Yes, you’re a baby fish trapped inside the fisher’s net, and you are feeling anguished to escape before he pulls the ropes.
Time is ticking. Every minute counts.
You spend your evenings reading books and blogs about quitting smoking. You’ ve been doing this since you can remember. Nothing works.
You have quit before, many times, and very easily, but this time it seems impossible.
Everybody’s different, even yourself at different times of your life.
We need a little cheekiness and imagination to get the baby fish safely out of the net, and if it is possible, to leave the fisherman hungry and broke until he decides to join the vegan industry.
Here are some tips to diversify all your rainbow horizons and be able to fly again!
The best moment of the day to quit smoking is when you wake up. Make sure the night before that you removed and washed all ashtrays and store them away. Same goes with lighters: draw a word that positively resonates with a good friendship or family or work relationship, and write it on each lighter with a permanent maker, with art and love. Then put them aside to give them away to each person as a souvenir from you.
Get someone you know who is good at drawing to make a good portrait of you while you are smoking. Frame it. Don’t be ashamed of it, hang it up where you can see it. Soon you will realise this is pleasurable to look at -once you have stopped.
Make a weekend to wash ALL YOUR CLOTHES, RUGS, CURTAINS AND BED AND SOFA LINEN. If you don’t do so, the scent on your clothes and home might bring back memories and tempt you to smoke.
Make a long list of 20 reasons why you smoke. Now here’s where we need you need to he brave: write down the truth from your heart. It’s ok to write ” the coolest people smoke” or “Britney Spears smokes 40 a day”. Its ok to write ” I smoke because I feel like a looser because I didn’t get my Law Degree” or even ” I smoke because my auntie was so strict and she never allowed me to smoke, I smoke to punish her bad!” Make sure you reflect on the real reasons, then before going to bed read it and think.
You don’t need to go around the neighbourhood telling everyone you have quit, don’t sound dramatic, fanatic or overexcited about it. If people ask, let them know. If a friend or acquaintance tries to push you to smoke one of his cigarettes, first say no, and once he insists, take the cigarette and crush it to powder right in front of his or her face. You will then be sure he’ll never offer you a cigarette again and the word will go around on how serious you are about looking after your health.
Start to exercise the day before you quit. If you exercise already besides your smoking, try dancing to some techno music as much as you can. Once you have quit, you will notice how much your endurance has increased after a couple of weeks smoke free. It’s also a good idea to take up a sport you have always wanted to try. Now don’t say you don’t have the time to: a smoker of 20 sticks per day spends over 60 minutes a day smoking. You now have the luxury and gift of 30 hours extra a month to do worthy, profitable activities.
Don’t ask people who have quit ” how did you do it?” If you have so already you might have noticed that there are not 2 same people that used the same method. One may work for one person but do the opposite for another. Some may find it easy, some may find it hard.
Since you are unique you need to discover your own method. Be crafty, you know yourself, you have a unique quit smoking trigger that no one else in the world has. And be eautifully mesmerised when discovering it on your own.
Don’t keep the cigarette money in a piggy bank. This is very childish. Cigarette smoking is not a game of Monopoly: it’s the fisherman’s net who will join the vegan industry after you have quit. Soon you’ll feel more money in your pockets and around you, more health, more time for yourself, less hassle, and your brain will be working better.
Make a video of yourself smoking from the moment you lit it to the second you extinguished it. Keep it handy. When you are desperate, watch it, you will feel deterred to smoke again!
Don’t count the days, hours, or minutes- yep, some people write even the minute of their last cigarette smoke. You won’t need to be an obsessive ex smoker. Forget the date. Memories will form a beautiful pattern of your new self which you will be proud of. And willing to keep nurturing!
If you ever find a friend or relative begging you to give them your “secret” to quitting smoking, tell them there is no secret, everybody’s different. Just say “IF I CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU!” this is by far the best way to help a loved one quit.
If you have another devilish little addiction you would like to quit, this is a good time to ditch bad vices by burying them all altogether, but not more than 2 at a time.
Soon your new life will be pleasantly surprising you with such beautiful little compliments from the fairies, that you will never want to go back to smoking again. It happens at a very fast speed…. you will be telling me ” why didn’t you write this blog before!!!”
Look back at the record times you’ve unwillingly not smoked for hours of days- a long distance flight, forgetting your pack at home on one of those busy days work, or even having had to spend time in hospital. All of them were easy. I know some smokers who go to theatre plays just so they spend 3 hours not smoking…. and they’re not even very keen on watching plays.
Watch your body: if your nails can reach the length of a cat’s in a week, think how well your lungs can do to regenerate, rejuvenate and forget the addiction!
Good luck, and don’t feel sorry for the fisherman whom we have left hungy, broke and tired, he’ll soon find a new life making tofu and will be better off, just like all our cousins in the sea!!!
Be ready for a richer life. You by far deserve it!
When I was born, my mum started a Dolly Collection.
Everywhere she travelled, she got me a Custom Doll.
It was not until I was 21, depressed, stuck and hopeless, when I would stare at part of the collection, which was displayed next to my computer, and I felt an urge to start dolly making.
I told my mother about my feelings and she was totally supportive. She came with me to the old town where there were old crafts shops and we bought books to doll make, felts and more materials.
I spent the next 3 months doll making and made amazing little dolls…. I sent them to the friends I most missed from University, and the dolls were greatly appreciated.
Soon after this I found a job and got into the work market. The work stress made me ill again, and I slumped into depression.
I forgot about the dolls for 14 years, but they were always at the back of my mind.
Doll making is fun, creative, very hard work and very rewarding.
Once back in London I told my nurse I wanted to make dollies. She found me a course, but I was too late to enroll, so I started buying doll making books on Amazon.
I started making amazing dollies again and giving them away.
It’s funny, after you make a great doll you need about 2 weeks of rest before you can start a new one. It’s a very demanding hobby.
Dolls are like children- no matter what idea you set up in your mind for them to come out like, they always emerge with a personality of their very own!
Now I am making dollies for my Church and teaching doll making to a Charity. I also make stuffed animals and I have sold one to a friend.
If you are crafty, have time, a lot to express and have a wild imagination, I definitely recommend this endeavour.
Hand made dollies are very much in Demand at the moment, and yes it takes a lot of effort to master the skill, but the rewards are priceless. You can even make it your side hustle!
Here are some dolls I have crafted myself, I hope you like them….
For over two centuries, a remarkable phenomenon was once noted in central Brittany; a seemingly spontaneous outbreak of barking women that disappeared as suddenly as it had first appeared. The reasons for these strange behaviours have, at times, been attributed to causes ranging from demonic possession to sexual frustration.
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