Nicotine dependence and smoking cessation
Nicotine is an interesting substance. It is an alkaloid present is a poison to bitter taste produced by plants and stored in their leaves and stems to prevent them from being eaten by animals. This is a warning friendly vegetable world to the animal world saying: "Do not eat what will make you sick."
Humans are known to live in harmony with their natural environment.
I do not treat a smoker who is not surprised when I tell them that nicotine is an extremely toxic poison. They do not know that they smoke something that is three times more toxic than arsenic and more lethal than strychnine. They are also surprised that nicotine is used as a pesticide and is so toxic that a few drops of pure substance on the skin can be fatal. This is very important. Nicotine does not have to be ingested to kill you.
A lethal dose can be easily absorbed through the skin.
Of course, it is evident that nicotine can be absorbed through the skin as nicotine patches would otherwise be a waste of time would not it?
And of course there is another favorite -- the nicotine gum, so you can spend hours exercising your jaw muscles and get your poison absorbed through the lining of the mouth, throat and stomach.
The real problem is that smokers are treated like drug addicts who are so familiar that it is a waste of time even bothering to try to wean itself of the substance they are addicted. All that modern medical science can do for these poor addicts is to separate the toxins from all the other nasty stuff in the tobacco leaf and give it to them in pure form.
In its pure form it takes just 60 mg of nicotine to turn an adult 150 pounds in a cadaver.
And he does it very quickly. It seems like a very good idea to chew this stuff and stick it in close contact with your skin is not it?
I get smokers to come see me for help quit smoking. A number have tried patches or gum. Very often, they tell me they ended up using gum or patches, and smoking so. Then they realized they needed a real help if they would succeed in stopping.
There are about 600 years, the best minds on the planet do not doubt at all that we know that the Earth was flat as a pancake. They were wrong. These spirits were just as intelligent minds that we use today. We just have better knowledge and more history. 500 years ago, the best brains in the world thought the sun revolved around the Earth. They were wrong too.
Some of the best brains the world today believe that nicotine is addictive in the same way that heroin is addictive.
They err.
Most cigarettes are smoked in response to environmental stimuli e, g, a glass of beer, a cup of coffee food (later, not during), driving down for an airplane, telephone calls, sex (later, not during), commercials ...
This is not an addiction, it is training.
Hypnosis interferes with the automatic transmission (that say without thinking) that trigger responses to light a cigarette.
Hypnosis makes it easier to leave than it can be otherwise.
About the Author
Michael J. Hadfield MBSCH is a registered clinical hypnotherapist, with many years' experience in the treatment of smoking. If this article interested you then visit http://www.hypnosisiseasy.com/StopSmoking.htm for more details and the opportunity to enjoy a Free Bonus CD that may just improve your life.
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