Promise of congruency...
I started smoking when i was 13
smoked like a tropper through uni, stopped smoking a few times but never lasted for more than a few months.... last year i stopped for 9 months after hypnotherapy.
I stopped smoking on April 1st, so 2.5 months now but this time I really believe I wont smoke again.
I realised that I was bored off listening to myself say im going to do this and im going to that... and then not following through to the end. Loosing weight, stopping smoking... etc. etc. Anyone who knows me will have heard me say time and time again... Im going to stop smoking (then a few months later im back on the smokes) or I would tell everyone that I am on a diet (only to get 2 takeaways the next week).... you get my drift...
Anyway, I just decided that from now on what I say I do. I dont want to be the type of person who says something and people roll their eyes and go yeah yeah...
I want to be the type of person that when I say something people take notice and know that I mean business!
Stopping smoking and loosing weight are the 2 things I have promised myself that I am going to do 100% forever.
Once I achieve both of these goals I know that I will feel very proud and everyone I know will be wowowowowow..... she did it!
And then the next time I say I am going to do something... well everyone will know i mean it. And even more important - I will know I mean it - and I will believe I will do it!
I have made giving up smoking such a big thing in my head, that I just cannot smoke. Even if i do feel tempted, as soon I think im tempted my brian is like NOOOOO, YOU CANT! So immediately I stop myself.
I think to stop smoking you need to have a BIG REASON. To loose weight you need to have a BIG REASON.
You need to associate more pain to smoking and pleasure to not smoking. When you smoke you associate pleasure to smoking and pain to giving up, you need to turn this around.
Everyone's reasons are different, you got to find your own reasons as mine probably wont work for you, or someone elses wont either.
I think stopping smoking is mind over matter, all the products in the world wont help you stop smoking in the long term unless you have got a good enough reason in your own mind not to do it!
Good luck with it... I think its a great idea to do both at the same time, it takes extra courage and willpower - but if you can achieve this then you can achieve anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xox