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Are You Addicted To Smoking? Or To Nicotine?

JonesCarpeDiem
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You aren't addicted to smoking, you are addicted to nicotine.

Get that through your head.

You are an addict.

within seconds of smoking a cigarette the nicotine reaches your brain through your bloodstream.

There are special little stand up guys called receptors. They are sensitized to nicotine.

Once they are rattled, they send a signal for your brain to release dopamine.

This is your body's own natural heroin.

why wouldn't you want to smoke?

The thing is if you could sit around and push your dopamine button you would.

Our natural instinctual desire is to feel good, not bad.

But as you need  that feeling every 30 minutes or so,

it has become an addiction which your waking life is a slave to.

Slavery pure and simple.

Thats why you want to smoke

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.