
Part of you wants to quit, but part still wants to smoke and so the desire to quit fights with the desire not to. If you try to stop smoking when you still believe that the cigarette provides some pleasure or benefit, then a conflict is created, along with a sense of deprivation. Most smokers sleep through withdrawal all night, every night and it doesn’t even wake them up! So, if it isn’t nicotine withdrawal that causes these feelings, what is it?

How do we know this? Smokers are in withdrawal whenever they aren’t smoking, yet for the most part they barely even register it. Yes, nicotine is an addictive drug: but, the symptoms of panic, anxiety and irritability experienced by so many smokers trying to quit have almost nothing to do with the physical withdrawal from nicotine.

“Being a smoker is like being trapped in a complicated ’s as if Allen Carr has a map of that maze.”Ĭontrary to what many smokers think, it is NOT a lack of willpower or nicotine withdrawal that make it difficult to quit.
