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My name is Frank D and I am 55 years old. I was a smoker since I was 16 smoking about 1 pack per day. When I was younger, I didn’t feel the impact smoking had on my health. I played sport, was active, I could do anything everyone could do.
In my mid 40’s I started to notice the effects of smoking, specifically being out of breath very quickly when being active, so I decided it was time to quit.
That was easier said than done.
Over the years I attempted to stop smoking many times, with the help of all sorts of products, including nicotine patches, nicotine gum, rescue remedy, Champix medication …
I even stopped a few times successfully for 6 month and even close to a year once.
Once the cravings subsided, I felt “healed” of the nicotine addiction, thought I could handle the odd one or have a few smokes on a night out, but as soon as I did, I was straight back into the old habit.
At the age of 52, I truly had enough. Walking up a steep hill made me gasp for air and took me literally 5 minutes to recover from. I was unfit, overweight and smoking and I knew that this was not how I wanted to be.
This is when I decided to contact Alan Close at Mindgineering. I knew Al from physical treatments I was getting so I discussed with him how to best give up for good.
We derived a program which saw me undergo mental training with Al and soon I stopped smoking in close succession. We also decided that as soon as I stopped smoking and became “a permanent non-smoker”, we would add regular, weekly exercise sessions to improve fitness and a sense of wellbeing.
This all happened nearly 3 years ago, in February 2012.
Since then I have been smoke free permanently and have lost 6 kilos. I now run and exercise 3 to4 times a week and still see Al regularly to stay on track. I feel fitter and stronger than ever, all my little niggles (back pain, etc.) seem to be gone. I am hungry to improve my fitness and combined weight loss further.
The story could end here, BUT, a few weeks back a very old friend from Germany came out to visit and he is an occasional smoker. As it was, after a few beers, I really felt like having a cigarette for the social occasion that it was, so I did.
In the past, this would have been the end to my non-smoking endeavour, I can say with certainty that I would have relapsed and started to smoke again right then and there.
I can also say with certainty that in the past I would have found it “impossible” to “give up again”.
This time however, I felt zero addictive pangs, no desire whatsoever to smoke again, nor was it in my thoughts to smoke again, there were no cravings.
It felt absolutely amazing that there was not a “second thought” in my head to keep smoking, instead, it cemented for me that I am a non-smoker and hence, don’t smoke.
I put this down to Al programming me to be a permanent non-smoker.
Having stood this recent test, I know now that I will never be a smoker again.
