Just good feelings

That's it, nothing more nothing less.
Smokers smoke because it makes them feel good. The irony being when they realise that they do not want to smoke anymore, smoking also makes them feel bad. So it makes you feel good then makes you feel bad. Most people don't like feeling bad but because the habit of smoking is established in the unconscious, stopping can become quite tricky unless a positive approach is used. Don't believe all the nonsense about nicotine addiction, this is a notion proliferated by drug companies and some ill informed medical professionals who tend to believe what they are told by drug companies. This notion has prevented many people from quitting merely because they think they are addicted. Well as a smoking cessation specialist having helped thousands of smokers to quit I can tell you that the problem has nothing to do with nicotine, It's just a habit!

Nicotine is a poison that the body does all it can to remove from the system. Your body does not 'need' nicotine. This is the reason why when you have a lung full of tobacco smoke you get a rush to the head, especially if you haven't had a 'dose' for a while. The rush to the head is caused by your brain sensing that there is an unwanted poison inside of you. To remove this, it increases your heart rate by about ten beats per second, to flush the poison out of your body. Because your heart rate has increased, you are getting more blood flowing through your brain and consequently more oxygen. It's the oxygen that gives you the head rush, in the same way that it would if you started breathing faster than you needed to for a few seconds.

So we come back to the feel good factor. You smoke because it makes you feel good. So why does it make you feel good. The reason is simple. It's because smoking is linked psycho physiologically to a time when you also felt good before. Like when you first started smoking with all your friends or when you are out socialising or after you've had sex or feeling grown up or any number of reasons. The Mechanics are the same. You think you are stressed, or upset, or tense.. brain says, "don't feel bad, have a good feeling," and offers the link, via a cigarette, to previous good feelings.

If you really want to stop smoking then one of the best things you can do is to start doing something healthy that also makes you feel good and focus upon what you want from being a non smoker. Then all you need to do is to break the habitual link. This is really easy to do if you are prepared to to approach this from a new direction. If you really want to then just click here for a neat pattern that will break up your habit. It's free and it will work... just do it!

With love ...Nigel