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Mercnbeth -> RE: Is our past who we are today and will be tomorrow (4/18/2007 10:10:25 AM)
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i smoked for well over 10 years and then quit and continued by deprogramming myself, i can be around smokers without any urge to smoke what so ever nor do i ever reach for a cigarette or have cravings. Quitting is not enough if you want to free yourself of anything you have to follow through with deprogramming. He may want to see a hypnotist or maybe he is unaware that this can be done.... Real - Thanks for your reference. My dad is 83, at at this point would require a loud shouting hypnotist. Fortunately he can draw upon his Italian will and stubbornness to offset the cravings.
But if points out how all the references given to the cure of symptoms must be perceived as change. Nothing about the person changed. A symptom was displaced. The nature of the person was able to identify and compartmentalize the symptom and change it, they didn't change the person.
A person may be able to reason a cause and effect and put into the equation of decision a "sub-program" which runs when the desire to be avoided arises. The person didn't change the thought process, or symptom, changed.
Consider addiction. It is now accepted that there is such a thing as an additive personality. The very fact that society accepts this concept enables people to excuse their addiction. When alcoholism, drug addiction, obesity went from self abusive practices to diseases; they became boom industries for drug companies and wasted government spending. How nice is it to be able to say you have a disease versus a personal weakness or bad habit?
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