Having decided on your timing, you are now ready to smoke that last cigarette. Before you do so,
check on the two essentials:
1 Do you fuel certain of success?
2 Have you a feeling of doom and gloom or a sense of excitement that
you are about to achieve something marvelous?
If you have any doubts, re-read the book first. If you still have doubts, obtain a copy of 'The
Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently' (ONLYWAY) published by Penguin or contact your
nearest EASYWAY clinic (details listed at the end).
Remember that you never decided to fall into the smoking trap. But that trap is designed to
enslave you for life. In order to escape you need to make the positive decision that you are about
to smoke your final cigarette.
Remember, the only reason that you have read this book so far is because you would dearly
love to escape. So make that positive decision now. Make a solemn vow, that when you extinguish
that final cigarette, whether you find it easy or difficult, you will never smoke another.
Perhaps you are worried that you have made this vow several times in the past but are still
smoking, or that you will have to go through some awful trauma. Have no fear, the worse thing
that can possibly happen is that you fail, and so you have absolutely nothing to lose and so much
to gain.
But stop even thinking about failure. The beautiful truth is that it is not only ridiculously easy
to quit but you can actually enjoy the process. This time you are going to use EASYWAY! All
you need to do is to follow the simple instructions that I'm about to give you:
1 Make the solemn vow now and mean it.
2 Smoke that final cigarette consciously, inhale the filth deeply into your lungs and ask yourself
where the pleasure is.
3 When you extinguish it. do so not with a feeling of: I must never smoke another, or I'm not
allowed to smoke another, but with the feeling of: Isn't it great! I'm free! I'm no longer the slave of
nicotine! I don't ever have to put these filthy things in my mouth again.
4 Be aware that for a few days, there will be a little nicotine saboteur inside your stomach. You
might only know the feeling 'I want a cigarette.' At times I refer to that little nicotine monster
as the slight physical craving for nicotine. Strictly this is incorrect, and it is important that you
understand why. Because it takes about three
weeks for that little monster to die, ex-smokers believe that the little monster will continue to crave
cigarettes after the final cigarette has been extinguished, and that they must therefore use
willpower to resist the temptation during this period. This is not so. The body doesn't crave nicotine.
Only the brain craves nicotine. If you do get that feeling of 'I want a cigarette' over the next few
days, your brain has a simple choice. It can either interpret that feeling for what it actually is - an
empty insecure feeling started by the first cigarette and perpetuated by every subsequent one,
and say to yourself: YIPPEE I'M A NON-SMOKER!
Or you can start craving for a cigarette and suffer it for the rest of your life. Just think for a
moment. Wouldn't that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say 'I never want to smoke again',
then spend the rest of your life saying 'I'd love a cigarette.' That's what smokers who use the
Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately
moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have. No wonder so few of them
succeed and the few that do never feel completely free.
5 It is only the doubting and the waiting that make it difficult to quit. So never doubt your decision,
you know it's the correct decision. If you begin to doubt it, you will put yourself into a no-win
situation. You will be miserable if you crave a cigarette but can't have one. You will be even more
miserable if you do have one. No matter what system you are using, what is it that you are trying to
achieve when you quit, smoking? Never to smoke again? No! Many ex-smokers do that but go
through the rest of their lives feeling deprived. What is the real difference between smokers and nonsmokers?
Non-smokers have no need or desire to smoke, they do not crave cigarettes and do not
need to exercise willpower in order not to smoke. That's what you are trying to achieve, and it is
completely within your power to achieve it. You don't have to wait to stop craving cigarettes or
to become a non-smoker. You do it the moment you extinguish that final cigarette, you have cut off
the supply of nicotine: YOU ARE ALREADY A HAPPY NON-SMOKER!!!
And you will remain a happy non-smoker provided:
1 You never doubt your decision.
2 You don't wait to become a non-smoker. If you do, you will merely be waiting for nothing to
happen, which will create a phobia.
3 You don't try not to think about smoking or wait for the 'moment of revelation' to come. Either
way you will merely create a phobia.
4 You don't use substitutes.
5 You sec all other smokers as they really are and pity them rather than envy them.
Whether they be good days or bad days, you don't change your life just because you've quit smoking.
If you do you will be making a genuine sacrifice and there is no need to. Remember, you haven't
given up living. You haven't given up anything. On the contrary, you've cured yourself from an
awful disease and escaped from an insidious prison. As the days go by and your health, both
physical and mental improves, the highs will appear higher and the lows less low than when you
were a smoker.
Whenever you think about smoking either during the next few days or the rest of your life, you
think: YIPPEE. I'M A NON-SMOKER!!!