{"id":55014,"date":"2024-02-07T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/?p=55014"},"modified":"2024-02-07T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:31:43","slug":"i-quit-a-10-year-smoking-habit-in-one-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/i-quit-a-10-year-smoking-habit-in-one-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"I Quit a 10-Year Smoking Habit in One Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people didn\u2019t know, only a few friends and family. I knew it was out of alignment with who I wanted to be, but it was true: I was a smoker.<\/p>\n

I had been for a decade. I started as a teenager for the usual reasons. I wanted to belong. To be seen as someone who could handle whatever was thrown at me. Maybe even to seem a little bit edgy.<\/p>\n

I was fifteen when I smoked my first cigarette. What that fifteen-year-old didn\u2019t know? My \u201cevery now and then\u201d cigarette would become a habit that buried me in shame. It would haunt me even as I pursued\u2014and achieved\u2014impressive health goals.<\/p>\n

I tried quitting. It only ever took one slip-up to put me back where I started. I was stuck.<\/p>\n

Do you know what that\u2019s like? To keep on doing something even though it undermines who you aspire to be?<\/p>\n

I can remember my first cigarette like yesterday. I can remember my last cigarette like yesterday, too.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it happened.<\/h2>\n

It was 2020. There was a virus attacking people\u2019s lungs. I needed a way out that worked. I needed help.<\/p>\n

So I hired a hypnotist to help me quit. It took one session\u2014one and a half hours\u2014for me to go from a decade-long smoker to a non-smoker. I have zero cravings. Zero detox. Zero negative side effects. How? I rewired my brain.\u2063<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a specialist in addiction, and our Full Focus team isn\u2019t either. If you find yourself stuck in an addictive cycle, I suggest you take a page out of my book and ask for help. (Maybe add hypnosis to your list of possible avenues.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I do know: The process I walked through that day isn\u2019t just for smokers. It\u2019s for you.<\/p>\n

Your decisions have a cost.<\/h2>\n

Sometimes\u2014usually<\/em>\u2014we\u2019re not in tune with the costs of our decisions. We just make them. My hypnotist had me start by imagining my life progressing if I kept the habit.<\/p>\n

One year later, I was still hiding and ashamed. Ten years later, I was stepping out of the house every few hours to protect my children from the dangers of secondhand smoke instead of holding them close. Then I was on my early deathbed, dying of lung cancer, looking into the grieving, resentful faces of my kids. I could see the truth in their eyes as tears streamed down my face:<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t have to be this way. I had let it happen.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What is it for you? A marriage where the distance just keeps growing? That nagging insomnia? The gossip habit? The chronic overwork? Your obsessive phone use?<\/p>\n

Whose eyes will you have to look into ten years from now? And what will they be saying?<\/p>\n

I stared into my children\u2019s eyes and couldn\u2019t handle what I saw. And then, my hypnotist gave me what we all need: the chance to build a vision for a better future.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not too late to change course.<\/h2>\n

\u2063The future isn\u2019t here yet. Yesterday doesn\u2019t define tomorrow. What you do today matters. But we don\u2019t change direction without a powerful outside force. You need a vision.<\/a><\/p>\n

My hypnotist invited me to imagine a different future. One in which I\u2019d quit smoking that very day. The future unfolded before me: races I\u2019d run and personal bests I\u2019d set, long years with my children and grandchildren, no more hiding in shame. Instead, I saw myself walking in confidence borne of triumph. I wanted that future more badly than I\u2019d ever wanted anything.<\/p>\n

When the session ended, the thought of a cigarette wasn\u2019t tempting anymore. I had a future worth chasing. So I went after it.<\/p>\n

A future worth chasing isn\u2019t just course correction. It\u2019s a deep well of motivation for the journey.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve just launched a new life-planning product called LifeFocus<\/a>, and I know in my bones that this product will have the kind of impact on others that hypnosis had on me. I haven\u2019t been this excited about a product since the release of the Full Focus Planner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I want you to have a future you\u2019re excited to live. I want you to walk in confidence. I want you to flourish in every <\/em>area of your life, not just one. I want you to live the Double Win<\/a>. I can\u2019t imagine a better way there than LifeFocus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is my story. What will yours be? It\u2019s time to dream again.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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