Hello! My name is Dr. Todd Austin. I am a chiropractic physician who has been helping many of my patients to quit smoking with auriculotherapy for three years now. I am sure that of all of you either smoke cigarettes, has smoked cigarettes or are related to or are friends with someone who does.
Now I will admit that as a lifelong non-smoker, I used to have a hard time understanding smokers and why they choose to do what they do. But since attending many auriculotherapy seminars with a lot of class time devoted to the topics of nicotine, nicotine addiction and smoking sensation, I would like to think that now I have a much better understanding as to why smokers smoke.
Now I am sure all of you also know at least one person who for the most part is a non-smoker but has cigarettes just on certain occasions without becoming addicted. For example, Kristal (ph), a patient of mine is a non-smoker 365 days and 364 nights every year but on New Year's Eve, Kristal parties hard with all of her friends, and even smokes three or four cigarettes.
So what's the main difference you might wonder between nicotine addicts and Kristal? Well, Kristal is blessed by the fact that she doesn't have that addictive gene that many of us do. Research also shows that even if you were addicted or gave up nicotine years ago, you can never behave like Kristal does ever again because it only takes six seconds from the time you have had a single puff of cigarette smoke for the nicotine to hijack a certain area of your brain where the nicotine pleasure center is located. Yes, that's right, in a mere six seconds, as a person who possesses the addictive gene, you are hooked all over again.
One of the main things I have learned about the psychology of nicotine addiction is that you, the smoker, who is considering quitting, has to have arrived at a point where you are ready to quit for you. Not for your medical doctor, who told you that you might not live much longer if you don't; not for your non-smoking spouse, who is constantly complaining about who bad you, your clothes and your car stink; not for you children or grandchildren, who have been begging and pleading for you to quit as well.
Yes, you have got to come to a point where you are ready to give up nicotine for you. Until you arrive there, there is no hope of you ever quitting. An Austin family chiropractor converting Illinois, I use a combination of counseling, nutrition, and mainly ear acupuncture or auriculotherapy without needles to help people to sever their relationship with nicotine.
I would like to share with you a funny but successful story about one of my chiropractic patients who used to be a smoker. Greg, a rather tough guy who is raised on a farm, had a co-worker who quit smoking successfully by getting auriculotherapy treatments from a fellow chiropractor. So this co-worker told Greg about the main point on his ear that his chiropractor had treated. When the next calendar year rolled around, Greg's New Year's resolution was, you guessed it, to quit smoking. But rather than call of a chiropractor like myself, who is also a regular therapist, Greg chose an extremely unconventional method. He pinched the point on his right ear that his co-worker had told him about. Greg did so with such force that it brought tears to his eyes. It's now been over four years since Greg last had a cigarette and he is much healthier now. Thanks to quitting.
Enclosing, there are a variety of ways to quit smoking, ranging from cold turkey to nicotine patches, to prescription drugs, to my obvious personal favorite, auriculotherapy.
So whatever method you choose to go with, make sure that you are ready to quit for you before perceiving and please remember that if you were dealt a hand that includes the addictive gene, even after successfully quitting for many years, you will never be able to take a single drag from another cigarette ever again without getting addicted all over. Always keep that in mind. Thank you and good luck.
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