Can’t Get A Second Date - Could Smoking Be The Reason?
You like her (or him) so much that you are sure you would like to go out again. In fact, you think this person might just possibly be the one. But when you ask for a second date or a phone number, your date smiles and says, "Good night." And walks away from you.
You thought the night was going perfectly. You found a special restaurant that played the perfect background music, and dinner talk was relaxing and enjoyable. Your eyes kept meeting, and you were just sure that you two had hit it off. Then dinner was over, and you stopped to have a quick cigarette before getting into the car.
Why It’s a Problem
The sad truth is, most non-smokers just don’t like kissing ashtrays. And, frankly, kissing someone who smokes tastes nearly as bad. Smoking is a major turnoff, and a bad habit that most people just won’t tolerate. In fact, dating sites even allow users to filter out smokers from their searches for that Mr. or Ms. Right.
The majority of people who smoke are aware of this and try to hide their annoying addiction from other searchers by listing themselves as non-smokers. The first meeting, however, gives them away. And the search begins again.
How Much of a Problem Is It Really?
Just how much of a problem is smoking when it comes to relationships and marriage? In fact, smokers are 53% more likely to divorce than non-smokers. This holds true for people of every age, social class, and ethnic background.
Researchers state flat-out that smoking is a risk for divorce and marital problems. They also encourage a person who is dating a smoker to think long and hard before committing to marry someone who smokes.
Maybe It’s Time to Quit
If you have found that, over and over again, you aren’t getting a second date or having trouble starting a relationship, perhaps you are ready to quit smoking. Although people decide to quit smoking for a variety of reasons, if you quit smoking because of concerns with romantic relationships, you are far from alone.
Ultimately, most smokers start searching for ways to quit smoking out of concern for the health of their family. There are many ways to quit smoking, and one of the easiest ways is through the use of a specially formulated hypnosis program.
Hypnosis Could Be The Answer
Hypnosis programs for quitting smoking are developed specifically to help smokers quit smoking without having to suffer from withdrawal. They are particularly useful because they help smokers beat the psychological aspects of the addiction, which are the hardest aspects to overcome. The smoking habit is 10% physical addiction, and 90% mental addiction.
One of the biggest problem any smoker faces when giving up is stopping being a smoker and becoming a non smoker.
It may sound fairly easy to you - you stop smoking and there you are, you're a non smoker.
Unfortunately, as many smokers will attest to, it's not actually that easy and is much more involved than just putting down your cigarettes.
When you become a smoker you change your identity. For many people smoking becomes a part of their life and so a part of their identity.
When something becomes a part of your identity then it becomes very difficult to stop it, unless you change your identity again. You can stop the behaviour but unless you change your identity, you may find it very hard to resist restarting the behaviour.
Typically, a smoker will quit, then start again, quit, then start again and repeat this process UNTIL they change their identity. As soon as they mentally become a non smoker, they will simply stop smoking and have little or no desire to go back to being a smoker.
You will hear of people who managed to literally quit smoking overnight. They did it because they encountered a situation which caused them so much pain that they instantly changed their identity and became a non smoker.
This is, of course, one way to do it, but avoiding excess pain is always a good thing I say, and there are much easier ways to change your identity so that you become a non smoker.
The simplest way, which takes the longest, is to keep telling yourself you are a non smoker as an affirmation. Just keep saying something like, "I'm a non smoker" and put the force of your belief behind it.
There much quicker ways such as hypnosis, which allows you to make fundamental changes to your identity relatively easily and quickly, much more so than an affirmation like mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Whether you visit a clinical hypnotist for a face to face session or purchase a hypnosis CD such as the Free From Tobacco program, you will be able to change your identity and become a non smoker.
If you are serious about stopping smoking, then you need to look closely at how smoking is tied into your identity and then work on changing your identity so that you are a non smoker. You will then find it very easy to actually stop smoking and stay stopped.
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