Along the lines of the "hypnotism" subject also ...... I was 22 years old and decided I wanted to quit (for financial reasons really - being a student at the time and all!). Well - I bought one of those quit smoking tapes, with a 100% guarantee.... the one's that you are supposed to lie down, relax and listen to. One side of the tape was just talking and the other side was music with "subliminal" messages within it. So my boyfriend at the time and myself set ourselves up in our prone positions, played the tape and lay back ... listened ... expecting we would be non-smokers after listening to the tape. Every night for about a week we'd go through this ritual (we were still socially smoking as well mind!). On the last night of listening to this tape - we both sat up afterwards - looked at each other and burst out laughing! Got up - got into the car - drove to the nearest 24hour to buy cigs in the late hours of the night. We thought it was all a joke and it didn't work anyway - so therefore, solution - keep smoking!
Hmmm ..... at 36 years old now - I look back at that first attempt at quitting in my life ... how uneducated I was. How much of an addict I was ... and still am.
Georgia
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