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| Written by Tim Thornton |
| Monday, 27 June 2011 00:00 |
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Tobacco and cigarettes is still mega big business and in a smaller way so is the business of getting people to quit smoking and as a Hypnotist offering Hypnotherapy I’m apart of that business and glad to be too. Here’s a sobering fact; today, more people die every year in the US from smoking related illness than all the US armed forces personnel & civilians that died during the whole of the WW2 conflict. It’s useful to know this, because it makes the statistics digestible. So even if we weren’t even born during WW2, we can intellectually and emotionally understand the magnitude of death and illness occurring in one of the worlds most advanced countries, who indecently are number five in the world biggest tobacco producers.
‘They’, who ever ‘they’ are, tell us that tobacco, cigarettes and nicotine are addictive. That’s a fact! I hear some of you say. Well I don’t agree and here’s why. In our modern day language words and their meanings have become blurred and distorted from their original meanings. For example lets take the word habit, in modern day parlance ‘the junkie has his/her habit’ or ‘the alcoholic has a bad habit’. If the junkie or the alcoholic don’t get their substance they will have a physical, mental and probably emotional crisis, in short they will malfunction. Heroin withdrawal symptoms have been famously dramatized in many films and television series, making them familiar to many people. While not usually life-threatening, withdrawal from heroin and other opiates can be painful and unpleasant, which makes it challenging for people to shake their drug dependencies. Symptoms of heroin withdrawal can set in as quickly as a few hours after the last dose of the drug, and they usually peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last dose. Within a week, withdrawals should have subsided, although the patient may experience some residual weakness and pain. Common heroin withdrawal symptoms include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chills, a runny nose, goose bumps, sweating, tears, insomnia, aches and pains in the muscles and joints, extreme restlessness, yawning, abdominal cramps, and dilated pupils. Many patients also experience psychological symptoms including anxiety and depression, with severe cravings for the drug. They can also develop muscle spasms. But enough of heroin addiction, I was using it to demonstrate that quitting cigarettes and tobacco isn’t in the same league. I’ve successfully treated hundreds of smokers, many of them long term, hard-core smokers. None of them had withdrawal symptoms like a heroin addict, because it’s not an addiction it’s a habit. And a habit is easier to address, especially with hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Habits or patterns, positive or negative are formed or cultivated with the conscious mind, then stored in the subconscious. Hypnotherapy can be described as direct communication with the subconscious. That’s why hypnosis and hypnotherapy can be such effective tools for so many issues. And to my mind, far healthier than using other drugs or allopathic medicines. It’s also worth questioning why there might be an official opinion that smoking cigarettes is an addiction. Could it be an embedded command that we’ve all heard for so many years, that we now all believe to be an absolute truth? I’ve heard so many smokers before I’ve treated them say, “I’m just addicted to nicotine”. It’s not my intention to start a conspiracy theory, but! Just think who is to benefit from smokers believing that they are addicts and that it’s so very difficult to quit? Answer, the tobacco companies of course and governments who benefit from the millions of dollars they receive in taxes. I hope you find this blog interesting, please comments with your thoughts. Tim Thornton. if you would like to know more please take advantage of my free 15 minute phone consultation |
| Last Updated on Sunday, 31 July 2011 08:13 |
