Is this program for you?
As Mark Twain put it, "Quitting smoking is easy - I've done it hundreds
of times."
This is true for most smokers. Smokers usually make a number of
attempts before they quit successfully. The problem is not so much in
the quitting but in the staying stopped. And the problem of staying
stopped is not mainly a consequence of the physical addiction to
nicotine. Nicotine withdrawals are in fact quite mild and only take three
to four days to overcome. The problem is largely one of maintaining the
motivation to stay stopped. The essential difficulty with
any addiction is that first you have to stop, then you have to stay
stopped and then you will want to stop. If you maintain the motivation
for the time it takes, then, as a matter of time, you will eventually stop
wanting to smoke. The aim of our treatment program, therefore, is to
help you remain motivated during the time it takes to break the habit
of smoking.
If you are highly motivated then you don't mind putting up with a certain
degree of difficulty. If you were promised a pot of gold if you walked
50km, and you wanted that gold, you may be willing to put up with the
discomfort of walking. If half way, you suddenly doubted that the gold
would be there at the end of the journey, then suddenly every step you
took would be ten times more difficult.
The same thing applies to smoking. Giving up smoking is not difficult in
itself. The difficulty lies in the ambivalence. Certainly part of you wants to
stop but another part of you wants to keep smoking. This ambivalence
throws you into a state of conflict. There's a war inside your head with
each side trying to win. Part of you tells you that you're losing your
best friend, that it's too difficult, that you need to smoke to cope with
life. And the other part says that you are sick of smoking, sick of being
unfit, and sick of spending so much money on cigarettes. And so it goes,
backwards and forwards. You're an enemy in your own camp so to
speak. Take the ambivalence out, and giving up smoking becomes
surprisingly easy.
In order to help you stay determined, what the Web Remedies program has done is
combine the wonders of modern technology with the various aspects of successful
nicotine addiction treatment, in a way that allows you to gain a program
that is tailored specifically to meet your individual needs from the comfort and
anonymity of your computer.
