Withdrawal Is A Myth And In The Mind

June 15th, 2009  |  Published in How I Kicked The Habit

The fact is, those withdrawal effects are not real. The mistake that people (perhaps including you) make is that they think that their body is reacting to taking away nicotine. Nicotine is addictive right? So if you take it away from your body then your body will react and make you feel sick so that you will instinctively reach for the nicotine.

No, it has nothing to do with your body, it’s your mind.

The mind is a powerful thing. When a drug company does double-blind medical trials, some people are given a placebo which is a pill with nothing in it. Sometimes, the people given the placebo get better than the people given the drug!

This is a well known medical fact that the mind can have incredible effects on the body. Just by believing that you are getting better, very often you will. This is just one example.

The reason that I and some other smokers do or did not get withdrawal shakes or sweats is because they don’t exist except in the mind. If you believe badly enough that you will get the shakes then you will! Apart from people telling you, your addicted state of mind is telling you this too. It’s telling you this to prevent you from quitting.

So you can see, if you really were “chemically” addicted to nicotine, then your body would react violently to taking it away. But, if you know better than this and see it for what it really is, then you will not suffer when you stop smoking.

Because you now know that your body is not addicted to nicotine (it is just nicotine playing “tricks” on your mind”) then you will never again suffer any strange “withdrawal” symptoms.

What nicotine does do is to play tricks on your brain and fool you into believing that you are addicted. If nicotine was really addictive then how can you explain how I and others using this guide’s method, how we were able to stop smoking immediately and never have a desire to smoke a cigarette ever again? Can you explain that? I promise you that it is not magic!! It is because I learned better than to believe that my body was addicted to nicotine.

Here’s another example of nicotine not being addictive. You may already know that in The Netherlands, locals and tourists can visit what is known as a “coffeeshop”. This is a place where you can legally buy and smoke marijuana products.

Europeans traditionally mix their marijuana with tobacco which they then roll up and smoke. Now, it turns out that most of these people do not even smoke cigarettes when they are not in a coffeeshop. That’s right, they don’t smoke cigarettes at all and they have no desire to smoke cigarettes. They simply use tobacco because it is a good material to help the “joint” burn.

So, if you are a smoker who believes that your body is highly addicted to nicotine, how can you possibly explain those people who do not smoke cigarettes but use tobacco in their marijuana joints. How can this be possible?

Here’s another reason why your body doesn’t need nicotine. Can you remember when you were last really ill and could not move from your bed. Even a hangover qualifies for this test.

When I used to smoke, if I had a very bad hangover then I did not desire a cigarette. I remember having the flu (a real flu and not just a cold is when you cannot reach the foot of your bed, even if someone placed 100 dollars there) and I did not smoke for a week. If nicotine has such a grip on you then why do you not smoke when you are terribly ill? Surely that goes against a smoker’s logic and you would get twice as ill if you did not smoke! But we all know that is not true.

You should be able to see now what addiction really is and how it attacks the mind rather than the body. You can’t deny it, because I have given you several cases that you cannot explain any other way. Maybe you are making mental objections - this is your addiction at work right now! If you truly believe that I am wrong, then get out a piece of paper and write down your case. Show it to a non-smoker whose mind is not twisted by addiction and see what they say. I assure you that they will disagree.

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