Exactly How Your First Year as a Non-Smoker Looks Like

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What does a year of life without cigarettes feel like?

Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 0:00
Imagine what your life will look like after one year without cigarettes. Today I invite you to embark on an imaginary journey with me. I invite you to now think about your life one year after you've successfully quit smoking. So imagine for a moment, it's not the beginning of March in the year 2024, but it's the beginning of March in the year 2025. And you're looking back at 2024, and you look back at your old self, at your self that is no longer a part of you, this self that was smoking cigarettes, this self that was living an unhealthy life, and this self that was struggling for so long to quit smoking. And now you look back at this self with empathy. With compassion, and you now feel so empowered, you feel so wonderful, you feel so invincible.
Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 1:04
Just think about the emotions that you will feel once you live a smoke-free life. Just allow yourself right now to feel these emotions, to feel free, to feel this feeling of relief, to feel this feeling of joy, to feel this feeling of a confidence. Accomplishment, allow yourself in this moment to feel these feelings because these are the feelings that you will feel once you are.

How does quitting smoking improve physical health and energy levels?

Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 1:32
Living your life as a non-smoker and just think about how wonderful it feels, how empowering it feels, and how incredible. It feels to live this life and then think about your physical transformations. I mean, yes, of course, we can look at it from a medical point of view. We can have a look at your improved lung capacity, at your improved respiratory health, but we can also look at it from the simple way how you feel differently in your body. How now, when you take long walks, you can breathe in. In and you can breathe out without coughing, without feeling this uncomfortable feeling in your throat, without struggling to breathe in and to breathe out, and without struggling to take these deep life-affirming breaths.
Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 2:24
And nowadays you don't get tired so often. You can actually walk for a long time, you can go to the gym again, you're not exhausted, you're not. Not grasping for air whenever you are physically active. This is something that you've experienced in the past.

What financial benefits can you expect after quitting smoking?

Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 2:41
And these enhanced energy levels that you now feel because you are smoke-free lead to more success in your business or your career. Because now you're more productive, you feel more energized, and this brain fog, this brain fog that you had before. whenever you didn't smoke a cigarette in time is completely gone. You can now focus on your career, you can focus on the tasks at hand, you can become more productive and feel more productive and live your life more productively. And it is now such a joy to go to social gatherings and to no longer feel awkward, to be this one person who in the middle of the conversation has to explain. Excuse himself or herself to then go out in the blistering cold to smoke a cigarette.
Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 3:29
You are no longer that person. You can now enjoy building relationships and yes, also rebuilding relationships because maybe your relationship with your partner has suffered because you were smoking cigarettes, maybe there was tension between you and your children because you were smoking cigarettes and you You didn't want them to go down the same path as you and now you no longer have to be afraid of that and you are free. You are free right now, not just emotionally and physically, but you're also free financially.

How can an identity shift prevent relapse and reinforce a non‑smoker mindset?

Certified Hypnotist & Cognitive Behavioral Coach 4:01
I mean now that you think about it, when you think back all the hundreds of dollars that you spend each month on cigarettes, and when you add it up over the years you Now realize that you have so much more money, so much more financial freedom now in this future that you created for yourself, which has become the present moment for you. That you can now spend that money on things that bring you joy, on vacations, you can save it, you can invest it, you can put it in the college fund for your children in case you have children, you can do with it whatever you want. There's now so much more financial freedom in your life, and at the same time, you know that no matter what life throws at you, that no matter what challenge you have to face in your life, no matter what happens in your life, you are strong.

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