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Chaos Magick to stop smoking

14:10 / 27.01.04

Since the last two weeks, I tried to stop smoking. I am a french citizen and our government, which is not really better than the US one, even if our president was against war in Iraq (for economic purpose only), has decided to raise up the tax on tobacco.

I was a big consumer of cigarettes, and since the last two weeks I smoke only a cigarette per day. To help myself I use a sigil, which in a way works perfectly because I don't feel the need to smoke in the daytime (as I started smoking 13 years ago, I don't think this little miracle possible).

But there is a problem, I continue to smoke one cigarette per day, and I can't stop it. I realize that this cigarette was some kind of everyday RITUAL, and I figure than I was trying to fight ritual by the means of sigilization.

Is anyone on this messageboards knows a chaos magick way (it's important I don't have to rely on chemical or food substitute) to deprograming a day-to-day ritual.

Thanks for helping

18:19 / 27.01.04

That sounds like you need that one cig more than you think and maybe it isn't the sigil. If it is though you should maybe make another sigil, then meditate on the original sigil and visualize the new one merging and changing the older one until only the new one is there.

But again, probably isn't the sigil, more of you seeing that one cig as a release from the world, even if it is just for a few minutes.

20:00 / 27.01.04

smoke that cigarette a day for a week or two more, but actively.

think about it in as much detail as you can, analyse each and every part of each and every draw.
think about what it is doing for you, what it is making you feel, and how the chemicals are doing their job.
think about the damage it is causing; think about its each and every cost, financial and otherwise; think about the pain that you normally miss that each inhale causes.

after a week or two of this, start to phase out the cigarettes.

day one, smoke and do as you were doing.
day two, DONT smoke, yet still attempt to recreate the experience as you have been the last two weeks.
repeat until you feel you can smoke a cigarette without actually smoking one. until you are unsmoking, say.

before all this, i would personally have made a new sigil, and hidden it away.

once you have become an accomplished unsmoker, fire your sigil and forget all about the cigarettes. if you feel the need to smoke, unsmoke.

hopefully this will be of use...

on a less magical tip, make sure you stop at the end of a pack of cigarettes, not half way through. make sure you dont keep carrying a lighter, and make sure you dont look at the tips of other people's cigarettes every time one is lit(this will invariably mark you as a fellow smoker, and you will be offered one). try your hardest not to smoke when you normally would(i.e. when on drugs, while drinking coffee, while drunk).

some situations are better just avoided altogether at first, as a cigarette will seem like the only answer. as an example, i was able to tholl it through ecstasy, but acid made my brain so twisty that i convinced myself i would freak out if i didnt smoke. (i had to save my sanity, obviously)

also be wary of massive upsets that give you excuses to smoke.
these upsets can be real, such as a bereavement, or a significant other dumping you, but they are still not a good reason to smoke. if you stub your toe the day after quitting, you will notice that it seems equally serious, and requires nicotine.

this is your brain tricking you.

01:17 / 28.01.04

I used chaos magick to stop smoking. It sounds like you've already got the sigil part down. When I used my sigil, I used inhibitory gnosis, so I wouldn't get trapped into the same, "Fight your addiction" paradigm. Experience has shown me that it doesn't work well. The most important thing that I did though was to synthesize contradiction by reformulating the sensation of craving. How I did this was examining the question, "When does health appear to be sickness?" The answer as it applies to smoking is, of course, cravings. They make you feel sick as hell, but ultimately, you are becoming more healthy. Then what I did was hook the experience of cravings to ecstacy by revelling in my cravings. The first thing that I had to do was to strip the cravings of all other associations by feeling them with a silent mind, by shutting off the internal dialogue that occurs when they occur. Then, once I had the cravings stripped of their associations, I reformulated them from "sickness" to "health". Whenever a craving occured, I felt happy. I reveled in them. I invited them. This occured organically as a result of the reformulation. I also would go into periods of mental silence with the intent of reinforcing the working. Going into silence has the advantage of stripping the attachment and burying the intent. I've been smoke-free for 4 years.

10:04 / 28.01.04

I gave up smoking 2 weeks ago - good riddance!!!! Last year I sigilised to gain an edge into giving up the cancer sticks. Smoking pollutes the body as well as polluting the mind - my head feels alot clearer NOW!!! When that sigil kicked in I, at last knew my days of smoking were over. I gave up the smoking on impulse - prepared a sigil, kicked in 8 days later - now I feel far better. Lost alot of the cravings, admitedly I was smoking like a chimneystack so at first I ate like a voracoius animal! You have to reframe it all. I thought fer years I was having mad anxiety attacks y'know what I was depriving my biocomputer of valuable air.

10:09 / 28.01.04

I gave up smoking 2 weeks ago - good riddance!!!! Last year I sigilised to gain an edge into giving up the cancer sticks. Smoking pollutes the body as well as polluting the mind - my head feels alot clearer NOW!!! When that sigil kicked in I, at last knew my days of smoking were over. I gave up the smoking on impulse - prepared a sigil, kicked in 8 days later - now I feel far better. Lost alot of the cravings, admitedly I was smoking like a chimneystack so at first I ate like a voracoius animal! You have to reframe it all. I thought fer years I was having mad anxiety attacks y'know what I was depriving my biocomputer of valuable air.

10:16 / 28.01.04

I gave up smoking 2 weeks ago - good riddance!!!! Last year I sigilised to gain an edge into giving up the cancer sticks. Smoking pollutes the body as well as polluting the mind - my head feels alot clearer NOW!!! When that sigil kicked in I, at last knew my days of smoking were over. I gave up the smoking on impulse - prepared a sigil, kicked in 8 days later - now I feel far better. Lost alot of the cravings, admitedly I was smoking like a chimneystack so at first I ate like a voracoius animal! You have to reframe it all. I thought fer years I was having mad anxiety attacks y'know what I was depriving my biocomputer of valuable air.

10:36 / 28.01.04

I just gave up a few weeks ago, a bit of sigilising, NLP/self-hynosis techniques. Feel far better for it - and healthier. My mind feels clear. One can emphasise with Frater Achad that the Air is his balance!!!! 1st sigil that I did last year which kicked in this year made me realise what shit smoking can produce and how smoking starves your brain of vital oxygen (and I thought there were anxiety attacks just too much smoking!!!!). 2nd sigil kicked in 8 days after charging just to get over that hurdle along the racecourse of giving up. I found that my chain smoking was not resourceful at all to my health and to others. CHANGE FER THA BETTER!!!!!

21:39 / 03.02.04

Thanks for this thread, Stank. A lot of help...