Comments on: You, Too, Can Quit Smoking! http://www.bloggernews.net/17005 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Royce http://www.bloggernews.net/17005#comment-831001 Royce Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:06:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17005#comment-831001 Great tips, thanks! Great tips, thanks!

]]> By: Quit Smoking http://www.bloggernews.net/17005#comment-409841 Quit Smoking Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:18:13 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/17005#comment-409841 Quitting smoking is all about leverage. No matter how desperate you are for a cigarette if a man puts a gun to your head and says he'll shoot you if you put one in your mouth - you wont! We move away from consequences far more readily than we seek out goals. The desire for cigarettes during certain activities (phone calls, driving, post meal, etc) can be put down to anchors. This is an NLP term to describe how certain emotional states and feelings become 'anchored' to outside events or stimiulus. I wont go into detail but if you do a search there's plenty of info available. I'll just say that collapsing anchors is very simple when you know how. Quitting smoking is all about leverage. No matter how desperate you are for a cigarette if a man puts a gun to your head and says he’ll shoot you if you put one in your mouth - you wont! We move away from consequences far more readily than we seek out goals.

The desire for cigarettes during certain activities (phone calls, driving, post meal, etc) can be put down to anchors. This is an NLP term to describe how certain emotional states and feelings become ‘anchored’ to outside events or stimiulus. I wont go into detail but if you do a search there’s plenty of info available. I’ll just say that collapsing anchors is very simple when you know how.

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