If you need them – you don’t need them.

Neediness is not a good place to act from in any aspect of life, let alone when it involves smoking.

It is time to be discerning – ask yourself …

Do you want to smoke, or is it that you need to smoke?

If you need to smoke you had better acknowledge that this is not a good place to act from. Remember that you don’t want to act out of neediness.

If you feel you need to smoke, gather all your strength and fight back hard.

And if you want to smoke – in other words you feel that you do have a choice, but smoke just because you want to – you can always want something else instead.

This clearly means that it is totally up to you to cease wanting to smoke at any moment. If that is so, you are most fortunate – you are acting from free will, and you do what you want. Well, if it is up to you, why don’t you cease to want it?

The answer is as simple and true as this. We tend to forget that if it is up to us, we can change our desires at any minute we choose – unless we live in denial and are actually dependent on them.

So please remind yourself that if you smoke because you want to, you have the option of wanting something else.

And when you have stopped smoking but feel the urge to smoke and really want one, remember that you are among the lucky ones who don’t need cigarettes. If you realize that you are craving a cigarette because you want one, prove to yourself that this is not just an intellectual mind game. Choose to want something else, and remind yourself that you don’t need a cigarette.

On the other hand, if you do need one, remind yourself that you need it but you don’t want it. If this is the case, you really don’t need a cigarette – because need is not a good place to act from.

If you need it, it means you are not whole without it.

Can you afford to be whole only when you ingest nicotine?

This dependency is shackling you: it has harnessed your mind and free will to serve it.

Choose to act out of free will. Choose not to act out of dependency.