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I'm doing research on tobacco, and it's effects, and I come across this quote on the front page of abovetheinfluence.com:

Tobacco is a carrier for the highly addictive drug nicotine. Once your body gets a taste for nicotine, it can quickly become a life-long addiction, with extremely fatal consequences.

Of course this had me laughing. Extremely fatal? As opposed to what, semi-fatal? Slightly fatal? Moderately fatal? Fatal is fatal, my friend. It's all or nothing. Fatal is dead. There's not degrees of fatality... it's dead or not dead. You could say nearly fatal... absolutely fatal... clearly fatal... but extremely fatal? Is it going to kill me harder than most other things? Am I going to die deader or something?

I'm on the side of the stop smoking advocates, but the stop smoking campaigns really need to get a clue in a lot of directions. Here's an example, from a little further down on the same page:

Whether smoked or chewed, nicotine is one of the most highly addictive drugs used in today's society. And once you're hooked, it's extremely hard to overcome this addiction.

In other words, they're trying to prevent you from starting in the first place by telling you how hard it is to quit. What they (and millions of other web pages and people like them) fail to recognize is this: by repeating endlessly and ad nauseum how "hard it is to quit", they're programming people to have a harder time quitting than would be the case just from the effects of the addiction itself.

To wit, subliminals work by repetition. Enough repetition of a statement, whether delivered consciously or subconsciously, will be accepted and considered as fact, regardless of it's actual current level of veracity. We have known this for a long time. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, is quoted as having said:

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

In essence, what he is saying here is that if you repeat something enough, and it seems too outlandish to be a lie told so boldly and frequently, it will be accepted as the truth and acted upon as such. It in effect, becomes the truth for those who believe it, because as we know, what you believe becomes your reality, inwardly and outwardly.

The problem here is not the question of whether or not nicotine is addictive, but that by constantly bombarding everyone with the idea that it is hard to quit smoking, it becomes hard to quit smoking. In essence, we are allowing the individual to set for him or herself the definition of "hard to quit smoking" based on a nasty tangle of negatively spiralling logical fallacies and misunderstandings. It works like this.

You hear, a million times, "It's hard to quit smoking." Repetition suggests that it must be true. You also hear it from every authority you can find. Their authority lends further credence. Then you see that people "have a hard time quitting", and if you are a smoker, you may also "have a hard time quitting".

This seems like a pretty open and shut case, right? It's hard to quit smoking.

But look again at what actually happened. You were told what to think. You accepted it as true, and then you accepted it as being more true based on various other things. For you, this truth now exists as such, and YOU set the definition of how hard it is to quit based on both your personal assessment of the definition of and relativity of "hard", and based on observing others.

If all of those you observe have also been infected with the pre-ordained belief that it is "hard to quit", they will experience unnecessarily high levels of difficulty because they expected to; quitting becomes less likely; and when they do fail (because they believe it's so hard to quit, and that failure is to be expected), it only strengthens that belief and makes quitting even harder!

Then they act as a guide for what you believe. It becomes a spiral, based on faulty thinking.

Now don't get me wrong. I am not saying that a nicotine addiction is a joke, or to be taken lightly. I am saying that we make it much, much harder to deal with than it has to be, and actually is, by this constant insistence that it is so difficult to deal with, to overcome, and to quit. The effect is that what effects it actually does have are magnified greatly, and this is misinterpreted as being evidence that "it's hard to quit smoking!"

There is a saying that "What you believe, you can achieve." The truth is, what you genuinely (i. e. subconsciously) believe, you automatically create as your reality. So we now have an entire system that has fallen into the trap of insisting on the past (a logical fallacy) and failing to understand that we, our actions and our experiences, are the result of our beliefs.

As I state in the advertisement for the 5G stop smoking program:

Smoking cessation doesn't have to be difficult. All you need to do is use the right tool for the job. After all, you wouldn't try to cut a loaf of bread with a hammer, would you? Of course not. And you wouldn't use a wrench, or a screwdriver or a bubble level or a T-square to do it either. You'd use a knife - and a sharp one, at that. But if you did try to use those other tools, and didn't realize that they were not the right tools for the job - would you conclude that it's difficult to cut bread? Probably. And that's the same thing that's happening here. It's not hard to quit, unless you use the wrong method. (Or, for that one rare personality type, you choose to fight the program with everything you've got!)

The fact is, logically, if my subliminal program can work and cause people to quit smoking without effort - and it can, does, and has multiple times in the past - then the base line difficulty for quitting smoking is actually very low. It is everything else we pile on top of it that makes it seem difficult, because we insist it must be.

We cite studies (often labeled as "scientific" to give them credence, regardless of how well they were actually done) which shows X or Y or Z. But what we as a herd mentality society don't take into consideration, in our knee jerk herd-think response, are the following facts:

1. We don't know how well the study was done.
   
2. We haven't actually read the study itself in most cases - we are just getting manipulated repetition from "the media", which is interested in sensationalism, not facts. This is the equivalent of hearsay.
   
3. We have usually not heard or seen any contradictory evidence or studies, and we have not seen those studies, criticisms or peer reviews with our own eyes.
   
4. We automatically assume that because it's on TV, the radio, the Internet, etc. and it was called a "scientific" study" that it must be true.
   
5. The researchers themselves may in fact be operating under similar logical assumptions, or even a desire to produce skewed results so as to preserve a deeply held belief, or maintain employment, or make money from an agreement with their employers - who may, in fact, be the very companies who are profiting from this stuff.
   

Who do you think benefits when you believe that "it's hard to quit smoking."? Let's trace the steps, shall we? If you believe it's hard to quit, then you will be much more likely to fail when you try. And when you fail, you will keep being addicted to nicotine. Which means you would need some source of it on a regular basis... and you would have to buy that source... and there are only two sources. The drug companies, and the tobacco companies. Who are often employing the same people.

Follow the money.

Others also benefit. Every time you buy some form of nicotine replacement "therapy" or a cigarette, the store selling it gets a kickback, known as a "profit". The people transporting and delivering that "product" also get a kickback, which is also known as a "profit". So do the distributors.

Lots of people benefit when you believe it's hard to quit. And they all want to continue benefiting. If you quit, will that happen? No. So why would they want you to quit?

They don't.

So you find a lot of misinformation about quitting, stop smoking methods, etc. designed to obfuscate the truth. The truth is, there are ways to quit that make it very easy. Absolutely effortless, in fact. At least two that I know of, including my program, and possibly a third. But these methods are either ignored or attacked and ridiculed by some members of the "scientific community" and the advertisers in general, because they lead to quitting... and a loss of profits.

What are those methods? Well I'll tell you about two of them, because I haven't researched the third enough to really know for sure that it's valid. But the other two are:

• Properly done multi-session hypnosis, either self hypnosis, or under the guidance of a skilled, experienced hypnotist whom you trust enough to fully cooperate with.
  
• Properly made and used subliminals designed to deal with all necessary aspects of the process.
  

Here's the key. Both of these methods are very closely related. They both rely on nothing but your own mind's power to work. And they both require you to cooperate for them to work. They're not a drug. They're not a pill, or a patch, or a gum. When they work as intended, you never have to buy anything else again, ever. They do what they're supposed to do, and they stop the cash flow. Permanently.

And they always work, if you cooperate fully.

The peak of hypnosis usage in theraputic formats was in the 1950's and early 1960's. Then we started having it fall out of favor, despite more than 60 years of excellent results. Why? I believe it was because of two things. First, the doctors no longer had a monopoly on the ability to heal and cure people. While hypnotists don't heal and cure, it will seem like it to the person who doesn't realize that hypnosis is something that they must cooperate with, and thus, in effect, they are being guided to do to and for themselves. In other words, we have the power to heal and cure ourselves of a lot of things that doctors were trying to heal and cure previously, and they didn't like the competition. Less money, you see. Health care is one of the biggest of the big businesses there is, at least in the United States.

The second reason? Very similar. The drug companies stood to loose millions, even billions as time went on, and trillions over decades. Why? Because pain can be dealt with quite well using hypnosis, as has been proven through the conduction of many entire surgeries of all levels of painfulness and majority, using only hypnosis. Because many other things they were making money on, as well, were also threatened by hypnosis. There are many things that hypnosis can do (as proven in at least the 40's, 50's and 60's) that "modern" society would laugh at in disbelief, because we have been told to believe hypnosis is a lot less effective than it actually is, so that we will not cooperate fully, and then of course it won't work.

Modern medicine in the West consists largely of surgery and pills, supplemented heavily with lots of expensive tests to mitigate insurance costs because of our litigious society. The drug companies in the United States make absurd amounts of money, and they charge the highest prices of any drug companies in the world. The multi-national drug companies only charge these ridiculous prices in the United States, and only because they can. Why do we pay 2 and 3 times (and sometimes much more) more than other countries pay for the same drugs? If you believe the drug company propaganda, it's because only in the United States do we have the intelligence, skill, knowledge and technology to make drugs safely. If you have a little common sense, the truth becomes apparent: because they can, and they are (to put it bluntly) greedy large corporations who consist of a bunch of people who all choose to believe they are not personally responsible because it's "the company" doing it, not them.

So... back to the only two ways to quit that I know of that actually rely on it being as easy as it can be, so you'll succeed, instead of trying to make it harder so you will fail... consider this interesting fact. Ultimately, both hypnosis and subliminals are doing nothing morethan making it easy for you to change your mind. That's it. That's all they do.

And if people can, have and do quit smoking when they use these methods and cooperate fully, and it is effortless for them, what does that tell you about how hard it really is to quit smoking?

The truth is, it is as hard to quit smoking as we make it by our beliefs. If you want, need, expect or believe it will be hard, is hard, must be hard... guess what? Argue for your limitations, and they are yours. You win, it's hard.

And if you understand all of what I have just told you... you will come to realize that the fact remains that what we believe becomes our reality. And it has been shown that the base line for quitting is set to easy, because others have done it that way. So why do we continue to insist that it is, and must be, so difficult?

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