Surviving the Habit: A Nicotine Addicts Guide to Quitting Smoking

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Volkow hears is that by teaching users that they have a chemical addiction that's a mental illness, that some will use it as an excuse for avoiding responsibility in arresting it. But as she notes, does a person who's told that they have cancer or heart disease pretend helplessness, or do they instead fight to save and extend their life? Nicotine dependency recovery can be our greatest personal awakening ever. Imagine destroying needless quitting fears by understanding them, and thus being able to better notice and savor the beauty about to unfold before you.

No longer afraid, imagine noticing your breathing improve and the richness sensed by rapidly healing taste-buds. Imagine discovering that white flour and rain drops have smell, while moving into a clean ash-free world where the oil on your skin isn't tar's but yours. Imagine the return of self respect, of being home and residing here on Easy Street with hundreds of millions of comfortable ex-users, of knowing it's a keeper, and never having to quit again.

Why worry about how much of the mountain is left to climb or how far we could fall when all that matters is our grip upon here and now, the next few minutes? Combining the " Law of Addiction " with a " one day at a time " recovery philosophy is all that's needed to remain free and keep our mind's priorities disorder arrested for life. The greatest unsolved mystery is why after having successfully quit for 5, 10 or even 30 years, that it normally only takes a single lapse in judgment - using on just one occasion - to trigger full and complete relapse.

To quote from a study released on May 16, , "Nearly all smokers who lapse experience a full-blown relapse. Did years of using somehow burn or etch permanent dependency tracks into our brain? Does new nicotine somehow turn on our addiction switch? Once the brain restores natural receptor counts down-regulates , is some record kept of how many receptors there once were? Or, does one powerful hit of nicotine simply awaken thousands of old memories of an addict having satisfied "wanting" for more? Frankly, science doesn't yet know. What it does know is that it's impossible to fail so long as all nicotine remains on the outside, that there was always only one rule, no nicotine, just one hour, challenge and day at a time.

The next few minutes are yours to command and each is entirely do-able. Baby steps to glory. In your mind, see and treat that first hit of nicotine as if the survival rate is zero. None of us are stronger than nicotine. But then we don't need to be as it is simply a chemical with an I. It cannot plot, plan or conspire, and contrary to the teachings of the UK's leading cessation educator whose lessons are otherwise high quality , there is no demon or monster dwelling within us. Our most effective weapon against nicotine is and always has been our vastly superior intelligence, but only if put to work.

Vaping E-cigarettes or Using Nicotine Replacement Product The e-cig industry want you to remain slave to buying and vaping its nicotine, every waking hour of every day, until the day you die. Although fully aware that you stand less than 72 hours from moving beyond peak withdrawal, it hides this truth in order to play, prey and feed upon your wanting for that next fix. Do not expect it to ever tell you the truth about how amazingly do-able recovery is or how wonderful it feels once your addiction's wanting ends and its chatter goes silent. Watch as it tries to convince you that slavery is freedom and that nicotine is as safe as caffeine.

But when is that last time we saw anyone inhale tea or coffee grounds?

Addiction to Smoking Nicotine a Mental Illness

And what are the long-term consequences of inhaling a known cancer promoter in animals into lungs already damaged by years of smoking? The nicotine replacement therapy NRT industry wants smokers to believe that a natural poison is medicine, its use therapy, and that it is somehow different from the tobacco plant's nicotine molecule. Imagine convincing us that dragging out the up to 72 hours of natural detox by toying for weeks or months with gradual nicotine weaning schemes, or other creative means to chemically stimulate brain dopamine circuitry, was key to quitting.

Truth is, the pharmaceutical industry buys its nicotiana from the exact same growers as the tobacco industry. They want us to believe that double-blind placebo controlled studies proved that NRT doubles a cold turkey quitter's odds of quitting and that only superheros can quit without it.

Truth is, their studies were not blind as claimed , and did not involve quitters who wanted to quit cold turkey. Truth is, that out here in the real world, that as shown by a July Gallup Poll , that more ex-users quit nicotine cold turkey than all other quitting methods combined. Here are a few facts that those selling creative nicotine delivery devices would rather you not know: Although obviously safer than smoking, transfer to e-cigarettes or smokeless tobacco is not about quitting but dependency transfer.

It's easy to tell the nicotine salesman from the truth teller, as those with your best interests in mind won't hesitate to remind you that the smart move is not harm reduction, but nicotine cessation and harm elimination. And you can quit.

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In fact, more than half of U. Truth is, cessation science has generally been beholden to the pharmaceutical industry and with few exceptions appears intellectully corrupt. Placebo controlled NRT, Zyban, Chantix and NicVax clinical studies have not been blind as claimed and thus have no foundation in science. Researchers cannot hide the presence or absence of withdrawal from users with significant quitting histories; addicts who became experts at knowing exactly how withdrawal feels. A review found that NRT studies suffered from wide-spread blinding failures May A study by the inventor of the nicotine patch found that 4 times as many study participants randomly assigned to wear the placebo nicotine patch correctly determined their group assignment as guessed wrong.

Placebo controlled quitting product clinical trials did not measure NRT "efficacy" but expectations and their frustration. The math makes you wonder if any gum user actually breaks free from nicotine while chewing it May Studies suggest that you truly would have to be a superhero to quit while using the nicotine patch if you'd already attempted using it once and relapsed. The vast majority of long-term ex-smokers quit entirely on their own without resort to any product, procedure or program of any kind including hypnosis, Zyban, Chantix, Champix, acupuncture, magic herbs, laser therapy, or the nicotine patch, gum, lozenge, spray, or inhaler.

If so, why risk serious injury or death using Chantix or Champix? Here in the U. Cold turkey quitters have prevailed over NRT quitters in all long-term real-world population level studies over the past decade. For example, a Australian survey of 8, family practice patients found cold turkey twice as effective as NRT. It also found that cold turkey accounted for 88 percent of all successful quitters 1, of Studies comparing those who have successfully arrested their dependency to those still slave to a new form of delivery identify freedom's real winners.

Smoking And The Nicotine Addiction

Education, understanding, new skills and some form of ongoing quality support can easily triple your odds of success. Education Smart Turkey Is a Quitting Method Is it possible to become so educated and motivated that the deep inner mind no longer sees ending nicotine use as a threat, so much so that the body's emotional fight or flight anxiety alarms hardly ever get sounded?

Roughly half of quitters report that recovery was far easier than expected. Is it possible to so embrace coming home that fears evaporate and it feels like a cake-walk? Did you know that unplanned attempts, which avoid accumulation of self-induced fears, are up to 2. Watch WhyQuit's more than free recovery lessons or grab one of our free quitting ebooks and jump in the pool. The next few minutes are all that matter and each is entirely doable. It may not always be easy but it is simple. There was always only one rule I've heard virtually all of you touch on it--yes or no, do you believe nicotine is not addictive?

We'll take that as a no. And again, time is short, if you can just, I think each of you believe nicotine is not addictive, I'd just like to have this for the record. But still no addiction warning for United States youth. Polito Nicotine addiction a mental illness WhyQuit.

Outstanding nicotine harms review by Dr. How nicotine harms the fetus, infant and adolescent by Dr. Ginzel, MD, and others - Nicotine is a teratogen that can devastate a human fetus A host of recent medical studies Nicotine Warning for Cold Turkey Quitters If a cold turkey quitter, remain alert to the fact that most quitting web sites, including government sites , contain advertisements, quitting instructions or articles that were written by pharmaceutical industry financial influence for the purpose of getting you to purchase and use nicotine.

Any nicotine use at this point will cause chemical relapse that will require you to repeat the nicotine detox portion of recovery again. This is the "Law of Addiction. The industry's super slick marketing is designed to leave you believing that you have very little chance of succeeding unless you rush-out and purchase nicotine replacement therapy NRT weaning products such as the nicotine patch, nicotine gum or nicotine lozenge and immediately put nicotine back into your bloodstream. They do not want you to believe in "you. WhyQuit's education director since , Joel's Library is home to his life's work.

It's also home to more than a hundred original short stop smoking articles, to "Never Take Another Puff," Joel's free ebook, and to his ever growing collection of more than video stop smoking lessons. Each link opens a webpage where Joel shares the video together with related articles and links. Polito, a former year heavy smoker and WhyQuit's founder, Freedom from Nicotine shares the science underlying nicotine dependency and successful abrupt nicotine cessation. Whether hooked on cigarettes, e-cigarettes e-cigs , bidis, kreteks, a pipe, hookah or cigars, on dip, chew, snuff or snus, or on the nicotine gum, lozenge, spray, inhaler or patch, the book provides a road-map home.

Turkeyville is a Facebook support group exclusively for cold turkey quitters. The group's primary focus is helping newbies navigate the first few days. Just that first brave step, yes you can! No longer accepting members, today Freedom's , archived member posts serve as a valuable source of recovery insight and understanding.

What is Nicotine Addiction?

Journal of Pediatric Psychology June, 30 4: Addictive Behaviors, May , Volume 33 5 , Pages I live with a smoker who gets extremely aggressive each time he tries to quit smoking, which he does every time he gets sick, this happens about every 5 months acute bronchitis. How can medical science help him? Humair, tobacco cessation specialist at Geneva State Hospital.

If your partner loses his composure when he stops smoking, it is for two reasons:. He is experiencing nicotine withdrawal which is making him irritable.

The solution is for him to take nicotine, either in the form of patches or nicotine gum or lozenges, and gradually reduce the dose to enable him to stop smoking over a period of 2 to 3 months. He didn't really decide to quit but, like the virus, it was forced on him unexpectedly.

A planned quit attempt would be easier for him to accept and therefore would have a better chance of succeeding. Good luck, it isn't easy to live with a smoker who is trying to quit, but he needs your support!

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I quit smoking on 1 January I have the impression that I spend my day worrying, as soon as I'm at home tears well up at any time and at night I suffer from insomnia What should I do? What can I take? It is very probable that your symptoms are due to a depression that usually starts months after quitting smoking. In most cases there is a spontaneously favorable evolution. However, you might need to seek the help of a health care professional and take medication for a short time.

If your symptoms persist, I suggest you see your doctor. Good luck and carry on. I would like to know how long it takes until the worst most unbearable adverse reactions are passed. I just finished my third week as I gave in to temptation a few times at the beginning and smoked a few cigarettes I wondered if I had delayed the adverse effects and I want to know when the obsession stops or at least when it calms down , as well the great waves of the blues As a mother of a large family with toddlers, I can't let myself go and give in to feeling depressed.

In general, physical withdrawal symptoms appear within 24 hours of quitting, are at their strongest hours after quitting and are greatly relieved between days depending on the level of dependence for you that will mean at least 30 days! On the other hand every cigarette reactivates the dependency and then the withdrawal symptoms Cravings triggered by situations in which the former smoker used to smoke decrease more slowly: However, this is a general trend and it varies greatly from person to person. Finally, all these symptoms can be considerably reduced by taking nicotine replacement therapy NRT or Zyban in adequate doses.

Given the difficulty of withdrawal I would strongly suggest getting the help of a professional. In fact, these methods really increase your chance of success. It's been a week since I stopped smoking. Since then, I wake up hours earlier than usual. Could you tell me if this is related to nicotine withdrawal, and when these effects will fade?

Insomnia is typical of the problems caused by the lack of tobacco. All these disorders, including insomnia are lessened by NRT patch, gum, etc. Insomnia may last several weeks after quitting smoking. NRT should be taken for 12 weeks after smoking cessation.

I just quit this is my third attempt , it was only four days ago and already my sleep is not the same, I fall asleep early, and about two o'clock in the morning I wake up. I already had the same problem on my first attempt, as I didn't want to take medication to regulate my sleep, I finally resumed smoking.

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What encourages me greatly this time is that my sixteen-year-old son quit the same day as me; it is especially for him that I am making another attempt today. Are there any tricks for getting a good night's sleep? When you quit smoking, one of the withdrawal symptoms is sleep disorder. This symptom can be reduced by using NRT. This will also facilitate your nicotine withdrawal. Ask your doctor or pharmacist. Congratulations on this attempt to quit with your year-old son! It is crucial to find your own motivation to stop smoking. I would like to know how long the weight gain resulting from smoking cessation lasts.

I have not really changed my eating habits but I watch what I eat and 1 month after quitting, I have put on 1 kg. Is this a bad start, or rather encouraging?

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