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Stop Smoking Service
KEEP TRYING TO STOP KEEP FAILING?
This
service
won’t
treat
you
like
a
child
or
try
to
make
you
feel
like
a
bad
person
for
smoking
in
the
first
place,
there
is
no
implied
guilt
or
blame
and
no
disapproving
snide
remarks
for
being
a
smoker,
this
service
is
aimed
at
the hardened smoker who finds it impossible to stop smoking.
•
Are you trying to stop smoking tobacco?
•
Trying to give up smoking tobacco and keep failing?
•
Have you given up giving up?
Do you want to find out how to make it happen and really stop smoking cigarettes?
Why
is
it
that
some
people
can
give
up
smoking
tobacco
so
easily?
To
find
the
answer
we
first
need
to
understand
why
people
smoke
tobacco,
this
is
not
always
as
simple
as
you
may
think,
for
some
people
smoking
is
nothing
more
than
a
bad
habit,
just
like
some
people
who
bites
their
nails,
it
is
a
bad
habit
that
may
be
difficult
to
tackle
but
it
is
not
classed
as
an
addiction.
Can you identify any similarities with yourself from the following five statements?
1
Some
people
smoke
because
they
need
the
ritual
of
smoking
cigarettes
to
support
their
low
self-esteem
or
confidence
issues;
it
is
used
as
support
mechanism
especially
in
times
of
high
stress
or
anxiety
to
help
the
person
cope,
or
they
believe
it
helps
them
to
cope
and
belief
can
be
a
very
powerful
defender of an ideology, even if that belief is totally wrong and harmful.
2
Some
people
have
been
smoking
for
so
long
that
it
is
difficult
to
separate
who
they
are
from
the
action
of
smoking,
everything
they
have
ever
done
in
life
has
been
supported
with
smoking
tobacco,
and
smoking
has
in
their
mind
become
inseparable
from
their
personal
identity,
when
they
try
to
stop
smoking
without
any
effective
preparation,
it
can
feel
like
they
are
grieving
the
loss
of
an
old
friend
and
this
can
derail
any
real
possibility
to
successfully stop smoking, even if it is what they want to do.
3
Some
people
just
seem
stop
smoking
and
they
seem
to
do
so
well
until
they
get
to
a
point
in
time
when
they
just
start
smoking
again,
it
could
have
been
a
personally
anxious
time
from
the
loss
of
a
job
or
a
bereavement
that
has
pulled
them
back
onto
the
old
ways
of
coping,
sometimes
people
need
to
learn
new
strategies
to
help
them
cope
in
new
ways
rather
than
return
to
smoking and it can be done.
4
Some
people
secretly
do
not
want
to
live,
they
think
that
life
is
nothing
but
a
sad
journey
from
one
point
to
another
full
of
fear
and
pain
along
the
way,
so
why
not
continue
to
smoke
and
shorten
their
life
expectancy,
but
by
smoking
they
can
deny
any
personal
responsibility
and
blame
smoking
instead, a sort of suicide by proxy.
5
It
could
also
be
a
combination
of
all
the
examples
and
it
can
fluctuate
over
time
between
one
and
another,
sometimes
it
may
take
a
combination
of
approaches
from
making
adjustments
to
the
way
they
handle
stress
and
anxiety
as
well
as
building
self-esteem
and
confidence
so
they
do
not
need
to use tobacco to brush over the problem.
This
no
smoking
program
helps
you
prepare
for
the
event
before
it
happens
giving
you
plenty
of
time
to
adjust
and
to
help
support
you
as
you
continue
along the path of becoming a non-smoker in your time scale.
What the service provides
This
service
is
for
the
persistent
long-term
smoker
who
is
having
a
hard
time
giving
up
tobacco
products
and
who
has
tried
to
stop
many
times
but
keeps
failing
but
wants
to
stop
or
feels
pressured
to
stop
but
may
not
really want to stop.
For
one
price
of
£150:00
you
get
two
hours’
stop
smoking
sessions
of
therapy
with
a
trained
therapist
who
will
help
you
to
focus and help you to stop smoking.
The
therapist
will
work
with
you
to
discover
the
best
option
for
success
over
Skype.
Stop Smoking
The
big
question
that
you
need
to
ask
is
do
you
really
want
to
know
how
to
stop smoking?
If
it
is
yes
or
no
you
can
still
use
the
truth
to
break
free
from
a
life
limited
by smoking.
This approach underpins a truth that is inescapable.
A
truth
that
is
completely
undeniable
and
the
certainty
that
you
will
know
it
to
be
true
even
if
you
do
not
want
it
to
be
true,
you
know
deep
down
it
is
true.
Some
people
give
up
smoking
on
the
first
attempt
with
what
seems
to
be
an
easy
transition
from
smoker
to
non-smoker
with
seemingly
no
effort,
how
do they do that?
Some
people
find
it
harder,
but
still
manage
in
a
short
time
to
give
up
the
habit and succeed in the end, how did they do it?
Some
people
keep
trying
and
keep
failing
over
and
over
again
or,
until
one
day they just give up trying to quit altogether.
why can’t they “give up smoking?”
This
service
is
especially
for
supporting
hardened
smokers
to
give
up
in
a
respectful
and
dignified
way,
no
guilt trips or judgemental expectations only the truth.
1.As
a
smoker
you
create
your
own
stress
and
anxiety
from
constantly
needing
to
find
new
supplies
of
tobacco,
discovering
that
you
have
left
your
cigarettes
at
home
can
lead
to
high
levels
of
anxiety
or
finding
that
you
are
running
out
of
cigarettes
and
you
need
to
find
a
shop
open
late
at
night,
finding
the
money
to
keep
smoking
is
getting
harder
as
countries
keep
increasing
the
tax
on
tobacco
products
to
put
more
pressure
on
people
to
stop
smoking,
making
you feel more self-conscious and stressed.
2.As
a
smoker
there
is
more
mental
energy
needed
to
keep
smoking,
when
there
are
more
and
more
restrictions
for
smokers
to
contend
with,
it
is
getting
harder
and
harder
to
find
places
to
smoke,
this
means
smokers
have
to
plan
ahead
more
or
spend
much
more
time
trying
to
find
places
where
they can smoke, more stress and less and less benefit as time goes on.
3.Smoking
tobacco
is
becoming
less
and
less
socially
attractive,
there
is
also
more
and
more
pressure
from
Doctors
and
society
to
put
pressure
on
people who smoke to stop smoking.
4.The
health
risks
are
now
factual
statements
undeniably
backed
up
by
years
of
scientific
research,
smoking
can
lead
to
lung
cancer
or
other
major
life-threatening complications, even committed smokers know the truth.
Stop Smoking & Start Living
If
you
have
tried
to
give
up
smoking
and
failed
and
then
tried
again
and
again
but
you
keep
continuing
to
smoke
and
wonder
if
it
is
ever
going
to
be
possible
for
you
to
quit
one
day,
well
this
just
may
be
the
day
to
actually
stop smoking because you actually want to and not because you have to.
You
may
fail
to
stop
smoking
because
of
one
simple
fact,
you
like
smoking
or
smoking
has
become
an
integral
part
of
who
you
are
as
a
person,
it
may
seem
to
provide
you
with
what
you
need
in
many
stressful
life
situations
or
social
interactions
and
even
just
the
ability
to
have
some
quality
time
on
your
own,
standing
still
for
a
moment
in
time
reflecting
on
life
or
problem
solving.
If you like to smoke why would you want to stop?
If
you
think
about
it
there
are
many
reasons
why
people
have
stopped
doing
what
is
for
them,
an
enjoyable
part
of
life,
people
have
to
stop
rock
climbing
because
of
injury
or
illness
age
or
other
commitments
make
it
impossible
to
continue,
people
can
discover
that
the
risks
of
continuing
the
hobby or life choice are becoming to risky as time goes on.
That's
why
people
go
on
a
diet
and
start
to
lose
weight
or
try
to
live
a
healthier
lifestyle,
as
time
goes
by
the
risk
of
developing
a
physical
problem
increases
and
the
risk
becomes
too
high
to
continue,
so
people
worry
about
diabetes
and
hart
problems
developing
in
the
future
and
they
want
to
do
something about it.
People
love
cream
cakes
and
nice
fatty
foods
but
they
make
a
choice
and
make
limitations
or
major
changes
to
what
they
eat
and
that
helps
their
future life.
The
problem
with
smoking
is
that
unlike
food
the
body
gets
no
benefit
from
the
destructive
chemicals
introduced
to
the
body
by
smoking,
it
is
not
the
same
as
eating
sugar
or
fat
as
dealing
with
both
sugar
and
fatty
foods
are
a
normal
part
of
the
body's
activity
and
it
is
about
maintaining
a
healthy
balance,
there
is
nothing
healthy
about
smoking
what
so
ever
so
you
cannot
strike a healthy balance except by stop smoking tobacco.
•
What will you miss about smoking?
•
How
annoyed
or
angry
do
you
feel
when
people
start
to
preach
to
you
about how bad smoking is for you?
•
What
will
be
the
biggest
adjustment
you
will
have
to
make
to
help
you
stop smoking?
•
What are the benefits of continuing to smoke?
•
Why is it good for you to stop smoking?