Cigarettes, alcohol, coffee, drugs. Almost every person has encountered these things. The clever among us have just tried them. Those who are clever but naughty sometimes, use them only occasionally. This is not a problem, if there is a limit. Finally there is a third group, which unfortunately is most people. They smoke a lot, drink coffee and alcohol a lot, and use drugs immoderately, carelessly, even regularly. These substitute actions have a reason: something is missing from their lives. Those who destroy themselves, do not like their inner self. Sometimes you don't like it because you don't know it. If you don't like yourself you...

But don't forget that these things don't solve problems. If you use them continuously, you will develop problems with your self-esteem and if you destroy your health consciously, you cannot be happy with yourself. And you won't be while you use stimulants. Although these things stop the problem spectacularly: they dissolve depression, tension, tiredness in the short term only. People tend to chose the simplest way, and for this reason they will choose to have a fast effect again and again. The more often they repeat their use of stimulants, the more often their system will ask for it. From short-term habits comes addiction, because the...

Smoking must be cut down absolutely! Forget about cigarettes forever! This is the first step to making you feel good in your skin. The number one source of energy for you is the air. Therefore, you have to take care of the clarity and purity of the air you breathe: there is no way cigarettes can fit in with this! Taking care of your lungs and keeping them clean are the basic conditions of balancing your energy. Those who do not pay attention to this fact but keep on smoking, don't deserve the positive advantages that they can gain. BUT if you simply love smoking, then smoke once a week but preferably only a cigar or pipe, which has a...

Coffee can be consumed purely for its taste twice a week. I know that it's delicious but don't exaggerate its charms. FitFive teaches half a dozen methods with which you can gain energy. You don't need to drink coffee daily for the aim of stimulation. Additionally, caffeine gives only temporary energy. It revs you up for a few hours after its consumption, and when it's gone, you will have even less energy than before you drank it. Forget about the idea that coffee supplies energy! Quite the contrary: it absorbs your energy. Furthermore it has a negative effect on your water balance therefore you must avoid drinking coffee regularly!

In the case of parties a few glasses of alcohol is OK, but avoid hard liquors, only beer or wine. When you work hard, sometimes you can relax with things like these. Sometimes even the top sports people relax like this.

1. You have to find out the background for this substitute action! What is it that's missing or what is it that's too dominant in your life? What is it that you always distract your attention on? 2. If you have found a motive, you now have to realise it. You have to accept that you are addictive because of that reason. Look in the mirror and confess that you are on the wrong track because of problem. Your problem and your substitute actions won't disappear, until you change your attitude, your way of thinking and even your addictive personality! 3. Decide that you will make changes! Decisively, as a complete change is the most...

From the aspect of time, it is the most effective if you simply end your harmful passion. In the case of harmful passions I suggest you quit gradually. Enormous superhuman effort is needed to stop everything at once. If you have drunk coke, ate chocolate, smoked, drunk coffee and alcohol, and used drugs, it is not advisable to stop all these at once. Even if you succeeded, the huge trauma caused by this abandonment stores in your subconscious. If it stays there, it will be like a sleeping but active volcano. If it then breaks out, it will destroy everything. Therefore, for those who use more than one harmful thing, stop using them in the...

During the process of quitting, water and air have a very important role. In a physical sense water washes out and air aerates the system. In a more psychical sense both of them mean purifying, revival, and restarting. So practise the prescribed breathing exercises and drink a lot of water!

It helps you to quit if you concentrate on the future positive advantages and not the negative disadvantages of the past. As more and more time passes without these harmful passions, you will see more clearly the giant difference between the two lifestyles. Whatever happened previously, you drew the right conclusion and decided to change. You shouldn't hurt yourself by thinking why your lifestyle was wrong, or why you didn't deal with your health then and you wasted a lot of years of your life. Thinking about this is a negative feeling, which excludes the positive presence of your current change. Think of the advantages! How nice it will...

Let's examine backsliding a bit. Everybody makes mistakes, so this shouldn't be taken too seriously. It happens once or twice that we step back. This time don't concentrate on remorse but accept that you made a mistake. Pay attention to this aspect until you discover its reason: why was the backsliding needed perhaps? Finally you may recognise that it didn't make any sense, so next time you won't make that mistake. Be careful not to connect negative backsliding with a positive experience. If something positive happens during backsliding it didn't happen because of the harmful passion. Let's see a concrete example. You go to a meeting,...

Finally, I should whisper to you that giving up harmful passions is not so difficult. The human mind is capable of much more difficult tasks than understanding the destructive effects of harmful passions, and your mind commands your body not to use them any more! If you are determined, it will go easily. If it goes easily, you will get a lot of energy; on the one hand from pride that you succeeded, and on the other hand because of your new healthy lifestyle.