The Phillips Method to Stop Smoking

By Franklin Díaz Lárez

An easy method, just as efficient, to stop smoking.
With it you will be able to program your brain not only to definitely leave the habit of smoking, but to also reach all of the goals and objectives that you propose on yourself from now on.
It contains a set of techniques and procedures to everyone’s reach, that will teach you to program your brain to leave the habit of smoking in a definitive way.
By reading this book, and the consequent put on practice of its recommendations, not only will you be able to stop smoking, but to also reach all of the goals and objectives that you aim for from now on.
It’s not just a plan to leave the habit of smoking, but it also explains the behaviors, principles and rules that the brain follows, and the way to program it according to your wishes and necessities.
With easy and simples exercises that will help to know you more and better, and to reinforce your self-esteem and self-evaluation.
An enjoyable reading with which aside of learning how to quit smoking, you will spend entertaining moments with jokes, stories and funny anecdotes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Franklin Díaz Lárez
• Release date: May 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215630624

Franklin Díaz Lárez

Franklin Díaz es abogado, especialista en inmigración, en docencia universitaria y escritor.Ha escrito y publicado los siguientes textos:Novelas:* El Amante de Isabella* Mis Genes Malditos* Las Baladas del Cielo* El Último Prefecto* La Casa del Columpio* Ramny y la Savia de Amor* Crónica de un Suicidio* El Aroma del MastrantoLibros de Autoayuda:* Siempre Puedo Continuar* De Esclavo a Empresario* El método PHILLIPS para dejar de fumar* RELAX al Alcance de Todos* Somos ResilientesTextos Didácticos:* La Gestión Inmobiliaria - Teoría y Práctica del Mundo de los Negocios Inmobiliarios* El Gestor Inmobiliario (Fundamentos Teóricos)* El Gestor Inmobiliario (Contratos y Formularios)* Quiero Publicar mi Libro.* Autopublicación en Papel (Createspace - Lulú - Bubok)* Guía Práctica del Camarero* El Vendedor de IdeasRelatos:* Susurros de AmorBlog:http://diazfranklin.wordpress.com

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The Phillips Method to Stop Smoking

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The Phillips Method to Stop Smoking

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Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter one: Trust in ME

Chapter two: Trust in YOU

Excuses and justifications

Why do we get addicted to tobacco?

Chapter three: The motives

The promise to a third party as a motive to quit smoking

The Londoner neighbor

Goals and self-esteem

John, a trachea’s smoker

Chapter four: The date

The joke of the sofa

Chapter five: The scheduling

Chapter six: The beginning of the end

The abstinence syndrome

INTRODUCTION

Hi.

My name is Phillips Jones. I’m an ex-smoker and ex-addict to nicotine.

Last February 26th marked my sixteen year without smoking. And I will keep it that way for the rest of my life.

The day I announced that I would quit, nobody believed it. I had been smoking for over twenty years. I don’t remember a single day of those in which I didn’t smoke. Not even sick, when tobacco’s flavor get’s more insipid and weird, did I stop smoking.

I was a regular smoker, the kind that smokes on a daily basis, steady. Not the kind that smokes more when drinking, or when facing certain stressful circumstances. I was indifferent to every situation; I always smoked the same. My average consumption was in the range of ten and twenty cigars per day, some times more, some times less. Obviously there were situations in which I smoked in automatic: when I went to the bathroom, after a cup of coffee and after lunch. Outside of those situations, my consumption was normal (in the way I understood that); one or two cigars every hour.

After I stopped, a lot of my friends and family that smoke asked me for the recipe. They wanted to know which plan I had followed, how had I done that, with which Saint had I turned on the candles?

I told everyone the same thing:

«I don’t believe in Saints, plans or candles. I invented myself and followed my own method».

And when some of them asked me what it was, I explained it to them.

With time I began to receive information from the people that had followed my instructions. All of them stopped smoking. I thought that maybe they were the kind of people who had already made their minds long before they spoke to me, and that they only needed that small push from me. I didn’t have the vanity to think that my indications and explanations were reason enough for someone, who wasn’t myself, to stop smoking. It seems that I was wrong.

A lot of my friends, family and known ones left for good the habit of smoking, thanks to my recommendations. It was something that greatly surprised me and it brought me great satisfactions.

A while ago I found in a bar, by mere chance, to one of my friends ex-smokers and ex-addict to nicotine, like me. I told him that I was seriously thinking to leave my service as a lawyer to dedicate myself to write. Then, he told me:

«Hey, Phillips… Why don’t you write a book explaining step by step your method to stop smoking? You could help a lot of people.»

I smiled while listening that proposal.

«And that… —he kept saying—, you can even call it like you; "The PHILLIPS method to stop smoking. »

«The PHILLIPS method to stop smoking! What a joke! —I thought—. Who can imagine such a foolish thing?»

The proposal caused me laughter. It sounded ironic. Like a bad joke.

Sometime later, on a rainy day at the beginning of spring, my mother came to visit me in my dreams.

«My son —she said—, if I had known a method like yours to stop smoking, maybe today I would still be alive…»

Those were words that touched me deep inside of me. Not because I believed that my mother’s spirit had really come from beyond to be with me, because I’m a bit skeptical with those things, but because since the day she left, nine years before, I had occasionally dreamed with her.

It could seem that the idea of writing the book about how to stop smoking had kept lingering in my mind since the chat with my friend at the bar, and then from that dream with my mother with such a peculiar message. She was an incessant and eternal smoker. She smoked without mercy, until just a few days before her leaving.

Since then, I couldn’t get the idea out of my mind. I began to meditate about it. Some questions and suggestions came in groups to fly around my brain:

«How could I place my method to stop smoking in writing?»

«Would I be able to do it?»

«Would it be the chance that I was waiting for to write and publish my first book?»

«And why not? A lot of people have written dozens of books with methods and instructions about how to do a