Jun 27 2010

Smoking Cessation Aids: Why they don’t work.

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Nicotine Replacement Therapy:

Learn Why Nicotine Replacement Products And Smoking Cessation Drugs Simply Will Not Help You Quit Smoking!

 

 "…Using nicotine to cure a nicotine addiction makes as much sense as injecting cancer into a cancerous cell to cure cancer."

 

This may shock you to learn, and you may at first be tempted to disbelieve it, but the long held belief that nicotine is the culprit that keeps you hooked on smoking is absolutely and provably false.

 

Consequently, using nicotine replacement products are not only pointless, but actually counterproductive as well.

Here’s a newsflash for you that may come as no surprise once you accept the fact that nicotine is really a big bucks cash-cow for a lot of players.  

The pharmaceutical companies, big tobacco companies, and congress all have a direct vested interest in maintaining that false belief. They can’t make a profit off nicotine if you don’t buy their nicotine cash-cow.
 
Follow the money trail…It starts at the highest levels…Congress can’t rake in millions and millions of dollars every year off tobacco taxes to both you and the tobacco industry if they put an end to the sale of nicotine…and they lose millions of dollars in lobbyist contributions to keep their campaigns alive as well. Our government may give the impression that they truly care about how many people are being killed every year by tobacco usage, but in truth, they play both sides of the fence. They pass very weak punitive legislation aimed at the tobacco industry, yet absolutely no legislation actually designed to protect you or me from either the tobacco industry or the pharmaceutical industry.
 
Big tobacco companies are at the mercy of Congress, if they want to stay in business, they need to play ball. Members of congress get millions of bucks stuffed into their pockets by tobacco lobbyists every year to make sure nicotine and tobacco products are not banned. Unfortunately, congress has them by the short hairs, so they can not only raise taxes on them any time they want to, but they can levy massive fines on them too…just enough to get a windfall, but not enough to put the tobacco companies out of business.  So here’s the big kicker, both congress and pharmaceutical companies need tobacco companies to stay in business, while they may personally hate what the tobacco industry has done to millions of people, they cannot get rid of them for all the reasons I’ve just enumerated.
 
So what’s in it for big pharmaceutical companies? Glad you asked, they have the FDA by the short hairs because congress cannot and will not ban nicotine because government tax revenues would nose dive. In fact, they’d lose billions of dollars in tax revenue if they were to ever be stupid enough to ban nicotine. That means, pharmaceutical companies almost have free reign to develop anything nicotine related to shove down our throats with the full cooperation of the FDA.
 
Furthermore, Obama’s legislation last year may have given the FDA the power to regulate a lot of things the tobacco companies can do, but the one thing it was not given the power to do was…you guessed it…ban nicotine! So big pharmeutical companies have spotted an infinitely profitable niche…one useless nicotine replacement product after another.
 
Let’s set the nicotine cash conspiracy aside for now and focus on the point of this article…namely, helping you understand exactly why using nicotine replacement smoking cessation aids are useless.

As anyone who has ever actually attempted to stop smoking using either a designer quit smoking drug or a nicotine replacement product can tell you, cravings to light up again do not diminish while using any of these products. If anything, they get worse as time passes.

Lest anyone should miss the point of why quitting smoking is so difficult: It is not the withdrawal symptoms, like headaches, nausea, dizziness or irritablility, to name a few, that makes it hard to kick the habit. It is the continued intense cravings to actually light up and inhale a cigarette that makes it so difficult to quit.

The physical act of smoking is far more addictive than your need to replenish the nicotine supply in your bloodstream ever was. It is a psychological addiction, not a nicotine addiction that stands between you being a smoker or a successful permanent non smoker. Many quit smoking programs recognize this and offer tips on how to overcome the momentary intense desires to light up that continue to overwhelm you over time. Many of the tips being offered are actually very helpful for those who learn the only real method to permanently quit smoking.

However, using nicotine to cure a nicotine addiction makes as much sense as injecting cancer into a cancerous cell to cure cancer. And injecting smaller and smaller dosages over time does not improve the chances of curing the cancer. It just adds to the problem. Likewise, using drugs or nicotine replacement products to quit smoking simply prolongs the process and makes it far more likely that you will fail.

Here’s the plain and simple statistical facts regarding quitting. On average, only 5 out of every 100 people who attempt to quit smoking succeed. Of that 5% who do succeed, more than 90% of all those who successfully quit for more than 12 months do so by quitting cold turkey. Conversely, 95% of those who attempt to quit using drugs or nicotine replacement products fail and begin smoking again within 6 to 12 months.

Why?

Because they still have a psychologically induced physical craving to light up and smoke a cigarette not because they crave nicotine. No matter how drug companies package or hype their products, those products have a verifiably miserable track record for helping people permanently quit. Those who do succeed by using those products do so as a direct result of the intense counselling or behavioral modification programs that you must use along with the drug or nicotine product to be successful. In short, I submit to you that it is the psychological counselling that accounts for the success, not the chemical crutch being ingested.

Here’s another simple statistical fact, all traces of nicotine are removed from the body within 72 hours of abstinence from ingesting nicotine. That is an indisputable medical fact. Yet the craving to smoke again can, and does, remain for days, weeks, months and even years after quitting if the psychological addiction is not overcome. There is no medical or scientific basis to attribute those cravings to nicotine since it is completely gone from the system after total detoxification. The cravings to smoke again are exactly the same as the cravings to drink again after alcohol detox, psychological addiction, not chemical dependency.

Why do so many people turn to drugs or nicotine replacement products then? And why do so many experts in the medical field continue to recommend those products if they are mostly either highly ineffective or extremely dangerous?

There are only two possible answers:

  1. Ignorance
  2. Greed

So here is a powerful truth, and the sooner you accept it, the sooner you can learn how to quit smoking for good: Nicotine by itself is not addictive. It is toxic and very dangerous if excessive amounts are injested, but it is not addictive. Check the warning lables on any nicotine replacement product if you doubt the potential harmful nature of nicotine. If it were truly addictive, then people who have been using nicotine patches, shots, gums, lozenges or sprays, etc., for extended periods of time would become addicted to those products themselves. That just is not the case. If you doubt it, get a non nicotine user to chew nicorette gum for a month and see how easy it is for them to quit chewing it.

The only way that using any nicotine product could become addictive is if the person was convinced through hypnosis that using the product was enjoyable. However, I dare say, most people who use nicotine replacement products do not find them enjoyable or particularly satisfying, even when they are attempting to quit smoking by using them. And therein, lies the secret that has been hidden from people addicted to smoking.

Non smokers do not become addicted to nicotine products because their brains do not release the true addictive chemical in response to their use of nicotine aids as it does when a smoker lights up a cigarette. Addicted smokers, believe they experience pleasure from smoking. It is that belief associated with the idea that nicotine delivers pleasure that causes the brain to release the actual addictive chemical called dopamine that is completely responsible for smoking addiction. They believe it because they have allowed themselves to become hypnotized into believing it.

Putting hypnosis and beliefs aside for a moment, while nicotine replacement products may be less dangerous than the two most popular drugs Zyban and Chantix, make no mistake, they are not without side effects of their own, especially for pregnant women, and they are indeed very toxic to the body. However, the most dangerous smoking cessation products on the market, in my opinion are Zyban and Chantix. The primary problem with these drugs, as is the case with any drug specifcally classified as an antidepressant, is that they increase the chances of serious mental disorders, including suicidal thoughts.

How the FDA came to the conclusion that they are safe for human consumption is beyond me. They are anything but safe. Furthermore, they do not eliminate the desire to smoke anymore than any nicotine replacement product does, and therefore have a 95% probablilty that you’ll risk your health and life using them only to start smoking again within 12 months.

The use of nicotine products and designer drugs are both counterproductive and dangerous. Unfortunately, modern society has become hypnotized into believing that big pharmaceutical companies have our best interest at heart. Ask an ever increasing elderly population being pumped with one poisonous drug after another how beneficial drug companies are to their wallets. What motivates the big pharmaceutical companies is profit, not curing disease. We’ve fallen victim to the belief that drugs actually cure disease, allowing unscrupulous big business drug companies to foist one poison after another upon us. In the case of quitting smoking, there’s definitely a healthier and far more pleasant and satisfying method available than drugs or nicotine aids.

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.

  quit smoking with hypnosis

 If, on the other hand, you are convinced you can’t quit smoking without a nicotine crutch because you either believe you can’t quit, or you don’t want to quit but just want to save money while continuing to smoke, then click here >>Safer Smokeless Cigarette Alternative << and learn how to cut your smoking bill in half.

Either way, you have my profoundest wishes for a long and healthy life without dieing from smoking.