Stop Smoking Now - Information that will stun you!
Do you want to stop smoking NOW? Are you fed up with putting your stop smoking campaign off from month to month or year to year? I manage the Stop Smoking NOW unit of a leading private hospital and if you truly, really, honestly want to quit, today's article in the series will truly blow you away. I doubt you've heard this information before and all my clients find these facts to be more powerful than any other technique I give them.
In other articles I've explained the role of the subconscious mind in keeping your habits safe and secure - and that means your smoking habit too. The subconscious mind is only trying to protect you from forgetting something. It has no logic; only patterns.
Well, this particular pattern is supported also by the intake of nicotine which I'm sure you're aware of, but what exactly is its role? I'll do my best to explain:
Firstly you need to know a little about the chemistry of your body in relation to your emotions. When you're stressed and anxious you get high on adrenalin and to continue that stress for some length of time you produce cortisol too which helps sustain the stressed state. This means if you are constantly agitated, worried or anxious, you'll be producing chemicals that make your brain a bit fuzzy and less able to think and act logically, your health will suffer too because your body isn't good at handling long periods of anxiety. If you carry on long enough you'll sink into depression. This is a state where your body can no longer sustain the adrenalin and cortisol rush and you feel like want to stay under the duvet all day doing nothing and seeing no-one.
Next you need to know that when you're content, and especially when you're happy, you produce a chemical called Serotonin. If you spent much of your life in a pretty contented state without too many prolonged periods of stress and anxiety, you would likely be very healthy and long lived because Serotonin is absorbed into our nervous system, helping us to able to easily cope with our problems; it supports the immune system, keeping us physically healthy and it's altogether an essential for our normal daily functioning. You can't be in a state of anxiety at the same time as a state of contentment so you can't be in high adrenalin production and high serotonin production at the same time.
Now, here's the interesting bit. When you puff on a cigarette - 10 times per smoke accounts for 200 puffs a day in a 20-a-day smoker - the nicotine produces a chemical that acts like serotonin in that you get a feeling of "ah, that's better". You know that feeling if you're a smoker. It's as if that first puff cleared away some of your stress. And it did. For about 6 seconds. The false serotonin only lasts 6 seconds and that's why you need another puff to feel better again. Not only that, but each puff you take causes your physical body to go into a state of anxiety whilst it's trying to get rid of the poison you just ingested, so that raises your anxiety levels and there's another reason why you want another puff.
So: you puff; you feel better but only for 6 seconds so you want another puff; your body is poisoned and stressed which also causes you to keep puffing. Mad isn't it. What chance have you got to stop smoking now?
And there's another problem. When your mind registers that false Serotonin, it won't produce the real Serotonin at the same time because it believes you've already got it via the cigarette! So now you need to smoke even more because you just lowered your serotonin and raised your anxiety... it's like being on a hamster wheel and you can't get off. It's self-defeating and self-sustaining and you're filling the government's coffers and the cigarette company's bank accounts whilst your money is being burned away and you feel helpless.
In other articles I've explained the role of the subconscious mind in keeping your habits safe and secure - and that means your smoking habit too. The subconscious mind is only trying to protect you from forgetting something. It has no logic; only patterns.
Well, this particular pattern is supported also by the intake of nicotine which I'm sure you're aware of, but what exactly is its role? I'll do my best to explain:
Firstly you need to know a little about the chemistry of your body in relation to your emotions. When you're stressed and anxious you get high on adrenalin and to continue that stress for some length of time you produce cortisol too which helps sustain the stressed state. This means if you are constantly agitated, worried or anxious, you'll be producing chemicals that make your brain a bit fuzzy and less able to think and act logically, your health will suffer too because your body isn't good at handling long periods of anxiety. If you carry on long enough you'll sink into depression. This is a state where your body can no longer sustain the adrenalin and cortisol rush and you feel like want to stay under the duvet all day doing nothing and seeing no-one.
Next you need to know that when you're content, and especially when you're happy, you produce a chemical called Serotonin. If you spent much of your life in a pretty contented state without too many prolonged periods of stress and anxiety, you would likely be very healthy and long lived because Serotonin is absorbed into our nervous system, helping us to able to easily cope with our problems; it supports the immune system, keeping us physically healthy and it's altogether an essential for our normal daily functioning. You can't be in a state of anxiety at the same time as a state of contentment so you can't be in high adrenalin production and high serotonin production at the same time.
Now, here's the interesting bit. When you puff on a cigarette - 10 times per smoke accounts for 200 puffs a day in a 20-a-day smoker - the nicotine produces a chemical that acts like serotonin in that you get a feeling of "ah, that's better". You know that feeling if you're a smoker. It's as if that first puff cleared away some of your stress. And it did. For about 6 seconds. The false serotonin only lasts 6 seconds and that's why you need another puff to feel better again. Not only that, but each puff you take causes your physical body to go into a state of anxiety whilst it's trying to get rid of the poison you just ingested, so that raises your anxiety levels and there's another reason why you want another puff.
So: you puff; you feel better but only for 6 seconds so you want another puff; your body is poisoned and stressed which also causes you to keep puffing. Mad isn't it. What chance have you got to stop smoking now?
And there's another problem. When your mind registers that false Serotonin, it won't produce the real Serotonin at the same time because it believes you've already got it via the cigarette! So now you need to smoke even more because you just lowered your serotonin and raised your anxiety... it's like being on a hamster wheel and you can't get off. It's self-defeating and self-sustaining and you're filling the government's coffers and the cigarette company's bank accounts whilst your money is being burned away and you feel helpless.
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