How to Stop Smoking in 60 Days
Of course you want to stop smoking. You want to quit smoking more than anything else, and you should! But, you just don’t know where to turn! If your like most, you may have tried patches, gum, Chantix, Zyban and/or hypnosis only to find yourself right back in the clutches of nicotine addiction! You know that your behavior is unhealthy, but you’re afraid to give up your crutch because if you do your emotional distress will worsen, and you just don’t know if you can cope without it! You know that it’s unhealthy to smoke, but you just can’t seem to stop! Unfortunately, smoking cessation programs not only fail to address the root cause of nicotine addiction, but they also fail in excess of ninety percent of the time! But, I’m here to tell you that there is a better solution for overcoming your nicotine addiction; one that doesn’t include patches, gum, hypnosis, psychoactive drugs or nonsense!
WHY YOU SMOKE
As with every type of habitual behavior, I believe smoking is a choice. I also believe that this choice can be broken down into the following two categories
- Individuals who occasionally enjoy a cigar or cigarette socially
- Individuals that smoke to alleviate their emotional distress and anxiety
Although there is health risks to consider when smoking, individuals that fall respectively into the first category are generally capable of walking away from it without any difficulty whatsoever. Comparatively speaking, this parallels individuals who drink occasionally and or socially. The second category represents individuals who have become dependent on smoking to alleviate there emotional distress and anxiety, whereby making it extremely difficult to achieve smoking cessation, unless they remove the root cause. I am vehemently opposed to labeling anyone since I believe that we are all created equal, but for the purpose of greater understanding these people would fall into the medical community’s definition of a nicotine addict. As we discussed earlier, most physicians, therapist, hypnotists, counselors and smoking cessation experts would have you believe that smoking is caused by a chemical co-dependence and/or that it is a learned behavior. Well, I have a different take on those theories, and I have proven over and over again in my Addiction Recovery Coaching practice that the root cause of addiction is the need to mask emotional distress. These emotional issues are often rooted in the negative patterns of family dysfunction, and smoking is no exception to the rule. Although when it comes to a smoking addiction, the primary type of emotional distress involved is anxiety. In many ways, smoking is used as a coping mechanism for those of us that are nervous, fearful, or anxious about our family, job, relationship, or financial well being. This frantic effort to control life often leads to smoking or a nicotine addiction. In essence, smoking is a crutch! But, why do some people react to the unknown with anxiety while others face it calmly with the belief that things always works out? I believe the answer to this question is twofold. First, some people naturally possess a higher level of coping skills, and second, some people have learned to conquer their fears, insecurities and most important their anxieties!
THE PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECTS OF NICOTINE
As nicotine enters the body, it is distributed quickly through the blood stream and can cross the blood brain barrier in approximately seven seconds. The life of nicotine in the body is around two hours. The amount of nicotine absorbed by the body from smoking depends on many factors, including the type of tobacco, whether the smoke is inhaled, and whether a filter is used. Nicotine’s mood-altering effects vary by report. Initially, it causes a release of glucose from the liver and adrenaline from the adrenal gland, which produces a stimulating effect. However, users report feelings of relaxation, sharpness, calmness, and even alertness. When a cigarette is smoked, nicotine-rich blood passes from the lungs to the brain within seven seconds and immediately stimulates the release of many chemical messengers such as epinephrine (adrenaline) and dopamine a neurotransmitter, which results in enhanced pleasure, decreased anxiety, and a state of alert relaxation. However, as the body adapts it requires increased amounts of nicotine to produce the same effect, whereby creating a trap!
WITHDRAWAL
Many of the proponents of the chemical dependence model believe that when you stop smoking, your body reacts very quickly to the lack of nicotine in your system. They claim that over the course of three to five days, you are likely to experience a number of the following physical symptoms as the toxins are flushed from your body:
- Increased irritability, frustration, or anger
- Anxiety, tension or nervousness
- Restlessness
- Difficulty concentrating
- Fatigue
- Headaches
- Trouble sleeping
- Increased appetite and weight gain
However, I have seen no empirical evidence to conclusively prove that most people experience the above-mentioned symptoms because of the lack of nicotine. I believe that most of these symptoms exist prior to smoking. Therefore, once you stop smoking the anxiety, restlessness, lack of focus, fatigue, and sleeplessness resurface. The nicotine was merely a masking agent! In essence, smoking is a means by which to alleviate ones anxiety and emotional distress. Think about it for a moment, and ask yourself the following questions:
- When you smoke does it calm your nerves and relieve your anxiety?
- Do you find it difficult to manage your anxiety without the crutch of smoking?
- What has caused your anxiety? What dysfunctional patterns have you learned in the past that have damaged your self- esteem, confidence, or willingness to trust?
- Do you find it difficult to avoid worry and to trust the flow of life?
- Are you fearful about negative outcomes concerning your relationship, job, or financial situation?
Once you explore these questions, you may begin to discover the vehicle that is driving your smoking addiction!
Overcoming your nicotine addiction is really all about removing the source of your emotional distress, isn’t it? If you could remove the anxiety, nervousness, and emotional distress you wouldn’t need to alleviate it with the psychoactive substance called (nicotine?) Smoking is a symptom of underlying emotional distress and anxiety. Therefore, when you fix the root of the problem smoking becomes repulsive.
Learn how to make your urges to smoke dissolve on the spot! Learn how to make smoking become repulsive to you! Learn how to crush your last pack of cigarettes and walk away forever!
Regards,
David Roppo
The Addiction Freedom Coach
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Freedom From Smoking The NLP Way
With the smoking ban fast approaching in the U.K., hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners are commonly witnessing more and more demand from people wanting help with smoking cessation. People Building is a training and self-development company that provides NLP and Hypnotherapy training courses in Hertfordshire. Our practitioners and trainers also all work as therapists in private practice and have experienced consistent success with helping people to stop smoking with ease, for good, using NLP and Hypnosis.
In a bid to make NLP and Hypnotherapy quit smoking techniques more widely accessible and available to those who do not want formal therapy, the People Building Team have got together to create “Freedom from Smoking the NLP Way”, a stop smoking e-book. This wonderful smoking cessation resource draws together the tools and techniques that our practitioners have identified as the most effective methods for empowering people to stop smoking.
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“Freedom from Smoking the NLP Way” e-book will help you to stop smoking by guiding you through the process of reprogramming habits, beliefs and ways of thinking about yourself, so that you will begin to know yourself as a non-smoker.
The book includes written exercises, as well as practical tasks to practice and new ways to use your language, all of which help to create changes in the unconscious mind, from where the smoking habit is operated
Hypnotherapy has enjoyed a high success rate within the area of smoking cessation. In fact, smoking cessation is one of the most common reasons why people consult hypnotherapists.
Hypnotherapy helps people to deal with the psychological and emotional aspects of smoking cessation, by working directly with the unconscious mind, the part responsible for maintaining habits.
Hypnotherapy works in several ways including: reducing the anxiety associated with stopping smoking, helping people to find the motivations for quitting, installing coping mechanisms and helping people to re-evaluate unconscious beliefs and behaviours associated with smoking. Hypnotherapy can also install positive beliefs so that weight gain is not inevitable.
NLP is particularly effective for those wishing to stop smoking. A large proportion of the way NLP works is about understanding and adjusting the language and communication we each use in our own minds. By using NLP, those wanting to stop smoking, learn more positive and empowering language improving their chances of success. Using clean language is a valuable tool which is not part of any other quit smoking program, as far as we are aware. This quit smoking e-book will teach you many clean language techniques to help you stop smoking for good.
Specific NLP techniques can be used to install new feelings, emotions and associations to cigarettes and tobacco products. This is done using confusion, visualisation, and strategy elicitation. With rehearsal and motivation, changes in the neural networks within the mind can be made quickly, easily and without stress. NLP really is a very simple and effective technology that can be of great benefit to those wishing to stop smoking, in a natural way, with minimal disruption. Throughout this stop smoking e-book, you will be taught NLP techniques specific to smoking, which you would only usually have access to via formal therapy, at a fraction of the cost!
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