I know one person (my father) who was shown what the lungs of a lifetime(smoker look like at a medical school, (removed from a cadaver)and he quit cold right then. Imagine a balloon filled with motor oil and blood, you get the picture?
- 25 December 2009 at 8:26 am
mlw6366 said:
It may help, but by and large therapy isn’t effective alone. You need to have the desire to quit, which you say you have. You also have to modify your behavior to do different things when you were used to lighting up. Like if you get out of bed in the morning grab some coffee and sit down and light up, change up your routine. Niccotine patches help, so does the drug Wellbutrin. Many states have supportive quit smoking hotlines, and The American Lung Association has a wealth of info for people who want to kick the habit. Best of luck. I too would like to kick the habit, and am working on it myself. That reminds me, find a support network, that helps too.
- 28 December 2009 at 7:44 pm
didi64 said:
I am a receptionist for a Dr who does acupuncture to help patients stop smoking and 1 guy went from 1 pack a day down to 3 a day in 8 days. he had been a smoker for 35yrs, he says he doesn’t have the desire anymore It is a great way to help you succeed in the need or desire to quit as you also need to want to quit for it to completely work.
- 31 December 2009 at 7:35 am
baghmom said:
Can you try nicotine gum or nicotine patch? Its cheaper. Add Wellbutrin and it is more effective. A book that is absolutely fantastic and I think probably more effective than psychotherapy is called
You Can Quit Smoking Even If You Dont Want To
by
David Jones
You can find it in Amazon’s used books.
You can use all of these while going to psychotherapy. I think anyone can benefit from that, even the most ‘normal’ of us.
i have not been smoking for about 2 years now thanks to nicotine patches and a lot of self-discipline. the withdrawal symptoms i got from quitting smoking was not nice though.
Thom Hartmann
The hunter vs. farmer theory is a hypothesis proposed by Thom Hartmann about the origins of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD), that these conditions may be a result of a …
This article examines the impact of involuntary job loss on mental health as measured by admission to inpatient psychiatric treatment. Specifically, we investigate the impact on admission due to affective disorders, alcohol or drug abuse, and nervous or stress-related disorders. We focus on job loss due only to establishment closures, as this focus reduces the problem of distinguishing between causation and selection. Using linked employee-employer register data, we identify the job losses due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987-88. During a subsequent 12-year period we find that job loss significantly increased the risk of overall inpatient psychiatric hospital admission among women but not among men. When the results are broken down into the specific categories of mental disorders, we find that inpatient psychiatric treatment due to affective disorders and alcohol or drug abuse is significantly higher among the displaced women but we find no such effect for nervous or stress-related disorders. Among men, we find no significant impact of job loss on any of the categories of discharge diagnoses.
Content Type Journal Article
DOI 10.2753/IMH0020-7411390202
Authors
Marcus Eliason, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Steven C. Hayes (1948 ) is Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is known for an analysis of human language and cognition (Relational Frame Theory), and its application to various psychological difficulties (his work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).
Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT (pronounced “act” not “ay see tee”), a branch of cognitive-behavioral therapy, is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies together with commitment and behavior change strategies to increase psychological flexibility. Originally this approach was referred to as comprehensive distancing.
I know one person (my father) who was shown what the lungs of a lifetime(smoker look like at a medical school, (removed from a cadaver)and he quit cold right then. Imagine a balloon filled with motor oil and blood, you get the picture?
It may help, but by and large therapy isn’t effective alone. You need to have the desire to quit, which you say you have. You also have to modify your behavior to do different things when you were used to lighting up. Like if you get out of bed in the morning grab some coffee and sit down and light up, change up your routine. Niccotine patches help, so does the drug Wellbutrin. Many states have supportive quit smoking hotlines, and The American Lung Association has a wealth of info for people who want to kick the habit. Best of luck. I too would like to kick the habit, and am working on it myself. That reminds me, find a support network, that helps too.
I am a receptionist for a Dr who does acupuncture to help patients stop smoking and 1 guy went from 1 pack a day down to 3 a day in 8 days. he had been a smoker for 35yrs, he says he doesn’t have the desire anymore It is a great way to help you succeed in the need or desire to quit as you also need to want to quit for it to completely work.
Can you try nicotine gum or nicotine patch? Its cheaper. Add Wellbutrin and it is more effective. A book that is absolutely fantastic and I think probably more effective than psychotherapy is called
You Can Quit Smoking Even If You Dont Want To
by
David Jones
You can find it in Amazon’s used books.
You can use all of these while going to psychotherapy. I think anyone can benefit from that, even the most ‘normal’ of us.
i have not been smoking for about 2 years now thanks to nicotine patches and a lot of self-discipline. the withdrawal symptoms i got from quitting smoking was not nice though.
i actually had a very hard time quitting smoking, i am just afraid to get lung cancer,,-
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