Michael Porteous asked:


While the debate over legalizing marijuana still rages and the pros and cons of this drug are debated endlessly those who have developed an unhealthy addiction to this drug know all too well the negative effects it can bring to ones life. From the massive amount of time that disappears from your life, the amount of money you keep shelling out to feed the addiction to the frightening lack of clarity and memory that comes from long term use, pot smokers looking to kick the habit keep looking for the answer on how to quit smoking marijuana.

Thankfully there are a few key facts about marijuana addiction that can help you quit marijuana forever. The first thing you must know is that marijuana is not a chemically addictive drug like cigarettes or cocaine which contain certain chemicals that give the user withdrawal symptoms that have physical side effects that only the drug itself seem to be able to cure. Marijuana has none of these properties which means that addiction to pot is a physiological addiction.

Psychological addiction is similar to gambling addiction or alcohol addiction in that the user seeks the high of this activity because they desperately want it for reasons to do with their state of mind not what their body craves. While a problem gambler may keep gambling for the elation of winning and the chance to gain back his losses a marijuana addict must have a core set of issues that bring tem back to the drug time and time again. For some it is simple as being a relaxant they rely on to help them calm down, others are drawn back because all of their friends also smoke and they do it to be social, others still may have mental problems that cut deep and the high of marijuana smoking is the only thing they feel can help them escape their constant torment.

In any case however the solution is similar, find these core issues you have before you try to give up on marijuana! If you do not have a firm grasp on the issues that keep you coming back to the drug you will never be able to quit smoking pot and keep sliding back into using it again and again.

So before you even start trying to quit smoking marijuana take this advice and look at the root causes of your addiction which may not be the same as why you started smoking either. I hope this can help you to quit marijuana and live the life you want to lead!

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Rick Churchill asked:


If you are a smoker then you already know full well the reasons why you should quit and may have already tried in the past but failed. In addition to the many health hazards involved, being a smoker in todays society is just plain hard. Most smokers know full well how many non-smokers in our society treat smokers like criminals and make them feel worthless without realizing the fact that most smokers are truly addicted and would gladly quit if only they could. I would like to talk about how the Quit Smoking Right Now program and some truths about tobacco addiction and why it can be so hard for smokers to quit.

The first thing that a smoker must realize is that smoking is neither pleasurable nor natural in the beginning. If you think back to the time when you first tried smoking, you will remember that your body rejected smoking with symptoms such as coughing, dizziness, and nausea. Obviously these types of feelings are not pleasurable but many people continue to keep smoking because of peer pressure or to be cool and the bad symptoms fade away. The problem is that these symptoms fade because the smoker has developed an addiction and their body begins to need what it originally rejected. Essentially, the smokers mind had convinced the smokers body to smoke until the body became addicted.

Because the smokers mind is what originally got the person to smoke in the first place, it is important that the mind be used to convince the body of a smoker to quit smoking. When a smoker quits cold turkey they are essentially doing this very thing, with their mind telling the body to quit. Regrettably, most smokers dont have the willpower to quit cold turkey because they are already truly addicted to tobacco and their body wins over their mind no matter how bad they want to quit. The Quit Smoking Right Now program claims that it manipulates a smokers belief system making it possible for the mind to beat the body and enable the smoker to quit for good. In order to quit, the smokers body must overcome the addiction that tobacco creates.

Many quit smoking programs operate on the assumption that treating the nicotine withdraw symptoms is what it takes to help a smoker quit. The Quit Smoking Right Now program claims that nicotine addiction is not the factor that really makes it difficult for a smoker to quit and this is the reason that programs that rely on treating the symptoms of nicotine addiction often fail. As you may or may not be aware, there are thousands of chemicals other then nicotine and tar in tobacco. Did you know that some of these chemicals are so hazardous that they are not even allowed to be deposited into landfills. The Quit Smoking Right Now program claims that of these thousands of other chemicals there is actually one that makes it harder for a smoker to quit then nicotine and upon joining their program they will reveal what chemical it is and a very simple way of defeating its effects so you can become a non-smoker. It would seem that if quitting was this simple then this chemical would be well know but it appears that there are good reasons why most people dont know about it.

Almost everybody including non-smokers realize why the tobacco companies dont what smokers to quit. With each smoker that quits, they lose money and it is in there best interest financially for a person to start smoking at an early age and continue to smoke until the day they die. But did you realize that companies and pharmacys that make nicotine patches and gums and anti-smoking drugs also have an interest in smokers not quitting. If all smokers quit, then who would they sell their products to. While I feel that for the most part the governments around the world do wish to help their citizens live a longer, healthier life, we do need to take into account the fact that the tobacco lobby is one of the most powerful in the world and some unscrupulous politicians may benefit from smokers who fail to quit. As you may now realize, there are a great many people and organizations that do benefit from the fact that many smokers dont ever quit.

The Quit Smoking Right Now program makes some great claims, some of which may seem a bit unbelievable but if these claims are true then this may be a great program for a smoker who really wants to quit. I will not presume to make any guarantees about this program helping you quit but it does claim a money back guarantee if you dont. With the amount of money most smokers spend on tobacco products, it would seem that this program would pay for itself in no time if it successfully turns you into a non-smoker.



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Joanne Fallwater asked:


How many people do you know who have quit smoking for a month or a year or and then started up again? What methods did they use to quit smoking: hypnosis, drugs, cold turkey? If they started back up after trying to quit smoking, hypnosis was probably not one of the things they tried. Is that your story, too? Unfortunately, it’s really common.

Anyone who has smoked for a number of years comes to a point where they really want to quit. In fact, they’re desperate to quit. That’s when they find out just how addicted they are. Because even though they have really good reasons, and a lot of motivation to quit, they can’t.

Has this already happened to you? Have you already had the experience of wanting to quit because the new baby was on the way? Or your new boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t smoke. So you don’t want to anymore either? Or maybe you’re just tired of seeing so much of your hard-earned cash literally go up in smoke!

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit smoking, good intentions are usually not enough. Nicotine addiction is so strong, that you’ll need all the help he can get. The good news is, there’s a lot of help available. You have a lot of good quit smoking methods and products to choose from.

Quitting smoking is really a two-pronged process. You have to deal with both the physical nicotine addiction, and the psychological habits that you have created around smoking. Let’s call them your “smoking rituals”.

Everyone who has smoked for any number of years has actually built a whole set of smoking rituals that are unique to them. One of the reasons it’s so difficult to quit smoking is that the rituals become self reinforcing. What exactly does that mean?

It means that when you first began smoking you developed a set of habits, or actions, that you used every time you lit up your cigarette. And these are things like having a favorite ashtray, preferring a particular brand of cigarettes, using matches instead of a lighter, or always buying a red or a yellow lighter.

Now think about how many cigars or cigarettes you smoke every day. Do you smoke one pack a day? That’s 20 cigarettes. So that’s 20 times a day that you use your red lighter, or you look at that gold and white cigarette package. And then there are all of the habitual places and times that you smoke. You have a cigarette sitting in your favorite chair, or you light up after every meal.

So after even one year of smoking, do you really wonder why every time you see your cigarette lighter, or you finish a meal, it just feels natural to have a cigarette? In fact, it feels uncomfortable not to have one. And we’ve only been talking about your behavioral habits.

When you quit smoking cigarettes, you also have to face your nicotine addiction. And the physical addiction to nicotine is as strong or stronger than a physical addiction to heroin. The good news about that is: once you stop putting nicotine into your system, most of it flushes out within a couple of days.

Quit smoking drugs, like patches and pills and nasal sprays, are intended to help you get through the physical withdrawal period. They’re supposed to help reduce the nicotine cravings, and you’re supposed to gradually taper off from them. They work about 20% to 30% of the time for long-term smoking cessation. But if you talk to people who have successfully quit smoking for 10 or 20 years, you’ll probably find that they used self hypnosis at some point to help them stop smoking for good.



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