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As soon as you start listening to yourself while smoking, watching yourself, everything becomes much clearer and easier. The fight against smoking is not accepting denial or suppression. Always remember that smoking is part of you, and when you deny or suppress your desire to smoke, you deny and suppress yourself. It is impossible to ban yourself, but it is possible to understand and change yourself. There is no need to fight smoking – it is a vicious circle, a psychological form of violence and aggression against yourself. Any kind of conflict with your Self causes only more discomfort and anxiety, which are the basis of the desire to smoke another cigarette. There is no reason to conflict with your affection. Nature is always on the path of least resistance, so you should listen to the nature of your smoking. Let the changes go through comfort and awareness, rather than through denial and anxiety. You have thrown away so many times with shame and spite without smoking another cigarette, poisoning your consciousness with self-limitation and anxiety. Did it help you quit smoking? Out of hundreds of attempts at a senseless ban, did one succeed?

After dozens of failures, try to relax. Try another method. Just try nothing else. Try to smoke a cigarette and listen to yourself. Don’t go through self-limitation and denial, but let yourself smoke by accepting your habit. Observe yourself. Ask yourself the question – what do I do when I smoke? Tell yourself I’m here, I am, I’m the one who stands and smokes. Practice this behavior for seven days. It’s only a week. At first you’ll find it ridiculous, even absurd, to remember yourself when you smoke. Indeed, your whole life you have been taught to talk to others and listen to others, but not to yourself. This is not just about smoking, but all of our activities – it is permeated by someone else looking at us and demanding his attention. For only seven days, forget about others and listen to yourself. Life is so long and beautiful, and only a week will not take you much time, but you will see that the benefits of such a dialogue with yourself much more than senseless prohibitions. Going inside yourself does wonders. You will not even notice how it will change everything! After all, once you learn to listen to yourself, it will change a lot.