The Real Truth About How To Quit Smoking For Good – ‘Addiction’ Vs Habit

patches and gum provide a massive dose of nicotine, one day’s supply of nicotine patches is equivalent in nicotine terms to about six packs of cigarettes a day. Now that’s standard cigarettes so that’s about 12 packs of low tar cigarettes and about 18 packs of the ultra lights.

So how come any body who has tried patches or gum and so is getting more nicotine in their blood stream than they’ve ever had before, still reverts back to smoking!?

Why on earth would you still want a cigarette?

Because it’s not nicotine addiction, if it were the patches would work.

According to some of the research that’s been done, if you try to quit smoking just by using will power about 3% – 6% of people will stop. If you quit smoking using the gum about 10% of people will stop, an improvement but not much of one. If you quit smoking using patches then about 10% – 15% of people will stop, again an improvement but not much of one.

And if you look at those figures around the other way, about 85% to 90% of people who try nicotine replacement therapy fail. Now that means it doesn’t work.

So that means the problem with cigarettes is not the nicotine, the problem with cigarettes is the habit of smoking.

Of waking up in the morning and having that first cigarette at the same time every day and then 20 or so times during the day having a cigarette at those particular times – with a cup of tea, after a meal, driving a car, when the phone rings, in stressful situations, with alcohol etc.

The act of smoking becomes linked in your mind with these daily situations and so they become a trigger to smoke. This is what a habit is.

So the key to quit smoking for good is using a method that focuses on removing the mental habit of smoking. This is the key to quitting and staying a non-smoker for the rest of your (now longer) life!

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