You can find several solutions available today to help stop cigarette smoking without the need for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). These involve a wide assortment of self-help resources, counselling and prescription drugs such as Zyban or Prozac. Stopping cigarette smoking is absolutely not simple and, as the great author Mark Twain once said, “Stopping smoking is easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.” In those days, he did not have any idea that he was a nicotine addict; now, we realize that nicotine dependency has to be treated.

Unfortunately, most persons don’t possess the strength of will associated with General de Gaulle, who was a quite heavy smoker. At some point, he came to the realisation that cigarettes overpowered him and not vice versa, so he just simply stopped smoking cigarettes! Loads of people who smoke aren’t lucky to have the matching grit and focus. Corporeal, internal and also emotional addictions are really hard to beat and altering the way you do things wouldn’t be straightforward, especially if you still want to be with others who smoke cigarettes. You can’t give up being pals with smokers in an instant because they smoke and you don’t need to.

Utilizing state-sponsored phone counselling services is a wonderful way to stop cigarette smoking without using NRT. These services demonstrated outstanding gains inside the areas that run them and the tobacco smokers who have tried them out stopped faster compared to others who don’t use them.

Since nicotine is a really hard substance to avoid, to succeed, it has to be not merely about the cigarette smoker; it should also be about the kind of stop smoking aid, support and encouragement that they accept from other folks. This involves advisors, buddies, close relatives and the persons they work with. All of these individuals have a part in a soon-to-be ex-smoker’s support team. We regularly hear ex-cigarette smokers say that they wouldn’t have been ready to give up if not for the guidance they got.

Any cigarette smoker who wants to quit can receive all the information and facts they will need from local support groups, hospitals, employers, health organisations and health insurance corporations. However, the best assistance will come from skilled counsellors who specialize in this area.

You could get both team and individual guidance or, as abovementioned, you may get guidance merely via free state counselling services. A professional will help the smoker in recognizing the emotional and internal problems that show up when they first give up smoking and withdraw from nicotine. It is not an easy job, as nicotine addiction is one of the strongest addictions any person can have.

Keep in mind that when you quit smoking, nicotine remains in your body for 3 or 4 days, and it’s when those days end that the physical, emotional and internal problems show up. These might keep going for merely several days or, in various occasions, even longer. It’s during this particular occasion when assistance is needed the most; the cigarette smoker should have someone to lean on instead of going back to using tobacco.

The beauty of utilizing counselling to overcome smoking is that you don’t have to utilise NRT or any ıntense drugs. Medical research demonstrate that when people who smoke receive the proper counseling or go to a specialized centre, they are four times more inclined to be successful in their efforts to give up smoking. Doing this by yourself has been discovered to be the least successful strategy of all.

Testimonial #1
Since my mum started using AUK she has stopped drinking and it has made a massive difference to her, now she is less tired all the time and she has been much less irritable. I think Addictions UK is great because now I have my mum back.

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Testimonial #2
The first time I phoned Addictions UK, I was hung over, frightened, lonely and desperate. I had known for a long time that my alcohol addiction was out of control, but I’d always drank it away, convincing myself I could deal with it on my own and letting dreadful fear continue to bubble under the surface. I had tried getting help a few times over the years, but my feeling of shame about my addiction lead me to isolating myself again and going straight back to drinking.

When I found AUK and the strength to call them, it was a small relief in itself. I spoke to someone who

Is there a single point in time to which I can point and say: this is when I became a pornography addict? Or was I simply born this way; doomed right from the start?

I guess it depends on how far you stretch the definition of addiction. I don’t believe I became obsessed with pornography until my early teens, but there were plenty of signs before then that suggested, at the very least, I had an unhealthy interest in sexual imagery, both in my developing personality traits and in my actions.

I don’t remember this but my mother tells me that, when I was a very small boy, she took to hiding her travel brochures because she’d find me browsing through the pages looking for pictures of topless sunbathers. I was three years old.

My earliest experiences in this area that I can actually remember are from the age of about nine or ten. I recall

Now that we have a new Government, when will the Army of Civil Servants and Public Sector Administrators within the Addictions Industry be swept away by the forthcoming cuts?

Will the NTA and Drug and Alcohol Action Teams be served notice to quit – and how will previously agreed budgets be revamped and change main line services? Will the Tory / Liberal Coalition keep the bureaucrats under a different name / organisation – how will public addictions policies change?

Will more hard cash reach front line services and will priority health / treatment objectives be considered to be more important nowadays – instead of the longstanding crime prevention agendas championed by the outgoing Government, the NTA and their friends? Will the Addictions Services miss the removal of Strategic Health Authorities?

Will the Private Sector and Social Enterprise movement get a look-in when seeking Public Sector contracts?

We now live in interesting times and await answers to these questions with interest!

Here is the latest video from Addictions UK.

Question 1…
Do you believe that you have an addiction?
Question 2…
Has your life become unmanageable?
If you answered “yes” to both questions…
Visit www.addictionsuk.com to learn more.

I am someone who, after years of active alcoholism, can now see myself recovering, and, after a struggle, enjoying the process. Having first found that I can survive without alcohol, I am now starting to engage with life – work, social, and the world in general – without suffering the debilitating stresses for which I always felt drink to be the only cure.

My problem, my illness, goes back a long way. It was there when I was at school and university, but became increasingly obvious to me and those around me after I began work (as a solicitor in commercial private practice). I knew that I wasn’t behaving conventionally: at first drinking – often alone – every lunchtime, then first thing in the morning, eventually hiding bottles at home and sneaking them into work in my briefcase. I would wake up, not every day but often enough, with little or no memory of the night before and see looks of at best amusement, but more often hurt or anger, contempt or pity, at home and in the office.

I began a twelve step programme with Addictions UK. I have daily sessions with my worker and have a 24 hour helpline I can use when I need. I have spent many years using drugs and alcohol and had come to the point of losing everything. My life was in a mess and all the promises I had made were wearing thin. I knew I had to make a change. The programme has not been easy but with the help of my family and Addictions UK I made good progress. I now have regular contact with my young daughter and have got myself a full time job. In the five months I have been drug and alcohol free life has become worth living. Addictions UK have given me a new chance of living a normal fulfilling life.

Thank you

Here is the latest video from Addictions UK.

Some addicts fail to seek help out of fear of exposure.

That’s why confidentiality is the founding principal of Addictions UK.
Visit www.addictionsuk.com to learn more.

My life coach was always there or would ring me back. I have lived a violent life and the coach understood this. My coach understood where I was coming from and helped me to make sense of it all. I am clean now. For ten months I had been clean nearly all the time but relapsed. It made me aware of how much I needed the programme. I am working now and I have faced up to my responsibilities. It is a lifeline for me and many others. I have never worked much before recovery or being able to hold down a job for long.

I have been in Borstal or Prison for most of my adult life till I got recovery. My mam and dad were addicts and alcoholics. I was subject to their illness from a young age and this lead me to foster homes and kids homes borstal and then to prison. I knew no better for a long time and repeated the mistakes that they had made. I had endless excuses why I used drugs and could see little possibility of a life outside what I knew. The 12 Steps have taught me that I don’t have to repeat the mistakes of my parents and though I loved them I did not want my kids to follow in my footsteps. They have helped me to cope with my past and deal with the present and look forward to a future!

Snippet of Simon Stephens from Addictions UK on Metro Radio

Caroline Densley: We’ve been speaking to a North-East addiction expert, whos told us sex addiction, can be just as serious as alcohol.
Simon Stephens: Just like drugs is a stimulus for some people, while sexual behaviour is a stimulus for others. And often, it’s not just sex, it’s about relationships as well, that people have serial relationships and things, because they get a reward from doing that.
Caroline Densley: Simon runs Addictions UK in Chester-le-Street, he says the first step to recovery is recognising you’ve got a problem.