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Sometimes changing one’s mind at its core can be experienced in a blazing
epiphany in a flash of a moment. But not often. The type of change to lose
the urge to smoke generally consists of acts not monumental, but
incremental. Bit by bit, piece by piece, those reasons can be removed from
the subconscious. Once that’s done, there is no reason left to smoke,
therefore no urge.
The difference between just stopping smoking and removing the reasons for
smoking is the difference between being a smoker living in denial and truly
being a non-smoker. The first has urges that are constantly, perpetually,
subconsciously denied. The second never has an urge because they never have
a reason creating one.
No matter how much a person says they like to smoke, I’ve never found one
who didn’t like not smoking even more.
We cannot change the past, but we can change the way we remember it, and how
those memories affect our lives today.