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Quitting Smoking? Here Are My First Helpful Hints

By: Lorelei Fenton Are you a smoker and have you tried vainly to quit? 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 you are not stupid or crazy, but I can tell you that you are struggling to break free of one of the most, if not the most, severe addictions on the planet.

OK, so that's a lot of talk. But what does it mean?

Well think of a skid row alcoholic. He is clearly out of control with his drinking and unable to stop it. That is because he has ten trillion cells in his body and every one of them is addicted to a substance. With nicotine, it is a very short process to have all of your cells become addicted. And since your life does not seem to be falling apart, as it is for skid row addict, there is no strong pull to get help for yourself. On the contrary, in the world of your cells mini-consciousness, it seems as if you will die if you do quit smoking, as opposed to if you do not. And when ten trillion cells speak, they are very hard to ignore.

Some people say one of the best helpful hints for quitting smoking is the taper-off method. From an addiction standpoint, this is simply not such a good idea. You see, nicotine, like many drugs, produces or grows receptors in the body. The purpose of these receptors is to handle the overflow of huge amounts of a drug. And the only thing these receptors do is to 'want the substance.' If these receptors do not get the substance, they become very agitated. If they do not get the substance for a long time, the agitation begins to subside. In essences the receptors give up trying. So going cold turkey, if you can last that long, does have its benefits.

Now on the other hand, if you activate these receptors with even a tiny bit of their drug, they will become agitated tot the highest degree. The screaming will become manic, since they seem to know, even with their tiny mini-consciousness, that it is possible to get their drug. Therefore when you taper off nicotine, it is ten times 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.

There is a brand new method for quitting smoking through Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I hear it is meeting with a high level of success, as the brain and central nervous system is able to override your cells and receptors when they scream for their drug. This may be a mind trick, but in my book it's a good one. If you try it or some other method, and you are able to stop, then for goodness sake don't ever pick up a cigarette again. By now, I hope it is clear exactly where you would be with that. And pretty quickly, I might add.

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For lots of assistance with different addictions visit well known spokesperson and activist Lorelei's blogs at helpfulhintsforquittingsmoking and also at fightingfoodcravings

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