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This is the time people start to make New Year's Resolutions. One of the biggest ones is, "I'm going to quit smoking this year." Then January 15th rolls around when asked "How is it going?" most say something like, "well I quit for a day," or "I'm just too stressed to quit right now. I'll do it later," which of course means they will make the same resolution next New Year and have the same results.
The Biggest Excuses for Smoking
So why don't people just quit? Here are the top two reasons that people say keeps them smoking
The number one reason people say they continue to smoke is stress. In fact one of the biggest reasons people do any kind of negative habit is because of stress. Stress is a great way to dump our responsibility about almost anything.
The truth is that people smoke about the same amount whether they're stressed or not. A smoker doesn't smoke less on good days and less on bad. If they're having a great day a smoker doesn't magically forget to smoke and on stressful days they don't suddenly smoke 10 times as much. Smokers smoke about the same amount every day, no matter if they are relaxing on the beach or working overtime.
Why is that? It's because smoking is a conditioned habit. Smokers have conditioned themselves to smoke when they feel stressed. While some people reach for a chocolate, and others go for a run, smokers reach for a cigarette. This leads us to the second biggest reason people say they continue to smoke.
The second biggest reason people say they smoke is to help them relax. This goes hand in hand with the first reason, to reduce stress. Now this is actually funny because the same people that say they smoke because of stress smoke on breaks, while drinking a cup of coffee or sitting by the beach watching the waves.
The truth is smoking adds the level of stress, both physically and mentally. The physical stress is added to the heart, lungs, circulatory system and brain from lack of oxygen and inflow of toxins. The mental and emotional stress is added when they run out of cigarettes, can't smoke in the work place, or worry about the increased odds of dying from smoking related diseases.
The fact is that smoking does not reduce stress or help a smoker relax because it actually adds to stress levels. If smokers are honest with themselves they don't really have reasons to smoke because when it comes right down to it, smoking is a habit, nothing more, nothing less.
Increasing Your Odds of Quitting
If you are thinking about quitting ask yourself; why do I want to stop smoking, because if the reasons you want to stop is bigger than the reasons you smoke, you will quit. If you don't believe me ask the mothers that quit smoking while they are pregnant, only to return to the habit a few days (or hours) after they give birth. While the baby is in the womb they are smoke free because they don't want to harm the fetus' development but once the baby is born they begin again, perhaps because they feel that they are only harming themselves. So if the reasons are big enough, you can quit.
Cold Turkey, Drugs and Patches
Most people that smoke, want to quit and many have, some many times. A study showed that nearly 70 percent of our nation's 44.5 million smokers want to quit but only 5 percent of those who try to quit actually succeed. Let's examine the methods of quitting and their success rates.
7 percent of all smokers quit simply cold turkey. They use nothing except for willpower. I recently talked to a man who had smoked two packs of cigarettes for over forty years who just decided to quit one day and he did, without any withdrawal symptoms at all. For strong-willed smokers like this man it's easy to quit. For others it's difficult, with a lot of discomfort along the way.
Besides cold turkey, the most common method to help people stop smoking is nicotine replacement, using nicotine lozenges, gums and patches.
This does work for some people but many people have a hard time tolerating these methods. A major duduk perkara with nicotine replacement is that nicotine addiction is not the main obstacle to quitting. Nicotine can be out of a person's system in as little as three or four days, while the rest of the 4000 or so chemicals take another week. So if a person can hold out for a mere two weeks they have cleansed their body of all the chemicals in cigarettes.
10 percent of smokers will quit using nicotine lozenges or nicotine gum. Since 7 percent of smokers that quit do so without anything at all, you can see that the difference between people quitting cold turkey and with lozenges or gum is quite small. In fact this is known to be statistically insignificant, meaning there is no real difference between quitting cold turkey or these methods because the difference is so small.
The best form of nicotine replacement is using drugs or the nicotine patch or gum. In case you didn't know it, most of these are manufactured by the tobacco companies. 14 percent of smokers will quit using the nicotine patch or drugs such as well-butrin or zyban. Although these smokers do quit, statistics show that more than half of them will be smoking again by the end of the year.
So statistics show us that the best form of nicotine replacement therapy works only 14 percent of the time.
Understanding the Statistics
The only way to really understand how bad these results are is to compare them with a placebo. Placebos are fake pills usually made from sugar or patches without any drugs. Placebos are used in research when scientists want to test them against how well the drug they are studying works. Placebos are best used in what are called blind studies. This are studies of drugs where both the subject (the person receiving the drugs) and the scientists do not know who is getting the drug and who is getting the placebo.
The scientists give one group of a statistically significant group of people the real drug and another group of the same size the fake drug. The key here is that everyone in the study thinks they are receiving the real drug. Then the scientists observe how each group reacts.
In studies of the nicotine replacement devices and the drugs, on average, approximately twenty to thirty percent of those given the placebo experienced the same relief just as if they had received the real drug. In other words the sugar pills and fake patches worked twice as well as the real drugs and real patches. These results told the researchers that nicotine replacement therapies do not usually work because, if they did, the subjects taking them would have shown a higher incidence of quitting than those taking the placebo.
What these results do show us is that nicotine replacement therapy works purely because of the power of the mind. When you believe that something will give you a certain result it will. What you think you get.
The Power of Hypnosis and NLP
Here's a question, why do people who quit for a month or two or even for a year or two start smoking again? Simply put it's because there is more to quitting than merely stopping. Smoking is a habit, a habit that is lodged in the subconscious mind. This habit causes you to have a constant subconscious urge for a cigarette. It is this nagging desire, this subconscious urge that eventually wears you down and is the reason you give in at a moment of stress or weakness.
You can overcome these subconscious urges with Total Mind Therapy. Using Hypnosis and NLP I can help you stop smoking. I can reinforce that decision you make to be smoke free for the rest of your life! Safe for all and not dangerous or harmful in any way, shape or form, hypnosis and NLP (Neuro linguistic programming - see http://www.TotalMindTherapy.org) can help you aktivitas your mind and successfully eliminate your desire to smoke.
That's why Total Mind Therapy is so effective, because it works at the source, the subconscious mind. Total Mind Therapy helps you to remove or change unwanted habits into useful ones by dealing directly with the subconscious mind.
You have a choice. You can use will power and quit cold turkey. You have less than a one in ten chance that this will work. You can use drugs, lozenges and patches and we've already talked about these methods. Finally you can use hypnosis and NLP which studies have shown to work better than all the other methods combined. However you decide, it's a New Year, make it Smoke Free.
Bio:
Wil Dieck is the founder of Total Mind Therapy, a combination of hypnosis, NLP, breathing techniques from the martial arts visualization used for goal setting. His practice is located in San Diego, California. For more information about Wil and his FREE stop smoking e-Course go to http://stopsmokingwithhypnosisnow.com
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