June 16th, 2009 |
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Who or what is the Nicodemon? The Nicodemon is used by some people to describe how addiction makes you think in strange ways. He, she or it actually fool you into defying your own powers of logic and reason and to believe and support your addiction.
Now, personally speaking, I am not religious and nor do I believe in evil spirits or beings that we cannot see. The Nicodemon is just a personification of this strange phenomenon that we cannot explain. If you are a person of faith, then you may believe the Nicodemon to be evil personified or otherwise - this is not a problem at all and may actually help.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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Stop Being Blind and See Cigarettes For What They Really Are
Some people are just blind to the dangers of cigarettes. You probably aren’t but it is still worth examining the bad side effects from smoking. This is not for negative reasons of fear. You probably already know of some of the bad effects and these may get you stressed or worried.
You are not going to give up smoking out of fear. You are going to stop smoking because you want to have a healthy and active rest of your life. By seeing how bad cigarettes are, you’ll be able to look back in future days and feel gratitude for the positive choice that you have made.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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I’ve said many times that when you stop smoking that you will be a non-smoker again, not an ex-smoker.
You will feel just like you did when you were younger and healthier and were not yet addicted to cigarettes. Can you remember what that was like?
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June 16th, 2009 |
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Maybe you’ve heard of hypnotherapy as a successful method of stopping smoking. I am also an advocate of hypnotherapy when it is used properly.
But I also see hypnotists all the time using the wrong methods. Let’s see what mistakes they make so that you won’t make them yourself.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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What do you do if your partner smokes? Let me allay any fears that you may have.
The ideal situation would be for them to try to stop at the same time. Not because it can help give you both combined greater willpower but because you can reassure yourselves that you are thinking and acting logically about addiction and quitting.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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Looking around the stopping smoking forums, I am just amazed by the amount of bad advice that is freely given to people wanting to quit (actually, I’m not really that amazed!)
I once heard someone say “willpower is key”! I nearly spat my food out onto my screen when I first read that! It could not be further from the truth.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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Willpower. I almost regard “willpower” as a dirty word when it comes to stopping smoking. It is the most widely used method to stop smoking and yet is also the least successful.
So what do we mean by willpower? It’s when you use nothing except your will in a battle against your addictive urges to smoke cigarettes. It’s never a clean fight, it’s always messy, and usually the addiction wins.
Barely 1 or 2% of smokers will quit successfully using willpower alone. And even those lucky few (and that is what they are - just lucky and not better than anyone else) will open themselves up to the danger of starting smoking again at some point in the future.
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June 16th, 2009 |
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I’m sure you’ve heard the different figures given for how much of your life smoking takes away. 11 minutes per cigarette? 14 minutes per cigarette?
I’m not going to patronise you and force yet another bad statistic down your throat. Let’s look at it in a different way.
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June 15th, 2009 |
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Smoking directly affects the circulatory system. The smoke goes into our lungs and chemicals are exchanged directly into the bloodstream. The noxious cocktail of hazardous substances has a bad effect on the arteries, veins, capillaries and organs of your body.
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June 15th, 2009 |
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It’s well known that smokers stink. I never used to understand what people meant by “stinky smokers”. I grew up in a household where both parents smoked (and myself and my brother would go on to become smokers ourselves) and I never understood when people said that smokers stink.
Then I started smoking myself and whilst I was at college, I would have a quick smoke before lectures and then hook up with a buddy. “Dude, you stink!” - he would say.
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