Quit smoking with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
For decades, psychologists and psychiatrists have used one method to help people overcome some of the most addictive drugs, including alcohol, cocaine and opioids, and many other problems besides. It is called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, and it was developed in the 1960s by Professor Aaron T. Beck.
CBT changes the way you think about what you do and why you do it. It is easy to follow because it breaks a big problem, like smoking, into many small parts that are easy to solve.
Almost everything we do is based on a learned response. We smoke for all the wrong reasons, as the result of a mistaken learned response.
We link smoking with pleasure, but that is not what is really going on. The difference is subtle, and once you see it, quitting becomes much easier.
The trouble is that these learned responses are so deeply rooted, in smokers and in society, that most people can't escape them alone. This is where the KarmaQuit Smoking Cessation Detox Program comes in: it uncovers and takes apart the problems smokers face when they try to quit. Our graduates describe quitting with ease, and feeling happier afterwards rather than deprived.
It isn't aversion therapy, hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming. It is a series of truths about the psychology of smoking that explain why you smoke and how you can overcome it.
What you will discover in the Detox Program
- The single biggest reason most smokers never quit, and how to overcome it.
- The main reasons quitting always felt so hard, so you can see where past attempts went wrong.
- How nicotine addiction really works: its physical effects are weaker than you think, and the addiction is not as strong as most people believe.
- How to think outside the box: much of what you will learn goes against what you have been told about smoking.
- Why, deep down, most smokers don't actually enjoy smoking.
- Why smoking is not really a habit, even though it feels like one.
- Which decisions to make before you quit, and which decisions set you up to fail.
- The attitude to take before, during and after your last cigarette, something rarely covered in public advice.
- The three pillars of quitting that switch off the desire to smoke.
- The 22 core beliefs smokers hold about why they smoke, taken apart one by one.
- Why cutting down rarely works, and why swapping cigarettes for nicotine patches, gum or sprays doesn't remove the desire itself.
- Why not smoking takes no effort at the end of the program: it feels like stopping something you no longer want to do.
- And why you don't need to replace cigarettes with food.
Hear the method for yourself
The free online introductory seminar explains the method in 90 minutes. Free, with no commitment.