Stop Smoking - Stop Eating

2 sessions (1+1) - The effects of addiction include behavioural, mind altering, mood altering, and physical change. Some of these changes are dangerous to others (for instance, drunk driving), and others dangerous only to the addict (overeating, for example). Some addictions produce immediate or rapid changes, and some changes appear only over extended and continuous addiction.

In some cases, the results of addiction are almost unnoticeable: for instance, smokers and coffee drinkers don’t usually behave differently after they use. In these types of addictions, it’s the inability to engage in the addiction that produces noticeable change. In the case of all addictions, however, the absence of the addiction produces change. In fact, it’s the emotional and often physical discomfort and anxiety that helps to maintain and drive addiction. This is one of those hallmarks by which addiction can be most clearly identified. Just as remaining addicted is a personal choice, so too is quitting the addiction. But why quit? Why give up the thing that brings relief? The question is what personal price or damage to health, relationships, social functioning, financial freedom, independence, or the lives of others must be paid before the addict decides to quit?

Some addictions have such a high price, it’s obvious why someone should quit. Others, like caffeine use or addiction to chocolate, don’t and quitting becomes more of a personal choice than a social, legal, or health imperative. But clearly, for some addicts, no price is too high and they die addicted, and often because of their addiction. In the end, addicts quit when they fully realize that the relief brought by addiction is only temporary, that there’s a price to pay for that relief, and that the price is too high. It’s the addict who gets beyond denial who gets to have his or her life back again. Our recommended service provider will lead the way out of the vicious circle you might be living in.