NICODEMON’S LIES Part Seven
REPOST from ClearColors (Nancy) Date Unknown
This article helped me from WhyQuit.com… Some numbers may be off - outdated - but the info is spot on. Nancy
Nicodemon's Lies? (Continued and Last Part) By John R. Polito, Nicotine Cessation Educator
Our Lie: I've got to die of something!
The Truth: True, but if you knew that tomorrow morning at 9:22 a.m., a massive smoking induced stroke would bring your life to an abrupt end, and you'd die on a cold floor, with a cigarette beside you... just as tens of thousands of smokers are found each year... Would you light that last cigarette at 9:21 a.m. and pull the trigger that kills you? Is this one of your primary use rationalizations?
Look around at all the smokers you see today. The death certificates of half will read, "Cause of death - smoking." Yes, they had to die of something, but not an average of more than 5,000 days early. Have you met Noni, Bryan, Deb and Kim?
Would any non-addicted human, spend each and every day of the remainder of their life, intentionally destroying more of their body's ability to receive, and transport life giving oxygen? Would they continue doing so until physical exercise was no longer an option, or until this mental illness, called dependency, force others to begin caring for us, as they watch us struggle, just to suck oxygen from tanks and machines?
Which family member have you prepared to be your caregiver? Try to imagine what it's like to breathe through a straw? It's called Emphysema. Why not find a straw and give it a try. What has nicotine done for you lately?
It's all Nicodemon's fault, not mine! There is no Nicodemon, no little monsters, no big monsters, no monsters at all. None! In fact, the title to this article, Nicodemon's Lies, is one of the biggest lies of all. They were never Nicodemon's lies, but our lies. Nicotine is simply a chemical, a drug, and an alkaloid known as C10H14N2. Its I.Q. is, and always has been, zero! It does not think, plan, inflict punishment, nor will it conspire to make you relapse or die addicted to it. The fact that it has zero intelligence IS your greatest weapon.
Everything you see, feel, and sense, during nicotine withdrawal and recovery, will be grounded in chemical dependency, conditioning, reason, logic, emotion or science. Any conspirators, in any past attempts to make you relapse and destroy your recovery, were always and only “You”! Never once did you relapse due to external circumstances. It was 100% internal… Once again, you introduced nicotine into your bloodstream. The good news is that, while each defeat was yours, so too will be the victory. Should you end nicotine's control of your brain's reward pathways… The victory will belong only to you!
WhyQuit.com advocates cold turkey, but I quit with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), and greatly appreciated using them in my process of quitting cigarettes. ClearColors Nancy