A QS expert named Robert Mellor has recently completed his study on cigarette addiction and has written a tell – all report called “Quit Smoking Today”.

According to Robert his controversial report is scientifically proven and recommended by top doctors to banish the habit of smoking and be done with it FOREVER.

His report includes the secrets to dealing with cravings, relaxation tips, and follow through to make sure you never smoke again.

Robert has been helping smokers stop for over 10 years.

Do any of these symptoms sound familiar to you?

• Morning fatigue accompanied by a need to have a cigarette just to get started?
• Feeling dragged down with low energy?
• Jittery?
• Lungs feeling heavy?
• Shortness of breath after walking or climbing stairs?
• Smoke smell that clings to your clothes and hair?

If you want to stop smoking, there is one important thing you need to know-

You are not alone.

Statistics show that of the millions of people who smoke, stopping the habit

creates better health immediately.

Here are a few sneak peeks at what’s inside Robert’s report-

• No drugs or pills to put your health further at risk.
• No nicotine replacement – (it costs more and the success rate is  only minimally higher).
• No books to read.
• No aversion therapy.

Be sure to check out Robert’s report and give yourself the best chance at quitting cigarettes or other nicotine products, and come back here to post your comments about it.

I always enjoy hearing your feedback.

Best of luck to you,

Kyle

One of the world’s most respected thinkers, researchers, and health practitioners, Dr Roger Walsh, is quoted as saying ” Nicotine is about the most addictive substance we’ve found.”

What does he know? Here are is credentials-

Roger Walsh is professor of psychiatry, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as adjunct professor of religious studies at the University of California at Irvine. Roger’s books include Staying Alive: The Psychology of Human Survival (one of New Option’s “Outstanding Books of the Year.”), Paths Beyond Ego (one of Common Boundary’s “Most Influential Books”), Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (“Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award”), and Essential Spirituality: The Seven Central Practices with a foreword by The Dalai Lama.

The way to stop using nicotine is to just stop. Easy to say. Takes support and understanding to actually do it.

Support is 100% why this website is here.

All the ways to stop are on this site. You can read the articles over and over. Refer back to this site as often as needed. The answers are here.

The bottom line is still to simply stop using nicotine no matter what stick gets thrown in your spokes. Find a way to cope and just do it.

But if you need supportive gizmo’s,  vapor smoke, wrist rubber bands, gum, hypnosis… use them all. Still, it’s about just quitting. In the end, there is no other way. You have to face that moment when you ‘keep walking.’

Hat’s off for staying with the effort. I believe I know what you are going through and of course, I am cheering for you to stop your nicotine addiction.

Big tobacco is concerned.

Bridge to your clear future ??

First of all- You don’t stop nicotine all at once.

Even if you go cold turkey– there are a number of processes that take place in your

• body,
• mind,
• social life and
• daily activities

Starting  the moment you make the decision.

People are wondering if the  eCigarette is such a great tool.

Can it help you ‘bridge’ your way to the next level?

My support and endorsement

As I have stated many times on this site- I support any tool or method that helps you stop smoking–

But Not So Fast Quick Draw

The use of a method like Green Smoke can be a lifesaver for you, but you don’t want to

buy the thing and turn it into another weird habit ( for crying out loud.)

Just understand the power  in these things and yada, yada, yada– I know you’ve heard it all.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.  I’ve seen news stories about teenagers getting these and using them for ‘fun’.

Not smart. Kids just don’t get it. Well, tsk tsk- neither did I. ( after all,) that’s why we started smoking, right?

I have always been straight with you about using things to bridge the gap.

This is the little secret people are saying works. If you find something that

helps save your life, WAKE UP! Go for it.

• One- what you think,
• Two- your physical reactions and
• Three- your feelings.

And number FOUR- Your Actions. You control what you actually do. What you act on. You can do a thing or
you can literally stop yourself from doing it as in:

• take the donuts out of the cabinet and drop them in the dumpster ,
• walk out of the bar,
• stop yelling,
• turn the TV off,
• slow the car down,
• put the clothes back and walk out of the store,
• cut your credit card up,
• abruptly stop arguing with yourself and walk two miles,
• pour the cola down the drain and drink a glass of water.

Ironically, action greatly influences the other three–

• thinking,
• feelings
• and physical reaction.

That is exactly and I mean exactly how to stop smoking.

Trust this. There is no greater secret.

Part Two

Now for some behind the scenes information.

This blog post is all you will ever need to quit smoking.

• It is the one biggest secret.
• It is worth a million dollars, if you can put a dollar amount on it.

But, up to this point, it is not long enough and involved and detailed enough to make most people happy.

That includes Google. The site ranking crawlers like to see a 250 word post. That way they can perceive it as substantial.

As serious and grown up, whatever that means. That is silly. But those are the guidelines most bloggers play by. So let me flesh this out a little  even though the answer to quitting smoking nicotine is contained in the first part.

Extensive research has been done on this subject. The finding? It all boils down to your actions.

No matter how you feel, or think. No matter what influences bombard you, everything comes down to your actions.

After action the amazing thing is that

• your feelings will follow.
• Your thinking will change.
• All because of action.

Have you ever wanted to stay up late knowing you had an early appointment. You knew you should go to bed and get the rest needed to arrive fresh and on time for your appointment. And you have , no doubt, learned the consequences many times. That’s why your better judgment tells you to get some rest. In a case like that there are times when you accidently fall asleep and are so thankful you did.

Other times you get involved in a late night TV show, movie, or book and stay up half the night knowing you will be worthless the next day. So what’s going on? Oh, some psychology and a little stubborn streak maybe but, guess what? It doesn’t matter . All that matters is your action. Go to sleep. Get in bed and rest.

This is often too simple to be taken seriously. Before I was able to stop smoking I spent years playing with the idea. Feeling, thinking, pondering, reading books on the subject and such. That has the potential to ruin your life.

On the day I stopped smoking I still had

• the questions,
• the anxiety,
• the dread
• and the hopeless feeling.

The difference that day? Action. Trust it and you can stop smoking right this minute. I promise this is the big secret.

It is worth a million dollars. It can save your life. And you learned free right here. Don’t discount it just because it is free.

The secret to quitting nicotine? Action.

That’s what we have to deal with. Get clear on this.

It does hurt and you do want a cigarette. But that is not the problem anymore.

You have decided not to smoke. Period. So you now have a new problem to manage.

The pain and the attraction toward smoking. That’ s what you have to deal with and there are some excellent ways to do it. Think of it like this. You are about to fall from a high roof and you wince at the thought of possibly breaking a leg. A broken leg hurts. But once it’ s broken, whether or not it will break is of no concern. It’ s broken.

Now you have to manage the fact that it is broken. The pain, the care and how you are going to get around, become the things to manage.

Same with smoking. Once you have decided to quit on a specific day, that’ s it. The decision is made. You are now going to deal with the new challenges that come with that decision. Anxiety, pain, emotions, cravings , the whole list that appears. You must become aware of these challenges and deal with them all, and remember you are not allowed to deal with them by smoking. That must be absolutely settled and I mean absolutely. That door is welded shut and bricked over.

Decades ago the Japanese beetle was a threat to American trees and crops. There was a flurry of high level agricultural meetings on how to stop this threat. Finally, the decision was made. There’s no way to stop the influx of beetles. So, the new, more realistic problem became how to cope with it successfully. That’ s what you are doing. You are now coping with the aftermath of being smoke free. This is something you will do for the rest of your life and it becomes second nature. Actually it becomes first nature—to play with words here. It is reflexive or, first nature, NOT to smoke and second or third nature to smoke.

When a quit smoking facilitator told me to suck on hard candy to calm the urge to smoke I wanted to slap her across the room. What an idiot to think that a piece of candy could do that. It cannot. But it can make a slight dent in the oral fixation . I eventually realized it does help some. Every slight blip on the radar helps, so use them all. The goal is to stop smoking. Not to be a little angel in every aspect of your life.

You are actually saving a life here! Don’t lose sight of that in a moment of slight discomfort or even great discomfort. You are saving your own life! Look into local massage services to help relieve tensions.

• Meditate,
• use a straw or gum,
• take two to ten walks a day,
• drink water,
• have coffee,
• go to a movie.

Do any of these things that are not triggers to smoke. Recognize that you are out of your comfort zone and give yourself a break.

It hurts to stop smoking nicotine.

Something is trying to tell you there’ s an imbalance so, ultimately that’s a great thing. Something is not in its usual balance. It’s why spoiled food smells awful as a warning not to eat it.

In this case, feeling off kilter means your systems are working just fine. Keep moving ahead. Recognize that you do want to smoke. But, you have made the quality decision to be free and that will take paying this price. Very small in comparison. You are saving a life with this bit of confusion. One more bit of mind trickery: What if you get hit by a bus tomorrow and this was all for nothing? That won’ t happen but if it did you would have lived your last day with a higher quality of life. Congratulations. You can stop smoking nicotine.

Here is more information about quitting smoking from Healthline.com

The mind is in a flow state and you are influenced by the incoming stimuli.
I have heard hypnosis compared to being in the groove, a steady flow .
Yes, the process works. You already do it daily when drifting off to sleep, waking up, in some flow states of working , listening to music and eating.

To do those things with a directed purpose is hypnosis.
Our culture supports smoking in a hypnotic way. It is an everyday thing. We walk past people who are on a smoke break. We see cigarettes for sale in stores, we are used to the sights and smells of smoking. The everyday moments accumulate into a hypnotic drone of normalcy.
But it is dysfunctional to abuse yourself by administering a poison to your system day in and day out. There are parts of our culture that are so messed up that even this post is mocked and even considered ‘church lady’ .

The only way you could force yourself to do something so self abusive would be through a hypnotic influence.
The daily seepage of information into your conscious and subconscious is certainly not clinical hypnosis but the process is similar— expand or contract a persons boundaries until they change either for better or worse.

Use self hypnosis to influence your behavior in a positive way.
There is plenty of good information on self hypnosis in bookstores and on the web. You could benefit from it to stop smoking nicotine and to come to terms with other areas of your life.

I don’t expect a simple admonition to frustrate you into quitting. It helps to underline the rationale—
Wake up from the smoking trance. This culture has tricked you into hurting yourself. Snap out of it.Quitsmart — Everything You Need to Break Free from Cigarettes

You live a busy and active life. If you want to stop smoking  there are plenty of products on the market to help.

• Nicotine gum,
• patches,
• hypnosis and
• support groups.
• There are just three ways to quit-

• 1- Cold turkey. That means just stop all of a sudden and deal with whatever happens but don’t smoke.
• 2-  Hypnosis and behavior changing practices including group therapy.
• 3-  Nicotine gum or patches to wean yourself from the strong drug while modifying your daily pattern of smoking.

It might be hard to imagine going through a day without smoking.  Hey, I’ll admit going for more than a few hours without it was a major challenge for me, too.

When you go looking for a trust-able solution , instead, you find confusion. That made me feel uneasy.  If you are like I was, you don’t know who to listen to, who to trust. Seems everybody has some genius way to stop smoking and derail the nicotine train.

How Do You Know Which Method Works Best? Patch, Gum, Hypnosis, or all of them?

There is a  smart doctor I want to tell you about. He has uncovered the secrets behind smoking cessation. This guy has been helping people for decades just as he helped me almost 20 years ago. So why have you never heard of him? Why isn’t he on TV and radio and in magazines and newspapers?

He is!  There is plenty of information on him and his methods but as successful as his program is, many people still have never heard about it.

As you will soon learn, you do not have to pay a lot to stop smoking nicotine. ( More on that later as I have a strong opinion on paying whatever price is necessary to quit smoking.)

The big marketing corporations especially have ideas about on-going products they can sell you. These products are packaged in smart looking wrappings with logos that help you feel grown up about deciding to buy it. But the question remains, what works?

Bye Bye, Confusion…

Think for a moment. The last thing you need is confusion. When you stop smoking nicotine you are vulnerable. You are reaching out for something real that will work. You need honesty. As a matter of fact, with this one, you should demand the best and not settle for some marketing ploy that is just one more play for your money.

I have used the QuitSmart program to stop smoking and I did it exactly as it was laid out.

Like you, I started out with questions. I had tried to quit many times before and was skeptical with ‘ just another attempt ‘.

But I had to take some action so I used what self esteem I had left to try QuitSmart and prayed it would work.

One of the first things I learned about QuitSmart was that it is designed to help me understand that I will do the work. There is not a product out there that can miraculously make you stop smoking. You must understand the ins and outs of the habit, the addiction, the daily routine and personal feelings about it.

This program is actually Smart. Click Here For No Obligation Information About QuitSmart

QuitSmart helps you to become aware of your smoking triggers. It guides you through relaxation and helps you reason your way out of weak moments. I was delighted with that little trick.

I have learned that The Quit Smart Program now includes a new way to use nicotine patches. When used this special way your chances of success are increased up to four times.

There are multiple aspects to this dynamic program that cover all the areas of your smoking behavior.

Why It Works.

Believe it or not, the smoking habit is more than physical. Unlike many quit smoking programs, QuitSmart is much more than just a physical pacifier. It covers all the bases in a way that is easy to understand. But, you do not have to go deep and unravel your psychology. Dr. Robert Shipley, the inventor of QuitSmart, has already done that and here’s how:

Dr. Shipley’s understanding of smoking behavior is internationally renowned. He has designed this entire program to address the subconscious stimuli as well as the physical components that drive the deeply entrenched smoking habit.
Did you know that QuitSmart is headquartered at the home of one of the worlds most highly acclaimed medical institutions, Duke University Medical Center?
Robert H. Shipley, Ph.D., has directed the Duke Medical Center Stop Smoking Clinic since its inception in 1977, and is the president of Quit Smart Stop Smoking Resources, Inc.

Dr. Shipley has helped thousands of smokers break free from cigarettes and trained thousands of health professionals to use the Quit Smart System to help smokers quit.
Dr. Shipley has written numerous books and book chapters on the topic of breaking nicotine addiction, along with more than 70 scientific articles in publications including: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Preventive Medicine, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and Federal Practitioner.

Smart is Better…

When you stop smoking nicotine you will need targeted support. The QuitSmart program has decades of proven momentum already built in so you can be assured that you are on the right track.

It is good to know that you are following the best instructions on stopping smoking in the world. You will need that kind of super support especially if you get confused and vulnerable.

I Have To Admit, I Was Not Happy

I was surprised to find that QuitSmart is not a ** poof** miracle cure. We are bombarded with instant cure promises every day and, frankly, I was hoping (somewhere in the back of my mind) that this would be an overnight miracle.
I was not happy to slowly come to the realization that there is no such thing. Dang!

But, ultimately, it is best this way. With QuitSmart, I had to grow up and get real. It taught me that the only way for me to stop smoking nicotine and break that habit once and for all was to stop playing around with it.  I will be forever grateful for that important lesson.

This Program Guided Me to My Strongest Self.

I remember my wake up during the process. You will remember yours, too. That moment when you gather the resolve and personal strength to walk forward into the future without looking back. QuitSmart gave me that. But I earned it. You will, too.

Not everyone makes it.

The national success percentages vary with any quit smoking program. It is my belief that QuitSmart gives you the best opportunity you will ever have to stop smoking. Quit Smart even has a money back guarantee!

It might seem a little dramatic, but we are talking about life here. Future generations will be grateful you took the steps to stop smoking nicotine. Your loved ones and friends will thank you in a thousand unspoken ways.

Sometimes the appreciation will come by way of what does NOT happen. There are young people who will NOT be influenced to smoke, because they NEVER saw you do it. There will be people in your future who won’t even know you were once an almost hopelessly addicted smoker.

I Know How ‘Up With People’  This All Sounds,  But it Really Works.

Most of all, you will finally open yourself to all the potential available in your life. (Don’t forget about the money you will save!)
You are not alone. I know that, when you stop smoking nicotine, you will be able to become the whole person you truly are.

It can actually give you a surge of energy to plan to quit, psych yourself up, then take that bold step. “Hey, look at me, I did it?”
But, now come the days or months when the initial boost of committment is waning and you begin to feel a sense of lethargy toward the whole idea of quitting.

First of all, that’s what this blog is all about! It is here to bridge that very gap.
Second, this time is probably the most important of all during the process. Why? Because it’s when the process gets momentum. This is where you get to put your best foot forward and keep the faith even though you may not feel it.

Funny thing, it won’t feel like your best, it will just feel kind of room temperature or even down. Expect to be confused. What can you depend on when you’re confused? Keep reading…

This is when you get to relax and settle in to the routine of being your most natural self without cigarettes.
Those first few days or weeks of telling others you’re quitting, going through a few rituals, maybe buying something new as a help or encouragment, are now behind you.

It is likely you will start to feel some strong pulls back toward your old smoking , nicotine addicted self.
So the big send off is over… now you’re on the train in unfamiliar territory around unfamiliar people. All you want is to get your bearrings and to do that, you are tempted to smoke. That would get you feeling ‘back to normal.’

Let me remind you that your normal self is the one who does not smoke.  This will always be an absolute fact. There are very few absolutes in life. This is one. It is completely abnormal to smoke.

Do not buy in to the idea that you will get back to a safe comfort zone if you could just have one or two cigarettes.
This is your journey back to normal and the feelings you are having are perfect. It will be this way for a while.
If there was not a price, it would be worthless. Stay with it.

Even when you do not have advance notice on stressors you can know the answer when the smoking question comes up. It goes like this. ”  hey there’ s a store up here on the right and I’ ve got time. I could stop and get a pack of cigarettes and smoke just one or two to remember what it’s like. I know I won’ t like it and so I’ll prove to myself that I don’ t really want it.” That’ s dirty wrestling.
So what’ s your counter attack? Here’s a suggestion. ” Yes, there is a store up here on the right and I’ve got time and one cigarette would be just amazing right now. I can already feel the relaxation going through my body as I take that first couple of drags.
But I have decided that the rest of my life is too important to waste on a few fleeting moments of chemical addiction.
Those smoking moments will be gone so quickly then I will be burdened with having to re-commit making it harder the next time I have this little scuffle with myself. So what I am going to do is drive past this store and grieve the loss of that habit. Yes, grieve it because it hurts to let it go.
I know that this moment is the only moment I have to work with and my choice is to honor it with my freedom from smoking. I know it will get easier as I build strength in these decisions and the only way that strength will accumulate is through making it real over and over.
This moment is the one I choose to make it real. It hurts. I am making this decision anyway because it is definitely worth the hurt. There is a lot at stake here. As I do this I know it will hurt less and less over time. This is the best decision.”

That was an example of wrestling with the present moment.

Alone-ness
You are alone in this. What I write here can be a support to you but in the end, you are looking out into a vast empty stark, cold landscape and you are facing it with a resolve that you will be alone and do it anyway. This is what writers call the winter of your life .
Even if you are doing this process from a beach house in the summer, it is winter deep down in you and it must be. You might ask.”  Why so gloomy? Does this have to be so dark and awful?”  Here’ s the answer. It can be much easier if you go ahead and recognize that this gulf you feel is real and must be worked through. Grief is extraordinarily strong. It can reach down into parts of your psyche you didn’ t know you had. It can pull up feelings that will scare you and leave you wondering if you are crazy. That’ s all a part of this. Remember, most people who try to do this do not make it. This is your chance to actually make it.
The ego is a major trickster and will stop at nothing to trip you up. Just take a breath and keep going. Take another breath. The act of breathing on purpose seems so stupidly simple yet it carries with it a power the wisdom traditions still have not figured out.
Just breathe and be aware of your breath. Think of each breath as a present moment. Each one, you are free from smoking. Each one, you are taking a higher road. The part of you that knows how simple, yet profound this moment is.

Do not look for any bells and whistles. Nothing big will happen. If you are determined to have some big major breakthrough, forget it.
Just go back to simple breathing. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Count four breaths in and four out–equal pace. Nothing dramatic.
Ask yourself why you want some big dramatic breakthrough. A release that will suddenly free you from addiction and numb you to the confused feelings. Some other worldly experience to write home about it?
Let me suggest that’ s the ego wanting to engage you in a give and take. Like a hostage negotiator, it will try to engage you in a back and forth debate. Don’ t fall in the trap.

Just breathe and keep moving forward one simple moment at a time. Nothing glamorous, not even close.
More caution. If you find yourself doing a lot of self soothing, like taking bubble baths and enjoying chocolate as a way to baby yourself, be aware that it could be a ploy by ego to lull you into a sense of entitlement.
Just stay calm, relaxed and level headed. Any extreme could lead to your falling off the path.Quitsmart — Everything You Need to Break Free from Cigarettes I highly recommend this program.

A year or two of moments is really nice. A few days are excellent too. But twenty years is the same as twenty minutes. It is the single moment that counts. As you will see, I mean that.

How do you measure a moment? For this project, think of a moment as a second.  The time it takes to snap a photo, blink or clap your hands once. That is the moment you have to deal with. That’s what will accumulate into thousands of moments and make years and become the rest of your life. You only have to quit smoking for a moment. Then another.
Yes, this is a trick. It’ s a good one and it works. So in each moment you can choose to smoke or to be free of smoking. That becomes the wrestling match between you and ego. Every single time you win the match you are empowered tremendously.
So it’ s not about quitting smoking. That’ s a byproduct of this process. The real juice of this whole “wrestling with the moment”  thing is in the moment of choice. When you are exhausted of the fight  you will make a decision for or against smoking. That decision will greatly impact all the future moments.

Real motivation is the process of changing perspectives, the moving of boundaries. Nobody can motivate you until they help you change perspectives.
That change could be in many forms. A friend of mine was walking along the sidewalk when a car came off the road and suddenly onto the sidewalk! My friend was motivated to get out of the way. That was a real change of boundaries.
A positive motivator influences you to take limits off yourself and change your own boundaries. You can stop smoking. When you change your own self-made boundaries you can be free of smoking.
When you decide that nothing is as important as quitting smoking, it will happen. Sounds kind of extreme but if you will hold on to that idea it will help.
Without a statement that strong your boundaries might be too flexible.
Decide.
In the present moment I will always say an absolute  no to the idea or act of smoking. Make your mind up. Then, when you start to tease yourself with the un-quality choice of  just one or well, “I’ ll quit tomorrow” , you will know you have started to wrestle.
It often feels good to get a good argument going in your mind. The ego loves it because it’s the ego’ s best chance to survive. That’s really all it wants–to survive. So it knows that to establish an argument is like cracking the door open. It’s like rattling a leash for the dog. Here it comes, bounding around the corners so fast it slides on the hardwood floors.

That trusty ego just panting and wagging its tail in delight. Ego will use any foothold it can get to start something, anything to get an argument going. After you have played this game awhile you will recognize ego quickly.
It likes constant music, video games, surfing the net, problems, emotion, yelling at a football play on TV, crying, being a victim, driving fast, over eating, over drinking, and, of course, smoking and even making a case for smoking.

 Sincerely Feeling vulnerable in the present moment. This is part of what wrestling is about. It is emotionally painful to know you are doing your best and still feel empty and alone. You really want to do something that helps pick your spirits up. In the old days you would smoke. That is not healthy.
So, today you are going to do something healthy as a pick-me-up. Why are you going to do anything at all? Because you really feel empty and this wrestling is becoming serious and not fun anymore and is getting troublesome. That’ s good! That’s ego again. Yep.
Remember it will do anything to get its way. It is the most spoiled brat you can imagine. It is also the most cunning, clever, cute, lovey dovey, story telling, charming manipulator on earth. It will try and try and try.

In the middle of the night, on the way to work, when you least expect it and even when you are on guard. That’s what must happen. To get good at wrestling you have to be on guard. Not nervous, just prepared.
Mentally go through your day before it happens. You know which of your coworkers will be smoking on break. You know how to avoid that situation all together. But will you? Ah! That’ s wrestling the present moment. You know what stress situations you will be in. Traffic, meetings, kids, school, relationships. You know the triggers. Coffee, telephone, driving, after a meal, almost all predictable..Quitsmart — Everything You Need to Break Free from Cigarettes  ( See part 3 of this series )