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    posted 02/02/2009, comments (0)

    Nicotine Addiction Isn’t a Choice but Recovery Is

    If your initial seduction re: smoking cigarettes, a pipe, a cigar, or even sniffing snuff has long gone away, then why haven't you stopped? Rather than a mindless repetition of a behavior that one could -- with minor annoyance -- change, i.e., dump, you most likely keep smoking due to a powerful cellular addiction to nicotine,... Read moreChevron
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    posted 01/28/2009, comments (0)

    Inevitable Relapse? It Ain’t Necessarily So!

    I suspect halting an addiction to cigarettes (and other drugs, for that matter) happens most effectively, solidly, enduringly when an individual experiences (develops) a gut-level revulsion (aversion) for same in this respect: he or she emotionally and intellectually catapults (or gradually pushes) cigarette smoking into the same arena as... Read moreChevron
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    posted 01/24/2009, comments (0)

    Stop Smoking Now to Enjoy the Still New Year!

    Lots of exciting activities are filling my plate in this new year including opportunities to offer SOS self-empowerment addiction-recovery group meetings at a new facility in downtown Los Angeles. The folks who'll benefit from this support are skid-row inhabitants and area office workers. Individuals from all walks of life get addicted to... Read moreChevron
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    For Barack Obama, Smoking Will Have to Cease In the White House

    A new year is here, and now  the United States will have a new president. Barack Obama's election is a landmark in many ways, including the fact that he is a cigarette smoker. Major news organizations have featured articles on Obama's smoking habit. The New York Times recently reported that Obama has been trying to quit, but has failed... Read moreChevron
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    posted 01/13/2009, comments (0)

    This Can Be Your Happy New Year to Stop Smoking

    A woman recently attending our free weekly Tuesday-night all-addictions self-empowerment SOS recovery-group meeting for her first time, quietly shared that she had five days off cigarettes. We gave her warm support and a list of our other meeting sites in her geographical area; she'd driven a distance to participate in this support-group meeting.... Read moreChevron
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