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Lela Bryan Interview
What non-smokers ask and
what smokers want to know:
(Craig) Today we have a guest who is going to help you understand how you can kick the nicotine habit. Lela Bryan is the founder and chief learning officer of Nicotine Solutions (that’s the best title I have ever heard). Lela herself was addicted to nicotine for years and tried every solution including
- cold turkey
- hypnosis
- the allotment method
- aversion therapy
- reading books
- and her parents even tried the old bribe method
After years of research, Lela developed the Nicotine Solutions Quit System. Described as the “Quit Queen”, Lela is going to provide you with a step by step guide to how you can take your life back and gain control of this insidious addiction.
There are two very important issues we will be discussing today that I write about in The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie. The first is addiction. There are many types of addiction that can control your lifestyle choices and destroy your health. Of course smoking or the use of tobacco and ingesting nicotine in anyway is the worst possible thing you can do to your body.
The second issue is toxic exposure. The definition of toxic is poison. Cigarettes contain 43 known cancer-causing compounds and over 400 other known toxins. Smoking will result in either the death or some form of disability in half of all smokers. Use of tobacco is really the ultimate Russian roulette.
People who smoke or chew tobacco are knowingly exposing their bodies to the worst chemical poisons on the planet. If it doesn’t kill you, it will absolutely and undeniably cause health issues that will slowly and quietly deteriorate your health and quality of life.
Lela, I want to thank you for being with us here today to discuss one of the most important health issues in our society.
First of all, let’s start out with the deadly chemicals in smoke and nicotine like a paint stripper, a toilet cleaner, a lighter fuel, the chemical in mothballs, a poison used in gas chambers, a rocket fuel, carbon monoxide, benzene and many other deadly poisons. And then there are the additives, tell me about them, Lela
Lela: Craig, along the theme of your book, the Big fat Health and fitness Lie, I have a couple of other lies to add that a lot of people that are into fitness have fallen for.
Winstons and American Spirits have had a great run in deceptive advertising to the American public stating that they have a “healthier” product because their product has not additives!! Come on!! Lets face it there are no healthier cigarettes and there is never going to be a “safe” cigarette because of the smoke.
Some people even roll their own Bull Durham because they say that it is pure tobacco.
Nicotine is a killer. Nicotine is the main ingredient in Black leaf 40 which is a bug spray so smokers have been smoking bug spray!
A lethal dose of nicotine is 60-70 mg. that would be like smoking 3 pack of Marlboro all at one time or putting on 3 nicotine patches all at the same time.
The other fallacy is about cigars. Cigars have 5 to 6 times more nicotine and you don’t have to inhale to get the toxins, they are absorbed through the soft tissues! Here again it is the nicotine and the smoke that hold the toxins.
2. Many non-smokers think if someone wants to quit why don’t they just throw the pack away? Or just tell the smoker how bad smoking it is for them…why doesn’t that advice work?
Lela: Nicotine is THE most addictive substance that there is, meaning that if a person tried cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana whatever drug. Nicotine is the one that most people would get addicted to.
Quitting smoking is not just a nasty little habit. It has got the smoker emotionally, socially, physically, psychologically, habitually and financially.
It takes 21 days to make a habit and so you need a program that will cover all those aspects of the habit.
There are 138 things that a smokers does when they learn how to smoke…how to hold it, when to have it, what triggers it etc. and all we do in Nicotine Solutions is to teach the smoker to unlearn the habit.
It is sort of like the smoker has an octopus and there are 138 little suckers that are attached. If we leave just one sucker attached that smoker might go back to smoking.
3. Most of the literature out there says that smokers need to try to quit smoking at least 8 to 11 times before they succeed... What do you think about that?
Lela: Most of the programs out there are cold turkey and have a success rate around an 18-25% success rate, which is pathetic. Their party line is that have to try to quit smoking 6, 7 up to 11 times before they can finally quit for good. That is just not right or true. Why don't they try a comprehensive program that will work the first time? It is just nonsense. Why tell smokers that it is going to take up to 11 times to quit. It does not have to be that way.
4. Let’s talk about some of the so-called solutions. The nicotine patch, gum or nicotine lozenges have been around for a while as a method to quit. What has been your experience with using these nicotine replacement therapies?
Lela: Do you remember when Oprah lost all her weight the first time (she went on a fast and she didn’t really deal with food)?
She was thin for about 10 minutes and then the weight came back on like a freight train. During the fast she didn’t change her habits or exercise.
Now she looks fabulous and she is exercising, eating right and changing her habits.
Going on a fast to loose weight is the same thing as putting on a patch to quit smoking. There is an old joke that I am up to 3 patches a day!
It would be like me saying that I am going to quit drinking white wine, and instead I am going to go on a vodka drip….Gee do you think that I would ever quit drinking alcohol?…..probably not…
Quitting smoking with the patch, gum or lozenges is just means that you are getting nicotine in a different delivery system-- it doesn’t teach you anything.
5. What about hypnosis?
Lela: It is just a one-dimensional approach. It just deals with the mind…there are so many more aspects to this habit!
6. Why do people gain weight when they quit smoking and how can you quit smoking without gaining weight?
Lela: There are 2 reasons people tend to gain weight especially when they quit cold turkey
1) They substitute: candy, food, gum, toothpicks, lemon drops, sunflower seeds, pie for the habit!
Students in the Nicotine Solutions program are taught how to “Let The Habit die of neglect and not to substitute anything for the habit!” so they don’t gain weight in the process of quitting smoking.
There is another reason that people gain weight, usually because they are quitting cold turkey.
2) Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, which means that nicotine constricts your blood vessels and stresses out your heart making it, beat faster and harder to pump the blood.
When someone smokes, his or her heart beats 10,000 more beats a day.
When you stop smoking your metabolic rate will slow down those 10,000 heartbeats a day. There are not that many calories with 10,000 heartbeats but it does make a small difference.
Students smoke for the first 6 weeks of Nicotine Solutions program and during that time we teach them how to regulate their metabolism and slowly adjust to the metabolic change so they don’t gain weight.
We also teach people how to deal with stress and emotions so they don’t feel like they’ve lost their best friend or gotten hit by a freight train.
7. Let’s talk about the pharmaceutical options. Tell me about Chantix, the new drug that is out now. I have read that the Pfizer (the makers of Chantix) is spending 11 million dollars in advertising this year!
Lela: that’s right Pfizer is the company that also makes via#g *ra.
I have nothing against Chantix; I think it is expensive, about 30% of people experience nausea when they take it.
You would take it one week before you quit smoking and then continue for 3 months. It is supposed to take away the highs that smokers get from smoking and then when they quit it is supposed to help with the symptoms of recovery.
I have heard every thing from I didn’t feel anything to
I would rather die than take that stuff again.
In Nicotine Solutions we have people smoke for the first 6 weeks so they can detoxify and change all of their behaviors so they really don’t need any drugs with the program…but if someone has their heart set on taking Chantix I instruct them to take it only one week before cut off so they don’t mask the habits they are trying to work on.
8. What about Wellbutrin or Zyban to quit smoking or chewing?
Lela: People have been taking Wellbutrin for years as an antidepressant. They noticed that some of the people actually cut down on smoking when they were taking Wellbutrin and then when they went off of the drug….they went back to smoking.
Zyban is the exact same chemical formula as Wellbutrin, but there is a beginning and an end just to assist in quitting smoking.
Here again, the habit has many dimensions and just working on changing “depression or feelings” doesn’t deal with all the other aspects of quitting.
9. What should you look for in a program to quit smoking?
Lela: The smoking or chewing habit is multifaceted. The method of quitting needs to approach the problem emotionally, socially, psychologically, physically, behaviorally and financially.
Just popping a pill or slapping on a patch does not deal with your behaviors. You are addicted not only to the nicotine, but also to the behaviors of smoking, like first thing in the morning, after meals, with coffee, with alcohol or driving a car…these are the behaviors you need to deal with and it takes at least 21 days to break a habit.
Choose a multifaceted method that has you smoke as you are learning how to quit. Since it takes at least 21 days to change a habit, Smokers should smoke and working on changing those habits for at least 3 weeks.
Students in Nicotine Solutions smoke and work on assignments to help them change their habit for 42 days (6 weeks) so we make sure they are truly prepared and detoxified to quit smoking.
I can proudly say that my QuitSystem has a 90% success rate of those who complete the program. That’s right – 9 out of 10 people quit smoking as a result of the program! And we have an exceptional 70% long-term success rate after a year and beyond.
All of the teachers in the program has been former smokers and have quit with this program and been trained in these methods to teach the classes.
Most of the programs out there are cold turkey and have a success rate around an 18-25% success rate, which is pathetic. Their party line is that have to try to quit smoking 6, 7 up to 11 times before they can finally quit for good.
Why don't they try a comprehensive program, like Nicotine Solutions, that will work the first time?. Why tell smokers that it is going to take up to 11 times to quit when It doesn’t have to be that way.
10. What is something that a smoker could do right away to start the process of quitting?
Lela One small thing that you can do right this very minute is start to change your words about quitting.
You don’t even have to believe what you are saying. Here is an example:
From now on when you talk about quitting smoking, you are not going to say you plan to “give up” cigarettes.
What is the difference between giving something up and getting rid of or quitting it?
If you “give up something,” how do you feel?
Most of us feel deprived and want it back, right?
But if you say, “I’m in the process of getting rid of. . .” or “quitting smoking…,” do you notice how that feels different? It’s more in control and purposeful.
It is a small thing, but it will make the difference between you feeling deprived or feeling proud…so you are not “giving up” anything you are getting rid of cigarettes.
11. I understand you also have a support program for people that want to help smokers quit smoking
Lela: NicotineSolutions.com is where the smokers and also HR directors of companies can find out about offering Nicotine Solutions for their company in the workplace section.
Classes are held over as a lively, interactive, accountable teleconference with email follow-up and a highly supportive team with long term support by teleclasses and emails for up to a year.
Another revolutionary support class that we offer is supportalovedonetostopsmoking.com and this is where non-smokers can get expert advice to learn how to support a smoker or a chewer to quit. Here’s a hint ….. We take the focus off of the smoker and the focus goes to the non-smoker to learn listening skills and support techniques that are effective!
12. This has been great information Lela. Please give our listeners your website and how they can get involved.
Sure,
http://www.nicotinesolutions.com
http://www.supportalovedonetostopsmoking.com"
We have a free teleclass that you can get acquainted with the class and then if you are interested remember to mention that you heard about the site through fitadvocate and you will get a great discount for the class.
Lela, thank you so much for being here with us today. For those of you listening who are hooked on nicotine, I sincerely hope you use all of this incredible information and take the first step to talking your life back. Until next time, live healthy, love life and laugh often.
