NicoFix, designed to replace the nicotine fix rather than discourage smokers has arrived on the market and is available on the internet and some larger stores such as Selfridges and Harrods in London.
It comes in the form of a pump action bottle and the gel is meant to be rubbed into the palm of the hand. There is no odour or residue but the resulting nicotine fix will kick in within one minute and last from one to four hours thus keeping cigarette cravings at bay should you find yourself in a non smoking public environment.
If NicoFix is not designed to help you give up cigarettes, it will at least enable you cut back on the number and at the same time reduce the inhalation of many harmful residues as a by product of burning. Additionally there are the benefits of not polluting the air for other individuals, not inhaling poisonous elements, clean smelling clothes, less bad breath and an end to all those unsightly fag end butts lying about outside offices and workplaces.
The anti-smoking lobby are delighted right? Wrong. It turns out the intrusive polluting, the harm to young children and the general undesirability of burning something in a public place, is not after all the main concern of this lobby. In voicing their disapproval that smokers have been given a non polluting alternative, the pointy head jobsworths inadvertently expose their real aim – to force restrictions on everyone by banning all pleasures they personally do not approve of.
That said, this new product really does give smokers a better chance of giving up an undesirable and expensive habit forever. Nicotine, despite all the hysteria in the media, is not very addictive. As an ex smoker I know the hardest part of quitting is the routine behaviour to which your brain has become accustomed – particularly that moment at the end of the day with convivial company and a drink in your hand.
If you’re serious about wanting to quit smoking forget about patches and gum. They have something in the order of a two percent success rate and rely on indomitable will power.
By cutting back the number of times a day you light a cigarette you are already introducing a new pattern of behaviour to the subconscious mind and this is where the secret to success lies. Using the nicotine fix together with mind altering brainwave entrainment programs will give you that winning edge over a long held habit.
