It was Christmas 2005 when I last met my Friend Jo. What a meeting that was to be for both of us! That was when she told me that she had been diagnosed with cancer. I was very shocked and deeply saddened. She seemed to have accepted the news quite well and was preparing herself for the treatment which was to be surgery followed by chemotherapy. She has always been stronger than me when it comes to this sought of thing, she has an extremely positive outlook on everything.
We had been at school together and lived in the same street and were as near as you could be to being sister and brother. We are Godparents to each others children. We both started smoking at the same time after stealing some of My Dads cigarettes and going into her cellar. I remember being quite sick at the time but the sense of rebellion felt great. It was incredibly spooky when we spoke to each other on the phone about five years ago and revealed to each other that we had decided to quit on the same day. We hadn't seen each other for about two months! Little did I know that we would both spend the next three years trying to quit. I eventually found out how to quit effectively using the power of my mind and some other techniques but Jo was struggling. She had always seen alternative stuff as hocus pocus so she never really noticed how I had quit even when I told her how I did it... Still, she finally woke up to the fact that the NRT route was just not helping and the zyban was making her sick.. and she asked me scathingly for the address of the guy that had helped me! Within a week phoned saying she 'knew ' that she had stopped for good! I struggled not to say "I told you so", but really I think I was more pleased than she was!I think the news of her illness really effected me in a profound way as I went for a check up at the doctors and started running again as I was convinced I would be next...Thank God I was given the all clear. The wonderful I am delighted to say is that Jo called me yesterday and has been given the all clear on her final routine tests. So it's party time at the weekend!!!
If you are trying to quit read some of my post about changing the way you think. There are some links to http://www.12free.org/ and if you need any further help look up an Hypnosis/NLP practitioner near to you. Pure hypnosis is effective but when combined with the NLP it makes a huge difference. Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP was invented By two guys called Richard Bandler and John Grinder and for want of a better turn of phrase is really like new software for the brain. As I understand the brain can learn really fast and just needs help in showing it which way to go... I recommend it strongly...
with Love
Nigel
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