A Few Stop Smoking Tips...

If you have attempted to kick your smoking habit as part of you New Years resolution, here are a few quick tips to help keep you on track.

Cessation Time Distortion - A recent study found that nicotine cessation causes significant time distortion. Although no subconsciously triggered crave episode will last longer than three minutes, to a quitter the minutes can feel like hours. Keep a clock or watch handy to maintain honest perspective of time because the craving will pass after 3 minutes.

One crave coping technique is to practice slow deep breathing while clearing your mind of all needless chatter by focusing on your favorite person, place or thing. Another is to say your ABCs while associating each letter with your favorite food, person or place. For example, "A" is for grandma's hot apple pie, and so on.

Measuring Victory - Forget about quitting "forever." Like attempting the seemingly impossible task of eating an entire elephant, it's the biggest psychological bite imaginable. Instead, work hard at adopting a realistic victory yardstick that celebrates freedom an hour, challenge and day at a time. If you insist on seeing success only in terms of quitting forever then you will never truly reach your goal.

The Law of Addiction - "Administration of a drug to an addict will cause re-establishment of chemical dependence upon the addictive substance at the old level of use or greater." So simply put, just one puff of nicotine and all your hard work is down the drain. Adherence to just one rule guarantees success to all ... Never Take Another Puff.

Nicotine rewired your brain, growing millions of nicotinic receptors in eleven different regions. Although your mind's nicotine induced dopamine/adrenaline intoxication is an alert high, your chemical dependency is every bit as real and permanent as alcoholism. Treating a true addiction as though it were some nasty little habit is a recipe for relapse. There is no such thing as just one puff. Nicotine dependency recovery truly is an all or nothing proposition.

Avoid All Crutches - A crutch is any form of quitting reliance that you lean upon so heavily in supporting recovery that if quickly removed would likely result in relapse (a person, product, service or activity). If you feel the need to lean upon a quitting buddy for example, be sure that your buddy is either a sturdy long-time ex-smoker or a never-smoker.

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Stop Smoking Product/Service Comparison Facts

I love facts because there is no right or wrong in them. They completely remove the human element of opinion, which is often used to guide people towards a certain direction. Whether you chose to accept them or ignore them by looking the other way, facts they are what they are…the way something really is.

Here Are A Few Stop Smoking Product/Service Comparison Facts:

Nicotine Patches
Average Cost: 14 count $44.00 X 26 weeks = $1,144 per year
Result – Relies on willpower because you are expected to eventually quit on your own.
Health Risk: All drugs including nicotine replacement products have some degree of side effects

Electronic Cigarettes
Average Cost: Starter kit $29.95. Additional monthly refills $14.95 X 11 months = $194.40 per year
Result – Relies on willpower because you are expected to eventually quit on your own.
Health Risk: All drugs including nicotine replacement products have some degree of side effects

Nicotine Gum
Average Cost: 170 count $52.00 X 52 weeks = $2,704 per year
Result – Relies on willpower because you are expected to eventually quit on your own.
Health Risk: All drugs including nicotine replacement products have some degree of side effects.

Misc. Stop Smoking Prescription Pills
Average Cost: Per pill $3.00 X 365 day = $1,095 per year
Result – Relies on willpower because you are expected to eventually quit on your own.
Health Risks – Could cause any of the following: blackouts, dizziness, fainting, excessive sweating, dry mouth, abdominal pain, cramps, memory loss, heart attack, stroke, suicide, possible death and more.

Hypnosis
Average Cost: Live session $125.00 – Audio session $19.95 = Max cost $375.00
Result – Permanent for 80% to 95% after a 1 to 3 sessions
Health Risks: None

To some degree, with the exception of hypnosis, all of the items listed above rely on willpower, meaning that at some point during use of the item, you must actively make the effort to stop smoking. Now, assuming that willpower has failed for you in the past, otherwise you would not even have the need for stop smoking aids, you will need to accept that since these items do not affect your willpower, you are in essence doing just like before and quitting on you own. Therefore, if quitting on your own failed for you in the past, then you should plan on using whichever aid you choose, for the rest of your life.

How much would that cost?
Lifetime supply based on the following scenario
A 30 year old person wants to quit smoking and lives to be 85 years old = 55 years of product usage.

Nicotine Patches - $62,920.00
Electronic Cigarettes - $9,867.00
Nicotine Gum - $148,720.00
Misc. Stop Smoking/Prescription Pills - $60,225.00

In closing, we are not sharing this information to discourage anyone. We are simply pointing out the facts. The manufacturing and selling of temporary stop smoking items is a booming business. And from the amounts of money listed above, you can clearly see why. Haven’t you had enough of falling victim to a product that requires regular purchases in order to gain any benefit from it? It sort of sounds a lot like what cigarette companies themselves are doing!

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