Smoking Habit: Physical Or Mental?

Kicking the smoking habit is known to be one of the hardest things to do. The addiction can be so overwhelming to so many people that they feel like they will be chained to smoking forever. And now more than ever, pharmaceutical companies charge in to the rescue on our TV screens, in our magazines and on our radios touting the new wonder patches, pills and inhalers that will supposedly make kicking the habit as easy as turning off a light switch.

But why is it that these drugs fail 95% of the time in getting smokers to quit for one year? Is it really nicotine that makes it so hard to quit smoking or is it the powerful beliefs of the mind? Nicotine is completely gone from the bloodstream in 72 hours from the last cigarette. But this is when the cravings become the strongest and this is the smokers first real challenge to over come a real physical desire. But the physical cravings gradually go away and studies have shown that after 30-45 days, the addiction is all psychological. And this is where most smokers who want to quit fail. With the physical cravings being so short-lived and being such a small part of failing, Nicotine Replacement Therapy or NRT only prolongs the physical addiction which is gone soon anyway but does nothing for the stronger phsychological pull that the smoker will eventually have to face anyway.

Like steel cables, the smoker has made pleasurable relationships with smoking such as hanging out and talking with other smokers. The good feelings they got were actually from the camaraderie and the companionship but because they were smoking during those times, the smoking is heavily associated in the smokers mind with these pleasures although the smoking had little or nothing to do with it.

Since smokers often smoke during or after meals or when drinking coffee, the pleasures they got from these things alone are now identified with smoking and they have difficulty imagining that they could actually enjoy one without the other.

But here is the funny thing. Smoking itself is not an enjoyable experience. The body actually rejects it. Hacking coughs, smelly clothes and hair, yellow nails and teeth, having to go outside where smoking is prohibited. All these things are what really make up the smokers world. But movies, TV and magazines have made smoking look so enjoyable and not to mention, cool, that reality of it is left at the door.

That's what 39-year smoker Rick B. discovered for himself and this was the discovery that set him free from a lifetime enslavement to smoking when nothing else he ever tried worked at all. In his own words: "I must have said a thousand times, 'I enjoy smoking' or 'that cigarette will taste good right after dinner', but that was because they (the Tobacco Industry) made me belive that smoking cigarettes was a natural and pleasurable thing to do. What I soon learned was that I really love not smoking!"

Rick was soon able to enjoy a life that he thought he would never know again. Foods tasting great, no more shortness of breath. His teeth are white again. He has a lot more energy and he thinks much more clearly. the big secret to his success was by retraining his mind with his own personal technique to see smoking for how it really is and disconnect any perceived pleasure from it.

And that is the secret behind ending most bad habits: severing the minds association of pleasure with them.

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Belly Fat? Parasites May Be To Blame

So, you've starved yourself with every hunger-striker diet there is. You've looked up the most brutal workouts and spent many days recovering from them. But it still sits there; almost in defiance, refusing to leave. It's the old spare tire, the bud ha, the gut. It's that disgusting belly fat that sticks to us like glue and mocks all of the hard work we do to make ourselves look better.
Well, if you have tried everything and nothing seems work, you might want to look into something that more and more people are becoming aware of. You may have parasites living in your body that are making you fat.

Now, worms are something we usually only think about taking Fido or Princess to the vet for. We don't stop to think that they could actually be in us as well. Well here is a startling statistic: It has been estimated that over 85% of the world's population suffer from some sort of parasite infestation. There are over 100 known species of parasites that reside in humans. They all have creepy sounding names like hookworm, fluke and nematode.

The link between parasites and belly fat is that these parasites that live in you repopulate at horrific rates. Female worms can squirt out as many as 3000 to 20,000 eggs in one day. These parasites basically eat the same food you eat. They eat many of the nutrients that you should be getting and when they are done with that, they start eating you. And just like any other organism, they have to get rid of their waste. They usually do this in your bowel tract adding to the pounds of fecal matter that is already there. The FDA states that the average person has about 5-15 lbs. of fecal matter in their colon. Now with thousands of parasites contributing to this everyday, it's easy to see how much of the extra weight you have could be attributed to them. Some patients who have cleansed themselves of these parasites have actually seen the rapid fat loss of up to 100 lbs.

But it gets worse. More and more doctors are linking the presence of parasites and build up in the colon with many deadly diseases like cancer, heart disease, strokes, arthritis, high blood pressure and others. In fact according to the Royal Society of Medicine: "Death begins in the colon."

Getting rid of these parasites may not only get rid of that extra belly fat you are carrying around with you but it may very well save your life.

How do humans get parasites in the first place? We get therm from the food that we eat, the (non-purified) water that we drink, the air that we breathe and we can also absorb them through the skin. Basically, parasites are everywhere so it makes sense that so many people are infested with them. They are said to be abundantly present in the processed foods we eat, fast food and non-purified water. Stroking the infected family pet can cause an infestation as well as walking barefoot in grassy areas. So if you have been exposed to any of those things and you can't get rid of that extra belly fat, you are a good candidate for internal parasites and may look into getting rid of them. One such resource is available here: http://www.morenaturalcuresonline.com/Secret_Fat_Loss