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Why You Don’t Need Willpower to Quit Smoking

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Can you really quit smoking without willpower?

Every time I tell our members or seminar attendees “you don’t need any willpower to quit smoking and the CBQ method requires no willpower”, you’re asking me “How is it possible?” “How can I ever stop smoking without willpower?”

If you think it’s impossible to quit without willpower, then read on.

Because the truth is that you don’t need and, in fact, you shouldn’t use willpower if you want to find quitting easy.

What Is Willpower

Willpower is two things.

1) Willpower is a State of Resistance

Willpower by definition is…

Willpower is the control exerted to do something or resist an impulse

Quitting smoking with willpower means that there is the urge to smoke and you go against this urge, you go against the desire to smoke.

Quitting smoking with willpower DOES NOT mean being decisive, strong, determined, and making decisions like throwing your pack of cigarettes away. This decision-making process is an essential part of any change and it doesn’t mean you’re quitting smoking with willpower.

The problem with quitting with willpower is that you’re going against your desire. You think of smoking as something that’s going to benefit you somehow but you don’t allow yourself to have it.

And of course, this takes a lot of effort, it creates tension, it’s hard, and it makes you feel deprived. So you end up smoking more.

stressed woman after quitting smoking

For example, if you experience a lot of stress and at that moment you try to resist a cigarette with willpower… what’s going to happen?

Well, it’s going to be very hard, you’re going to feel more stress and want to smoke even more. And even if you successfully resist the cigarette at that moment… you may end up smoking two or three consecutive cigarettes later because you felt deprived before. This is the hard way to go about your quit!

And I want you to know that even if you had superhuman amounts of willpower from birth or even if you practiced increasing your willpower you would still feel deprived because willpower by definition means going against your desire, and that’s hard.

2) Willpower Is Limited

Willpower is not a manifestation or a sign of your inner strength.

We tend to think that if someone is a strong person that means that they have more willpower but that’s not always the case, that’s not what willpower is.

Willpower is like a muscle that gets tired during the day. The more you use it the weaker it becomes.

For example, if you have a chocolate cake in front of you and you see it in the morning when you’re rested it’s going to be easy to say “no”.

But is it going to be as easy after a hard day at work when you’re tired and hungry? Of course not.

And it’s not because you changed as a person; you didn’t grow weaker as the day went by. You just got tired, your circumstances changed and your willpower got fatigued.

And it’s the same thing with resisting cigarettes. You can’t always go against your desire with willpower because willpower is not dependable; it’s limited.

Willpower doesn’t work because willpower doesn’t last.

Everyone can resist a few cigarettes with willpower but for how long?

At some point you’re going to find yourself in a stressful situation and, you know, when we feel stressed our willpower gets depleted. And when your willpower gets depleted you’re going to fall back to old patterns and risk relapsing.

Also, willpower doesn’t work because you cannot use something you have a limited supply of like your willpower to resist something you have an unlimited supply of like your emotions and your impulses and your urges. It’s hard, it’s not a fair fight.

And that’s why willpower can only cause temporary change. I’m going to tell you how to create lasting change in a bit.

When You Need Willpower

Willpower is not all bad it’s actually amazing and helps us do the right thing.

When it comes to making a change willpower can help you start something it can help you take the very first step. In our case, it can help you start researching, watching a video, or start a program. However, willpower is harmful when you use it as the means to achieve a goal exactly because it’s a state of resistance and it’s limited.

For example, if you are on a diet it may need some willpower to throw all the junk food from the house or to go on the scale and see where you’re starting from. But you shouldn’t use willpower to stay on a diet because you will feel deprived and crave all the things you’re not supposed to be eating.

If you want to go to the gym you may need willpower to get up from the couch or get dressed but you shouldn’t use willpower to stay and workout because you won’t perform well, you’re going to waste your time and have a bad experience.

When it comes to quitting smoking, you may need willpower to start researching, watch a video or make small decisions but you shouldn’t use your willpower to resist cigarettes forever in the hope that the desire for smoking will magically disappear by itself. Because if you do, you’re going to feel deprived and end up smoking more.

So do you see now why you can’t go through life always resisting cigarettes with willpower?

This is not a way to live, you’re not going to be happy.

So what are you supposed to do?

How to Quit Smoking Without Willpower

Like we said a few moments ago, willpower means going against your desire and impulse to smoke and that’s the hard way.

But what if you change the impulse, what if you remove the desire to begin with?

Then quitting becomes easy!

What you need to quit smoking is mindpower, which is greater than willpower.

You can learn what’s the difference between willpower and mindpower in this video:

Learning how to use your mindpower will also help you overcome the mental addiction to smoking. The mental addiction is the desire or need for cigarettes. It’s how smoking makes you feel and how much you believe you need it.

At the moment, you believe that smoking offers you something. Maybe you believe that it helps you cope with stress and boredom, socialize, concentrate, take a break or control your weight. And even though smoking offers you nothing at all… as long as you believe it does, you will desire it.

And the thing is that willpower does not remove the benefits you think you get from smoking and it doesn’t magically remove your desire to smoke. Because it’s hard to control our desires with willpower, our emotions don’t work that way.

And that’s why the solution is to change the emotions and stop desiring cigarettes. And you do that when you realize that smoking offers you nothing.

Think about it. Do you need any willpower to resist eating rat poison or ammonia or acetone?

Of course not! Because it’s disgusting and harmful.

Well, tobacco has inside arsenic that’s used in rat poison and ammonia and acetone and 4,000 chemicals, and the only reason why you want it is because you believe it offers you something. That’s the mental addiction in action.

My point is when you see smoking for what it really is you don’t desire it anymore and when there is no desire there is no need for willpower and quitting becomes easy.

How do you remove the desire for smoking?

When I was trying to quit smoking I struggled a lot with this and that’s why I started developing the CBQ method, and the 4 stages of the CBQ method help you remove this desire.

Learn exactly how the CBQ method removes the desire for cigarettes and why the CBQ method requires no willpower.

Is It Hard to Overcome the Desire for Cigarettes?

It’s easy to overcome this desire because it’s not a real desire.

It all started because nicotine hijacked your brain and made it believe that you need it to survive just like you need food and air and water.

When you’re hungry your brain is going to insist that you eat. The brain will communicate to you via your thoughts and tell you that you’re hungry. And it will insist because it needs you to survive.

In the same way, the brain insists for you to smoke because it thinks that you need nicotine to survive. So if you feel compelled to smoke even though you know better it’s not because you really enjoy smoking or because you’re self-destructive. It’s because your brain has outdated information. And when you use your willpower to resist a cigarette it’s like telling your mind that indeed “I want that I need that but I can’t have it” so your brain goes bananas.

But when you treat these craving thoughts as a memory, as an addiction, as a thought …they go.

How to Rewire Your Brain

When you put yourself in situations where you used to smoke and you don’t… and you are relaxed in these situations… you’re actually allowing your brain to get new information. This rewires your brain.

Because you show yourself that nothing happened because you didn’t smoke. You show your brain that you don’t need nicotine to survive so your brain adjusts and the craving thoughts eventually disappear.

How to Quit Smoking Permanently

So the solution is to remove the desire, the impulse, and change how you see smoking and your associations with it – that’s how you create lasting change.

Let’s think about the examples we talked about before.

When you go on a diet you may need willpower to start… but to create lasting change you must associate eating healthy and looking after your body with happiness, health, and joy. You must create those associations and when you do that, bad foods start becoming undesirable.

If you want to go to the gym and work out you may need willpower to start…but to create lasting change, to create a habit, you need to associate working out with health, happiness, confidence, and feeling good. With time, you won’t even need willpower to start because you’re going to be chasing this good feeling.

And of course to stop smoking you may need willpower to get started, educate yourself, research, or watch some videos… but to create lasting change and quit permanently you need to associate being smoke-free with feeling confident, healthy, wealthy, accomplished, and free.

Because if you desire the result, you won’t need any willpower to get motivated. And when you get some distance from your smoking habit you’ll be able to see that it did nothing for you. It was an abusive relationship based on lies and fear and you’re glad you’re out.

Conclusion

Willpower is a state of resistance and it’s limited. It’s good for starting things but bad for creating lasting change because you feel deprived, it makes the process difficult, and you may end up relapsing.

Willpower means going against the desire to smoke and this is hard. But when you overcome the desire to smoke, quitting becomes easy. And when there is no desire there is also no need for willpower.

To remove the desire for smoking you must change how you see smoking and quitting and that’s how you create lasting change and quit permanently.

So I hope this helped you rethink the role of willpower in your quit and that it gave you a new perspective.

If you want to overcome the mental addiction and change how you see smoking make sure you get the foundational video of the CBQ Method.

The CBQ Method is a 4-stage method that’s specifically designed to help you overcome the mental addiction, change how you think about smoking and break the habit. The mental addiction is the biggest part of the smoking addiction so overcoming it makes quitting easy.

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The 4 Types of Hunger During Nicotine Withdrawal

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Do you know the 4 different hungers every smoker experiences during withdrawal?

Knowing these 4 hungers can help you go through the withdrawal easily

(But if you don’t know them, you may find the withdrawal to be overwhelming and out of your control)

But it doesn’t have to be that way!

This video is for you if you:

  • Feel something is missing when you quit or have an empty feeling in your stomach
  • Eat more during withdrawal
  • Feel you have cravings all the time
  • And if you feel hungrier after quitting smoking

I’m very excited to share this video with you because it’s something nobody else teaches about quitting smoking. So I hope you like it too.

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“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”
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“How to Overcome Mental Cravings”
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“Smoking Addiction: Is it Mental or Physical?”
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Transcript

There are 4 types of hunger that you experience during nicotine withdrawal and knowing those hungers can help you cope with the withdrawal easily. But if you don’t know them, you might find that the withdrawal is a painful and overwhelming experience.

Now this is something nobody else teaches about quitting smoking so I know it will help you.

Nasia Davos here and this video is for you. If you feel something is missing when you quit smoking, if you have an empty feeling in your stomach and you don’t know how to cope with it, if you tend to eat more during the withdrawal, if you feel you have cravings all the time, if you feel hungrier after quitting smoking and if you tend to substitute smoking with food, so if that’s you keep on watching.

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So, the 4 types of hunger during nicotine withdrawal, the 4 types of hunger in smokers. Now first of all you need to know that how you experience the withdrawal depends mainly on your overall health, your mindset, and your nutrition. That’s why some people find withdrawal so easy even passes unnoticed or they may find it so easy in some quit attempts and really hard in others.

So why does this happen? It’s not because of luck or genes or any of those things. It has to do with your overall health, your mindset and your nutrition. And when it comes to your overall health, you can improve it of course by quitting smoking.

So up to the point of quitting smoking, what you have control over is your mindset and your nutrition and what we’ll talk about in this video can help you with both.

So let’s look at the 4 hungers smokers experience during withdrawal. The first hunger is the nutritional hunger. This is to make sure your body takes the vitamins and nutrients it needs so it can function properly and so you can be as healthy as possible.

The second hunger is thirst. Yes, thirst is a hunger and it’s essential to our survival. We cannot go long without water right?

The third hunger is the emotional hunger. We all need to satisfy our emotional needs. We all need to feel loved and help others and feel safe and feel excitement and variety and feel important that we matter and that we grow as people and so on.

The first person to talk about our human needs was a psychologist named Maslow. And he said that in order for us to survive, we all need to feel physically and emotionally safe. We need to have social connections, we need to have self-worth and grow to the best we can be. We all have those needs.

And here’s the thing that you may not know, when you have an emotional need that must be met, you don’t always know it. We’re not always really aware of it. We tend to experience a feeling of wanting when we have a need. And everyone has this feeling of wanting. Smoker’s, ex-smokers and never smokers, everyone has it.

But as smokers we learn to respond to that feeling of wanting. How? With a cigarette. Because smoking is an emotional behaviour and we have linked it to our needs and our emotions. That’s why when you have a mental craving in reality you’re craving to meet an emotionally need that you used to mask or meet by smoking. Because a craving is just a positive thought about smoking that creates a positive feeling about smoking. It’s a thought that smoking will help you somehow in that moment and this thought creates a craving. But what you’re craving is not the cigarette itself, you crave to change how you feel. You crave to meet an emotional need and it has nothing to do with what’s inside your cigarettes.

And the fourth hunger is the nicotine hunger, the physical hunger for nicotine. Smoking is 80 percent a mental addiction and 20 percent a physical addiction. Now if you want to know what are the differences make sure you watch the video I have for you in the description.

Now the hunger for nicotine is different than the other hungers. Because it is an unnatural hunger, it’s a drug and you don’t have to satisfy this hunger to survive. But sometimes you may think you do or you may feel like you do simply because nicotine has hijacked your brain it makes it believe that you need nicotine to survive just like you need water and food but of course you don’t. And the good news is that the nicotine hunger dies out when nicotine leaves your body.

So 4 hungers: nutritional hunger, thirst, emotional hunger and nicotine hunger. Now why is it important to know them? How does this affect your withdrawal? Well these hungers feel exactly the same way. So it’s very easy to mix them up, it happens all the time. They all feel like a twitch in your stomach, an insecure, uncomfortable feeling in your stomach.

Now of course, if you’re starving for food and you’re starving, really starving this twitch will progress to louder sounds. But it all starts with a twitch in your stomach. For example, you may have nutritional hunger and you may think its emotional hunger so you have emotional eating as a result. And the thing with emotional eating is that, nobody is binging on celery, we usually eat food with zero nutritional value. So we don’t satisfy neither the emotional hunger because food cannot satisfy our emotions nor the nutritional one.

Or another way you may mix them up is you may feel hungry while in reality you’re thirsty. Our ancestors used to take a lot of their water from food so that’s why we evolved to feel hunger and thirst the same way.

I remember, many many years ago, I was at a Tony Robbins event and Tony comes to this huge stage. There were thousands of people there and he tells us “oh this is going to be a big event we’re going to do a lot of things and if you’re hungry, you can go out, but before going out to eat drink water. You’re going to realize you’re going feel better and that you weren’t really hungry”. And then he explained why. Because many times we’re hungry, we think we’re hungry, when in reality we’re thirsty. So when you drink water, the hunger is gone.

And another way you can mix them up is you may have emotional hunger and think its nicotine hunger. Or you may think you crave nicotine while you’re thirsty or you may be undernourished while in reality you crave nicotine. You can mix them up in all sorts of ways and when you do, the withdrawal becomes an overwhelming experience and you feel you’re out of control. But like we said, how you experience the withdrawal depends on your overall health, your mindset and your nutrition.

So how can you stop mixing those hungers up? It’s actually very simple. Number 1 stay nourished, feed your nutritional hunger. Eating the right things will ease your withdrawal. And right now we’re creating a program, a nutrition plan that helps you ease the withdrawal based on what you eat. Because eating the right things helps a lot.

Number 2 stay hydrated. We always say that when you stop smoking you need to drink a lot of water and now you know one of the reasons why. Because many times you may feel you may think you’re craving nicotine while in reality you’re thirsty and when you drink water the craving will go away. And of course, other reasons are that water helps you detox, it helps with withdrawal symptoms like constipation, and it has many many benefits so drink more water than ever before.

And number 3, stop using nicotine. Because three to five days after you stop using nicotine, the nicotine hunger will be gone, you will be done with it. So when these three hungers are dealt with, when you’re nourished, when you’re hydrated and when you stop using nicotine what’s left?

You know that when you experience this twich in your stomach, it’s going to be an emotional hunger. And when you know what it is, you can direct your efforts there and feel better. And yes when you first stop smoking during the first three to five days after quitting, you’re going to experience both the nicotine hunger and the emotional hunger.

About the nicotine hunger, you just have to wait it out, it’s just a twitch in your stomach. And after day five, if you get this twitch in your stomach, then you know it’s the emotional hunger. It’s a need you’re wanting to meet in that moment. So when you do ask yourself: What do I really need right now? What am I missing right now in my life? And when you have your answer and you meet this need in a helpful way, the annoying feeling will go away.

So this is for this video, these are the 4 hungers all smokers experience during withdrawal. Nutritional hunger, thirst, emotional hunger and nicotine hunger. And when you know those hungers, you can have control over the withdrawal because you can direct your efforts towards the things that matter, and avoid gaining weight, and substituting smoking with food.

So I hope you enjoyed this video, I hope it benefited you. Thank you so much for watching.

Thank you so much for watching. Let me know in the comments if you like this video, if you find it helpful and what you’re taking away. I’m looking forward to reading your comments. And if you want more tips and advice from me join our Facebook group it’s free it has thousands of amazing members and we post tips every day. So you’re going to find a lot of support and a lot of people who have already quit or they’re now quitting smoking and they’re on the same journey as you. So make sure you join and I’m looking forward to seeing you there.

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What Does Nicotine Do To Your Body?

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How does nicotine affect your body what side effects does it have on your health?

No, I’m not talking about how smoking affects your health. But what nicotine does to your body.

It’s important to know this because nicotine is being portrayed as an innocent, even healthy substance. Research shows otherwise.

In this video, you will learn:
How nicotine affects different parts of your body, like your heart and lungs.
How nicotine affects your baby if you’re pregnant.
What side effects nicotine has on the brain of adults and young adults.

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Transcript

How does nicotine affect your body and what side effects does it have on your health?

Hi this is Nasia Davos, and in this video I will show you how nicotine affects different parts of your body, what side effects nicotine has on your brain, and how your heart, lungs and blood circulation react to nicotine. Not what smoking or vaping does to your body, but what nicotine as a substance does to your body, so stay tuned.

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So let’s see how nicotine affects the body. Nicotine as a substance affects every part of your body; it affects your brain, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal and reproductive systems of the body.

Let’s start with the brain. One of the most significant dangers of nicotine addiction on the brain is that, it throws your brain chemicals out of balance. It throws your neurotransmitters like dopamine and endorphin out of balance.

Dopamine makes you feel rewarded. And over time, a smoker’s brain relies on nicotine to release dopamine. So smokers do not release dopamine when they feel genuinely happy or rewarded, they release dopamine when nicotine is present. So your brain is basically saving dopamine so it can release it when nicotine is present, and that’s how nicotine controls your feelings in a way. And the thing is, that the more you smoke, you build tolerance so you need more and more nicotine to have a dopamine effect. And after a while, you just smoke to feel normal. And that’s how nicotine depletes your neurotransmitters and changes the structure of the brain.

Some side effects of nicotine on the brain of adults are dizziness, disrupted sleep patterns, and blood flow restriction. And some side effects of nicotine on the brain of teenagers and young adults, is that nicotine creates unfortunately lasting impairments in memory attention and learning because the brain changes until the age of 25. So nicotine addiction can have a negative impact on that change.

Now I know that most of us who are watching this video are past this age, but all we can do is warn younger people and lead by example, lead by being non-smokers.

Now let’s see how nicotine affects the body. First of all, nicotine affects your blood circulation, and your heart. Nicotine causes plaque on the artery walls known as atherosclerosis, which may lead to heart attack.

Also because of nicotine, your blood vessels lose their elasticity which limits how much oxygen can go to your organs. And because there is not enough oxygen, your heart rate increases because your heart is trying to take in more oxygen. And this puts you at risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and stroke.

Nicotine also affects your insulin levels contributing to the risk of diabetes because nicotine stimulates the adrenal gland to release adrenaline. Adrenaline is a hormone that speeds up your heart rate. And while this makes you feel more alert and more energetic in the moment, this puts a lot of burden on your heart.

Adrenaline also makes your body release more glucose into your blood which slows the release of the insulin from your pancreas. What does that mean? What’s the result of this? Its that, you have higher sugar levels in your blood and insulin resistance which contributes to diabetes.

Nicotine also affects your respiratory, your breathing system and the lungs. It can contribute to emphysema, pneumonia. It affects the central nervous system. It’s linked to reflux disorder where acid from the stomach leaks up to the esophagus and causes heartburn.

Nicotine also causes peptic ulcer disease. When you have ulcers in your stomach, it causes dry mouth, heartburn and nausea.

Nicotine also affects your pregnancy. The American Lung Association tells us that nicotine during pregnancy can harm the brain and the lung development of the fetus. And it affects the physical and mental health of the mother causing low birth weights, premature birth or even still birth.

And research shows, listen to that research, shows that nicotine can cause obesity, hypertension, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, problems with brain and behaviour development and even respiratory failure to the child. So that’s what nicotine does to your body.

And it’s important that you know that because some people and some organizations treat nicotine as harmless, and it’s not.

Nicotine causes addiction, so being addicted in and of itself, it’s not a good state to be in now on top of that. Nicotine affects your health like you saw.

A common question I get asked is does nicotine cause cancer? And the truth is that we don’t know for sure, although nicotine is not considered a carcinogen yet. There is research that shows that nicotine can promote the genesis of tumors. So if you’re addicted to nicotine, know that you can break free and you can live happily without it.

The nicotine addiction is physical and mental. It’s 20% physical and 80% percent of it is mental. The mental addiction is how much you believe you need it and enjoy it. It’s how much you believe it adds value to your life. It’s your triggers and your routines all those things are the mental addiction.

So the key to overcoming the nicotine addiction is overcome to the mental part. So if you don’t know how to do that please make sure you get the foundational video of the CBQ method.

The CBQ method is a psychology based method that has 4 quit smoking stages. It has no drugs, no medications and it has helped thousands of people break free from addiction. It is the same method I talked about in my TED talk and it works because it changes how you think about nicotine, how much you believe you need it, how you see it and it helps you break the habit. So go get the video, the link is in the description in the video. I’ll show you what are the 4 stages of the CBQ method and how they work together to help you break free. I’ll show you how you became addicted to nicotine and how you can use the same process to reverse the addiction and you’re going to get a great overview of your journey.

And after this video you’re going to realize that quitting smoking does not start by quitting smoking, it starts by preparing. So this video is going to help you start preparing, so go watch it now and let me know in the comments if you think nicotine is bad for you.

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