Month: August 2008

Stop Smoking Advice For Nicotine Addicts

Posted by Suzanne – August 13, 2008

Some would say all smoking is an addiction, while others would argue that it is a habit. I have found in my experience that there is a good proportion of smokers who somehow or other got sucked into smoking, got hooked and then have to smoke to feel normal. I define this type of smoker as a Smoking Addict and recognize the physical part of this addiction for what it is.

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So how do you know if you are a Smoking Addict?

Do you need a cigarette first thing in the morning or upon waking?

Do you try to smoke at regular intervals throughout your waking hours?

Do you smoke about 20 or more cigarettes a day?

If you have tried to stop, did you lose your concentration and feel ravenously hungry?

If the answers to at least the first three questions is yes, then the way I see it, you are physically addicted. And not necessarily for much longer.

Whilst there is an emotional element in all addiction, many Smoking Addicts have either largely dealt with these or are finding ways to cope. Chances are, if you are addicted, you are so fed up with the addiction that you have a very strong will to succeed. You would also be most likely starting to experience the effects of smoking as a cough, chest infections, or maybe your circulation is not as good as it used to be. This adds to the motivation factor.

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There are some smokers who are not only physically addicted as defined above but also have more extensive emotional issues. Should there be other addictions, such as bulimia or hard drugs, it is best to take it step by step, learn coping strategies, take care of the physical side, and heal the underlying emotional issues. A good EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner with the relevant experience and skills should be able to help. They may advise you to also seek medical help and may offer to support you with that.

Other than the above, if you are not suffering from depression or anxiety and do not feel that you are using cigarettes as an emotional crutch, then the good news is that quitting smoking is likely to be very quick and easy for you. EFT is based on the acupuncture meridians. It helps to re-balance your body’s “energy” system, release the cravings, improve your concentration, and all the minor emotional issues around smoking. Your EFT Practitioner should be able to help you become a non-smoker within one to two hours. Or you can learn EFT for yourself and help yourself. It takes literally less than one and a half minutes to do a full EFT procedure called the Basic Recipe. This is a robust formula designed to work under many conditions. If treating yourself, all you have to do is repeat this simple procedure every time you would have otherwise lit up, until the desire for a cigarette is completely gone.

One really nice thing about EFT is that when you have a treatment, you are proactive rather than reactive. You participate in your own special experience and walk away empowered with an easy way to gain control over many conditions, as diverse as backache and the common cold and everything in-between. A nice bonus for anyone who only a short while ago was being controlled by nicotine.

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Smoking and Genetics – Is Smoking Hereditary?

Posted by Suzanne – August 13, 2008

You can stop smoking if smoking is inherited in your genes. Research shows that whilst genetic factors do play a part in smoking behavior, this is only a small part. Environment, or nurture as well as nature, plays a part too.

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Studies of a correlation between smoking and genetic factors have come up with three correlations between smokers and their families:

1. The age they start smoking

2. How likely they are to carry on smoking

3. When they stop smoking

Whilst these factors are significant, they are not huge. In other words, you can quit even if everyone in your family is a smoker.

One of the things that are targeted in quit-smoking programs is the beliefs of the smoker. A belief is a very strong psychological incentive, and can be a strong influence on stop-smoking treatment.

So how do you change a belief? The answer is that cannot change a belief per se, what you can change is that an opinion that was once a belief is no longer so.

A belief is an absolute truth, something that we believe to be true based on all the evidence given to us plus the way we have stacked up this evidence in a logical order. Now logic is like building a wall. First you have one brick, then you have another, then another, building brick upon brick till you have a wall. The strength of this wall depends on how good the bricks are. What if there was a brick somewhere near the bottom that was flawed? Remove this brick, and the wall collapses. Take all the good bricks, build again, and you have a much stronger wall in place.

Using methods like EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), the belief that “I am a smoker because all my family are smokers” can be shown to be merely a flawed opinion. This is replaced by the stronger wall which says “My family are smokers, I choose to render these genes ineffective and become a non-smoker”.

Along with genes leading to flawed opinions, one is exposed to family emotions and family temptations. For instance, if parents were harsh in the treatment of a smoker growing up, who then was encouraged to smoke on every visit to relatives, this of course influences the smoking desire. A person with an unhappy or less educated background is more likely to smoke, and having cigarettes all around this person reinforces the smoking behavior.

The good news is that using methods like EFT, the driving force of our self-limits can be lifted out of your system. What remains is a simple program that covers the following:

A. Education about the dangers of smoking and the true joys of natural living

B. Options that involve something more exciting than being around smokers

C. Behaviural coaching for situations where one is surrounded by smokers

And EFT helps in every one of these situations, leading to true freedom from smoking.

Whilst this may mean more than one quick session for smoking cessation, a structured program like this is more likely to produce long-lasting results and true freedom for good. All I can say is that if you are an ex-smoker-to-be, you can succeed. It is merely the route to success that changes. True success feels good whatever route you take to it and whatever genes you have inherited.

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References about smoking and a genetic link:

Uhl, G.R.; Gold, L.H.; and Risch, N. Genetic analyses of complex behavioral disorders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94:2785-2786, 1997.

KS KENDLER, PS MC NEALE, COG LA COREY, CA PRESCOTT A population-based twin study in women of smoking initiation and nicotine dependence Psychological Medicine, 1999 – journals.cambridge.org Page 1. Psychological Medicine, 1999, 29, 299-308.

Personality and the inheritance of smoking behavior: A genetic perspective, Behavior Genetics, Springer Netherlands, ISSN 1573-3297 (Online), Behavioural Science, Issue Volume 25, 1995, Pages 103-117

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