Most smokers want to stop smoking for many reasons-health, social stigma, feeling like a slave to their smoking habit-so why don’t they just stop?  The problem is the conscious mind wants to stop-that is the part of our mind that reads the research and health reports and hears the news about how bad smoking is for your health.  That is also the part of the mind that knows that smoking is now banned in all public places and that fewer and fewer people see smoking as glamorous or cool but now see it as a bad habit.  The conscious mind also knows that smoking is expensive, smells, and the list goes on and on…!

However, many find it difficult to quit smoking because the bigger part of the brain, the unconscious mind, DOESN’T KNOW ANY OF THE BAD ASPECTS OF SMOKING that the conscious mind is aware of!  The unconscious mind thinks, “My cigarettes relax me,” “They give me a break,” “They are something to do with my hands or when I am bored,” “I have to have my cigarette with my coffee in the morning!”  “There is nothing like a cigarette and a glass of wine!” “I have to smoke when I drive!”