Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

It is all illusion. We are never addicted to the chemical itself. What addicts us is the belief that we get some genuine benefit from taking it, which in turn creates a false belief that you cannot enjoy certain occasions or cope with others without it. What addicts us in the case of alcohol is the inebriation! Or rather the illusion that the inebr

If you see one drink as a pleasure or crutch, you’ll see a million drinks in the same light.

Je me rends compte que je fume de plus en plus ; je dois en être au moins à quatre paquets par jour. Fumer des cigarettes, c'est devenu la seule part de véritable liberté dans mon existence. La seule action à laquelle j'adhère pleinement, de tout mon être. Mon seul projet.

So if you are trying to quit smoking, you need more than the goal (“I’m going to stop smoking”)—you need the implementation intention of how to actually do it. So you could say: If I get a craving, I will distract myself.