Many people who are addicted to drugs like heroin, cocaine or alcohol are smokers as well.
The patterns of addiction run deep.
As each addiction is solved a greater need is taken up by the next addiction in line.
Usually smoking is the last addiction in the queue.
The problem now is that cigarettes have been given the task of managing all of the problems that the drugs have been believed to solve.
The key for a previously addicted person to quit the smokes is to come to terms with exactly what the nicotine is managing in their lives and to employ a range of tactics to firstly to prepare for quitting.
1.
Congratulate yourself for quitting the other drugs.
You have done a fantastic job.
2.
Support your body in advance, exercise diet and multi supplements.
You don't have to take radical steps just work your way towards an overall better state of health.
3.
Take time to learn to relax and meditate.
These three steps are specifically designed to support and prepare your nervous system for the change ahead, which importantly is going to render you addiction free possibly for the first time in many years.
Once your wellbeing is improved, and this should only take a few weeks the next thing to do is to book an appointment for some hypnosis.
By advising your therapist of your exact history you will be able to free yourself of the last chains of addiction.
By breaking all of those old connections and triggers some of which you have been clinging to for years you will be free.
But you must avoid falling into a trap.
This trap is trying to fill the void in your life, which drugs used to fill, with some other bad behaviour.
The trick is to firstly recognise this void and embrace it.
Next some of the void must be filled with healthy behaviours.
This way you will stay drug free.
Plus you will become dramatically more healthy.
To an extent that you may never have believed possible.
Many smokers trying to quit who have had other addictions are very nervous about quitting cigarettes.
So don't rush in, a few weeks won't make any difference.
Take your time do the three steps prepare yourself physically mentally and emotionally.
Use you past drug withdrawal success as a springboard.
You have done it before and you will do it again.