Inside Stop Smoking Now, we're not just going to talk about quitting. We're going to dismantle the smoking program your brain has been running for years.
We'll go back to your first cigarettes — how old you were, who you were with, what you were trying to feel or avoid. Maybe you were trying to look older, be cool, rebel, or just belong. Your brain saved those moments like little movies. We're going to pull those movies up and tap on them until they don't run your life from the background anymore.
We'll look at the cigarettes you actually like — the ones with coffee, after a meal, on a long drive, after sex, on breaks at work, hiding outside where it's quiet. Those are your "comfort" cigarettes. We'll bring up what they look like, feel like, taste like in your mind, and we'll tap until the pull starts to change.
Then we're going after the ones you think you can't live without — the cigarette after a vicious argument, the one you light after somebody dies, the one you reach for when you're shaking with panic or so full of emotion you feel like you'll explode if you don't smoke. We'll find the memories and meanings under those moments and change the way your nervous system responds, so a cigarette isn't the only door your brain can see.
We'll get brutally honest about what smoking gives you and what it costs you, not as a lecture, but as your own truth on paper: the money, the time, the self-respect, the health fear, the hiding, the way your kids or partner look at you, the way you look at yourself. We'll also be honest about why you don't want to quit — the fear of gaining weight, of being angry, of having no way to cope. And then we tap on those fears too, so they stop running things from the shadows.