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The little helpers are cute.

I used this self hypnosis or meditative breathing technique years ago to stop smoking. I find nowadays that it is unnecessary to continue using it as the possibility of a relapse is close to zero. However I do find that I still use the meditation technique sometimes in my day to day life.

When I can’t get to sleep at night or when I simply want to relax this breathing method is extremely successful.

Give it a try! Even if you don’t want or don’t need to stop smoking you will find that this will improve your life!

Half the battle when with a new challenge, whether it be learning a new computer program, learning to swim, or giving up tobacco is the knowledge – or conviction – that it is possible.

There comes a time, for all of us, when we went from thinking:

I can’t do that!
I’m not that good.
That’s too difficult for me!
The time and effort for me to do that would be too much to justify the outcome.

To thinking:

I can do that!
It is possible!
It’s easy!

It’s like crossing the river above. Difficult to imagine when you’re a child, but so easy when you’re an adult.

Believe me, it is that easy. Give it a go!

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I don’t know what you’d call the meditation that I practice but it may be similar to Buddhist “insight meditation,” which focuses on whatever is there, like breathing or body sensations. It doesn’t involve “om,” other mantras, or chanting.

The goal is to pay attention to sensory experience, rather than to your thoughts about it.

I just sit on a chair and try to concentrate on my breathing.

It’s not a perfect world and sometimes you hear a noise. If you suddenly hear a noise, you just listen to it rather than thinking about it. If your back hurts, you just notice the physical sensation. If nothing is there, you pay attention to your breathing. Successful meditators get used to not thinking or elaborating about things.

After a few seconds of practicing meditation, believe me, you wonder why you’ve never done it before. The relaxation benefit is obvious even to those of us who think we don’t need to relax!

After closing my eyes, slowing down my breaths and for the first time clearing my mind I knew that I had discovered something extremely important in my life. A few days later I quit smoking. Just one of the many benefits meditation gave me.

This link shows how you can use meditation and self-hypnosis to bring positive benefits to your life.

Quitcigs4free.com was created from a desire to take the negativity away from giving up smoking.

Obviously there is a negativity involved with smoking itself. Those of us that have or do smoke know about the daily sense of guilt, low self esteem and hard physical pain associated with the cigarette habit. Not too mention the numerous, well-documented side-effects that smoking produces on yourself and others.

But there is also a negativity – a heaviness – associated with the act of giving up. Ask anybody, smoker or not, if giving up cigarettes is easy and the response you’ll get is: “It’s incredibly difficult.” Why?

And there’s the familiar urban myth:

“Giving up smoking is harder than giving up heroin.”

Phew! How did they work that one out?

Well, I never had to give up heroin, I’m pleased to say, but giving up smoking, for me, was …. EASY!

As cynical as it may sound there are many large multi-national companies that would benefit greatly if this were true and would lose considerably if it weren’t.

“For every cigarette there’s a nicorette”

is Pfizers’ advertising line. I bet they wish it were true… they’d be making even more of a fortune if that were the case!

But, evidence for nicoteen replacement therapy (patches, gum, sprays) is severely limited.

I know that my method is cheap and it works.

Try it – you’ve spent enough already!

Welcome to the weblog for the free and easy way to stop smoking.

The website Quit Cigs 4 Free has been going for a few months now and has seen some success. However, it is time to move into the next level of development for Quit Cigs. There are plans for an eBook, a publication and ideas to stop even more people from smoking easily and without any financial or physical withdrawals.