Stop Smoking Today! Blog

Your Efforts will Rewarded!

There are three major components for the “urge” to smoke.  Address these urges and the behavior (of smoking) drops away.

Urge Number 1:  Habit

Urge Number 2:  Emotional “Self Calming”

Urge Number 3:  Addiction

Of these urgings, number 3 or addiction to tobacco is the easiest because in a few days that is greatly reduced.  What a lot of people interpret as ‘addiction’ to tobacco is in fact more connected with urge number 2, the need to use tobacco to ‘not feel’ upset or ‘not feel’ emotional tension.

Acupuncture, Acupressure, EFT, Hypnosis, Biofeedback and Physical Exercise will all address the physical addictive response by balancing the body’s electrical field. Usually these modalities work better than the nicotine patch, as many people get more nervous or fired up with that extra nicotine entering the system.

The hardest part for most is this urge number 2, i.e. emotional “self calming”.  Smoker after smoker has described the process to me that leads to taking the next cigarette as a need to relieve a certain kind of internal pressure. 

At first this may seem to be problematic!  Stopping smoking will inherently, for most, increase the internal pressure and then they look for ways to relieve it or not feel it.

Acupuncture, Acupressure, EFT, Hypnosis, Biofeedback and Physical Exercise will all address the increase in internal pressure by balancing the body’s electrical field.

Urge number 1: habit or habits.  That is, what we do automatically, i.e. with very little attention or conscious intention.  This is fairly easy to change or reprogram as we can create new habits in a fairly short period of time… some habits can be built in a day and almost anything can become habitual in 21 days, though some say that some habits may take 40 days of continuous practice.  

We can use a habit to actually reinforce a change.  For example, the unconscious reaching into our pocket or pocket book for a pack of cigarettes can… when upon awareness that the cigarettes are no longer there, we can consciously tap some acupuncture points to help balance our electrical systems.  This will help us feel better and improve our self esteem.

In conclusion, the road to breathing easy and be smoke free can be quite easy when we learn the basic skills of modifying urges and then take control of our lives to feel better.

There are a number of practitioners that will assist you in becoming smoke free!  E-mail me or post and I will help you find assistance in your area.  Somethings can even be done long distance by phone and e-mail.  I have clients all over the U.S.A.

Heartfully,   Karl