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November 20, 2007 at 11:23 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Bad Habits, Smoking
Underneath the Holding Area of the habit code comes the negative habits. These habits take energy from the holding area and your Body Mind and Soul energy are reduced. Smoking is a good example (or should I say bad example) of one these habits because as you smoke it not only effects the body but it also deadens the mind and effects the soul.
So, your good habits give energy to your Body, Mind and Soul. This energy is stored in the Holding Area. Bad habits reduce the energy in your Holding Area and this becomes Experience.
October 26, 2007 at 2:58 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Bad Habits, Smoking, Ways To Eliminate Bad Habits
If stopping your bad habits is important to you then what your about to read may help you discover the key to habit elimination.
There is an arbitrary threshold at which the pain or destructiveness of doing something conflicts with the negative tendencies of any habit. It is this threshold point that The Habit Code is based around.
It’s as if the subconscious mind finally takes heed of all the bad press your negative habit has been sending it and finally says,
“OK, I hear what you’re saying, this habit has gone far enough”
The subconscious then acts as your ally to help break down the habit. You may crave the substance or the comfort a habit gives but with the subconscious now in a state of “habit breaking” it reigns in your normal tendencies and produces a force to be reckoned with.
What I’m talking about is normally called ‘Will Power’, but the Power of Will changes because of The Habit Code…
Let me try to explain.
Say that you are a cigarette smoker, your concious is very aware of the dangers of smoking and of all the negative sides of this habit. You’ve tried to stop before. You’ve tried several times using all of the nicotine therapy available. Every time deep down you’ve really known that you will be smoking again. You or should I say your conscious wanted to stop, but your subconscious was oblivious to the fact.
Blowing The Safety Valve.
If you’ve read any rags to riches story you may notice the defining moment that everything changes from absolute poverty to a change of belief and a complete positive switch to a different way of thinking. An Epiphany occurs that comes from the soul and if you were standing next to the person in the story you would be able to feel the change in their persona and aura. I hope you’re with me here, it’s a connection with the soul, or subconscious, that re-programs the individual, actually changes their whole outlook on life and the problems that they are facing.
It normally occurs when people are at their lowest ebb and whether Physically, Spiritually or mentally one of these three channels is at an incredible low point and the subconscious seems to get the message and allow for a spiritual connection.
I can remember it vividly, how mine occured when i no longer needed to smoke… I was in bed with an incredibly bad chest, drunk and feeling like absolute shit but I could feel some other part of my mental make up make the decision to stop smoking. From that point the subconscious mind took control and whereas before it would automatically help you to smoke, it was now saying the absolute opposite, “this person no longer smokes, put that cigarette down”.
I’ll try and get some examples of this Connection to the succonscious so that I can explain it better, and to how we can use hypnosis to create the same type of connection soon.
John
August 7, 2007 at 3:27 pm · Filed under The Habit Code, Good Links, Smoking, Ways To Eliminate Bad Habits
I was searching around the blogosphere and up came this great blog by Leo Babauta
His story begins where mine did, when he quit smoking. And the leverage he has got off that habit change is amazing.
He has a guest post on the site from Scott Young that deals with eliminating habits.
It’s a great post and you can read it here:
http://zenhabits.net/2007/07/20-tricks-to-nuke-a-bad-habit/
January 26, 2007 at 9:29 pm · Filed under What Are Habits, Smoking
Smokers Quit After Damage to Brain Region
“Nicotine Addiction Depends on a Healthy Insula” Say Researchers From the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California (USC).
Smokers with a damaged Insula – a region in the brain linked to emotion and feelings – quit smoking easily and immediately, according to a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science.
The study provides direct evidence of smoking’s grip on the brain.
It also raises the possibility that other addictive behaviors may have an equally strong hold on neural circuits for pleasure.
The senior authors of the study are Antoine Bechara and Hanna Damasio, both faculty in the year-old Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, in collaboration with graduate students Nasir Naqvi, who was first author on the study, and David Rudrauf, both from the University of Iowa.
“This is the first study of its kind to use brain lesions to study a drug addiction in humans,” Naqvi said.
In the 1990s, Antonio Damasio proposed the insula, a small island enclosed by the cerebral cortex, as a “platform for feelings and emotion.” The Science study shows that the pleasure of smoking appears to rest on this platform.
“It’s really intriguing to think that disrupting this region breaks the pleasure feelings associated with smoking,” said Damasio, director of the institute and holder of the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience at USC.
“It is immediate. It’s not that they smoke less. They don’t smoke, period.”
The finding raises the question of whether damage to the insula also could cause a person to quit other addictive behaviors. Can a brain lesion cure someone of their bad habits?
The answer is not yet known, Bechara said, but he suggested the phenomenon could be “generalizable” with respect to alcohol abuse, overeating and other addictions.
The discovery of the insula’s role in addiction opens new directions for therapies, Bechara said, including possible drugs targeted to a region that “no one paid attention to.”
“There is a lot of potential for pharmacological developments,” Bechara said.
Any treatment would need to preserve the beneficial functions of the insula. But Bechara noted that the region appears to be involved specifically in “learned behaviors” rather than the fundamental drives necessary for survival. As a result, it might be possible to target one without disrupting the other.
Hanna Damasio, co-director of the institute and holder of the Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, also stressed the difference between habitual and instinctive behaviors.
“Because the insula is now recognized as a key structure in processes of emotion and feeling, the fact that insular damage breaks down a learned habit such as smoking, demonstrates a powerful link between habit and emotion or feeling,” she said.
The finding that one small region could be the Achilles’ heel of smoking addiction is especially surprising, given the brain-wide effects of nicotine on the nervous system.
The study considered smokers with damage that did not include the insula, but the likelihood of disrupting the smoking addiction was many times greater when the insula was involved.
Funding for the research came from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The University of Iowa provided access to its extensive database of patients with brain lesions.
The mission of the Brain and Creativity Institute is to study the neurological roots of human emotions, memory and communication and to apply the findings to problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas.
The institute brings together technology and the social sciences in a novel interdisciplinary setting. For more information, go to www.usc.edu/schools/college/bci/index.html
Link to the Science Journal article: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/125/1
January 10, 2007 at 12:23 pm · Filed under Smoking, Habit News
I’ve now been stopped for 8 months and I’m still fascinated about the addictive effects of cigarettes. For example. In a news item from the Black American Web about a doctor that treated really bad drug addiction said “I once had a patient, a smoker, who had multiple addictions to cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin. The patient got into a treatment facility, “but he told me the reason he almost walked out was because they wouldn’t let him smoke. That will tell you how powerful the addiction is.”
See the full article here: Still Smoking Cigarettes
November 9, 2006 at 12:13 pm · Filed under Bad Habits, Smoking
November 16th 2006 is the day to give up smoking - well it is if you are in the USA.
November 16th is the day when over one million people will kick cigarette smoking into touch. Started in 1976 when the California Division of the American Cancer Society successfully prompted nearly one million smokers to quit for the day, the Great American Smokeout is the time when you can stop yourself, or if you’re not stopping just now, help your family, friends and neighbors to stop the smoking habit.
If you think it’s time to stop, then get further help and details from the American Cancer Society here:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_4.asp
For history on The Great American Smokeout go here:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_5_Great_American_Smokeout_History.asp
