Stop Sabotaging Your Goal of Becoming a Non-Smoker!
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How can I become aware of my smoking triggers to stop self‑sabotage?
Today, I want to show you how to stop sabotaging yourself as a future non-smoker. So, what are some things that you can do on a mental level and also on a practical level to avoid self-sabotaging behavior? The first thing that you can do is to become aware, and I know that this sounds like a yeah, maybe even a spiritual term, but the truth is that the very first step towards change. Change always has to be awareness. To give you an example, if you're not aware that you actually have a problem with cigarettes, then you won't take the necessary action steps to change something about your situation and to actually overcome your addiction. If you're not aware of your triggers, then you will always fall victim to these triggers because you just don't develop the awareness to detect them and to
stop yourself from then taking a cigarette and smoking it when a trigger appears. So by you developing a certain level of awareness for your triggers, for the situations when you're more likely to have the desire to smoke. A simple example would be that you associate smoking a cigarette with your morning coffee and instead of going unconscious the next morning, you when you pour in your cup of coffee Remember that this is a trigger that your subconscious mind has associated with smoking cigarettes, and in this moment you make the conscious choice to stop yourself from smoking the cigarette. Because one of the most terrible, horrible, and self-destructive self-sabotaging behaviors is to stay blind to all the triggers that trigger you to smoke a cigarette, no matter.
if it's certain people, certain places, certain events, certain emotions, whatever it might be, awareness is always the first step because once you develop this awareness, then you can consciously make a different choice.
What cognitive‑behavioral techniques can reframe negative smoking thoughts?
But when you're not aware of these triggers, then you're just going through the motions without ever thinking about it consciously, and then you will never become a non-smoker. And the next process Principle you can follow to not sabotage yourself on your journey towards becoming a non-smoker is to cognitively reconstruct every thought and every, yeah, you can say dialogue that you have with yourself in order to get one step closer to your goal of being a non-smoker. And in this case, cognitive behavioral therapy helps you to change negative therapies. Thought patterns. And I'm not just a certified hypnotist, I'm also a certified cognitive behavioral coach. And what cognitive behavioral therapy does is that you in the first step again become aware.
There we go back to awareness, you become aware when a self-sabotaging thought arises, and you actually develop a certain level of awareness for these thoughts. Because I mean, we human beings, we think thousands of thoughts. Every day. In fact, according to different studies, it's 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts every day, most of them negative and most of them repetitive. Which means that if you have these repetitive thoughts over and over again, for example, just one cigarette won't hurt, or I just don't have what it takes to quit, or other people can do it, but I can't do it, or I've been smoking for X years.
How does visualizing a non‑smoker identity change my emotional state?
or X decades, which means I just can't change. When these thoughts come up, you then challenge them and you rephrase them. You change this inner dialogue. Let's say for example, just one won't hurt and you can then rephrase it by saying, I know that I'm just bullshitting myself. One cigarette is one enough. Or if you for example detect yourself thinking, oh I've been a smoker for 10 ten years or twenty. Years, I just can't quit anymore. And in this moment you then say to yourself, I know that this is not true, I know that I can quit. I know that change is possible. I know that other people have done it too. There are people who've smoked for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, and they were able to quit, so I'm able to quit as well.
Why is shifting my identity, not just habits, essential for long‑term quitting?
And this leads me to the next point that I want to mention, and that's to learn And this is one of the big Lies that we human beings have been told, at least many of us have been told this lie.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How can I become aware of my smoking triggers to stop self‑sabotage?
0:00–1:54
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What cognitive‑behavioral techniques can reframe negative smoking thoughts?
1:54–3:20
3
How does visualizing a non‑smoker identity change my emotional state?
3:20–4:06
4
Why is shifting my identity, not just habits, essential for long‑term quitting?
4:06–5:05
5
What role do hypnosis and guided meditations play in quitting smoking?
5:05–6:31
6
How can I create a supportive environment and remove smoker cues?
6:31–7:33
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What practical contract or commitment strategies keep me accountable?
7:33–10:33
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