Smoke-Free Choices™

You can quit smoking. It is your choice.

Why do we smoke cigarettes?

Smoking is as much a provider of psychological pleasure as it is for physiological satisfaction. The impetus to smoke is indeed related to pleasure. Researchers with the USC Brain and Creativity Institute have demonstrated that the insula – a region of the brain linked to emotions and feelings – is directly involved with sustaining smoking addiction (New York Times, Jan 26, 2007).

Smoking is a reward. A cigarette is a reward that we can give ourselves as often as we wish when we have done anything well.

You are not alone with a cigarette. You can watch the smoke drift from your cigarette. The smoke is full of meaning; it represents part of yourself when you lean back and light your cigarette and see the glow in the dark. You are not alone anymore.

Smoking is oral pleasure. Powerful erotic sensitivity of the lips provides oral pleasure as fundamental as sexuality and hunger. The satisfied expression on a smoker’s face when he inhales the smoke is ample proof of his sensuous thrill.
Smoking facilitates relaxation. Smoking helps us to relax because, like music, it is rhythmic. In times of high tension, cigarettes provide relief. Smoking gives our hands something to do. The connection between smoking and respiration accounts for the common expression, “smoking helps us to let off steam.”

These reasons help explain why we light up a product that when used as directed will eventually kill us. Smoking is considered the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

Quitting smoking is complicated

Quitting smoking takes hard work and a lot of effort. Nicotine addiction historically has been one of the hardest addictions to break.
Nicotine causes changes in the brain that make people want to use more and more. Recent research (Brody, Aug. 2006) has shown that nicotine receptors in the brain require constant saturation in order for cravings to be satisfied. Research showed that, on average, two and half cigarettes were required to satiate nicotine receptors for the moment.

The smoking habit actually results in an increase in the number of nicotine receptors in the brain. The more and the longer a smoker uses cigarettes the greater the number of receptors demanding satisfaction. This is the physiological mechanism behind craving. This enables us to regard habitual smoking as a disease of the brain and not a personal failure of willpower.

You can quit smoking

The prerequisites for quitting smoking for good with no weight gain are:
1. You desire and intend to stop smoking. If you don’t want to stop smoking, you won’t succeed in any smoking-cessation program.
2. You need to find a smoking-cessation program that is comprehensive and extremely potent, a program that addresses the interconnected psychophysiological elements of addiction. Our Smoke-Free Choices™ program is designed to address the twin terrors of nicotine addiction and smoking habit.

Smoke-Free Choices™ Program

This program is specially designed to address the physiological and psychological components of nicotine addiction and smoking habits. It includes:
1. Health & well-being coaching addressing psychology of addiction • Psychophysiology of nicotine addiction and cigarette smoking • Deep relaxation techniques • Hypnotherapy • Guided imagery for smoke-free life • Nutritional counseling
2. New low-level laser technology addressing physiology of addiction
3. EEG Biofeedback addressing neurophysiology of addiction
4. New smoking alternative supplement satisfies craving
The Smoke-Free Choices™ program is comprehensive, safe, unique, innovative and natural.

Call now and get the unique benefits of our Smoke-Free Choices™ Program:
818-991-5100.