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Natural Methods For Quitting Smoking (You’ll Be Amazed at What Works)

  • Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:42 pm

When most people think of quitting smoking, they turn to the standard over-the-counter remedies, generally either the nicotine patch or nicotine gum. If you were to look into their success rates you wouldn’t really want to buy them, but forget about that, they’re accessible, right there, and you want to buy them right now, right? Yeah, didn’t think so.

Picture another industry. Let’s say that Company X releases a product that works less than ten percent of the time, offers no refunds, and gives you bizarre dreams, upset stomach, and drowsiness. They probably wouldn’t make it very far, would they?

Yet for some reason the nicotine patch continues to be sold, and people continue to buy it. Why? Because nobody seems to understand just how to quit smoking.

Smoking isn’t like a cold, you can’t take some magic pill and make it all better. A visit to the doctor won’t really help, because the doctor is there to treat illnesses, which smoking isn’t.

What does this all mean to you? You want to quit smoking, not line the pockets of some company that makes a product that doesn’t work! You need to understand just how smoking works as an addiction.

Think about the first time you lit a cigarette. You can probably remember that. You were probably out with some friends, and you probably absolutely hated it.

Now think about the time when you decided, “Hey, I’m going to make this smoking thing a habit, I like not being able to breathe very well!” You probably can’t remember that as well.

Smoking is something that works on your subconscious, through connections in your brain with various events. You probably have a few friends that you always smoke with. If you’ve tried quitting, you dread meeting them because you know that you’re going to crack and start smoking again, right?

To keep reading about how to quit, take a look at this article on How Smoking Addictions Work

Natural Methods for Quitting Smoking

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Smoking – It’s All in Your Mind (Or – Why the Patch Doesn’t Work)

  • Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Your want to smoke isn’t caused by the decrease of nicotine levels in your blood, despite what many people want you to believe. It’s because your mind is trained to desire cigarettes at various points during the day.

There’s a very simple example to demonstrate this. Do you smoke every, say, hour? No, you smoke when you’re on the phone, when you’re in the car, or right after you’ve had a fight with your wife. Your smoke to relieve stress, not to satisfy your craving for nicotine.

You don’t hear yourself say “wow, I could sure go for some nicotine right now.” Instead, you say “huh, let’s take a break and have a smoke.” There’s a key difference there, and it’s something that few people who want to quit realize.

Just as smoking is something your mind desires, quitting has to be done by dealing with your desires directly. You have to figure out what your mental triggers are and how they work in order to stop your urges for cigarettes. The nicotine patch, gum, and the like don’t work because they treat your physical addiction to nicotine.

You’ve probably heard of a ton of people who are on the patch yet still want a cigarette. If cigarette addictions were physical addictions, that would never happen because their want for nicotine would be resolved by their replacement therapy, but it’s not.

Again, smoking addiction is caused by your mind and its want for cigarettes, not from any sort of physical conditions.

Now that you understand how smoking works, you’re ready to learn how to quit smoking and kick your habit.

Smoking – It’s All in Your Mind

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