Overcome Your Nicotine Addiction

Nicotine addiction is a serious dependency that requires a serious approach to quitting.

Quitting isn’t easy — and each time you try to stop smoking and fail, it becomes even more difficult. There are physical and psychological reasons for this:

• Physically — your body builds up a resistance.
• Psychologically — you begin to see yourself as a failure, someone who cannot beat the addiction.

If you need help and support to quit smoking you are not alone. Most people do. While it is possible to go “cold turkey” and quit smoking without assistance, it isn’t for everyone and it can be very difficult to do. So difficult in fact, that the number of people who break the habit without help is very small.

If you’re serious about quitting smoking, the Stop Smoking UltraPack program may be your answer. The ingredients are all herbal and homeopathic and contain NO nicotine.

It involves a three-step program:

1. Prepare to quit (4 weeks)
2. Break the habit (4 weeks)
3. Stay nicotine-free

Read more about the program here, as well as testimonies from ex-smokers.

Quit Smoking Today

As a smoker, you well know that quitting smoking is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life.

In your efforts to quit, you’ve probably used patches, sprays, gum — and found that none of them worked. You still missed smoking so you ended up just going to the store, buying a pack of cigarettes, and throwing all the medication in the trash.

Nevertheless, you know that smoking isn’t good for you and you would really like to find something that will help you quit.

Good news! Now you can quit smoking once and for all!

“Quit Smoking Today” is a program that successfully uses hypnotherapy to help you overcome your addiction to smoking. Why does it work? Because your beliefs about smoking and your habitual smoking behaviors reside within your unconscious mind. So while you may consciously wish to quit, your all-powerful unconscious mind simply won’t let you.

You see, when you first started smoking, you bought into years of conditioning telling you that smoking would make you feel better — more confident and more relaxed.

After lighting up your first few cigarettes, you permanently installed these extremely unhelpful beliefs directly into your unconscious, along with the belief that quitting would be really difficult. Even as you inhaled those first few poisonous fumes, you had already chosen those perceived benefits of feeling better over the uncomfortable initial physical reactions.

So, as time went by and those physical reactions started to subside (as a result of your newly formed nicotine addiction), you started to mistake the relief of feeding that addiction with feelings of relaxation and confidence.

Many years later, after smoking tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of cigarettes, you have now reinforced the unhelpful beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit and trained your unconscious mind to (wrongly) associate the process of lighting and smoking a cigarette with feeling good, confident, and relaxed.

Hypnotherapy retrains the unconscious mind of a smoker to disregard those false beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit, and swaps them for something altogether more exciting and fulfilling — feeling absolutely great!

All those familiar withdrawal pangs of irritability, mood swings and cravings — the primary reasons why people fail to permanently quit smoking — are replaced with feelings of relaxation, improved self confidence, and overall happiness.

Sound good? Then check out the “Quit Smoking Today” program and start living a smoke-free life in less than one hour! Guaranteed.

Are You Stuck in a Bad Habit?

Many people who are suffering from bad habits know they have a problem, but they don’t know what to do about it — or they feel powerless to change. They may spend years telling themselves they are going to change “one day.”

Fear of failure keeps many people stuck in their bad habits. They hide from the truth by telling themselves that they’re waiting for the “perfect” weight-loss program, the perfect smoking-cessation program, or the perfect time to stop drinking.

“I’ll change when the time is right,” is a common phrase. Of course there will never be a “right time,” but they haven’t been able to break out of their verbal cage.

What is sad is that some people simply are unable to make a serious commitment to change — even when their life depends on it. For example, a person may have a struggle with emphysema. They may sleep every night with an oxygen tank next to their bed. But they never quit smoking. They may cut down, but they never quit, even though they know it is killing them.

A number of years ago, there was an article about a woman in New Jersey who had a tracheotomy as a result of cancer. She was no longer able to breathe through her mouth, so she placed lighted cigarettes into the hole in her throat and inhaled the smoke that way. She was still smoking when she died.

Change is often very threatening. Even good change may threaten our security. When we’re accustomed to something, the thought of losing it can cause us to panic and freeze where we are, no matter how much we stand to gain by changing.

“John” knows the health risks that smokers face, but he doesn’t want to give up all the little satisfactions that smoking gives him — the pleasant anticipation he experiences after a meal when he is about to light a cigarette, the satisfaction of feeling the cigarette between his fingers, the nicotine rush that goes straight to his brain every time he takes a puff, the security of knowing he has an extra carton of his favorite brand stashed away in the closet.

The only part of smoking that John wants to give up is the part that threatens to give him lung cancer. He wishes he could somehow eliminate that part and hang onto all the other little perks that hooked him in the first place.

John may say he wants to quit smoking — and he isn’t lying when he says this. He sincerely thinks he wants to quit. His problem is that he hasn’t come to grips with the real reason he smokes. As soon as he is able to do so, he will be in a position to move forward. When he is able to admit that he likes lots of little things about his habit, he will be in a position to substitute healthy new habits for the old destructive ones.

However, as long as he hides from the truth—from the real reasons why he smokes—he will conveniently shift responsibility from himself to a “force” that’s stronger than he is. When a smoker says, “I really want to quit, but I just can’t,” what he really means is that he doesn’t want to be held accountable for his bad choices.

For many people, there is a certain comfort in believing that they can’t avoid the destructive path they’re following, even though they know where it leads in the end. They are locked into a self-defeating mindset that says, “I know I’m doomed, but what can I do about it?” The answer is that they can do a great deal about it, but not until they are able to see through the mind games they play.

Why do we play these games, even when we know our habits are destroying us? I think the answer goes something like this: As soon as we break out of the cage we’ve been hiding in, we will have to admit that we had the power to do it all along.

That can be a scary thing. A person who frees himself from a bad habit that has dominated his life for years or decades can be terrified of the prospect of having to admit that he wasted a large part of his life by failing to take responsibility for his own behavior.

“Jane” knows she may be drinking herself to death, but subconsciously she tells herself that it would be far worse to be free of her habit. If she were free, she would have to spend the rest of her life wondering what she might have made of her life if she had realized sooner that she was free to make better choices.

This is the danger of focusing on the past. When all you can see is what lies behind, you aren’t able to understand that new opportunities present themselves as soon as you make the decision to walk in a different direction.

As you learn to shift your thoughts from the past to the present, you will be taking a giant step towards freeing yourself from your bad habit.

Stop Smoking and Enjoy Better Health

Here are some very good health reasons why you should stop smoking:

Within 20 minutes after quitting smoking:

• Blood pressure drops to normal
• Pulse rate drops to normal level
• Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal level

Within 8 hours:

• Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
• Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
• Smoker’s breath begins to disappear

Within 24 hours:

• Chances of heart attack risk decreases

Within 48 hours:

• Damaged nerve endings begin to redevelop and regrow
• Sense of smell and taste noticeably improves

Within 72 hours:

• Bronchial tubes begin to relax
• Breathing is easier

Within 2 weeks to 3 months:

• Circulation improves
• Walking becomes easier with improved breathing
• Lung function increases approximately 30%
• Chronic coughing disappears.

Within 1-9 months:

• Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease and continue to improve.
• Cilia regrows in your lungs, thereby increasing their ability to handle mucus which keeps your lungs clean and reduces infections.
• Your body’s overall energy increases.

Within one year:

• Risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker.

Within 2 years:

• Heart attack risk drops to near normal.

Within 5 years:

• Your risk of stroke declines to that of a non-smoker.

Within 10 years:

• Your risk of death from lung cancer declines by almost half that of an average smoker (one pack per day).
• Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus decreases.
• Pre-cancerous cilia are replaced with healthy ones.
• Chance of other cancers, such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas dramatically decreases.

Within 15 years:

• Your risk of coronary heart disease is now that of a person who has never smoked.

Why not make a decision to quit smoking right now and start enjoying better health?