6. Nicotine addiction

Nicotine - a colorless, oily substance found in tobacco and causing the smoker addiction. This drug is the most addictive of all substances known to mankind: to become addicted to it, you may need only one cigarette.

Each puff of a cigarette delivers light to the brain through a small dose of nicotine that acts much faster than, for example, a dose of heroin that an addict enters into a vein. If, smoking a cigarette, you do twenty-puffs - you get twenty doses of the drug with just one cigarette.

Nicotine - fast-acting drug, and the level of its content in the blood drops to about half within 30 minutes to about one quarter of an hour after smoking a cigarette. This explains why, on average, smokers smoke twenty cigarettes a day.

Once the cigarette is smoked, nicotine begins rapid elimination from the body, and the person begins to experience withdrawal flour.

Now I have to dispel a common misconception regarding the suffering of withdrawal, common among smokers. They think that the pain associated Unlearning - a terrible injury that occurs when they are on their own or were forced to try to quit smoking.

In fact, the more the flour - mental; smoker feels deprived of pleasure or support. Later we will discuss this in more detail. In fact, the pain caused by Unlearning nicotine is so slight that most smokers live all my life and die without ever realizing that they - addicts.

When we use the term "nikotinozavisimy," we think that simply "acquired the habit." Most smokers experience the horror of the drug, being, in fact, drug addicts. Fortunately, nicotine - the drug, which is easy to give up, but first you have to recognize that they have become addicted.

Unlearning from nicotine is not accompanied by physical pain. Basically it is an alarming sense of emptiness, a sense that something is missing. Many smokers think, therefore, that it is something to do with their hands.

If this feeling persists, the smoker becomes nervous, insecure, nervous, irritable and begins to experience lack of trust in the world.

Thirst for this poison, nicotine, similar to acute hunger. Seven seconds after zakurivaniya in fresh blood to nicotine, and a passionate desire for it ends, leaving a feeling of relaxation and confidence that gives the smoker a cigarette.

In his youth, when we are just beginning to smoke, the pain of withdrawal and its relief are so weak that we do not even know they exist. Starting to smoke regularly, we explain this pleasure or that smoking is a habit.

The truth is that we are addicted to nicotine; we are not aware of this, but a little nicotine monster has settled in our belly, and we have to feed him. All smokers start smoking out of stupidity. After all, one is not forced to start smoking by force.

The only reason why people continue to smoke (whether they are avid smokers or smoked occasionally) - the desire to feed this little monster. The entire scope of the business related to smoking, is a series of puzzles.

Deep down, all smokers know that foolishly fell into a sinister trap. But the saddest thing in smoking that pleasure derived from a cigarette smoker - is primarily a pleasure caused by an attempt to return to a state of peace, order and confidence that his body has experienced before he became addicted to nicotine.

Think of a day when many hours howled broken burglar alarm or a neighbor have long plagued other loud noises. Then the noise suddenly ceases and you feel the intoxicating feeling of peace. But in fact it is not peace, but merely the end of the noise.

Before we create the shackles of nicotine dependence, our bodies are perfect. Then we drive in your body nicotine, and when the throw a cigarette, he starts to leave our body, and we experience the pain of withdrawal - not physical pain, just a feeling of emptiness.

We are not even aware of its existence, but it operates inside our body as the dripping faucet. But we do not want to understand that the mind, having this is no necessity. It is enough to know that we desperately want a cigarette, and when it lights up, passionate thrust out, and for some time we again experience the satisfaction and confidence, becoming by what they were before the addiction to smoking.

However, now it is only a temporary satisfaction, as to relieve cravings, we need to enter into the body even more nicotine.

Once you extinguish a cigarette craving arise again, and so on to infinity.

It shackles of a lifetime, IF YOU DO NOT burst them.

The entire scope of the business related to smoking, wearing tight shoes reminiscent in order to get the pleasure experienced at the moment of getting rid of them.

Here are three reasons that do not give smokers to look at things from this point of view:

1. From birth we are exposed to massive "brainwashing", constantly hearing that smokers find great pleasure and / or support in smoking. Why should not we believe it is speaking? They will not spend a fortune to expose us to such a terrible risk?

2. Since the physical weaning from nicotine is not accompanied by real pain, only a sense of emptiness and uncertainty, hardly distinguishable from ordinary stress or starvation, and because we want to smoke - we tend to regard it as a normal desire.

3. Smokers can not see smoking in its true light, because the mechanism of addiction to it extremely thin, and it is very difficult to trace. First, we consider the sense of emptiness as normal and do not associate it with just smoked a cigarette. Lighting a cigarette, you will immediately feel a surge of strength, experience the buzz, relaxing, and - a cigarette again justify your trust.

It is this delicate process makes the rejection of all drugs difficult. Imagine the panic heroin users, who ran out of heroin. Now imagine his joy when he was able to finally make a injection.

But can you imagine someone who really enjoys the drug injection, if the very thought of it fills you with horror? Addicts are not dependent on heroin, do not experience a similar feeling of panic at the thought of the absence of heroin. Thus, it does not eliminate the drug, but on the contrary - generates.

Non-smokers do not feel a sense of emptiness, or the urgent need for a cigarette, and did not start to panic when running out of cigarettes. Non-smokers can not understand how smokers can enjoy the fact that they put their disgusting things in his mouth, inflame them and tightened this filth, filling her his lungs.

Do you know what is particularly interesting? Smokers also can not understand why they do it. We have already talked about a common misconception that smoking relaxes and gives satisfaction. But only need to meet those something stripped.

Why, then non-smokers do not suffer such hardship, and why after the meal, when all happy nonsmokers, smokers can not relax until the "feed" their little nicotine monster?

This theme we have to analyze in detail.

17. All the dangers of smoking to health

That is an area in which "brainwashing" reaches its climax. Smokers think they know all about the dangers of smoking to health. In fact, they do not know anything. Even in the case with me, when I was expecting at any moment to burst my head, and sincerely believed that he was ready to such consequences, I still deceiving himself.

If in those days, when I pulled a cigarette from the pack would include alarm, and after that warning voice said to: "Okay, Allen, here it is! For your happiness, you get a warning. It is this: so far you went unscathed, but if smoked another cigarette, your head will burst, "you think I would have stopped smoking?

If you doubt the answer, walk up to the main road with heavy traffic, wait on the curb with his eyes closed and try to imagine that you have a choice: give up smoking or to cross the road with your eyes closed, before you take another cigarette.

There is no doubt that you choose. I was doing something that makes every smoker all his life the smoking: closed my eyes and bury your head in the sand, hoping that one morning I wake up and just do not want to smoke more. Smokers can not afford to think about the threat to health. If they start to think about it, it will disappear even the illusion of pleasure from this "habit."

All this helps explain why the shock therapy applied by the media in the days of national tobacco control is so ineffective. For non-smokers only come to gawk.

This explains why smokers recalls Uncle Fred, who smoked forty cigarettes a day and lived to be eighty, will ignore the thousands of people who died in the prime of their tobacco poisons.

About six times a week I have the following conversation takes place with smokers (usually young):

I: Why do you want to quit?

Smoker: That I can not afford.

Me: Are not you worried about health risks?

Smoker: No, because I can get hit by a bus tomorrow.

I: And specifically you throw yourself under a bus?

Smoker: Of course not.

I: When you go out, do not you see the first left and then right?

Smoker: Yes, I look.

Quite true. Smoker is making a lot of effort not to get hit by a bus, and the chance that it will happen, is about hundreds of thousands to one. At the same time, the risk of harm to the smoker's tobacco is almost 100%, and, even so, he does not take it into account. Such is the force of the impact, "brainwashing."

I remember a famous British golfer, who did not go to the competition in America because I was afraid to fly an airplane. However, on the golf course, he chain-smoked.

Is not it strange: at the slightest feeling that the plane has the smallest fault, we never went to his side, even if the risk was hundreds of thousands to one against death!

At the same time the risks associated with a cigarette, is one to four, and we did not care about it. But what a smoker gets in return? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Another common myth about smoking - smoker's cough.

Many young people who came to see me, do not worry about their health because they do not cough. But the situation is exactly the opposite. Cough - one of the reliable natural methods for removing foreign bodies from the lungs. By itself, a cough - not a disease, it is only a symptom.

Smokers cough because their lungs are trying to get rid of cancer-causing tar and poisonous substances. In the absence of these resins cough and harmful substances remain in the lungs - that is they cause cancer. Smokers tend not to acquire the habit of coughing and breathing shallowly so as not to provoke a cough.

Once I thought I would die from this persistent cough. Now, I think, throwing light from a large part of all this stuff, he saved my life.

Try to think of coughing from a different perspective. If you had a cool car, and you're doing nothing, would allow it to rust - it would be extremely foolish, because soon she would have turned into a pile of rusty scrap metal and is not able to carry you. But this is - not the end of the world; You had the money, and you can always buy a new car.

Your body - a machine that carries you through life. Everyone knows that health - the most valuable asset. Is it true you can tell patients millionaires. Almost all of us can recall experienced an illness or accident, when we pray to get better faster. (How quickly we all forget!)

Being a smoker, you do not just let the rust grow, not solving this problem - you destroy the car needed to go through life, and yet it is only one you.

Now, remember: you have no need to smoke and, most importantly, - smoking is absolutely nothing does not give you.

Stick out your head in the sand for a moment and ask yourself if you knew for sure that next cigarette will be the one with which your body will begin the cancer process, will you smoke it? Forget about the disease (it is hard to imagine), but try to imagine that you need to contact the oncology clinic, to go through all these terrible treatments - radiation and others.

It turns out that you do not plan how it will spend the rest of his life and his death. What will happen to your family and the people you love, to your plans and dreams?

I often see people with whom it happened. They also did not think it would happen was with them; But the worst thing is not even the disease itself, and the realization that these people are to blame for it. All my life, until we smoke, we say: "Tomorrow I'll quit."

Try to imagine how it feels to those who crossed the threshold. For them, the "brainwashing" has ended. They are finally beginning to realize that their "habit" is actually and spend rest of his life thinking, "Why am I so many years tried to convince myself that I need to smoke? Oh, if only I had the chance to go back! "

Stop lying to yourself. Do you have a chance. What is happening - a chain reaction: if you lit another cigarette, this will lead to the next, and then another one, etc. All this is happening to you. At the beginning of the book I promised not to apply to you no shock therapy.

If you have already firmly decided that you are going to quit smoking, then you shock therapy and will not be.

If you are still in doubt, skip this chapter and return to it when you read the rest of the book. The harm that cigarettes cause health of smokers, written volumes of research.

The only problem is that until man decides to stop smoking, he did not want to know. Even warning the public health system - a waste of time because the eyes of the smoker - blinker, and if it accidentally and read it, the first thing that will make - will light a cigarette.

Smokers tend to think about the threat to health as a matter of trial and error, such as not to step on a land mine. Remember once and for all, your health is at stake.