Giving Up Smoking Part II (b) The Ogre Rears It’s Head.

The ogre I was ready to tussle with, whose fetid breath I expected hot on my face, was Physical Craving. I was sure we’d meet. After all I had been lacing my cells and tissues with nicotine since I was 15 years old. Logically, my body must have adapted all functions to run on a continuing supply of the stuff. The Theory of Evolution alone dictated that, deprived of what to all intents and purposes had become a life-supporting substance, my body should have rebelled. Sweats, aches, spiders crawling over my skin, tremors, maniacal laughter followed by outbursts of . . . → Read More: Giving Up Smoking Part II (b) The Ogre Rears It’s Head.

Giving Up Smoking Part II (a) – A Brief Diversion To Rail At Hypnotism

If you’re reading this right now you may have noticed the ad links that Google has selected for this page. Let me say a few things about methods or aids to help one give up smoking. First of all, as far as hypnotherapy is concerned JUST DON’T! Hypnosis is a scary thing. In some hands it can be truly dangerous. It is always counter-productive. Think this through: a person requires hypnotism usually because he or she has some personality trait or emotional characteristic that is destructive in one way or another Say, for example, a bad temper. How did . . . → Read More: Giving Up Smoking Part II (a) – A Brief Diversion To Rail At Hypnotism

Giving Up Smoking Pt.1 – A Major Non-Event

Giving up smoking is one of those things people are doing more and more often and one day I did it too. Once I’d stopped I did some research on the web to see what were considered the biggest barriers to parting company with those pleasing little white cylinders and I was informed that physical addition or dependence were the main issues. Oddly enough, I didn’t find those to be my problem at all. I was smoking an average of 50 cigarettes a day, and I had been smoking for about 40 years. According to a few unhappy doctors . . . → Read More: Giving Up Smoking Pt.1 – A Major Non-Event