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Getting counseling to stop smoking. Well, I'm a smoking cessation counselor. So I am
100 percent in favor of it.
Not everyone needs it but I feel that most people do and there are different types. There
are individual sessions and there are group sessions. My favorite is group sessions.
You might ask, "Why?" Well, I will tell you that most people that cannot quit smoking
cold turkey are very ashamed of it. That the cigarettes have that much power or them. And
they think that they're the only ones.
They can't understand it and they think there's something wrong with them. So when they come
together in a group and they find out that everyone shares that same guilt and shame
about the addiction it lets go of so much of it. And then it unblocks their belief that
they can quit.
And you can. Once people quit smoking a lot of feelings come up because all those feelings
have been pushed down from smokings. Oh, let me smoke over this or let me smoke over that.
Oh this happened, give me a cigarette or that happened give me a cigarette. I have a test.
I have a project at work. Let me smoke, smoke, smoke.
I mean it comes up over everything so getting counseling when you put down the cigarette
because everything all the anxiety, the panic, all the different feelings, the stuff that
you've pushed down all these years. Maybe not that many years. Maybe you haven't been
smoking that long but you can't stop.
So getting counseling for these issues is so helpful. Let there be no shame in your
game.