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Re: Nicodemon's Lies or Our Lies?
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John (Gold)
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Aug 8 03 2:14 AM
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and years of dependency ignorance forced each of us to inhale more nicotine every time our chemical world of "nicotine normal" felt threatened. We not only faced the perpetual reality that our nicotine reserves would naturally decline by half every two hours unless replenished, anxiety, stress, vitamin C and alcohol were all acid generating events, each capable of accelerating elimination of the alkaloid nicotine from our bloodstreams.
The urges and craves felt by us had nothing to do with weakness, willpower or strength but reflected the design and function of our brain's right insula in attempting to force us to comply with fooled and tricked survival instinct circuitry objectives. Our enslaved mind viewed nicotine replenishment as being as core to survival as eating. Like hunger pains, the mind's world of "nicotine normal" was threatened. The anger and anxiety we felt were the body's alarms, its way of getting our attention.
Never once did we need to be told what the crisis was. We knew!
Although true chemical slaves, we each sold ourselves mountains of lies that allowed us to pretend that this world of "nicotine normal" was where we truly wanted to be. The subconscious mind bit and swallowed the lies, hook, line and sinker. Although it may have watched your conscious intellect attempt a mad dash for freedom every now and then, it has no intellect or ability to reason of its own, and only responds to years of "nicotine normal" conditioning. So what lies did we condition the inner mind to believe that need correcting?
You conditioned it to believe that there were certain times, events, locations and emotions during which the subconscious could depend on the arrival of more nicotine, when you'd again tank up and return to the safety of the world of "nicotine normal." You probably conditioned to believe lots of specific lies that you used to justify your inability to walk away. The four thousand plus chemicals in each puff tasted as bad as the very first puff you ever had yet you probably eventually sold yourself that the smell and taste were so wonderful that they were worth destroying your lungs and risking your life.
How could any drug addict live the life of a chemical captive if they didn't invent denial? Like all drug addicts we were forced to deny that we hated captivity, deny hating smoking, deny how horrible the stink and smell upon our body and clothing really was, deny that our smoke bothered others or placed them at risk, and even deny that we didn't know how to quit. We lied to our subconscious self and it listened well.
You know you've quit but the subconscious self doesn't work that way and certainly not that fast. It would be nice if we could get rid of all our faults with a snap of fingeres but life doesn't work that way. Quitting is little more than undoing the years of denial and all the lies that you've sold yourself. It's being patient while undoing what you've done.
You are not giving up any thing of value, and everything you felt you once were you still are. Soon you'll see that the free you is better than ever. It's time to stop the lies. Time to end being afraid of going home to the real you and time to open your arms and embrace your healing. Come out of denial, step into the light! It's time for the lies to end!! Attitude is oh so important! You are what you think! Just only day at a time, no nicotine today, NTAP! John (Gold)
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