Stop Smoking Addiction vs habit - Quitting Smoking the easy way | Mind Matters

Addicted?  Think again.

You are being exploited by the pharmacutical industry

If you smoke and you think you are addicted, then you make a very good customer.

NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) is big business.  Next time you are at the chemist take a look at the multitude of NRT on display - in the prime position of the chemists counter.  It is worth billions of pounds each year and it makes sense to allow you to continue to think you are physically addicted to nicotine.   Quit Smoking now.

If you think that is cynical - then read John's brief story below:

John the smoker

John (48) had been a non smoker for just a day.  He had smoked 20 cigarettes a day for most his adult life and had watched both parents die in excrutiating pain from smoking related diseases.

decides to stop

John had decided to stop smoking.  He had been pretty nervous about stopping smoking - the usual fears - withdrawl, stress etc.  He smoked his last cigarette at 2200hrs and went to bed.

using patches.

In the morning he put on his first 24 hour patch and went about his daily routine.  Everything was going well (pleased he'd stop smoking at last) when he went to bed that evening. He awoke to start his second day as a non smoker and went about his normal routine, except today he changed his patch after having a shower.  John went to work.  No cravings, no withdrawl, no stress or grumpiness.

Then he discovered

When he got home, as usual he went to change out of his work clothes and when he went into his bedroom, there on the floor was the patch.  The same patch that he had applied that morning.  It had fallen off, before he'd dressed and John hadn't noticed.

he wasn't addicted

John had gone through the whole day - without a patch on, without smoking and without cravings, withdrawl or any other symptom we might expect to see John suffering from, if he were physically addicted to smoking or nicotine.  Quit Smoking now.

Addicted? Then how come you can do the following without cravings;

  1. Go to the cinema for (3 hours)?
  2. Go on a short/longhaul flight (8 hours)?
  3. Go to bed at night (7+ hours)?

If you were physically addicted, then the cravings and withdrawl would occur in the cinema (regardless of how good the film is), you would suffer on the plane, and you would wake up through the night, needing to feed your physical addiction to nicotine and smoking. Decide to stop smoking now.

When are you in the habit of smoking?

  • When you wake up
  • Before or after breakfast
  • In the car to work
  • At the train station
  • During a break
  • Lunchtime
  • On the phone
  • When you are 'stressed'
  • After a meal
  • With a drink
  • In the pub

If you normally smoke before breakfast, then that's when you will get the urge to smoke.

Perhaps like lots of people the thought of smoking in the morning is disgusting and you don't have a cigarette until the evening.  Do you suffer cravings and withdrawl during the day?  No.  For you, you only get the craving in the evening.  At the time when you would normally smoke.

Now we are getting to the crux of the matter.  Smoking is more a habit than addiction.  Well, isn't that good news.  Decide to stop the smoking habit right away.

The final nails in the coffin

The penultimate nail

A physical addiction causes the drug intake to steadily increase.  Yet almost without doubt, you have been smoking the same number of cigarettes for a good few years, without any major increase.

The final nail

If the user of a physically addictive drug goes to sleep, then when they wake, they would have to have as much of their particular drug as they would have had, if they hadn't been asleep, in order to operate at the most basic of levels.  Yet, again, almost without doubt, you wake up and have just one cigarette to catch up on a night of not smoking.  Or you may even not smoke until after breakfast or later in the day.  Make that decision to stop smoking now.

SMOKING IS A HABIT.

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