Here is a good and free service that deals with the mind and spirit part of the nicotine addiction circle. It is the NJ Quitline at http://www.state.nj.us/health/as/ctcp/index.html
and it offers free telephone counselors who will tailor a plan for you to quit. Give them a call and get on the road. Remember, successful quitters have usually tried multiple times before they are finally successful.
Also, I have said this before, but I will reiterate it. Smoking addiction, like all addictions, is a body, mind, spirit thing. Therefore you cannot address it through body, mind, or spirit alone. You must tackle it from a three-fold perspective. So call the NJ Quitline. And never give up.!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
If You're a Hopeless Smoker, There's Hope For You
I quit smoking when I was having the worst time of my life. Nicotine is a powerfully addicting drug, and it is difficult to break the addiction, so why did that work? Well by some fluke of chance, not even knowing it was good, I quit cold turkey, I later found out that cold turkey has a better chance of success because you are not constantly reactivating the nicotine receptor sites in your brain. Those sites want the drug more and more, the less you give them.
Here is a quote I copied off of the Nicotine Anonymous Website. (A great resource for anyone who wants to quit smoking, and has given up hope. You should go.)
"Nicotine Anonymous is a community of people who are addicted to nicotine. Nicotine Anonymous helps people quit by teaching them how to grow and live without using nicotine. The group recognizes that nicotine is highly addictive and alters the mood of those who use it."
http://www.stop-smoking-tips.com/nicotine-anonymous.html
I would like to get a dialogue going. How have you tried to quit smoking. Have you ever been successful. If so, Why and how?
I also invite you to read some of my other writings on other subjects. Here is an excerpt from my newest article on my hub, “On Spirituality, Religion, and Creating Our World.”
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/new_workshop/howtomanifestanythingyouwant
So let us take a better look at Jesus, since he was our role model as Christians. Jesus said that we, like him, are sons of GOD, and children of GOD. With this in mind, consider that Jesus was not teaching people that HE was special, and made in the image of and likeness God (which he was, of course)... but rather that we ALL are special, and made in the likeness of GOD. Consider that Jesus was saying that there is God in each of us. Now if that is true it follows that if Jesus can perform miracles, walk on water, feed the masses, etc, so can we...
Here is a quote I copied off of the Nicotine Anonymous Website. (A great resource for anyone who wants to quit smoking, and has given up hope. You should go.)
"Nicotine Anonymous is a community of people who are addicted to nicotine. Nicotine Anonymous helps people quit by teaching them how to grow and live without using nicotine. The group recognizes that nicotine is highly addictive and alters the mood of those who use it."
http://www.stop-smoking-tips.com/nicotine-anonymous.html
I would like to get a dialogue going. How have you tried to quit smoking. Have you ever been successful. If so, Why and how?
I also invite you to read some of my other writings on other subjects. Here is an excerpt from my newest article on my hub, “On Spirituality, Religion, and Creating Our World.”
http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/new_workshop/howtomanifestanythingyouwant
So let us take a better look at Jesus, since he was our role model as Christians. Jesus said that we, like him, are sons of GOD, and children of GOD. With this in mind, consider that Jesus was not teaching people that HE was special, and made in the image of and likeness God (which he was, of course)... but rather that we ALL are special, and made in the likeness of GOD. Consider that Jesus was saying that there is God in each of us. Now if that is true it follows that if Jesus can perform miracles, walk on water, feed the masses, etc, so can we...
Saturday, June 28, 2008
On the Desire to Live and Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking
So in this blog about helpful hints for quitting smoking it seems oddly appropriate to speak about my dad, who passed away last week. He was not a smoker, so that was not the issue. But the one thing I have to say is that for the past few years he was truly not enjoying his life.
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 this is a blog about helpful hints for quitting smoking. So why do I mention all of this here. Well first I would like to say that this blog is more along the lines of an inquiry, and I don't have all of the answers.
I have some answers to some questions- questions like "How do addictions work?" and "Why do people in general do what they do, in the way that they do it?" And I can make a good stab at helping people one-on-one to shift their behavior. But in the final analysis it is you and no-one else who will or won't quit smoking.
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.
So I take this into the realm of our inquiry by saying that if you are struggling in your life for some reason, or if you have terminal and ongoing upsets and pain in your life- if you are in short unhappy- how much chance will there be that you will actually quit smoking? You will be living, like my dad, in the confusion, with conflicting desires. And one can hardly argue that smoking is one easy, socially acceptable way to fulfill on some hidden wish to die.
Now I would be the last one to say that all people who smoke are fulfilling death wishes. Smoking is an addiction and it is pretty hard to conquer the physical and emotional cravings. However I do say that it is probable that my blog on helpful hints for quitting smoking will not be useful to those who are actually living lives of misery. There would almost have to be some latent, or blatant, desire to stop the pain, somehow.
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.
Neuro-linguistic programming makes a huge difference in your ability to quit for good, and I suggest it.
Click Here!
If you also have trouble with food cravings, this book is a pehenomenal tool.
Click Here!
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 this is a blog about helpful hints for quitting smoking. So why do I mention all of this here. Well first I would like to say that this blog is more along the lines of an inquiry, and I don't have all of the answers.
I have some answers to some questions- questions like "How do addictions work?" and "Why do people in general do what they do, in the way that they do it?" And I can make a good stab at helping people one-on-one to shift their behavior. But in the final analysis it is you and no-one else who will or won't quit smoking.
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.
So I take this into the realm of our inquiry by saying that if you are struggling in your life for some reason, or if you have terminal and ongoing upsets and pain in your life- if you are in short unhappy- how much chance will there be that you will actually quit smoking? You will be living, like my dad, in the confusion, with conflicting desires. And one can hardly argue that smoking is one easy, socially acceptable way to fulfill on some hidden wish to die.
Now I would be the last one to say that all people who smoke are fulfilling death wishes. Smoking is an addiction and it is pretty hard to conquer the physical and emotional cravings. However I do say that it is probable that my blog on helpful hints for quitting smoking will not be useful to those who are actually living lives of misery. There would almost have to be some latent, or blatant, desire to stop the pain, somehow.
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.
Neuro-linguistic programming makes a huge difference in your ability to quit for good, and I suggest it.
Click Here!
If you also have trouble with food cravings, this book is a pehenomenal tool.
Click Here!
Friday, May 16, 2008
My First Helpful Hints for Quitting Smoking
I would like to share with you my helpful hints for quitting smoking from the perspective of smoking as a true, bona-fide addiction.
If you are what they call a long-term smoker you have probably struggled with the question…Why can’t I stop? You may have been baffled by the very insanity of it all. You know you should stop. Any thinking intelligent person would stop. Why is it that you can’t or won’t stop this killing behavior. Especially as it is quite literally putting you on a fast and unstoppable train bound for the land of ‘cancer.’ There must be some more helpful hints for quitting smoking, that actually work.
If you are in this situation, it might be interesting for you to note that nicotine has been called one of the most, if not the most, addictive substances on the face of the earth.
OK, so that’s a lot of talk. But what does it mean?
In essence, from an addiction standpoint, you have about 10 trillion cells in you body. Now with nicotine addiction, it will not take very long before every one of those 10 trillion cells is addicted to that substance. And when that happens, you’ve got trouble. You have a full blown addiction that is just as strong as any skid row addict’s dependency. But unlike the skid row addict, it seems you can operate relatively functionally with this addiction. So there is not the strong pull to get help for yourself. On the contrary, with ten trillion cells telling you to smoke, it’s pretty easy to ignore the claims that some day, in the future, you might get sick and die. From your cells point of view, you are dying now if you are not getting it.
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.
However, 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.
The best way to quit, and permanently stay quit, of a nicotine addiction has yet to be determined. Certainly, like any other addiction, to get yourself to a 12-step program is not a bad idea. In this way you can handle this physical addiction the way people handle other killing addictions- the body, mind, and spirit way, and with a lot of support. And it might just save your life.
There are also a lot of people who espouse the method of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The theory here is that since the brain and nervous system control the hands and the body- they could potentially over-ride the cells longing for the substance, as well as the receptors ‘kicking and screaming’ for it. But whichever method helps you to stop, be sure you never pick nicotine up again. Because if you do, you are bound to go right back down the road from whence you started.
Neuro-linguistic programming makes a huge difference in your ability to quit for good, and I suggest it.
Click Here!
If you also have trouble with food cravings, this book is a pehenomenal tool.
Click Here!
If you are what they call a long-term smoker you have probably struggled with the question…Why can’t I stop? You may have been baffled by the very insanity of it all. You know you should stop. Any thinking intelligent person would stop. Why is it that you can’t or won’t stop this killing behavior. Especially as it is quite literally putting you on a fast and unstoppable train bound for the land of ‘cancer.’ There must be some more helpful hints for quitting smoking, that actually work.
If you are in this situation, it might be interesting for you to note that nicotine has been called one of the most, if not the most, addictive substances on the face of the earth.
OK, so that’s a lot of talk. But what does it mean?
In essence, from an addiction standpoint, you have about 10 trillion cells in you body. Now with nicotine addiction, it will not take very long before every one of those 10 trillion cells is addicted to that substance. And when that happens, you’ve got trouble. You have a full blown addiction that is just as strong as any skid row addict’s dependency. But unlike the skid row addict, it seems you can operate relatively functionally with this addiction. So there is not the strong pull to get help for yourself. On the contrary, with ten trillion cells telling you to smoke, it’s pretty easy to ignore the claims that some day, in the future, you might get sick and die. From your cells point of view, you are dying now if you are not getting it.
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.
However, 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.
The best way to quit, and permanently stay quit, of a nicotine addiction has yet to be determined. Certainly, like any other addiction, to get yourself to a 12-step program is not a bad idea. In this way you can handle this physical addiction the way people handle other killing addictions- the body, mind, and spirit way, and with a lot of support. And it might just save your life.
There are also a lot of people who espouse the method of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The theory here is that since the brain and nervous system control the hands and the body- they could potentially over-ride the cells longing for the substance, as well as the receptors ‘kicking and screaming’ for it. But whichever method helps you to stop, be sure you never pick nicotine up again. Because if you do, you are bound to go right back down the road from whence you started.
Neuro-linguistic programming makes a huge difference in your ability to quit for good, and I suggest it.
Click Here!
If you also have trouble with food cravings, this book is a pehenomenal tool.
Click Here!
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