3 Things You Need to Know About Nicotine Addiction

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Before you quit smoking, there are three things you should know about nicotine.

Number 1:  Law of Addiction

The Law of Addiction is that “the administration of a drug to an addict will cause re-establishment of chemical dependence upon the addictive substance at the old level of use or greater.”

Yes, with just one puff after quitting (and within ten seconds), up to half of your brain’s dopamine pathway receptors will become occupied by nicotine.  We’re not talking about one cigarette.  One PUFF will undo all your great quit-smoking efforts.

While you might walk away from this relapse thinking you have gotten away with smoking just once, your brain will soon be wanting more.  Just one puff and you’ll again face up to three additional days of nicotine detox.  

So you must decide.  Is that one puff worth delaying the health benefits and energy you’ve achieved?

There is one rule that if followed provides a 100% guarantee of success to all … avoid nicotine for just one hour, one challenge, and one day a time, once you have quit smoking.

Number 2:  The Reality of Nicotine Dependency

It is important to be honest with yourself.  Nicotine dependency is every bit as real and permanent as alcoholism.   It enslaves the same brain dopamine pathways as illegal drugs and is harder to beat than heroin.  It’s why roughly half of adult smokers smoke themselves to death.

Treating a true addiction as though it were some nasty little habit is a recipe for relapse. There’s no such thing as just one puff.  Nicotine dependency recovery truly is an all or nothing proposition.

Number 3:  Treat Your Addiction as a Disease

Nicotine dependency is a disease and “wanting” disorder in which hijacked dopamine pathways leave the smoker convinced that smoking the next cigarette is as important as eating food, and that quitting would be akin to starvation.

Nicotine stimulates and then de-sensitizes brain dopamine pathway receptors, which in turn cause the brain to grow millions of extra receptors, a process known as upregulation.

One cigarette per day, then two, then three.  The longer we smoke, the more receptors that become de-sensitized, and the more nicotine we need to smoke in order to achieve the same effect.

While we can fully arrest our disease, and live a healthy and energetic lifestyle for the rest of our lives, there is no known cure; only abstinence.

That is why I’m sharing with you the 7-day, all-natural way to quit smoking that worked for me several years ago.  It’s only $29.95, and it really works.  You can order it from my website.

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