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How to Quit an Addiction in 5 Steps
- Garbage Rules will prod you to face the self-defeating thinking that’s keeping you addicted.
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Note on This Page
- This page provides a method to use to quit an addiction or a compulsion.
- The example used is the smoking addiction.
5 Steps to Quitting Simplified
First Step
- Recognize that you have a relationship with your undesirable addiction, bad habit, or compulsion.
Second Step
- Recognize that your current relationship style maintains the relationship in both positive and negative ways.
Third Step
- Recognize that you can change how you relate to your addiction to such a degree that the addiction becomes repulsive and no longer an option for you.
Fourth Step
- Choose to condition and recondition your thoughts and feelings to experience and view every aspect of smoking in a negative way.
Fifth Step
- Share your progress and success with overcoming your addiction with others.
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First Step
What is my relationship to my bad habit of smoking?
- Do I see smoking as comforting, stress-relieving, or rewarding?
- Do I see smoking as pleasureful or my right?
- Do I hate and love smoking?
- Do I have mixed feelings and thoughts about smoking?
Second Step
How is my current way of relating to smoking keeping me smoking?
- As long as I see smoking as somehow rewarding, I will continue to pursue my bad habit of smoking.
- As long as I believe in the benefits and payoffs of smoking, I will continue to exercise my addiction.
- As long as I complain about my smoking while I am doing it, I will be forcing myself to defend and protect it at least on an emotional or subconscious level.
- My pushing and pulling on my addiction is only feeding my addiction.
Third Step
I claim my right to change my relationship to smoking.
- I claim my right to change my relationship to smoking from being mixed with positive and negative feelings and thoughts to a new relationship containing only negative feelings and thoughts.
- I have the right to divorce smoking and to change my view of smoking. I can choose to end this bad marriage.
- If I am willing to retrain myself to view smoking as only negative and never rewarding, then I will automatically quit smoking.
- I will not drink battery acid because I believe that it provides only negative results and no payoffs or rewards.
- I must start to view smoking as only having only negative results.
Fourth Step
I choose to practice both a conditioning and a reconditioning process on my feelings and thoughts.
- I will condition with new negative feelings and thoughts.
- I will recondition by replacing all positive feelings and thoughts with negative ones.
- I will experience and view every aspect of smoking in a negative way.
- I force myself to feel negative feelings about anything and everything to do with smoking.
- I force myself to think negative thoughts about anything and everything to do with smoking.
- I learn to despise every action and aspect of smoking.
- I practice feeling contempt for smoking in any form.
- Garbage Rules can help with developing a negative attitude toward self-defeating and stupid addictions, bad habits, and compulsions.
Fifth Step
I share my progress and success with others.
- I share my progress and success with overcoming my addiction with others in order to both reinforce my progress and to encourage others to do the same for themselves.
- I tell others about how changing my relationship to smoking to being completely negative is lowering my desire to smoke.
- I tell others about how changing my relationship to smoking to having only a bad attitude about smoking is lowing my smoking.
- I tell others how I now despise smoking, so do not care to smoke or be around anyone smoking.
- I encourage others to learn to have a completely negative relationship with smoking.
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Related Pages of Free Information
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): The 12 Steps of
- Cause of Addiction
- Coping Skills: Free Help
- Exercises & Techniques: List Pages
- How to Quit in 5 Steps
- More on 5TP: Pages by Topic: 5 Thinking Positions
- Recovery Issues: Free Help
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