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Should the Supreme Court side with Big Tobacco in their lawsuit against the FDA and President Obama’s Public-Health legislation signed into law this last June?

And what the heck does that have to do with quitting smoking anyway? You might ask.

The answer to the first question is…In my opinion, yes the Supreme Court should rule in favor of Big Tobacco in their claim that it is a violation of their first amendment rights to free speech. My reason for believing this will become quite evident as you read the remainder of this article.

But what the heck does that have to do with quitting smoking anyway?…wait and see. I promise you’ll be surprised.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not in favor of allowing the tobacco industry to continue killing more than 400,000 people each and every year, but I’m also not in favor of the government interfering with the first amendment rights either. That is the first, and fundamentally most important right that each of us as a citizen of the United States is entitled to.

Clearly, this is a first amendment right, at least that’s what the Supreme Court also seemed to believe when they ruled in favor of the tobacco industry in 2001 regarding billboard advertising restrictions.

However, there’s a bigger point here, something nearly everyone is missing. It’s been fairly well hidden by those who want to see the tobacco companies shut down. Again, don’t get me wrong. I’d love to see them go out of business just like many others would. The poisons they’ve willingly pumped into the lungs of people for years is unconscionable.

But that’s not the point.

In June this year (2009), President Obama signed legislation that grants the FDA the right to ban toxic substances in cigarettes as well as place restrictions on the levels of nicotine additives.

Sounds like a wonderful bit of legislation to me, but wait…nicotine was not classified as a toxic substance by this or any other piece of legislation. The FDA was only granted the right to restrict the levels of nicotine additives, not ban it. Consequently, nicotine will be around for a long time to come. And there’s a very good reason why nicotine has not been classified as a toxic chemical with FDA approval to ban it…if the FDA was given power to ban it, the entire pharmaceutical nicotine replacement industry would be put out of business as well. And we all know who’s buttering the FDA’s toast…yep the pharmaceutical industry.

But that’s not the point either.

So what is the point that everyone seems to be missing?

It isn’t the fact that nicotine wasn’t banned, as many will bemoan. The point is something the entire medical community is also missing.

Here’s the point…

By itself, nicotine is neither addictive, nor responsible for more than 400,000 deaths from smoking each year. If it were, don’t you think the thousands of people who use one of the many different nicotine replacement products on the market to help quit smoking would become addicted to those products just as much as they are to smoking cigarettes?

There is plenty of research to support my statement. Smokers are not addicted to nicotine any more than they are addicted to nicotine replacement products. Nicotine is a nasty substance for sure, but it’s only claim to infamy is that it seems to be a master key that, when accompanied by a good dose of hypnotic suggestion, unlocks the real addictive culprit inside the human brain. That substance is Dopamine. It’s the body’s natural "feel good" chemical, designed to help us do things that are good for us,like eating and drinking lots of water, or dressing warm in the winter and staying cool in the summer.

The problem is that the brain get’s tricked into believing smoking is a good thing. That’s where the tobacco industry has done a marvelous job…they’ve brainwashed the public into believing smoking was cool, smoking was pleasurable, smoking was manly or sexy, smoking calmed the nerves, and smoking helped a person think clearly. Reminds me of the Dairy industry’s claims: "Milk, it does a body good," or the beef industry’s motto "beef, it’s what’s for dinner," both are hypnotic advertisements designed to do exactly what the tobacco industry accomplished, hypnotize you to buy more milk and beef. That’s what advertising is supposed to do. The tobacco industry did a top notch job of it.

The tobacco industry’s hypnotic advertising was remarkable and magnificent. To get someone to believe a horrible experience was actually a pleasurable one, took quite a bit of hypnotizing, but they succeeded. They hired some of the best copywriters in the business to produce almost magical advertising that all by itself led people to start a habit that was absolutely a horrible experience for any first time user, yet made them somehow believe it was wonderful.

Without that hypnotic advertising, no one would have gotten hooked on smoking. Hollywood helped glamorize it, and even the U.S. government took part in it, by handing out smokes to G.I.s during WWII and the Korean War. However, be that as it may, the point is that nicotine by itself cannot cause addiction to smoking. It needs the help of a kind of very powerful hypnosis to succeed in causing the brain to release the real addictive chemical dopamine.

Even still, that’s not the point I’m getting to either.

Even if nicotine was capable of causing smoking addiction, anyone quitting for just three days would no longer be addicted. It’s a medical fact that nicotine is completely cleansed from the system after only three days of abstinence. Cravings can and do continue for months and even years afterward, if the person quitting is unaware of how to overcome the real addictive chemical…dopamine. Nicotine is not, and cannot be the addictive chemical we are told it is if it is completely gone in 3 days.  Just Click here to download my FREE 22 page Ebook –>>>"Learn How To Tame The Smoking Dragon And Quit Smoking For Life!" to learn how conquer your real addiction to smoking.

So, finally, as I promised, here is the missing point…

The FDA now has the power to ban every one of the more than 4000 toxic chemicals from cigarettes, as well as limit the amount of nicotine additives in cigarettes. By eliminating the poisons, the number of annual deaths related to smoking will begin to tumble, whether people continue to smoke or not. No poisons, no disease, no death.

Did you get the point?

If the FDA simply does it’s job, the job it is obligated to, and authorized by law to do, it makes no difference how the Supreme Court rules on this being a first amendment violation! Let the Supreme Court do it’s job in upholding the first amendment as it is their constitutional duty to do, and let the FDA do it’s job as they are now legally obligated to do. And let smokers across the globe stop dieing from the numerous poisons presently in cigarettes.

So, once again you may be wondering what the heck this has to do with quitting smoking. I’m glad you hung in there long enough to find out.

The medical industry has mistakenly believed, and accepted as fact for many years, that nicotine is the addictive agent in cigarettes. Their argument probably still centers around the fact that many people continue to have intense cravings for cigarettes for weeks and months, and even years after quitting. Mistakenly believing nicotine is the culprit.

That however, is proof positive that the addiction to smoking is not an addiction to nicotine. The cravings are for the missing "feel good chemical" that the brain dished out whenever a smoker lit up and felt that false sense of pleasure (s)he was convinced (s)he was getting from the cigarette. Nicotine is gone in 3 days!

When smokers  learn to alter their behavior by manipulating their supply of dopamine in a positive and pleasurable manner in place of their addictive smoking habit, they can quit without any cravings whatsoever. Consequently, with or without nicotine, their cravings for a smoke begin to rapidly disappear. Those who attempt to quit using nicotine replacement therapies and will power alone, are not able to produce a release of dopamine, because they don’t think the experience is pleasurable.

So here’s a kick in the pants for you, if you use a nicotine supplement to quit smoking, you’ll still face severe cravings because dopamine was released not only because of an input of nicotine, but also because of the physical act of lighting up a smoke and feeling the smoke enter your lungs.  If you want to quit without all those horrible cravings you need to learn how to get a substitute dopamine fix that’s stronger than the release you get from smoking. That’s what I’m dedicated to helping you achieve.

To shorten an already very long article and make a long story a a wee bit shorter, let me just say in closing…I say hurray for the Supreme Court if they rule in the tobacco industry’s favor. Because, that way, our rights under the constitution continue serving us all. The FDA already has the power to remove every single cancer causing chemical from cigarettes by law. All they have to do, is do their job and suddenly the first amendment free speech lawsuit is immaterial.

People have made the wrong argument against cigarettes for far too long. Stop worrying about the addictive nature of cigarettes and start worrying more about banning the chemicals in them that kill. If smokers want to continue smoking nicotine, great! Let them. Just make sure it’s packaged without the poisons and they can smoke to their hearts content!

In the meantime, if you’ve made up your mind to quit smoking, and if you’re struggling to quit, and want to find an easier way to do it, without drugs, pills, shots, sprays, lozenges or gum, and without stress or fear of weight gain, or the many dangerous and possibly deadly side effects of Chantix or similar drugs, then I highly recommend you give hypnosis a try!