The Confirmed Smoker

The confirmed smoker is somebody who has smoked for so long, they can hardly remember a time when they didn't smoke. They may have tried to stop and failed or more likely they have just never tried at all.

The confirmed smoker will justify their habit in any number of very simple ways to end the discussion on stopping smoking. Their arguments range from 'I've been a smoker for longer than you have been alive - how can you tell me how easy it is to stop?' to 'I like smoking, I enjoy smoking, I have no intention of ever stopping - It's one of my few pleasures in life'.

Confirmed smokers know that they are killing themselves and this is often used by them as a reason to smoke - 'I don't want to live a long life - so there's no point lecturing me on the health risks of smoking'.

The cost is also not a deterrent - 'I know how much I am paying to the government in tax each day - but I don't mind - it will pay for a hospital bed when I am dying'.

You hear all sorts of ridiculous excuses why people smoke, and they are ridiculous because they are a complete myth. For example, not wanting to live a long life - if you want to die, you are suicidal, you want to die today, you don't want to die in ten years time. And in ten years time, what if life is great? You will regret having committed yourself to an early death all those years earlier.

'I've been a smoker longer than you have been alive...etc.' - perfectly true, but anybody who has successfully stopped smoking can tell you that it doesn't matter how long you were a smoker, stopping can be easy and enjoyable - but the main thing is that it will transform your life. Which brings me onto the 'It's one of my few pleasures in life' argument. The reason for this is that the confirmed smoker is so enslaved by their SmokeWorm that they live their life from one smoke to the next and cannot see any enjoyment that does not involve smoking. Also, the misery created by the instant withdrawal symptoms after each smoke mean that the next smoke is all that matters. And when it arrives, the pleasure is so great that the confirmed smoker could not possibly imagine life without it.

However, the massive benefits that stopping smoking will bring the heavy or confirmed smoker, mean that the incentives for them are so much greater. If you compare a heavy smoker to a light or casual smoker, the casual smoker spends far less - so little that the amount does not make a serious dent in their finances, the health implications are far less - the light smoker takes in far less tar and does much less damage to their lungs, and the nicotine addiction is not as restrictive - they can go for longer periods between smokes and the withdrawal symptoms are much less. So the incentive for the light smoker to stop is not very great at all. The heavy smoker, on the other hand, will very quickly notice the improvement in health, money, mood and ability to relax.

But this will only be possible if the heavy smoker can convince himself that the psychological torment created by the willpower method is not going to exist. This is far easier than you may think. It is simply a matter of unlearning the preconceived ideas about smoking and also learning that smoking is not actually delivering the benefits that it appears to. The smoker smokes to aid relaxation, to help concentration and for stress relief etc. What the smoker does not realise is that their stress level would be lower, concentration would be better and relaxation would be easier as a non-smoker - permanently. The best the smoker can get, regardless of how often they smoke, is to temporarily achieve the state of satisfaction before the withdrawal starts again. If smokers could buy a single cigarette that would permanently relieve all of the withdrawal symptoms suffered by smokers, they would sell like hot cakes. The SmokeWorm plan is better - it not only permanently satisfies all of the withdrawal symptoms - it makes them even better. And because most smokers have forgotten what it is like to be a non-smoker, the difference it can make to their life is almost literally unimaginable.

If you can convince yourself that smoking will never totally satisfy your hunger for nicotine and that smoking does not actually deliver what you think it does you will very quickly be able to convince yourself that you do not need to smoke. You will also realise that your life will be better without smoking. The more you think about what you are doing, the more you will come to realise that you no longer want to smoke. You will want the rest of your life as a non-smoker to start as soon as possible. Once you are satisfied that you are going to be happier as a non-smoker, you will be able to stop smoking without the feeling that you are making a sacrifice. Remember, you are not 'giving up' smoking you are stopping smoking.

This is why the SmokeWorm method of stopping smoking is so different to stopping using willpower As a heavy smoker, it would be almost impossible to stop for good. This is because the day that you stop you think you are giving up a great pleasure in your life. This is added to the physical addiction and withdrawal symptoms and although the physical withdrawal symptoms will leave you within three weeks, the psychological battle will get worse and worse. The longer you feel deprived of an experience you enjoy, the greater the feeling of sacrifice. This will never leave you and you will always be prone to a relapse. This is why it is essential that you convince yourself that you don't want, need or benefit from smoking before you even think about your last smoke.