Well, I've been gradually developing a theory about habits over the past year or two. You'll find my idea in this answer about the Fibonacci series.

In that example, I've shown how I went from rarely cycling to cycling 10 miles a day everyday (weather permitting).

The same principle applies to breaking bad habits, according to the theory presented.

So for any bad habit you want to break...

• Day 1 will be difficult to stop doing it
• Day 2 will be difficult to stop doing it, but maybe slightly less so.
• Day 3 will be difficult to stop doing it, but slightly less so than day 2.
• Now there's a breakthrough and you will now coast a bit to day 5
• If you can make to day 8, it becomes even easier not to do it
• Now you've got another week to day 13 before it becomes even easier
• By day 21, you've almost broken it completely
• If you can make it to day 34, I suspect it's gone for life

So, based upon this, if you want to break a bad habit fast, set yourself the goal of not doing it for just three days.

And then you should find it becomes alot easier to continue not to do it.

To replace a bad habit you must mentally think and want to change it. Once you have decide that you really want to change it than you have to retrain your brain to do somthing else in place of it.

I use to speak negative things of what was happening to me all of the times. So, finally I stop and now I speak postive things about my self about my own reality about life. In time it is happening people are seeing and telling me what I was speaking. Everytime I catch myself forgeting to think and speak postively everyday than I do and I also speak graditude to God for all the good that is happen in my life. I might be hungry but I will say I am full and I have box full of food. I say my skin is smooth and healthy and than it becomes that way.

So we manifest what we think and speak so we have to be careful what we think and speak while we are not paying attention and in a kind of idle laid back way.

Also it feels so good to keep other people lifted up and make them feel good about them selves even if they are strangers give them a compliment about something if it is only you have a lovely or beautiful smile or beautiful white teeth.

Stop smoking is easy, I used to do that about 30 times a day. It is to NO SMOKE AGAIN witch is more difficult! I stopped 3 years ago with a book " AllenCarr's Easy Way to stop smoking " It is a washing brain machine to pull out you envy to smoke. Congratulations for what you did. I am happy for you. Courage

I quit smoking using an NLP technique called Hand Actuated Mental Reconditioning, which I learned from HAMR.com. I imagined getting ready for a smoke - finding my cigarettes, looking for matches, or maybe going to the store to buy one. Basically, I imagined all the little things that led up to lighting a cigarette - the craving, etc.

Then I imagined sitting on the side of a mountain enjoying a crystal-clear cool breeze, basically relaxing in nature, admiring the clean horizon. It was very peaceful.

I mixed these two images together, poured them one into the other.

Over the next three weeks, I simply became less and less interested in smoking, until I just failed to ever get around to having another cigarette. I think I had about five cigarettes after I ran out of my own, and just never got around to getting more cigarettes. That was five years ago.

Now I had quit many times in the previous 20 years. it was really hard to quit, and the cravings were terrible and sooner or later there would be a trauma in my life for which cigarettes were the only real soothing method I could get. But after doing this HAMR technique only one time, after that every time I thought of smoking, I'd mentally find myself on the mountainside, relaxing in a mountain meadow and enjoying crystal-clear turquoise air and the thought of actually inhaling smoke of any kind was very unpleasant.

Another time I was on an airplane across the Atlantic ocean and having a gigantic panic attack, contemplating my imminent death, etc. I'd developed panic disorder a decade before, and one of the first and by far the biggest phobia that I developed as a result was a fear of flying. I had dealt with this phobia extensively through therapy.

So there I was on the plane thinking "Well, so much for the therapy, I'm convinced I will die a horrible death now and this was a bad idea!" I started using EFT, tapping on whatever feeling was foremost ("I'm afraid to die!!" then "I feel so terrified!" then "When will this agony ever end!") I did this over and over again for at least an hour or two, there were so many layers of scary feelings.

Then, at one point, I tapped on the feeling "I'll never get my act together, I'm a loser" As I tapped away on this feeling, the thought changed in my head: "My mother was right, I'll never get my act together, I'm a loser"

BAM! That was the original belief, buried way down deep, that led to my whole panic disorder and phobia about flying. I remembered that a decade before I'd had my first series of panic attacks on an airplane returning to my job after secretly visiting my home town without letting my (very bossy) mother know that I would be visiting. On the trip back to my job, I knew that I would probably be getting fired, and I felt bad because I had specifically gone against what my mother had told me to do with my life and now I was going to face the consequence.

That secret, suppressed belief was underneath a decade of crazy anxiety problems and phobias. I dug it out by putting myself right into the most scary situation, and then using EFT to confront my feelings directly, in the moment, until a breakthrough came.

But wow, did that experience ever suck! :)

In my experience there is no fast way to get rid of a bad habit. It takes replacement behavior, and that is tedious....but it works!

Congratulations Jai - It is such an enormous accomplishment to be able to kick the smoking habit and you are so much better for it!! I have been smoke-free for 16 years now and when I began the process of quitting I used to tell myself that I was a born non-smoker and have always been a non-smoker (of course we are all born non-smokers!!) but that belief became my mantra and made it so much easier for me to say no whenever the desire for a cigarette presented itself...When I quit I would still dream of smoking and upon waking would feel horrified that I might have lit up without knowing it - but much to my relief it was just a dream and I am still enjoying my non-smoking status!

Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" worked for me

Allen Carr's "Easyway". Get it, Do what he says. seriously. Good luck

Congratulations on quitting! I am going to answer this anyway, for those who read it for answers. To quit a bad habit, use Two Hands Touching with EZ Deletion Sequence EZDS video and affirmations. For example to quit smoking cigarettes, after doing the first part of the video:

Do THT Then say, "Delete all the ways I hold in my body and feel about smoking cigarettes." Do THT

Say,"Delete all the physical and psychological causes and affects of smoking cigarettes." Do THT

Say,"Delete all the mental and emotional causes and affects of smoking cigarettes." Do THT

Say,"Delete all the psychic/empathic and spiritual causes and affects of smoking cigarettes." Do THT

Say,"Delete all the remaining and unknown causes and affects of smoking cigarettes." Do THT

Say, "I am healthy and happy." Do THT