Admit That You Are Addicted

Go on, face it like a man, (or a woman) say it and realize how much it hurts. If you can do that much then the battle is half won. Most smokers make a fatal mistake here. They keep on telling themselves that can break off as easily as snapping their fingers when they really can’t. They try to fool themselves and you know why?

It is because they feel sort of weak and submissive when they admit that they cannot do with out that hourly puff. So they do not admit it. They just say something like,

• “I need something to soothe my nerves,” or
• “It helps me think better,” or
• “I need to unwind.”
  
  

Well, it sounds very cool but what such people do not understand is that what they are really saying is that they cannot function well by themselves. They are actually admitting that their brains are incapable of carrying out those routine activities any more without the help of an external agency. It’s all the same thing isn’t it. And personally I think it is much better to admit that they are simply addicted to smoking.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about. There is no need to feel inferior. Again take a look at the statistics and see all those people who have become addicted to smoking. But unlike those people you are going to do something about it. Tobacco is like a colossal octopus. Once it gets its grip around you, then you are done for. It swiftly tightens its tentacles around you and before you know it, you are fully and completely in its grip and you cannot even breathe without its permission. You and only you can save your self.

That is why I said that the first thing you have to do is you have to take a look at your self in the mirror. Look at your self for a minute and face the truth. Let is sink in slowly and maybe painfully. Notice the tentacles of the octopus around you. Then you can admit to yourself that you have indeed become a slave to the master that is tobacco.

Now that is not a nice thought at all is it? You with all your remarkable faculties, abilities and potential have actually become a slave to something so gross! You who have never bowed your head before any one have actually been taken by this gruesome monster. Grr…the thought is going to be infuriating. But you have to face it, you have to accept it only then can you muster up enough strength to fight back.

And please take heed; we are not talking about any ordinary battle over here. We are talking about fighting to win and win is what we are going to do that this manual is all you are going to need for that ultimate victory.