Visualize or imagine a very safe,
A very secure,
Well-lit staircase of 20 steps.
And visualize or imagine you see yourself standing at the top of that staircase.
You begin to feel very calm and safe.
Beginning to see yourself as an ex-smoker and that brings a little grin or smile to your face.
Seeing yourself now as intelligent,
Confident,
Physically healthy and emotionally calm.
Take a moment and really get in touch with this image and begin to feel it.
Really get in touch with it now.
And as you begin to feel this positive emotion in your body and mind,
Your left index finger begins to lift.
This positive emotion in your body and mind.
How good it feels to eliminate this unhealthy habit from your life.
Now this becomes your unconscious image.
A motivational force towards making this a reality in your life physically and emotionally.
Each step we take down the staircase reinforces that this is you.
This is what you are becoming and to yourself you say,
I like it.
Now we begin down the staircase with your left foot at 19,
18,
17,
16,
15,
14,
13,
12,
11,
10,
9,
8,
7,
6,
5,
4,
3,
2,
1,
Down to 0.
Going deeper now as we seal in this unconscious image and motivation of yourself as a confident,
Intelligent,
Permanent ex-smoker.
We are now changing your suggestibility so that you can no longer be affected by those things that in the past may have caused you to smoke.
When you awaken in the morning and throughout the day and night,
If you even think about a cigarette,
You hear in your mind,
No,
You mean it.
Today I choose to not smoke.
You can take great pleasure day by day now in your ability to finish what you have started here.
That this feeling of achievement far outweighs any possible feelings of deprivation.
Your joy in this new found freedom outweighs everything else.
You are in control now,
Not paper and shredded tobacco.
Even the thought of paper and shredded tobacco controlling your life is becoming a ridiculous idea.
So that even if you think about a cigarette,
In your mind you say,
No,
I choose to not smoke.
I choose to be in control of my life and my health as an ex-smoker.
No,
No,
No.
Now repeat this in your mind silently,
But strongly as I say it.
I have made the decision that nothing and no one can stop me from becoming a permanent ex-smoker.
I am tired of the way I used to be.
Okay,
Now let's go deeper.
Visualize or imagine you are in a room,
A large room alone.
And when you have that image,
The left index finger rises.
Now begin to think about all the cigarettes that you have smoked in your life.
How many chemicals you have sucked into your body.
How much sticky,
Disgusting tar you have sucked into your body.
How that tar and smoke from all those cigarettes could fill this room and coat you in a sticky,
Disgusting tar and smoke.
Imagine the smell becoming unbearable.
The disgusting tar dripping off your body and the walls around you.
The thought so disgusting that you want to escape this putrid smell and disgusting place.
And when you cannot bear being in this room any longer,
Your left index finger will raise as you run from the room and slam the door shut,
Locking it behind you.
Leaving that disgusting smoke and tar in the past.
Breathing the air of freedom and a newfound respect for your body,
For yourself.
You will find that from this point on,
You are more strongly aware of the reasons why you are here today to stop smoking.
You are now so aware of the threat that smoking is to your health,
The way you spend money to poison your body,
The shortness of breath,
The gradual lowering of your physical fitness,
The way it is becoming more and more socially unacceptable to smoke,
So that if you even think about a cigarette,
You say to yourself,
No,
I mean it,
I choose to not smoke.
And we go deeper.
Now travel back in time to an earlier place in your life when you can remember smoking one of your early cigarettes.
Use your imagination and travel back in time.
See the calendar months pass as you travel back and back to an earlier time when you can remember smoking one of your early cigarettes.
And soon now,
You will arrive on that day,
And as you do,
Notice all the details.
How old are you?
Where are you?
What year is it?
What is the weather like?
Who is with you?
What brand of cigarettes do you have?
As you remember smoking that early cigarette,
Get in touch with all the details.
What does it smell like?
Taste like?
Are you coughing?
Are you dizzy?
Sick to your stomach?
This cigarette is the beginning of the story of you and smoking.
This is where it began.
Little did you know that cigarettes would become such a terrible habit in your life.
Little did you know that cigarettes would burn your hard-earned money as it slowly attacked your body.
Now begin to slowly work your way back to the present,
And as you journey through time,
Travel back month by month,
Year by year,
And you begin to notice all the cigarettes that you have smoked in your life piling up.
In the beginning,
There were only a few,
But then dozens and hundreds and more and more appear as they pile up around you.
Think about all the cigarettes that you have smoked.
Get a good look at them.
Now back to the present here with me,
And you begin to realize a few things.
That you were not cheated.
You smoked your fair share,
And enough is enough.
That story that started a long time ago about you and smoking has now come to an end.
As a matter of fact,
You are now the last chapter.
You are now down to the last page of the last chapter,
And now down to the last two words.
And those words are the end.
The end.
Now close that book and throw it as far away from you as you can,
And turn away and walk away from it,
And say to yourself in your mind,
I am free.
And we go deeper.
Here you are.
You have a decision to make.
Visualize or imagine 15 years have passed.
Notice what you see.
What is your breathing like?
Your health?
Your complexion?
What does that life look like?
Is there even a life?
Now let those images fade,
And instead imagine 15 years have passed,
And you have been a permanent ex-smoker,
Completely smoke-free.
What are these images like?
The good health?
The clear breathing?
The clear complexion?
How good is that life?
Of these two futures,
You are now sure which one you want.
The decision is already made,
Isn't it?
And we go deeper.
You have made a promise to yourself.
You have made a firm commitment and a decision.
At this time in your life,
You have come to a fork in the road,
And you have faced a decision.
You can continue to live with the smell,
The cough,
The mucus,
And the wheezing,
The colds that never seem to go away,
The pain that comes and goes in your chest,
The shortness of breath,
The burning of your hard-earned cash to poison yourself,
The guilt and the fear.
You can continue to be enslaved by cigarettes like some dog on a leash.
Or at this fork in the road,
You can choose to live your life healthy,
Strong,
Vital,
Vibrant,
Powerfully alive,
And free from the bonds and chains of cigarettes.
There's no doubt which road you are on.
You are on it now,
And cigarettes are not allowed here.
They are not allowed on the road to freedom and a long,
Full,
Healthy life.
And you continue even deeper.
You now realize that the color red is going to be a little brighter,
A little sharper to you than ever before.
Whether it is a taillight,
A stoplight,
A stop sign,
The color of a car,
Or clothing,
It could be as small as nail polish or as large as a billboard.
The color red is going to seem sharper and brighter than ever before.
And each and every time your mind encounters the color red,
Your desire,
Determination,
Motivation,
Inner drive to remain a permanent ex-smoker can and will become stronger and stronger.
As you continue to go deeper and you are fully ready to free yourself from cigarettes and move into your healthy future with more enthusiasm than ever before,
You can be sure that there is no person,
Thought,
Idea,
Memory,
Feeling,
Or sensation out of the past,
In the present,
Or ever to arrive in the future that could stop you from achieving total success as a permanent ex-smoker.
If you even think about a cigarette,
You hear in your mind,
No.
And you mean it.
No,
No,
No,
No,
No.
Today,
I choose to not smoke.
I am in control.
I am free.
