Tobacco and Nicotine: How I Quit
If you haven’t tried nicotine yet, please don’t start.
Nicotine is a drug that doesn’t give you any satisfaction when you first start using it.
When you first use it, it nauseates you and makes you dizzy.
But people will choose to keep using it, despite the negative, sick feelings.
Then you think, “Maybe if I try it again, I’ll have a better effect.”
So, you do it again, but you still feel queasy and nauseated.
After you try it two or three times, the hooks of physical addiction embed themselves in your brain—with one of the strongest addictions known.
Before long, even though you’ve never felt anything good from using it in the past, your brain starts whispering to you to do it again.
Why do people start?
It’s usually from peer pressure and just being around people who do it.
Essentially, you do it to fit in socially.
You figure, “Others must like it; otherwise, why do they keep doing it?”
So you keep doing it, too.
After repeatedly putting nicotine in your bloodstream, you start to crave it.
Then your cells start demanding, “Give me more of that!”
At first, you don’t even know this is happening, because it’s so subtle.
You haven’t felt anything good or high from doing it.
So, it doesn’t make sense.
Why would you crave another hit?
You think to yourself, “What’s the big deal? I can quit if I want to, because it hasn’t made me feel anything but a little dizzy.”
In fact, you think, “I’ll never become addicted to this!”
You didn’t even like it up to now.
So, why are you thinking about doing it again?
“Oh, well,” you think, “it’s no big deal.”
So, you do it again.
Oops!
Now it’s too late.
The claws have sunk in.
Once addiction gets its hooks in you, you will feel mentally cranky, uncomfortable, foggy, and irritable until you use nicotine again.
These are the withdrawal symptoms of nicotine.
Now your mind and body need nicotine just to feel okay again.
You’re in a constant state of withdrawal, which requires constant treatment by repeatedly using nicotine now and forever.
Because if you try nicotine enough times—and remember, it makes you sick the first few times—you’re starting an addiction with horrible withdrawal symptoms.
Something in your mind says, “Take another puff of nicotine.”
When you do, those anxious, irritable feelings instantly go away.
Now you feel fine again.
That is why nicotine is one of the most difficult drugs to quit.
You can’t stop if you wanted to, but you don’t even know that yet.
And so, the cycle continues—a cycle of treating the withdrawal symptoms, which for most people continues until they die.
When you started using nicotine, you were never rewarded with good feelings.
But once you become addicted, all you’re really doing is treating withdrawal symptoms.
These symptoms include feeling highly irritable, agitated, foggy, and unclear in your thinking, and angry and impatient with everyone and everything.
Those are difficult feelings to live with.
What’s the cure?
Using nicotine again?
Immediately, all the bad feelings vanish.
What a relief.
You feel normal again.
You even feel like being nice to people again.
Powerful stuff.
It’s not a matter of willpower or mind control.
It’s mental and physical withdrawal symptoms that you cannot combat or ignore.
You have to treat them, or else live in pure hell for up to three months once you decide to quit.
Most people can’t do it.
Do you want to live in pure misery for three months?
Life is already hard enough without that!
Most people give up soon after they try to quit.
Remember, you don’t even feel the withdrawal symptoms until you use the nicotine one time too many.
Then its hooks are in you.
You need to use it at least every waking hour around the clock, or else you start feeling bad again.
Most people give in and resume using nicotine because when they do, all those withdrawal symptoms disappear.
And the cycle repeats itself, over and over.
It’s pure hell.
That’s how nicotine works.
If you don’t use nicotine, and you never have, please do yourself a favor and don’t try it.
I quit nicotine with an inexpensive herbal replacement supplement that does the same thing in the brain as nicotine.
In Europe, where it’s called “Tabex,” people have been using it for over fifty years with good success.
The effective ingredient in it is cytisine.
I discovered it in a newspaper article.
A one-month supply of Tabex costs $60.
When I first used it, it immediately took away the withdrawal symptoms that occur when you stop using nicotine.
I never thought I’d be able to get off Nicotine.
I quit nicotine by using Tabex over a three-month period.
It gave me 80 to 90 percent relief from withdrawals.
I tried prescription drugs with no success.
And why trade on form of Nicotine for another, when the goal is to stop using it?
I’ve been completely nicotine-free for years.
I’m not a doctor, and recommend checking with your doctor before using cytisine to quit.