Hi future Non Smoker
So many people struggle to stop smoking because of a simple problem. It’s about the immediate reward as opposed to the delayed benefit of quitting.
So you’re bored, or stressed, driving or on the phone and you light up a cigarette and you are immediately rewarded. Suddenly your boredom is solved, you relax the phone conversation is much better.
This is the power of nicotine, or so you are lead to believe. The problem is you had to suck the smoke into your lungs into order for it to be transported into your blood stream for your heart to pump it to your brain so that you can feel the benefits.
So you go from instant relief to a gradual slide back into the world of no nicotine.
Here’s the problem with quitting. Instead of having an instant solution to your problems, at least for a few minutes, you have the expected stress of withdrawal.
Expected because that has probably been your past experience, or at least the government advertisements on television enforce that thinking.
The strange thing is that most of your smoking benefits aren’t available with nicotine replacement, and you know it, even if you haven’t acknowledged it to yourself.
No one ever puts a patch on or uses the gum or spray when they are bored, no one grabs a patch when their friend calls on the phone or when driving home after a long day, and no one relaxes on their back deck after work with a cold beer and a patch.
In fact nicotine doesn’t do 90% of the things you think it does. So what on earth is smoking all about? It’s about habits. It’s about linking a behaviour such as driving with another behaviour such as smoking, and soon this becomes a habit.
Non-smokers just link different behaviours to other things like driving or talking on the phone or relaxing etc. It is as simple as that, but the difficulty comes from doing one thing which seems to promise and immediate response, without replacement the smoking behaviour and just trying to go cold turkey.
Because cold turkey is so much more than stopping nicotine, it’s about leaving a big gap in your lifestyle, which is the biggest stress to manage. Nicotine replacement and pharmaceuticals don’t do any better in filling these life gaps, and so that explains there poor success rate.
Hypnosis combined with lifestyle strategies stops the quitting stress and makes the process as easy as possible.
To quit smoking the fast easy way just call me for a complementary chat on 1300 203 422 in Australia.
You can quit with me at Buderim On the Sunshine Coast Or South Bank Brisbane, for just $195 or use my successful online audio programme.
All the best
Ian Newton
