the inception point where do you have to be? It’s like walking down on a diving board. When you get to the end of the diving board that is your inception point. All the way up to the end of the diving board is all the minutia that goes on in your mind, the fears.

• This is really high.
• I’m afraid of heights.
• Am I going to belly flop?

You go through that process on the journey to the end of the diving board, but when you get to the end and you actually jump there are three things that you need to have.

You can get more information on this from my video How to Change Any Habit, but here are just three of the things you have to have when you make that jump.       

You need the belief that something has to change. I’m going to call it the “sick and tired of being sick and tired”. You have to have a relationship with smoking where you’ve gotten sick and tired of being sick and tired of smoking.

You’ll be really done with it.

You have to be at the point where you know something has to change. That something must – and I mean MUST – change.

 Do you want to know if you’re not there yet? If you’re saying you know something has to change, but you’re focusing on smoking being an addiction you are not there.

An addiction is outside of us. Whenever we say, “Oh, it’s an addiction,” we’re saying that’s outside of us. That happens to us. We’re blame something outside of us.

Smoking is an addiction, but it’s not really what drives us or what keeps us stuck. It doesn’t really get in your way of quitting. It only gets in your way if you’re focused on the addiction. If that’s how you’re framing it, you’re not at the end of the diving board.

Now, we’ve come to the third thing that you need to have. You need to know that something that has to change has to be you.

It has to be internal to you. When you reframe smoking as a habit you can change it. Habit is our own fault. Habit is internal to us. We can change a habit.

Something has to change, and that something must be you. You have to change. We need to stop blaming the addiction.

Now you’re on the diving board, and you have to just jump.

To change any habit you have to have those three qualities: something has to change, that something must be me, and it’s got to change now.

In these next five points I’m going to tell you how to get there.

Tip #2. Find the truth. Do the research. This is about motivating yourself. Find out what the benefits of quitting smoking are, and what the risks are if you continue to smoke. Here’s why you need to look up both. The first one, the benefits of quit smoking, is about motivating you through reward. Finding the risks of continuing smoking is about fear. Both are powerful motivators.   

Everyone’s personality is different. Some people may be more reward focused, and other people may be more fear focused, but the truth is everybody’s both.    

As humans we’re wired to be motivated by both. Here’s the thing. You’re unique. You’re going to be dominant one or the other, but both are useful. So, do the research on both, and when you do the research keep asking yourself these questions. What do I want to create in my life? What’s my vision for my future?

The more time we consider the benefits of quitting and the risk of continuing, the more we are framing what we want for ourselves in the future.

Ask yourself, “Is smoking something I have a vision for? Do I want to see it in my future?”

If you answer the question with a yes just stop reading and go smoke. If your answer is, “No, I don’t,” just constantly remind yourself that this is not what you see in your future.

This is something we call in hypnosis “future pacing”.

You’re starting to pace your future.

This is a really good, little trick.

Tip #3. Get support. Get a quit smoking buddy, somebody who helps motivate you when times are tough.

Hold yourself accountable. One really great way to hold yourself accountable is to make public declarations. Scream your quit date and that you’re quitting smoking from the mountaintop. Post it on Facebook. Create social pressure on yourself.

 Join a program. Make sure you utilize this.

Look up stacking. We’re going to go into this later, but all I really want you to know is 93% of people who are successful at quitting smoking have joined and paid a program. Only 7% of people ever do it without joining a program. Just keep that in mind.

Tip #4. Prepare and plan. There is a reason why. We know from human psychology people who are successful at anything all have 1 element. That is they prepare and plan. Some people get lucky, and they win the lottery. Well, if you want your chances of quitting smoking to be the same as winning the lottery I wish you the best of luck. If you want to be successful you need to prepare and plan.

This is why you want to set a quit date that’s at least a week or 2 weeks off. You want your mind to have that time to start to wrestle with the fact that you’re actually going to quit. That’s the walking out on the diving board metaphor. That’s the quit smoking journey.

Pay. Do the research. That’s part of preparing and planning. Download an e-book on preparing your mind for quitting smoking, and very importantly I want you to follow the advice and learn from people who are successful.

So, what do I mean by that? I’m not talking about somebody in a Facebook group who said they quit smoking for 6 months, and then 3 months later they’re smoking again but don’t post that fact in the group. The people you want to lean on are people that have run very successful businesses and practices to help people quit smoking. You want advice from people that have done it for years. For example, in my particular case I’ve helped literally over 9,000 people quit smoking for life. I have an incredible amount of knowledge and learning from all of those experiences because I helped them personally.

So, lean on that. Lean on my expertise. Take advantage of that free 30 minute phone consultation I put in the link below this post. Learn from me. Take advantage of my eBook. It’s free. Just go on my website and download my eBook The Secret to Preparing Your Mind for Quitting Smoking, or read somebody else’s, but lean on the expertise that people like me have.

Tip #5. Learn about cravings and how to combat them, because cravings are real.

Here are 6 methods we teach in my program. We actually teach 12, but I’m going to give you 6 of them. I’m not going to explain them all to you, but they’re out there and they do work.

• The Exercise Model. It’s not my favorite because I don’t like to exercise.
• The De-Stress Method. This addresses how you deal with stress, smoking, and the relationship between the 2.
• The Timer Method. This is one of the most underutilized methods to dealing with cravings.
• The Oral/Hand Method. This has to do with oral fixation, because you put your hand to your mouth 300 to 400 times a day for however long; 10, 20, 30 years. You can end up with oral/hand fixation. There’s a method to deal with that.
• The Trigger List Method. One of the reasons most people fail is they can’t deal with the triggers that drive the cravings and the withdrawal. Learn the trigger list method or a trigger list method.
• Meditative/Focus Method. There are lots of methods that you can use to deal cravings so learn them. Learn how to deal with cravings.

Tip #6.  Pick a method. Essentially, just pick a method and go with it. In fact, you will hear me even say in some of my motivational talks to jump into whatever you do. Just do something.

There’s truth to that because there is power in action. There is power in doing something, anything, but if you want to have the highest chance of success here’s what you want to do. You need to realize that there’s only 12 known methods to quitting smoking. Really, there’s just 3 because all 12 methods fall into 3 categories.

They are:

• Methods that deal with the conscious mind.
• Methods that treat smoking like an addiction. (If you want to be unsuccessful at quitting smoking you’ll just do this one okay.)
• Methods that deal with the unconscious mind.

Out of all of these, the methods that deal with the unconscious mind are the most successful methods. Why? Well, the reason why is you’re stuck smoking because of a habit not an addiction. It is an addiction, but that is not what’s really driving you to smoke.

Addiction is not the reason why you can’t stop thinking about a cigarette. Why do you think you can’t stop thinking about a cigarette? It’s a habit!

You smoked every time you had a coffee. You smoked every time you got in your car, and you did it for 20 years. You did it every day. You created a neural pathway in your mind. We call it rutted thinking.

It has nothing to do with addiction – nothing.

If you think it does you’re probably going to fail at quitting smoking.

The unconscious models focus on dealing with that in your unconscious mind. I’m not promoting the unconscious method. Here’s what I’m actually promoting. Six years ago when I was just doing hypnosis like everyone else (That’s using the unconscious mind method.) I was 60% successful just like everyone else, but when I invented stacking my success rate rose to 95%.

So what is stacking? Stacking is when you do all 3 methods.

Why do only 1 method? You’re a whole person. You have a conscious mind. It’s real. Smoking really actually is an addiction, it’s just not really driving you to smoke, and you really have an unconscious mind.

You’re a whole person. You’re not a piece of a person so why only attack 1 piece?

If you do nicotine replacement therapy why only do the patch or only the gum? Why are you only doing that? Why not read Alan Carr’s book too? It’s a good book, granted, he personally used hypnosis to quit smoking not his book, but it’s still a good book. It does help your conscious mind. Yes, it has a very low success rate, but it’s still a good book.

Use all of them. Stack them together. That’s what my program does.

Look for programs that stack these 3 different methods, and that don’t just promote 1 method.

Most programs will just promote hypnosis, or they’ll just promote nicotine replacement therapy like the gum, the patch, and NicoDerm, or they’ll just get you to download on app.  They’ll just get you to do 1. Do all 3.

That’s the secret. It’s a great tip. Don’t just pick a method, take them all.

People will do my program, and they’ll ask me if they can do Chantix too, and I say yes. Do it. You’re a whole person. The more angles we attack smoking from the more likely we are to be successful.

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Like I said earlier, lean on me. I’ve helped so many people quit smoking. I’ve helped 9,000 people in my program, but I’ve helped way more people who quit smoking by simply reading my content and watching my videos so take advantage of that link. Call me. Set yourself up for being successful at quitting smoking. I’m happy to help. Email me. Direct message me. It is not hard to get ahold of me and/or find me.

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