Many of the smokers know that quitting smoking will be the best thing that ever happened to them. However, the moment they search on interest on topics such as ‘how to quit smoking’ or the easiest ways to quit smoking, the one common criterion which binds all is that the smoker must have the personal desire to quit smoking. Without the personal desire to quit smoking, that zest and enthusiasm, the job is next to impossible. We must confess that we chose this title for the article to rope in readers such as you who actually do not have the personal desire or any wish what so ever to quit smoking but want to quit smoking as desperately as anybody else wants too due to health concerns.

Here are two very practical tips which play upon the psychology of a person and associate the simple act of smoking with extreme misery and death. These tips also follow another rule in psychology known as conditioning - by repetitive suggestion, your are enforcing ideas in your mind like cement. It sounds a bit technical and scary, but it is very effective and many of our readers have actually done this to achieve results which they thought were impossible.

How to build the much needed desire to quit smoking - TWO TIPS

The desire to quit smoking is not something which comes on its on, from thin air. It comes after a series of unpleasant experiences. To many people, this experience comes after quite some time and by the time they realise that they need to quit smoking, it is too late. However you can build you experience or rather, fast forward it, by doing some pretty weird but highly effective tasks which we outline for you.

• Sit and imagine about an hour everyday - Start from 15 minutes and reach a maximum of one hour. Think about all the negativity in the world, all the misery. About underdeveloped nation and famines, hurricanes, devastating experiences and the like. Basically all the sad things about life. Then ASSOCIATE them with smoking. The psychological effects are much more powerful and beyond your imagination.
  Reason: You are associating all evils in the world with smoking, thus planting the seed of how bad smoking is for health. This might seem excessive you will eventually get tired and bored of it. But keep doing it for a month, half to one hour a day and watch how it affects your attitude towards smoking.
• Visit all the places of sadness and misery - Spend about three hours a week visiting hospitals and cancer wards and talk to all the people who are suffering from smoking ailments. Talk to their family members and you will be surprised when they try to move you against smoking.
  Reason:This is again association of smoking with death and misery. The only difference is that the first association relied on your imagination and thus, there was room for more associations in the mind. Visiting hospitals and other similar places where gloom and sadness looms in the air is a very real and practical experience which you will be giving your brain. This reinforces the idea that smoking is really bad for one’s heath and one’s family.

These two tips are necessary and sufficient to enforce the idea of quitting smoking by building an extreme distaste for it. You just have to be patient and consistent.