For decades researchers have been mapping the electrical and
chemical circuits that underlie addiction. Now studies are searching for
methods to heal the neurological pathways. Modern focus through imaging
studies, for example show the brains of people actually rewiring themselves
during addiction recovery. This is what I mean by behavioral healing.
With this
knowledge plus what is being learned regardingadolescent cognitive and neurological
development, the work could help investigators learn how addictive cognitive
changes play out, and who might be most susceptible and the reasons for this.
In the
experimental field, neural circuits are now being interfered with through fiber
optic technology, and test animals are losing their interest in drugs and alcohol,
for very long periods.
Similar work
involving humans is underway. The idea is that the road to addictive healing
involves changing the circuitry which has lead to the habit.
According to
Professor George F Koob, there are 3 stages of addiction, (1) the first being
the good-feeling-no-lie period; (2) the brain’s reward circuits have been
activated, but gradually there is less tolerance for withdrawal, and finally
(3) even untoward results are ignored as higher brain function to get someone
addicted. Then finally it becomes necessary to use to just feel ok.
But long lasting
can be the effects such altered circuitry, making quitting very
challenging. Social and environmental triggers are common. So says the psychologist
Edith Sullivan, regarding the process leading to making more permanent the
broken parts.
http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v24/n2/full/1395603a.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19710631http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh40/127-143.htm
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh40/127-143.htm
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7557_supp/full/522S50a.html
ttp://www.rsoa.org/Sullivan-MeetTheResearcher.pdf
However I at
Beautiful Quitters say that brain remodeling can and
must occur with an active, holistic, self-nurturing nutritious lifestyle
coupled with what I call “awareness exercises”.
This would be
all aimed at an honest assessment of one’s life and present situation…
healing yourself from within as you work holistically to become a non-smoker.
Your new habits will sustain you.
So if you need a skilled compassionate personal quit-coach in your journey to supreme smoke-free health, please contact me today at: Averayugen@mail.com
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