Addiction to Tobacco and Smoking

Let's look at someone trying to quit smoking. For most addicted smokers, the addition is about half-mental, half-physical. This varies with each individual. 

The physical portion of the addiction is to nicotine. The psychological part of the addiction is to the relaxing, familiar sensation of handling the cigarette, watching its curling smoke, the deep and relaxing breathing associated with inhaling and exhaling, the taste, and so on. 

When quitting, a smoker's conscious mind says, "I will stop smoking - no problem." But the unconscious mind has been conditioned that cigarettes give pleasure, and that's all it can focus on. 

The addicted, unconscious mind says, 'Give me a cigarette - now!' It only recognizes what feels good, or what doesn't feel good. It demands a cigarette without regard to right or wrong, and rebels against the conscious mind's decision to not smoke. 

During the process of quitting, however, a new habit of being a nonsmoker forms. The unconscious mind gradually gets used to not smoking, and the urges to smoke die away. See our cool quitting tips for more information on how to quit smoking.

Tobaccofree advocate provides various solutions like school assembly programs, quit smoking program, educational videos that helps people to quit tobacco and smoking.

Tobacco Wars! The Battle for a Smokefree Society

Tobacco is a truly important global issue: one out of three people worldwide are currently addicted. As a result, in coming decades smoking may kill one billion people in this century, according to the UN World Health Organization.

Tobacco Wars! The Battle for a Tobacco free Society educates and inspires college students, community members and health conference attendees. 

This speaker reaches the hearts and minds of his audiences. Patrick Reynolds opens with stories about the RJ Reynolds family, by turns colorful, humorous and moving. He speaks vividly and movingly about his memories his father's and eldest brother's deaths from smoking, and then switches gears and offers a report card on tobacco control for the State he is in. 

He'll compare your State to the rest of the nation in four areas: current State tobacco taxes, State spending this year on youth smoking prevention, spending on cessation, and your State's current laws limiting smoking in restaurants, bars and other workplaces. Finally, he'll suggest what can be done to bring about change. 

Mr. Reynolds will also offer his insightful perspective on the influence of the tobacco lobby on Congress, the UN World Health Organization's Global Treaty on Tobacco Control, ratified by 170 nations as of June, 2011, the new FDA law to regulate tobacco, and the cutting of highly successful tobacco prevention school assembly programs by most States. 

He'll provide the current number of States which have passed strong Statewide 100% smoking bans (as of 28 June, 2011). 

Time permitting, Patrick will include a powerful section from his talk for grades six through twelve: he'll recount the moving and powerful story of Sean Marsee, a young track star who died at 19 from chewing tobacco. He'll illustrate that story with shocking before and after Power Point slides and videos

For comic relief, he shows some hilarious slides which make fun of Joe Camel, depicting him in a hospital bed, and present "Malboro Country" as a group of smokers huddled in an alley behind an office building, getting their nicotine fix.

A Simple Solution to Avoid Addiction

On America's poly-addictions: cigarettes, food, alcohol, drugs, music, movies, TV - even work Why are so many of us are addicted to one or more of these? The answer is simple: we seek to avoid our pain. When we change our mood with diversions like these, we numb out, shut down and shut out our pain - and we do nothing to solve the problem causing it.

The solution: in difficult moments, avoid substances and other diversions. Stay with the problem. Think about what's causing your difficulty, try to clearly identify it and be aware of it. Next, talk about it to others. It's by talking about our problems that we can best solve them, and begin to heal.

Stay with what's bothering you, talk to a trusted friend, family member or mentor, and then take a step to solve your problem. Taking even a small first step is important.

In short, when life's problems arise, and they most certainly will, don't alter your mood with smoking, alcohol, drugs, music, or working too hard. Tough it out, and do the work at hand - to stay with the hard moment, and talk to someone about it.

Life is not meant to be easy. It's difficult by design. By our personal struggles, we build and define our character. Dealing with life's obstacles and failures empowers each of us to become stronger, and to reach our full potential as adult men and women. And - you can do it!

Tobaccofree advocate is a popular motivational speaker at universities, school assembly program, high school assembly program, university lecture programs, hospitals and schools around the nation.