A common feeling of my clients who come to work with me is anxiety. Most people pick up the phone worried about their health; something has happened to drive home the need to stop NOW. The most severe cases are life threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart attacks, and respiratory illnesses, such as pneumonia. Hopefully it will not take that severity for you or your loved on to get help. But with any addiction, the consequences to one’s health only get worse, not better if left untreated. So, perhaps it is the inability to walk up a flight of steps without being winded, not having the stamina to exercise or play with your kids or grandkids, the frequency of respiratory problems, or it could be the inner knowing that your behavior is out of sync with your values, the disparity between how you see yourself and how you cope with life. It is usually when the cost exceeds the payoff that prompts that first contact.
It is worth noting what it costs to maintain one’s addiction and what most products cost that purport to help you stop. Today I looked at the cost of smoking both cigarettes and vapes, and I looked at a popular product on the market that claims to help nicotine addicts get free from nicotine by using nicotine gum. It is called Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT).
To smoke or vape approximately 1 pack of cigarettes a day or the equivalent in vaping costs conservatively $8.00 a day. That’s $2,920 a year, or anywhere between $243 and $250 per month. A 200 count of nicotine gum with either 2mg or 4mg per piece is $70. The manufacturer recommends users pop around 9 pieces per day for 12 weeks. That comes to $840 over 3 months because at that rate you need 11.57 boxes or 12 boxes in all. That is $280 per month to replace the nicotine you are trying to get free from. Wow! The cost is worse to stop than to keep on smoking or vaping. And that’s 18 or 36 grams of nicotine per day which is probably more than what you get from your smoking or vaping.
Here is the relevant question: How does one get free from nicotine if you are merely replacing the form in which you get nicotine? Where is the recovery from nicotine in that? You see, it doesn’t make you less dependent on nicotine if the cure is more nicotine… It’s a trap. Don’t fall for it. It ends up convincing you that you can’t ever get free.
So why endure the costs? Because most folks are anxious about stopping, anticipating that the experience will be an overwhelming internal battle, and convinced it will be impossible to cope with meeting life’s challenges without their “best friend”. So naturally, they are deeply divided about stopping: one part of them is so sick of being jerked around by the need for nicotine, yet not wanting to do battle with their desires.
What if the process of stopping wasn’t the battle they are anticipating without the need for drugs and substitutions? What if the cost of stopping was less than the cost to continue? What if the way out was by going through the process of withdrawal only to discover that the attempts to block out your desires only fed the struggle and made the experience worse? And what if in the process of stopping you had someone alongside you who has already walked in your shoes to help you along the way? That is what my clients and I came to discover firsthand. Not one of us are wishing we could smoke, nobody died or needed to be medicated or hospitalized in the process and all of us have the peace of mind that we did the best thing ever for our health and pocketbooks by stopping.
If you want what we have, you have nothing to lose by booking a free session or calling 512-758-1910. Chooseasmokefreelife.com or chooseavapefreelife.com. Both are paths to freedom that lasts, and you will find out about me, how the program works, hear from people like yourself, and both medical and celebrity folks who have found the freedom you are looking for. I look forward to hearing from you.
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