Quit Smoking Withdrawal.
Is Smoking an addiction?
It is well publicised that ‘nicotine’ is an addictive substance and that the main problems in quitting smoking, is that the addiction to nicotine has to be and tamed and controlled, and eventually this will be the cure for this addiction?
But is this a fact?
In a situation involving ‘addictive drugs’. The victim has an irresistible need to obtain the addictive substance and failure to do so can lead to the complete bodily collapse and loss of control, usually leading to the need for medical intervention.
So by this definition, smoking addiction is certainly not so bad as the addiction mentioned, as you would expect to be suffered by,’ real drug addicts’!
So does this mean that smoking is a lesser addiction? Presumably yes, because in the event of you being stranded, in a wild place say with no access to tobacco, you would not simply be left as a quivering wreck, unable to function and in severe sickness and trauma! You would manage and you would get on with things the way they are. There would not be such severe withdrawal symptoms.
So the answer is you would function normally!……OK so you would be very ‘tetchy’ and irritable, you would not be a person during that time, with pleasant ‘social graces’. But, on the other hand a wreck of a person suffering from severe drug deprivation, you would definitely NOT be!
So we have established that in the most basic sense, you as a smoker are NOT a drug addict because of your fondness for the demon weed, tobacco and its associated nicotine content.
If, as stated above, it isn’t really a bad addiction, then why do I feel so bad, when I try to stop smoking?
Many experts now say that the ‘addictive’ attraction of nicotine is not quite as strong and persuasive as was earlier thought.
In fact the elimination of the nicotine from the smokers’ body is achieved in a relatively short time, probably in less than a week. But the feeling of the need to smoke can carry on for a lot longer.
So why is giving up smoking so difficult?
Our contention is that it’s the giving up the ‘Habit of Smoking’ is the main reason for this. In the past you will certainly have associated the pleasurable experience of smoking in a social atmosphere, either while out drinking, coffee wine or similar, so this deeply embedded habit is the reason for your craving for tobacco during the withdrawal period.
In order to achieve your aim, to give up smoking and free your life of this habit, to combat this, you need to replace the smoking habit with something far healthier and more beneficial
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But the smoking craving is very sneaky and clever, and works at a subconscious level.
So however strong your intention to stop smoking is your brain waits until you are in a vulnerable 'low' point, and the craving strikes.
You find silly justification for maybe, just trying one cigarette, perhaps to relax yourself after all the trauma of quitting, saying it will be OK to have 'just that one'. Or maybe you may ask yourself why stop smoking?
We all know why! But at these times of temptation, resolve is often low. This is the danger you must always guard against. You need to give your mind and your subconscious an opportunity to recognise these ways that may make you go back to your old bad habits!
It is all a question of mind-set and attitude. And one very good way to achieve the right mindset is through Hypnosis!
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The basis of the approach using Hypnosis, conditions your thinking to no longer consider there to be any pleasure in the smoking habit and no sense of deprivation on quitting the habit. Only this way can you discard the bad habits of the past with the right mindset. Your subconscious will know that quitting is the right thing to do.