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light smokers still do.
It may be of further consolation for you to know that the rumors that occasionally circulate (e.g. âEvery cigarette takes five minutes off your life.â) are untrue. The human body is an incredible machine and irrespective of how many years you have been smoking, the body bounces back quickly once you quit, provided you havenât already contracted an irreversible smoking-related condition. The recovery starts immediately after you put out your final cigarette. Within just twenty minutes your heart rate returns to normal and after 24 hours, the likelihood of a heart attack is reduced by half.
And it is never too late to stop. I have helped to cure many smokers in their fifties, sixties and seventies, and even a few in their eighties. All reported dramatic improvements in their health, and most of them noticed the change within a couple of days. A 91-year-old woman attended a seminar with her 66-year-old son. When I asked why she had decided to stop she replied: âTo set an example for him.â She contacted me six months later saying she felt like a young girl again.
The further the drug drags you down, the greater the relief when you quit. When I finally broke free I went from ahundred cigarettes a day to ZERO, and I didnât experience one single pang. In fact, it was actually enjoyable, even during the withdrawal period.
Think of nicotine addiction as the âlittle monsterâ I mentioned earlier. Itâs utterly insignificant and you can squash it like a bug. The only danger of the little monster is that it feeds the big monsterâthe BRAINWASHING.
C HAPTER 7
B RAINWASHING AND THE S LEEPING P ARTNER
H ow or why do we start smoking in the first place? To understand this fully we need to examine the power of the mind and in particular, the subconscious mind or, as I call it, the âsleeping partnerâ.
We all tend to think of ourselves as intelligent human beings making conscious decisions that dictate the path of our lives, but the truth is that most of our behavior and attitudes are determined by our surroundings, upbringing and by forces of which we are largely unaware. These forces, mostly benign, work at a sub-conscious level. As children, we absorb enormous amounts of informationâgood, bad, useful and utterly worthlessâeffortlessly and without even being aware that we are learning.
Tobacco marketing executives are well aware of the importance of the sub-conscious and the power of suggestion and they have used it for years to promote the image of smoking as normal, natural and desirable. When we are growing up we are bombarded with messages that cigarettes help us relax, concentrate and handle stress. We form the belief that cigarettes are special, precious things and that we are somehow incomplete without them.
You think I exaggerate? Remember those old war movies? The dying soldier is always given a cigarette to ease him peacefully and nobly to his heroic death. Whatâs the last request of the man facing death by a firing squad? Thatâs rightâa cigarette. The subtext running beneath this seemingly innocent request is a powerful one. What the message is really saying is, âThe most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the smoking of a cigarette.â The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds, but the sleeping partner has time to absorb it.
You think that things have changed recently? Not a chance. While TV advertising for tobacco products has been banned for years, the appearance of smoking in movies and on TV continues unabated. Look at Bruce Willis in
Die Hard
or Mel Gibson in
Lethal Weapon
franchises. These movies, aimed at teenage boys, glamorize smoking in a way a TV ad never could. For two hours Mr. Willis and Mr. Gibson chain-smoke their way through a myriad of death-defying and heroic sequences. The subtext again is very simple: Even heroes need their little friend.
It may be of further consolation for you to know that the rumors that occasionally circulate (e.g. âEvery cigarette takes five minutes off your life.â) are untrue. The human body is an incredible machine and irrespective of how many years you have been smoking, the body bounces back quickly once you quit, provided you havenât already contracted an irreversible smoking-related condition. The recovery starts immediately after you put out your final cigarette. Within just twenty minutes your heart rate returns to normal and after 24 hours, the likelihood of a heart attack is reduced by half.
And it is never too late to stop. I have helped to cure many smokers in their fifties, sixties and seventies, and even a few in their eighties. All reported dramatic improvements in their health, and most of them noticed the change within a couple of days. A 91-year-old woman attended a seminar with her 66-year-old son. When I asked why she had decided to stop she replied: âTo set an example for him.â She contacted me six months later saying she felt like a young girl again.
The further the drug drags you down, the greater the relief when you quit. When I finally broke free I went from ahundred cigarettes a day to ZERO, and I didnât experience one single pang. In fact, it was actually enjoyable, even during the withdrawal period.
Think of nicotine addiction as the âlittle monsterâ I mentioned earlier. Itâs utterly insignificant and you can squash it like a bug. The only danger of the little monster is that it feeds the big monsterâthe BRAINWASHING.
C HAPTER 7
B RAINWASHING AND THE S LEEPING P ARTNER
H ow or why do we start smoking in the first place? To understand this fully we need to examine the power of the mind and in particular, the subconscious mind or, as I call it, the âsleeping partnerâ.
We all tend to think of ourselves as intelligent human beings making conscious decisions that dictate the path of our lives, but the truth is that most of our behavior and attitudes are determined by our surroundings, upbringing and by forces of which we are largely unaware. These forces, mostly benign, work at a sub-conscious level. As children, we absorb enormous amounts of informationâgood, bad, useful and utterly worthlessâeffortlessly and without even being aware that we are learning.
Tobacco marketing executives are well aware of the importance of the sub-conscious and the power of suggestion and they have used it for years to promote the image of smoking as normal, natural and desirable. When we are growing up we are bombarded with messages that cigarettes help us relax, concentrate and handle stress. We form the belief that cigarettes are special, precious things and that we are somehow incomplete without them.
You think I exaggerate? Remember those old war movies? The dying soldier is always given a cigarette to ease him peacefully and nobly to his heroic death. Whatâs the last request of the man facing death by a firing squad? Thatâs rightâa cigarette. The subtext running beneath this seemingly innocent request is a powerful one. What the message is really saying is, âThe most precious thing on this earth, my last thought and action, will be the smoking of a cigarette.â The impact of this does not register on our conscious minds, but the sleeping partner has time to absorb it.
You think that things have changed recently? Not a chance. While TV advertising for tobacco products has been banned for years, the appearance of smoking in movies and on TV continues unabated. Look at Bruce Willis in
Die Hard
or Mel Gibson in
Lethal Weapon
franchises. These movies, aimed at teenage boys, glamorize smoking in a way a TV ad never could. For two hours Mr. Willis and Mr. Gibson chain-smoke their way through a myriad of death-defying and heroic sequences. The subtext again is very simple: Even heroes need their little friend.
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