How To Permanently Quit Addictions

I am a reformed alcoholic. I am a reformed chain smoker.I am an ex fat person. I am also not selling anything.My only wish now is to help people by passing on myknowledge, I guess this sounds too good to be true.When you have really nearly died a few times, moneytakes on a sort of reduced role in your thinking.Make no mistake about it, we are all going to die, even you will die one day. When you are young thisseems a long long way away, I'm fifty now, and it sure seems a little closer to hand than it did.So it makes sense to make the time I have leftquality time, free of drink smoking and obesity,after all it is easier to get older if you feel fitter,than if you are ruining your body daily.I wish I had started earlier in life, YOU CAN.You may think I have superhuman will power toquit drinking and smoking, and gambling and allother excesses. To a certain extent that is true,I have a great deal of will power, but I also havea method, a way of thinking, which helps.For some reason, and it may have been a good one at the time, you have a craving, an overpoweringaddiction. You love something more than you love yourself at the present time.Think myself or my health.In this New Labour Tony Blair type world,certainly in Britain, everything is explainable in termsof something else more convenient. It doesn't detractfrom the plain fact that the Emperor really hasn't gotany clothes on at all. In short, it's not stretching thetruth, it's really a very big lie. This is what you are currently doing to yourself,you are living out a lie in order to placate yourself,in order to make what you are doing palatable.What you are really doing is killing yourself a lot quicker, and a lot more painfully than is really necessary, and by and large no one givesa damn whether you do or you don't,they are too busy with themselves to really andtruly bother about YOU. By and large this is correct.The few people that possibly do care either haven't a clue how to help, or are simply hampered by therealisation that it is only YOU who can cure it.There are really no excusesIf you are drinking too much you are a pain of a drunk.If you are smoking too much you are a pain of a smoker.If you are gambling too much you are a liability,just as you are if you are on drugs.You probably nodded to all these, and felt agreement,so why don't you realise that you are putting an intolerable strain on the people around you, to say nothing of the strain on the Health Professionals.WHY?Because you are too self indulgent to stop for a minute enjoying yourselves to see if you are bothering other people,too wrapped up in yourselves to care about others.There is no magic formula to giving up an addiction,You stop doing what it is that is costing you, and every one around you a fortune. You stop paying out what you haven't got on things YOU DON'T REALLY NEED.To break that down further, in order to do this you will need to change your whole way of life, permanently. Make no mistake, if you are really and truly HAPPY with what you are doing, then fine, go ahead and do it, but acknowledge that most things you really enjoy overdoing kill you slowly, and painfully, and most things done to excess bring attendant guilt.Stop reading now if you don't want to quit for good and all or else you are wasting someone else's bandwidth whohas what it takes when you have not got the moral fibre.What it takes is a modicum of will power combined witha hell of a lot of common sense. I have had a lot of addictions,I am an excessive natured person. I find the first step in losing any of them is to look at them as a phase I have grown out of. I have matured to such an extent I no longer need their crutch to carry me onwards.Generally speaking, most addictions are to make upfor or act as a distraction from the world as it is.We have to learn to face up to life instead of runningaway from it, and hiding behind false barriers builtup on the shaky foundations of fleeting happinessbought at great actual and mental cost via addiction.We have to move on and grow up and mature,Much as we ourselves look at kids and feel, that's wrong, but they'll grow out of it in time. And they usually do, don't they, because they see that long term they are better off without doing what they are doing.Why don't we tell them at the time?Because we know they'll tend to do the opposite,and that only they can learn to be wise in the fullnessof time. We can but advise, and sow the seeds.Thus it is with ourselves.We have established that we can expect NO HELPFROM OTHERS. Why should anyone else help usanyway, it's our problem. If someone came to you withIve got a terrible problem with my lawyer, and my cat isn't eating, my mother in law is being funny and I've gotthe results of my x rays tomorrow you might well bea little concerned, but I bet your first thought would really and truly be how can I get away as quickly asI possibly can without causing offence? .So why the hell should others be expected to listen to you bleating on about helping you to quit your problem.IT'S YOUR PROBLEM.Also you will never stop doing anything you really LIKE DOING. You have to really want to stop for good and ever,not just when you attain a certain level, because you willonly gradually go back to what you were before, a PAIN.If you hear an alcoholic say after a year off the boozeI'm ok for a pint now, what do you REALLY thinkwill happen if he or she has a pint or short?You know as well as I do.So really you have to a) Realise it is just you that matters and does anything b) realise you have to really WANT to quit c) Realise no one else is going to do it for you magically.d) realise that it was a phase you had to live through e) realise that it will definitely kill you, very very painfully f) realise that you will have gained from your descent into hellThere are many ways to quit addictions for different people.If you are reading this they have probably all failed.Wrong.YOU HAVE FAILED.MOST of the methods work if you WANT them to work.I suggest that you treat it as a phase of your life, and you have learned from this phase and wish to move onand prove to everyone that you aren't stupid. Becauseanyone who knows that something is killing themand alienating people, and still does it, is stupid,has not learned one iota from what they have donehave not progressed one jot in their mindset.Water, pure little tap water, fills you up andis needed more than you think. Eighty per cent ofthe human body is water, so it makes sense to drink it.This is a good start to purifying your body and mind.Drink a few litres a day. And KEEP BUSY.Remember, I make zero money out of this article,but it is probably the best common sense you'll everread. Most articles you will read have a hidden agenda,TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF ADDICTED PEOPLE.If you quit forever, they'd lose your money in the future, wouldn't they?They plan on you quitting EVERY YEAR.Why not just do it ONCE. I sure as hell would not want to quit smoking and drinking on a yearly basisWHAT I GAINI just get to have a few more people visiting my website,if you stop for a second or two to read this article,as I get a kick out of getting visitors from all over the world,and seeing my site visitor numbers rise.I guess you could think of it as an obsession,or a phase I'll probably grow out of in timeBut it is also very nice if you can help people, and I've been places you really do not want to go, and had thingsdone to me you really and truly WOULD NOT LIKE.I SHOULD BE DEAD, I am not.We all KNOW what we should and shouldn't be doingby and large, and no one can make a difference but ourselves.It is a sad fact of modern life that everyone expects to beable to do what the hell they like and then someone willbail them out at the last minute.Fact is, if you don't quit, you'll die young, in pain and alone.YOUR CHOICE, YOUR LIFE,but you WILL die sooner than most.