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How a nutritional approach is helping people quit smoking

Why is it so difficult to quit smoking when you know it’s best for your health, your wallet and your family and friends?? “The answer has almost nothing to do with a lack of self-control or common sense on the part of the smoker or nicotine user” writes Dr. Charles Gant, a pioneer in the nutritional treatment of addictions and author of End Your Addiction Now: The Proven Nutritional Supplement Program That Can Set You Free. The real answer is that your biochemistry makes you crave cigarettes no matter what your head is telling you. Now using innovative nutritional therapies, quitting smoking can be made easy by specifically targeting and modulating the specific chemicals responsible for your addiction.

Quitting smoking case study from Dr. Gants excellent book.

“Esther W. was embarrassed the first time she came into my office. "I just can't seem to quit smoking," she said. "I know there are so many people out there with worse problems than I have, I'm almost ashamed to tell you about mine." Esther had started smoking when she was a junior in high school, to be "one of the crowd," as she put it. That was fifteen years ago. She knew about the dangers: "I can read the warnings on the packs. I just can't make myself take them seriously," she said.”
“After our first appointment, Esther immediately stopped using her nicotine patch. Within twenty-four hours of beginning the Power Recovery Program, her cravings for cigarettes had completely disappeared. "It took me about two months to become a nonsmoker," she said, "but it only took one day to quit cigarettes." She went on to explain what she meant by "becoming a nonsmoker": "I had to get over all the little habits associated with smoking, like reaching for a cigarette in my purse, or thinking I needed a cigarette after dinner. I didn't crave cigarettes at all. But I had to get over going through the motions of smoking."

End Your Addiction Now: The Proven Nutritional Supplement Program That Can Set You Free by Charles Gant MD, PhD, NMD & Greg Lewis PhD, 2002

Can this style of approach work for other addictions?

YES! This approach is effective against virtually all addictions including, but not limited to:

See our page on Addictions. If any of your friends, family or colleagues are smokers please pass along this information to them!

Regards,

Blake Graham, BSc (Honours), AACNEM
Clinical Nutritionist
Perth, Western Australia
Phone/Email: See Contact page
*Non-Perth residents may enquire about phone consultations.

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