Fresh, Free & Lovin' It!
Alessandra Liverani
You go to the movies. You sit down in your chair and the opening scenes start to play. You're quite relaxed. If you are watching a horror movie, you may start to become scared, very scared. You may have to stifle a scream. Yet your rational mind knows that this is just a movie. It's not real. However, while you are watching the movie, your rational mind lies dormant and only wakes up when you exit the cinema.
Being a smoker is a bit like watching a perpetual horror movie. Your rational mind never gets a chance to wake up. The cigarette monster is always on the prowl, telling you to have a cigarette or else. Or else what?.....is what your rational mind would be asking, but it doesn't get the chance. You are keeping it in a state of hibernation.
Once you allow your rational mind to wake up and tell you that breathing in fresh air all day long is a perfectly normal, natural, safe and wonderful thing to be doing, you will become a fresh air breather easily and effortlessly.
But right at this moment, you're still watching that endless horror movie.
I read Allen Carr's brilliant book "Easy Way To Stop Smoking" which gave me a whole spectrum of ideas on the smoking problem. Some ideas I have put into poems, other ideas were probably best forgotten. I hope that some of the ideas which I have had will help you spark your own ideas and allow your mind to think freely and confidently.