For Men and Women Who Want to Quit Smoking
For men and women who want to quit smoking.
AWARENESS: THE SLOWER WAY TO QUIT SMOKING. We live in a culture that values immediacy. We want it, and we want it now, whatever it is. So it’s no wonder we have a society in which drug problems are epidemic. Nicotine is one of those drug problems. Most of the common approaches to quitting nicotine are the quick fixes, hypnosis, nicotine replacements, and pharmaceuticals like Chantix. If they work for you then by all means use them. But if you’ve tried them all and still can’t quit for good take a look at this approach. Here I put forward a method that is based on a powerful tool that we do have available to us and it’s free: our awareness. The tradeoff with this approach is this way of quitting takes time because you are going to become aware of every part of the smoking process in your life. It’s not quick fix. I want to be clear that by taking time to quit I am not offering any sort of strategy that cuts down on nicotine incrementally or that utilizes nicotine replacements like patches or gum, nor am I suggesting any type of behavioral replacement. With this process, when you quit, you quit. But until you quit, don’t even try to quit. There is other work to do first.
NICOTINE: THINKING DIFFERENTLY. The medical profession is largely focused on conditions that are going to kill us or diminish our capacities. For tools it primarily uses medications and surgery. Medicine is a force that is at its best in an emergency sending in the incredibly well trained, disciplined, courageous, smart SWAT teams to overwhelm the opposition, be it accident trauma, cancer, heart failure or the myriad of other physical system failures we develop. However, medical practice, with its disease orientation, hasn’t been very successful with treating addictions in general. Addiction to nicotine is no exception. The medical
AWARENESS: THE SLOWER WAY TO QUIT SMOKING. We live in a culture that values immediacy. We want it, and we want it now, whatever it is. So it’s no wonder we have a society in which drug problems are epidemic. Nicotine is one of those drug problems. Most of the common approaches to quitting nicotine are the quick fixes, hypnosis, nicotine replacements, and pharmaceuticals like Chantix. If they work for you then by all means use them. But if you’ve tried them all and still can’t quit for good take a look at this approach. Here I put forward a method that is based on a powerful tool that we do have available to us and it’s free: our awareness. The tradeoff with this approach is this way of quitting takes time because you are going to become aware of every part of the smoking process in your life. It’s not quick fix. I want to be clear that by taking time to quit I am not offering any sort of strategy that cuts down on nicotine incrementally or that utilizes nicotine replacements like patches or gum, nor am I suggesting any type of behavioral replacement. With this process, when you quit, you quit. But until you quit, don’t even try to quit. There is other work to do first.
NICOTINE: THINKING DIFFERENTLY. The medical profession is largely focused on conditions that are going to kill us or diminish our capacities. For tools it primarily uses medications and surgery. Medicine is a force that is at its best in an emergency sending in the incredibly well trained, disciplined, courageous, smart SWAT teams to overwhelm the opposition, be it accident trauma, cancer, heart failure or the myriad of other physical system failures we develop. However, medical practice, with its disease orientation, hasn’t been very successful with treating addictions in general. Addiction to nicotine is no exception. The medical