Quit Smoking Forever Guide

Hypnosis is one of the better methods of stopping smoking with a higher success rate than drugs. So, do I recommend that you use hypnosis?

First, you need to see hypnosis for what it is. Although the marketing men and doctors will tell you that it is another method, just like drugs, it really is not.

Hypnosis is about maximising the power of the mind. Really, hypnosis allows you to achieve your full potential. You cure yourself and the hypnotist just helps you to get there.
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There are other methods out there such as various pills, and even lasers and injections.

These methods work by stopping the craving for cigarettes. Do not think that drug companies truly understand addiction like you are now learning, and that they have designed these drugs to combat the addiction. Like so many pills that thousands are addicted to, these things only target the symptoms and not the causes. They are not real “cures”.
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Meditation can be useful for some people to help them stop smoking but ultimately, they are still using the willpower method.

This is because they use meditation to free their minds of the stresses that they can no longer use cigarettes as a tool to deal with (or so they think).
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Maybe you have heard of methadone being a common treatment used to treat “recovering” heroin addicts.

Methadone is what is called a “heroin substitute”. Many heroin addicts who want to clean up their act will get a place in a hostel and be entitled to a regular dose of methadone. It’s not the same thing as heroin but it will feed their addiction and stop them needing heroin.
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NRT or nicotine replacement therapy, is one of the biggest cons that the human race endures today. Except that most of us believe that it is one of the best ways to stop smoking!

Even those people who know that the drug companies flout the law and peddle harmful drugs that have not been tested properly, they will still think that NRT products like gum, inhalers and patches, are safe methods backed by sound medical science.

I mean, even the government and your own family doctor recommends people to use NRT to stop smoking.

Let me be clear, I am not a conspiracy theorist or someone who always goes against the grain of popular opinion. I don’t believe in Area 51 or that men never went to the moon! But I too, was conned, just like you probably are, into believing the fallacy of NRT.
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Why The Drug Companies Are Worse Than The Tobacco Companies

It’s easy to hate the tobacco companies. We have known for half a century that smoking directly causes killer diseases like cancer and heart disease to name just two of them. And when the tobacco companies deny this in court and then are forced to pay out a fraction of their annual profits, exploiting the 3rd world and those on low incomes as they go, it is so easy to hate the tobacco companies.

But what about the drug companies? Sure, you hear about the odd isolated case where a drug was rushed to market and not tested properly. Patients suffer bad side effects and some of them even die.
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There are many cigarette smokers who also smoke marijuana. Whilst marijuana possession is illegal in most countries, I will refrain from judging people who smoke marijuana and I hope you do to. Even if you do not smoke it yourself then I still recommend you read this section anyway because it is a great eye opener for you to truly understand cigarette addiction.

The biggest fear of many marijuana smokers who want to stop smoking cigarettes is that they fear that they will have to give up marijuana which occupies an important place in their life much like their choice and freedom to enjoy a beer. Because surely smoking marijuana and smoking cigarettes are the same addiction, right? No, this is not the case, as we will shortly see.

Now, I am only speaking here for the vast majority of marijuana smokers who are not addicted to marijuana and who choose to use it occasionally, much like most people who enjoy alcohol but are not addicted to it and don’t use it all the time.
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Perhaps you fear losing smoking as your “tool” or “crutch” that you use to deal with stressful situations. Let me show you why this is an illusion and you don’t need it.

Maybe you have smoked when you are feeling low, when you receive some bad news - and you are worried that after you have stopped, you may start smoking again.
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Many people actually fear quitting cigarettes! It sounds illogical but most smokers go through this thought process. Why do we need to know about this? Because if we understand our fear of success and see why it is so irrational then we can conquer it.

Think about it - each time that you have failed in your attempt to quit smoking, you have probably felt a little depressed but ultimately, you got to return to the comfort of your addiction. You still feared the long term harmful effects of cigarettes but at that moment in time, you probably feared more life without cigarettes. There are a couple of reasons for this.
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Some people worry about “situational smoking” which is when they are used to having a cigarette in a time or a place or both.

Remember, we already covered why smoking is not just “a habit”. An addiction cannot be a habit, even though the addiction, the Nicodemon or whatever you want to call it might try to fool you that it is.

If you smoke at the same times or places regularly, it is because they are the most convenient times to do so that have evolved to fit around your lifestyle. It is not because of “habit”. If your circumstances were to change greatly - say your working hours or your workplace or your relationships were to change, then your smoking behaviours would naturally change too.
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