Quit Smoking Cold Turkey Reviews

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If you have been a smoker for any length of time, you would almost certainly heard of the phrase ‘quitting cold turkey.’ It is accepted as the phrase that describes a person ‘stopping smoking abruptly, with no consideration or planning.’

The origin of the phrase ‘quitting cold turkey’ is unknown, but there are several interpretations that make sense. One is that when someone quits a highly addictive drug such as heroin, when going through withdrawal they experience chills. Their skin takes on a white appearance, and puckers like a turkey. Another is that cold turkey takes no planning or thought to prepare for a meal.

Quitting cold turkey is one of the most popular methods of smoking cessation, and has the highest failure rate of all the quit smoking methods. The idea is to simply throw out all cigarettes, lighters, ashtrays and everything that reminds you of smoking, suddenly and without warning. Extraordinarily strong willpower is then required to resist cigarettes.

The reason quitting cold turkey has such an unusually high failure rate, is because no preparation of the mind or body is undertaken before resorting to this overwhelmingly drastic measure. Quitting cold turkey gives nicotine the power, and not the other way around. This method puts nicotine on an almighty pedestal, where the quitter believes cigarettes are the only thing that can make them whole again.

They know they should quit, but they lack the willpower to resist the urges to smoke. When they go back to them, they never want to be apart from them again, reinforcing the thought they ‘can’t quit,’ or ‘once a smoker, always a smoker.’

With quitting cold turkey, the quitter has done nothing to deal with the underlying reasons of why they smoke, and continue to smoke despite staggering evidence that smoking negatively impacts every area of their lives.

It’s completely obvious that the reasons why we should quit is not enough. That’s why quitting cold turkey is doomed to failure – it solely relies on the reasons why we ‘should’ quit, and not on the reasons we continue to smoke, despite the risks.

The thing is, if the reasons why someone ‘should’ quit was enough, then going cold turkey would probably be a logical method of quitting smoking. However, everyone knows the reasons why they ‘should’ quit. Everyone knows smoking is bad for you, that it causes death and despair, that is can harm your family, that it can cause damage to the environment through fire, and also through tar from cigarette butts entering the waterways.

Quitting smoking successfully takes more than just throwing away cigarettes and vowing never to smoke again. It takes a sideways shift in thinking, where you no longer think about cigarettes as a prize or a reward, but as the evil, deadly, carcinogenic cancer packs they are. Instead of feeling like you are ‘giving up’ cigarettes, this thought must be switched from that of loss, to that of gratitude. That you never have to undertake the awful deed of smoking a cigarette ever again.

This starts with the act of identifying the problem, and then finding a solution. You have taken the first step, now all you need is a little help with identifying your triggers, and dealing with them in a way that works for you.

Our Comments: We feel quitting smoking is far more of a psychological issue than a physical one. Quitting requires a shift in thinking, rather than simply dealing with physical cravings alone.

We recommend you check out our reviews and consumer ratings of the Successfully Stop Smoking System, Quit Smoking Right Now and The Easy Quit System for methods designed with NLP and CBT techniques. These will help you address the psychological preparation for quitting as well as the physical cravings, greatly increasing your chance of quitting for good.