Why It's Hard to Quit Smoking
When people think about quitting cigarettes, they know it's in their best interest to do so. Intellectually, they know the health dangers of smoking cigarettes. They know how much money they have to spend these days on smoking. They have every good reason in the world to quit smoking cigarettes. Yet, many can't do it! Why? Because smoking the cigarette is an end result. It is actually the mechanism, the repression of the body's defense system, that the smoker has spent years creating that allows them and now compels them to smoke. If you manage to quit smoking but don't remove the mechanism, the best you can hope for is to be an ex-smoker. What is an ex-smoker? A smoker who isn't smoking right now but could pick up a cigarette and start smoking again without missing a beat.
The mechanism that you spent years creating is still operating. It has become your Frankenstein monster that you've forgotten how to control! Not only that, you've forgotten why you created the monster in the first place because it was so many years ago! You may overpower it and get it strapped down to the table for a while but it's constantly straining to break loose. Eventually it will break loose and you are smoking again. The cigarette is not the monster. It is the mechanism you've created with your MIND that allows you to smoke the cigarette that is the monster.