Session One Part 2

You should have completed Session One Part 1 prior to coming here. If you have not done so, please go there now.
If you have completed Session One Part 1, please continue here.
Session One Part 2
On the FACT SHEET, write the dollar amount that you would spend on smoking materials during the rest of your life (using the chart in Session One Part 1). Below that, write in things that you might buy with money saved by being a non-smoker. Then, spend a few minutes mentally picturing every detail of this thing or things and picture yourself enjoying and receiving pleasure from them. Perhaps you already have all the material things you need and so the cost of smoking is not an issue. But certainly a loved one or charity would appreciate a gift in the amount that you would save by not smoking for a year. So picture the delighted beneficiary of such a gift and etch a picture of their joy, upon receipt, into your mind.
IF SOMEONE OFFERED YOU $20.00 TO NOT SMOKE THE NEXT CIGARETTE, CIGAR, OR PIPE OF TOBACCO, WOULD YOU SKIP IT?
Of course you would! So consider this. If your above calculated lifetime cost came to, say $60,000, and given also, that in three months you can be completely free of smoking, it‘s habit and it's control, then you actually can earn $600 per day over the next three months by foregoing.
If you smoke 30 times per day, that would be over $20 per smoke, that you forego. Actually, in three days you can be a non-smoker. You will have purged nicotine from your system in three days and have only physical habits to break. That brings the value for each smoke that you forego over 3 days to: $60,000 divided by 90 or $600 per smoke foregone over 3 days. Think about that! It could be worth $600 per smoke, to you, over the next 3 days.
Now, on the FACT SHEET, complete the section labeled, "Situations or events that TRIGGER my smoking". You need to write down in your own words the primary situations that you feel trigger you to smoke. You may want to spend some time rereading this session and really thinking about what your triggers are. Take your time. It's very important that you know your triggers and that you write them down so we can come back to them from time to time. Write them on the FACT SHEET before continuing.
PAUSE
Now, having identified your triggers to smoking, immediately below that part of the FACT SHEET, write all the reasons that you feel you should not smoke. Again, really sincerely think about these and write them down before continuing.
PAUSE
Now, write on the FACT SHEET, the positive things you would gain, or the advantages of becoming a non-smoker. Save this FACT SHEET. We'll be referring to it later.
SESSION ONE REVIEW
1. Smoking is a habit done more often unconsciously than consciously.
2. Smoking has you hooked in two ways. The first is nicotine addiction which is relatively easily broken, within about 72 hours. Second is a psychological addiction which requires a thoughtfully planned process to overcome.
3. SMOKING KILLS! Smoking is dangerous to your health and those around you. Tobacco smoke is a poisonous, toxic, deadly substance.
4. Smoking is frequently triggered by other events of our lives.
5. Overcoming smoking triggers, (Session TWO) is a key factor to changing your habit.
6. You too CAN be a non-smoker which is simply returning to your natural state.
7. Being a non-smoker will be beneficial to you physically, financially, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
8. Smokers are being ripped off by their habit, by politicians who take advantage of their addiction with unfair 'sin' taxes and by 'fat-cat' tobacco company executives and vendors who could care less about your health as long as they get your money.
The number one reason for most people continuing to smoke is fear. Fear of the pain of withdrawal, which is greatly exaggerated and fear that they won't be able to handle the emotional pressure. The following sessions will teach you how to overcome these fears and to develop inner strengths that will give you confidence.
You may tell yourself that the reason you continue to smoke is because of the enjoyment you get from smoking. But, can you really enjoy something that may be killing you? You have been tricked into thinking you enjoy it by chemically altered elements of your brain.
You can have the mental powers to kick the habit and addiction. It requires three things:
1. You must believe it would be a good thing to do. (Session One)
2. You need to believe that you can do it and have a plan. (Session Two)
3. You must stay committed to the plan and how to do so. (Session Three).
From this session, you should now have the facts and information to intelligently decide to become a non-smoker. Perhaps you aren’t ready to quit just yet, but you can certainly know that you should.
The next sessions will help you to develop a plan to become a non-smoker again and teach you how to overcome urges to smoke.
Before you begin Session Two though, it's decision time.
The question before you right now, is this: Do the reasons for becoming a non-smoker outweigh any reasons to continue smoking? Clearly, unless you already have a terminal illness, the answer is obvious.
You can do it! The remaining sessions will help make it easier than you may have thought to become a non-smoker again, once you have decided to do it.
BEGIN SESSION TWO WHEN YOU CAN HONESTLY SAY, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH. I'M THROUGH WITH BEING RIPPED OFF AND RISKING MY LIFE. I HAVE IDENTIFIED OTHER THINGS TO SPEND MY MONEY FOR THAT WILL MEAN MORE TO ME THAN THIS STUPID, DESTRUCTIVE HABIT"