Chapter 2 - The Easy Method

This book's objective is directing you into a new frame of mind. Instead of feeling like you're climbing Mount Everest and spending weeks craving marijuana and feeling deprived, you'll start with a feeling of elation, as if cured of a terrible disease. From then on, the further you go in life without smoking, the more you'll look back and wonder how you ever smoked marijuana in the first place. You'll feel pity for other smokers, not envy.

It's essential to keep smoking until finishing the book if you are currently a regular marijuana user. This may seem contradictory, but it's important. As you read, your desire to smoke will gradually reduce. Attempting to quit early will not help.

Many don't finish the book because they feel they have to give something up. But look at it this way - what do you have to lose? If by the end you still want to smoke, you're no worse off. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by finishing the book with an open mind.

How To Quit Weed The Easy Way is the opposite of the normal quitting method, where you list marijuana's downsides and say: "If I can just go long enough without it, eventually the desire will go and I'll be free." This seems logical, but is very difficult for two reasons:

1. The real issue isn't stopping smoking temporarily. It's starting again after abstaining for a while. In a weak moment you'll think "just one puff" and be hooked again.

2. Focusing on the downsides just creates more fear and makes it harder. Tell a marijuana user its holding them back and they'll just want to light up more.

The reasons we want to quit actually make it harder by forcing us to give up a perceived crutch. The real question is why we feel we need marijuana at all.

With How To Quit Weed The Easy Way, we forget the reasons to quit at first. We face the marijuana problem and ask:

• What does marijuana actually do for me?

• Am I truly enjoying it?

• Do I need to keep sabotaging my health and life?

The truth is marijuana does absolutely nothing positive. There are zero real benefits. We have just convinced ourselves of reasons to justify the addiction.

First, we'll remove the fallacies and illusions so you realize there is nothing to give up. Not only that, but marvelous gains come from quitting. Once the illusion that life needs marijuana is gone, and you realize it's infinitely better without it, we'll reconsider the real reasons to quit. Those will become aids to help you enjoy life free of marijuana!