Quit Vaping Quotes

If you were in control of your smoking, you wouldn’t be reading this book. If you could simply choose whether to smoke or not, you would choose to be a nonsmoker.

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you’re not making a sacrifice, you’re well on your way to freedom.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

If you could isolate the physical feeling, it would barely register as a small itch. I call this the Little Nicotine Monster. There is also a Big Monster in your mind. This is the brainwashing that tells you smoking is your crutch, your pleasure, and that you can’t live without it. When the nicotine level in your body falls, the Little Nicotine Monster triggers a pang around the stomach area which the Big Monster interprets as: “I want a cigarette.” This is the nicotine trap—the ingenious way that cigarettes turn smokers into slaves. Each cigarette causes the craving for the next, to fill the emptiness caused by the nicotine leaving your body. And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

your pleasure, and that you can’t live without it. When the nicotine level in your body falls, the Little Nicotine Monster triggers a pang around the stomach area which the Big Monster interprets as: “I want a cigarette.” This is the nicotine trap—the ingenious way that cigarettes turn smokers into slaves. Each cigarette causes the craving for the next, to fill the emptiness caused by the nicotine leaving your body. And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

I was struck, during COVID-19’s early months, that America’s Doctor, apparently preoccupied with his single vaccine solution, did little in the way of telling Americans how to bolster their immune response. He never took time during his daily White House briefings from March to May 2020 to instruct Americans to avoid tobacco (smoking and e-cigarettes/vaping double death rates from COVID); to get plenty of sunlight and to maintain adequate vitamin D levels (“Nearly 60 percent of patients with COVID-19 were vitamin D deficient upon hospitalization, with men in the advanced stages of COVID-19 pneumonia showing the greatest deficit”); or to diet, exercise, and lose weight (78 percent of Americans hospitalized for COVID-19 were overweight or obese). Quite the contrary, Dr. Fauci’s lockdowns caused Americans to gain an average of two pounds per month and to reduce their daily steps by 27 percent. He didn’t recommend avoiding sugar and soft drinks, processed foods, and chemical residues, all of which amplify inflammation, compromise immune response, and disrupt the gut biome which governs the immune system. During the centuries that science has fruitlessly sought remedies against coronavirus (aka the common cold), only zinc has repeatedly proven its efficacy in peer-reviewed studies. Zinc impedes viral replication, prophylaxing against colds and abbreviating their duration. The groaning shelves that commercial pharmacies devote to zinc-based cold remedies attest to its extraordinary efficacy. Yet Anthony Fauci never advised Americans to increase zinc uptake following exposure to infection.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.

Nicotine, like a sneaky puppeteer, knows how to keep its puppets on a string when you believe in its supposed bene- fits that only manifest themselves to those who are still addicted.

Nicotine, like a sneaky puppeteer, knows how to keep its puppets on a string when you believe in its supposed benefits that only manifest themselves to those who are still addicted.

As the nicotine addiction seizes control, your definition of a “sh*tty day” begins to broaden.

There are those who claim they only smoke a few cigarettes here and there, or only smoke cigars or only vape, insisting they don’t have a problem with nicotine. They seem to enjoy saying it, even when nobody asks, as if their “lack of a problem” requires justification.

You only need willpower if you have a conflict of will.

movie Twelve Angry Men.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

HOW the ADDICTION STARTS • ALARM BELLS • THAT EMPTY FEELING • ONE CIGARETTE LEADS TO ANOTHER • RE-PROGRAMMING YOUR BRAIN • THE KEY TO ESCAPE

The only pleasure or crutch smokers receive when they light up is the perceived relief of the empty, insecure feeling of the body withdrawing from nicotine that nonsmokers don’t suffer from anyway. 2. Each cigarette, far from relieving the empty feeling, actually causes it, so the perception of a pleasure or crutch is an illusion. It’s like putting on tight shoes to get the pleasure or relief of removing them.

SUMMARY • Nicotine is the addictive poison which hooks you. It’s the No.1 killer. • Smokers go on smoking despite all the obvious disadvantages because they’re in a trap. • Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking. It’s a disease. • You are not in control of your smoking. The cigarette controls you. CHAPTER 2

Most of our smoking is done without thinking.

Escaping the Trap All we have to do is destroy the Big Monster. There is only one way to do that. Not through willpower, not through substitutes. The only way to quit successfully without feeling deprived is to remove the brainwashing that has given birth to the Big Monster in your mind. The purpose of this book is to show you how you’ve been lured into the nicotine trap; to remove all the myths and illusions that keep you hooked; to show you how to escape and stay free; and to help you and millions like you stop smoking now.

This is a warning from your body: “POISON! DON’T TOUCH!

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, “Keep trying, it’s an acquired taste.

artificial void,

I know that heroin will do absolutely nothing for me and that I neither need nor want it, and I don’t have to keep telling myself that.

Knowledge is not necessarily enough to beat the nicotine trap.

Try to perceive yourself as a nonsmoker sees you

So how can we rejig our brains and get back to that blissful state of never wanting or needing a cigarette? That may sound difficult to you at this stage, even impossible, but I promise you it’s not only possible but also extremely easy! All you need to do is use your intellect to replace the misinformed reactions with correctly informed ones. Here’s an exercise to show you how easy that is. Look at the image below, let your imagination run wild and see if you can make anything of it.

Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.

THERE IS NO PLEASURE OR CRUTCH IN SMOKING!

The human brain works partly on instinct and partly on deduction.

In the past, whenever my logic and my instincts were in conflict, I would back my logic. Today, I back my instincts every time. Why? Because I know that my instinctive brain is many times more intelligent than my conscious brain.