Helpfu Hints For Quitting Smoking
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Thanks for visiting. In this lens we will look at helpful hints for quitting smoking, and what works or does not, from the perspective of addictive illness.
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Your Will to Live and Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking
I will break into this week's helpful hints for quitting smoking by telling you about last week. Last week was one of my roughest weeks in that my father passed away quite unexpectedly. As I look back I can see the signs in that the last few years of his life were not very happy ones.
By the end of his life my father had lost most of the things that had always formed his very happy personality. He could not tell a joke or sing a song. He could not be silly, jump about, or play with the grandchildren. In short he could not do anything except doze in a chair all day and sleep all night. He had all manner of ailments, not the least of which had been diabetes, so even the food he once loved was no longer his to enjoy.
Now it may seem odd to talk about this in a blog entitled "Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking." So I will tell you that I consider this blog to be more along the lines of an inquiry- and I do not have all the answers. I am not an expert on quitting smoking.
But I am considered an expert on addictions, as well as why people do what they do. And one could argue that I am an expert on how people can shift their behavior. But in the final analysis, neither I nor anyone else can have you quit smoking. It is only you who can do it.
So in this inquiry about quitting smoking I have to take note of the fact that for my dad, and for a lot of people who leave us, it is often true that the heart and soul, or a person's will to live, is gone. And even though my dad struggled over the idea of leaving the people he loved, there was certainly a large piece of him that was done with the whole business.
And also as an inquiry I have to wonder how much success a person would have in quitting smoking if he or she were not very happy in life. I have to think that if there is terminal upset, chronic pain or sadness around one's life, or if one is in some unhappy situation, the drive to fulfill some background desire to end it all might be quite strong. And smoking is certainly a socially acceptable way to do it without looking like you are.
Now I don't claim that everyone who does not quit smoking has a death wish. Far from it. I know the physiological and mental pull that an addiction, any addiction, has on a human being. But I do claim that if your life is not happy, loving, and content-if you are living in some terminal upset, or pain- you'd better deal with it if you want to be successful- regardless of all of my helpful hints for quitting smoking.
So if you are someone in this kind of situation it becomes vital that you A) Be honest with yourself about your unhappiness, and B) Take the steps to begin to create your happiness. This will in turn give you the will to live. And you can do this while you are doing your Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or hypnosis, or whatever you like. You can start the process by visiting my other blogs. My dad, by the way, loved life and he lived to be happy before he became so desperately ill. And you can live that way too, I'm sure.
You don't want to miss this Neuro-Linguistic Programming tool for quitting.
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This is an equally great tool that will enhance your life in general.
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By the end of his life my father had lost most of the things that had always formed his very happy personality. He could not tell a joke or sing a song. He could not be silly, jump about, or play with the grandchildren. In short he could not do anything except doze in a chair all day and sleep all night. He had all manner of ailments, not the least of which had been diabetes, so even the food he once loved was no longer his to enjoy.
Now it may seem odd to talk about this in a blog entitled "Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking." So I will tell you that I consider this blog to be more along the lines of an inquiry- and I do not have all the answers. I am not an expert on quitting smoking.
But I am considered an expert on addictions, as well as why people do what they do. And one could argue that I am an expert on how people can shift their behavior. But in the final analysis, neither I nor anyone else can have you quit smoking. It is only you who can do it.
So in this inquiry about quitting smoking I have to take note of the fact that for my dad, and for a lot of people who leave us, it is often true that the heart and soul, or a person's will to live, is gone. And even though my dad struggled over the idea of leaving the people he loved, there was certainly a large piece of him that was done with the whole business.
And also as an inquiry I have to wonder how much success a person would have in quitting smoking if he or she were not very happy in life. I have to think that if there is terminal upset, chronic pain or sadness around one's life, or if one is in some unhappy situation, the drive to fulfill some background desire to end it all might be quite strong. And smoking is certainly a socially acceptable way to do it without looking like you are.
Now I don't claim that everyone who does not quit smoking has a death wish. Far from it. I know the physiological and mental pull that an addiction, any addiction, has on a human being. But I do claim that if your life is not happy, loving, and content-if you are living in some terminal upset, or pain- you'd better deal with it if you want to be successful- regardless of all of my helpful hints for quitting smoking.
So if you are someone in this kind of situation it becomes vital that you A) Be honest with yourself about your unhappiness, and B) Take the steps to begin to create your happiness. This will in turn give you the will to live. And you can do this while you are doing your Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or hypnosis, or whatever you like. You can start the process by visiting my other blogs. My dad, by the way, loved life and he lived to be happy before he became so desperately ill. And you can live that way too, I'm sure.
You don't want to miss this Neuro-Linguistic Programming tool for quitting.
Click Here!
This is an equally great tool that will enhance your life in general.
Click Here!
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My First Helpful Hints For Quitting smoking
Are you a smoker and have you tried all the helpful hints to quit smoking in vain? Have you wondered what has you completely unable to do so? Have you wondered if you are chronically stupid or clinically insane to keep doing this behavior that will eventually land you on a fast track to lung cancer and a painful, debilitating death?
Well let me clue you in that you are not crazy or insane, but rather it has been determined that nicotine is one of the most, if not the most, addictive substances on earth.
OK, so that's a lot of talk. But what does it mean?
If you talk about smoking as an addiction, you cannot ignore that with nicotine all ten trillion of your cells become addicted very quickly. When this happens, you are very much in the situation of a skid-row alcoholic. Although it looks a bit prettier, you are fully hooked. Now unlike the skid-row addict, your life is not falling apart, so the impetus to get help for yourself is relatively mild. Meanwhile you have ten trillion cells in your body telling you not to get help. In their mini-consciousness, they will die if you quit smoking. And when every cell in your body has a message this strong, it's pretty hard to ignore it.
Now you might be inclined to believe, as most of us do, that one of the best helpful hints for quitting smoking is to taper off slowly. Again from an addiction standpoint, this is bad news. You see as you become addicted to nicotine, and many other drugs, your body grows receptors to handle the influx of huge amounts of the substance. These receptors will never go away and the only thing they do is long for, and receive, the drug. If they don't get what they want, they will eventually slow down and stop screaming for the drug. So going cold turkey can have its benefits if you can last out the process.
On the other hand, if these receptor sites, which are permanent and will never go away, begin to get even just a little bit of nicotine, they become agitated to the highest degree. They want the substance with a vengeance, now that they know it is present and available. Hence to taper off nicotine only makes it all the harder to quit.
I am not entirely sure of the best method to quit smoking. Perhaps it is best to attack this from a body, mind, spirit perspective, and go to the 12 step program, Nicotine Anonymous. In this way you deal with the very real physical effects and obstacles, as well as the emotional, psychological ones. In addition you get to be with other people in your situation- which has its own merits. And certainly, if it saves your life, it is worth it.
One other new method that is meeting with great success is the method of Neuro- Linguistic Programming. When your cells and receptors are kicking up a fuss for their drug, how best to override them but with the help of the brain and the central nervous system. Some say it is a cheap parlor trick, like hypnosis. But if the trick works, I say try it. But whatever method you use, once you stop, for goodness sake don't try 'just that one last cigarette.' I hope you can see by now, that is truly playing with fire you probably can't douse.
You don't want to miss this Neuro-Linguistic Programming tool for quitting.
Click Here!
This is an equally great tool that will enhance your life in general.
Click Here!
Well let me clue you in that you are not crazy or insane, but rather it has been determined that nicotine is one of the most, if not the most, addictive substances on earth.
OK, so that's a lot of talk. But what does it mean?
If you talk about smoking as an addiction, you cannot ignore that with nicotine all ten trillion of your cells become addicted very quickly. When this happens, you are very much in the situation of a skid-row alcoholic. Although it looks a bit prettier, you are fully hooked. Now unlike the skid-row addict, your life is not falling apart, so the impetus to get help for yourself is relatively mild. Meanwhile you have ten trillion cells in your body telling you not to get help. In their mini-consciousness, they will die if you quit smoking. And when every cell in your body has a message this strong, it's pretty hard to ignore it.
Now you might be inclined to believe, as most of us do, that one of the best helpful hints for quitting smoking is to taper off slowly. Again from an addiction standpoint, this is bad news. You see as you become addicted to nicotine, and many other drugs, your body grows receptors to handle the influx of huge amounts of the substance. These receptors will never go away and the only thing they do is long for, and receive, the drug. If they don't get what they want, they will eventually slow down and stop screaming for the drug. So going cold turkey can have its benefits if you can last out the process.
On the other hand, if these receptor sites, which are permanent and will never go away, begin to get even just a little bit of nicotine, they become agitated to the highest degree. They want the substance with a vengeance, now that they know it is present and available. Hence to taper off nicotine only makes it all the harder to quit.
I am not entirely sure of the best method to quit smoking. Perhaps it is best to attack this from a body, mind, spirit perspective, and go to the 12 step program, Nicotine Anonymous. In this way you deal with the very real physical effects and obstacles, as well as the emotional, psychological ones. In addition you get to be with other people in your situation- which has its own merits. And certainly, if it saves your life, it is worth it.
One other new method that is meeting with great success is the method of Neuro- Linguistic Programming. When your cells and receptors are kicking up a fuss for their drug, how best to override them but with the help of the brain and the central nervous system. Some say it is a cheap parlor trick, like hypnosis. But if the trick works, I say try it. But whatever method you use, once you stop, for goodness sake don't try 'just that one last cigarette.' I hope you can see by now, that is truly playing with fire you probably can't douse.
You don't want to miss this Neuro-Linguistic Programming tool for quitting.
Click Here!
This is an equally great tool that will enhance your life in general.
Click Here!
by SIRENSONG
Hello My friends. I am a speaker, writer and activist for Second Hand Addiction. I am also an Expert in Ontology, The Science of Being, and how we can... (more)
