Take Control – Quit Smoking

A lot of people often do not realise the control that smoking cigarettes has over them, or if they do they refuse to believe it.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways that smoking and cigarettes controls you;

It prevents you from being with the people that you want whenever you want.

You have to go outside in the cold or the heat in most places to smoke.

You have to leave people or family to smoke and miss out on the conversation.

You constantly worry about running out of cigarettes.

You waste a lot of time smoking.

You have to put up with the […]

Stress and Smoking

The majority of smokers smoke cigarettes when they are stressed to help calm them down. The question is, does smoking help to reduce stress?

The answer is yes and no.

When you get stressed your whole body tenses up and blood is pumped into the muscles. This is in reaction to a survival program which gives you the option to fight, flight or freeze. When you take nicotine into your body it causes the blood vessels to constrict and this interferes with your blood circulation. This in turn adds to stress. Smoking cigarettes actually adds stress into an already stressful situation!

On the […]

Smoking and past trauma

Just recently I had a client who although she said age wanted to quit smoking could not.

After two visits we explored why this was happening. It turned out that over the last few years her husband and many of her friends had died of cancer. She said it was as if everybody had abandoned her. Smoking cigarettes had been the only thing that did not abandon her, the only thing that she could rely on.

Consciously she wanted to stop smoking cigarettes but unconsciously smoking was the only thing that she could rely on. With this programming in place she will […]