Tagged: quit smoking,stop urge to smoke,hooked on nicotine
You really want to quit. Tried several times! Given in because the urge to light up overpowered the good intentions?
Don't worry - this is "normal".
Like most smokers you believe you are hooked to nicotine! But that's a myth!! If it was true, then the nicotine replacement therapy should work. But it does not. It just cost you a lot of money.
Nicotine acts as a light anesthesia on the taste and smell senses. It softens the foul taste of smoke. But the urge, the wanting to light up, is mainly caused by a change in blood sugar balance. There are of course often, in addition to this, also different psychological prompts for lighting up. But for now we will focus on the physical situation - the blood sugar imbalance.
As soon as lowered blood sugar level is sensed, the body pushes you to consume something, something that can calm you. Neutralize the urge. Anything sugar laden will do. But getting the relief in a natural way takes some time as sugar has to be absorbed via digestion.
Now here is a surprise! Among almost 100 different substances in tobacco it contains also sugar!
Well, here you have it: Urge - Light-up - Smoke - Relief ! Smoking becomes a conditioned reflex!!
Lighting up can give you immediate relief, because when inhaling smoke, many of the substances are directly passing into the blood system. The slight add of sugar plus the soothing effect of the nicotine are enough to disarm the urge for a while and the smoker feels a certain calm.
How can I change this behavior? You could ask. Well, the solution is to keep your blood sugar balance within certain limits, so strong urges don't get a chance to offset your calm. This of course is done by feeding yourself on something with a sugar value sufficiently enough to keep that blood sugar balance.
Here planning and guidance is important for success.
The essence of this information is of course that you now understand that blood sugar imbalance is the trigger of urges to consume something. And to avoid these urges you just have to feed yourself more often, i.e. less time between servings.
In this article I have indicated why it's so difficult to quit smoking and that being hooked on nicotine is a myth.
And I have mentioned how formation of urges can be avoided by keeping the amplitudes in the blood sugar variations small or hardly noticeable.
Omell (requested pseudonym) Bio: The author of this article is retired, former fighter pilot and airline captain, now commenting on health and cure issues recommended by the alternative medicine.
