Are you a smoker? Want to Stop?

[Anthony]

This message today is going to be brief. It's only for you if you are a smoker who would like to stop smoking, or perhaps you have a friend that fits this category who you would like to send this message to.

My history with smoking is this:

I started smoking at the age of ten, picking up butts on the street. I found the best place to find them was at bus stops. People would throw away large ones when the bus came before they were done.

By my late teens I was smoking a package of cigarettes a day. By the time I was in my mid twenties, I was sometimes smoking up to three packs of cigarettes a day. I had wanted to quit for a while but always found it pretty well impossible. I couldn't make it more than a day without a cigarette.

Then, when I was 28, I decided to give it a real shot. I thought that if I could quit for six months I would have it beat. But it didn't turn out that way. I actually did manage to make it for six months, but unconsciously started again without even knowing why.

Around this time I got into studying "Mind Power" and had been doing meditation for a few months. I was building my belief in myself and increasing my self-esteem and confidence. I decided once again to quit.

It nearly drove me crazy. But I believed so much in the power of the mind to change my life that I put together a program for myself. I recorded a couple of meditation exercises and put together a few worksheets on which I did some brainstorming.

I created some small cards on which I wrote down key ideas from these worksheets that I could carry with me in my pocket. I had learned that as powerful as the ideas on the worksheets were, they were no help to me if I forgot them when I was tempted with the urge to smoke. These small cards, which I carried in the same pocket that I used to carry my cigarettes worked great, because when I unconsciously reached for a cigarette, I would pull out these cards instead.

I developed a way to strengthen my self-image.

I developed a way to increase my motivation.

I developed a way to boost my self esteem.

I developed a way to increase my feelings of success.

I developed a couple of visualization exercises I did in the morning and evening.

It worked!

I eventually developed a way to deal with every craving I had. After a while I put my plan into a little booklet with my "CUE" cards (Cigarette Urge Erasers) and a cassette tape with the meditation exercises on them. I began teaching my method through the board of education night school in the city where I lived. This was the first book I ever wrote. It was the beginning of my "Success Coaching" business and my writing and public speaking career as well. Now I make my living coaching and speaking and recently co-authored a book with Brian Tracy which will soon be on the best seller lists.

I realized the other day that this month it has been 38 years since I last smoked a cigarette and I owe all my success to this program which I put together for myself all those years ago.

I haven't taught this method to anyone for quite a while. I've been focused on other things. But I recently came across a copy of the original booklet and the original cassette tape that was in a box of my earlier writing which I had stored in a store room and had forgotten about.

Listening to the cassette and reading over the little booklet again, I realized that this little program was not only the beginning of a new life of health and personal power and confidence for me. It was also a darned good program. In many ways I am still using the same techniques to move my life ahead today.

So I decided to see if any of my loyal readers were interested in getting their hands on this stop smoking program.

I dubbed the instruction recording and the meditation exercises onto a cd and redid the booklet.

If you are interested, I will upload them to the web so you can download the the booklet and listen to the recordings and fill out the worksheets and cards. I will even conduct a series of live coaching calls that you can listen to. This will guarantee that you understand how to use this program to transform yourself into a non-smoker, the way I did.

What am I asking as an investment in this program?

Probably less than you are now spending in a month of smoking. Of course, when you stop smoking you will get all the money back in a month or so, and.... have that money in your pocket every month for the rest of your life to spend on other things .

Not only that... you'll feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment, self-esteem, satisfaction and success.

AND ........ if you want to.... once you succeed, you will be able to teach other people this method and earn an income as a success coach for years into the future.

That's what I have done.

Interested?

Just send an email to me at www.anthonyhamilton.org with "smoking" in the subject line, and I'll contact you right away.

And, as I said, if you have a friend who you think might want to take advantage of this program, please forward this email to him or her.

Take care,

To your success,

Sincerely,

Anthony.