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[The sannyasin then says that he has been smoking a lot since he was thirteen. He tried stopping but is not really interested to stop.]
That may be part of this whole thing; that too is repressive. In fact, smoking is a strategy to repress something. If you don't smoke that something starts becoming restless: through smoking you can repress it again. That's why people smoke more when they are restless. When they feel more nervous, when they feel that something is arising, they will immediately start drugging themselves. That drugging helps to stop something, but stopped, it is there and goes on accumulating.
Do one thing: don't stop smoking right now -- because that will not help and you will again smoke. Do one thing: breathing. Whenever you have an urge to smoke, make it a point that first you have to breathe deeply for five minutes. Start by exhaling: exhale deeply. Inhale deeply, exhale deeply, but the emphasis should be on exhalation more than on inhalation. Mm? the whole air has to be thrown out. Just squeeze the whole system so all the air is out. Do this for five minutes before each cigarette....
You have to pay the price for each cigarette, mm? -- that is five minutes of deep breathing. If after that five minutes the desire, the urge disappears, there is no need to smoke; if the urge remains, you can smoke. And this will help -- this will help in many ways...
Firstly, out of one hundred times, seventy-five times the desire will disappear. Good breathing will give you such a good feeling that you will not feel like smoking. You will feel so happy and so full of vitality, you will not feel like smoking.
In fact breathing does just the opposite, because through breathing you take in more oxygen. The system functions on a higher plane, on a higher altitude with more oxygen, and you feel more vital. The blood circulates better, the blood is purified better. The whole system functions at the maximum. With smoking you go on dumping carbon dioxide inside the system: the system falls to the minimum. It is just the opposite.
And once you are enjoying five minutes breathing you will not feel the urge. That urge always comes when you are not enjoying life; if you are enjoying something you can forget cigarettes. If you are looking at a movie and you are really into it, you will not smoke. If you are listening to music and you are really into it you will forget. In anything in which you get involved and in which you are happy you will not smoke. You will smoke only when you are not feeling in tune so you want something to do -- smoking.
Either the desire will not come... Then there is no need, don't force yourself and feel that you have to smoke because you have earned it by five minutes breathing.... And if the desire remains smoke.
Tell me after one week, for one week do this experiment....
Continue this breathing back home. And through breathing smoking can be dropped very easily. But there is no need to directly drop it; it will disappear automatically. Take rolfing back home and start running or swimming.
Swimming is very good -- nothing like it; it is very meditative. I have done every kind of thing but nothing like swimming. My own practice was to go swimming for at least four to six hours every day. At four o'clock in the morning I would disappear and I would come back home only after six hours in the river.
It is tremendously beautiful -- you can go for miles. You can float you can swim and... And water is the basic element; life came out of water. In water you are very free and weightless. Gravitation functions less, and that is one of the most beautiful things in water. Ordinary gravitation is no more functioning, and that changes your whole system -- the pressure.
You are under pressure; that pressure will be relieved by swimming. It will go.
-Osho, "The No Book (No Buddha, No Teaching, No Discipline), #27"
