I recently noticed that one of my clients (Let’s call her Maria for the sake of this article) at my teaching profession was going through a common phase amongst people who want to stop smoking and finally escape from nicotine addiction, where they start to become frustrated, angry, desperate, unhappy, or annoyed with themselves that they smoke. But because of the lack of education about why she was a chain smoker and what the nicotine was doing to her, plus the true fact that she had not achieved that true desire that is needed to stop, she was going through an emotional rollercoaster, what I have named as“Panicotine Syndrome”©

This phase will eventually present itself to all smokers who have their two cents worth upstairs and they realise that they truly are mugs for smoking and they want out. But before I continue with telling you about my “Client” above, I would like to touch on a couple of things if I may. Wanting out of this wonderfully designed poisonous trap is great, however, unless you, the smoker who wants to quit smoking, puts in to practice a couple of crucial things then this phase will be about as far as you get in your quest to quit smoking before you roll back down the hill and light up another cigarette once again.

The point here is this:-

Nothing objective can be achieved without preperation or plan and the desire to endure all that presents itself during execution. The needed desire to see it through and succeed is only a desire that differs from any previous half hearted ones that the person with a true objective has had.

What I mean is this…You will always be a smoker unless you know completely why you do it and what makes you do it. When you know this, and have that superior desire, a little support, you too can walk away from the prison of nicotine addiction easily. I did, thousands of others did too. You are no different.

But when the “Panicotine Syndrome” © phase comes along to you, what will you do?

Lets get back to Maria…

We finished our meeting and with another client we headed off to a local cafeteria for a beer and some tapas. Now if you dont know , in Spain, if you are not a smoker then you may feel somewhat alienated because the majority of the population here smoke. They are all professional nicotine addicts thru and thru …and proud of it. The level of tobacco company brainwashing has peaked to the max here and it’s a pity.

We found a bar..I braced myself and thought ok ..I can suffer this for an hour so as not to be unsocial. The moment we walked through the “puerta” Maria started fumbling inside her handbag and drew out the marlboro lights. Before the order had left my lips she was puffing away like it there was no tomorrow. Ok so..I didnt say anything when the blue poison started to drift up my nostrils as Maria knows that I have a few things to say about smokers and smoking, she fanned the smoke away from my face with a wink and a smile. We clinked our glasses and drank. We spoke about the “Global Crisis” whilst munching away on small cuts of Spanish tortilla. Ten minutes had passed and it was a nice relief to have a glass of beer and some tapas. Then Maria Lit another cigarette and I frowned. I frowned because I was a little taken aback by the short time between this one and the one before. This social gathering of ours went on for about an hour or so as we had a couple more drinks and some more “Spanish Culinary Delights”

But during this hour Maria smoked 4 cigarettes and when we left and she got in her car another one found its way between her lips and a lighter.

Why?

Why did Maria have to smoke all those cigarettes in such a short time? Even when Maria and the majority of all smoker know how bad it is for them, they still continue to have bouts of chain smoking. Some smokers smoke cigarettes like this for weeks, months or years. Why? The true answer is Maria and other smokers that do this, are trapped in realms of nicotine addiction. Nothing more, Nothing less. Additionally, tagged to the answer is that because of this evil addiction, Maria and smokers alike have a proven misconception of two things. First of all that the cigarette is actually doing them something good ( see my List Of Excuses Post ) when in reality it’s doing the complete opposite. And that the smoking of a cigarette is helping them overcome some kind of boredom that in the eyes of a smoker is apparantely physically fixed with a cigarette, when the true fact that boredom is really just a state of mind.

Maria and all smokers are being fooled constantly by the power of this poison (nicotine) and the tobacco companies and our beloved media showing and convincing smokers that social events can only be enjoyed with a smoke. The more you smoke the more fun you will have. (And the more money we make while you are killing yourself..now thats fun) The more they use it the more they are fooled. They are fooled into believing that social events are not only enjoyable but cool.

Have you ever heard so much puppydoo in your life?

Maria has developed a tolerance and a fear to smoking cigarettes like all nicotine addicts do. It’s addiction shrouded by feel good buzzes, hits lifts, boosts or whatever a smoker claims to get when inhaling the poisons. The tolerance of nicotine which or wonderful, complex bodies can withstand up to a point, and the illusionary fear that life will be terrible if she decided to quit smoking and become a normal human being.

Maria probably was tired, maybe stressed from personal issues, enjoying the atmosphere and the drinks, thinking about what to wear tonight, bored, needed to have a better opportunity to taste the beer. Whatever was going through Maria’s mind-life during that hour was surely not in her eyes something called “nicotine addiction-where the substance makes think that the more you use it, the more you benefit from it”

This is the brainwashing we have in our society.

There is no need as a human being and for Maria to live a normal, healthy life to use cigarettes. It is the truth and I am a product with millions of people too of that truth. If you chain smoke then the more you do it the more you are addicted. The good thing is that you can stop smoking, stop chain smoking, if you have the desire and the know how as to why you smoke tobacco.

Smoking cigarettes creates the ongoing need for cigarettes and the next one , and then the next one. and then the next one.

Break the chain and live again.

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Anthony Schneider